Craig Burley

And they have got a natural number nine.

Yes, they do.

Who has had some injury issues and he's missed some games and he's not fully fit, but still did the business at the Bernabeu.

So, you know, it's a big risk when you're basically saying, right, this is it.

This is what we're playing for this season now is the Champions League and this is what we're going to lay this on the line.

And almost to a certain extent...

give the La Liga title and say, well, it's not really as important.

So we don't need to, we don't have to worry about putting... It's easy to say that when you're six points down and now soon to be nine points down.

Where are you on that late penalty appeal for Real Madrid with Mbappe going down, Luis?

Real Madrid love smoke and mirrors, don't they?

I'm not suggesting Arboloa or anything like that, but the media around Real Madrid, maybe even some of the players, certainly the fans, it's smoke and mirrors.

We didn't win this game because Mbappé should have got a penalty.

We didn't win this game because this, that and the next thing.

where the truth lies in they didn't win the game, as they haven't done a lot of games this season, because their intensity and their tempo and their quality in the final third hasn't been good enough.

And if they lose this La Liga title, or they get knocked out of the Champions League,

It's not going to be because of refereeing decisions, most probably.

A very, very small chance it's that.

It's because they haven't taken their responsibility on the field and haven't performed well enough on the field.

And everybody can gripe about decisions going their way and not going their way because it happens to everybody.

But you've only got to look at the, and we touched on it before the show, you've only got to look at the Alisi penalty and injury time that was not even looked at to see that it's not just Real Madrid that don't get the decisions.