Gary Lineker

And he's also probably, you know, he always strikes you as a very confident lad, but he will be hating this moment.

He will be hating the fact that he's not scoring goals.

It's the worst, Alan, when you're going through these kind of spells.

All high strikers will do it.

But what you've got to do as a striker, I think you've got to keep getting in there.

You've got to make the runs that score you the goals.

Don't shy away from it.

It was.

And the other thing I thought was that, you know, normally he tries to boss midfield, doesn't even control the game from midfield.

But you only had two midfielders in there.

And one of those is not really a, I mean, Bernardo Silva's not quintessential midfield player.

He's more forward thinking.

So basically, Rodri was kind of managing that defensively.

on his own.

But I mean, they still had a lot of possession, but I don't know.

They just seemed like a lot of square blocks in round holes.

Yeah, I've watched a lot of them this season, obviously, because we do an episode about La Liga.

That was probably their best display by some distance this season.

Valverde's been pretty good overall, but most of the players have been a bit short.

They're still not playing the football of the team that had Modric, Kroos and Casemiro.