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Craig Burley

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

It's across the board because sometimes people make mistakes.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

That's a 50-50 call on Mbappe.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

But what wasn't a 50-50 call was that Real Madrid had an opportunity today to turn up at home against one of the struggling sides in La Liga and put a wee bit of pressure on Barcelona and they failed.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And they can't keep playing cheats.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

You know, that's also sometimes if you're not necessarily performing at your best, can you say, you know what, we can grind out a 1-0 win if we need to.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Not have a great performance, but find a way to keep a clean sheet and win a match.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And they can't do that.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

So Bayern are big favourites to go through, Luis.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

They've obviously got the advantage in this tie with the second leg coming up next week.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

What kind of chance would you give Real Madrid to turn that around?

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Kind of where most of the boys went after the first game, sort of somewhere between 10% and 20% chance

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Not impossible, but maybe improbable.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And I think the key for Bayern Munich here is, because they did create a lot of chances as well, and they were slightly wasteful in the final third, where Real Madrid's chances were really good saves from Manuel Neuer, who performed brilliantly.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

But I think from Bayern Munich, for me, the key is when they have possession.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

particularly the two centre-halves, Paul Meccano and Jonathan Tah, is that you can't be admiring your team's play.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Oh, isn't this lovely?

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And then all of a sudden it's coughed up and Mbappe and Vanessa... Mbappe drifts wide and then he's on the run.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And it was the key for Man City and they completely stuffed it up, right?

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

Because they had a lot of possession, particularly in the Bernabeu, but whenever they lost it, they were all over the place.

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Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies

And I think for Bayern...