Real Madrid vs Celta Vigo

Lucas should have started this game. We missed his directness. He created 4/5 good chances in just 10 mins. Hopefully he starts next game, he is so good

James with an excellent cameo. Hopefully this is the rotten leaf he is turning and on the way up. For me i dont think Asensio does enough to warrant first off the bench sub. Apart from the goals he is usually very anonynous in games and has trouble keepig his position

Also i cant wait to have Pepe back. Lost count on the amount of times Celta player were allowed to run at us without Rmos or Varane tackling them. Our midfielders were our defenders basically. Pepe would push them aside so many times they wouldn't come back again. Hopefully he starts next game

Marcelo though did he do anything right? Horrendous game from him. And Morata being subbed just when he started picking up wth was that about?

Anyways, 3 points won by the skin of our teeth. We nneed to attack with more purpose next game from start. That first half was an absolute waste

It's telling when our Motms are the midfielders Kroos followed by Modric then Casemiro Marcelo and Ramos should hold their heads in shame. I expect this from Ramos but Marcelo needs to get his shite together

Na only 2 games now @guest. We have won 14 consecutive games, record is standing at 15

Marcelo was neither here nor there yesterday. His passing was atrocious, he managed to miscontrol simple passes, he got beat to easy and was a no show in attack. It doesn't help when Asensio forgets he is a left winger and leaves Marcelo on his own out there but man he did everything wrong yesterday.

I am watching the game again i dont understand why its only our midfielders and Carvajal who constantly put in tackles. Varane and Marcelo in contrast had none and Ramos one, no wonder Celta liked to run at them. And for the goal Varane needs to push Guidetti off the ball, Ramos needs to stick to his bloody position and Marcelo needs to be quicker, not to mention Kiko was too far off his goal line. So much fail in that goal, just like the one against Sevilla in the supercup

I thought Morata had a good second half, Bale was anonymous throughout and Asensio got as many touches of the ball as Lucas in 30 more minutes. No wonder Morata tried to do everything himself, he was literally feeding on scraps.

I liked Casemiro, Kroos and Modric this game, especially the former 2 who were everywhere winning the ball back. I remember seeing Kroos win the ball back and releasing it to someone who went solo and lost the ball and Kroos jumping up and down in frustration I liked that hunger in him

From the first half i noticed that Celta were man marking our players and the ball was just coming back to Ramos and Varane 30s after they released it, Celta were happy to time waste, taking time during goal kicks and throw ins which frustrated our players. Casemiro should be happy this reff was card shy because he should've had a yellow for lashing out in frustration.

Up until our goal we were comfortable. After the goal on the other hand, we forgot the concept of shape and tracking back. Carvajal was on the left at one point, Ramos was playing RCB on another, Bale jogging back when 2 players were running at Marcelo.

I think we underestimated them due to the drubbing we gave them and them losing the opening game. Because when you compare how we played this game to how we played against LaReal who are normally our bogey team you could tell there was a huge difference. Against LaReal every single player did not stop running until the final whistle, we made use of cross field balls to relieve pressure, all attackers tracking back and attacking with purpose. This game we did everything opposite to that, only the midfielders working hard, the attack was nowhere to be seen and the defence a giant calamity. But at least we won which is the most important thing. This is the kind of game we used to draw/lose under Rafa and Carlo. ZZ has brought belief into this team that even when we get scored on in the last 10 mins we can still get back and score another one.

Now all we need is Barca dropping points and this has been a perfect weekend

@tito, records are a nice bonus tbh. If we made breaking records our goals we'd be winning every game in order to break some 1910 record of winning all games in a season Records are something us fans and media can discuss. Doubt the team cares unless its individual records. The last time players had records in their midst we got hammered by Wolfsburg and Ronaldo went on his longest scoring drought lol

Celta had 2 shots up until they scored and we owe that to Kroos and Casemiro. Casemiro had 7 tackles, the highest in the team and 2 interceptions the 3rd highest in the team. He was as he always is defensively. Celta were able to counter as we pushed 50 players forward after they scored that God forsaken goal. Kroos pushed up abit and Casemiro became a lone midfielder having to go left and right to close off passing lanes. That's when Celta were the most dangerous, even then apart from 2 or so dangerous crosses and long balls they were meh. They couldn't even get a 3v1 right

The secret is attack and defend as a team, only 1 lazy attacker can destabilise the defensive shape. We had 3 lazy attackers this game both in defence and attack so midfield took over most of the job. Modric taking long shots, Kroos scoring, Casemiro pressing high up the pitch. If anything we should be angry at the attack. The midfield was absolutely fine, in fact Kroos had more fire in him this game than he's had in all of last season, no kidding