Craig Burley
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It's across the board because sometimes people make mistakes.
That's a 50-50 call on Mbappe.
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.
And they can't keep playing cheats.
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.
Not have a great performance, but find a way to keep a clean sheet and win a match.
And they can't do that.
So Bayern are big favourites to go through, Luis.
They've obviously got the advantage in this tie with the second leg coming up next week.
What kind of chance would you give Real Madrid to turn that around?
Kind of where most of the boys went after the first game, sort of somewhere between 10% and 20% chance
Not impossible, but maybe improbable.
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.
But I think from Bayern Munich, for me, the key is when they have possession.
particularly the two centre-halves, Paul Meccano and Jonathan Tah, is that you can't be admiring your team's play.
And then all of a sudden it's coughed up and Mbappe and Vanessa... Mbappe drifts wide and then he's on the run.
And it was the key for Man City and they completely stuffed it up, right?
Because they had a lot of possession, particularly in the Bernabeu, but whenever they lost it, they were all over the place.
And I think for Bayern...