Craig Burley

And he's well over six feet.

And they haven't got many players of that physicality.

So when crosses are coming in, you want that player.

But he took him off with...

Wednesday night, our midweek in mind, and there was a job to be done here, which they didn't do, and they're basically almost handing this title over to Barcelona.

And I think that's one of the tricky parts.

When you have your two natural strikers, both love to get wide and come back in.

And you don't have that out-and-out number nine who's just kind of in the middle.

And so you then are very reliant on late runs from midfielders to fill that space.

And when Bellingham left, that space didn't get filled.

And then you combine it with...

Vinny making seven cutbacks so nobody knows when to run in front of a defender.

And Mbappe maybe just hasn't quite got back to form after he was out with the knee.

And so there is some voids there that Real Madrid will need to address next season if they want to challenge for the title.

Real Madrid are basically laying their season on the line saying, look, we'll come good in the Champions League.

Yeah.

Now, that's a big ask now.

Bear in mind, it was a hugely exciting first game.

It was a brilliant game at the Bernabeu between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

But I think anybody watching it, whilst Real Madrid had a lot of chances and were dangerous on the break, you'd be hard-pressed to make an argument that Bayern Munich were not way slicker, passed it better, were more coherent as a team in the way they moved around and they rotated.