Champions League 2018-Round of Two

Much more at Madridā€™s tempo now. Need the break to reset and go at them again.

Great cross and header.

Class reactions from Benzema, unlucky.

Benzema looked on there but Ronaldo off?

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Need half time and a rejig. Heads went when Salad went off. Lallana has very little football played, Can the same.

Agreed.

How could he be offside if the ball was ahead of him Jim?

Ronaldo was offside.

Is VAR available for this?

I was dead right salah is some bottler

Madrid in the groove now.

Benzema starting to drop deep and pull the strings. Class footballer.

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Step forward Sadie mane, nows your time

Liverpool are great when the game is wide open and they can drop the ball into the space behind but when the tempo drops and they have to find the accurate passes to feet they look really average.

Some of the Liverpool passing in the last 10 minutes has been appalling.

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Marcelo is some man to trap a ball

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Firminho has been gash.

Jim Beglin agrees

Basically when Liverpool meet a team with any sort of defensive nous they are completely lost. A very bad man united team showed them up twice.

They can overwhelm a team for about 60-70 minutes with frenetic pace that puts the opposition off their game but if they havenā€™t made it count by that stage they are in big bother.

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Real Madrid donā€™t really have defensive nous though. They have good individual centre-backs but the way they play actually suits Liverpool. Salah going off has caused a disruption though.

Youā€™re worse for bitingā€¦ Massive ask now tho, the threat of Salad pulls players around and heā€™s a great outletā€¦ But thereā€™s always a chance.