But the good thing is, this happened in Carlo's first season too hence my avatar so hopefully Rafa could do the same and sort it out for the business end of the season

Benitez was criticised for playing Casemiro and not James against Sevilla being accused of making us defensive. Subsequently he played a bunch of injury returning guys to please the fans and sections of the playes. And predictably it failed. The BBC needs a work horse behind them someone like ADM. The rest of the players work hard but need help from the attackers to execute their defensive duties

And that pic also shows how its a bad idea to play Bale as an AM. Would you ever see Özil level with Ronaldo??? Never in my life would i see that

If Rafa had his way he would probably have started Isco, Lucas and Casemiro. We did play very good in that away PSG game with these players but they are just subs so we will never see the from start in a big game

Tactically this season we have been awful, just a bunch of haphazard players running chasing shadows. I will never forget how thoroughly and utterly outplayed we were at home against PSG, had they had Neymar and Suarez it would literally have been over 6-0. We couldnt even muster a single attack ffs. And that is on Rafa. When we won ladecima, Carlo made it work with BBC by having Ronaldo being the only one who did not track back. Bale defended on the wing which is alot easier for a tactical retard and gave him leewsy because Carvajal is capable of defending a wing on his own. Now i dont even know what they are doing and that is on Rafa

Isco lashing out that is on Rafa. Ronaldo elbowing players every other game, that is on Rafa. Ramos regressing instead of improving that is on Rafa. And where is Kovacic wouldnt extra midfielders have been great against Barca?? How we played Bilbao by overpopulating the midfield was the way forward. Modric, Kroos, Isco, Kovacic know how to work the space and get into the empty holes to get passed pressing and know when to swap roles in defence. The BBC and James dont, even under Carlo they were like this. You need to play to the strength of your best midfielder to get that attack going, he did it with ADM then Isco and thats when we played our best football. The styles of BC clash with the style of the rest, hence why you see such a big gap in the middle, they are run behind the defnce and wait for an over the top ball while the mids are work the space until you see an opening

As much as i would like to blame Rafa. Perez has to take some of the blame. Without him whispering orders in our coach's ears Ramos would get his crap together after being benched by our other cbs, Bale and Ronaldo would get subbed out when its appropriate to do so, Danilo would not be playing, Benzema would fear for his spot etc etc. So our coach's hands are kind of tied before they even get to us

Carlo had a way of getting through to our primadonnas by making them only play tactical when we played Barca/Bayern. Every other game they could do as they wished. But instead of clueless Danilo and regressed Ramos in defence they had wonderful Pepe and rocksolid Carvajal.

Can you believe that the only thing this team needed was a back up LB, goalie, back up midfielders and a back up cf. Instead we get a back up RB to a guy that never got injured which then turned into start amazingly enough, sold our back up lb and sold our back up cf and sacked our coach. The Madrid way

That has been a common occurence this season. Our players press in turns instead of together hence why they waste unnecesary energy while the other team just casually pass the ball past our players. This Barca game is not the first time it has happened this season. It was the same against Atleti, PSG, Celta etc. Just half arsed pressing by players who only did it when they felt like it

Well it is not impossible to press with these players, against Barca under Pep when the tiki taka was most prevelent our pressing high up was amazing. Everyone knew their roles. This time there were maybe 3 players pressing while there was a huuuggeee gap until the next line of players which in this case was the midfielders. I know we can do it because against Bilbao and PSG away we pressed with our whole team high up which resulted in turn overs by their players. Everyone were on point. This what we saw yesteday looked like a mixed coaching message. It looked like sole of them were told to press while others were told to stay back. There isnt any other way i could explain it because we do know how to press like a team

I am so dissapointed because under pressure, Pique and Budquets are absolutely awful and turn over machine. I am really dissapointed we didnt take advantage of that.

That said i was impressed with Barcas pressing and tracking back. It was only last season the MSN was blamed for being lazy. This game they were running their socks off and they were rewarded. Hats off to them. Thats how we should be playing but the playing styles of our forwards and midfieldes clash so thats going to be impossible

Modric: we did not play as a team

Wonder who he is criticizing

Cant believe we sold Higuain they fight in that man could fire up a whole team. He is getting better and better too