El Clasico: Real Madrid - FC Barcelona 0-4

[Trickykid]

shut up

Not likely, buddy.

 

[Neeraj]

3 and a half hours to go folks. Time to head to the bar!

 

[Behrox]

3 and a half hours to go folks. Time to head to the bar!

u mean 4 and a half

 

[dakt]

Not likely, buddy.

We'll win. See you after the game.

 

[Trickykid]

We'll win. See you after the game.

I bloody well hope so. It's just that my gut tells me otherwise.

 

[Egert]

Can't catch the game live Will get home when the game is played around 80min mark, so will be smarter to watch it afterwards. Feels bad that can't support my team live but I will make it interesting (will not watch the score and will ignore internet and texts from my mates for the whole night)

Hope we win and hopefully everyone will have a great game Visca el Barca!!! VAMOS!!!

 

[Barcaman]

My biggest concern are Kroos and Modrić who are fresh and will dominate the midfield.

X factor is Messi. Noone knows in what shape he is and how much he'll be able to play but if I learned anything in recent years, it's never to underestimate the Messi factor.

 

[6 Ballons for Messi]

Our bad defence need to show up for this game.

 

[JamDav1982]

Our bad defence need to show up for this game.

Whole team needs to show up.

The midfield need to protect the defence which personally I feel they lack in a bit.

 

[serghei]

MSN might win it for us if we feed them with good balls. Biggest problem is that we need to find a way to do that. Either try to dominate the midfield or by-pass it somehow.

 

[ThwiX]

According to Rac1, Messi will NOT start the match tonight. #ElClasico

As expected.

 

[jairzinho]

Whole team needs to show up.

The midfield need to protect the defence which personally I feel they lack in a bit.

Agreed. I'm not particularly worried about the front 3, even if messi doesn't start. What has me nervous is the back 4. I get the feeling Bravo is going to be quite busy today. Hopefully its for making saves and not taking the ball out the net.

 

[JamDav1982]

MSN might win it for us if we feed them with good balls. Biggest problem is that we need to find a way to do that. Either try to dominate the midfield or by-pass it somehow.

Dont really have to be that extreme.

The midfield just has to move the ball quicker to the front three and concentrate on not getting caught up the park as Real are still one of if not best team in the world that Bafca could come up against at breaking.

Sevilla sat a bit deeper and broke down the left, allowing FB on that side to overload on Danilo.

Would not be surprised at all if Barca do the same with Neymar/Alba and rest of team other than Suarez and Munir a bit more conservative.

 

[serghei]

The front three need to sense if the midfield is being overrun and come back more. I don't want to see a 3 vs. 2 constantly on the right and left flanks. I remember Ronaldo, Marcelo, and Di Maria breaking our right flank last year because they had the numbers to own that space. And they did, almost all of their chances came from that zone.

 

[JamDav1982]

The front three need to sense if the midfield is being overrun and come back more. I don't want to see a 3 vs. 2 constantly on the right and left flanks. I remember Ronaldo, Marcelo, and Di Maria breaking our right flank last year because they had the numbers to own that space. And they did, almost all of their chances came from that zone.

Yeah Messi barely tracked back in that game and Real attacked it but that is a gamble for them as he is free if they lose it.

Neymar and Suarez work very hard defending though and win a lot of balls in midfield. Only on occassion when Lucho wants an open game - away to Bayern or atleitco last season for example do they not track back much.

Munir works back well.