Managing Madrid Podcast: Sevilla Post-game; Las Blancas Win

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

Part One (Sevilla post-game show with Kiyan Sobhani, Matt Wiltse, Om Arvind)

• Real Madrid’s starting XI
• The good and bad of the first half
• Sevilla’s issues
• Was Real’s xG inflated?
• How difficult was the Vinicius chance?
• A breakdown of the goal
• Vinicius’s performance
• The team’s passing
• The difference in the team’s press from the first to the second half
• Real Madrid’s defensive performance
• Nacho Fernandez’s performance
• Lucas Vazquez’s performance
• Raphael Varane’s performance
• Ferland Mendy’s performance
• Is Julen Lopetegui’s assessment of Sevilla’s performance correct?
• Thoughts on Zinedine Zidane only using one sub.
• And more.

Part Two — 1:04:02 — (Las Blancas Post-game with Grant Little and Om Arvind)

• Asllani’s uncharacteristically bad finishing on the day
• Sevilla’s terrible defensive shape
• Olga Carmona’s impressive performance at left back
• How Real Madrid’s possession game improved
• Claudia Florentino’s dribbling from the center back position
• Breaking down all the goals
• The importance of switches
• Marta Cardona’s genius
• The weird substitutions
• Misa’s good distribution and quickness off her line
• Complimenting Kaci
• And more

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Hosts this week:

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Om Arvind (@OmVASports)

Grant Little (@grantlittle09)

Las Blancas (@Las_Blancas)

Matt Wiltse (@MattWiltse4)