Real Sociedad vs Real Madrid

Ramos is horribly bad. It's not even funny anymore. I have no idea why people think he's any good defensively.

Solid secokd half. Game died down abit after the subs but our players were still focused.

Freeza wrote:Ramos is horribly bad. It's not even funny anymore. I have no idea why people think he's any good defensively.

No goals to hide behind

Also looked like he commited that penalty in the latter minutes. Simple play and he gets completely tricked by the Sociedad player and falls into him.

I can't do this anymore

Ramos always starts off the season like this. Manic, reckless, clumsy and basically a bad defender. And I always feel incredibly frustrated with him.

Please Varane and Casemiro, please stay fit all season. Please

S wrote:How's Morata playing?

Absolutely unplayable in the first half. Anything good that happened in the attacking 3rd went through him. Looked like he ran out of steam in the 2nd, not making runs and being content walking up the pitch after a corner instead of running like a striker should. But tbf to him he ran his socks off in the first half, defending, creating, dribbling.

Ramos knows what he is doing, play good for 3 months around March/April time and then be called the best CB in the world

i thought kovacic was good today, he gave away some passes but he put in a good shift. casemiro, carvajal also good especially on the defensive end. bale obviously man of the match. good goal from asensio, but he disappeared at some point. morata did well today, lacked the end product, but one thing i admired was his desire to go at players, try to beat them one on one....way better than his showing against sevilla where to me he was awful. i hope bale plays with this confidence on the ball as the season progresses. stupid yellow from ramos. and the left flank remains our weak side because mr marcelo thinks he is a nos 11 not a lb. he almost gave away a pk, by neglecting his position

FT: Great win. The scoreline flattered just a bit as La Real really put in a shift especially Oiarzabal. That being said, if we had performed sub-par, don't think we would have walked away with a 3-0 win so I won't sell us short. We did quite well.

Ramos, as usual, performed like an absolute ass but he'll score a couple headers in March, April and May so whatever. I give up. Casemiro continues to be, quietly, one of the best DMs in Europe playing now. Morata was pretty good but he needs to adjust his playing style. He no longer is in Serie A and doesn't have to try to create chances on his own constantly. Bale and Dani was good as well.

All in all, very good win.

Morata shows he belongs here. We need not goalscoring but capability on the ball. I'm well aware he is a sub par finisher but I am impressed with his ball holding skills. sure he had a pass that went off every now and then but the intent is clear.

Satisfied with his performance. If he can improve his technique, he has a future here. Never expected him to score and never will, but there is promise with him being a targetman.

Having said that, that dive however I will not ignore, for shame Morata.

Asensio is the new hotness it seems. a goal on his debut and his workrate is exceptional.

I thought everyone played well enough. Can't complain.

Benzema 0/10 didnt even show up will not watch again.

Real Sociedad had 0 shots on target this whole game

Illara's chance Still hilarious to me...

I still can't believe we ever paid that much for him.

halamadrid2 wrote:Real Sociedad had 0 shots on target this whole game

you sure? i recall kiko making a near save of some sort after either ramos or marcelo slacked on their defensive duties

Illarra was a talent who wasted his potential. He has the passing but lacks the vision and the mentality. such a shame.

Always trying to shit on illarra to justify Carlo being a douche to him, he passed the ball so what? illarra was solid as hell in the second half but that doesn't fit the narrative right?

How about isco being utter garbage and useless and I have yet to see anyone say a word about it, he is million time more talented right?

What does Isco have anything to do with Illara, your other fiancé Illara sucks deal with it, he's an average player with negative athleticism that makes mertesacker look good

halamadrid2 wrote:

S wrote:How's Morata playing?

Absolutely unplayable in the first half. Anything good that happened in the attacking 3rd went through him. Looked like he ran out of steam in the 2nd, not making runs and being content walking up the pitch after a corner instead of running like a striker should. But tbf to him he ran his socks off in the first half, defending, creating, dribbling.

Rewatched some of the game. He needs to be a winger/ss, I think he will do great there.

There's definetly some talent there

if ramos wasnt spanish and the captain, I think we should be talking about ramos losing his shift to varane and not pepe.
what zidane needs to do is put him on the bench and give him a position as an assistant coach sort of, then use him from March to may...lol..
athletico drew their first match, thats good news.
neymar dyed his hair same color as messi. watch suarez join them.....lol

titosantill wrote:

halamadrid2 wrote:Real Sociedad had 0 shots on target this whole game

you sure? i recall kiko making a near save of some sort after either ramos or marcelo slacked on their defensive duties

I think you are referring to the chance which Marcelo blocked for a corner. The only notable thing Kiko did was clear the ball in the first half when Kova played the ball into the middle of nowhere and LaReal nearly had a 3v2. Btw I thought Kiko was extremely good yesterday, very calm, put himself about in the box with his massive frame and for once our goalie actually played decent balls to our outfield players

If James is still behind Isco in the picking order after that performance I don't know what to say. Isco just lost the ball, James made 3-4 absolutely brilliant through balls and even got an assist at the end.

And Bale is just a machine. Superb performance from him.

We played a 4411 when James came on. We wont play that if he starts

Btw this was the 14th straight win in LL since ZZ took over and the 9th shut out in all competitions. We only have 2 draws and one loss in LL since ZZ took over

Casilla was good but he is awful with the ball at his feet...

Morata was superb this game. Very efficient with the ball and made the right moves all game. Bale,Varane and Kovacic to an extent stood out too. I really liked how Casemiro covered for out of position center backs and full backs when it was necessary.

Superb first half and only players who were not fully there were Marcelo and Ramos, both senior players.