No Rest? No Problem for Real Madrid

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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The FC crew break down Real Madrid's 2-1 victory over Villarreal and argue if Carlo Ancelotti's side are allowed to complain after having to play on short rest from their latest Champions League clash. Plus, the guys argue if Nottingham Forest can continue their unlikely push for a Top 5 finish and preview tomorrow's Carabao Cup final Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.5	Hello everyone and welcome to ESPNFC. I'm Alexis
0:38.3	Yunes alongside Stevie Nicol and Craig Burley and we're going to start things off at the Estadio la Ceramico where Villareal hosted Real Madrid.
0:46.3	They took the lead seven minutes in making the home crowd very, very happy.
0:51.3	But Los Blancos fought back with a brace from Killian Imbape.
0:55.5	If you have a look at the match, Stats Villarreal did definitely challenge and forcing Tibo
1:00.4	Corto to make nine saves in this match, but Madrid managed to hold on for the two-one win.
1:06.5	All right, let's talk about this game now.
1:08.4	Shall we welcome in Luis Garcia.
1:10.5	Luis, we were saying before in the pregame that none of us actually had Real Madrid winning this one.
1:16.5	We know it's been about eight years since they won outright at the Estadio La Ceramica,
1:20.7	but they got the job done today.
1:24.1	Yes, they did.
1:25.1	And they did well, overall, a very good game for Real Madrid.
1:28.0	Sometimes we only think that because they got so many quality players and talented players
1:32.0	are thrown, the only good way to win is with flow, linkups and nice combination.
1:37.3	And sometimes it has to be like this.
1:40.0	In the first 45, they dominated, they created, they reacted after conceded the first goal, and they managed to get a very good result for the second half, maybe to be open
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