Real have been hit and miss this season, look in the league standing and their game against Tottenham. You can argue that when we actually showed urgency, that we proved to be better. This appears to be a reoccurring mistake amongst this Juve side, we always leave things too late. Look at the Tottenham game for example, there is a sense of complacency. The fact that we beat this chumps 3 - 1 away when we showed up, will always make me regret the first game even more.
But Allegri had almost nothing to do with the disaster the first game turned into. It was 1-0 Madrid and we were controlling the flow of that game for 60 minutes, and then Buffon and Chiellini made a nightmare blunder, Dybala got absurdly sent off by the ref, and the team collapsed. That's not a coaching flaw, nor a tactical flaw. People keep talking about "individual brilliance" for our attack, but that first game was a nail biter, until ridiculous individual blunders and an absurd ref decision to send Dybala off. Add to that Cuadrado should have won a penalty for us late in the match, for a far clearer penalty than the one given today, and it's pretty fucking ridiculous to blame Allegri for the 3-0 scoreline.
Today, the most inane part was watching Ronaldo and Carvajal dive all over the pitch and not a single yellow card shown.
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I've said it before and I will say it again. Criticizing Allegri in this thread should be a bannable offense.
Don't know how anyone can question him. Absolutely scraped the best team in the world in their home stadium 3-0 after being dealt a grossly unfair deficit from the first leg. He deserves better.
There is no one better than him. MVP of the team for sure.
Discussing mistakes he makes here and there, little flaws, etc... that's fine.
But it should be an immediate infraction when people say he should be fired and call him a clown, an idiot, a pussy, a coward, and all the other ridiculous names he's been called in this thread over the last year.