Real Madrid UCL Group Stage 2019

Agreed. Modric should only rotate with Kroos. We take out one of the other two and we become significantly weaker

Zz still wants to prove that modric-kroos-case, still has it and just like how he loves to play isco or Lucas for the sake of it, honestly if zz went with bale instead of isco that game would've been won imo.

hazard doesn't create for benzema for some reason, he playing well overall but he would be able to accumulate stats if he work through benzema more around the box, maybe it's zz instructions.

The same Bale that came in and went casper the ghost on us. Please!!! We were winning when Isco left the field

If ZZ can get this Isco to play we'll be devastating. So so good. I think we should test the formation against Barca to see if we truly are back

Hazard has great technique and acceleration sometimes he makes the wrong decision on the cross but those cut backs to Kroos have been amazing because Kroos sure loves to shoot

Hala, according to Chad’s school of futbol tactics, only the CF is allowed to shoot, so Hazard is at fault for passing to Kroos rather than to Benz. And lol, good luck with him accepting your comments on Isco starting. By the way who set up Benz for his goals yesterday?

One good game and you guys are licking iscos bum.. Let’s see put in a few good performances.

Isco doesn’t have pace and that is a huge problem. He has tons of flaws as a player.

Bale is not the type of player to influence games with touches in the midfield.. that’s why he was a “ghost”.. he was making runs that just weren’t found. Imagine blaming bale for our boneheaded goalkeeper messing up two goals

We lost our main threat from the wings when Hazard went off. Bale couldn't contribute a fraction of what Hazard did. If runs behins the backline is the only thing Bale is good for then he can join Utd because this is RM. I am tired of people saying "players kept missing Bale's runs". How about he makes the passes to others making runs. He is not our CF, he is our R/L winger, about time he starts playing as one

Isco is fantastic. Solari derailed him last season. ZZ is starting to recover his best form. If we can get him Isco Discoing again, BAH GAWD!!

Isco has gone through periods of both usefulness and uselessness during Zidane’s tenure as manager of Real Madrid. If he’s hitting form, it’s either because he’s in good physical shape, or he’s in a better place mentally.. or both. I don’t personally see any reason to assume that Zidane is the orchestrator behind what amounts to a total of one good performance this season Also, let’s not assume that Isco is suddenly finding consistency

I disagree, I was always team Isco, biding my time. Waiting. Patiently. He'll rise again.

ZZ has gotten the most use out of Isco. I think that's a fair statement. Reason being is that he defines a narrow role for him when he plays... as opposed to everyone else expecting him to be the next coming of Iniesta.

He's a role player. Nothing more, nothing less. He can be effective in very specific circumstances.

That’s all well and good, but he’s always been inconsistent regardless of his circumstances.

ZZ has gotten good performances out of him though.  The CL final against Juventus being the best example...  whatever else, he's given him enough time so he is game fit.  If you don't play someone at all, you can't expect anything.

That's what he's doing now...  giving everyone enough game time that they CAN be called upon.  Vinicius is the only one he's hung out to dry along with Jovic.  With Bale, Hazard, Rodrygo and Isco, I don't really think Vini has a place unfortunately.  But Jovic should get more of a run.

The problem though is that none of our forwards other than Benz score consistently.  So you're almost forced to overplay him given that nobody else has stepped up. The top of the table is so tight and our CL run was also in question... so it's not like we've had any "free" games. CDR should solve some of these issues.

You're forgetting there will be a lot less Copa games this year. Don't start until January and they are 1 game series.

Areola; Odriozola, Militao, Varane, Mendy; Casemiro, Modric, Isco; Rodrygo, Vinícius y Jovic.

Wth is Casemiro doing in the XI

Posted the lineup in the wrong topic lol

And yeah I wish we had a DM back up for Casemiro

Excited to see what the front 3 can do

Vini is looking a lot better playing more for the collective, that about it ok game overall need more pace in midfield.

The guy who shouldn't have played is the guy who's got a yellow card. Well fecking done. Watch him be suspended in a deciding quaterfinal away game

This half is making me depressed. Mendy plays like he is drunk. You just know when someone isn't good enough for this team and Odri fits that bill. Ugh

Varane is terrible

Was that Varane that misplaced the pass? I have a crappy stream and Casemiro Militao and Varane all look the same

Perucho21 wrote:Was that Varane that misplaced the pass? I have a crappy stream and Casemiro Militao and Varane all look the same

No he just stood and watched his man score. No on-ball pressure at all. Fucking awful and lazy defending

The Brazilian takeover

6 months in and Jovic osis still not convincing. Ugh

The team can't create for a cf how obvious do you need it to be? Isco creates nothing at all as usual he gets a free pass, the team has been too cr focus, then mids, then the cf that backwards, zz shouldn't wait to spend on mbappe to use the cf properly, how hard is it to just pass the ball to the cf down the middle, when their doing it when mids go through the middle, just setting up jovic to fail.

Isco is the best player on our team. Benzema is holding back his potential by being a ball hogger. We miss CR badly. No alphas left on the team.

halamadrid2 wrote:6 months in and Jovic osis still not convincing. Ugh

Due to being busy on matchdays, I’ve missed more of our matches than ever before, since this season started. How much has Jovic actually played? Feels like I haven’t seen him since he got injured in pre-season.

Jovic is really playing poorly... and it's hard for a player to be sharp when he rarely plays. Especially a CF that plays in tight quarters.

And let's face it, Rodrygo, Vinicius and Isco aren't very good at making killer passes.... so Jovic was isolated. Those 3 are looking to score first and pass second. Modric was the only creator out there and he's not in his prime anymore.

This wasn't a lineup conducive to helping Jovic imo.

I want to see him play with Hazard, Marcelo, Valverde, etc.

Thimmy wrote:Isco is the best player on our team. Benzema is holding back his potential by being a ball hogger. We miss CR badly. No alphas left on the team.

That ode comment is hurting you still good, you don't know shit about football either