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What you're saying is true, 9 points is a lot
but the season, let's still say, is long. We still have a good month of games to finish the winter part of the competition so it's a good 12-15 points
after the Christmas holidays a large portion of the team will leave beyond the goal, there are still many points
It is clear that this advantage has a psychological impact
Some Real Madrid fans think that the 9 point difference is not too big, this is because they believe that every Real Madrid player has a Yamaha 85 PK engine installed on each back that is capable of covering that point gap in the near future. I don't know how optimistic they are this season after getting a first-hand look at the team's performance so far, but the fans still want the best.
Basically, I don't completely deny things like that, of course because I quite often find that Real Madrid can recover and catch up with the points gap before the end of the season. However, if they fall further behind, then everything will be very difficult to recover and the possibility of failing to defend the title will be even higher. Meanwhile, Real Madrid is 1-2 behind Milan in the ongoing match. Milan could have locked in victory if they had scored 1 additional goal for a score of 1-3.
I think the fans who thought that if 9 points not a big gap were not watching football. I think they were not watching Real Madrid's game against Barcelona. We looked much worse than last season. Barcelona destroyed us, and we didn't score. The main problem is that if Barcelona is doing a snowball till the end of season. We have no chance to catch them.
I'm not a fan who is being delusional and thinks last season's result could repeat. I'm realizing now, we're worse since our magic passer, Kroos, retired. We let our goatselu leave without even trying to extend his contract. We're yet to find a proper replacement for those guys.
I really missed last season when we were still having Kroos and Goatselu in our side. We played like a finished team this season.