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    Tactical Analysis : Real Madrid 0-1 Barcelona | A Tightly Contested Encounter |



    What tactics did Xavi and Ancelotti use?
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    2. A. S. on

      Such a frustrating game to watch as a madrid fan…one that everyone, even Xavi, had us winning. Ancelotti got out classed. Waiting so long to bring on rodrygo, allowing vini to continuously get humiliated, etc etc. And then he throw poor Alvaro out there praying he'll perform magic again. Just sad to watch I hope we can regroup against betis we need points more than anything

    4. 0riginal _Panda_Child on

      Barca are too dependent on Pedri. Frankie and Sergio need to step up as they have had much better games. It also wouldn't hurt for Torres to stop impersonating Nunez's lack of accuracy. Defense was better than usual but there is still room for improvement. I'm glad for the win but the lack of that "it" factor made this the most boring El Classico to date

    7. Elderly Nahum on

      Comeback without vini??? He's out and there goes their speed danger and creativity. Champions League is just a show with lots of lights it doesnt reflex correctly how much better barca is than this madrid

    10. Miloud Bouchefra on

      Yesterday felt like Real Madrid was playing against Athletico Madrid, if only Real Madrid had had younger and more proper right back and left back, but still as a Madridista I can't complain, I really enjoyed watching the Merengues dominate, Hala Madrid.

    11. Dshun on

      For the first time I've seen my team doing park the bus tactics.Even i was frustrated throughout the whole game.We were defensively solid but there was no buildup no midfield no forward.

    12. mohammad kazemi on

      How Barca won ? by playing a cowardly football, 10 man defense, if they could they would've asked the fans to also come inside the pitch and defend. I honestly expected Athletico to play anti football like this, not Barca. I lost all respect for Barca last night. This was an embarresing, disgusting, offensive and unfair/dirty play. probably the most humilitating performance by barca in a classico. wasn't it for the extremely lucky goal they wouldn't have been able to reach even real madrid's half. I actually felt bad for barca fans, imagine playing like a team that is about to get delegated to segunda division against RM. you are league leaders for fuck sake what kinda revolting football is that ? if you're so scared to play then don't show up in the pitch ! we'll skull your skin in camp nou, mark my words. we'll beat you infront of 99k fans with your whole squad. you ain't gonna get away with this disrespectfull and shameful football today.

    14. Sunil Thapa on

      Time by time you said the game is still even, show some respect to barca coz barca are 1-0 up and going to play in camp nue next game with fully fit squad. Angeloti mid didnt control game xavi let them control due to lack of attacking Forward

    25. 7hachem on

      This was the worst clasico in decades ! Ancelotti doesn't have it in him to build up offensive plays and is way too focused on defense. Xavi outsmarted him again and has shown capacity to adapt his tactics with the players he has in hand
      The changes for Ancelotti came too late as well ! Kroos and Carvajal were out of it most of the game but Ancelotti is known for making changes too late ! What is worrying for Real Madrid is that he said that he was satisfied with the game ! With zero shots on goal… !

    26. diaa realmadrid on

      Carlo, my boy, you got outclassed tactically by a Barca side that had almost half of the squad missing, as well as Vini being in the nth time in Araujo’s pocket. An absolutely shameful performance and an L to take. I am not gonna hear the end of it from by best friend who is a diehard barca fan so I have to get ready xd

    28. Poko on

      Araujo is a game changer for us. It's so hard to find a defender for the wings. He completely ended their left sided attack, and they wouldn't go to the right

      I love the setup you have, but you need to record it better. The screen looks washed.

    34. GOAT on

      I think next season is where we really start to make our name in Europe again. Teams will start to fear the name Barcelona again.

    35. GOAT on

      Gavi is one of those players that does the little stuff that nobody notices. The dirty work that nobody wants to do. All he needs to do is learn how to keep a cool head and he will be one of the best midfielders of this generation.

    36. GOAT on

      El Clasico is gonna heat up like the 2010s. Today you could see the players played with some extra emotion. Add that with 3 clasicos in 34 days, no emotions will have had time to cool down

    39. mosit on

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    40. hello on

      I just loved the game…………excellent……
      Kessie de dong Araujo kounde ter stegen gavi and raphinia all excellent……..
      I loved the defense
      5-4-1 should be done often while defending……….there is no shame in doing that…….
      We should be giving the same performance in UCL as well……….

      As someone said……….
      Europe losses to real real losses to barca and barca losses to Europe……….
      It's a vicious cycle………
      We need to break this cycle……..

    41. kaustralis hamal on

      It really annoys me that you did not mention Barca's injured players, which forced us to played like this. Busquets, Kessie and De Jong could perfectly be pivots in any team, all Barca offesive tactics this season passed for Pedri, Dembele and Raphinha, with all things considered, and knowing that we'll recover all our players, the second round in Camp Nou probably is gonna be like the final at the SuperCopa, that if there are not more injureds

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