[Post Match Thread] Braga vs Real Madrid (UEFA Champions League)

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1. Ancelotti’s tactics are so boring. If we are just a goal ahead, it feels like all we do is defend. It’s Braga, not Manchester City! I really hated watching the second half. All goals we are scoring are not some master class with fluent play, but rather individual skills of players. Also, I am not sure if Ancelotti hates Brahim, or what? I love Rodrygo, but man, he is in a really, really bad form right now. If Brahim is worse than Rodrygo in such bad form, why did we bring him back? Rodrygo was always better as a joker. I would really love to see Ancelotti go at the end of the season.

2. Relatively comfortable win ahead of the Clasico but people will still complain as if we lost

3. A Win and No injuries

   Vamos!

4. What a mediocre match and var was frustrating as well. Vini was great in this match despite the offsides , he is the heart of our attack . Overall a win is a win and hopefully the goal boost rodrygos confidence

   However I have to question the logic of playing vini , jude and carva for almost the entire match with the classico coming up . I hope jude is alright and the sub was precautionary

5. Good 3 points. We should not have conceded, wasted unneeded energy before the classico.

6. Good result

   Poor Brahim though

7. At this rate, Brahim should just ask to be put on the transfer list.

   If Ancelotti would rather finish the game playing with the front three of Camavinga-Vinicius-Lord than use Brahim, might as well let him go.

8. Imagine that there were some plastics in this sub that were saying two months ago we will have problem andvancing from group.

9. Braga played some good football today, and we didn’t look so good for a major chunk of the match. Hope Carlo doesn’t do anything bullocks this El Clasico and don’t experiment something new.

   Well it’s El Clasico time baby, the winner gets to stay on the top of league. Hope we smash them!!

10. Vini is slowly getting back into form. Hope he will be more clinical in the classico. Him and Jude are 90% of our fire power

11. 14 G/A in 13 games at club level for Jude, 4 G/A in 3 in the champions league. Some player

12. Boring game. It should’ve been easier so players can rest a bit before next game but it had to be a clutch fest, as usual. No tactics, just vini and inshallah. Rodrygo, despite his ” goal “, has misscontrolled so many balls and been absent most of the time near the goal. Cama should be the game’s mvp.

13. Disastrous game management from ancelotti. Preferred being pinned back for 30 mins by making defensive subs of tchouameni, vasquez and mendy instead of giving time to joselu, brahim and toni who are all well rested since they didn’t play for their NT all the while 40yo luka, vini Bellingham all played 90 mins 3 days from the classico. Brilliant. Just hope no one is injured, jude and cama looked gassed.

    Edit: My bad didn’t realize that joselu was off, but the rest stands.

14. Carlo should’ve taken Jude off earlier, this man really grinding my gears lately

15. God I hope Jude is fine

16. Great to Rodrygo get a goal and hopefully he regains his confidence.

    HIM strikes again!!!

    It’s very unfortunate vini went scoreless.

    And I don’t know why we looked very sloppy after the second goal like our players turned off or something, hopefully this won’t happen again!

    Hala Madrid!

17. Good performance from us, we had the usual amount of scary chances conceded but I thought Cama and Rudi were great blockers today

    I thought Cama was stellar, he was everywhere he could have had 3 assists great game from him

    Vini was lethal today, his dribbling was fluid, he got 1 assist but the other pass was just as important for the 1st goal

    Rodry scored hopefully it’s the start of a beautiful run from him

    Fede Jude and Luka were good, very clean game from them

    If I had to be picky I’d say our fullbacks gave the ball away too easily but other than that it was a nice win

18. Refereeing is so much better than la liga

19. Hopefully Jude is fine. Would’ve been good to keep the 2-0 that way he could’ve been subbed out earlier, but we kind of lost focus after that 2nd goal.

20. Seems like after goal 2 we decided to stop playing any defense for a while. But still, it’s a win. Not bad.
    Plus Camavinga looked good to my novice soccer fan eyes. Which I enjoy seeing.

21. Great win. Hopefully, next match against barca. The team performs better than this.

22. I know some EPL fans criticise Mike Oliver, but he is miles ahead of the clowns that officiates in La Liga. Feels good when the ref controls the game and when there are no toxic racist away fans

23. Tough win on the road, practically qualifies us for the next round, I’ll take it.

    Now let’s get ready for this weekend, it’ll be spicy

24. Not saying anything’s wrong with Jude, but I need to hear some positive news about him.

    

25. With Ancellotis’s management of the squad we will arrive to April again with 5 starters injured and all the subs out of shape

26. not a masterclass, but still a win. i honestly feel good (not necessarily great) about this match and i truly hope we come correct this saturday, god knows there are many things against us already so i hope the players are able to get their head in the game at least.

    also, ancelotti needs to just say he hates brahim and go. what even is going on there

27. Apparently Jude has some discomfort and was taken off as precaution, according to one of the sources. Rest up tomorrow and hopefully he’s good by Thursday/friday

28. I didn’t see it, but I heard that Rüdiger got into it with a Braga player. Love Rüdi man lol.

29. https://preview.redd.it/6u25qhm7v7wb1.jpeg?width=1034&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a0d76671f1a4e17f1d2b22e62f1278798e29327

    He is fine😅(double meaning)

30. Only two players in Real Madrid’s history have scored in their first three Champions League games and Jude Bellingham is one of them

31. Ancelotti after planning for the game 4 days : ” give the ball to Vinisius and pray”

32. Kepa showed glimpses of his chelsea self today

33. sorry boys, no rest for any of you even after international break and before clasico