Managing Madrid Podcast: Levante Post-game; Real Madrid Femenino vs Barcelona; Castilla Corner

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

Part One (Levante post-game with Kiyan Sobhani and Om Arvind)

• Zidane’s starting XI
• Should we be worried about the team’s performances?
• Why Real Madrid don’t ‘get up’ for big games
• Kiyan and Om’s altering views of how the first half unfolded
• Vinicius Jr’s missed chances
• Real Madrid’s press
• What happened in the second half?
• Ferland Mendy’s performance
• What’s Mendy’s offensive ceiling?
• The offensive structure of the team
• Zidane’s subs
• Zidane’s decision to not sign Kepa
• Levante’s cut-backs
• Premier League results (insane)
• Andriy Lunin’s development
• Would Raul be a good A-team coach?

Part Two — 1:43:33 — (Las Blancas with Om Arvind, Jess Houwen, Grant Little)

• The craziness of Sunday’s football
• Quickly reviewing the Primera Iberdrola results
• Real Madrid’s social media vs. Barcelona’s
• Las Blancas’ positive defensive start
• Marta Corredera at left back
• Misa’s incredible first half performance
• How Barcelona began to exploit Madrid’s defensive structure
• Madrid not tracking Barca’s late runs into the box
• Asllani’s wrongly disallowed goal
• Kenti Robles’ dribbling
• Why Barcelona became even more dominant in the 2nd half
• Torrejón’s outlier importance as a fullback
• Whether Sofia Jakobsson should’ve started or not
• Marta Cardona looking better on the left
• Will Aznar learn how to use Asllani well?
• Breaking down Barcelona’s high press
• And more

Part Three — 2:48:30 — (Castilla Corner with Kristofer McCormack, Ruben Skjerping, Sam Sharpe)

• Pablo Rodriguez to Lecce
• The friendly loss to Real Valladolid B
• Scoreline vs. performance
• Victor Chust making it to the senior team

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Om Arvind (@OmVAsports)

Grant Little (@grantlittle09)

Las Blancas (@Las_Blancas)

Sam Sharpe (@CastillaStats)

Kristofer McCormack (@K_mc06)

Ruben Skjerping (@RubenPMN)

Castilla Corner (@CastillaCorner)

Jess Houwen (@Jesshuh15)