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    ‘JUST DUMB’ 😳 Steve Nicol SOUNDS OFF on Kylian Mbappe after El Clasico loss | ESPN FC



    On ESPN FC, Shaka Hislop, Steve Nicol, Jan Aage Fjortoft, and Julien Laurens join Dan Thomas to discuss Real Madrid’s El ClĂĄsico loss to Barcelona and Kylian MbappĂ©’s eight offsides during the game.

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    1. @mlsarchitect on

      Once again:
      Madrid was just dumb and need to do the basics because Barca (who just beat Bayern and Real Madrid) are really not that great.
      Surprise, surprise from ESPN-FC.

    6. @olajidealli on

      What the heck is wrong with these analysts? Barca is good, admit it. Jan is making you see how good Barca is, but you are focusing on RM and Mbappe as if they were good? If they were so good, they wouldn’t have lost 0-4. It would have been maybe 0-1 or 0-2. Stop this nonsense.

    8. @chawkichalladia1812 on

      The way I saw the game is barca was not 4-0 good but Madrid was 4-0 bad. Once they conceded, they immediately logged off. The players looked scared of the ball, billi was fumbling every touch, mbappe was an idiot, ancellotti forgot that he could change tactics mid game. They were just insanely poor and barca took advantage. The fact that ancellotti continued relying on mbappe to break the offside instead of switching to vini or valverde was insane to me.

    12. @frantzdumosthene6729 on

      What’s Stevie talking about? Defenders are still there to track you down or your goalkeeper can bail you out wich Peña did or the opposition will score sometimes it’s Footbal the hate for barca is unreal 😱

    16. @denisvargas4002 on

      It is obvious Flick prepared Barcelona for this game and has been preparing the team with a new voice and tactics. It is obvious that the players have gained experience since the exit of Messi and the rebuilding of the team. They have gone through two coaches. This is a new era for FCB. RM played well in the first half and didn’t show in the second half. Mbappe was barely offside. They were tight decisions. I’m sure he and RM will be ready in the return leg at the Camp Nou. It won’t be a 0-4. RM will win or draw. Can’t wait..

    17. @drb996 on

      Never bought into the hype about him, he was surrounded by top class in the France squad. He cannot take over a match or change a match by himself like the greats, if Dembele had stayed healthy 100% of the time he would be seen as the better player.

    18. @russomgwet3429 on

      Dear Barca fans or even those who recognize logic.

      These people up here who are pretending to be experts and try analyze the El Classico aren’t experts as they have the platform for it.

      Laugh at it and move on. It’s normal for them to underestimate you and look down on you. Firstly, we haven’t won anything big recently, secondly their opinion is still their opinion. We are witnessing their wrong guesses and analysis week in and week out so we shouldn’t bother ourselves to react to every dump thing we hear from them.

      Instead, we should keep wait and laugh at them at every stupid guess or analysis they made cuz we know our team and we know better football than them cuz they only watch highlights and we watch the whole game.

      Please less response to them, they don’t deserve it.

      We have the moment and we should wait and wait for the right moment to laugh and Bragg.

      Peace out ✌

    19. @dfjosefff on

      Barcelona were just better, a lot better than Real Madrid that’s why they won, they weren’t lucky it was obvious who the better team was

    20. @davidowusu1184 on

      I usually defend ESPN FC but this….this is just in poor taste. Barca have played 14 games his season and have come up against all types of attacking line ups.

      From speedsters like Nico Williams, Olise, Sane, Gnabry, Vinicius, Mbappe etc, to more tactical forwards like Harry Kane, Ayoze Perez, Uche etc. and have crushed most of their opposition.

      Now in the face of all this overwhelming evidence, you guys sit back and say Barca was LUCKY?? We've been lucky 13 times this season?

      Barcelona was lucky against Nico Williams, Nicola Pepe, Harry Kane, Vinicius Jnr, Mbappe, Olise, Gnabry, Coman etc….75 offsides this season is LUCK???

      This highline is risky and Barca was lucky??? Putting 5 past Sevilla and only conceding one, Putting 4 past Bayern and only conceding one, putting 4 past Real and conceding none, catching teams offside 75 this season was luck?????

    21. @a-walpatches6460 on

      They clearly have an agenda against Barcelona and Real Madrid, and PSG, and Bayern Munich, and Man Utd, and Chelsea, and Man City, and Arsenal, and Tottenham, and Liverpool, and any club outside the top five leagues. If anyone doesn't believe me just look at all the comments posted on videos mentioning any of those clubs from obviously highly intelligent and very knowledgeable fans.

    24. @ifranmahmud267 on

      Playing Mbappe out of his favourite position and still wants same kind of performance as before from him!!! This is ridiculous. This madrid team is Vini's team, if Madrid wants best out of Mbappe then Carlo should build the team around Mbappe and I am sure this will provide much much better results than playing as Vini's team.

    31. @imanolmontoya2579 on

      "The high line wasn't great" wow the one that's dumb is you steve it worked and they know what they're doing its not luck they work on it đŸ€Šâ€â™‚ïž espn needs to fire you or put an infraction on you for these idiotic takes

    38. @saianurag2781 on

      'If kylian was less dumb…' If I was less dumb, I would have become the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I am not and Madrid lost 4-0 to Barca. These are FACTS. I wonder if these so called pundits even know what those are 😂

    40. @pntoh9085 on

      Brainless ESPN pundits cannot give Barca their flowers and call a spade a spade. 77 offsides so far is not a fluke. Stop blaming Madrid for being poor, give Barca credit and respect for executing their game plan so perfectly

    43. @Tacticfreak1 on

      Bro Hansi Flick did the same thing with Bayern and won the UCL, I remember they said the same thing in the 2020 UCL final. But Hansi Flick won and kept a clean sheet.

    45. @ABJIK on

      “Players around him didn’t time their passes right”.

      Weren’t y’all saying the pass masters at Madrid would be the reason Barca get punished unlike against Bayern?

    47. @inijustin5926 on

      This is the height of incompetence. How can a whole panel of analysts get all predictions wrong both against Bayern and Madrid. We will soon start boycotting this show.

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