On this Patron-only episode of the Managing Madrid Podcast, Kiyan Sobhani, Matt Wiltse, and Om Arvind discuss:

- Our suffering

- The decision to start Fede Valverde

- Fede’s performance

- His numbers

- His positioning

- The performances of Luka Modric and Toni Kroos

- Liverpool’s press and our ability to deal with it

- Thibaut Courtois’s performance

- xG

- Firmino’s role

- Karim Benzema’s performance

- Vinicius Jr’s performance

- Marco Asensio’s performance

- Zinedine Zidane’s ubs

- Fatigue

- Jurgen Klopp’s subs

- The performances of Nacho and Eder Militao

- Courtois’s long balls

- What does Militao’s form mean for Sergio Ramos’s contract negotiations?

- Nacho for seleccion

- Looking ahead to Chelsea

- Zinedine Zidane’s emphasis on defense

- Where does Courtois rank in shot-stopping?

- And more.

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Hosts this week:

Om Arvind (@OmVAsports)

Kiyan Sobhani (@KiyanSo)

Matt Wiltse (@MattWiltse4)

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