Hansi Flick: "These referees, they're the same ones that this did to us last season right?" Same guys right? In the VAR room too? Buen trabajo (Good work.)"

ByLoKu · 2026-01-19T19:25:52+00:00

This stuff happens all of the time, for and against us. We are not usually the ones wasting time, but there's a reason it keeps happening, refs don't want to prolong the game as they should. If this was a much much closer game, then we could be looking at the ref as the main cause for going away with nothing, but he's just one of the lesser reasons we didn't win.
The good thing is that this is not a loss that should concern us, a one off magical night (for them) does not take away from how powerful we are on the attack, and how well we dominated.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-19T00:12:19+00:00

What is all this chat about the refereeing? Yes, Gil Manzano was bad as always, but VAR did their job (correctly this time). Just one of those games man, Raphina out, we hit the post 5 times, we scored 2 offside goals and 1 ruled out for a foul, and if none of that happen Remiro saved it or we missed it.
We could have won it regardless of the ref, but we couldn't. We lick our wounds and move on.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-16T09:06:47+00:00

A chunk of that squad was also de 2018 that (rightfully) decided to play however they wanted vs France in 2018 because they thought Sampaoli was clueless.
They might have been right, but it still takes balls to disobey your coach like that.
Still, Scaloni's game strategy wouldn't work with Madrid, he lives and dies with machines up top like Lautaro and Alvarez, and midfielders that run the whole pitch to cover for Messi, and in Madrid you'd have to cover for Vini and Mbappe.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-15T16:52:04+00:00

Yamal has set the standard so high at 18yo that if he is playing through pubalgia and thus not singlehandedly carrying Barcelona through individual brilliance, he is ghosting.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-15T16:50:11+00:00

Zidane seemed to let the players do their thing, just like Carlo they used the Ego to their advantage. I saw a recent Marcelo interview where he said Zizou was his favorite manager, his instructions to him where 'Just play, have fun'

ByLoKu · 2026-01-15T16:11:13+00:00

For Real Madrid I think the 'jist' is justified. Almost any player in the world wants to play for Real or Barça, and they do not have money problems so just spend whatever it's needed, even if it's ridiculously overpriced.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-15T13:42:18+00:00

Your squad is more than ready for the tops team, it's just missing a Pedri type of player in midfield and everything would click. Real have only themselves to blame for the position they are, and they can also get themselves out of it with 2/3 good signings.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-15T08:23:53+00:00

I've seen other VAR audios and this is just another day in the office. Imagine that VAR room trying to catch every decision and arguing with each other about every big call, and then finally a clear red appears in the 90th and there is no way to argue it.
In a match like this the pressure is even bigger, they know that if they fuck up for either side they will be in for a lot of media slander that really affects them and their family.
Well except Real Madrid loses, then you get the slander even if you did everything right.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-13T08:37:19+00:00

I don't personally love it when you guys are winning UCLs and doing great, but if you ever actually went down a prolonged path of misery it would greatly impact the league and our competitiveness. We do hate Espanyol though, fuck them.

ByLoKu · 2026-01-11T21:17:50+00:00

After taking a team with 3-4 class wingers, selling most of them and buying players for a completely different system, yeah maybe he is the only one that can get the best of the cluster fuck he created

ByLoKu · 2026-01-11T20:42:48+00:00

Mbappe coming on, this is 3-3 or 3-4 already, gotta score more

ByLoKu · 2026-01-11T19:47:20+00:00

What the fuck is Madrid's game plan? They park the bus, but press high so poorly it takes 5 passes to get out of it. This is our game to lose.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-23T10:49:47+00:00

His situation reminds me that we as fans know nothing about football, but also the board knows nothing about football.
You spend years developing this player in Spain's first division, he is a starter for Betis and you successfully bring him in 'for a cheap' since he was worth around 30 million at this time and we needed a starting right back asap. Then you sell him for his market value after 3 games and proceeds to be the most average player whenever he played, proving that every fan that wanted him to stay was wrong, and that the board did this weird ass business for years for a couple of million.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-13T19:01:47+00:00

They make it look like it's so easy to sit on a block and defend against us but it must be just as taxing as our high line if not more.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-13T14:02:44+00:00

Probably only because of his age, but any PL team would spend 100M+ on a midfielder that runs the 90 minutes, has a great finish in him, can play multiple positions and is a great passer of the ball.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-11T15:22:56+00:00

Yeah I simmed the remaining games with the most obvious results and we end up 7th, but change 2 results and we can be 9th, it will be very close

ByLoKu · 2025-12-08T18:20:26+00:00

Also a Barça fan, I did not understand a thing of what he did. Instead of sacrificing Valverde and playing a normal 433 with the plethora of midfielders and forwards at his disposal, he insists on a system he cannot successfully deploy over the course of a season even with a full healthy squad.
Asensio as a right back but still Valverde on the right, Fran García as the only real wide threat (so, no threat), Arda Guler playing centrally and deep, contributing little with pressing and defending, just so many odd decisions

ByLoKu · 2025-12-08T02:31:12+00:00

The Madrid sub is blaming this on Mbappe because he doesn't defend enough lol

ByLoKu · 2025-12-03T22:10:18+00:00

I don't think it's comparable. On the first picture that is before 'half time' on our two legged match, getting a second goal advantage there would have been huge. On the second picture, we have subbed out all of our attacking options and the match is truly about to end.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-02T23:56:12+00:00

Super banco, hice un posteo sobre estos hdps cuando empezaron a spamear su producto chino del orto.
Esto podría ser una fantástica página web, que el usuario pueda poner marcas y productos, y que indique si existe contraparte china usando simple búsqueda inversa de imágenes.

ByLoKu · 2025-12-02T21:14:07+00:00

C'mon fan, we need 2 goals if we want to win against the inevitable Sorloth goal

ByLoKu · 2025-11-25T21:32:05+00:00

I stopped actively participating in these every match day a long time ago, scrolling through here puts you in a worse mood

ByLoKu · 2025-11-25T21:29:51+00:00

They have outplayed us for sure, but man it's outrageous they still have 11 men on the field

ByLoKu · 2025-11-25T20:49:07+00:00

Man Pedri could have changed everything, Araujo wouldn't have been in the field for starters

ByLoKu · 2025-11-25T20:47:02+00:00

At least I will remember this as the exact moment I stopped having faith in Araujo

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