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Managing Madrid Podcast: Real Madrid Advance To RO16; Las Blancas Beat Levante

Kiyan Sobhani and Matt Wiltse break down the win over Borussia; Grant Little breaks down Real Madrid Femenino’s win over Levante

Real Madrid v Borussia Monchengladbach - UEFA Champions League Photo by Burak Akbulut/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

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

Part One (Borussia post-game with Kiyan Sobhani and Matt Wiltse)

- Real Madrid’s intensity

- Zinedine Zidane’s offensive tactics

- The starting XI

- Rodrygo Goes’s performance

- Real Madrid’s transition defense

- Luka Modrić’s performance

- Casemiro’s performance

- Ferland Mendy’s performance

- Lucas Vázquez’s performance

- Can he be the next Jesus Navas

- Lucas Vázquez vs. Marcus Thuram

- Vinicius Jr’s performance

- Toni Kroos’ season

- Did Borussia’s subs make any impact?

- Sergio Arribas

- Sommer vs Ramos

- Can you play Casemiro if you’re deploying ‘juego de posición’?

- Why do people doubt Zidane?

- Financial implications had Real Madrid been eliminated tonight

- Possible opponents for next round, and who we’d want to draw

- And more

Part Two (Las Blancas post-game, Grant Little solocast)

- Grant breaks down Las Blancas’ HUGE win versus Levante

- Marta Cardona’s wonder strike and injury

- How Levante hindered Real Madrid and how Las Blancas flipped the script and responded

- How Ivana Andrés and Claudia Florentino helped Maite Oroz get involved in the match

- Kaci’s great run of form

- Teresa should start in all big matches

- Grant agrees with Om’s assessment that Claudia Florentino should start next to Ivana Andrés

- Overall takeaways from the victory

- And more

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Grant Little (@grantlittle09)

Las Blancas (@Las_Blancas)

Matt Wiltse (@MattWiltse4)

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