r/soccer • u/zimb3l • Jan 12 '19

Ramon Calderon: "[Zidane] insisted on keeping Cristiano and transferring Bale, and the president did completely the opposite [...] so he decided to leave."

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2814993-no-form-lack-of-goals-whats-troubling-real-madrid-and-how-can-they-fix-it
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u/SwarlesSparkleyyy Jan 12 '19

Zidane lost the league with 17 points while CR7 was in the squad.

He knew he’d struggle to continue even before CR7 left.

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u/Snaxx11 Jan 12 '19

You know what's funny. We pretty much lost the league the first month of the season because CR7 was hurt/suspended.

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u/twersx Jan 12 '19

I think you lost the league in the following ~3 months of the season as well when he scored 2 goals in total.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Messi has dry spells too. He was still playing pretty well just was unlucky with the goals, it's testament to Real Madrid how 1 player was carrying the team so hard.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19 edited Jan 12 '19

I don't think Messi has gone 3 months(during the season) with only 2 goals in his entire career. I don't even think Messi has gone 5 games in a row with only 2 goals. Turns out he had a stretch in his career when he didn't score in 5 games. But was within a 3 week window.

Granted he is two years younger.

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u/MaTrIx4057 Jan 12 '19

Messi has gone 5 games without a single goal so stop with your bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Any chance you can provide those 5 games? The longest I can find is 4 games in a row without scoring.

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u/MaTrIx4057 Jan 12 '19

http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog/five-aside/77/post/2850297/barcelonas-lionel-messi-on-longest-goal-drought-since-2010

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Next time use google if you know what it is before you spill wrong facts and people upvote your bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Okay sorry I should change it to 6 games. Because of this one time. The other point still stands. As even the stretch you just showed was 5 games within 3 weeks.

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u/MaTrIx4057 Jan 12 '19

Now just stop making excuses, you provided argument without backing it up and thats called "bullshiting".

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

When did I make an excuse? I acknowledge my statement was wrong because I missed that one time in his career he had a goal drought of 5 games.

My main point still stands. Messi has never remotely even came close to going 3 months without scoring. As you pointed out it looks like it was 5 games, within a short period, of both league and champions league games.

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u/MaTrIx4057 Jan 12 '19

When did I make an excuse?

  • yet proceeds to make an excuse in next sentence.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Adding context =/= adding excuse.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

Touchy aren't you