...... Madrid have won 3 of the last 4 CL's.
I thought he was fine last night but in every game he refs the major calls always go the way of the Spanish teams. Strange coincidence.That ref again
Ok, thanks for the history lesson but please point out where exactly in my response I was not giving credit? I was stating the obvious; how can you be the best team in the world (his words) if you're not currently the best team in your own league? The league table never lies and they have had patchy form at best.
Without Ramos they don’t win in 2014 or 2016
Cool story, but this is only one year..Madrid have been better every other year. Despite all that, they are still known as the best team in Europe.. and a shoddy league form won't change that.
Without Ramos they don’t win their second La Liga title in the last 8 years, he was easily the one scoring the most late goals to keep them ahead of Barca.
Chiellini has had a very good career but my post is merely a dig at those who think there's such a thing as a flawless CB and examples of these are usually mentioned in the Smalling thread (Chiellini included). Smalling hasn't almost done 'nothing', that's a very disingenuous summation of his career/achievements thus far.
It is all about adaption to the current situation of a competition. Real right now seem to be able to concentrate on a match in which they give their best - but do not have the concentration to play like this in every match. A lot of the league matches against smaller teams with a very good organization you just do not win with 80% and just individual quality - even not the top dogs.
He is a world class player at home and a pub player away from home. Strange player, but I agree that he would be good for this game!
Looking at that Liverpool team, more the midfield, they might just get tonked. The bench is really poor.
City for me! I never quite got the argument about wanting Liverpool to progress because 'obviously they'll get knocked out by a better team'.
I was just thinking the same thing, credit to Klopp.
They had a very easy group, and got a very easy r-16 tie.
City are better than you.
The only position they can strengthen is one in midfield. They are not a particularly great squad, but are somehow doing well in the league, the bench is really poor. They will have to produce a performance like in the league at Anfield. Can they do that twice? They are playing some minnows from the eastern block now.
Are they allowed on the pool forum? Might be why they are on here.
When it comes to very easy groups and very easy R16 tie, we can't really talk. We bottled it.
Who'd want to post on RAWK though?
Klopp is doing a great job if those two are regular starters in the team.Like we did?
What does that even mean? Liverpool's group was very easy and their r-16 tie was very easy. Porto don't turn into a world class team just because we lost against Sevilla.When it comes to very easy groups and very easy R16 tie, we can't really talk. We bottled it.
Yes we did have an easy path to the final 8. That is probably why a lot of people were affected by the Sevilla result.
