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thank you all for staying awake to witnes greatness.

KinzyeWriter:
I Love You All


This is coming down from the bottom of my heart.

I feel like hugging you all

LordAdam16:
They call themselves kingslayers. We say HALA MADRID!

-Lord

remember I told you I prefer asensio starting ahead of isco. Now you see why.

Neimar:
hala madrid

neymar out

one useless cow will come for you

What a win. Asensio >>>>>>>psg

Ruffrugged. Are you seeing what I'm seeing

Asensio is a game changer.

Ronaldo with the balling

Everything set

jamescross:
that's unfortunate for Verratti right

I'm telling you. Hope he pockets the dude once more . Seems zizou knows what's up.

The line-ups of Real Madrid vs PSG have been announced.


Real Madrid XI: Keylor Navas; Nacho, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo; Casemiro, Modric, Kroos, Isco; Benzema, Cristiano Ronald

PSG XI: Areola, Alves, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Berchiche, L.Diarra, Rabiot, Verratti, Mbappé, Cavani, Neymar

MOOD

Can varane and Ramos stop psg front three?
Now we know how important our former massacre Pepe is.

LordAdam16:
And more importantly I hope he helps out with the defense. Not strolling when he should be giving a chase.

-Lord

when it comes to helping out defensively. Asensio should get the nod over isco for me.

Linkfield:
Let's trust Zidane on this.

Bale to be a super sub maybe

I don't have any problem with starting isco. But the thing that bothers me most is his unseriousness. He dribbles to much. Hope he plays like a team member tonight.

Seems I was right after all. Silva out, isco in ahead of bale

Real Madrid vs PSG LINE-UPS: Isco starts as Bale sits on bench

The line-ups of Real Madrid vs PSG have been announced.


Real Madrid XI: Keylor Navas; Nacho, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo; Casemiro, Modric, Kroos, Isco; Benzema, Cristiano Ronald

PSG XI: Areola, Alves, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Berchiche, L.Diarra, Rabiot, Verratti, Mbappé, Cavani, Neymar

My source says that isco might bench bale

Rajmeista:
Thiago Motta not Silva

motta is not even in the list. Silva is there but he will be benched. I know what I'm saying

Few more hours to the Match that will make or damage the rest of our season.

LordAdam16:
We'd find out in a couple of hours.

Did the rumor state the reason?

-Lord

not really. Maybe based on form. But not sure.

So i heard thiago Silva will be dropped from psg starting line-up. How true is this

Revealed: Why Mbappe snubbed Real Madrid for PSG


The 19-year-old had the chance to join Zinedine Zidane's side so why exactly did he reject the chance to play alongside his idol Cristiano Ronaldo?


Kylian Mbappe will line up alongside Neymar, Angel di Maria and PSG's other collection of stars at the Bernabeu on Wednesday night, but it could well have been an entirely different story.

The Ligue 1 side meet Real Madrid in arguably the tie of the round in the last 16 of the Champions League and, for Mbappe, it represents an opportunity to face a set of opponents who could have easily been his team-mates.

As has been well documented, and confirmed by coach Zinedine Zidane, Madrid were most definitely in the race to sign Mbappe in the summer of 2017.

So, what went wrong?

Madrid were European champions, league winners too. They possessed a French head coach who happens to be one the greatest players of all-time and, crucially you would've thought, they had Cristiano Ronaldo - Mbappe's childhood hero.

That's not to mention the impressive wages that would've been on offer from Los Blancos, the prestige of playing at the Bernabeu, the club's illustrious trophy-filled history, their Galactico ethos. The list goes on. It seemed Mbappe to Madrid was a no-brainer.

But, perhaps surprisingly to many onlookers, he still chose Paris.

Why? The main reason was the project, and the guarantee of regular playing time.

Mbappe, fresh from winning the league title with Monaco and announcing himself as one of, if not the brightest young talent in European football, had to be a pivotal part of the starting XI.

With the presence of Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema, Isco, Lucas Vazquez and Marco Asensio this was not something Madrid could offer. With a World Cup around the corner, that just wasn't good enough for Mbappe.

The next reason? Paris.

The French capital was where Mbappe was born and grew up. This was his city, and PSG was going to be his club.

As the man himself told Marca in December: "[Joining Madrid] would have been like a Real Madrid-supporting kid from Madrid having the chance to play for his team and deciding to go somewhere else, to another country."

And the final reason? Money.

That's not to say that Mbappe is motivated solely by monetary gains or that he smelt PSG and their cash coming from a mile off. Far from it.

The fact is that PSG are a financial powerhouse in the modern game and they were willing to pay a significant figure to make sure they got their man.


Madrid, for their part, couldn't, or at least chose not to, compete with PSG's riches. L'Equipe reports that the 19-year-old is the third-highest paid player in Ligue 1 and earns around €1.5 million per month.

That sort of money would've put this, albeit supremely talented, teenager with just the one league title to his name in the same wage bracket as the likes of Ronaldo and Bale.

That, financially and almost certainly with one eye on keeping their current mega stars appeased, just didn't add up for Madrid.

Mbappe's decision to swap Monaco for PSG certainly wasn't the spur-of-the-moment, hasty decision of a teenager who didn't really know what he was doing. Quite the opposite, in fact.

As Mbappe continues to star in the French league, Madrid fans will be left wondering what might have been. And, on Wednesday night, there's every chance he'll show Florentino Perez, Zidane and all those connected with the Spanish club exactly what they're missing.

Madrrrid. If care is not taken. Navas might score.

All I'm asking for is a 4-4-2. We need to boss that midfield

Verratti returns to the scene of his worst nightmares

The Estadio Santiago Bernabeu is probably not Marco Verratti's favourite football stadium.


The Italian midfielder has played there on two occasions and didn't have much fun on either occasion.

The first time was in October of 2015 when Paris Saint-Germain visited Real Madrid in the Champions League group stages and the midfielder had to come off injured after just 15 minutes.

Verratti was criticised after that experienced, accused of not being prepared for the biggest matches.

He then returned last September with the Italian national team and he was completely outclassed by the Spanish midfield in a 3-0 defeat.

Isco was particularly cruel to Verratti that evening, nutmegging him in spectacular fashion and dribbling past him on four occasions.

On Wednesday evening the player pursued by Barcelona last summer will return to Real Madrid's stadium and he'll hoping it will be third time lucky at the venue.

Fortunately for Verratti, Isco is expected to be on the bench, but it still won't be easy to stamp his authority in the middle of the field, with Casemiro, Luka Mordic and Toni Kroos going up against him.

Madrid shouldn't disappoint me and other madridstas around the world.

monerozi5590:
We really need to take the game to PSG to night.

We need to press high up the pitch and try and dominate possession.

I hope so. Which formation are you looking forward to. 4-3-3 or 4-4-2

Do man city need to play secong leg after dismantling basle

monerozi5590:
EPL dominance in the Champions League is about to start again.

In the past Four seasons, the Champions League trophy has been shared between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Our dominance (Spain) is fading away slowly.


Madrid please make me happy today.

and if all 5 EPL should go through. Then it won't be funny for us.
Hope Madrid gets pass psg

We all saw Tottenham do a wonderful comeback in their match against juventus last night. Although there were losing by 2-0. They still played their game and equalized it.

If mourinho was the Tottenham coach, what would he do, if his side were down by two.

usbcable:
What is Carvajal doing in this list?

it's just to make up the squad list.

jamescross:
too bad Zidane's own genes didn't pass on as we hoped.



or maybe Enzo is a late bloomer

lol. Well, I don't think zizou would sign any young player again. After the disappointment from the young ones he got last summer.

KinzyeWriter:
Tottenham are very hot and in form of recent Bro.. Did you watch their games?

after that 3-1 loss to them, I haven't missed any of their game. They are good.