Managing Madrid Podcast: Cristiano Ronaldo Is Too Good

On this episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast, Kiyan Sobhani and Gabe Lezra discuss:

• Real Madrid blowing their xG out of the water again
• Pablo Machin’s efficient schemes this season
• Toni Kroos’s brilliance all over the pitch
• The general direct approach from the front six in the final third
• Set-piece defending
• Lucas Vazquez’s form
• Cristiano Ronaldo going into unicorn mode
• The benefits of owning a smaller team in La Liga the way Manchester City do with Girona
• Where do the Messi fan boys come from, exactly? Like, physically. How do they always pop up?
• Our favourite (and least favourite) podcasts ever recorded
• The Karim Benzema criticism
• The polarizing player that Isco has become
• Real Madrid’s worst finishes in La Liga history
• And more

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Gabe Lezra (@ElEzrah)