El Derbi madrileño: Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid discussion

Coentrao should never play for madrid.
Its just surprising how we keep hearing in the news that top teams likes manchester united, inter, milan are after this guy...
Like seriously!!!

Now, the pressure is on us and off barca and it was very obvious during the game.

I am very sure if we were in the 2nd or 3rd position before this game, we would have played with more urgency.
Now, all we would be trying to do is play it safe and protect our leads which always, I mean alwaysss turns out to be the wrong decision.

This is not 2009 when u could sit back to defend your lead or expect to steer the game to a safe end. It just doesn't work anymore.

We tried it against barca at d beginning of d season and dey scored against us. We didn't score until we came out.

We tried it against bayern 2 seasons ago, it hurt us.

We were conservative against madrid yday, dey scored two against us.

I hope we don't lose dis league cos we and d press av been raving about how this is d best madrid team in years, while everybody has been saying this is d worst barca in recent years.
If we cant usurp the worst barca to the league title, den dat wud be a shame

Lopez was just so slow, for everything. And I would do anything for Carlo to tell Cristiano stop it with the free kicks. Just stop. Please. Can't take any more wall hitters...

Any one getting tired of Lopez's lack of reflexes?   

Casillas needs to get his 1st spot back asap. Lopez form of his life is gone imo.

The form of Lopez was a matter of pride. he wanted to prove that he is worth of wearing this shirt. I've always known that he is a good keeper, nothing more, wheares Iker on form is perhaps the best ever.

Right.. lets forget the bundle of mistakes casillas took to get himself to where he is.

I really don't like Peacemakers stupid gambles in Big games. I vividly remember his stupid gamble to play Ramos in midfield against Barca. Now he took another needless gamble. His excuse - Arbelloa/Coantra were fresh doesn't hold water. esp for a game this important.   

the fickleness of some you guys are hilarious, just last season iker couldn't stop even the most average shots, but now we need him to win , last time i checked we went to the top the league with lopez, show some loyalty or at least try .

Lopez had 1 bad game and swords are out . I heard he still made good string of good saves later in the game to keep us in the game. Man deserves some respect.

Having said that Ancelloti should rotate his GCs to keep the competition. I don't understand his logic of one gc for Liga and the other for rest , as there is no competition then.

Nedved wrote:Lopez had 1 bad game and swords are out . I heard he still made good string of good saves later in the game to keep us in the game. Man deserves some respect.

Having said that Ancelloti should rotate his GCs to keep the competition. I don't understand his logic of one gc for Liga and the other for rest , as there is no competition then.

He didn't have one bad game. He has been average for months now.

What concerns me is that he made two mistakes in two six pointer matches we have played this season. Second goal against Barcelona and second goal against Atletico...that is very disappointing to me,because those are the matches that wins you the league (this years league any way). No body wants him to fail here but he is not completely guilty free as some here are saying..can any one say Lopez doesnt deserve competition in La Liga after his recent performances?

He's also won us plenty of points... when we looked like the under side of a toilet to start the season, there were two reasons we managed not to drop a lot of points: Lopez and Ronaldo. Lopez made huge saves and Ronaldo scored despite our midfield being out for lunch.

Iker is better. Period.

I don't care for rotation nonsense though, so he only gets the spot if he's getting it for the rest of the year. If not, don't bother.

And Lopez is doing just fine.
So no reason to bench Lopez.