Two good lineups for Classico. Excited cant believe Busquets is still playinf

Benzema with a gorgeous back heel finish on the Vasquez cross to put Real 1-0 up. Hala Madrid

Love Benzema so much. Really intelligent player.

That was a really good drive from Vinny

What a run from Vinicius, wow!

2-0!
Barca could be a world of trouble. Messi playing like Ngolo Kante. The midfielders are burdening him with too much work

2-0 already. Zidane showing his knack for big game team management once again.

The technical quality of these teams feels so foreign. I might stop watching our stuff if we get knocked out of Europa.

jelbana wrote:

What a run from Vinicius, wow!

Such a brilliant player.

Claudius wrote:

The technical quality of these teams feels so foreign. I might stop watching our stuff if we get knocked out of Europa.

It's incredibly depressing.

Having a strong midfield pivot with modric and kroos is unfair

What was impressive about that first goal was both the vision (from Kroos on) and the fact that everybody desperately showed for the ball. This is actually an issue with our team. Our players don’t hustle to get themselves open for each other. It’s part of why we lack fluidity

Watching Zidane doing so well at the club he’s a massive legend at got me wondering if Henry could hit it off similarly with us.

No.

Certainly not now after this disaster. Instead of Arteta maybe but to follow him.

Henry was such utter world class that he could probably work out as manager for an already great team like Real. Even the biggest egos would listen to him because he'd still be the king on the training pitch. We need the opposite though. We need a manager who can unlock unplunged depths in players that for the most part aren't extraordinary.

Everything I've seen from Henry as a manager so far suggests that he tends to get frustrated with limited players when they aren't good enough to meet his standards. Just imagine Henry watching Laca run at 1 mph and then almost missing the goal like he did against Spartak midweek. He would have broken something in the dugout and gotten himself banned from the grounds for the rest of the season.

It sounds like he also had dressing room issues at Monaco. One of the things he did when arrived there was signal a move to youth and he made Tielemans his charge from the Belgium national team the captain. Apparently this caused a lot of resentment amongst the more senior players that this child had been imposed on them.

As you say, he has no patience for nonsense, and club management is just like management anywhere else. You need to manage people and bring out the best of them both in the short run and long run

I would not be surprised if Henry ends up having a similar managerial career to the likes of Van Basten / Gullit.

Henry's death-stare would be on overdrive watching our lot as manager.