On the divan to rethink

0-4 at Di Stefano, 94-89 at Principe Felipe. Disastrous day for Real Madrid. We would be doing Real Madrid FEM a disservice if today we tried to find some excuse, some positive point. Resounding fail to the team. Very poor Toril. The 0-4 is due to the players, of course, but more than anyone to Alberto Toril. Because this match it was already time to make everyone understand that it was a knife duel. And the goals came in the minutes that came. Defeat of players, but a "Made in our coach" defeat. Toril was without ideas, without reactions, without a game thought. What was he looking for, what did he want? Why the changes? Without excuses. Let's hope Solari is watching. pointing. We can no longer normalize these results once again, we are Real Madrid and this has been ridiculous. At Di Stefano wasn't just football. The Barcelona players knew it. Ours players still do not want to understand. Dilapidated credit of all ours, especially the spanish players. Tragic day. You have to be raw because this is Real Madrid and here you learn by demanding to be the best: the respect that they had earned against Sweden and the United States has been thrown away, buried and crushed. With final icing: the ridiculous fourth goal. And also at the worst time: national team break. The ones that aren't there are better, let's face it. Not all of them, not the 15, but the basic ones, of course, the ones that took possession of the ball today and what's worse... took possession of our heads. They have won us, above all, in our mind. And that's why it's a coaching loss. The 15, led by the excessively proud Bonmatí, may have a lot or no reason (the other part is Vilda, they will have one) and they have made a complete mistake in the forms, but they have rudely lowered us from the cloud, so it is time to apply with humility the syrup of the clear defeat. They are better at competing, which is not just about being better soccer players, or better people (in that it is clear that we have better players, better human beings, thank God). They wanted to win and crush (later we will talk about Pina) and they did. Competitive animals is what I want us to have. Competitive Madridistas, people that don't give up and sure are screwed today. Like Misa. Like Athenea. Like Olga, how do you leave her as a substitute!? Toril never wanted to be Mou, and there is no Casemiro on the team to defend Athenea if Rolfo keeps pounding her ribs, and no one jumps at Geyse when she leaves a rude and unnecessary sandwich action for Misa. We have no soul, there is no leading madridismo there. No, there is no leadership, there is no tooth: deserved defeat. If I was in charge, in the next session, we would not train at all. I would do a video session. I would start with Olga Carmona (these matches she has to play, Alberto, always, Toril, because she has blood and she is not afraid of them), I would start with Carmona apologizing to Lucy Bronze for fighting a ball in which our player also touch the ball. Never again, Olga. Did Geyse apologize? No, she laughed. Did Rolfo apologize? No, she even beats Athenea in the end. A penalty at the last minutes, in fact, that none of ours, despondent, soulless, claimed. But the video that I would repeat, and I would do wallpapers in Valdebebas with the frame, because it is not the first time, is Claudia Pina with 0-4 (the gif is already running on Twitter) telling her companions “more, more, more, there are time, more”. Understand this, once and for all, locker room leaders: Misa, Ivana Enough of good-natured Instagrams!, Claudia, Olga, Athenea, everyone who has power in there: They knife, we knife. This is Real Madrid. Goals in the first and last minutes of the game. It is unacceptable, we knew they were going to come to fight and destroy (you). As we said on Twitter, and the spanish players should not need to be reminded, the talk to our foreigners would be to make them understand that they, Barcelona, ​​will always come out at 200% because they hate us. The 0-1 as soon as it started is a goal of lack of intensity, of winning us over (they did it the whole game) even our most physical players. To anticipate. It's the physicist, Toril will say. Yes, Alberto, but it is also the other football. And, there, they have given you a sovereign lesson, because your players, again, were not there. They did not protest, they did not fight, they did not play with the fact that they had the public in favor, they did not get into the heads of their rivals, they did not believe. It's your fault, Alberto. All of that is your fault. What did Alberto Toril intend today? Esther is hot blooded, you can't remove her at 50 unless she is lame in 3 ankles. Olga cannot be a substitute in a classic, because she is part of our shield. Svava failed, cold, in the first goal. They had a knife and we were butter: synonymous with defeat. The 0-2 is another sign of lack of concentration, unbecoming of a big team. The 0-4 is an infamous chatterbox. Bad Lucia the whole game. But it is not a question of pointing to one, because none (except Misa, by accumulation) shone. In that case the culprit is the coach for not understanding anything about the game. Toril is the best thing that has happened to us in the last year (plus the arrival of Weir) but he has not understood anything about Barcelona, ​​and he is the main rival, sporting and mental. The main stumbling block. And he's grossly failing at it. No more empty words, regrets and promises. No more normalizing these defeats. A giant change of course is required in these duels. The best: the sold-out tickets and the tribute to the world champions. Can you have a happier face than Carla Camacho's? https://twitter.com/realmadridfem/status/1589305933838139394

Those who fled to the screen of the basketball game did not find good news either.

And we said it loud the days before: it was a cheating game. Because it catches us back from Milan, and we had to win there. Because the rival is a historical that had not won yet. With a good coach it was clear that they were going to find their way. Basketball city that lives it, in men's and women's (envy of the latter thing). Zaragoza is a team that is going to have better numbers, at the end of the season, than they have right now. And they chose a good day to start showing it.

We didn't earn a quarter until the end. A team that, being the last one, wasn't scoring big... blew us away. 20 in the first quarter (13 of us), 48-36 at halftime. The red flag way to 100 points. It was necessary to wake up and it was not done. Deck's numbers were tragic, not individually but in his minutes on the court. Curiously, Llull was the best yesterday at that.

And anyway, we were still there, since +20 never was a reality, despite our indolence. A last quarter could be long (31 points we put there, reacting late). When with 10 minutes to go Hezonja put us down to 10, they started vaccinating us with Radoncic. Nightmares. We had 3-4 minutes of shock there that would cost us the final victory. A nice day to be watching the Golf channel.

Porfi, their coach, asked his team to be smart after a 2-14 run that put us in the game with 3 minutes to go. The baskets entered, the victory could arrive. In fact, the bottom team of ACB must have had the logical fear of winning, and more so Real Madrid, it was presumably that the wrists could fail. 

But, for that, you have to defend, of course. And first we were left without Tavares, due to a silly foul, and then the defense was especially spectacular - only with the look- on the last decisive play. Rudy crying rivers watching that. Llull threw some final mandarinas but the resistance was already futile.

This time of the season is the most prone to have bad nights like this, of course. The important thing is played later. And, beware, with Laso we also lost many of these games that hurt. We should not forget the despicable procedure of some months the last season. I say this for not attacking Chus Mateo for this match. Or not attack him viciously and maliciously for no reason. Yes, it is clear that he has work ahead of him. The last of the ranking cannot score 100 points against you. < p style="text-align: justify;">And, on top of that, it's Monday. https://twitter.com/RMBaloncesto/status/1589339087160352769