** European League Thread (Spain/Germany/France etc) **

Real have been pretty phenomenal in the past 5 minutes, just the pace in which they have closed Barca and pressured them after corners, getting to almost everything first. Could have scored a few, been unlucky not to draw level.
 
Hudson is great, I'd love Sky to get him in but frankly if you can get paid to talk twaddle while living somewhere warm and sunny over there... you'd be mad to come back here.

Great game so far, neymar and Messi on yellow cards already, this is a bit more like an old el classico, more tempo, more aggression in this game than in more recent el classicos.
 
Hudson is great, I'd love Sky to get him in but frankly if you can get paid to talk twaddle while living somewhere warm and sunny over there... you'd be mad to come back here.

Great game so far, neymar and Messi on yellow cards already, this is a bit more like an old el classico, more tempo, more aggression in this game than in more recent el classicos.

The classico has need a season or so to get rid of the venom mou put into that game(s).
 
The zoomed in replay previously showed a pretty clear penalty Pique should have conceded against Benzema, he so clearly pulls him back and sticks his leg out to trip him up.

Pique is not only not that good a CB in general, he's just brain dead and does these random completely ridiculous things.
 
lol, Hudson gets it right and says that is the easiest yellow to give, sky guy says he's not sure it's a yellow... what? As a team tries to counter someone does a cynical tackle, in most situations a yellow and that wasn't that soft a tackle either, he went across him making him fall pretty hard.
 
Ronaldo is looking hamstring injury-ish again. He's not bursting into the box with the same speed, he's not making as logn runs or getting into the box and beating the defender with every cross that comes in which he does usually do.

When his hamstring is niggling him much like Messi, they just look that little bit slower, little bit less capable of running.

What is so ridiculous in Ronaldo's 16 goals in 8 games(that includes this one so could improve further) is that he's not looking completely free of injury in probably more than half of the games. Much like Costa if he plays a game midweek he doesn't look recovered before the next game.
 
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