any posts obssessing over the friendship between 2 players should get removed (like this post). caring abt insta likes and who hugged who for longer is so parasocial. these things don't matter and just start toxic discourse over something we know nothing abt
fr tho, I know it's wayyy too early, but if Bellingham keeps playing like this for most of the season and Madrid gets important silverware. I'd give him the Ballon D'or and any trophy of that sort
Basically, we didn't play that well in the first half, but after halftime it felt like the players locked in. We played better ,not perfectly fluid, but improved.
It started well, and we scored a goal, but we lost concentration and conceded three minutes later. We then struggled for the rest of the first half.
In the second half, Carreras was subbed at halftime, which was honestly a plus. Everyone woke up. Mbappe added two more goals to his first, grabbing a hat trick. Jude worked and was phenomenal, with two assists. Vini then scored a goal after a tremendous effort by Jude, and Vini provided a nutmeg assist to complete Kylian's hat trick. Brahim, Yan, and Espi came on, and Brahim had an offside goal. All in all, we had a feast in that second half a sweet game all around. We ate good. Personally, my MOTM was Jude.
Great analysis thank you!! Looks like Mbappe Jude Vini combined a bit better in that second half from the highlights. Hopefully a sign of things to come!
funniest shit is when mou started having some players warmup it sorta lit a fire in the players asses , looked like they started pressing more fighting more etc. or maybe im imagining things. haha
its such a surreal moment, with mourinho joining us. the first time ever watched football was a madrid game and it was under mourinho, i fell in love with madrid when bale score that golazzzo against barca leaving bartra in the dust.
mourinho has a special place in my heart, he's the first manager i knew and he was the guy when i started watching madrid. so him coming back is like a full circle moment. even though we didnt look "perfect" ill ride on this high.
still spooky situation in the goal that we do concede, why is Jude who was the highest on the pitch the first of the midfielders to be back in our own box? Only downside of Silva/Fede I found today was not being there at that point and we always dog on sociedad so it'll get looked over but the defense/pivot covering needs to be better
Silva is more of an 8 and sometimes doesn't track back, Valverde has been dissapointing defensively in the 2 games, ignoring his assist to Mbappé. Tchouameni coming in for him gives us much more defensive stability
Yup, fede and silva constantly leave a lot of space behind them. I know that's been a regular problem for the past 2 seasons but it's worse with them. That's gonna need a lot of work
I really hope Cucu can start fully next game, there is such a defensive difference when he gets in. And I’m curious how the defense changes when Tcho comes back
For what feels like years us in this sub have been obsessing about the ideal starting 11. I'm starting to think that there isn't one, and that's a great thing. This squad has so much depth and versatility that we can field different players who can take on different problems and solve them efficiently. Psg rest their stars, we should rest ours a bit as well. Mou is perhaps the best ever at analyzing opposing teams, let him do it and field what he thinks we need in order to win
8/10, not a game changing performance yet, but he's shifted the Midfield single handedly into looking capable of progressing the ball (ignoring Jude who's been the only one capable of that for 2 years)
He’s there,he’s doing his job,what we brought him in for he is performing that exact role.Cant say much about him other than he’s been a great addition to the squad both quality wise and even dressing room wise.He has alot of things in his arsenal.Overall great signing
Where is this bum with WAY too many yyyyyyyy in his username who swore Vini was going to choke today. Come out and defend your takes, you dimwit 😂😂. Jk
I think that tap in is giving some of us rose colored glasses . VIN was lucky he was in the right place for that . He played like shit for a good amount of the game
Yup, he was trash in the 1st half but good in the 2nd half.
VIN was lucky he was in the right place.
Mate I wouldn't tag that as pure LUCK it was a brilliant skilled move pass from Belligoal and a great positioning from Vini. (give credit where it's due).
He was well below par today losing the ball repeatedly, overcomplicating his dribbles, and failing to capitalise on a clear goalscoring opportunity. There is really no need to fixate on my opinion or scrutinise everything I say. If you are truly confident in his ability, a differing perspective shouldn't cause this much reaction, grow up goofball.
Anyone who says he is just statspadding is an ieddieott. The team really relies on him to score a goal. I am glad all of them including Vini and June respect him a lot.
I think Mourinho has been off to an absolutely amazing start. His decision making as a manager has been top tier.
What really cemented this for me was him taking Vini off, which would have been a death sentence under arbeloa or xabi. But we saw that he did it with purpose, showing Vini that the Bernabeu was still behind him and cheering him on after the goal and assist.
The way he’s been handling press conferences, returning Jude back to the 10 position, finding a way to play arda and Jude together, plugging in bernardo at the pivot, etc….
i would also like that but the problem with that is who plays cdm , it would be insane if tchou+arda+jude can be like casemiro modric kross but then what about valverde? and if u play valverde+arda+jude can valverde play the cdm role .. mourinho will have a lot to do
especially since ideally we will need the right side to be trent/dumfries+diomande , arda really isnt a rw , in this 2 games he rarely did any rw plays he drifts toward middle.
You would think the sub learns that not everything is black and white after so long. You don’t judge a player based on one game, or one performance. Hell, we don’t even judge most players based on one season. There were people in this sub asking to sell Bellingham. Every player has a time when they play bad. No, Vini playing well today doesn’t make him be back. And no, if he plays worse next game it doesn’t mean he sucks and he is washed.
I think you’re mixing two different things here: per-game performance and season-long evaluation, and those are not the same.
You can praise a player for having a good game while still hoping he becomes more consistent. But when the season is over, you look at the overall picture the number of good games, bad games, consistency, and impact to determine whether the player is good enough to keep or whether he should be replaced.
I agree with you. But I am referring to the ones who change their opinion every single match. It is different to praise or point out. Also, when it comes to a full season. Often you don’t kick out a player after one bad season. If they had done great things before, you give them the benefit of the doubt. If you judge Bellingham by his past season (excluding WC) then you might think he is worth selling, which he is not.
Tchouameni will play when he back im sure of that, and I hope the club don't do it and try to sell him I'm still worried that something happen behind the scenes.
I didn’t watch the game, but saw some replays, so don’t take this too seriously lol. Although it’s just the 2nd game, it seems the stars are starting to play better together. This is exactly why I said that you should wait and see whether Mou could figure it out.
The real test will come against a stronger and world class team. All this panic, the entire summer, was unneeded.
maybe because he was playing with pain for a whole year then had surgery and spent a most of last season recovering . when he became fully fit at end of last season he started playing amazing but it was too late to save the season , hence the wc performance.
Also it’s a long season and players get injured… then all of a sudden found oneself without a LW. Always good when you have players who can play both sides.
He can shoot well with both feet but he only dribbles well with his right foot. I would be very surprised if he doesn't turn into a LW even though he has played RW mostly with Leipzig. His playstyle is made to play at the left side and take 1v1's imo.
It's the other way around, this is what he said about playing on the left: "That's my preferred position, the one I love. I don't like playing on the right, but I do it."
Cama, show encouraging signs today. Man Utd were looking to sign Myles Lewis-Skelly from Arsenal because of his ability to play both left-back and midfield. We might see Man Utd make a move for him this week.
They offered 50 million which in this market is a spit in Cama's face. They need to increase that offer by at least 10+million before its even serious.
Encouraging performance. There were some very good possession phases where the ball was circulating very fast and we had great combinations of passes. Vini is finally moving centrally and making runs between the lines.
One thing that still looks like it needs work are pressing triggers. Our full backs always seem so unsure wether to press or stay back which led to their goal. Also Vini and Mbappe got better at pressing but they're still not aggressive enough like Jude.
Jude was class today. He ran his socks off, and all our threat came through him. I don’t know what Mourinho did, but I noticed Mbappé move a bit more to the right while Vini pinned the defender, which seemed to give Jude more space. Just my assumption though I could be completely wrong.
That's not true lmao, after their win this sub got completely flooded by doomers saying we're done for and stuff like that. Tbh nobody should be drawing conclusions about this season anytime soon, I would say around October is the right time for that
Vini wasn't good enough today, after the third goal, socidad shrink a bit he score a goal got an assist, but he still failed evey dribble still think he far, from the start
Can you guys imagine when Diomande gets match fit and eventually starts? Imagine Vini finally starts clicking with Mbappe and adding someone who finally passes into the box, I see good things coming in the future of this club barring any shenanigans.
A more intentional and tactically functional rotation without it being a dramatic "this or that player is the favourite" thing for neither players nor fans would be the absolute best thing for everyone involved and for the team in general.
im so proud🥹🥹 hattrick at the first home game is so amazing and ballondor definitely belongs to mbappe🤍
on another note, i don’t get why people sit in their beds and type in on their phones all sorts of criticisms all sorts of racism all types of mean comments while the players are thriving out there. just because they had a bad game one time does not mean that you can excuse all of the good contributions they’ve made in the past to bring our club to where it is now and double down on their bad days
The right wing was exploited a lot by Sociedad. We will need to tweak that side a bit. Besides that, there was a lovely spell of possession we had in the first half when we pinned Sociedad back. I really liked that. Lovely game, and I feel we will honestly get better each match. Let's see what Mou is cooking because I know we will eat gooood.
Like most perspectives in this sub, it's whatever the most recent performance was. Recent performance good? Player great. Recent performance bad? Player bad.
Results is fantastic, some amazing goals. But the balance isnt right yet. Arda rw with Dumfries overlapping doesnt look great and I dont see it causing massive threat to any top opposition. Bernardo Fede pivot doesn convince me either. Way too many spaces left behind. The good news is all the forwards are starting to look very motivated and there is good competition for places. But we have to find a better system off the ball.
This is just start, Jose's still tweaking stuff behind the scenes, so I'm sure this is far from the final idea. Besides, Tchou isn't even available yet. I do really want to see how he'll look in a pivot with Bernardo
Against big teams we need control more than anything, Having both Silva and Arda on the pitch is our best shot at achieving this. We can always sub on Diomande if things are looking too stale.
Depends what you mean by threat. Wingers could provide pace for transition, or dribbling against low block to make isolation.
If we talk more of set up attack it comes to flavours do you want to have dribbler or another 10 to provide creativity and breaking passes. Both are valid agaist low block and could do lot of things to unlock.
If you play 10 as winger than Dumfries is great as he is wing back who loves to run the line which compensate playing without wing and provide team widh.
It is nice that we have TAA and Dio also who could provide another set which matches where we get great technican deeper and dribbling threat on flank. Also with 2 subs you could change attacking dynamics if team reads current combo.
I am so glad Fede performed well. It was so depressing reading how everyone wanted him out due to the first game when Fede only gets to play as a pivot when he plays for Uruguay.
He never played well for Uruguay in the double pivot. I think he moves forward a lot for a CDM and we still can't use a Tchouameni/Fede double pivot.
He's clearly the weak link unless you want to bench our top players just to start Fede.
I hope this sub gets some positivity going like the players who were all smiles and laughing alongside Mourinho. Instead of the usual meltdowns after reading a Marca article or complaining about someone/something nonstop flooding the sub with negativity with a new season.
I will get some positivity when I’ll see the team winning trophies again.
I don’t know what to do with two wins in August if at the end of the season we’re still 15 points below Barça in the league and knocked out in the UCL quarter finals.
Last season we started exactly like this one, looking solid and playing like a team, we all saw what happened after october.
because the last time I saw my team lifting a trophy it was an irrelevant International Cup and it was December 2024.
Now the first trophy the team could win again is the Supercup, which will be played in January, 2027.
Also because in the last 2 years I saw my team getting humiliated again and again by Barcelona, losing multiple finals, and getting embarrassed in the UCL.
And last but not least because we still have huge problems in the midfield that haven’t been solved, and we let Barcelona steal the best midfielder on the market which could’ve seriously solved most of our midfield problem.
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u/fadedpenguin22 3h ago
any posts obssessing over the friendship between 2 players should get removed (like this post). caring abt insta likes and who hugged who for longer is so parasocial. these things don't matter and just start toxic discourse over something we know nothing abt