2013/14 Champions League Final

atletico were running on fumes since the 80th minutes, they just had to hold on in normal time

Off course dirty A Madrid needed to lose cheated where ever they could during the game great result and they were sad losers

Gay ass ending...neither deserved to win..Madrid win because they have the bigger bench. Marcelo added something. Best man was Dimaria.

Oh fuck R. Madrid are hardly whiter than white, never seen them cheat.

Comparing the contrasting squad sizes/wage bills and transfer spending, and it makes A. Madrid all the greater, they were 90 seconds from winning the greatest double in the history of modern football

They bored the crap out of the game. Then went into cheating mode. Then finished liked screaming pussies....... Sorry that shit is a step worse than Chelsea pulls on a good day.

You are mentally ill.

They were clearly fucked and couldnt run by about 70mins, before that they played an awesome game.

no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

Correct. The 4-1 is what goes into the history books first the rest is just talk

di maria man of the match

Rosicky wrote:You are mentally ill.

They were clearly fucked and couldnt run by about 70mins, before that they played an awesome game.  

Awesome, really? A bit of an overstatement, considering they didn't have a clear cut chance apart from the goal.

        

TM wrote:

Rosicky wrote:You are mentally ill.

They were clearly fucked and couldnt run by about 70mins, before that they played an awesome game.  

Awesome, really? A bit of an overstatement, considering they didn't have a clear cut chance apart from the goal.

How many shots did R Madrid have on target before the goal which were not free kicks ?

The haters are out in force.

Don't worry someone else will win it next year and you can go back to licking their arses.

messiah wrote:no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

I still remember for exmaple  Chelsea winning against Bayern amongst many other finals. What nonesense.

You guys are a joke, we set up similarly against Barca and Bayern and you criticize. Atletico employ the same tactic and fail and you talk about them deserving to win. Any actual neutral and not this anti-madrid brigade will say we deserved something from the game especially for THE WHOLE OF THE SECOND HALF perfomance. Give it a rest.

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

I still remember for exmaple  Chelsea winning against Bayern amongst many other finals. What nonesense.

You guys are a joke, we set up similarly against Barca and Bayern and you criticize. Atletico employ the same tactic and fail and you talk about them deserving to win. Give it a rest.

lets seem real spend 1.6m, chelsea not far behind.

atletico can play how they want.

chelsea will not go down in the history books, apart fro the fact that they won, same with Madrid.

the conversation will be all about Madrid.

that's the truth

messiah wrote:

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

I still remember for exmaple  Chelsea winning against Bayern amongst many other finals. What nonesense.

You guys are a joke, we set up similarly against Barca and Bayern and you criticize. Atletico employ the same tactic and fail and you talk about them deserving to win. Give it a rest.

lets seem real spend 1.6m, chelsea not far behind.

atletico can play how they want.

chelsea will not go down in the history books, apart fro the fact that they won, same with Madrid.

the conversation will be all about Madrid.

that's the truth

End of the day we won. Simple As. 

you can have your conversation.  

Ronaldo celebration after scoring meaningless goal   

Di Maria   

People suggesting Oezil should stay instead of him  

Ancelotti   

I was 50-50 before the game, but it's really difficult to like Atletico despite their willingness to go to war, giving 100%, etc...
Also, I really don't understand Filipe being subbed off, he seeme quite healthy leaving. And he had a great tackle a few minutes earlier which was comparable to situation where Alderweld was too lat to stop Bale.

Real  

stinger wrote:Ronaldo celebration after scoring meaningless goal   

Di Maria   

People suggesting Oezil should stay instead of him  

Ancelotti   

I was 50-50 before the game, but it's really difficult to like Atletico despite their willingness to go to war, giving 100%, etc...
Also, I really don't understand Filipe being subbed off, he seeme quite healthy leaving. And he had a great tackle a few minutes earlier which was comparable to situation where Alderweld was too lat to stop Bale.

Real  

That was funny. Stuff like that makes him hard to like even as a fan.

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

I still remember for exmaple  Chelsea winning against Bayern amongst many other finals. What nonesense.

You guys are a joke, we set up similarly against Barca and Bayern and you criticize. Atletico employ the same tactic and fail and you talk about them deserving to win. Give it a rest.

lets seem real spend 1.6m, chelsea not far behind.

atletico can play how they want.

chelsea will not go down in the history books, apart fro the fact that they won, same with Madrid.

the conversation will be all about Madrid.

that's the truth

End of the day we won. Simple As. 

you can have your conversation.  

This is real madrid and the came summed up

messiah wrote:

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:

Cristiano wrote:

messiah wrote:no one will remember real winning this in the future except thier fans the talk will always be about atletico. atletico were the better team when they had the legs, although i thought they started sitting back too early, but it almost work. real were average throughout until madrid got tired

I still remember for exmaple  Chelsea winning against Bayern amongst many other finals. What nonesense.

You guys are a joke, we set up similarly against Barca and Bayern and you criticize. Atletico employ the same tactic and fail and you talk about them deserving to win. Give it a rest.

lets seem real spend 1.6m, chelsea not far behind.

atletico can play how they want.

chelsea will not go down in the history books, apart fro the fact that they won, same with Madrid.

the conversation will be all about Madrid.

that's the truth

End of the day we won. Simple As. 

you can have your conversation.  

This is real madrid and the came summed up

Ooooooooh what a come back  

               

         

A really scrappy game but they underperformed. They didn't manage a single chance from open play despite being ahead. I thought for sure they would punish us in the second half. They were close to getting through on goal at times when we pushed forward but they never managed to create any chances.

Obviously the score doesn't reflect the match at all

Di Maria  

Marcelo  

Ramos  

Ancelotti   

Congratulations to Real - they probably did play the more attacking minded football on the night but Atletico set up really well and reduced them to silly crosses most of the time. If Atletico had been able to hold out then Simeone would be a tactical genius, at it happened they couldn't and such is football. 4-1 is a horrible scoreline for this game though and in no way reflected the difference between the sides.

Atletico will be hurting but they've achieved tremendous things this season and, like Dortmund last season, have given hope to a lot of sides that they can be the next team to overachieve next season in this competition.

Florentino Perez : "Bayern, Manchester United, FC Barcelona pass their good times,but we always are there."

The final score is quite harsh on Atletico but as well as they defended for 92 minutes, it's the fundamental problem with 'progressive' football (even Simeone's neu-progressive approach) because it is almost impossible to sustain the intensity and workrate to defend like that until the final whistle. Every once in a while it can work if the opponent had to travel by bus to avoid Mount Vesuvius but more often than not it's too difficult.

Simeone took a big risk to play Costa and it really cost him because an additional set of fresh legs at the end of the game might have been the difference.

Ancelotti also took a huge risk playing Sami Khedira. What a shit decision that was. Like playing with one less player until whenever Isco came on. Shit marking on Godin's goal (of course, even shittier goalkeeper from Casillas fucking hell) and offered zero redeeming qualities. Ok if you are like Super and you don't trust Illara, fine. Put Casemiro ffs. Or start with Isco. Made no sense. But on the whole Ancelotti has gotten it just about right every step of the way. Cheers to the Italian Del Bosque.

Sergio. Fucking. Ramos. This Champions League is his. He just would not let Madrid lose.

Di Maria was immense. Yet another big moment from the guy that people love to hate on this board.

Oh and Jose - you don't get this for reaching the semifinals.

Ronaldooo just when i wanted to write how dissapointed i was that he didn't get a new haircut during half time. what a legend. defeated AM alone. football needs plaxers like him.

congrazs real.

Congrats  to Real Madrid fans.

Atlético played well until the 80th minute. Then they parked the bus and didn't try to attack. We can't overlook the fact a that they played without their best two offensive players and had no quality players on the bench. If Simeone had all the players at his disposal, he could've tried to play like he did at Stamford Bridge.

Ronaldo didn't play well, but I don't think that we should be harsh on him because clearly he wasn't fully fit. Today he showed how big is his ego. He didn't celebrate the first two goals with his teammates. Then he celebrated an almost meaningless pk goal as if he had scored a golden goal in the world cup final. Ridiculous.

after the equalizer i switched the TV off

i knew Real Madrid would win, A. Madrid could hardly run anymore

UTTERLY ANNOYED to see Crynaldo, Ramos and Pepe winning this thing

the equalizer from ramos was high quality

overall they deserve it, A. Madrid put so much effort into the first 75 min, but a game ends not after 75 min

I completely get why he went with Khedira. Illarra is built for the type of physical game Atletico serves up. Casemiro would have been the best choice but I think he didn't want to put such a young player on the spot in the final. As I see it we only have bad choices here.

Congrats to Real - pleased to see Ancelotti win it again

Also a brilliant show from Ronaldo - few could celebrate what such a meaningless goal in such a self-centred way (particularly after being largely anonymous in the game)

Re. this Madrid in history, surely they will be remembered for their semi-final shellacking of the favourites - going toe to toe and winning decisively. Extreme matchups like an injury ravaged Atletico distort the game, which is nobody's fault. When they were in a position to play an even match this side proved themselves.

Godin or Gabi for MotM, despite the result. Di Maria's erratic crossing (particularly poor in the first half) shows his limitations even within a good performance.