El Clasico discussion

are yall FORREAL?? How has no one made a thread in our arguably biggest game of the year?

Not to say that Barca won't drop points ever again, but Madrid really need to win this if they want to get the edge in the title race again.

Modric and Ramos back in time with both getting some game time pre-hand as well.

i'm still finding it hard to believe we dropped so many points and pretty much handed them the lead. this game is more than just the lead, its about mind-frame. a poor result, and the tendency might be to focus on ucl and neglect the league (a foolish idea imo, considering there are still a bunch of games left and ucl sometimes can go down to luck). what area of the field do you guys feel will be our strengths or weaknesses?

I just hope that Marcelo-Isco with some help from Ramos and Modric can handle Messi. The guy hasn't performed like this in 2 years and it's scary, while Ronaldo dropped some form compared to 2 months ago. Hopefully he recovers from this on sunday, we really need him. Isco and Modric will be ok, I have no doubts. Bale better destroy Alba, it's his chance to tell the critics to stfu. Kroos is the one that scares me. his form in the recent months is worrying, it might be fatigue. I just hope he handles the pressure, because the game will be intense.

regardless of his stubbornness on some decisions, carlo always had something for big match, i have my faith in him for this.

The performance of our fullbacks will be the decisive factor IMO. They must give 120% on both ends, because in attack Barca is most strong on the wings while in defense they are very weak. Bale, Isco and Ronaldo also have their part since they mostly damage through the wings. As I said above, if Bale flops today, I'm afraid his Madrid journey is over. I'm not sure if it's indicated to play a high line today for Barca this season is deadly on the counter. 2 banks of 4 with Ronaldo and Benz upfront is the way to go.

Valk, time to get into derby spirit with the help of a nice signature, waiting for you in the betting thread

Hapless_Hans wrote:Valk, time to get into derby spirit with the help of a nice signature, waiting for you in the betting thread

why dat scrub u pos

We better win this game.

Casillas
Carvajal
Ramos
Pepe
Modric
Isco
Kroos
Jame...... (sorry) Bale
Ronaldo
Benzema

At least no Khedira......... wouldn't surprise me if he ame on though.

izzy wrote:Casillas
Carvajal
Ramos
Pepe
Modric
Isco
Kroos
Jame...... (sorry) Bale
Ronaldo
Benzema

At least no Khedira......... wouldn't surprise me if he ame on though.

Playing with no left back, that confidence. Might as well though, makes same difference defensively

Think izzy advertently left Marcelo out that line-up

Marcelo is going to play so far up the pitch he is going to be confused for a Barca player. Dont blame izzy, but that James/Bale intentional mix up thats a no no

The passing to get out of pressure has been good in our half but the decision making in the final third has been poor. Pepe has been excellent dealing with Suarez and anyone else making a run behind our defence. Bale is playing very good, bit unlucky his goal was ruled out

Hope we get another goal and just shut up shop

The finishing

Gotta take our better than that.

Anyway, I wasn't that disappointed.

We should of taken our chances.......... but we finally played like a damn team in months.

Just sell him and you know who I am talking about

Bale

If this *bleep* isn't out this summer then

90 mins he got to play again.

Did nothing the 1st half (should he have had a goal?)
Did nothing the 2nd.

The team is playing away from him.

Those subs though.....

The Good: Marcelo & Benz
The Decent: Cristiano & Kroos
The Bad: ....
The Terrible: Isco, Iker and Bale

f####ing hate Isco. When the going gets though...Isco goes for a stroll. I don't care, how good he looks against all these scrub teams when it truly matters he's just ####.

Iker at this point is just cancerous. Bit like Stevie G for Liverpool. If Lopez was in goal tonight we wouldn't have lost. God I miss Lopez...

Bale is just Bale

Valkyrja wrote:Just sell him and you know who I am talking about

TheVoiceOfTheVoiceless wrote:The Good: Marcelo & Benz
The Decent: Cristiano & Kroos
The Bad: ....
The Terrible: Isco, Iker and Bale

f####ing hate Isco. When the going gets though...Isco goes for a stroll. I don't care, how good he looks against all these scrub teams when it truly matters he's just ####.

Iker at this point is just cancerous. Bit like Stevie G for Liverpool. If Lopez was in goal tonight we wouldn't have lost. God I miss Lopez...

Bale is just Bale

Woah!

Lets slow down. Isco had a bad game, no need to persecute him.

everybody attacks Ramos at every given chance but not today ? I'm a Ramos fan, but today he was directly at fault for both goals.

It's Ramos.

We expect that don't we?