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Bilboa were pressing like crazy in the first half, but they are slowly running out of steam.

Yeah, this is a bizzare line-up, I doubt we'll be able to control midfield with these players.

I think Valverde will go with 4-4-2, with Denis-Busi-Rakitic-Roberto in midfield

Ah you see, but that's the problem, who's fault is that we have Rakitic in our squad instead of Kroos, Gundogan, Kovacic, B.Silva or even Vidal or Pogba? Roberto and Segura fecked this up, they should have fixed our midfield 2-3 years ago. Then Valverde took the job, he probably was promised...

But isn't it a good thing that the best player in history is utilized properly and winning us games? Lucho couldn't even do that last season. Messi was dropping deep and had to do two jobs at one time, to be a midfielder and a striker. And now Messi is pushed more forward and more involved in...

People were saying the same about Zidane,- "he is lucky", "wait a bit and his luck will run out". There was even an image on twitter with Zidane, rabbits foot and four leave clover. And then he carried that luck until CL final and won a double. Maybe the same will happen with Valverde if he is...

Rakitic should have been replaced the day Alves left because he worked only in Lucho's setup where Alves was basically a midfielder and Rakitic was covering for him. It's Robert's fault really for keeping him here that long, now EV is stuck with him. I am sure that he thought about playing...

People are forgetting how horrible we were last season. We weren't horrible just against PSG or Juve, we were struggling against minnows, midfield had one task - to bring the ball to MSN and they couldn't even do that sometimes, Pique and Umtiti were passing to each other because they didn't now...

Totally agree with Messi983, just because Malaga is at the bottom of the table doesn't mean that we should be crushing them 7-0, those are the same bus parkers that give their all when they play against us and I think that players thought that this is going to be very easy as well and weren't...

It's sad to see really, but things change fast in football, hopefully he'll improve somehow.

The team is very lethargic, we need more energy in second half, Denis and Paulinho should come in.

I like his energy, he always trying to make things happen and opponents are scoring a lot of own goals because of his crosses:mou:

Expected line-up really, nice to see Mascherano and Deulofeu starting.

Iniesta's minutes are managed well, he actually doesn't play that much compared to Messi or Busi. I doubt we buy anyone in January and if we will he'll probably be cup tied.

It's a long season, Semedo and Denis will get a lot of minutes. Roberto is impatient, he gets the ball and he runs forward, RB position is more suited for him. We already played two strong teams and weren't blown away.

Looks like he improved a bit, some decent passing, few good runs.

I guess the plan is to bring Denis, Paulinho and Roberto if things don't go well, but still starting Gomes is not the smartest decision.

Paulinho is winning us matches and RM are dropping points at home, oh man, this season is weird. Real Betis now have 9 points and are higher in the table than RM :lol:

I have a feeling Verminator will start today.