A humiliating defeat of Real Madrid at the Bernabeuwith numerous individual poor performances.
Andriy Lunin—2: Poor distribution with his feet and too easily beaten at his near post on the Lamine Yamal goal.
Lucas Vazquez—3: A number of great first touches, bringing down long balls with an active first touch to beat his marker or play a good first-time pass. Played the pass to Mbappe on the disallowed VAR goal. But then it all went downhill: played a part in all of the goals conceded and bizarrely kept Raphinha onside for a 1v1 in the final goal.
Antonio Rudiger—5: Made the daft decision to step up aggressively at the same time as Militao on the opening goal.
Eder Militao—4: Tale of two halves— first half: fun battle with Lewandowski — the Brazilian gave the Pole zero breathing room. A few needless fouls but otherwise measured his aggressive step-outs well. Constantly looked to hit the big diagonal ball over the top to Vinicius Junior against Cubarsi. Second half: Poor decision to step up at the same time as Rudiger on the first goal, left Lewandowski open on the second goal, and went on “walk about” for the remainder of the game taking the defense completely out of shape.
Ferland Mendy—3: Another poor day at the office with Lamine Yamal easily cutting in on the defender. Caught holding the line up when both Militao and Rudiger opted to step on the first goal.
Tchouameni—6: Several strong challenges and good coverage in the first half but one of the first yanked after Barcelona scored. Team fell apart with Tchouameni.
Valverde—3: 67% pass accuracy and lost possession 17 times, Fede’s worst game of the season.
Eduardo Camavinga—7: Left of midfield is Eduardo Camavinga’s best position. Combines his ball-playing and press-resistant displays from left back with his high-pressing and elite ball-winning from midfield. Madrid’s best player in the first half and a surprise substitution in the second.
Bellingham—5.5: Outworked and outclassed Balde in the first half but faded out of the game and was a non factor in the second half.
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Vinicius Junior—6: Turned Kounde inside out on a few occasions and Cubarsi could only foul Vinicius when confronted with him. Arguably had the best opportunity of the first half but failed to find the right finish. His attitude after Barcelona went 2-0 up left a bad taste in the mouth.
Kylian Mbappe—1: The worst performance of Kylian Mbappe’s career. Been a shadow of the player that lit up the 2022 World Cup or the player that destroyed Madrid over two legs in the Champions League in the same year. That player has been missing for months. Offsides no less than 6 times in the first half, squandering a great opportunity in the first minute and miscalculating a lofted chip over Pena. Did find the back of the net after a great pass from Lucas but VAR ruled the goal offside.
Substitutions:
Luka Modric—5: Team’s attitude was gone and the game was gone, the captain could not change the tide.
Brahim—4: No impact in the game.
Fran Garcia—N/A: 88th minute substitution for Mendy.