When I've seen Real play it's horrible how unbalanced the team is. Too many Galact-egos. They play almost 4-1-5 with half the team waiting for the chance to tap the ball into the net. With their single midfielder easily marked out of the game the job of actually creating the chances seems to be left to Ramos. Also Real were lucky as **** to win the CL last year anyway.
That's what I mean though, I don't think there's that much difference to how they were last season. Its just Bayern played really recklessly against them in the semi final and gave them loads of space to counter in which Bale, Ronaldo & Co. were always going to thrive with. They scraped through to extra time in the final by a 90th minute set piece as well. Its like Ancelotti isn't strong enough to have at least two of Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo & James tracking back to it leaves their midfield, who aren't very strong defensively anyway, and their defence to deal with the other team.
Typical of a lot of teams now they take the we will score more than you approach, WTF is wrong with defending properly? Say what you want about mourinho ( i hate the tw@t) but he knows how to get a team to defend!
Ancelotti is a world class manager - won the league in a number of countries. The Milan side he built was one of the best in Europe at one point, and winning 3 CL's earns his legendary status. The Real Madrid is a poison chalice - managers have to appease the owners and crowd, and it may go against the managers principles. Mourinho was the only one who seemed to stick to his guns. Ancelotti's are most exciting but they're disciplined and defensively sound, but he compromised that at Real because all they care about is attacking. Will most likely be available in the summer - it would be a long shot but he would be a massive upgrade on Rodgers.
Maureen only knows one way, it wasn't "sticking to his guns". Same system all over, get loads of quality players and make them defend like **** and wait for mistakes, Real fans were never happy with his football.
its funny how some of us critise rodgers for sticking to one game plan. I guess we were spoiled by managers who had tactical ability in the past who would have a game plan for each opposition. Cheslea have two game plans... 8 men back and 4-2-3-1 (near enough) they simply swap oscar for mikel depending on opposition. What you've said is: a) quality players b) defend well those should be rodgers real criticisms. bad bad buys and still 3 years later cannot defend a set piece.
