Real Madrid v Éibar

Kovacic is so good

We need 3 mids defensively tito... we don't have single midfielder other than Casemiro that could handle a double pivot physically.

Vasquez is injured too apparently. Morata doing pretty well as a winger.

Ronaldo is missing a lot of chances yet again.

titosantill wrote:isco needs to be taken off....btw is 4 3 3 the only formation the managers have on their note pad?

That's an exaggeration cause Z doesn't even have a notepad. He prefers the old-fashioned I-have-no-idea-what-i'm-doing approach.

Drawing at home against Eibar, what a fcking disgrace

I bet if I snap my fingers Morata will go down easily too

this has draw written all over it smh

....or worse

Mr Nick09 wrote:Drawing at home against Eibar, what a fcking disgrace

And what's even more disgraceful is that Eibar didn't even park the bus.

Madrid will nick it in the last 5 minutes.

Disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful performance.

Only three of our shots were on target.

i apologize to mr nick adit and demon......this is just clueless.

Results are what matters... Guess what? It's not.

If you play good results will come naturally.

If you play like shit but still win it only means that someday you will play the same way and won't win.

Zidane

Fourth draw....... are we going to get out of our rot anytime soon

titosantill wrote:i apologize to mr nick adit and demon......this is just clueless.

no worries man, i m suffering as much as you are right now

2 weeks ago we were leading la liga, now we are behind again

Mr Nick09 wrote:2 weeks ago we were leading la liga, now we are behind again

coincides with the return of Ronaldo.

We wasted 45 minutes of this game and in the 2nd half we ran out of steam. Don't understand the Asensio sub. Vasquez would have been the obvious choice. Tbh we are in a very bad form yet we will only be a point behind in LL if Barca win their game. Hopefully this is our drop in form done for the season. Barca and Atleti are yet to have theirs

holy shat, that was bad. we are bad.

perez will (and should) go berserk in 2018. expect a 400m summer or sth like that.

all our players could be injured and we will still field a 4 3 3, its almost like there are no other alternatives to chose from. if zidane is smart, and unbiased, then he'll look to give kovacic more minutes and a bigger role on this team. bale played very well, but i don't think we'll get much from him on the right flank. he's not robben, cutting back to cross on his stronger foot doesn't look all that. and he can't do those robben inward runs and shoot consistently. its high time zidane and the staff start looking at better formations on the pitch and quit the "i'm trying to make everybody happy" approach

the first half was pathetic from the players. i don't care if modric casemiro ramos marcelo and co are injured, we are playing against eibar at home. what saddens me is, the transfer ban will make them comfortable, they don't feel in-disposable anymore. and we're going to see more of this nonsense for yet another year....madrid; spend ridiculous money on players u don't need, and then when you need to sign, you ignore it

Who do we have that we can play a double pivot with... with 3 mids, we're already struggling defensively with the injuries. Imagine 2 lol.

It's not possible. We don't have the profiles to play anything other than a 3 man mid.

Before anyone commits suicide here... It's October 2 and if Barca win, we're only 1 point behind

zidane should ditch the "make players happy" approach. at this point he needs to grow some cojones and look to other formations which may mean certain players being dropped. that first half was horrific; eibar didn't park the bus (neither did dortmund, nor las palmas), they had a lot of gaps we could have exploited but we didn't. question for the forum; is cf morata's best position? he did better than benzema today, no doubt about that, but he's not strong, doesn't have the finesse neither. there were situations where i thought to myself, if we had a better cf that would have been a goal e.g the dive - he had all the time in the world

he's good at beating guys e.g. that move for the cross to bale, but a more primed forward would have beaten the guy and found a way to shift back to pull a shot on goal, rather than a low cross to a player who was well covered by the defense. he did better than the rubbish we saw in the first half though

fact is, this side doesn't scare anyone. teams know if they concentrate hard enough they can even get a win...kovacic was good, rushed at the winger who was trying to waste time, got the ball back, held it very well (unlike isco) and forced a foul....zidane needs to take off his biased glasses and find a way to field that guy. he was our best midfielder today. attempted some risky through passes that were cut off

if he gets more game time, i bet he'll improve on those passes....lord knows we need passes like that in the final third..and are we getting obsessed with 4 3 3? we lose casemiro and modric, and zidane still insists on the same formation. we could lose the front 6 and i bet we'll still see 433. i'm so happy int'l break is coming up.

yes we're only a point behind, but we're not looking good against the scum of the football world. eibar, las palmas, and these guys aren't even parking the bus. he can still play 3 midfielders (i would have cried if i saw james isco and kroos to be honest. nobody's going to defend, no matter how many attacking midfielders u ask to play that role) but he needs to be more inventive. the front 3 is extremely suspect, and i'm not sure i'm that big on morata. he's pacy, but he's not polished at all. what he has going for him is youthful exuberance, the technique isn't there

Again, replace them with who?

Marcelo, Casemiro, Ramos, Modric, Vasquez and James were all injured today. The only options coming off the bench were Morata, Asensio, Nacho, Mariano and Casilla. He actually was forced to leave both James and Vasquez on the bench to meet La Liga regulations

The only error I see is to force Benzema to start despite him still suffering from the hip injury. Morata should get the call. Other than that, there's little to nothing he can do with all the injuries.

Just to keep things in perspective, Pepe, Ronaldo and Benzema missed the early season due to injuries. They returned and then Casemiro, Modric and Marcelo got injured. You can add James and Vasquez now too.

The squad is in flux and we have very limited numbers. At this point, we're just trying to play with the warm bodies that we have.

I'm going to say this, and you'll have to excuse me if I come across a little blunt.

As far as I'm concerned, you've lost all your credibility as a poster. The fact that you tend to stubbornly stick to your ludicrous bias with all your might and come up with ridiculous excuses to appease your own conscience and help yourself sleep at night, and stave off constructive and well-argumented criticism against Z and anything with the word French on it, is beyond laughable.

A Real Madrid fan, a true one, is here to support the club, and if anything messes with its well-being, they should make sure to point it out. You, on the other hand, you'd gladly watch Real Madrid burn and crumble to the ground as long as Z is in charge and there are many french players in the team.

Even when we're talking transfers, most of the time, you recommend french players. Even after Pogba went to United, you couldn't rest two seconds on your laurels before popping up again to recommend Sissoko.

I'm really, really, really sorry and I apologize in advance if I hurt you or came across a little strong. But dammit enough is enough, what you're doing is completely ridiculous.