# El Clasico Postgame Breakdown: Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona

An episode of [The Real Deal: A Real Madrid Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1807821669), 26 Oct 2025, 1 h 13 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/103607aa8/podcast/play/110239984/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-26%2F410005859-44100-2-dee4a3cc77328.mp3

Loconte, Jarod Hector and Sid break down Real Madrid's win over Barcelona. Xabi Alonso's tactical masterclass, Bellingham's role, Carreras locking up Yamal, and the mid block and high press, and more.

## Transcript

[0:00] That music is hitting hard today, you see these smiles and
[0:05] the confidence, smirks and grins on our faces here because you
[0:08] know what it is. Welcome to the Real Deal in Real
[0:11] Madrid podcast with me Jerrod Hector joined by Sid and Le
[0:14] Conte after Real Madrid's 21 win over Barcelona in Al Classico
[0:19] Bellas. Need I ask how are you feeling
[0:22] right now? Anything is possible.
[0:28] Trying to try to be Kevin Garnett out here.
[0:29] I. Feel like Jason Tatum after the
[0:31] ring, just trying to try to find the right person to ring.
[0:33] But I feel so happy, man. I'm so happy you're.
[0:40] Like, yo, you're in like the end of a championship.
[0:42] We're like, whatever. I look for somebody to hug
[0:44] because all the emotions just go through your body.
[0:45] You're like, I just need to hug somebody because we did this
[0:49] shit. I'm so happy.
[0:52] I, I, I screamed the first two offside goals.
[0:54] I screamed like every time the offside was denied.
[0:57] But I, I'm just been happy all morning.
[0:59] It was a even a game that could have been even and we went and
[1:02] cooked them. It's the most satisfying feeling
[1:03] on earth. 3.5 XG to 1. I just want to say like, just
[1:08] like 2-1 doesn't reflect how we actually fried them in every
[1:11] damn phase of the game. We sent Hansi Flick's boys home.
[1:14] Get out of here bombs. You didn't belong on the same
[1:15] page. Domination in that match you
[1:19] mentioned the underlying XG 353.6 depending on which site
[1:23] you looked at one for Barcelona, the one they scored a Conte your
[1:30] feelings. And then I want you, I want to
[1:33] get into your premonition. You're like, I think I know Javi
[1:37] Alonso pretty well. And you You on our Friday show
[1:39] predicted this would be the starting 11.
[1:43] I mean, for people that watch the show on Friday, play it now,
[1:49] but for people that didn't, yeah, pretty much like I'm
[1:54] feeling exactly how I expected to feel, if that makes sense,
[1:58] right, Going into this game and exact into this season with the
[2:01] loner's coach for Self Classical.
[2:06] And I think the team just left that feeling in me, you know,
[2:10] like that confidence wasn't actually out of nowhere.
[2:14] I'm actually confident on what I'm seeing with this team rather
[2:18] than am I do myself a little bit just because it's a change.
[2:23] It's rather today just kind of nailed on into actually, no, I'm
[2:27] correct on my assessment of this thing.
[2:31] You are 100% correct. So let's start with the
[2:34] beginning of the match, the lineup, right, which this is
[2:37] Javi Alonzo's 15th, whatever, how many matches we've had is
[2:40] the 15th different? Whatever, the same amount of
[2:42] different line UPS we've had. He's never started the same line
[2:44] up twice in a row this season. He started all these Space Jam
[2:48] fans, what I consider our Monstars, right, in Valverde,
[2:52] Chemavanga, Chuameni and Bellingham, right?
[2:54] And I've said this to you guys numerous times on and off camera
[2:58] with those four dudes. How do we not dominate people
[3:00] because they're just so not only are they technically sound, they
[3:04] are physically superior to probably every other midfielder
[3:07] they play. And I don't know about you guys,
[3:10] but it bore out to me because they were winning duels all over
[3:14] the place. Their collective mindset as a
[3:17] group I thought was outstanding. And that was something I was
[3:20] worried about coming into this game.
[3:22] When adversity hits offsides right away, a non penalty,
[3:25] didn't get a penalty, didn't get called right.
[3:27] I was like, oh shit, what are they gonna do?
[3:29] None of that fazed them. And they really said fuck it,
[3:33] we're here to win this game. We're here to dominate and
[3:35] follow exactly what Chavi Alonzo wants us to do.
[3:38] Yeah, Just want to say when what?
[3:41] The last four years, when we would go down in games,
[3:43] something would go wrong. We wouldn't play well to start,
[3:46] and then we would turn it around.
[3:48] This reminded me more of the Zadan years, where you actually
[3:50] have a plan that works, you do a good job executing it, and
[3:54] things go against you. And we still kept executing it.
[3:57] And I thought that was the most beautiful part of this game,
[3:59] like the emotional highs and lows.
[4:01] Oh my God, that was of roller coaster and.
[4:04] Managing them right, as Jude said in the pregame, it's a,
[4:07] it's not about like at the end of the day, like they're,
[4:09] they're elite professionals. So are we tactics or what they
[4:11] are. How do you manage the ebbs and
[4:13] flows emotionally of a big game? And this to me is the best.
[4:17] We've managed our emotions as this group clearly all season.
[4:22] Yeah, 100%. And I think that I just want to
[4:25] think that's. Yeah.
[4:30] Sorry, I I just want to say to feed off to get the country set
[4:32] up. Like you said, it was one of the
[4:35] best mid blocks we've ever had. The the what I thought was
[4:39] really great was that the players were comfortable knowing
[4:41] OK, like if he beats me, I'll go here if he beats me I'll go
[4:45] here. If if they play it back, we'll
[4:47] go press. If the press gets broken, this
[4:48] is what we'll do. There was a lot of if then
[4:50] solutions already in their head. So they felt confident.
[4:54] Last year we'd go up two nil. They would decide what to do
[4:57] emotionally. This there was none of that This
[4:58] year it was all pre decided. Alonso set play after set play.
[5:02] Like the whole game was one big Alonso set play it felt like.
[5:06] I I thought it was a tactical master class by Javi Alonso.
[5:09] Clearly he had clear ideas of what he wanted to do.
[5:13] We were very aggressive in our press, in our counter pressing
[5:16] and and going after, if we lost the ball, going back to win it.
[5:20] And then we settled into that mid block Lecante.
[5:22] We pushed Barcelona into areas that we wanted them to be in.
[5:26] Look, they could do 9 million passes a day.
[5:29] If it's just sideways to each other, fuck it, knock yourselves
[5:32] out because nobody's getting into any dangerous situations to
[5:35] hurt us. Yeah, I mean this was one of the
[5:39] best mid blocks that I've really ever seen, not just by Real
[5:46] Madrid, but in general, because even the simples back pass was
[5:51] requiring a lot of motion from them, right.
[5:53] And you could tell that they're just getting worn out time and
[5:59] time and time and time again. And when you make a team
[6:05] uncomfortable to pass the ball back while you're sitting in a
[6:08] block and barely even running, you know that you're doing a
[6:13] good job. You're tactically sound like we
[6:17] have the Friday show, which I'm going to reference.
[6:19] Chao Main was brought him, right?
[6:21] This is why he plays. He just went like, OK, I'm going
[6:26] to scream for you all night long.
[6:29] Just make sure that you're doing the other things correctly.
[6:34] Guess what? Zone 14, no access.
[6:36] No, just they just went like, no, you just can't enter it.
[6:40] That's the most dangerous zone. So in terms of a tactical setup
[6:46] and what are loans of achieve, I think that today was one of
[6:52] these moments where we saw the players fully buy into what the
[6:57] coach ideology is. They are willing to ride and die
[7:02] for him. And this is a huge chunk when
[7:05] we're talking about the team filled with superstars.
[7:07] It doesn't happen every day. Not every coach can achieve
[7:10] something like that, let alone at this young age.
[7:13] So perhaps Alonzo for everything that he did.
[7:16] With that question, you mentioned that the team, both of
[7:20] you with the collective mindset and the buy in right, everybody
[7:23] came in with the same idea. I saw covering for one another
[7:27] all of the things the hallmarks of teams that win trophies all
[7:31] season, right is what is what you saw today on the pitch.
[7:33] Something I thought about initial instantly when I was
[7:36] watching the the match today is something you said Lecante, on
[7:39] Friday, you know, we had some concerns of the fan base about
[7:44] Carreras's quote UN quote dip in form, right.
[7:47] And Le Conte, you made the astute point.
[7:48] Well, yeah, Well, when you take away Dean Houston and now he has
[7:51] to do all that ball progressing work on his own.
[7:54] Yeah, you notice, right, Other areas of his game suffers.
[7:57] Well, he had his ball progressing partner back in
[8:00] Houston and I thought just that alone he looks so much more
[8:04] comfortable in the ball today and and so much better in terms
[8:07] of what to do when it 'cause he was in some tight and tricky
[8:09] situations and was able to deal with the pressure, evade like he
[8:14] was to start the year and and advance us out out of
[8:16] Barcelona's pressure. Shall we discuss the early
[8:19] events of the game? Gentlemen?
[8:20] The So I just think it's funny the first play, the first play
[8:24] of the game, though, just well, just the first play of the game,
[8:29] Dean actually, like presses steps up way too high and gets
[8:32] caught out. And then he immediately makes a
[8:34] bad pass and it's like it was forgotten.
[8:36] It was forgotten. It didn't even happen.
[8:38] It's like didn't. Linger didn't linger.
[8:40] Yeah, he had that. He had that bad play early and
[8:43] then someone gave it away deep early.
[8:45] Those were the first two lines. Like we're a little shaky, but
[8:49] none of these things. It was Dean.
[8:51] He made the mistake jumping, and then he and.
[8:52] Then he gave it away. And off the bat, like, yeah,
[8:56] both. Yep, that was OK.
[8:59] So that happens, But Barcelona don't get a shot on target till
[9:02] the 33rd minute. I think we just have to touch on
[9:04] the first half because the dominant period of our game was
[9:06] the first half, not the second, Correct?
[9:09] So first half we're playing in one of the best mid blocks we've
[9:11] ever seen. It's just like you said, true.
[9:15] Or many cutting down the spaces in zone 14 and then everyone
[9:18] rotating around him. I thought the most remarkable
[9:22] thing though, was our defending from our hackers was ridiculous.
[9:26] Like, listen, I said, I think I tweeted this out.
[9:29] I know he didn't score today, but I thought Vinny played so
[9:33] well out of possession today in terms of his pressing and his
[9:36] all of it tracking back like, and I get to win the
[9:39] second-half. But I think that was part of his
[9:42] frustration with when he got subbed off.
[9:44] He's like, OK, you tell me you want me to work her out of
[9:47] possession and I'm doing it and now you're taking me off.
[9:50] Now that's not the way you handle it in that situation, but
[9:52] emotions high. It's a classic go.
[9:54] I get all that. But I think that was the result
[9:56] of that. He's like, look, I'm working
[9:57] like you asked me to, busting my ass out of vision, which he was,
[10:00] and I thought in possession. He didn't rush, he didn't make
[10:04] mistakes, didn't like. I think, Sid, you might have
[10:06] mentioned this maybe two or three shows ago or maybe you Le
[10:09] Conte. He gets it now what his role is
[10:11] in this system, right? I don't gotta carry the ball.
[10:14] 9,000,000 yards. No, no, no, no.
[10:16] When I get it, I know exactly where I'm going, what the move's
[10:18] gonna be, what the pass is gonna be.
[10:20] Well, I'm gonna take my guy on and dribble.
[10:21] Like he seems so assure of himself now.
[10:24] And I think all of those things together, he was like, why are
[10:26] you taking me off? Like I'm I'm good.
[10:28] So that was that. Well, so and that's where, yeah,
[10:31] the and so the second-half, the attackers get tired, we have to
[10:34] make Subs. But the first half, when they're
[10:35] all fit, when they're all making, when they're all like
[10:38] fully fit, the defensive ever was ridiculous.
[10:40] And I think it starts with Vinnie and Bape more than
[10:43] anything because they're so fast and and Bape really tried
[10:47] closing down some of their players sometimes and they get
[10:49] so scared. Chesney is terrified.
[10:51] Chesney was he? Almost nicked the ball twice of
[10:53] Chesney like doing that. Yep, and this is all the stuff
[10:57] they said and BAPE wouldn't do any balls.
[11:00] When he was slowed he was shot and Bape just goes from behind.
[11:03] He goes like Nope. Yes, very good.
[11:06] And so we're pressing them super high, Jude on the right and I
[11:11] want to talk about that real quick.
[11:13] So the mid block obviously is designed to actually it's like
[11:16] an upper mid block. It's like we really didn't want
[11:18] to retreat in the first half that much.
[11:20] So most of the time it's a mid block that goes into a press and
[11:23] then gets back into the middle. But we're we're not letting them
[11:26] get into our box. We're setting up like 20-30
[11:28] yards in front of our box or 20 yards in front of our box.
[11:31] Normally when we win it back, we're trying to plate the Jude
[11:34] in the right half space and then he finds people through the
[11:36] middle. Why?
[11:37] Why do we think we we went there with Conte?
[11:43] I mean, normal, right? It's just the Jude thing we see
[11:52] a lot with Alonzo that he likes to do shape shifting a lot.
[11:55] Like that's one of his biggest things.
[11:56] And you could see that Jude was floating.
[11:58] But the reason why I wanted to block that left left side of
[12:01] theirs, which would be in like a right side men that their
[12:05] progression. He was going to force constant
[12:07] switches to Yamal, which was like one of the things that I
[12:12] had pointed out before the game. You wanted that switch to happen
[12:16] as quickly as possible or you wanted Frankie and Pedry to turn
[12:19] around constantly and reshuffling, trying to keep
[12:22] possession because they might be too scared to play the ball
[12:27] forward in fear of transition. So that is exactly what
[12:31] happened. Because Jude is so good at
[12:34] reading passages of play, it's very easy to put him anywhere
[12:38] really and you just know that he's going to be doing that.
[12:41] As you said, it was not really, it was an upper mid block
[12:45] because he still wanted to press them on the first phase.
[12:50] So when Chesney had the ball, he definitely wanted to block the
[12:54] passages, make Chesney take the hard decision, which I think he
[13:00] believed Chesney would sometimes go for Frankie or Pedry, but
[13:04] that unfortunately didn't happen.
[13:06] They were going wide, but for the most part you just saw that
[13:12] the Ackerman of the players like or the moving Jude moving.
[13:18] It's the way how they're pinning.
[13:19] They're 15 it a lot of spaces to access And then once you have
[13:24] clogged Barcelona more centrally, because Yamal
[13:27] Laminium all likes to get the ball and cut on the inside, that
[13:32] means that there are too many central bodies.
[13:35] What's open there? It's out white for Vini and we
[13:38] saw that play time and time and time and time again and
[13:41] Barcelona just was too scared to push Kunde to support Laminium
[13:44] all. So therefore we kept having
[13:47] numerical superiority in all of those phases.
[13:50] Yeah, totally. That was dominant.
[13:54] And I want to say I, I don't think I didn't watch all of ours
[13:57] of PSG, honestly, but if you guys saw it, that was as bad as
[14:00] their performance against any team in a year, over a year, one
[14:04] of their worst performances. And what really stood out was
[14:07] the Hansi Flick team playing side to side yes, and maybe
[14:12] they're even more hurt than they were a few weeks ago, but more
[14:15] than anything, they. Everybody's got injuries.
[14:17] That ain't no excuse. So are we.
[14:19] We got plenty of injuries too. Yeah, yeah, everyone has
[14:21] injuries. I do think they were a weakened
[14:22] team. That's not to make an excuse for
[14:24] them. But like, I mean, for example,
[14:25] Rashford was nothing like drafting yet.
[14:28] Like I, I listen, I like Rashford, but I on some level I
[14:31] do like making fun of the Man United and Premier League fans
[14:33] who thinks he's some superstar. He would not start for us.
[14:36] He's not starting for Barcelona. You guys overrate him a little.
[14:39] He never was on that trajectory and maybe he needed to be here.
[14:42] But today you kind of saw the like decade of footballing
[14:44] education he never got play out. Like he just couldn't do
[14:47] anything. Oh, he's.
[14:49] Certainly not Ravinia. He is certainly no Ravinia.
[14:51] Yeah, and Ravinia would have been terrifying, but like, have
[14:55] Barcelona ever played under flick so many side to side
[14:58] passes? I don't.
[14:59] That might be like a record for lack of progression for them in
[15:02] the game. It it was again, it was just
[15:06] beautiful because clearly that it was by design, right?
[15:09] That was the goal. And Le Conte, you said, let's
[15:12] try to force this into Laminia Mall heliocentric ball, right?
[15:16] Like 'cause he's going to turn it over and all that.
[15:18] But it's even like he couldn't even do that because you get the
[15:22] ball in the corner. It's like, OK, Carreras is on
[15:24] you and the, the the defense to and you saw later in the
[15:28] second-half he started to shift more centrally, right, 'cause
[15:29] he's like, I can't, I'm doing nothing out here.
[15:31] And yes, he did get that that ball into to Kunde.
[15:34] But I would argue that was by design, right?
[15:37] Like you Kunde's, you want Kunde going in there 'cause he has no
[15:40] idea what he's doing when he comes into the box, right on a
[15:42] on a pass like that. I just thought that that the
[15:45] club's Carreras's play one-on-one versus him was
[15:50] excellent. I thought he gave just the right
[15:52] amount of buffer space in the correct body angling position.
[15:55] When he would start his downhill run to cut inside right there
[15:58] was a second person coming saying OK he.
[16:00] Knows that he was always going to cut inside, so that made it
[16:03] much easier. It was, it was just, yeah, they
[16:08] did their homework, right? Like a a club, a club that did
[16:10] their homework and executed right, 'cause it's, look, every
[16:15] club has a game plan before every match.
[16:17] The question is, are you going to execute it or not, right?
[16:19] And how well are you going to execute it?
[16:21] And this is the best execution the club has had.
[16:24] If you look at our underlying metrics, everything kind of
[16:27] followed Sid, the same trend it's been following all year.
[16:31] We dominated in shots, dominated in XG, like all the things right
[16:34] and we were a little bit unlucky or unclinical.
[16:37] You can argue both sides that we weren't able to literally score
[16:41] more right and put 4 or even 5 past Barcelona.
[16:46] Yeah, I definitely think we could have had three and it's
[16:50] just, you know, between the disallowed goals, the small
[16:52] margins, it's a tricky fixture. We didn't fully get around that.
[16:56] And Lecante, I mean, I don't want to get too much into reps,
[16:58] but let's just, I guess we have to touch on it, what we think of
[17:01] the couple referee decisions. So first, the Vini penalty
[17:04] choice. Yeah.
[17:05] Like those were honestly, yeah, that's why I'm so impressed.
[17:08] Those were momentum killers like that.
[17:09] That just took the, like, air out of the game for me as a Real
[17:12] Madrid fan. I'm like, we're cooking you.
[17:13] And then I'm like, oh, I can't even say we're up to nil.
[17:15] None of that. And I mean the first one, I
[17:18] thought, like the commentators were saying, you could be C on
[17:21] the other angle, your mall doesn't touch the ball.
[17:23] Very clear, very clear. It was a penalty to me.
[17:27] Lakanta, you say the same. I mean, I guess we're all we're
[17:31] all in agreement here. What about the second one?
[17:32] Yes. Most intriguing port for me
[17:37] wasn't really those big holes, right, which was the offsides.
[17:41] I mean, by the way, we have proof that Mbappe wasn't even
[17:44] offside and the goal that they disallowed.
[17:47] But for me, it's not bad. For me it's the fact that first
[17:50] 10 minutes Jude got shot three times into the ground with his
[17:55] back, no. They do this thing in La Liga
[18:00] because because he's 6 foot 2 or whatever, he's not allowed to
[18:04] get fouled by a small person. So if a small person touches
[18:06] him, it's not a foul where I'm like.
[18:09] Yes, and that that also played out with Pedri in the night,
[18:12] like late in the game when he's literally I'm like watching that
[18:14] run. I'm like, Oh yeah, This is why
[18:15] we buy the big players. Shove that little pussy to the
[18:17] ground like go. And and I think, I think
[18:19] McNamara even said it like it's not Jude's fault that Pedri's 5
[18:22] foot 5 and runs into his elbow like.
[18:25] Yeah. Yeah, it's not his fault.
[18:26] Like he's 62, whatever, deal with it.
[18:28] Like and I think he gets penalized because he's big and
[18:31] Pedri gets extra credit because he's small.
[18:33] But that just need to remove their elbows before they start
[18:36] playing. Hey, but the red car was such a
[18:40] good car model at the end, it was the cherry on top.
[18:42] It's like, yeah, get out of here.
[18:43] You got all the calls, you got all the offsides, you got all
[18:45] this crap. Still got outplayed.
[18:46] Get off my fish. Like, by the way, this great
[18:48] Pedry, the great, the best midfielder in Spain, didn't look
[18:51] like that to me in this match. I don't.
[18:53] Know because because when you man mark them and with athletes
[18:56] like ours, you can't. They can't play.
[18:57] They don't play football when you man mark them.
[18:59] And honestly that it was really fun to see how tired he was and
[19:02] how he ran and bragged. What are your thoughts there at
[19:05] the concert? You got something to say?
[19:08] You know what's funny right, is the fact that this narrative of
[19:12] Pedry being not only the best midfielder in Spain but also in
[19:15] a world of football because people perceive midfielders in
[19:18] just one way and there is no other way to be a midfielder is
[19:22] the fact that I saw Borsa fans throughout the whole game
[19:27] bashing from their own for delay in his passes this and that.
[19:31] Well, Petty wasn't even going forward with his moves right?
[19:35] He was just going backwards. Kubarsi.
[19:37] Okay, here's Valde and he was guessing his teammates.
[19:40] By the way, I had self to Frankie for that interview where
[19:43] he said that sometimes like the Layma pass because I don't want
[19:45] to put my teammates in bad spots.
[19:47] Well, guess what, Petry, you maybe should listen to that a
[19:50] little bit because there were numerous times when Madrid was
[19:54] setting that trap up for the fullback and Petty was just
[19:57] going like this, then give the ball and the fullback is like,
[20:01] what the hell do I do here? So it's just about control.
[20:06] We know that that pivot is going to be weak or shifted so.
[20:12] How are you going to move around them?
[20:15] So if you're not going to let them move forward, which would
[20:18] have been Fermin between the lines, Fermin had to constantly
[20:21] either come back or move to the wings because there was no space
[20:24] there whatsoever, then you have completely removed those pivots
[20:28] out of the game. When you have lecante, come
[20:29] closer to the mic, come closer to the mic too.
[20:35] Just come closer to the mic too when you speak, yeah?
[20:38] Lean in, lean into the mic. They have the cool players that
[20:43] are turnover prone on the wings. It's very hard to manage a game
[20:50] like that and it boils down to both of their pivots.
[20:54] Well they lacked for lack of better world here.
[20:58] Both owns to go again. That's the truth.
[21:02] They just didn't want to have that duel.
[21:04] They're like Nope I I can't. Well, listen, if I got, if I got
[21:08] to see Kemah, Vinga and all these dudes, like I don't want
[21:12] to do them either, right? Like those?
[21:13] Those guys are monsters and they were awesome today.
[21:18] Hey, we got a we got a quick super chat.
[21:19] I want to just bring up while we're on referees memes.
[21:21] Thank you for for the Super chat.
[21:24] First offside Fuhrman's back pass.
[21:26] Yeah, that that's what everyone was asking me.
[21:29] I the clip like it. It was a Barcelona player who
[21:31] last touched it. So can you do you still call
[21:34] offside in those situations? Like if you're are you saying if
[21:37] the whole line is up and you play like a ball from midfield
[21:41] through the goalie and like if Mbappe is between the goalie and
[21:43] the last center back, he can't just intercept it.
[21:45] That's stupid. That's that actually makes no
[21:47] sense. I agree.
[21:49] Is that I mean, I'm just trying to figure out I stupid here
[21:51] doctor. Bazema's goal on the Champions
[21:55] League final if you remember where they took it away even
[21:59] though it was deflected to him by.
[22:02] For being by the rules, it's not offside.
[22:04] So why are they making us feel stupid while watching the
[22:06] biggest game in football? Like like do you guys just not
[22:09] feel stupid sometimes with the referee?
[22:11] Like do you like confused about the rules like these are
[22:13] professionals paid? It's an obvious rule that a back
[22:16] pass is not offside. I don't know it.
[22:19] The frame is already in my total, by the way, but it's not
[22:22] even offside on that moment when the ball gets played.
[22:27] The ball is still in motion to worsen Bape, and Bape is still
[22:30] on side, not off. So yeah, there are two mistakes
[22:35] within the same action. First is the fact that Fermini,
[22:38] the last player who makes that touch or pass backwards, which
[22:44] means PAPI has been sent through by Fermin.
[22:48] And the second one is the fact that Papi is not even offset so.
[22:54] Did you you said that you think the league office waits.
[22:57] Do you think the league office waits till they have a picture
[22:59] they can put on social media and then puts that out?
[23:01] That's and that was actually that's actually super SUS
[23:04] though, because like very suspect.
[23:06] Why? Why is there no TV replay in the
[23:08] biggest game in football? We have every possible camera
[23:11] angle that exists and every frame of every camera that
[23:14] exists, yet we all we wait and get the one angle and frame that
[23:19] Oh yeah, look, see offsides. And it's like, OK, but why don't
[23:22] we know where is the player who has the ball, right?
[23:25] Like you, don't you? Don't get the full picture.
[23:33] Another person. You're you're you're muted or
[23:35] something. The so you guys were mentioning
[23:42] back passes. I don't know if you saw this,
[23:44] but apparently and all the the the hullabaloo that happened
[23:47] like towards the end of the game, Vidi or somebody said to
[23:50] Yamal all nothing but back passes your defenders, huh,
[23:54] That's all you guys are doing. Like I was like, Oh well, yeah,
[23:56] that's that's kind of what that was the game plan, right?
[23:59] Like cut, cut off their supply and let up and back pass.
[24:03] That's so. Yeah, and and we were still
[24:04] pressing their goalie when they back pass.
[24:06] We were just not letting them do it.
[24:07] Like you don't get to play football at the burn about
[24:09] today, boys. Like I love that.
[24:11] Like, it's the number of times we actually tried to run off the
[24:13] backward angle was so effective. And even late in the game, there
[24:17] was a point when I think Rashford was dribbling back and
[24:20] Judah was trying to cut the pass off to the goalie or the full
[24:23] back in front of him. Yeah, I like that because that's
[24:26] usually what teams have done to us and just flustered us.
[24:28] And why don't we just do that to them, use our athletes.
[24:30] It was so nice it. Was great.
[24:34] It was just a glorious game. It was just a glorious match.
[24:37] Like, you know, we again, everything was almost perfect,
[24:45] right? Like there were a couple of
[24:47] areas where if we were a little bit better with the timing of
[24:50] our passes and the weights, we would have sprung and Bapi and
[24:54] Vinny like for easy one-on-one on goalie shots, right?
[24:58] And could have dusted this game in the first half even and put
[25:00] it to bed. But again, the process and I
[25:03] think we talked about this early in the season, right?
[25:06] You're like, I'm gonna get nervous when the process starts
[25:08] looking bad, but the process looks great right now.
[25:11] It's a matter of us finally getting to the level where we
[25:14] fully executed and we're not there yet, right?
[25:16] Trent's not fully integrated. Like we got guys still coming
[25:18] back from injury, but slowly but surely it it's coming.
[25:21] So just on the note, we play well.
[25:23] We we score our first goal. Was it Lecante?
[25:30] Lecante, you're still get closer to the time.
[25:31] Imagine if Trent will. Sell this game.
[25:34] Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, no, it'd be crazy.
[25:38] Just one, one note. So we're dominating the first
[25:40] half, we score our goal, we we finally get it after all the BS
[25:44] and then Art of Guler makes that big mistake.
[25:48] Just want you guys thoughts firstly because, yeah, like the
[25:51] amount of dominance we had, you just don't want a mistake like
[25:53] that. But two, it feels like some
[25:57] people point out he struggles sometimes on the turn.
[25:59] Sometimes he thinks too much when he's turning and that was a
[26:02] moment that was bad. Any any thoughts on that?
[26:05] Is that a tendency you guys think from Guler sometimes to
[26:07] get caught on the turn? To me it looked like just a a
[26:09] brain cramp, right? Like, so if I'm not mistaken,
[26:12] first he chests the ball right, gets it down to his feet and
[26:15] then almost looks like he stopped 'cause he was thinking
[26:18] what should I do next? And it's like there's so much
[26:21] space around you. You don't just stop and think,
[26:22] just turn the fuck around and you can move forward, right?
[26:25] And I just he a brain fart, right?
[26:28] And those happens. He's still a young player.
[26:30] I do think that point you made, though, that that people are
[26:32] saying about sometimes you're thinking too much in the turn
[26:34] like that, that could be a thing, right?
[26:36] If your back is it's that the more you play, you get that
[26:40] sense, right, where you can sense and feel who and what's
[26:42] around you and where everybody is right.
[26:44] And clearly as a was he 19 as a 19 year old or 20, however old
[26:47] he is, that's not fully tuned in tune yet, right?
[26:50] Like, but it's coming. He's just. 4 reps That's the
[26:53] aspect of the controller profile that takes time to develop.
[26:56] I guess he's he's always he's the surgical passer who's slowly
[26:59] expanding his game to like help conduct blocks and the turn.
[27:03] Honestly, he doesn't need the turn, but it definitely would
[27:06] help if he could turn a little more effectively.
[27:08] It takes a while to have eyes behind your head, right.
[27:10] You you need it like you it's you have to just it's a sense
[27:13] thing and you don't get it. Just you wake up and you have it
[27:15] right. It's just you need more and more
[27:17] and more more. And like I think, yeah, like to
[27:19] your point said, he has the thread pass all of that.
[27:22] That's going to be probably one of the later things to develop.
[27:24] But I think it's it's just more reps and more reps.
[27:27] Yeah. Personally just feel that he
[27:31] needs to face the dribbling out of his game completely.
[27:34] I don't think it's ever going to come for him and I don't think
[27:37] he has a physical profile, no doesn't nor the center of
[27:40] gravity to be able to pull it off.
[27:43] So probably I would work to phase that out on deeper areas.
[27:47] I'm not saying higher up the field because I think that once
[27:49] he's facing the defender, he's definitely good.
[27:52] But then we took my words when you said it's that sharp and
[27:55] turn right where he lacks because there's always one extra
[27:59] touch or the motion is a little bit slow.
[28:03] So try to cut that completely out of his game and age growth.
[28:11] One thing that I'll give him props that not many well didn't
[28:14] impact his confidence at. All didn't like made them, well,
[28:17] the teams. Just went back right in the.
[28:19] Ball, yes. So on that note, so on that
[28:23] note, what do we go to after that goal?
[28:25] I was going to be curious like where are we going to go from
[28:27] here? We have to keep pressing.
[28:29] At that point. I took it for granted.
[28:30] We would be able to keep pressing for the whole game,
[28:31] which we'll touch on, But at that point we go to Vinnie and
[28:35] Vinnie is just automatic right now.
[28:37] Whenever he takes that first step on on the flank and Vinnie
[28:42] crosses it in. If I'm not wrong, that was an
[28:44] open play sequence where Militao ended up near the box, correct?
[28:48] Or am I? Or was that like post corner?
[28:50] Yeah. So that was the Javi Alonso
[28:53] stuff like I. Want to talk about open play?
[28:56] Sequence. Yes, I thought that was Alonzo
[28:58] play written all over it in the sense that I don't know how many
[29:01] times I've seen, like Barcelona used to have PK join the attack
[29:05] situationally if they needed a tall body in the box.
[29:08] But over here that just came out of nowhere.
[29:11] I'm just like, we don't have Gonzalo on the pitch.
[29:13] We've been criticizing this season that we need a tall guy.
[29:16] Then out of nowhere, Militale pops up as if it's planned.
[29:19] This is it. The Jude.
[29:20] I was in love at that point. I'm like, wow, like that just
[29:23] came out of nowhere. That's a guard job because.
[29:26] There's another one second of where military is in a box.
[29:30] Yep. Yep, that's after a dead ball
[29:31] situation, but that still happens.
[29:34] Yeah. You know, maybe just me on here,
[29:38] correct me if I'm wrong, that Vinnie Cross felt automated.
[29:41] It's kind of like he knew what he has to do because he doesn't
[29:44] even put his head up right. Don't even check.
[29:47] And the far post Militao based on on the.
[29:50] Flow of the game right now. Yeah, no.
[29:52] And Militao purposely went far post on the like fullback.
[29:55] He wasn't in the center back zone and Jude purposely like
[29:57] started there and vacated it when Militao went there.
[29:59] Oh, it was beautiful, see, And that's what.
[30:03] That's a little. Bit delayed.
[30:06] Yeah. No, you go ahead, Gerard.
[30:07] Oh, we can. Talk.
[30:07] I was going to say more of the automatisms.
[30:10] Delayed you can tell. Yeah, I, I more of the
[30:14] automatisms are, are there, right?
[30:16] And they're starting to show themselves.
[30:17] And the ceiling of this is when that coupled with the
[30:23] improvisational genius of the players meld together, that's
[30:27] when this team is at its apex and it's gonna hit its zenith,
[30:30] right? When OK, we've got these, right,
[30:32] which we know. And then it's yo, Vinny, do some
[30:35] crazy fucking between the defender leg, whatever, right.
[30:38] Like when those things are playing off of each other,
[30:41] that's when ultimately, like this squad will be, dare I say,
[30:45] like unbeatable, right? Because everything will be
[30:49] clicking right? And I think I, I, I think they
[30:52] can get there. I really do.
[30:54] Any other thoughts on the first half guys before we transition?
[30:56] I got a super chat I want to bring into transition.
[30:58] Any thoughts? No love that first half.
[31:00] I was, I, I, I that was after that first half, I was like, Oh
[31:03] my God, can we replicate this please?
[31:05] Like Jesus, like I, I felt No Fear whatsoever.
[31:09] I was like, we are good. Like we're good.
[31:12] What do you think, Laconte? Any final thoughts on the first
[31:14] time? Too extreme on L, you know, like
[31:23] people don't seem to really appreciate how much this team
[31:27] creates. It's just.
[31:29] A ton. I don't know where we are across
[31:32] the top five European leagues, but are we do we have the most?
[31:35] I mean, I know in Champions League we do, but I wonder if we
[31:37] have the most shots and like, chances created across the top
[31:40] five leagues or I mean, I'd be shocked if we're outside the top
[31:44] 6. Yeah, I got to check that.
[31:49] So they should be first, but we should be like 2nd, 3rd, 4th at
[31:53] worst. Yeah, interesting.
[31:56] I I definitely will check that at some point now going into the
[32:00] second-half expectations and I'm going to bring the Super chat
[32:02] here because it's come out relevant.
[32:04] Can we consider Barcelona big team because they kept saying
[32:07] Madrid haven't beaten big teams from last season.
[32:10] Well, I will say this I we we did a tier ranking of Barcelona
[32:14] of all the Champions league teams and contenders and we put
[32:16] them in Tier 2 and us in tier one and a lot of people were
[32:19] watching the athletico game and making fun of us like, oh, you
[32:21] guys are dumb. Listen, This is why because when
[32:24] there it's the end of October, you're missing Joanne Garcia,
[32:27] Robert Lewandowski, Rafinia Araujo is like Kunde looks like
[32:32] he he needs to like take an ear off.
[32:34] And then you you're just missing half your team.
[32:36] Pedry is like pulling Vinny's shirt in like the 60th minute
[32:39] because he can't run anymore. Literally.
[32:42] Literally he looks so dead at that moment.
[32:43] I'm like, I don't think you guys can do.
[32:45] This Vinny was dragging him. He was holding it and Vinny was
[32:47] dragging him while he was running.
[32:48] I was like. The.
[32:52] Fact that Vinny just went like he really needed to pull that
[32:55] shirt because Vinny wasn't going to give up there like that
[32:58] contact was not going to like Vinny drop, but he just had no
[33:02] choice, literally. Yeah, and.
[33:04] It's hard to find sequences like that.
[33:07] That was so funny. Yeah, it is.
[33:08] It is. That was so funny.
[33:09] And and that's why at halftime, my thoughts were that, Ken, I
[33:14] think we can press like this one more half.
[33:15] I'm like mainly because they have nobody off the bench and we
[33:20] have Franco Rahim, we have Rodrigo.
[33:24] So I think I thought our pieces would do it.
[33:26] And that's where we got to immediately touch on the start
[33:29] of the second-half. You know, we win the penalty and
[33:32] Boppy misses the penalty and the air gets taken out of the game.
[33:35] And with the air completely taken out of the game, like
[33:40] that's when Barcelona get on the ball.
[33:42] But you know, that's where all their injuries show.
[33:45] Again, like to address you if the like they like Yamal was
[33:48] injured too. As you pointed out, La Conte and
[33:51] our rotations were good, but independently from the fact that
[33:54] our defensive rotations were good in the second-half, they
[33:57] were so dead. They had nothing out there.
[33:59] They had like Yamal passenger Ashford with the one bright spot
[34:02] being and they still have depth and why they're so good.
[34:04] Fermin from their La Masia. Fermin was honestly their
[34:08] scariest player the whole game. I was actually scared he would
[34:11] do something in the second-half. But even his shots, right, his I
[34:15] think Fermin had three. He had three shots on goal, if
[34:18] I'm not mistaken. But even those yes, were not
[34:22] like the clearest cut like oh, like those were, if I'm pretty,
[34:25] if I remember, pretty easy says for Courtois, right.
[34:29] Nothing really stretched or pushed or challenged him from
[34:31] Fermin. I mean, look, if we're
[34:38] transitioning from first all to second, all right, they had
[34:41] seven shots on the 1st all just 8 on a second, you know, like I
[34:46] do know that pose the penalty, yes, it was a little bit of OK,
[34:54] we could have killed the game here and just be calmer and the
[34:57] players felt that still though, that first hole, Barcelona was
[35:02] still carrying that OK. We had to run a lot.
[35:05] We were way too uncomfortable. So even when we were down, they
[35:09] just couldn't take advantage of it just because.
[35:11] And then we reshuffled, right? You saw the saws getting ready,
[35:16] you saw the players warming up. Everything was going to be
[35:20] reshuffled at one point by Alonzo because he noticed that.
[35:23] OK, so right now if I stick to this, they are doing a good job.
[35:30] But I might be found out at any point because, well, only takes
[35:34] this one moment. You saw the goal conceded,
[35:36] right? 31 Buffet scores that penalty
[35:40] this game over, you probably get two or three more because
[35:42] they're so gassed they're going to be down emotionally.
[35:47] That kind of was like what really took the big victory out.
[35:53] But regardless of that, I feel that the team outside of Mafia
[35:57] responded well as the game progressed.
[36:00] But peril, that confidence got shattered.
[36:04] What what'd you guys think of the penalty?
[36:06] It was obviously a good save by Chesney, but this is my overall,
[36:10] like, penalty feeling Like I really hate that.
[36:14] Like slow jog up, skip, wait. Like dude, picking your mind
[36:18] where you're going to go and fucking go there, right?
[36:21] Like I, I hate that shit like that makes me so uncomfortable
[36:24] but that's just a personal thing.
[36:27] You always miss some and I I I wouldn't I don't.
[36:30] I know you can take your run up this, that, but like, yeah, I
[36:33] mean, I like the faster run UPS too, but man, it's just hard
[36:35] sometimes. I will say, I mean, it wasn't
[36:38] the best penalty. Like when you miss, it's
[36:39] probably not the best penalty in the world.
[36:41] I don't think you can say that was one where the goalie just
[36:43] did a great job. I thought Mbappe kind of like
[36:45] wasn't the best, I mean. It was a good save right because
[36:48] it was upper right corner for Szesny, right?
[36:51] Well, also I just want to say I don't think Mbappe is.
[36:55] I don't think Mbappe is as good a penalty taker as say, Ronaldo.
[36:57] Like a little worse. I just.
[37:00] He's not an elite penalty taker. Like I don't think we have had
[37:03] an elite penalty taker since like Ramos, if we really want to
[37:06] be honest there. Yeah, 'cause elite is 90%.
[37:12] Oh I didn't check Benz's percentage but yes I believe
[37:15] Ramos is the best and Ronaldo was like.
[37:18] Like he has to be our last. I really trust this guy to make
[37:23] it 9 out of 10 times. With the rest, it's more like a
[37:26] six out of 10, really. Yeah, even Jude missed one,
[37:30] right? Yeah.
[37:33] Judas. Miss Genius, Miss Papa's Miss
[37:36] Madrich missed last season. Like we just realities we're not
[37:42] that good at taking better. Like that's the reality of it.
[37:46] You know who could be good? Franco.
[37:48] Franco could be a monster at those he.
[37:50] Could be he. Could be.
[37:51] Yeah. Ice.
[37:51] Cold and has a sloth on him. Yes.
[37:55] Like what about? What about artist, Artist
[37:57] artist? Got a shot?
[38:00] I think all the took one for Turkey, which was pretty damn
[38:03] good. So that's another name.
[38:07] But you've got to leave it to your top scorer.
[38:11] You get like Poppy is still going to make it more often than
[38:14] he's going to miss it. That's the reality of it.
[38:18] Yes. And also I just want to say
[38:19] Ronaldo statistically is a little worse than I test would
[38:22] say. He's like he wasn't as good as
[38:23] Ramos's best stretch. Ramos's best stretch was way
[38:26] better than Ronaldo's. Like Ronaldo is still in the
[38:27] 82%, but if you drop a little before below 80 for any
[38:31] prolonged stretch, for me, I'm just like, I feel a little.
[38:33] Uncomfortable. You're like, I don't want you
[38:35] taking these. Yeah, I I can accept for one in
[38:38] five penalties being missed by my top scorer.
[38:40] I'm I'm OK with that. It's just, I mean at the end of
[38:44] the. Ronaldo penalty missed us the
[38:46] league in 1415 against Valencia. I know that it was Diego Alvarez
[38:50] but it was a Ronaldo penalty that literally kills us in a
[38:53] league. So it happens.
[38:56] All I'm saying is that it happens.
[38:58] I'm not saying that Ronaldo was bad or anything, I'm just
[39:00] pointing out to the fact that even though what we would
[39:04] consider the greatest penalty taker ever by given the number
[39:09] of volume or then the volume of penalties that is taken even
[39:13] he's missed. He's missed the Champions League
[39:15] final one, he's missed the one of the La Liga deciders.
[39:20] He's missed penalties, the bio mini one, which comes to mind.
[39:23] Like I would like to calm down Liam, Bobby thing by our fan
[39:27] base when it comes to that. Oh yeah, I'm not, I'm not
[39:29] killing him for. Sure.
[39:30] On the note of Ronaldo and examples and all those different
[39:34] things, I just want to bring up the Vinnie sub because I to me
[39:36] it felt like someone who's idolized Ronaldo and just feels
[39:39] like, hey, I won two Champions League.
[39:40] I'm like, I'm him. It felt like a bit like a
[39:43] Ronaldo lash out honestly. And just want to touch on that.
[39:45] So first the substitutions like the Conte you pointed out that
[39:50] Vinny was tracking a little slowly.
[39:52] Now Gerard, you pointed out Vinny felt like he had tracked
[39:54] really well. I will point out now that right
[39:57] before he got solved in the last five ish minutes, he did
[39:59] actually have one really nice effort where he tracked back and
[40:02] went after Yamal and I think he looked tired though he it looked
[40:05] like a it looked like a lot more tired and.
[40:08] Just yes, I, I was really, really nervous in that spell of
[40:11] the game. I'll just bring up the chart,
[40:12] but around the 70th, a minute, around the time Vinnie got
[40:16] subbed, I was terrified it would become Tutu.
[40:18] And ultimately, that substitution was necessary, as
[40:23] you pointed out by Conte. It was a must.
[40:27] Like the reality was that the effort of the first half and the
[40:31] energy that Vinnie was expelling up going high, carrying the ball
[40:36] a lot, because this was one of the games where we decided to do
[40:39] that. He didn't have a lot on his
[40:42] tank. You can mention one or two
[40:43] sequences where he came back, but there were like 5 sequences
[40:47] when Fermin was just going on the inside and Carreras was.
[40:50] And then Dean gets the yellow card, so he can't be a + 1 to
[40:54] Carreras, so therefore Dean has to retreat.
[40:58] So Truamini gets pulled out. So it's just like one player
[41:02] leaving that is causing a lot of issues elsewhere.
[41:08] And that's why I'm fully on board with the sub and I won't
[41:12] change my stance to that. If I'm Alonzo.
[41:14] I'm just taking the need to the film room and being like, look,
[41:17] this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this
[41:20] happened, this happened, this happened, this happened.
[41:21] The seven. It's not about your performance.
[41:23] It's about what the team needed or you're a team player or not.
[41:27] And that's what will happen. That's what's I just, but I just
[41:32] want to say, yes, that was a bad reaction.
[41:33] But my prediction I'm putting out there right now, while this
[41:36] Vinnie contract thing still plays out in front of us, I
[41:39] predict Alonzo has to talk with him.
[41:40] He gets him on board and this is fine going forward, I think.
[41:44] And I I think, listen, here's how the combo goes.
[41:46] If you're Vinnie, though, Vinnie's going to look for the
[41:48] film and look for other reasons to get him bothered or someone
[41:50] else off and be like, hey, what about him?
[41:51] And I think that's where I like Alonzo 'cause he's going to base
[41:54] it off the film. I don't think Alonzo's going to
[41:56] be like, no, he's going to sit down and talk to everyone, like,
[41:59] and he's also closer to their age where he can have that
[42:01] conversation. Like I think.
[42:04] So my hot take is that we move on from this really effectively.
[42:07] And I hate UESPNFC for milking it.
[42:09] Screw you guys. Like they're going to milk the
[42:12] fuck out of this all week. They did.
[42:13] It was their only tweet. It was their only tweet for like
[42:15] 20 minutes after it happened. Like it was just up like.
[42:18] Get ready because we don't play again till the weekend, right?
[42:20] No, no midweek fixtures. That's the only way you stop us.
[42:23] Like breaking us up mid. Weekend and that's.
[42:27] And I just want to say that's the only way you stop this team,
[42:29] by breaking them up 'cause they're cooking, they're
[42:32] cooking. No, I'm with you and I and I
[42:33] think you're right. I think Alonzo will handle the
[42:36] mini situation correctly, right? Like because he will understand.
[42:40] Remember that couple weeks ago he said I didn't talk to Vinny
[42:43] much today because it seemed like he needed just a little
[42:45] calm down period. But then we talked today and
[42:46] everything's fine, right? So he will know when to approach
[42:49] him to talk to. All right, I know you're upset
[42:51] and you did play well, but here's what was happened to
[42:53] Laconics Point. These are the sequences I saw
[42:56] and with only a one goal lead we needed someone's pressure legs
[42:59] to do XY and Z. And Vinny is not A.
[43:01] I think a common misconception about him that non Madridisons
[43:04] have or even some of them the fanbase is that he's not a team
[43:06] guy and I vehemently disagree with that.
[43:09] Vinny is very much a team guy and so I think he'll be like no
[43:13] you're right, this is for the team.
[43:14] That was the heat of the moment and my emotions.
[43:16] You are correct and that was the right play to make.
[43:19] Do you know what we missed with Vinny after the sub is the fact
[43:22] that, you know, once 80th minute would hit, he would go to the
[43:26] fans and just go like, cheer up, you know, I don't want you guys
[43:30] to stop. Like, he's very good at doing
[43:31] that. He's very good at communicating
[43:34] with his teammates. I think that there is definitely
[43:38] a lot of love between all of them.
[43:40] I don't see a break here breaking up the situation here.
[43:44] I just think that Vinnie was playing really well offensively.
[43:47] And let's keep in mind like Vinnie comes from an environment
[43:50] in Madrid which valued offense it's way so the point where he
[43:57] didn't value defense at all, where he was told stay up, I
[44:01] don't care. I just want you to do the
[44:03] offensive stuff well, which Vinny was doing to his credit
[44:06] still. But now you're in different
[44:10] environment and now Vinny is going to have to adjust it.
[44:13] It's becoming a little bit harder for him on emotional side
[44:16] I feel to adjust to this because tactically this looks to be one
[44:22] of the better versions of Venice's that we have seen as a
[44:25] player, right? He's calmer when it comes to the
[44:27] opposition, like he's not falling traps.
[44:29] We're seeing the amount of red cards, what is able to win.
[44:32] We even talked about the penalty that he won, the calmness that
[44:35] he had on that situation. I feel that as a player, as a
[44:39] footballer itself, he's evolving.
[44:41] His mind, his football mind is evolving.
[44:44] Now it's more of like, OK, temper down those emotions,
[44:48] understand that this was for the better of the team.
[44:51] And I don't know where you're coming from because Vinnie would
[44:54] definitely have a counter argument.
[44:55] And he would go like, well, what if we considered regardless,
[44:59] then who's there to really take the team forward?
[45:03] Because I was the best at doing that.
[45:04] But she would have been correct. But Borsa didn't look
[45:08] threatening enough for you to take that gamble, and the gamble
[45:13] was the fact that you only needed to block that lane for
[45:16] them and you would have been fine.
[45:18] So as we saw it happen, it was fine.
[45:22] And like, one thing talking about the Subs, right?
[45:26] Assuming that the Venus thing is taller here Brahinias.
[45:31] Yeah, Wino Franco. Great sub.
[45:33] What's a wino Franco? That's my question, I'm actually
[45:36] confused. Appreciated that tight space
[45:38] dribbling a little bit more than Franco's energy and the fact
[45:41] that he would run into the channels more.
[45:43] I think that's. Because Frank, in those
[45:45] situations, that's that's, that's giving away.
[45:47] He might give away in those situations, right?
[45:48] And we've seen him do that, turn the ball over like, whereas
[45:50] Brahim is such a tight, a tight space dribbler.
[45:53] He's so good at that. Brahim does turn the ball over
[45:55] when he takes chances, but if he needs to keep it, he say Franco
[45:58] just kind of turns it over no matter what.
[45:59] So yeah, I agree. Franco just kind of gives the
[46:02] ball into like a vertical lane. Well, with Brahim, it's more of
[46:05] like horizontal right, the player still left to orientate
[46:09] his body, Frank, who's like direct to the player.
[46:11] So he's going to lose it and immediately allow the wrong
[46:14] forward. He tries back to his credit.
[46:17] The thing is that if you could predict that Marcus and Arau
[46:22] were going to command, Franco would have been the perfect sub
[46:26] because by that point, Barcelona's husband like cross
[46:30] the ball because there is nothing that we can do.
[46:32] Turnovers were much less of a problem because they were just
[46:35] not congested inova on the wings so.
[46:41] I will say yeah, backfired the. Boards are saved to bring him
[46:45] out. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I'm with you
[46:50] there, Lecante. I 'cause we're, we're now late
[46:54] in the second-half right where Barcelona has more possession
[46:56] once again. Half time it was 5149,
[47:00] possession was all basically 5050.
[47:01] And then by the end of the game it ended up being what, like 60
[47:05] something. I think for Barcelona, just
[47:06] because we we let them have it in, in positions that they
[47:09] couldn't do anything in the second-half.
[47:11] The only worry? Oh, sorry, but but no.
[47:13] Good, good. The only worry I I, the only
[47:15] chance, the only moment in the half that scared me was that
[47:17] Kunde chance and Kunde stupidly, even the commentator pointed it
[47:20] out. He stupidly chested it down.
[47:22] But again, I do. Do you guys think that was that
[47:24] was by design, Like OK, Kunde is going to run in because I'm not
[47:28] worried about if he gets the ball in there, like he's less of
[47:31] a of concern. Than I don't think it was by
[47:33] design, but I do think I just thought he beat us like it was a
[47:39] good run, but I think he's the one guy you needed to fall to in
[47:42] that situation and thank God it was him Kunde bro just go take
[47:46] some time off we get it like you you don't look like yourself at.
[47:50] The chest and not to the head. No, no, yes.
[47:54] But when you look at it, are you telling like, are you telling
[47:56] me? Kunde couldn't reorient his body
[47:58] though in that moment? But yes, it was weighted to the
[48:00] chest. I'm just saying like, I watch
[48:02] it, it's coming here. Is there nothing you can do to
[48:04] like? Yeah, can you, can you dive and
[48:07] throw your head at it? Diving header, Yeah, dive down,
[48:09] slow down your run. Diving header or something did.
[48:11] You did, you have opportunity because Dean was there so.
[48:14] He was open. He was wide open.
[48:15] No, he was wide open. He was wide open.
[48:17] He was completely wide open. What I'm saying is that from the
[48:22] when Yamal releases, he doesn't have enough time because he's
[48:27] not naturally expecting it. He expected them.
[48:30] What I think what they normally do is the fact that on normal
[48:35] flick situation, that would have been ball to the full, back,
[48:38] ball back to them all, then the ball would have come in.
[48:41] So I think that because the timing was a little bit miskewed
[48:44] and he read that late, he opted for the chefs rather than to die
[48:49] for the other because he didn't have enough time to think of
[48:52] what's the best show is there. Maybe, Yeah, regardless, I mean,
[48:57] regardless of what happened, that was scary.
[48:59] And I think our only mistake of that and the Guler mistake,
[49:04] yeah, that and the Guler moment. And I've watched Classicos for
[49:07] years. If we're not up by two, you
[49:09] always get one of those. So I was scared the whole second
[49:12] you do get one of those. Even here's like when they had
[49:15] Koiman, they would still get one of those.
[49:16] And you have to like, make sure you survive it.
[49:19] You know, this team is set up in a way where we are surviving
[49:25] those better than we have in the past, right?
[49:28] How many one goal leads did we have last year that ended up
[49:31] being draws or in some cases outright defeats, right?
[49:34] Because we just could not maintain a one goal lead.
[49:37] And I think that cause one of the things I enjoyed about the
[49:40] the the team in this match was out of possession when they when
[49:45] when boss on to get the ball back, everybody got back into
[49:48] the shape that Alonzo wanted like, and it was good like there
[49:52] weren't gaps to find and right, Pedro was looking for that.
[49:56] Nobody. There was nowhere to go, no gap
[49:58] for you to thread that pass in. No, nothing.
[50:00] There was nothing there. So you got to just keep passing
[50:02] it sideways and backwards and try to recycle and come back
[50:05] around. So I thought again, our ability
[50:07] to hold on to leads, while it is scary and looks like, Oh my God,
[50:11] we might concede and look, the ball bounces bad or whatever.
[50:14] Sure it could happen. But I think the structure is
[50:17] there and the, and the, the the mindset of what to do and how to
[50:22] protect is there. It's just a matter of do we
[50:24] execute it or not when we have these one goal leads.
[50:28] And also what's it called the The other thing is not only
[50:33] defensively, but on the ball, sometimes Courtois and even to
[50:38] many, but especially Courtois, like we've criticized him for
[50:41] being slow, not being brave. He was really, really brave in
[50:46] some of those passes, Very proud like that.
[50:49] It wasn't easy. You know, he's not fully
[50:51] trusting his technique, but he's 100% focused so he can do it.
[50:55] I respect that and I thought I thought our time wasting was not
[50:59] always efficient. Sometimes like Rodrigo, what are
[51:01] you doing, bro? Just take it to the corner.
[51:02] Like don't shoot at the goalie, take it to the corner.
[51:06] But I thought Courtois kind of understood that mandate and too
[51:09] many, like, I think this is a great example like of how when
[51:12] when we really figured out like the focus is not going to be on
[51:15] too many defensively. It's not going to be or or his
[51:18] lack of touches and his speed of pass.
[51:20] Nobody was talking about too many being still on the ball and
[51:23] fete. And I think part of that is
[51:24] because obviously we weren't trying to fix them in their half
[51:28] positionally and play slow. We just were trying to get at
[51:30] them because we know they're weak.
[51:32] But I think the other part of it is also just they're growing
[51:35] slowly and you know, the net. I think they're going to, I
[51:38] think there's going to be a big game when people forget that
[51:40] there was a convo that our midfield doesn't have enough.
[51:43] That's my like, this was a game where you you're not looking at
[51:45] the midfield saying it doesn't have enough.
[51:48] But obviously Barcelona just to bring that super chat up.
[51:51] They I will just say they defend so badly at points like that.
[51:56] Athletico game was honestly a harder matchup.
[51:58] Athletico Madrid right now are a harder matchup for us than
[52:01] Barcelona. There is a way in which
[52:04] Athletico plays with an intensity that for whatever
[52:10] reason, right, we struggle with. And also as Leconte pointed out,
[52:15] Hugo Simeone, who I do not like, he just out coached Alonso in
[52:19] that in that matchup, right? Like he was just better in terms
[52:22] of what they wanted to do. The question is on the on the
[52:24] return to the Burnabout, what will Alonso have learned by that
[52:28] time and what will he do different tactically to match
[52:31] that, assuming we come to the match with the right energy,
[52:33] which I think we will based on how they played today.
[52:36] Well, Simeon is more flexible, right?
[52:38] I've been. Watching the film once, you know
[52:40] that I beat in the Bush kind of with this, but it doesn't look
[52:43] as bad as the scoreline shows when you re watch it and you see
[52:47] that really some, I mean they are big details because midfield
[52:53] rotation is a big detail when it comes to receiving the ball.
[52:57] But today and what he tried to do against that Lady were not
[53:03] vastly different. It's just that today the players
[53:07] could execute. So this, when we talk about
[53:10] reps, this when we talk about the cake, we have had more time
[53:12] to prepare about this, OK, We're just better set up now to deal
[53:16] with this. The Yuva game, for example, gave
[53:18] me a lot of confidence on this thing because Yuva are
[53:21] unorthodox. I'm not saying they're the best
[53:24] team in the world, but they are very unorthodox to deal with and
[53:28] dealing with manner with them. I just went like, OK, now you're
[53:31] going to play a much more predictable team.
[53:34] So I don't really expect this to struggle.
[53:37] Like you guys know my games for addiction.
[53:39] I had the 2 Now, you know, funny enough, we we can see to that
[53:44] goal. But on a general sense, I just
[53:47] was ultra super confident on what Alonzo was doing as a coach
[53:52] getting into this game. And I feel that it still has
[53:56] craziest part here is that it still has a lot of room to
[53:58] improve. It's not a fully polished
[54:02] product where you go like, OK, this is it.
[54:04] This is the ceiling of this team.
[54:07] We're seeing the best version. No, we're not.
[54:10] We're getting there slowly, but this is not the best version of
[54:15] this team. There are still player
[54:18] tendencies. There are still tactical changes
[54:21] that a lonely is going to need to do throughout now and what we
[54:25] like to call peak season, which would start from March and
[54:28] onwards with the Champions League and the league deciders
[54:30] and all of this. So he has plenty of time for as
[54:33] long as he's getting the results.
[54:35] Now he has a four point lead against Mars, if I'm correct,
[54:38] right? I have.
[54:40] I think because they were two points behind.
[54:41] We won 3, so 5 now. OK, so that's nice.
[54:45] Five points behind. So naturally he's got two losses
[54:52] to lose this first place now, which could and probably will
[54:57] happen at some point. And that is saying that
[55:00] Barcelona will be perfect, which is highly unlikely.
[55:03] So he's got himself now this leverage all of this season,
[55:08] he's won every game but one. Every game but one.
[55:12] There hasn't been a single draw like that's really.
[55:19] Yeah, this. Yeah, we did a bucketing of all
[55:23] the different fixtures we played on the show earlier and we kind
[55:27] of bucketed and it was like all the games except Athletico and
[55:29] Sociedad were pretty solid win probability.
[55:32] Some of them may be closer to 7580%, others were really 90%
[55:36] maybe. And today falls into those last
[55:38] two buckets, which is nice because like unexpected goal
[55:43] difference, a chance creation difference, a progression
[55:45] difference this large while you're a work in progress is, is
[55:50] the stuff that dreams are made of.
[55:51] Like there's really nothing more you can ask for.
[55:53] I knew. I mean, football is realistic.
[55:55] Like even the best seasons, teams have growing pains.
[55:57] So I take that up. Eddieco lost for this win.
[55:59] And I'll put it this way, if we had to like just drop one game
[56:02] so we can win the rest, I'll take it.
[56:03] Like that's just how I would go about it.
[56:06] I'm looking at the, the, the, the, the, the final numbers 23
[56:10] total shots. They had 15-4 big chances.
[56:13] They had two. We mentioned the XGS 3.6 to one
[56:18] we had and twelve corners, they had four.
[56:21] I mean, it was really dominant performance and to me you saw
[56:28] that in the reaction of Barcelona towards the end of the
[56:32] game. And as the whistle blew first
[56:35] all the off the field, like fighting before the final
[56:39] whistle blew, whistle blew. If you watch all started by the
[56:41] Barcelona side because whatever, they're sore losers, right?
[56:45] And so I think he got a yellow card 'cause he was telling them
[56:47] to go back on your side, whatever.
[56:49] All this stuff to Yamal, who by the way, you know, talked a lot
[56:52] of shit about himself and his team heading into this game.
[56:56] That when, when, when, when they beat me, they can talk.
[56:59] It's like, well, we did and we are talking, right?
[57:02] Like what say you now, right And so and they tried.
[57:06] To steal and cheat, they tried to steal and cheat.
[57:08] Correct. And one of the things we talked
[57:10] about with this team is you want guys to have a little bit of,
[57:16] look, this is this is football, this is not MMA, this is not
[57:19] boxing, right? But I want guys to stand up for
[57:22] themselves. And if somebody's getting in
[57:24] your face or whatever, have the chutzpah to push them away,
[57:28] like, and just stand up for yourself.
[57:30] And I was very impressed that Real Madrid players stood up for
[57:33] themselves and was like, we're not taking any shit from you
[57:35] dudes. Like, whatever, we won, deal
[57:37] with it. Get the fuck out of here.
[57:38] Yep. Oh.
[57:43] Also, we had a week. You know what it was, it was
[57:45] Carvahall coming the players down.
[57:48] Well, do you see Carvahall at the When the final whistle blew,
[57:51] he went up to your mall and was like, so I said like, hey man,
[57:55] all this chatter like and was like, you know, and then then it
[57:58] all all then it it's it's. It did he do that?
[58:00] Did he do that? Yeah.
[58:01] He literally did the talking too much thing that to to Yamal as
[58:05] he went to him and then it yeah, yeah, yeah.
[58:08] I just want to, yeah, I just want to say a lot that.
[58:10] Beat you're supposed to have all just taking players like don't
[58:13] fight, don't fight, don't fight. Well, yeah, because we don't
[58:16] want because you know, the legal, legal come back and be
[58:17] like you get red cards post game and now you're suspended for
[58:21] like the next five matches. Or whatever.
[58:22] Pedre's out of here. So I'm happy.
[58:24] Like get out of here Pedre you? Know.
[58:28] Fucking pedre these. Hustlers.
[58:31] Yeah. Right.
[58:34] Yeah. And Judy's a combination of
[58:40] elite footballer and a hustler, which I'm just like, damn, you
[58:46] know, like that mentality of where he doesn't shy away from a
[58:51] single thing and combined with that ridiculous football
[58:55] talented and athletism, and I'm like, holy fuck, I mean, what a
[58:59] footballer I'm watching here. Because I I thought you were so
[59:01] glad. You know, I feel that Jude is
[59:04] not getting the credit that he deserves anymore because it's
[59:07] kind of like, oh, he's not scoring the name.
[59:10] That's why, because he's not scoring a million goals.
[59:13] You know, like Jude does not need to score like against the
[59:18] top for Salt. He was incredible.
[59:20] Just like today, people were like, no, he's not.
[59:23] I'm like, he's doing all the right reads.
[59:25] He's making the play. He's moving left and right,
[59:29] wherever it was required. He's hustling for everything,
[59:32] like that's what they want from a footballer.
[59:34] Like it's not all about like, can I spin 180° and make a
[59:39] dribble? You know, football is more than
[59:43] that. And you just like I love every
[59:47] play, right? But the reality of that, this
[59:51] team and does not feel the same without him.
[59:55] That's my stance on it. The, the energy management is
[59:58] huge because like Barcelona, like I, I think This is why I
[1:00:02] just want to see our players just destroy them.
[1:00:04] And like one, they have less money.
[1:00:06] So they're squeezing all these Lamacia players and now all half
[1:00:09] of them are hurt because Flick squeezes all of them as much as
[1:00:11] possible. And I think like today was great
[1:00:15] because Jude's played in smaller spaces.
[1:00:17] Alonso's added like probably 10 years to his life and a bunch of
[1:00:20] years to his career as well. Both.
[1:00:22] It's just by not playing him. Like I say to his life, because
[1:00:25] that was like not that was ridiculous cardiovascular
[1:00:28] exertion from him those like the under cargo that was
[1:00:30] unnecessary. Oh, it it's just so nice to see
[1:00:34] him not have to expend all his energy running up and down the
[1:00:36] pitch and then he can win duels and score and assist.
[1:00:40] I mean he was he had all involvement in both goals today,
[1:00:43] right? It was his through pass when Bob
[1:00:44] Bay for the score and then he scored the second one right.
[1:00:46] Like so like he he's an elite player man.
[1:00:50] Like to me, I mean, OK, I'm we're biased in Madrid podcast,
[1:00:53] but I think he's the best midfielder in award football,
[1:00:55] but bucket. Also Arda got unlucky, did not
[1:01:00] get that assist when I'm up, it was called offside.
[1:01:01] But great play from Arda to that whole sequence when our players
[1:01:05] are pressed from the front. We went long through, many heads
[1:01:08] it down, Arda gets it somewhere in the middle, plays it through.
[1:01:12] It was played offside, but that disallowed goal I thought was
[1:01:15] one of our best sequences of the game, just showing how we
[1:01:17] controlled things everywhere. And the yeah, I'm really happy
[1:01:21] with the energy management. And as some people in the
[1:01:23] comments point out, Edna Militao just got to talk about him so
[1:01:27] good. He looks like pink Sergio Ramos,
[1:01:30] but he just came off 2. AC LS.
[1:01:32] I'm so confused. I'm like, I know he has great
[1:01:34] genetics, but I just think this is a breakthrough moment in in
[1:01:38] the world. Like I just think he's an
[1:01:39] inspiration. Like anyone recovering from a
[1:01:41] second leg injury or even 1 should just look into a story
[1:01:44] because obviously he did something wrong that led to a
[1:01:46] second one. But now he's doing everything
[1:01:49] right on some level. Obviously like you don't get
[1:01:51] this the biggest game in club football.
[1:01:53] Like literally, if you told me and when he got hurt next
[1:01:56] October he's going to dominate the Classico, I would not have
[1:01:59] believed it. No, he was he was out of
[1:02:03] control. Tackles, ground duels won.
[1:02:05] Ariel duels won. Like he was just all over the
[1:02:08] place today like I am. Listen, we it's almost like a
[1:02:11] new signing, right? Because we were all like, can we
[1:02:14] count on Militao coming off A2 ACL?
[1:02:16] Like I don't know. And now it's like, Jesus Christ,
[1:02:18] if we don't have him, we're fucked, right?
[1:02:21] Like so he has been outstanding this season.
[1:02:25] Like, I mean, you can make an argument.
[1:02:26] You can make an argument that he is best center back in world
[1:02:29] football, top three. Like you can make that argument.
[1:02:32] He's top one question to you guys.
[1:02:35] He. Was in 2122 arguably the best on
[1:02:38] that stretch of winning the. Champions League.
[1:02:40] Yep, Yep, He was. He was because.
[1:02:42] This level is unusual for him. Is it?
[1:02:45] The circumstances are in 2 Acls this season.
[1:02:51] Literally have no preseason to begin with.
[1:02:56] I hope his wife. Is doing things.
[1:03:00] I'm I'm hoping he, him and some of the other guys can what do we
[1:03:04] have Villa real this weekend? We what do we have this weekend?
[1:03:07] We have somebody. Yeah.
[1:03:09] Valencia but fucking A and it was AV team.
[1:03:11] Can we can we rotate anybody out this weekend before?
[1:03:15] I know Liverpool's not playing well, but before we go to
[1:03:17] Anfield on Wednesday, I'll. Think you'll see plenty of
[1:03:20] rotations for that game. Wait, we, I, I don't know, we
[1:03:24] have a full week off. Traditionally when there's a
[1:03:26] week off, I don't know, like it, it's just we got a full week
[1:03:30] off. They might be like, just go play
[1:03:31] a couple games, take the international break.
[1:03:33] Another national break is coming.
[1:03:35] Yeah. So you're going.
[1:03:37] To get. I'll just say like, you look to
[1:03:41] rotate when you're in a tough stretch, when someone unexpected
[1:03:43] gets hurt, when you have a week off with an international break
[1:03:45] coming up. You look for reasons to get your
[1:03:47] starters more reps, I think. No doubt, I just worry about a
[1:03:50] guy like Militale because we rely on him so much coming off
[1:03:53] the two ACL. Like I don't want to overplay
[1:03:55] him this early in the season. Agreed.
[1:03:58] Since we're talking about energy, you know what What my
[1:04:00] fear is? The Lafunter was watching
[1:04:02] Carrera. I know fuck I know I know I know
[1:04:07] I know I but I hope his anti Real Madrid bias kicks in and he
[1:04:10] fucks up again and doesn't call him like I just please keep that
[1:04:14] going. One person I want to shout out
[1:04:16] again to Sid before you go. I thought Kemah Venga was great
[1:04:19] today. He we talked about him, Sid and
[1:04:24] Lecante and I said if this dude is healthy, what a fucking game
[1:04:28] changer he is because he you can't dribble past him.
[1:04:34] If you nick the ball off him he will just take it back from you.
[1:04:38] He's press resistant. Like way better than I think
[1:04:41] people realize. I just he is, he's outstanding.
[1:04:46] I thought he had a really, really good game in midfield
[1:04:49] today. The performance also amplified a
[1:04:54] lot when he was put like in double pivot.
[1:04:56] Once the sobs happen and he's on center and he can get the ball
[1:05:00] forward comfortably, what a volume.
[1:05:04] Like genuinely like Kamavi guys. Just I don't like when he has to
[1:05:08] run into space like a winger like we saw in a couple of
[1:05:11] times. I don't think he made for that.
[1:05:13] I feel like that's more of like a Volverde thing when Wolverde
[1:05:16] is a midfield. That's what I would like to see
[1:05:18] if Alberta do more. But if you're sitting there with
[1:05:21] so many. Yeah, good luck.
[1:05:24] Good luck getting anything through there.
[1:05:27] We have been talking about this pairing for a very long time,
[1:05:31] right? For a very long time.
[1:05:33] And we had this, don't want to say delusion, but it's kind of
[1:05:38] like a delusion of what would look like in Barcelona finally,
[1:05:46] or like, OK, so this is in there.
[1:05:49] This is the pivot from hell, basically from anything.
[1:05:52] Pivot from hell. This is what I want to call it.
[1:05:56] From hell, I love those guys. Question questions of the cast
[1:06:01] we got and I've been thinking on this.
[1:06:04] Did anyone see 2011 Mourinho in this Jabby performance?
[1:06:07] But the game has evolved too much to really do a straight
[1:06:10] comparison. But but I want to do a little
[1:06:14] breakdown here of the similarities and differences.
[1:06:16] I think defensively very unusually similar to the best of
[1:06:20] Mourinho and even Zidane with Zidane the mid block and like
[1:06:24] the ability to confidently defend deeper later in the game
[1:06:28] and the ability to just keep them out of your territory.
[1:06:30] In terms of Mourinho, the quick transitions, the desire to break
[1:06:35] them in transition. But the main difference is the
[1:06:38] that Militale set play man. That's not that's not Mourinho,
[1:06:41] that's all Alonso. I think that's the new thing.
[1:06:44] Alonso brings it because he understands that the way the
[1:06:47] game works, you need to find an advantage somewhere and if
[1:06:49] you're going to tell the team to not lose the ball, sometimes you
[1:06:52] need to give them solutions that are obvious.
[1:06:54] Mourinho would just tell them what to do.
[1:06:56] Zidane played very positionally and would give them solutions.
[1:06:59] He was a little more defensive. Alonzo seems slightly more
[1:07:02] creative offensively. Is that just me?
[1:07:07] I, I think you drew good parallel there.
[1:07:10] I think he looks a lot more like Zidane than he did on Morena,
[1:07:13] because Morena would have fallen immediately back into that low
[1:07:16] block. And just a little entries.
[1:07:18] How I imagine that Mourinho would have approached this.
[1:07:22] Not a bad thing, but he loved his transitions.
[1:07:24] He loved to create engage. That space wasn't always the
[1:07:29] worst, but I think that it has evolved too much.
[1:07:32] It felt a lot more like Sudan. OK, you don't need to.
[1:07:37] You didn't even push, but they were still pushing, right?
[1:07:40] There were sequence of it says on the 80th minute where they're
[1:07:44] pressing, right. It's not that it's not a team
[1:07:47] that's just waiting to be attacked.
[1:07:49] It's a team that is very much like, OK, bring it on at all
[1:07:53] times. So yeah, it's more of like a
[1:07:55] controlled chaos, I want to say. So more like a Zidan style of
[1:07:59] coaching? Perfect, perfect description.
[1:08:01] A little update for you guys because you know a Liga and all
[1:08:05] the post mass post match festivities, yellow cards to
[1:08:09] Vinnie, Rodrigo, Militao, Ferren, Torres, Balde and Fermi.
[1:08:13] Oh wow, 6 yellow cards. I at least it's three each side.
[1:08:16] I'll, I'll, I'll give them that. Yellow colors choose the game.
[1:08:20] Damn. That's funny.
[1:08:24] This would. Be Oh, Lunan.
[1:08:25] Lunan got a red card. What the what?
[1:08:28] Yeah, one in a. Red card, yes.
[1:08:30] Luna is it? During the game though, During
[1:08:33] that. You know, like what I well on
[1:08:36] the screen it's I saw it as a yellow.
[1:08:37] I just went into the the post and now it's saying red.
[1:08:40] Red. Yeah, you got a red.
[1:08:41] Listen, that's that's crazy. But listen, they were just
[1:08:45] trying to maybe get us more suspensions.
[1:08:47] Listen, if everyone gets suspended equally, we have a
[1:08:50] bench. They don't and their guys get
[1:08:51] hurt. So we win.
[1:08:52] If everyone's going to take the if we're doing attrition here,
[1:08:55] we got more than you. We got more money, we got more
[1:08:57] players, We got everything. All you guys got is Lamassia and
[1:08:59] child abuse. You guys got that child abuse
[1:09:01] going for you. You can.
[1:09:03] Do Jude in, in his post match presser, they asked him about
[1:09:07] his goal. He's like, oh, just a tap in.
[1:09:09] He's like, it's just a tap in, right?
[1:09:10] He's like, I'm lucky. Apparently that's what they say.
[1:09:13] Oh, I love that Jude's throwing that shit back out at me.
[1:09:18] This is my proof. To all of you who think athletes
[1:09:21] don't listen to the stuff that people say about them, I promise
[1:09:23] you they if they don't hear it directly themselves, somebody in
[1:09:27] their group tells them, oh, you know what so and so said about
[1:09:29] you, XYZ is the case, right? So they know, they know.
[1:09:33] Talk is cheap, he said also in his post Hala Madrid.
[1:09:36] Talk is cheap, you know, win a ring, then talk.
[1:09:38] You have zero rings. I don't count La Liga here.
[1:09:40] I'm a Champions League guy. We got six rings, we got two.
[1:09:43] In the last few years. We got more rings than the oil
[1:09:45] clubs. Win a ring, then talk.
[1:09:47] I really think, fine, he has a euro, I'll give him that.
[1:09:49] He has a ring. But man, cooking those national
[1:09:52] teams, bro, they're not like this, bro.
[1:09:54] There's no Real Madrid in national teams like we're we're
[1:09:56] the best. The national teams can't stack
[1:09:59] the deck with the best player at every position.
[1:10:01] Try and beat us and oh, man, listen, I just think we have
[1:10:04] better footballers. Yeah, yeah.
[1:10:09] Let's see how your Luis Velafuente does when he plays a
[1:10:11] Real club coach. Buddy, you're Louise.
[1:10:17] But what it's worth, Delafuente is actually one of the best
[1:10:20] national team coaches, probably like that possession play.
[1:10:23] They don't get that fluidity from too many national team
[1:10:25] coaches. But Tuco is one of the best
[1:10:27] coaches, knockouts, period. He will.
[1:10:30] Tuco is like for England what Alonzo was for us in this.
[1:10:33] OK. Good question for you guys, for
[1:10:34] both of you. If Tuco was coaching England in
[1:10:36] that Euro final last year, does England win?
[1:10:39] Yeah, yeah, for me. Yes.
[1:10:42] Even with the fatigue attackers, even though your mom was more
[1:10:45] fresh than Jude and Kane was tired, I still think they
[1:10:47] figured out because Tuco is like, remember what Bayern
[1:10:50] remember? They almost stole that 24 CL
[1:10:53] from with us, with Alfonso Davies.
[1:10:55] Like they they remember that as a season they could have won the
[1:10:57] title. They were 20 minutes from
[1:10:59] winning the title. So yeah.
[1:11:01] But listen, I think we should wrap it up here.
[1:11:05] That was a great win a very I think it wasn't like the result
[1:11:09] wasn't what we wanted in terms of comfort and lack of stress.
[1:11:12] Like even on the show, I could just feel a little bit of stress
[1:11:15] from the watch in the last 20 minutes still rebounding.
[1:11:17] But like all show, if you guys thought we were a little jittery
[1:11:20] man that couldn't get a chance heart attack because it was just
[1:11:22] too one and we slapped them and like this cannot end too too.
[1:11:24] That would have been a nightmare.
[1:11:25] I would not want to be on this show so.
[1:11:27] It would have been an undeserved win, an undeserved draw, because
[1:11:31] again, the underlying stats suggest that we were clearly the
[1:11:34] superior team. If you if you just look at and
[1:11:36] just rewatch the game, like look at the chances created, look at
[1:11:39] it's just just rewatch, right, Like we were the superior team
[1:11:43] it. Wasn't even a competition.
[1:11:46] Yeah, yeah, really quick everybody.
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