Quote from: slapper on Today at 12:18:24 PM

Quote from: Lida93 on May 12, 2025, 02:14:09 PM

Quote from: EFS on May 12, 2025, 12:43:22 PM

This season we finally got to see the dominant Barcelona we've been missing. They won all four matches against Real Madrid and scored 16 goals in those games. I haven't seen such an ineffective Real Madrid in a long time. There was no trace of last year's successful team, despite signing Mbappe. Barca on the other hand marched toward success especially with players from La Masia.

In the Spanish La Liga this season Barcelona are seem to be invisible subjugating Real Madrid to nothing I have never really season in all their rival seasons in the league. Madrid couldn't even get a point in their four clashes this season and that's very much of a poor head-to-head for a club that bought one of the most expensive player in the world. I think Real Madrid would need to buy a natural top 9 (to allow Mbappe play in normal position) and also strengthen their defense too if they want to stand tall against Barcelona next season.

This is not about wanting "more stars". Already Madrid boasts Bellingham, Vinicius, Mbappe, Rodrygo. Ancelotti's static system, which failed to change over four Clasicos, is the true problem. Barca's gegenpress left Madrid throwing optimistic crosses to makeshift strikers, choked the central lanes

This is true because the problem could be as a result of bringing in Mbappe into the team and Ancelotti applying a tactical system which is not suitable for these players, because last season these guys were good, especially the frontline players Bellingham, Vinicius and Rodrygo, where we saw the best of Vinicius and Rodrygo that season which saw Vini got nominated for the Ballon d'Or award.
We can still think of it this way, The system Ancelotti is using isn't working for these players to give their best.