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Craig Burley

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

What do you think we're going to see for that second leg, Sid?

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

What changes will we see here?

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Well, Kamavinga didn't cover himself in glory tonight, and also the equaliser.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

for Girona was a really, and it was only one moment, but it was an extremely poor effort at trying to close the ball down, which, by the way, he took an absolute pounding from Militao.

ESPN FC
Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

You watch Militao when Camavinga goes for this sort of half-hearted closing of the ball down.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Now, you can't have that in the Champions League in midweek in Munich against this Bayern side, who have a lot of possession.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

You've got to get out

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

to buy.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

You've got to make tackles against them.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And it goes back to that phrase that I've got no idea how to say it, that Sid was talking about in Spanish, is that we're at that stage where, you know, there are good players, but the supporters are basically just asking them, look, we know we're not the best at the moment, we know we're unlikely to win La Liga, but just show us a better fight.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And when you see that kind of half-hearted closing down there, in a game that they had to win today...

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

you have to question that desire.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Because if I'm playing a game at this business end of the season, and you need to win to either win the league or keep the pressure on, then every loose ball, every second ball as we call it in the game, you've got to fight for that with your life.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And it just doesn't seem to me that,

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Real Madrid are in that mindset.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

They might be in midweek, they might be in Champions League nights, but certainly in La Liga games this year, you can look at a lot of their players, a lot of their performances, a lot of their games, and question the intensity of their play.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And Steve McManaman said it in commentary weeks ago,

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Real Madrid, no matter who they're playing in La Liga, Real Madrid will allow you to play.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And I think in today's game, that's quite a dangerous tactic with some of the talent that's out there.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Because if you allow Harry Kane, Michael Alisi, Luis Diaz, all these players that Bayern have, you allow them to play, they'll destroy you.