Managing Madrid Podcast: El Clasico Post-game

This episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast comes in two parts.

Part One (Immediate Reaction pod with Kiyan Sobhani and Eduardo Alvarez)

• Why we’re not surprised with this result
• Why the Clasico is not the ultimate measuring stick
• The difference between Ronald Koeman and Zinedine Zidane
• Lucas Vazquez’s performance
• Nacho Fernandez’s performance
• Marco Asensio’s performance
• Vinicius Jr’s performance
• Toni Kroos’s performance
• Real Madrid’s defensive shape
• Luka Modric’s goal
• Lionel Messi’s performance
• And more.

Part Two — 45:19 — (Tactical breakdown with Om Arvind and Siddharth Ramsundar)

• Thoughts on the starting lineups
• Real Madrid’s offensive structure
• Inefficiencies in taking advantage of Valverde and Vinícius as runners
• Ferland Mendy as an inverted fullback
• Barcelona’s defensive structure
• How Koeman changed Barca’s offense for El Clásico
• Messi’s evolving role over the course of the season
• Pedri’s performance
• Was the Asensio criticism to start the first half fair?
• Explaining why Barca started the 2nd half better
• Evaluating Real Madrid’s sporadic pressing
• Why Barcelona miss Suárez
• Koeman’s awful substitutions
• Frenkie de Jong not tracking Modrić
• Casemiro vs. Kroos
• Lucas’ bright cameo
• Patron questions
• And much more

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Eduardo Alvarez (@Alvarez)

Om Arvind (@OmVAsports)

Siddharth Ramsundar (@TacticalFouling)