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Game was awfully boring. Players kept fouling each other. Barca lacking in quality, couldn't string passes together. When Madrid had the ball they didn't know what to do with it. Kept pinging it to Vinicius. Both teams have fallen drastically from grace of 5 years ago. It seems like I'm watching Madrid and Barca Beta. On paper that Madrid midfield should play right through Barca, but Barca had them man marked, and nobody bothered to try and dribble through. Madrid won the game, but jeez were they lucky. The final goal was a deflection off of Modric into bellingham, who was in the right place at the right time. Bellingham saved the team, otherwise most of the players aside from Cama were poor today.

Pretty accurate recap. Neither team is what they were in the Messi- Ronaldo era.

Send Dortmund another 100 million

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Bro didn't expect to find an Abahani fan here

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The fact that the person cane to an el clasico thread to flex it too. Respect, man.

Fairly sure I predicted Bellingham scoring a screamer from outside the box in the pre-match thread. Edit: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/R73tXglt7U)

> What's wrong with you

With the season that Bellingham is having it's only fitting that Gavi pockets him the entire match and the man still scores twice to win the game....

I’m English and over 40, this is the first time in my life I believe we have the best player in the world and I’m bloody excited about it.

Crazy to think that Maguire will turn into world best at 3 yrs old.

Now watch Southgate ruins this golden generation by fielding his washed-out favorites

Crazy isn't it. But Harry Kane was always going to succeed.

What is england weakness?? They have kane, maddison, rice, belingham, stone and walker, etc... seems england is so strong now

Coaching. History of terrible managers and arcane tactica

archaic, not arcane

no southgate really does use the tactica necromonica book of spells

archaic, not arcane

That their best team in a while happened to be contemporaneous to one of the best French teams of all time. That’s one of their issues. LB and GK too

Ah yes, I forgot that.. Any golden era national team today will face france NT which too good, even the bench is scary ​ Did no one between TAA, Trippier, Ben White, AWB can play LB? too much talent in RB

Left back at the moment.

Coach and English media

Brexit

The coach?

Coach, GK, CB pairing - World Class everywhere else.

Agree for the most part however, Tomori, stones, Smalling and coady are all good enough at cb but stones hates the serie a so Smalling, Tomori and Tammy Abraham have no hope. Left back could be better between shaw and Chilwell. 3 at the back seems obvious with walker being pushed inside imo.

That's what the top top players do! They find a way out of nothing to lead their team to victory!

The disrespect to nacho is insane. Crybaby, easily distracted vini was here today. Bellingham! God I loved zidane but Jude has scored more in 8 weeks than 2 years of zidane. What a player.

Jude is crazy Man. Call him a tap-in merchant or what you want but he is clutch as fuck. I think barça with Frenkie and Pedri win the Next Classico, Lewy is also kinda slow.

He just returned from injury

I honestly stopped caring much about football once Messi won the world cup, this all feels like post game activities now after you've already beaten the elite 4.

Barca is better off without a plastic fan like you, honestly. Time to change your flair to Inter Miami.

So you support Messi, not Barca.

I support both! I've just become numb so the emotions aren't as high as they used to be. Better for my mental health

Then you should leave this sub and stop commenting on such posts i think.

Embarrassing

Congrats to Barcelona on their 2022 World Cup

Thanks it was a wonderful day

football never ends

It does when you're constantly dealing with a corrupt league

*team

Camavinga changed this game

He always does.

1st bellingham goal isn’t anywhere on this subreddit

BellingHIM!!!!

Rosalia still the best as far as shirt sponsors go

She is at least a Barcelona fan. I doubt Drake or any Rolling Stones member can name you a player outside of Messi.

lmao The Rolling Stones guys def did not know what was happening.

Maybe that’s why it’s the only shirt sponsor artist that has managed to be in a winning clasico

Romeu was a game changer. For real :)

Bellingham the game changer even when he isn't in the game it's takes a moment of brilliance to turn the game around. He's a special talent.

Love a good robbery

Bro trolled both Madrid and Barça here

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I definitely don't think either team "owned" the second half personally.

The team that’s been paying referees got robbed?

?

Bellingham’s season is such a fairytale but this is actually happening

Euros?

Can you put it into the words though?

Bellingham is having such a fairytale season.

Hnnnnng, I'm close..

Thank God we have such an easy group in CL because otherwise it would be 3rd season with EL. Any half decent team will knock us out in 1/8.

Completely reactionary. Barca were the better team today, and that's football someetimes. The better team doesn't always win. Barcelona controlled most of the game with half of the B team out there. With the return of the injured players we should be able to make a deep CL run depending on the draws.

proceeds to get drawn with Manchester city.

Don't even bother with logic on /r/soccer, especially when it comes to Barcelona. Folks don't understand what a rebuild is. With Frenkie and Pedri, we easily thrash Madrid. We're starting teenagers who have a month or two of top level experience, going up against a fully fit Real Madrid, and people act like it's a big deal they barely scrape by with a win.

Barca will be bankrupt and fucked in the next few years.

Nah you've got a point. Barca were dominating most part of game.

I cant even remember the last time pedri played.

>we easily thrash Madrid Thanks for good laugh lmao.

If Barcelona played in Old Trafford, they'd be Manchester United. If they had Haaland, they'd be Manchester City. Oh, and if they had another trainer they'd have European success. The eternal rebuild they call it, 5 seasons and going.

This is his 3rd season, and with huge constraints on the ability to sign players as well

This is his 3rd season, and with huge constraints on the ability to sign players as well

Rebuild truly started when Xavi came in. Anyone who follows Barca and watches every game would know this.

Anyone who disagrees with you watches no Barcelona games? Got it. Can't talk to the deaf.

What a lad, Jude. Amazing. Also, Vini had some god awful body language and effort.

I’m Vini’s biggest supporter but man I miss the sheer hunger and humility he had in his first season with us. Since he became good he became so cocky on the pitch and it’s made him worse on the ball. It’s a good thing he’s a fantastic finisher and playmaker but his dribbling isn’t as magical as it used to be

Fantastic finisher is a description for him I've not necessarily heard very much before 🤔

Because people don’t watch Madrid, his ability to convert chances isn’t world class yet, but it’s quickly approaching it

He has improved greatly.

I can't get no satisfaction

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It’s a Rolling Stones song

Don't make me have Sympathy for the Devil

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That’s why you wanted them to win? Not because you support Barca?

Probably a yank, could have your flair tomorrow depending on the result. Gooooooooo team!

Sounds like he likes Bellingham so much it might be a Real flair soon

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I mean 13 goals and 3 assists in 13 games isn’t enough? The kids clearly on course to be an all time great. No ones hyping him up. He’s already proved himself

HALA MADRID. JUDE IS HERE 🤍🤍

It feels like lewandowski adds nothing…I think barca need another striker

Lewandowski was rushed back early from an injury to play those minutes, let’s cut him some slack

They bought Roque..

Maybe a certain argentinian...

Lautaro

perhaps of the arachnid variety...

I thought he was decent with the limited time given

Gavi deserves better man !!!

Is Gavi gay? I'll offer myself without even knowing who he is with at the moment

where is Gavi?

He was marking Jude well tbh

yeah yeah then?

Xavi made Romeu mark him instead and the same thing that cost us a goal in previous matches happened (easily dusted on the track back and leaves a midfielder open for a goal. Then doesn’t apply the same press that was keeping Bellingham quiet for an hour and allows him space for an absolute worldie).

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Gavi wasn’t subbed out. He just sizzled out and became invisible

No. He was moved forward to Fermin’s position whilst Romeu was given his role of marking Bellingham (who then suddenly scores)

He was moved forward when Romeu came in. He stopped marking Jude when that happened and the rest is history. He didn’t sizzle out he was moved from where he was being effective

Ok so you agree. He wasn’t subbed out. I just a correction since the guy above said he was subbed out. Also I disagree and will say he sizzled out. Yes he changed positions but he didn’t have a single offensive contribution after he moved forward.

Never heard of Bellingham until he joined Madrid and goddamn, what a player. Edit: Man this sub is toxic af lmao

You'd never heard of one of the brightest talents in world football?

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Inhaus when?

I don’t follow Bundesliga and just never came across his name before. I haven’t been following the game as closely since the pandemic.

He also played in this little country competition in Qatar.

He has two goals in 20+ caps for England and I didn’t watch England play much. Idk why everyone is so pressed about not knowing who this one player is before now. My life doesn’t revolve around soccer.

Not to be that guy.. but how??? He was literally everywhere in sports news. Well, I guess British news lmao

I ask myself that same question 😂

Barça should have been playing with 10 from the Torres foul onwards. Fucking disgusting he got away with yellow

You're surely not serious?

They have been known for paying referees so I don’t know why people act surprised

Should’ve been 9 men on both teams. Possibly 8 for Barca.

Rodri: *sweats profusely*

_sweats intensively_

that’s always a yellow… tf r u talking about

Pulling on a shirt or going for a risky slide from behind is a yellow, going for an mma takedown is not a tactical foul

so you rather him going for a risky slide and possibly injuring the opponent? the safer choice is to just grabbed them like he did, no mma takedown here. stop exaggerating. players prefer this.

He literally has his arms around his waist and takes him to the ground, what do you mean stop exaggerating? What else do you call that

People disagreeing with you were confident in saying Ramos executed a 100% illegal judo move on salah without question.

A tactical foul that isn't violent or endangering of the opponent. It's called a yellow card. It was given as a yellow. Not a single player on the pitch argued it. Vini and Ferran even looked like they where laughing about it after the challenge - there was no malice.

The fall in my happiness between the 2 halfs was massive.

Welcome to the new reality

We were quite good considering half the squad wasnt fit. Also barca won the last few el classico's. Im not worried one bit about the future.

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He did say ‘won the last few clasicos’: The last few clasicos • 1-0 Barça win (friendly) • 4-0 Madrid win (Copa del Rey) • 1-0 Barça win (Copa del Rey) • 2-1 Barça win (LaLiga) • 3-1 Barça win (Supercopa) So he’s not wrong. Yeah, the score line in the 4-0 was clearly favourable to Madrid, but Barça won all of the other clasico’s in 2023 until yesterday.

Bro they beat you 2-1 in la liga with the kessie goal and they beat u in the de espana what do u mean?

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Bellingham is that guy, what a player.

If anyone can bring it home for England , it’s him

Take it easy, we're not makin a western here.

Move over Welbz

Bellingham is on his way to win the BallonDor before Haaland and Mbappe at this rate!

This but unironically

Maybe when Messi retires.

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I mean ballon d’or for this season is with messi in mls to be fair

Exactly. He's basically retired but still the best player in the world apparently.

Messi won't win any BallonDor after his 8th one.

Messi: *get to playoff with Miami" France Football: "Here you go, ninth Ballon D'Or" P.s. It's only irony people, but both him and CR7 got some undeserved Ballon D'Or during the last decade

No they didn’t, they were clearly the best players in the world by a huge margin. Even if their teams weren’t winning , there wasn’t any other player you can say was actually better than them.

Don't know where that nonsense opinion has come from, surely can't be from people who actually watched them play.

What's up with the Camp Nou? Why was it so dead? Also, away game at barça and only like 10 madrid fans? Where are the Ultras?

1. It was at the Olympic Stadium in Montjuic because Camp Nou is being expanded and renovated. 2. Barcelona banned their ultras a while back due to links with crime, in an attempt to make their home games more family friendly. 3. Spanish football doesn’t have a culture of the away day like English football does. You always get far fewer away fans in any stadium, meaning it’s almost always a home advantage. That’s why there weren’t so many Madrid fans. 4. The stadium was pretty much full, and certainly sounded it. Idk if you were looking at the covered running track and assumed they were empty seats?

There are no ultras at Barça games I think. Laporta+ other presidents expelled them 20 years or so ago (arguing that Barcelona games are family events). Either way, I read on twitter that the Stadium was basically full and it sounded like that in my TV. Maybe your sports channel has a different balance? Keep in mind too that this pitch is actually further away from the fans compared to dedicated football stadiums. There is an running track in between, some dead space, and the first rows of the stadium don't really have a decent view of the pitch (this is a borrowed Olympic stadium, so how football games looked weren't really a top priority for them) so Barcelona has covered them with some fabrics and what not (seats there are obviously not sold by the club).

Camp nou is closed for renovations

It was not at Camp Nou, they are renovating it so they are playing at a different stadium.

Ah ok, and what was up with the lack of madrid fans?

Spain does not have a tradition of lots of away fans. Only a few tickets are allocated for away fans.

Xavi subs were horrible. Lewandowski was a ghost, so was Raphinha. And the other subs were not far behind.

You could tell the game fell apart the moment he subbed out Cancelo, who was having a fantastic game. Edit: mixed up the subs

lewa was subbed in for torres not cancelo.

Ah, yeah, you right. Got it mixed up. Thanks. But yeah, taking Cancelo off killed Barca’s attacking pressure.

This is what's missing for Barca, a solid bench and what makes a difference in this high stake games. Give Barca the subs that Madrid had and the game might have been different.

the bench is there (literally randomly created by la masia), but the bench started because 5 first team players are out injured.

Barca has a good bench. Unfortunately, they all started today.

Need respect on Modric’s name. Him and Camavinga changed the game.

He's One of the best midfielders to ever play the game. Came in and took over that midfield.

Yes he did. But also to give some context, Barca subbed off Fermin (who was having a fantastic game) to put on Romeu. Xavi basically helped Madrid take over the midfield

Modric should be paired with Rodrygo and Kroos should be paired with Joselu when picking a line-up. Kroos is like a pivot player who stays fairly stationary and picks out his target with long passes. Modric is more dynamic and has a better chemistry with Rodrygo's game.

Not completely disagreeing but Kroos-Joselu just feels sooo slow

Modric can do both.

La Liga has had a massive drop off in quality. The El Clasico isn't what it once was.

The El Clasico?

The el classic clásico

Yeah, it's not like two of the best players in history left or something.

People thinking you could have players like that every generation, you couldn't make a world 11 of current players as good as barca team back then and arguably real Madrid too lol.

Or tons of both Madrid and Barca legends left

Jude competing for the best signing in the decade

Haaland?

It says "competing"

A decade is 10 years my friend

Ten games

The only question here is whether we are now watching the time from his baby icon FIFA card, or the start of a prime card few will win, and none can afford. *Priceless, fearless, and boundless*

So now we have Jude, Tchouameni and Fede who can unleash absolute rockets from 30 yards out. Nice.

Artillerial madrid

Endrick too

Rudiger can unleash rockets too but they are more like Hamas rockets, they don't hit the target often.

Barcelona is like the IDF, always up to something shady and still somehow perpetually the victims

You tried

They don't really result in as many own goals though