That great planning

Where is the *bleep* back up DM

What a fcking joke and we have Atletico and Barca coming up

goodbye season for fck sake

Who planned this shit? I forgot we have pep's heir on the bench I'm probably overreacting. Total football can compensate for anything right?

When is Casemiro coming back again?

feck it. totally screwed. hope that modric is ok for atleti

Casemiro will be back for atleti right?

Casemiro Dm
Modric as DLP
Kovacic in modric role

Wont be so bad tbh

At this point we needed 2 back up players. Injuries have not been kind to us

guest7 wrote:Casemiro will be back for atleti right?

Casemiro Dm
Modric as DLP
Kovacic in modric role

Wont be so bad tbh

Yea, it a good idea to force Casemiro's return and risk a season ending injury.

Time to call up some youth team players; Aleix Febas and Valverde.

Use the youth team players ffs.

Knowing Zidane, he'll probably try to replace Kroos with James or Asensio  

Not surprised in the slightest, Z has been playing Kroos every minute of every game, even when we were 6 goals up against Cultural Leonesa.

I hate to say "I told you so", but I actually did. I kept repeating that he needed to give Kroos some rest, that he needed to sub him out when there was no need for the German to continue playing.

A smart manager wouldn't have fallen for this mistake.

BTW Nick, you're wrong about Kroos being out for a month. He won't play again in 2016, that's a certainty. And if he needs surgery, he could be out for up to three months.

He'll miss the Madrid derby, the clasico, and FIFA Club World Cup and all the games in between.

The injury was sustained against Leganés btw.

vanDEEZ wrote:At this point we needed 2 back up players. Injuries have not been kind to us

Agreed but knowing Madrid, they'll sign an AM to be back up for a DM.

Playing Varane there until Casemiro is fit??


We are fcked aren't we?

The Demon of Carthage wrote:Not surprised in the slightest, Z has been playing Kroos every minute of every game, even when we were 6 goals up against Cultural Leonesa.

I hate to say "I told you so", but I actually did. I kept repeating that he needed to give Kroos some rest, that he needed to sub him out when there was no need for the German to continue playing.

A smart manager wouldn't have fallen for this mistake.

BTW Nick, you're wrong about Kroos being out for a month. He won't play again in 2016, that's a certainty. And if he needs surgery, he could be out for up to three months.

He'll miss the Madrid derby, the clasico, and FIFA Club World Cup and all the games in between.

The injury was sustained against Leganés btw.

You do know that it was a fracture, right? Not a stress fracture- so you can't rest a player to avoid it, it just happens.

StrugaRock wrote:Playing Varane there until Casemiro is fit??

Varane
Modric Kovacic

We are fcked aren't we?

Pepe is also injured.

Nicks idea for the 343 doesn't sound to bad now

Navas
Varane Ramos Pepe
Carvajal Modric Kovacic Marcelo
Bale Benz Ronaldo

I think we'll be able to get by with that. God forbid he stays with the 4213 with Kova and Modric at double pivot

Hah.....God help us then

Wow. I am so surprised this has happened. Really.

M. Night. Shyamalan could not have predicted this plot twist!

What vandeez said.

Casemiro is coming back 31 dec according to transfermarkt.de so... we might survive clasixo. Had no hope for atleti anyway

Are you *bleep* kidding me. Is this nightmare ever going to end???!!!!????

Perucho21 wrote:Nicks idea for the 343 doesn't sound to bad now

Navas
Varane Ramos Pepe
Carvajal Modric Kovacic Marcelo
Bale Benz Ronaldo

I think we'll be able to get by with that. God forbid he stays with the 4213 with Kova and Modric at double pivot

Pepe and Ramos still out

Casemiro is out for 3 more weeks according to Marca. He hasn't even started kicking the ball yet. If ZZ knows what's good for him he is going to play a 442 against Atleti with Lucas a certain starter. I dgaf which of the BBC sits the game out. I'd rather a 0-0 than any loss

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the last option. Rip our defence. They are all going to drop like flies trying to defend all by themselves

ZZ would definitely have to play a 4-4-2 for, well, all the major ties (yes, it isn't just Atletico and Barcelona we have to worry about. Dortmund and Sporting de Portugal are very important matches which would determine where we finish in the group).

Must say, injuries are part and parcel of football so this is a normal thing to occur but what isn't normal is that, once again, the team is gonna suffer due to extremely poor planning on part of our transfers.

Not normal in the sense that this shouldn't be happening to a club like Real Madrid.

Thoughts on trying Danilo as a DM?

Benz is still out? Right?

That being the case, start Ronaldo and Bale or Morata and Bale.

Midfield should be Modric, Kova, Isco and Lucas. Not the best defensive group, but best that we can do under the circumstances. I would also to play Coentrao over Marcelo, just to improve defense.

Rg why you trolling us at this very sensitive point in time

Thats if our manager had any kind of tactical versality but since he is tactically retarded he just repeats ad infinitum the 433 we inherited from Carlo and spent time learning (not a bad strategy). When he tried to be creative he produced things like the 424 we saw the other day and hopefully we won't ever see that again.

Our team balance Is so heavily reliant on a DM that it's still baffling we went into a season with just Casemiro. I still can't believe our "manager" let that happen. Yes it takes freak injuries for worst case scenarios like these to happen, by that's why we build a large team planing for worst case scenarios. That has not happened.

I personally expect Kovacic-Modric-Isco, its the best we can go with this positional footy genius. We will achieve per sheer talent, as always. In kovacic I trust.

@Danilo played for Santos in midfield many times but Moreno as a box to box than a positional DM. It can be experimented in training playing him either side of Modric or Kovacic in front of the defense

Another option for that 4-4-2 is playing Vasquez - Kova - Luka - Bale on the same line supporting Morata and Ronaldo, meaning Bale and Lucas play more as wide midfielders rather than wingers(basically the same thing it is just that they are ordered to drop deeper).

halamadrid2 wrote:Casemiro is out for 3 more weeks according to Marca. He hasn't even started kicking the ball yet. If ZZ knows what's good for him he is going to play a 442 against Atleti with Lucas a certain starter.  I dgaf which of the BBC sits the game out. I'd rather a 0-0 than any loss

i like this idea for sure

more bodies in the midfield. at least with lucas on the right, the central midfield won't get pulled apart.