FC Bayern Forum

MUTU wrote:

Jupp7 wrote:Hi. Iam a Real Madrid Fan.
Bayern played better than Real Madrid, in the two matches. No doupt. Bayer deserved to reach the UCL final. Football is not a fair sport, the important thing is to score goals.
But Bayern committed two major errors, unforgivable in high competition.
Real Madrid has been playing poor football throughout the year.
But after all we have a chance to make history.
4 UCL, 3 in a row, in 5 years is a Legendary achievement . Period.
Liverpool is a very strong team like PSG, Juventus and Bayern.
But we survived to the final once again.

Hi, what is your opinion on the refereeing in both legs against Bayern?

The referee clearly favored Real Madrid.

I'm not gonna use the referee as scapegoat for our loss, but was Marcelo off side too in Real's first goal?

Jupp7 wrote:

MUTU wrote:

Jupp7 wrote:Hi. Iam a Real Madrid Fan.
Bayern played better than Real Madrid, in the two matches. No doupt. Bayer deserved to reach the UCL final. Football is not a fair sport, the important thing is to score goals.
But Bayern committed two major errors, unforgivable in high competition.
Real Madrid has been playing poor football throughout the year.
But after all we have a chance to make history.
4 UCL, 3 in a row, in 5 years is a Legendary achievement . Period.
Liverpool is a very strong team like PSG, Juventus and Bayern.
But we survived to the final once again.

Hi, what is your opinion on the refereeing in both legs against Bayern?

The referee clearly favored Real Madrid.

Hi and welcome.

In this case, Real Madrid was clearly favoured by refereeing 2 seasons in a row (against us, and against atletico if i'm not mistaken). That "Legendary" achievement is thus an undeserved one. I wouldn't mind losing like the 4-0 at home 4 years ago, when there is nothing to say, and will salute the performance... But these last two seasons are a black spot in european football, to have such a favoured team in the spotlight...

In this sport, sadly, the referee has too much importance. And the technological resources are not used to correct it.
However Bayern made serious mistakes in the Madrid's goals.
In the end, the referee is a factor that you can't control.
Its all about your performance at scoring goals.

Jupp7 wrote:In this sport, sadly, the referee has too much importance. And the technological resources are not used to correct it.
However Bayern made serious mistakes in the Madrid's goals.
In the end, the referee is a factor that you can't control.
Its all about your performance at scoring goals.

When the other team in this case Real Madrid have goals allowed for them which are illicitly counted (offsides mostly), or Bayern which had strong opportunities to score (handballs, one-on-ones) but waived and/or cancelled, that's when you see that do actually count.

If Bayern scored on the penalty following Marcelo's handball, Real Madrid will have made serious mistakes too. If Real Madrid had their offsides rightfully judged, their performance at scoring goals would not be that good.

We got out by 1 goal, and judging that the referee "mistakes" favoured Real Madrid that much, with a normal and fair refereeing, we would have passed... Easily!

But Real Madrid got their shot and of course why would they mind being favoured by referee "mistakes" if that makes them go through the semi-final and the final last year and this year?

I would have respected Real Madrid had they not be that favoured by refereeing...

Jupp7 wrote:In this sport, sadly, the referee has too much importance. And the technological resources are not used to correct it.
However Bayern made serious mistakes in the Madrid's goals.
In the end, the referee is a factor that you can't control.
Its all about your performance at scoring goals.

Just wanted to say I agree with most stuff you've written and thanks for being a good sport. As you said the referee did affect the game, and most likely a fairer referee would have meant Bayern go through despite the makes, but in the end we can only blame ourselves because if we didn't make those two defensive mistakes and weren't so inaccurate in from of goal we would have gone through even with a biased referee.

Welcome to the forum. I hope to read more from civil RM fans like you.

YlonenXabi wrote:I'm not gonna use the referee as scapegoat for our loss, but was Marcelo off side too in Real's first goal?

Not sure if it is photoshopped. Didn't look like that in the replay.

I am not entirely sold on this "We clearly outplayed Real" talk

Did we have more chances in the box - Yes. But it is all predictable crosses with the opponent firmly packed in anticipating. I think our offensive strategy is stale. We rarely attack centrally. When Real attacks my brain is filled with visions of countless attacking possibilities. When we attack it is the same Winger first focus.

I still think Real had the 3 best chances in the match
- Benzema wide open header
- Ulreich mistake
- Ronaldo wide open volley

Our defense was scrambling in open space all night. Our chances were mostly rebounds or deflections off players in a crowded box. That's fine the final 15 minutes of a match but to attempt to defeat the 2 time defending champions based on how the ball bounces is naive. We need a more creative attack strategy but I doubt this occurs. We weren't even facing an elite GK like Oblak, whom would clear all those rebounds.

Last year we were clearly inferior and were lucky to make it to the OT. We did not deserve to go through

But this year we were much better in both games.


That's the general feeling amongst the journalists here in Spain. They all agree Bayern was better in both games, but failed to convert their chances while Real Madrid always deliver in CL big stages


You have to say too that Real has had luck with the referees in key moments.

- Against PSG they were being outplayed and losing 0-1 at home and out of nowhere Kroos receives the ball in offside position and dives for a penalty

- Against Juve similar situation in the final minute of the tie with Lucas diving for another soft penalty


Then against us we had at least 3 of those soft penalties in the first leg, yet the referee didn't buy any. If we apply the same criteria for all games we should have been awarded 1-3 penalties in the first leg

Then in the second leg Marcelo's handball was a clear penalty, but once again ref didn't buy it



They were lucky this time, we've been lucky in the past as well. You always need this extra glimpse of luck to win CL

Bavarian_Kielbasa wrote:I am not entirely sold on this "We clearly outplayed Real" talk

Did we have more chances in the box - Yes. But it is all predictable crosses with the opponent firmly packed in anticipating. I think our offensive strategy is stale. We rarely attack centrally. When Real attacks my brain is filled with visions of countless attacking possibilities. When we attack it is the same Winger first focus.

I still think Real had the 3 best chances in the match
- Benzema wide open header
- Ulreich mistake
- Ronaldo wide open volley

Our defense was scrambling in open space all night. Our chances were mostly rebounds or deflections off players in a crowded box. That's fine the final 15 minutes of a match but to attempt to defeat the 2 time defending champions based on how the ball bounces is naive. We need a more creative attack strategy but I doubt this occurs. We weren't even facing an elite GK like Oblak, whom would clear all those rebounds.

Yessss!!!! Thissss!!!!

We created tons of chances, but they were sh!t chances because they were always crosses into an extremely packed box.

The best attack of the match was Kimmich's goal: a beautiful central through ball (Tolisso's wasn't it?)!

Our tactics are EXTREMELY stale. All we do is cross cross cross like we're Moye's United fgs!

What do we have such a rich midfield for if what we're gonna do is keeping funneling the ball to the wings every time?

Play centrally GOD DAMN IT!

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So instead of going around an obstacle you want to run through it?

There’s a couple of ways to beat a packed defense - go around it (width)
- or diagonal balls ( again involves width)

Very rarely does running straight at or shooting from distance work against a packed defense, it does of course if you have Messi but we don’t. Our problem is our wingers are not good enough and we lack pace to get in behind.

Against Madrid we should have given them the ball to try and invite them out but of course we had to score they didn’t and even if they did come out and play our lack of pace upfront wouldn’t have caused them much trouble

IrishDave wrote:So instead of going around an obstacle you want to run through it?

There’s a couple of ways to beat a packed defense - go around it (width)
- or diagonal balls ( again involves width)

Very rarely does running straight at or shooting from distance work against a packed defense, it does of course if you have Messi but we don’t. Our problem is our wingers are not good enough and we lack pace to get in behind.

Against Madrid we should have given them the ball to try and invite them out but of course we had to score they didn’t and even if they did come out and play our lack of pace upfront wouldn’t have caused them much trouble

This is true. Coman was sorely missed against Real Madrid.

IMO Bayern are too one dimensional in attacking with wing play. We also need to be able to play centrally with through balls.

Took a while to post but its gonna take a while to get over this one

America USA wrote:This is true. Coman was sorely missed against Real Madrid.

IMO Bayern are too one dimensional in attacking with wing play. We also need to be able to play centrally with through balls.

True but unfortunately those types of players are hard to find and are normally expensive. I think we’ll become even more direct with Goretzka, Tolisso and Thiago (if he’s still in Germany, think City will turn his head).
Can’t see James staying in Munich he’ll head back to Madrid or England for more money.