Gary Lineker

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.

No, no.

Yeah, I mean, also you've got to point out that Real Madrid have an awful injury list at the moment.

You know, a lot of players, yeah, Mbappe, Bellingham, Militao, there's so many of their players.

Yeah.

There's about eight or nine of them missing.

So you have to bear that in mind.

Having said all that, they...