Quote from: Alpha Marine on Today at 11:09:43 AM

Quote from: pawel7777 on March 05, 2025, 10:59:53 PM

I expected Real Madrid could lose points to Betis, as Betis is doing fairly well this season and both of those teams tend to perform much better at home, but I thought the most they could hope for was a draw, but they bagged 3 points.
It seemed like Real Madrid might have become too confident or too relaxed after scoring an early lead and got punished for that. They now dropped to the 3rd place as they got overtaken by Atletico with 2 points gap between them.
It most likely was just a one-time flop, as yesterday Real proved their superiority over Atletico by beating them 2-1 in the Champions League.

I don't think it's a one-time thing though. Madrid has been really inconsistent this season and a lot of times they've been bailed by the individual quality in their squad. Madrid has so much quality that any player can produce a moment of magic at any time and that is what happened against Atleti.
Days when the individual quality doesn't impress or when the opponent play better, they suffer.

I don't think Madrid would be able to win the La liga because they will still drop more points in the league. I agree that the other 2 teams will drop points, but not as much as Madrid. The champions league and Copa del Rey are the only hope of Silverware for Madrid this season.

Real Madrid have a combination of individual talents and also players who can play as a team which for me is very important for the team but recently they have been very unlucky and have not been able to fully utilize these potentials and that's the reason you see the team dropping points during important games of this sort and now it seems as if their chances of clinching the title is very slim unless Barcelona makes another mistake or they themselves beat Barcelona to reclaim the top stop.