Meira

Why didn’t Flick adapt his tactics to the situation? We were drawing, and the gap at the top was still 6 points. Real Madrid were the ones who needed a win to cut that gap to 3 points, so why keep pressing so high and leaving so much space behind our defence? We could have dropped into a low block in the final minutes and looked to hit them on the counter. Adeyemi’s pace, Frenkie’s ability to carry the ball and Gabriel Jesus’ movement gave us the perfect options to exploit the spaces Madrid would have left behind while pushing forward for a winner. We didn’t need to take unnecessary risks when a draw was still a decent result for us. Madrid had to chase the game, not us. Let them commit players forward and punish them in transition. We learned nothing from the Inter game. We learned nothing from the Atlético game. And now we’re making the same mistakes again. At some point, Flick has to understand that adapting to the game doesn’t mean abandoning your philosophy. It means knowing when to take risks and when to manage the result. You cannot play every single minute the same way and expect to win the biggest games.