Quote from: emrecemsan on Today at 09:48:09 AM

Quote from: Mame89 on Today at 09:34:56 AM

Ordinary people in the world of football only see Man City controlling the match. In fact, what actually happened was that Real Madrid controlled the game even without possession of the ball, allowing the opponents to play around, but they remained calm with their mentality and quality. Ancelotti's strategy is truly genius, he only relies on the individual skills of each player.

Ancelotti was expecting for Manchester City to play much stronger at Etihad so he went for a smarter game plan. Most people didn't like the game plan he adopted for this match as it made the match more boring until the penalty shootouts. I found it also boring to tell the truth but he had to do this. Otherwise there was no way Real Madrid getting past them. Sad

Ancelotti read his opponent very nicely and went for a patient understanding of play. If they didn't show a good defending performance then it wouldn't make sense to maintain this game plan. However against Bayern Munich I don't expect to see the same Real Madrid. I think they will play more attacking in both legs to eliminate Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich are no Manchester City as we saw it against Arsenal in the previous stage. Wink

You are actually right bro, before that quarter finals encounter between Manchester city and Real madrid, I made it very clear in my statement that this is a match that would be decided by the tactical impetus of both coaches, because they both have the squad good enough to deliver the goods, but what will definitely separate them is the ability of the coaches tactically on that day, and of a truth, if real madrid had came out and decided to go toe too toe with Manchester city, they would have lost the game without a doubt, because they are actually not on the same level with Manchester city when it comes to retaintion or possession of the ball, but it was actually a smart move by carlo ancelotti, so as to stay in the game and hit them on the break, which actually paid off at the very end.

Lastly, Just you have rightfully said, the approach of real madrid against Bayern Munich will definitely be a lot different compared to the Manchester city game, due to many factors like Bayern Munich not being in the very best of form and the lack of confidence in the Bayern Munich team right now, so I believe that real madrid will be more open in their attacking play than they were against Manchester city, but it's actually going to be disastrous for them, if they ever think Bayern Munich game is going to be an easy game, because Bayern Munich will definitely not going to be an easy opponent to any team world wide regardless of their present form.