halamadrid2 wrote:

Myesyats wrote:Wait, so does this mean Madrid's unbeaten run is over?

Yes, in empathetic fashion. It has been long overdue

Damn.

Unbeaten run in LaLiga, not all competitions. We lost to Lille this season and a few losses in CL/Copa last season

BarcaLearning wrote:Who worlda thought... Real undone by simple tactics the CBs pushed up leaving Lewand all free

I knew. Told you man, stop with this defeatism, it's unserious.

BarcaLearning wrote:God I understand the hate for Vini now, I mean look at him, he acts likes hes entitled by the ref all the time to give him special treatment when he goes n fouls like that gets booked n complains non stop... n btw, he is ugly Im sorry...?

On one hand it's better for us because there's extra motivation to dunk on this annoying bozo.

Pedri to Vini: “” #FCB pic.twitter.com/B7NeKEWFiO

— Reshad Rahman (@ReshadFCB) October 26, 2024

INSULTO RACISTA A LAMINE YAMAL EN EL BERNABÉU

En el Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Lamine Yamal marca el tercer gol y recibe insultos de “PUTO MORO”. Esto no lo mostrarán ni en televisión ni en el documental sobre Vinicius.

@DriblingDeHleb

pic.twitter.com/tKF56AmYOx

— Marc Martínez (@marc98martinez) October 26, 2024

"Es una derrota fácil de digerir". - Jose Mourinho, circa 2010.

I would like to think that a silver lining could be extracted from this and that the club could realize that it is time to move on from the anti-intellectual mindsets that it has had for so long when it comes to our brand of football and the type of manager/coach profile we should have. That goes hand in hand. I wouldn't count on it with Perez.

If we were better coached and had an inclination and respect within the club towards intensity and putting the process over the players we would be better off for it. You need the latter to come first for the former to really be possible.

You wouldn't have a manager like Ancelotti cucking himself out as a "galactico whisperer", defending his players from criticism for not being intense or proactive enough, indulging them and actually disgustingly rationalizing a laissez faire approach that can't work anyways without good enough, functional coaching and good enough, functional process + intensity, which is what we had last season.

We have monster players who could pull off whatever the likes of Guardiola, Flick, or Alonso would like to but Ancelotti doesn't have the personality or the connaissance to pull it off, and it doesn't come naturally to the club to build that.

To me, this season is a microcosm for what's so bad with what I call the anti-intellectual approach. Even when I've praised Carlo in the past a lot of what I'm praising is a functional process, but I have always realized that his brand of functional processing is in large part a compromise with suspicious implications. The implications become more than that when player intensity, fitness, and motivation are lost. The lack of process and nitty gritty tactical ideas becomes more apparent. The indulgence becomes more apparent.

We have what it takes to play a kick ass, intense, proactive 4231/4141 but we can't because we don't have a coach who can get his players in form, make them run, and instruct them better. Hence the limp and lame 442/433/3421 experiments with Bellingham playing on the right, with Valverde not being activated fully, and with Mbappe and Vinicius being less than optimal defensively.  

It's easy to digest this defeat because we haven't been the best league team so far this season. Facil de digerir.

Less easy to stomach is the cowardly and lame anti-intellectual reasons behind our consistent underperformance.

halamadrid2 wrote:

Myesyats wrote:Real Madrid ignites el clásico accusing the referee, Sánchez Martínez: the club’s television uses a nine-year-old video from the RFEF to call out the referee of the match against Barcelona.

https://www.relevo.com/futbol/liga-primera/real-madrid-incendia-clasico-acusando-20241024191518-nt.html

official channel of a small club

pressuring refs before games, what is this league

Sanchez Martinez is a very controversial figure against us and a clear Negreira stooge. We are trying to purge the lot, you would thank us if you weren't in cahoots with the league.

I didn't want to talk about refs after this beautiful win but just one quick post to respond to this:

No yellow for Toomuchmoney, should be red:


Same ref (Sanchez Martinez) was on VAR in previous clasico and disallowed this "ghost" goal. Magically yesterday we had a better camera angle than last season, go figure.

parece que hoy sí funciona la cámara donde la temporada pasada tangaron un gol al Barça, curioso. pic.twitter.com/pHJY4PwdAh

— Zona Blaugrana (@Zona_Blaugrana) October 26, 2024

+ a lot of small things, such as Bellingham makes a tactical foul to stop a counter = no yellow.

Glad we stop them getting the unbeaten record... so we hold the record? Cant remember just heard the commentator said it once b4...

Now gonna catch up on the worldwide headlines n reactions to the HUMILIATION

BarcaLearning wrote:so we hold the record?

Yep we defended it last night.

The longest unbeaten runs in LaLiga history:
• 43 games - Barcelona (2017-2018)
• 42 games - Real Madrid (2023-2024)

Couldn’t catch the game, have to watch the highlights, but tbh I expected this. Anyone who’s been watching Barcelona and Real play this season knows Barca is by far the better team. We have a lot of holes and imbalance in the team that needs to get fixed.