Quote (kbk @ 28 Sep 2016 04:16)
That's fair but I believe Ancelotti's Madrid played better football. To me, he was a manager of a different class. Zidane seems very young as a manager. The games last year against Manchester City was an atrocious display from what you'd usually see from a Real Madrid game. The highlight of his Madrid campaign so far was definitely the Classico win at Camp Nou. Even the CL final, I think Atletico lost that game more than Real won it, but this is the life of finals.
I think if he goes through a string of bad results he won't recover to be honest.
Well, they played better when things were going well, but there were also long streaks of inconsistent football. At times there was much debate on whether MAdrid should switch to 4-4-2 because of how bad they were playing, losing the midfield almost every game. Plus Carlo's Madrid got tactically run over in almost every big game, losing most Clásicos and Derbis. The only big matches where Madrid clearly dominated a strong opposition during those years was the semis vs Bayern and the Copa final against Tata Martino's Barça.