[Friendly] Real Madrid 2-0 Juventus [July 30th, 2022] (5 Viewers)

Rockets

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Jul 26, 2022
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I think it's an OK first half since we are playing against the same starting XI Real had for the CL final.

Vlahovic: soft, not 100% physically ready
Fagioli: so much composure, not timid to show skill, two fabulous chip pass. Make him the starting LCM and bench Rabiot pls!
Loca: world class potential
Kean: we are suicidal if we play him on LW position
Danilo: drunk
Bremer: good but failed to communicate with Bonucci on that penalty
 

IlCapitano

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Dec 16, 2012
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Danilo needs to go out for Cuadrado. His complete lack of ball retention and passing under this press have us pinned back full time.


Cuadrado can defenitely beat this press and help midfield move up the ball.
He can also get ass raped by Vinicius just as easily.

Danilo did make a mistake on the penalty (situation in which he should not have been in at all), but in the open field dealt really well with Vini.

Zakaria good defensively, but we really didn't hold the ball up well to give him and Fagioli time to get more forward.

Di Maria in particular was just dreadful, I don't think he made one good decision out there.

Vlahović completely out of form, way behind on training obviously. Militao utterly dominated him and even the 1-1 chance Fagioli created for him he had 2-3 meters of advantage and reacted so slowly and allowed Militao to come and save it.

Loca and Fagioli excellent on the ball. I especially enjoy Loca. So intelligent, so smooth. Can't get enough.

Bonucci and Bremer work really well together so far.

Kean moved well, didn't make his usual mistakes, but he's not a winger. Maybe against a really deep team he can play the MM role or against some really dumb and high defense, but not today.
 

MrMonkey

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Jul 15, 2017
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Now seeing Fagioli and Rovella play so far don't see Max not keeping them on the team. I don't care if Arthur and Rabiot can't be sold. Appears Rabiot might not be the best replacement for PP. Guess Miretti will be loaned out but wouldn't surprise me he be good enough to make squad too.
 
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CarloP

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Jan 24, 2010
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Can't really complain too much - we're playing against basically the starting XI of the CL champions. The one concerning thing to me in that half was that our frontline really do not look to be on the same page with one another at all.
 

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