Real Madrid didn’t pull off those 2022 UCL knockout comebacks through miracles. They happened because Carlo Ancelotti recognized the need for more aggression and ball progression.
That’s why Camavinga was on the pitch in every comeback, while Kroos wasn’t involved in most of those decisive moments.
This isn’t disrespect toward Kroos by watching players like Pedri, Rodri, and Vitinha in this World Cup made me realize something: Ancelotti saw what the team needed in those moments and made a decision that many fans and perhaps even Kroos himself didn’t agree with. When it worked, people dismissed it as luck instead of recognizing the tactical adjustment behind it.
Btw, Mbappe has only won the golden boot award only once in his entire career. He won it at Real Madrid while playing with bums he doesn't trust. He didn't win it when he played with Neymar, Messi, Verrati, Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz and other PSG creative players he trusted more 😂
But in the Negreira League, Madrid players can take blows to the forehead and eyes without even getting a foul called, while being shown red cards at the slightest opportunity by Negreira’s henchmen.
Meanwhile, the club that paid the referee chief for two plus decades seems to get every major call in its favour and repeatedly escapes red cards and yellows and even basic fouls.
The moment they step into the Champions League or outside their corrupt bubble, the protection disappears, and they get exposed through poor performances and the decisions finally going against them like annual red cards every year in UCL knockouts.
The story of Negrelona and Real Madrid in La Liga.
The most Jude Bellingham statline ever: Most key passes of anyone on the field, most completed dribbles of anyone on the field, most tackles of anyone on the field, the game-winning goal, one assist.
All this talk about CR7.. the true narcissist in this team has always been Bruno Fernandes. ALWAYS plays for himself and his own stats. No one benefits from him. So so selfish.