I still haven't gotten over my dissapointment of San Mames. From Asensio not being able to be counted to Benz being dissapointing to Ramos having a mare to the biggest dissapointments of them all, the coach for not realising we have another n9 in the squad raring to go. *sigh*

One thing ZZ was very good at was rectifying mistakes. When he made a mistake he didn't make the same one again.....bar Zdiamond Lope has got to stop putting Kroos in a deeper role against any top 10 team, it's like playing Ronaldo at left back and wondering what's gone wrong when we keep losing

Hopefully this will be the line up:


I trust Bale to get things done. He has scored or assisted in every single game of ours this season. Time Benz got that reliable. Don't even get me started on the boy with no balls Asensio who's being surpassed by Dembele. Someone needs to slap him and aak him to take risks or he'll lose his place to Vinicious before too long. It's only so many games you can play without being productive before you're replaced. Isco and Modric also need to step up. For the former hopefully a dose of reality has gotten his head out of his ass

Navas has to wait for copa games to begin!

Squad list

Keylor, Courtois, Casilla, Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Nacho, Marcelo, Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Marcos Llorente, Asensio, Isco, Ceballos, Mariano, Benzema, Bale and Lucas.

No Odriozola yet again.

Am I missing something? To me, Asenio has been great this season.

The Bilbao game, Bale was the poor one, Benzema as well for not taking responsibility.

Why all the Asensio criticism?

Did Odriozola shit in Lope's coffee or something or is he giving him the Ceballos treatment?

Official line up:

Keylor Navas; Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Marcelo; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos, Isco; Bale y Benzema.

Honestly, I'm completely against this idea of having two starter-material goalkeepers in the roster. It's counter-productive, and most importantly unfair to them.

Sooner or later, one of them or both will grow tired of being rotated. The goalkeeper is the only position you don't want to rotate constantly. They need to start every week to learn how to command their box and build an understanding with their defenders.

My god! That would've been the goal of the tournament. What a fantastic first touch from Bale that was! Absolutely sensational!

Is Benzema allergic to shooting?

Madrid are a joy to watch, playing really well right now and wasting many chances. They better start scoring before Roma wakes up.

The Demon of Carthage wrote:Is Benzema allergic to shooting?

He needs replacement ASAP. We need someone who's young and fresh. Someone who's proven for both club and country - someone who showed balls during the world cup. We need Kane

No idea why Roma are playing with such conservatism when they know that Madrid's kryptonite is pressing.

Benzema makes so little runs and movements lol

Roma are playing with class, without any playacting or cheating. Ramos should keep that in mind before attempting to clip their players.

1-0 Madrid draw first blood through Isco (who also brought the free-kick to begin with). Sensational play from the Andalusian.

They have forgotten how to shoot ffs.

Dominant half. Should be 4/5-0 up but who am I kidding Ronaldo would feast on these lackluster feckers, Bale has forgot how to get his shots within the frame and a striker who messes up a throw in that puts him 1v1 with the keeper. Nice game for Modric to get his confidence back though. Roma are backing off every single one of our players

Okay, first half is up.

Sensational play from Madrid. Honestly, I can't remember the last time we played this well. Everything looks so fluid and natural, it's just so amazing to watch.

Ronaldo truly made his presence felt in this game. He would've absolutely torn Roma to shreds and would've ended the first half with a hattrick.

It's so frustrating because everything is perfect...except for the attack. We'll regret this later, I already know this.

Not even the attack being a problem. It's guys not hitting the target with their shots and specifically Kroos and Marcelo. Bale as well.

Benzema doesn't shoot so I just consider him a traffic cone so far.

We are actually playing some fantastic football. How ever shooting need to be a lot better. Benzema could do a lot better during the build up as well instead of either coming towards the ball or going for the farthest center back. He should make it difficult to read for the defenders.

Bale doesnt look in great form today, i feel like he lost some juice between the NT break, the super intense game in Bilbao and now the CL back to back.

Yup , attack is not the problem, shooting is. Wrong shots, wrong selection of shots and wrong timing of shots.

Oh yh forgot about Cristiano Kroos skying his every shot, was it 5 or 6?

Bale's finishing is shocking this evening. Two clear-cut chances wasted, and one of them wasn't even meant for him, it was meant for Marcelo, but took it anyway and ended up wasting it too.

He needs to get his act together, this is absolutely inexcusable.

Good lord Modric what a pass