huntsman wrote:Looks like the Post Mourinho Era / effects are wearing off and Real Madrid are well , back to being Real Madrid.

It wasnt that Barca were a beast team, but rather Madrid being very mediocre.
Messi is like the most efficient player. He's not much on the ball but every touch on the ball turns out to something beautiful and more importantly fruitful.

lmao, three coaches have come since mourinho and this guy's still talking about him, you should be talking about the mourinho effect at utd or his last season in chelsea lol. the mourinho effect lol

Benz has 14 calendar goals this year Ronaldo has nearly as much just in the CL group this season

Congratz to Barca for winning the league, still may not be enough in CL as their mid is still poor but they are walking both the league and Copa this season

I doubt we'll win anything this season. The passion that we saw last season just isn't there unfortunately. Hopefuly the younger players get integrated and we start moving away from this forward line next season

Perez is not interested in league this season. penalty award count is dramatically different this season

Bankz wrote:Messi Christmas Madrid! How do you like our
guard of honor?

World champions What a guard of honor.

Wtf, had no clue this game was starting at like 5 or something

Real Madrid

Is this the team that's supposed to be a favorite against PSG? Outta here

Feel for Madrid fans. Gotta be hard being humbled so many times before its even half a season

Over the last 10 league matches between Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu, it has been a little bit one sided. Considering Messi has 11 of Barcelona's 28 goals. pic.twitter.com/lfj10pioc7

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) December 23, 2017

Never want to hear " Madrid have been good against Barca recently " ever again.

Congratulations to Barcelona, totally deserved victory.

They have been racking up league titles like candy in recent years while we seem to be content with winning one every half a decade.

What a disgusting loser mentality we have.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

Winter is Coming wrote:

Barcelona buscará su tercera victoria consecutiva en #ElClásicoxESPN en el Santiago Bernabéu por primera vez en su historia en #LaLigaxESPN. pic.twitter.com/f0U8hjU6K4

— Goles de Europa ESPN (@GolesdeEuropa) December 23, 2017

3rd time in a row we beat RM at SB in the league.

They won the supercup match in august there, misleading/fake news

That’s super cup. This is talking about league.

If Madrid wants to beat Barca they need to be in barca level at technique. Physically strong is good but technique comes first. Marcelo type players. Another president with Perez's money would make R.Madrid to dominate this era easily

zidane is just another high level coach like everyone else. football is little about talking and explaining. its played by players on the pitch. all barcelona coaches beat madrid without problem, because barca players played great. put zidane as barca coach he will beat madrid too

BarrileteCosmico wrote:

guest7 wrote:Gareth Bale is our best player in under 10 minutes ffs

It has long been established in GL that Bale is Madrid's best player

That's why we don't use him. He's not modern enough. Also, he's a straight, cisgender, patriarchal- type. Eww.

Damn good second half from us but we need to strenghten the mid because we should be dominating the game more. I kinda like what Valverde is doing so far, however.... He's conservative but tactically he seems to be quite capable

There's absolutely no denying that you had success under Mourinho.

Madrid fans keep conveniently forgetting how they were embarrassed eight years in a row by Lyon in CL last 16 before Mourinho arrived.

Successful dribbles today

Messi - 6
Sergi - 5
Madrid - 2

Messi v Madrid

1 goal
1 assist
6 successful dribbles
9 chances created
2 successful tackles

I'm not denying this, and I'm the opposite of a Mourinho fan, but he's got top qualities and Real did profit significantly from those qualities and he deserves credit for that.

http://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2017/12/23/5a3e6ee346163fb46e8b4635.html

huntsman you are supporting the wrong team

mou is a closet barca fan

Imagine being Mourinho's son

Imagine going to school with Mourinho's son

Guy must've had it rough

Mourinho made a mess but he also made Madrid relevant again.

rincon wrote:Mourinho made a mess but he also made Madrid relevant again.

As much as Madrid fans want to conceal that fact, its the truth, it may have been a tumultuos period but it Mourinho did the best with what he had in a dark tiki taka era

sometimes i feel like im the only madrid fan that's not hating on mourinho. i appreciated what he'd done for us and the last year just a really bad romance.

sure the man got his antique, but remember he's also rivalling a biggest hypocrite in the league and they have their fair share of disgust tactic.

the only unbearable part of him to me, was his sore losing attitude, which i guess, comes in package with his ego, which most top man got it.

he even play good football, while pples just wanna focus picking on his few parking bus matches against a prime barca, what would u had done? if benitez or zidane was in charge at that period u will be crying and begging for mourinho to come.

Kaladin wrote:

rincon wrote:Mourinho made a mess but he also made Madrid relevant again.

As much as Madrid fans want to conceal that fact, its the truth, it may have been a tumultuos period but it Mourinho did the best with what he had in a dark tiki taka era

And we appreciate what he did. Now, we'd appreciate it even more if he stayed the hell away from Madrid.

Madrid was a banter club before Mou's arrival lol. Imagine thinking otherwise.

There are good things he did, for example getting rid of a fast declining Casillas, or converting Ramos from a RB to a CB and bravely giving Varane the chances to be the top player he now is.

He also changed the mentality of a team that was previously numb to getting butt raped by their arch rivals.

Agree to all of that... And then he tried to plunged the club deep in hell before leaving

I'm not a fan of Mourinho, but I think at that time you needed a guy like him. Did he overstay his expiry date? Probably by a season.