Sid Lowe

And you do sort of look at him and Vinicius and the performance of Bellingham and some of the players that Real Madrid have got and you think they will get chances.

There will be probably at some point, a moment during this time when you think maybe it could happen.

then it's true.

You look at Bayern Munich and you think, well, they're at home.

They should find a way through.

But it's Real Madrid.

And if ever there was a club that has warned us not to believe the logic in front of our eyes, it's Real Madrid.

Right.

Well, I suppose let's reframe that question slightly, which is to say that you say surely they can't drop any more points.

You're absolutely right.

If they're going to win the league, surely they can't drop any more points.

But what if they've already accepted that they're not going to win the league?

Then they can drop more points.

And it doesn't matter.

And maybe they're in a mindset that Atletico Madrid were in last week when they played Barcelona and rested lots of players because they thought, well, the league is gone.

Now, obviously, the league has not mathematically gone and it certainly hasn't gone to the extent that it had gone for Atletico Madrid who were, what was it, 15 points behind, I think.

So if Real Madrid truly believe that there's still a league title to compete for, and I wonder if the fact that they got beaten by Bayern makes them think, actually, maybe we've got a chance in the league that we don't have in the Champions League now.

But...

Yeah, the answer to your question is you're right.

They can't drop any more points unless they think it's already gone.