Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois speaks about their strategy against Haaland.
"If you want to defend against Haaland, you don't give him the space to run. We tried to avoid that. We played well. As a consequence they shot more from distance. It pushed us deeper.
"A good draw and everything to play for next week. It will be like a final. We're quite good at winning finals. Hopefully we can mentalise it like that.
"City are a team who play with possession. With Haaland they play more direct. Sometimes in the Premier League Ederson shoots [kicks] really deep. We dropped down to not give them space.
"Sometimes we didn't control our game. They pressed well and you don't want to take too many risks at the back."
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ariwanze
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When you watch Real Madrid play u think they are not good enough until u play them. Real don't do tactics, they adapt.
Sepcdeny
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You guys say Haaland was kept quiet by 2 defenders. But where was Benzema throughout the match? Vinicious had to run into the middle to do Benzema's job for him. Vinicius himself had to run away from his usual position. So, you have to credit Man City defenders for doing a good job
CraigJack
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I now understand why Rudiger was following Haaland everywhere on the pitch even up to the middle of the pitch. At first I was like why is this guy opening up our defense then on closer look realized he was closely marking Haaland.