Man City star explains why Real Madrid are a ‘strange’ team to play against | OneFootball

Manchester City star Bernardo Silva has this weekend opened up on what he feels makes La Liga giants Real Madrid such a difficult team to play against.

Midfielder Silva, for his part, of course faced off against the might of Real Madrid just last week.

As much came in the 2nd leg of the Champions League semi-final tie between the two European heavyweights.

When all was said and done, it was the visitors to The Etihad who emerged on the right side of the result, courtesy of a tense penalty shootout triumph.

The aforementioned Silva, meanwhile, saw out the full 120 minutes in Manchester, before being responsible for one of City’s two missed spot-kicks.

Speaking in an interview with TNT Sports this weekend, it therefore came as little surprise when the subject of his side’s European exit was put to the Portuguese himself.

And, in his response (as cited by Diario AS), Silva provided an insight into just what makes Real Madrid such a ‘difficult’ team to plan for:

“Real Madrid is a strange team. Sometimes it seems like you have control of the game and out of nowhere, they run twice (on the counterattack) and score two goals because their players individually are very good. They are so fast and strong on the counterattack that it is not easy to control them.

“If you attack with too many players, they run on the counter. If you don’t attack with many players, it feels like you’re not effective enough to attack them properly. So it is difficult to make these small decisions in the game.”

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