La Liga is still in our reach so playing that line up is not a good idea imo. there is zero creativity from front 3 lol. but it appears we have no choice because Vini, benz and Modric are tired.

so we could play like that and if things didn't go our way bring in Vini and Benz in 60th minute.

I don't think we should rotate too much since we have no mid-week game.

Modric is suspended btw so he'll get some rest and i'd rest Benz as well since he picked up a small knock vs Ajax.

Vini has been playing a lot but his minutes have been managed decently (getting subbed off early etc) so i'd start him. Our attack will be too stagnant if we don't have one of Benz and Vini imo.

I'd go for:

Asensio offers zero penetration. He needs to get involved. Looks like another Bale out there.

Courtois is killing us. Sorry, hes not better then navas @nick.

Hudson is tearing into him and rightfully so. For someone who's 6 ft and a half you HAVE to claim that cross.

Strange game. Marcelo has been solid defensively. Ordoiozola looking suspect defensively. SMH hopefully vinicius changes things

We're a front-running team.  We can be really good if things go our way and the game is played generally according to plan... but we have a hard hard time adjusting what we do in game.

Thankfully, we've had our way most of the time lately and had some luck too.

In CL, we need to fight against the tide.  Ajax is one thing where they have all kids basically and they don't know how to take advantage of their tactical advantage....  but when we start playing the bigger teams, they'll bury us.

I also don't like that we rely on Vini and Benz for the attack.  One is 18 years old and the other is known to disappear at times.  Not that we have a choice...  but we really needed more options here to account for obvious things. Guys get tired and go through periods of good and not so good form. We have nothing to bring off the bench.

Oh and goodbye La Liga.

halamadrid2 wrote:Courtois is turning us into Chelsea. No wonder he wants Hazard on board

With Courtois in CL we are not winning shit. Our hope will be the Copa

Curtois was actually excellent.

Why do you have an agenda against him.

The defense was utterly disorganized. I think Marcelo makes the side alot weaker. Odrizola wasn't any good either.

The team flopped big time.

This game was a reality check. we have so many weak links it's laughable. and our most talented midfielder who can actually hold the ball for a second to save his life is out for good.

Marcelo and Bale are done. how many games they need? Bale is absolutely shit. and Marcelo well other than letting them cross the ball from his side time after time with ease and getting pwned on one two's ( he was lucky that ball hit the post ) and forgetting about his man to mark, did nothing.

Modric is our best and most important player without him we can't create much.

Liga is done, thankfully. because having false hope is never good.
CL we will get past Ajax ( 75% ) but we will get raped against better teams most likely.
and there is Copa. i will be happy if we beat Barca and win Copa. but if Messi returns to form and Barca plays their usual game even that is out of reach.

Seriously who signed Ordiozola? was it Lope? he is the most brainless RB out there. runs like a headless chicken all the time. puts Lucas to shame lol.

Losing to Girona at home. Great result. Keep on steadying the ship with your shit players.

Players aside, Solari's subs killed us.

Asensio was playing good. why sub him? and he brings Diaz for a midfielder. that never works unless your plan is to hoof the ball lol. Bale was another mistake. dude is so shit it's beyond talking.

Bale usually gave us a good week before getting injured. Since he's become consistently shit, he no longer gets injured either

So where is the ship exactly?

vanDEEZ wrote:So where is the ship exactly?

Off the coast of "we are still pretty awful". The only silver lining is that maybe this would finally kill off this remontada nonsense with respect to La Liga.

3 losses coming up in clasicos which eliminates both copa and liga leaving only CL which likely be gone in qrts.