[FULL REACTION] Manchester City OUT of Champions League, lost to Real Madrid | ESPN FC

1-1 on night 44 overall, they advance 43 on penalties, there are so many things to discuss in this game like who welcomes Stuart Robson and also a very cocky Jurgen Clintsman who got all the predictions right in the way we were looking forward on who. He's going to qualify for the semi-finals people have forgotten that you don't have to bring him back oh, okay, okay, where do we start? Tell me where you want to start well, this is one for all those people who I don't know anything other than reading the beginnings and you know they go on social media and they're all over the place telling you how he did this and that and XG and this because it boils down at the end of the day putting the ball in the back of the net and defending well and Real Madrid and in the end they did both and we were able to look at City and say well, they didn't do enough, but I mean, in terms of competition, It wasn't the The first game was a very good competition in Madrid 3-3 entertaining final in the end Counterattack most of the time I guess from Real Madrid this

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ly wasn't a great competition, it was very one-sided, but we have seen Real Madrid do this. so many times and we wonder, well, last year they were going to do it again, well, they didn't, they fell flat on their faces, in fact, they took a big dose of pie in the face last year, they got hit, but what?

Didn't they learn their lessons? The

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another bad goal early here and ultimately we've talked about it all year. season they will get their way in the Premier League it seems they haven't got their way in this competition they haven't been as good defensively as last year maybe some would say they haven't been as good in the final Third also in attack, but they certainly haven't been as good defensively in this competition across the Premier League and they have paid the penalty for that.

We saw it in those highlights in We Alli. Look at the amount of ball Manchester City has. It didn't necessarily turn into many clear opportunities, it was because of the fact that Real Madrid parked the bus or because of Manchester City's lack of creativity, you can give credit to Real Madrid, but they had no other option. They have no other option, it's not like when they won the ball, now they were going on the counter or completing passes. No, Real Madrid were pushing back, pushing back, pushing back, so the only option they had was to hold on and hold on as best as possible.

How could they, then the owners and the responsibility belong to Manchester City. Now I have some structural questions for Manchester City and although Manuel Aangi can do some attacking work I suppose and he can add to the midfield and create a big mismatch. I don't know if I'm a Manchester City player, a Manchester City fan or a Manchester City player, I want Manuel Aangi to be the one making the decisions at the top of the 18-yard box or inside the 18-yard box, good job. For what he can do, he's not a better option than Foden or Kevin De Bruyne or some of these other types of players who are more skilled in attack and yet, a lot of times maybe it's because of the Real Madrid signing, but certainly not It seemed like that. be the case Manu AI is the one trying to play make tole 18 yard box where are the other guys?

The other thing I would ask you if you have dku coming into the field and you have shown that it is a One V one mismatch. vs kahal why are there

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players crowding the left side and running after caral? I understand why Manchester City just focus on this back-and-forth and back-and-forth passing game and he comes around the box and turns the other way. You never use Earling Howen and the times you try to use Earling Howen. is not strong enough to hold him with his back to the goal, in the end he becomes predictable and easier to defend.

Robo, is it fair to analyze this game in a criticism of Manchester City given the amount of ball they had against the wing? Real Madrid absolutely yes. Real Madrid defended their Penalty Box very well, but there were times when Manchester City and you know, they received a couple of crosses in the first half and the only things Harand did well was win two balls in the air, one that hit the crossbar and there was another one that didn't make it back to the danger area, but other than that, they tried to pass, yes, they caught the bruyer a couple of times on the right side in that Unfortunately, it was also a Ki that got into the inside left position a couple of times, but sometimes they had to change their game.

Real Madrid were prepared to prevent them from passing and Manchester City kept trying. to go through him, swerving again and then coming back in, then they put Bernardo Silva over to the right side and I don't think he ever passed anyone. He kept playing it back to Kevin De bruyne. Kevin De bruyer played. It's square for Roger, he went the other way, at some point you have to throw the ball into the area. Double the balls and just make the defenders defend. Manchester City didn't do that enough. You saw the stats: 67% possession and 33. shots, you have to score more than that when you have that type of possession, how do you approach it?

Jurgen, if you're Manchester City and you're facing this bench of four and four, how do you try to break this down and you don't? Pep Guardiola has enough experience to try or certainly explore a plan B, but as and he gave a good example, you know that if Doku comes in, he needs space to come in, he needs space to get behind this man and not crowd that area. certainly an aspect that you can discuss afterwards, so obviously you had the um the post was hit by Har and you had the great chance from De Bruyne.

You trust your big players in a game like that, who win with very little. They win more, uh, that wasn't the case, but I mean, if you look at the stats, like I said correctly, you know you were 70, almost 70% and you pass the ball back and forth, you need to come out with a little bit more. with a little more determination, kind of results, I mean more, uh, yeah, I kind of had the feeling that sometimes there wasn't the urgency that you need to have at the end, especially the last 20 minutes, 25 minutes. you have to try, you have to get the crowd behind you, the crowd was certainly behind them, but there's another level of support that you know when you make it look desperate, when you make it look

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ly urgent and you, you really tried to fall to force a goal and somehow you had the feeling that it was okay, then we go into extra time, maybe we have a chance or two in extra time and we decided it would be extra time and that haunts you and for sure De Bruyne will sit now in the locker room and he won't be happy because he had a great opportunity, even if I think he played a good game overall and those are the moments you regret later and Real.

Madrid had a clear plan, Car Angelotti obviously knew what happened last year. He said it won't happen a second time. Let me tell you, I'm not doing that again. I'm not going to keep my eyes open. To see a kind of competition here, so they play defensively, very disciplined, very strong, uh and uh, and they were always waiting for their counterattack opportunities, um, which they then used in the first half right away, um, and then it all went down. boils down to a nail-biting moment, it all comes down to a penalty shootout where both coaches prepare their teams for the shootout, they have their roster, they have their players who are supposed to be the best to help you pass, even if so.

At the end of a game and Real Madrid has already surpassed it. I think you know they deserved it in a way, even if obviously Manchester City had the majority of the game. It's incredible how many times they have been able to. To do it, Real Madrid obviously not last year, but I think we have to address one of the big talking points: how many big teams would have eliminated arguably the hottest striker on the planet? Yes, this was, this is at the end of the 90 minutes, I'm not talking about the best as they are in form at the moment, but I mean, if it were an auction tomorrow it would be Mbappé and it would be Ellen Holland, wouldn't it be like that?

Maybe with a couple of other talented players participating. but here we have a question of whether he is having his best game or not when you bring in dco, you are watching PACE and I understand that you want to bring in Alvarez. I understand it because it has been excellent, maybe you could bring him one for With Bernardo Silva, then you had another attacking option because as the game progressed and the fatigue increased and the constant defense that Real Madrid had to do and we saw how tired they were. ​that those guys were there, I think they would have done it.

This is City, they put more balls in the area or they should have and one of the things that is not that they are ever a team that puts a lot of balls in the area, they are not and that is a type of criticism that I would have made . Sometimes, especially if I were a striker, even in the Premier League I would like to see more crosses. I think Helen Holland would say the same thing, but she really took that opportunity to do it. Mhm, you know, the big thing. there was no other option, It Go had to go in, it had to go in hard and low, now they got a goal to be fair, but it always had to go in hard and low all over the face, it could never get up like extra time because there was no no one to go and win it and you have to feel, I think that since they got more tired and Rudiger was defending and Natur just defended and defended and Carval could move, they had to remove him from the takeoff of the Talisman of number nine in the quarterfinal match of the Champions League when you need a goal to stop it going to penalties it was a great decision, it was a criticism of his form in these last two games, well it's a criticism of his form and it's also maybe an accusation against his manager to Even though he said something different at press conferences recently, his lack of confidence because if he had confidence in what he said, he was in the media and criticized any expert who suggested that Ellen Ham was having a bad time, or a little worse , but still here he is in his Moment of Truth and he is doing well and that is a great decision now if they win and de bruy the scores and don't forget it.

He's taken a penalty too and he's absolutely taking a penalty so that was huge, that was huge from Guardiola and I think at the moment he's got and a couple of things about that, you've got the focal point in the attack in Earling. Highland and as the defenders are tiring they are still alert, if they are going to keep an eye on one player it will be Erling Holland, so if you have an extra presence in the box in the case of Julian, Adward is potentially coming on for Bernardo Silva now that everyone gets dragged to Erling How and he may not even have to be the guy who scores, but now Julan Alvarez is in a position where he has a chance when you keep the focal point on the attack.

He still keeps the attention of defenders, but now that you don't have that presence there you're like he's okay, well, we don't have that threat. The other thing I would say about Erling Holland, obviously as a striker. I would like to be on the field and as a fellow Striker and Jurgen would attest to this, the last thing you want to do is get pulled when the game is still on the line, but you also have to perform at a level. that rewards or that actually requires you to stay on the field and there were many occasions and I mean many times when the ball went to erling Highland and nacho, who in the list of Real Madrid defenders is actually behind Chu am manyi, who is not even a Defender, but we have seen Carelot use Chu am manyi because he does not trust Nacho per se to play at a time like this.

He had to do it because Tru am manyi was suspended and he was Nacho, which is the body of Earling H I. Like, wait a second. Isn't Earling Holland supposed to be the strong, presence-driven guy? The physical type. Why does Nacho throw it? Why do other defenders throw him? Hold the ball, you can leave it to Bruy. and he can find the next pass or leave it to Rodrigo now he can find the next pass if you don't have that waiting game then you can't turn and go into space we want Hound to go out into space well he's gotta do it first the dirty part and that is holding the ball up high.

He doesn't do that and it cuts off his own opportunities. Do you agree with Robo? I was watching him very, very closely and four in the first five times he touched the ball and like Just when Alli said the ball went in against Nacho, he fell once he gave the ball away, the second time Nacho went and He took it off twice and he did it, he left a ball out for the first five or six. Sometimes his performance was not good enough and then he loses confidence and I was watching his movement when they could have rolled the balls towards his feet.

I know you don't look at it very often, but there were times when Rodley was I looked at it and Harand was running across the field, he wasn't, so I'm going to go back to the center, roll him towards me around the box and now I'm going to spin because the best forwards love the ball. They coil in and around the box so they can turn and shoot away at the moment when they have to have a goal. Done for him he is not going to create any goals on his own soindividual Brillo plays a brilliant game that's not what he's doing at the moment he's

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confidence he seems to have lost his technical ability with his back to goal I think it's a problem for Man City, but how can they not get you a goal if you are sitting on the bench.

You're right? It's a fair point. How many forwards do we know? And I've seen it over the years. I've done absolutely nothing in a game, but put the ball in the backfield, come back to the net and grab the headlines. MH, oh we've seen them, you can take him to Clintsman. I haven't played, I didn't do anything, that German guy exactly. but I'm serious, now we can argue, we can debate, he should have come out, he shouldn't have come out, he's playing well, he's not playing well, blah blah blah, at the end of the day, there are so many figureheads out there and i'll give you An example.

I played with Ali mcco, right? Many times mcco you couldn't see him if you sent a search party for him and then suddenly the need appears as he did instinctively. a finisher in the box and he's grabbing the headlines the next day the coach took that out of the equation and that's what he is he's not the most subtle of footballers Ellen Hen but he's a finisher but he's going through a bad time I'll give you that that or a bad moment by his standards, but it took away the potential of having a moment and taking the headlights.

You don't always need your forwards to be the best player on the team, you only need them when you put a good ball in the box to be in the right place at the right time and I thought it was telling that he brought it out, what do you think Jurgen? Yeah, you can see it from both sides, obviously, you know you give Alvarez the opportunity to be the difference maker in that moment, which he can do at any time. I mean, he's also a very, very good striker and for Erin, even if it's not his best game, he can certainly still decide the game, he just needs a ball, you know, he just needs an opportunity and he's back, you know, and his confidence has suddenly returned and that's what the life of a striker is like, a striker's life is just waiting for the next ball and changing things and I'm sure he will be.

He will be frustrated, he will be disappointed with the result of the game and probably also with his own performance, but I still want to say that he hit the crossbar with his header if that goes in and we know that we all saw that ball already on him. This is the winner of the game, at the end of the day, but those are things that a coach and a B-keeper have done so many times and will hope

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y do for many years, but you know they feel certain things. Look, they come during the week, they talk to the players, they know exactly where the players are and then based on those observations that they have during training sessions, outside of training sessions, you know when you move with the team and travel and all.

So they make their decisions based on what they've experienced all week and that's why they made the decision to bring in Alvarez and uh um instead of a midfielder, you know, bring out the Highland um and he'll think about it now too. and you will always know. Question: Should he have done that or this? But the game is over, the game is over and Real Madrid is classified and with a very defensive display and with many things they learned. last year with the defeat there um and you have to give them a huge compliment, we talked about the vulnerability of Manester City's defense before this tie, certainly compared to last season, how poor it was to concede that goal from Rodrigo, Robo, Uh, it was a little bad. of Defense because Aangi, as we said, was entering midfield.

Are we being a little harsh? the League Arsenal at home the same Chelsea at home Chelsea by the way 1-1 the same had the ball all day could not score well could score a second uh so we have seen it, we have seen it before look, they are a great team, They're a great team, you could still argue that they're the best team to watch in European football, but they just haven't done it, they just haven't done it and I'm shocked, you know? I think about The other side, the other side, is Real Madrid. Here is a team that is going to win the League and could very well win the Champions League.

And you talk about adversity. Benzema. Saudi Arabia got into the backbone of the team. You got angry at 34. Modric had a small part at 38, yes, you have a young man, you have Bingham, obviously he came in and it has been a revolution, but he has lost a little step in his performance and then you have four defenders who They had, as Alex said, nacho there, cheni there. Kingo there, he has had three or four different left backs, he has had Carvajal playing in the central half, he has had two goalkeepers who are not the best, they realized that Len is the best of the two and yet, not here we are.

In my opinion, no other coach, no other coach could have brought Real Madrid to this position except Carlo Angelotti, with this calm attitude, managing the players without panicking, simply using all his experience and fighting the fires he had to fight. , it hasn't been brilliant. No, it hasn't been aesthetically the best to look at, but knowing what getting results is all about and doing it after having lost all those players and having the season they're potentially going to have is pretty amazing, we've seen a lot of Real Madrid This season they have not been brilliant, they have not been catalating, they are going to win the League because they are the best team in Spain, but they face, for example, Barcelona, ​​​​which has had problems from the beginning, yes.

To take it even further, in the military, they are the starters, without a doubt, the starters, guys who were going to be your starters all season and who have performed outstandingly for Real Madrid and yet you continue to get results and what you find. Real Madrid, sometimes we ask about the identity of this team, personality, well, this is what Real Madrid has, lots of personality, and speaking of personalities, I cannot leave this conversation without mentioning Antonio Rudiger, look first of all at the last three penalty takers of the team. Real Madrid Lucas Vasquez Natcho and Antonio Rudiger when they woke up this morning they would not have thought they were going to take a penalty they would not have imagined they were going to take a penalty but anyway Lucas FAS intensifies the goal Nacho's goal and the fifth penalty kick taker in the quarterfinals of the Champions League Antonio Rudiger now the only reason I can imagine this guy taking a penalty is because he has the personality and character to say yes, give me the ball, I don't care, give me the ball .

He's going to be the guy I take the pressure on and what he's done this season is he's taken on the responsibility of being the only reliable centre-back they have, the only reliable centre-back they've had all season. Antonio Rudiger and he has been outstanding for Carelot and he was outstanding again tonight. Few players, fewer players in the modern game and we, I'm not just talking about Talent. Few players wear their hearts on their sleeves more than Tony Rudy, yes, of course. I didn't play in the second leg last year and sometimes, don't forget, I think it was with Lampard at Chelsea, he was out of the equation, wasn't he persona non grata, but currently I've he wants to talk about the amazing things that happen in the game and all the skill levels we see, to see someone with his experience and knowledge and a German international that he has played with everywhere.

He is now playing for possibly the biggest club in the world. the world, but having that passion and that drive and wearing your heart on your sleeve, like I said, is something that I think a lot of people who watch and play the game could get something out of instead of just looking for bits of scale and a little bit and the The amount of passion he has and the heart to improve the game in the way it has been has been incredible to see and what is incredible and even perhaps surprises people, Jurgen, is that Real Madrid is a real Madrid for the success it has.

I've had this Champions League competition in the European Cup obviously before that and it shouldn't really matter if a team won five times in the 60s or if they want to do it consecutively under all these different facts, it shouldn't really affect what happens today. but it clearly is, it's obviously a big part of the confidence that you know when you look back at the history of your club and you see that you know what you know the team was going far in the Champions League and I don't mean I don't know how many. national titles, this type of development, this belief, this confidence, then, always going forward, you know, at Real Madrid, that phenomenon is similar to Bayern Munich, it's how we talk, many times obviously we talk about that game too later. but when you are on the field as a player and you face Real Madrid you are not looking at how Real Madrid played last week maybe in Villa Real or in another team or Pilla or wherever you look, look at what this club is about, you know , you understand that these players who are on the other side of the field now warming up, have done everything and that gives you a lot, eh, I'm serious, it intimidates you, it tells you. it tells you a lot more and then when they step up in the decisive moments of the Champions League, when it gets to the final eight, then all these things matter, they matter a lot, you know if you've done it now, if Tony Gross delivers now a year.

Greater or lesser doesn't really matter, it's Tony Brute and then it's Antonio Rudiger, who for years, yes, has had a bad game, a bad moment and a bad experience, but in general he is constantly playing against one of the best teams. the world and that shapes you that gives you that confidence and that also gives you the moment to understand oh I have to take a step forward now I'm not the perfect penalty taker maybe but give me the ball I walk over there and hit It was a shot and hit it a little bit inside the post too, that's how close it was at the end of the day, but that's the beauty of the story then and now it comes out and obviously totally. happy and in the semifinals and uh and that comes the next game the next game to prove everything and then we enter a summer where all these big names that we see now in the quarterfinals have to prove it and then they have to appear in the European Championship or in the Copa América and demonstrate it again week after week.

The next step for Real Madrid is a little matter of everything classic. They face Barcelona on Sunday, meanwhile Manchester City's hopes of a double treble are dead. but they could still do the double double, yes, when they face Chelsea, it won't be a double double because they had a treble last year, yes, but they could still do the domestic double double. I'm not going to remove one, that's it. our first game in what is a great weekend of football on ESPN plus City take on Chelsea thanks to Jurgen why thank him why I thank you I'm not talking about Bayern Munich that's it, we're done, no, no, not have