Sid Lowe

And he just gets out of the way.

I don't want anything to do with this.

I am keeping well out of here.

I'm not running the risk of him diving over me and getting me a red card or him bumping into me and getting a red card.

And then, of course, once they went down to 10 men, it was much, much harder for Ryan and Madrid, I felt, who were slightly chaotic.

when they chase the game.

But as Alvaro Arbeloa says, at least he'll feel that there was a degree of heart and a degree of soul and a degree of attitude about them.

But really and truly, it wasn't a good performance.

And the reaction in Spain has been, and I'm pretty sure will be over the next 12 or 24 hours, that this is a Real Madrid team that still needs a huge amount of work doing to it.

Yeah, as you say, not 100%.

I think that percentage is way, way under 100.

It really is.

And it was interesting, actually, Abel, post-game, because I think his message was he was trying to say the right things, but so little of what he said really convinced.

And he talked about how, had it not been for the fans, we wouldn't have found a way back into this.

And, you know, kind of expressing that idea that we've seen so many times in the Champions League, you know, those big comebacks from Real Madrid, that there's a moment in which the whole kind of place comes alight and there's this roar that carries Real Madrid forward.

And while it is true that, of course, there was a determination from the fans from Madrid to keep going in those last seven or eight minutes, but it really wasn't the case of them being carried along by the fans.

I completely agree with Xhaka that the immense majority of the game, there was frustration showed rather than support.

And yes, there was a little bit of, come on, come on, let's go and do this in those last 10 minutes.

It really wasn't particularly convincing.

And I thought actually that in the end, the way that Real Madrid won it, and I should point this out, by the way, when the board went up with nine minutes on it, I was at the Bernabeu sitting with Alex Kirkland and the two of us kind of looked at each other and we said, so how do you think they're going to get the winning goal?