Barcelona giving Real Madrid is kind of strange because Barcelona looked so strong while Real Madrid is still not looking strong, but they somehow collect their points along the way. They are not playing the best and most attractive football, but in contrast to Barcelona they are winning their games, which is what's important in the end.
Ancelotti has been very good during bad times when his team didn't play their best, but yet successfully. This is something I believe Barcelona has to add to their portfolio so to say. Barcelona can either play beautiful football and win big time, or they play bad and lose. Real Madrid instead knows very well how to play bad and win and this can make the difference at the end of the season.
True, Barcelona are playing well, they attack quite a lot, but they have started to score less, and Real are completely focused on the result, the main thing for them is to get points in every match and after it seemed that Barcelona's advantage was too big to change anything, Real showed how they can fix everything. Now everything is in Real's hands, because they have a game in hand, but their next game will be away from home against Athletic Bilbao, it will not be an easy match, in which they also need to get 3 points.Ancelotti has been very good during bad times when his team didn't play their best, but yet successfully. This is something I believe Barcelona has to add to their portfolio so to say. Barcelona can either play beautiful football and win big time, or they play bad and lose. Real Madrid instead knows very well how to play bad and win and this can make the difference at the end of the season.
Now that we brought this up and thought Barcelona isn't scoring as much as they did early in the season, they are immediately giving the answer and score 5 goals.
Does anyone know the reason why Lewandowksi didn't get a single minute of playing time? Was the idea to give him some rest and this was another round of Flick rotating again?
It is weird that Flick didn't consider giving him at least 20 minutes or so as strikers especially don't want to lose dynamic because they are put on the bench and Lewandowski was doing so well.