Dan Thomas

Whereas you watch Real Madrid play yesterday and every minute of that match was stressful.

And there is pressure that surrounds this team.

There is pressure that surrounds Arbeloa.

So beyond the physical aspect of the game and the fact that Real Madrid just haven't played well and haven't played well for a while and haven't created enough opportunity, haven't scored enough goals, they've had their issues defensively, they get disconnected in the midfield.

Beyond all of that, then there is an aspect of how are you feeling going into this match?

What is your level of confidence going into this match?

And you must say the Real Madrid, if indeed they present themselves as confident, they're making it up.

they're lying to you straight to your face because there is nothing to really draw confidence from, not even winning yesterday.

Winning yesterday was due to a deflection that if had the ball gone off the post and in for Iago Aspas with minutes to go, it would have been yet another defeat, three in a row in La Liga.

So Real Madrid are barely hanging on.

Manchester City are coming in this, I wouldn't say flying, but feeling a whole lot better about themselves after this result against Newcastle.

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Chelsea threw to the next round of the FA Cup.

However, they made to work hard for it against Wrexham.

Wrexham twice in the lead.

They thought they got an equaliser late on in the tie.

However, VAR would disallow it.

Chelsea, in the end, winning by four goals to two.

Alex Aldo caught up with Rob Mack and Ryan Reynolds after the game.

Well, they were buzzing back there and we were hoping that that was the case because you could feel the excitement at the end of the game in the stadium.