Well in the end, glad we showed some character, ignited by Papu and the team got into a better spirit to somehow fight and force a 2-2. More than expected at some point. Good subs from Pablo Sanz. Not a terrible result in the end.
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Lope to Sanz: āHow did you do that?ā
Sanz: āDo what?ā
Lope: āMake a comebackā¦ā
Sanz: āI told them to go attackā
Lope: āWhat is that, āattackā?ā
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Good fight back by us! They surprised me as I didnāt expect us to comeback. We arenāt winning the title. However, this gives us a better chance at finishing 2nd. We will be stronger after the international break. Good game overall and a fair result.
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Still undefeated (in the league) at the RSP
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That Oliver header would have been the cherry to keep the title dream alive. Now we are steadily defending our position I guess.
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Good second half reaction (albeit late) and result given how the game went, which was our fault. Poor overall performance which is sowed way back with the lack of proper tactics etc. - things that weāve discussed.
Papu is crucial for the team so itās a pity that he canāt play all the matches, but itās totally understandable given his age.
From tonight we are playing to keep the second place in La Liga - it will be tough but not undoable. Vamos!
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We can see from the second half, only Papu and Acuna are capable of driving the team forward, while Ocampos is as rough on the ball as usual.
Maybe with Navas weāll have the third goal.
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I know this is rather pointless, but we saw three separate captains today.
First Rakitic, then JordƔn, then Ocampos.
This season weāve seen six different ones.
Looks like the order is
Navas
Rakitic
Fernando
Jordan
Ocampos
Gudelj
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Ocampos has too much ball possession losses to his game, and he keeps trying to fly past defenders and canāt then also makes rash passing decisions which seems to almost cost us, but his willingness and never give up attitude wins over the fans each timeā¦
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Is it true we donāt have another game before Feb 5th?
Canāt be arsed to look it up but weāll recover a lot of players in that tiime.
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I had the idea he was gonna lay it off to Papu, but then he was hesitating it took too long and became too obvious so he was like hell iĀ“ll go with it now xd.
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Itās nice to dream but unfortunately Real Madrid will win it easy.
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Yeah thatās true and itās massive news for us.
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Yeh but thatās what they call ādesequilibranteā and it unsettles the opposing defence quite unlike anything else.
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Mir REALLY needs to up his game.
I canāt notice a difference between Ivan and Mir as both havenāt done anything in the match.
But at least Ivan havenāt gave away silly pass or do a disservice in the linkup play like Mir.
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Agreed, and a few more with him.
But how good is Papu? heās on the bench and then ignites the second half.
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Yeah, 5th Feb against Osasuna away Tim
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Then we have 5 games in 14 days, 13th Elche (H), 17th Dinamo Zagreb (H), 20th Espanyol (A), 24th Dinamo Zagreb (A) and the El Gran Derbi on 27th
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Another 2 points thrown away. We were well on top until we gifted them 2 goals. Acuna far below his best, rafa a spectator& ocampos trying to be too much the showman when a simple shot would have probably given us a goal. I thought montiel was our best player tonight, corona tried hard but he needs to get his sights configuered, i am sure he will lmprove. It was nice to hear the reception nolito received . Just sat here waiting for the traffic to clear then off home.
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Good job coming back and at least getting a point. But on the flip side of that argument, if RM wins tomorrow, just opens that gap up further. We simply have to stay on top of teams the whole game.
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