Spanish super cup: Real Madrid vs FC Barcelona; 1st leg

ronaldo did most of the shots i think. even half of them (can crimson show the statistics pls?)

benzema was good in terms of playmaking / giving the others chances. should have scored tho, i actually tought he would have grabbed one by the end of the day

though its just the super cup, i think that now is the time to break the habit of flopping against barca, or specifically, flopping against pep.

Good performance, shit result. Football can do that to you sometimes.

Honestly we should have won.. by a lot. But what are you gonna do? A deflection and a defensive cock up held us.

I'd rather be lucky than good though (we sadly weren't one of those things )

Really don't understand how Valdes' trip on Cristiano wasn't a penalty. What's the saying again? Obvious penalty was obvious...

You don't give that penalty unless you don't WANT to give it. Horrible call.

Valdes is scum, nothing new there.

I believe this is the 1st time in 3 years I've witnessed Real Madrid actually dominate Barcelona for a full match (last time I believe was the 4-1 win). Too bad it wasn't league, I may actually have been more gloatish in my remarks.

Good performance though. Liking Callejon and Blondie a lot more...

I don't care much for Supercopa but we did a huge leap forward.Blondie and Callejon did the job well
I still stand by it, Ramos on the right= suicide. Carvalho was just ok Arbeloa to the right, Ramos in the middle with Pepe please
The forwards need extra practice in shooting sessions If they don't know how to go one on one, Özil and Di Maria should teach them

First time in 3 years Barcelona has had under 50% of the ball.

Ozil's finish was very nice.

Xabi's as well. Bitter sweet feeling but what are you ganna do.

I third the Callejon/Blondie compliments. Both put in a lot of hustle but I would have appreciated a bit more end result (Pretty much the whole team as well )

ozil needs to be more selfish..

saw him pass up a couple shots to ronaldo, who then blasted it over the bar..

I would pass to Ronaldo too. So would you.

Don't even pretend that you wouldn't.

Still impressed with chemistry between Benzema, Ozil, & Ronaldo

We were unlucky not to win

The concede of second goal a bit dissapointing though

Barca got lucky

Benzema is a boss

Ozil is a genius, if he can constantly play big minutes like that than our team gets automatically A LOT better.. Future Ballon D'or winner

Pepe is a dirty player

Casillas shouldn't have been beaten at the near post like that

so what happens if the next match ended like 0-0 ??will be there an extra time or something?

I thought Benz was great tonight at times I thought we had R9 on the pitch.
Ozil was god.
Marcelo was great making Sanchez seem average.
Casillas was so shit!...huntsman is going to drop a bomb lol(yes i've been lurking just couldn't bother to log in).

Very encouraging signs this was the most entertaining classico sice the 3-3.

i'm sure we can take them at the nou camp although it's gona be scrappy.
And Fabregas will most likely start ahead of Xavi, and he would just LOVE to become an instant hero

Park the bus after the first goal. We could lose by just conceding 1 goal.

Pepe is dirty but you gotta fight fire with fire. Tonight reminded me why I hate Barca so much.

All we need is an Epic Super Floren thread and I'll be happy with our start to the season

BTW

Benzema could (and should have scored) I know he did OK but I think people should not try to make excuses for him.

Also Iker was not at fault for the goal. Messi should never have been through on goal in the first place.

teza1992 wrote:I thought Benz was great tonight at times I thought we had R9 on the pitch.

teza1992 wrote:I thought Benz was great tonight at times I thought we had R9 on the pitch.

R9 was ruthless in front goal, no wasted free headers from him

Benzema was good but the finishing let him down. Like really let him down. You don't miss 2 free headers and expect to get away with it.

Z... Benzema was really, really good tonight. Sure, he missed the one header he shouldn't have. But the first goal was almost all his doing and he set up almost all of the attack. CR7-Benz-Ozil controlled the last 1/3 against Barca. Haven't see that in a long, long time.

Because Sahin isn't here and we are playing with Khedira and Xabi as our creative mid (which they aren't really), we need a creative CF that can hold the ball and create.

Benzema has sucked with headers since he was born lol. THe only one i really reproach him is the first one. The second one required a bit of aerial skill, which he has none of.

babun1024 wrote:

teza1992 wrote:I thought Benz was great tonight at times I thought we had R9 on the pitch.

R9 was ruthless in front goal, no wasted free headers from him

Actually, he had a ton. About 4 of them in the 1998 world cup.

xabi was creative enough...........

omarish wrote:xabi was creative enough...........

not really. he can't hold off defenders at all. only time he can be creative is with space to pass.

sportsczy wrote:

omarish wrote:xabi was creative enough...........

not really. he can't hold off defenders at all. only time he can be creative is with space to pass.

which he had alot of today... do you think benzema and özil dribbled the ball up to their box or what?

they got feeded. There is none to blame other than ronaldo and benzema today, plus the defence