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The jekyll and hyde of Angel Di Maria

Managing Madrid as we all feast the day after our successful win over the best footballing side on planet earth, showing the world that we the best counter attacking side in the world and in a game where lucas modric cemented his place in the top 5 best midfielder in the world, we should still be worried with about a certain special player called Angel Di maria. In the last couple of games Di maria has been superb for real Madrid. He was the catalyst in the copa final against Barcelona who scored the first goal and tormented the barca defense like a possessed being, despite all this I am still very concerned. In the Bayern munich game I think its safe to say that at best di maria was average and at the least di maria was the worst player on the team on the night. I am incredibly concerned with di marias decision making in critical and crucial moments. Di maria a number of times in game made very bad decisions. Taking your chances in the champions league is very important, yes Ronaldo may have missed that chance but he wasn't over 80% fit and just came back from injury. you have to remember last season that borrusia dortmund did not beat real madrid but real madird allowed them to defeat themselves. Ozil, Ronaldo and higuain missed chances were the sole reason we lost the whole tie. our inability to take our chances is what could bit us in the back.

here is an example

Di Maria amazing chance to score vs Bayern Munich 23-04-2014 (via UEFA)

with a chance like that, di maria should either have score it, made the goalkeeper work or cut the ball back. that was an incredible opportunity and the more goals against this bayern side the better.

Also remember around 50s when di maria had the ball and had a load of space on his left side, but chose instead to attempt a back heel behind the bayern defense but it was intercepted. that was totally the wrong choice, on his left side you could see coentrao running up to overlap, that could have created an excellent opportunity for coentrao to cross in. Di maria is a wonderful player but I must hope ancelotti saw his di marias decisions in the game and corrects it. every single chance and half chance will win a team the champions league. let that team be real Madrid.

HALA MADRID!!!!