Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros react to PSG’s 4-0 win over Real Madrid in the Club World Cup Semifinal. Hear the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
What the hell happened to Real Madrid at MetLife, today?
And Bappe starts this game.
As soon as I saw the starting lineup, I’m like, this is a mistake.
Can we just talk about the vibe change from the past few years where now he starts and you’re like, this is it, we’re gonna lose now because you go, you have, I mean, Gonzalo Garcia starts as well, but now Vinny’s moved to the right and Bappe on the left.
Now you’re changing everything.
Much things have been going pretty well, I think.
It was a huge mistake and I understand Houssin is out, so maybe that causes another to play Bappe against his old club.
That’s what the whole point was and what happened?
How did it work out the way it worked out last year in the Champions League?
It’s like, and Bappe gotta watch y’all win, but this time he got a front row seat.
Like he’s a good ticket, and the mistake Asensio makes in giving up that first goal that you’re, I’m just telling, and it’s we’ve already seen it enough and I’m watching games there.
As soon as you give up that first goal, psychologically you’re like, it’s hot, it’s too hot to chase.
I don’t wanna be here and, and we just gave up a goal and made a dumb mistake and it’s just it snowballs into just like, and I wish there was snow, but it snowballs into a just worse situation and that’s what it looked like happened with Real Madrid.
Cavarascali nutmegging people, and these pacey ass wingers and strikers, it’s a nightmare for teams.
Again, I’m gonna sound like I’m praising this dude with horses and sauce but, I think Luis Enrique making the adjustments before the game or even during a game to absolutely body these other teams.
Like they’re studying the game, they’re changing their tactics, and I think this is something that we’re gonna see a lot more of with teams moving forward is like not being so stodgy like the old Arsene Wenger way of like, no, no, we’re gonna play our game and we’re gonna beat them doing it our way, which is we’ll still play our game, but what are the adjustments we can make.
make to not only play our game but take their best weapons out of it.
And I, Luis Enrique, is doing that way better than what Xabi Alonso has already been able to do with such a short time.
And you see it every time they play somebody, whether it’s in Miami or Real Madrid.
People were like you said, people were like, oh well, Inter Miami have all the best players in the world from 10 years ago and look at the class that they were showing with PSG.
Yo, he just did it to one of the best, one of the best squads in the world.
It is pretty remarkable to make really good teams look bad.
