Quote from: W Jr. on Today at 10:53:48 AM

Quote from: nelson4lov on August 18, 2024, 09:48:42 PM

I just saw Real Madrid's "elite" team get held to a 1-1 draw in their first La Liga game. A few weeks ago, everyone was so sure that this Madrid team will destroy any and all teams that go against them especially in the champions league but here we have a tier 3 team giving them a run for their money. If Mallorca can give them some heat, I'm pretty sure teams in the UCL will do much more. Let's hope it's not a case of Deja vu remembering that Messi + Mbappe + Neymar couldn't shake teams the way we expected them to. We'll know in the next few weeks.

There are currently multiple star players in Real Madrid. This is a great development on paper, but sometimes it backfires. Because every star player wants to see themselves in the foreground. A team should have a certain quota for star players. Not every player can be a star. Not every star can play in a team. Now, players like Mbappé, Vinicius, Rodrigo are trying to come to the forefront in Real Madrid. This can cause them to shoot when they should be passing. Because they want to come to the fore and show themselves. They showed this in the Mallorca match. I think they play more individually. If they had adapted to team games, I think they could have beaten them. If they play like this, we may not see Real Madrid in the rankings we expect towards the end of the season.

This is all a question of statistics. If they work well as a team there is no problem ever when it comes to the number of star players. As if Real Madrid wasn't full of star players all the time. See how Ronaldo took the leading role back at the time and Benzema and Higuain had trouble getting into the limelight themselves, but the fact of the matter was that Ronaldo had an inbuilt guarantee for goals. Hence nobody cared most of the time when he took a shot instead of passing the ball.

These guys will now need some time to learn all the mechanics from each other. What's indeed a bit complicated is that both Mbappe and Vinicius are high speed attackers who both love to have a lot of room and go for deep runs. They are very similar. In the game against RCD Mallorca they hardly found any solutions and that is what happens when you have these high speed strikers who are not given the space they need. It requires more genius dribblings. But I think Mbappe will become their most important striker.

Real as a club is bigger than the players, which I think helps that everyone subordinates himself for the success of the club. When Mbappe played for PSG, it wasn't like that. All of the superstars thought the club depends on them.

But again the problem against Mallorca was that there was no depth on the field for them as Mallorca knows what Mbappe and Vinicius love the most. That's where in the future they will need to find solutions. I can imagine that they are more dangerous against teams that love to have the ball themselves and are not waiting deep in their own half. Mbappe was up against three to four players at once all the time and the same happened to Vinicius.