@Celta Vigo - day 1

Yeah everyone tends not to watch because we play so bad it's not worth.

I watched it today and I thought we played great. Like I said I liked today's lineup and I feel that it should be the main 11 for the upcoming hell week with the obvious change being Ramos for Nacho. Maybe Rodrygo for Vini.

Real Madrid will always be the one team I support, but like Sports mentioned, I just can't force myself to enjoy watching our football these days. It gives me more frustration than joy, and that's no reason to watch football in general.

So, I've been watching Dortmund instead. For a so-called top team in the top 4 leagues, they're a relatively weak side in terms of their overall value, and they can't quite compete with the league leaders because of it, but they have a lot of exciting, young, offensive talent, and I very much enjoy watching them play when they're in decent form, which they are not right now.

From defense to midfield, they don't look like they could challenge any top side, but with Haaland, Reyna, Sancho, Reus, Moukoko and a string of other, young talents, they always have a few tricks up their sleeve.

I originally started following them to get a better grasp of how good, or bad, Haaland was. I know I'm not ever going to be able to escape the bias tag on here, but he really is a one man army and has completely blown away my expectations since I started following them.

Even when Dortmund are poor, like they were against Cologne today, they always give me a reason to enjoy watching them, like Haaland's brilliant first goal, or the constant development/progression of Reyna, Moukoko and Jude Bellingham. I get more enjoyment from watching them lose in style, than I get from watching us do whatever the hell it is we're doing these days. After 2 seasons of watching our solid rebuilding process that has Nick's stamp of approval, I've decided that I need a break from it all. Results don't influence that decision.

futbol_bill wrote:The lack of interest in recent games by this supposedly fan base is very telling!

Meanwhile Zidane is staging another repeat of last year’s season ending run.

No one posting here doesn't mean no one's watching.

These game are better than most ppl suggest.

Again the midfield was great.

Valverde as a right sided midfielder was great. Hopefully he continues there.

halamadrid2 wrote:Yes, this 442 is what gave us alot of joy last season before Zidane started tinkering. We don't have a good RW so we are not missing anything

He was putting together a system he could use in anticipation of Hazard playing... and to get some run for Vini/Rodrygo/Asensio. With Hazard gone and none of the other 3 doing anything special, no need anymore. Assuming health (with Kroos injured now; that's over), a 442 makes sense.

Well... now Valverde is out too

forget the 442. 4231 with Isco as the AM, here we come loool.

any update on kroos? that to me is a major deal. he is someone that can actually cross the ball and wont just cross into thin air. anyone got some more info on his injury?

titosantill wrote:any update on kroos? that to me is a major deal. he is someone that can actually cross the ball and wont just cross into thin air. anyone got some more info on his injury?

It's minor. He's expected to play the Liverpool game.