The media environment that protects Florentino's Real Madrid started the season talking about a septuple and that Real Madrid had signed the best player in the world and that with him they would win everything.
Dreams, illusions, smoke and mirrors... The reality has been quite different. No matter how much they now want to cover their frustrations with the "title" that Inter won for Real Madrid yesterday.
The 0-4 and 2-5 Against the Best Team in the World Still Sting
El Chiringuito is the forum where the Madridist propaganda machine sells its triumphant narrative in which Real Madrid always wins... before playing. Guti, a serious analyst for DAZN, and Edu Aguirre, a serious analyst for Movistar, are part of this strategy.
Yesterday they took the opportunity to throw trash at Barça - the 0-4 and 2-5 still sting - without anyone contradicting them.
At MB we have taken the liberty to question their reckless statements.
Guti: "There Has Been a Worldwide Plot Against Barça"
1.- "Swallow it, like every year, it's no big deal, this is just another one. You flipped the coin today, it came up tails and instead of scoring one more, one less."
When it's Real Madrid flipping the coin and they have to resort to comebacks, it's called epic. If it's Barça, it's failure.
2.- "Today there has been a worldwide plot against Barça"
For worldwide plots, the ones set up against Real Madrid. Everyone is involved: referees, LaLiga, Federation, UEFA, Ballon d'Or.
3.- "Barça wasn't generating anything either, unless they gave the ball to Lamine."
When the tactic is to give the ball to Vinícius and let him do something, we're talking about the best footballer in the world. And in the best team in the world.
4.- "When you concede four goals away from home, it's very difficult to get into a final. It's always been like a coin toss and in almost all of them, it came up heads, except in this one, where it came up tails."
Real Madrid has been flipping coins in Europe for many years. And this year, not even that. The 1-5 from Arsenal didn't even allow them to reach the coin.
Very concerned about the four goals conceded by Barça and very little about the 0-4 at Bernabéu or the 2-5 in the Super Cup.
5.- "Barça has been playing with fire all year, in almost everything it has gone well for them. And this is the first time it has gone wrong."
Real Madrid hasn't played with fire this year. They haven't played at all. But the Madridist mouthpieces don't care if they are winning based on penalties.
Edu Aguirre: "They Boasted About a Treble and Mocked Real Madrid"
1.- "The Champions League is another level, the Champions League isn't these things. And Barça right now isn't enough to win the Champions League"
Barça has rowed to the shore. Others were stranded at sea because the Champions League is another level.
2.- "An average Inter can't score seven goals against you in two games. Barcelona, defending, is a disaster. And they complain about the referees!"
An average Arsenal can indeed score five against Real Madrid. Barça didn't finish the match in Milan insulting the referee or trying to assault him.
"In the 93rd Minute, Go Down and the Game Doesn't Play"
3.- "They've been criticizing Real Madrid for months for the videos from Real Madrid TV. And for what happened in the Copa del Rey... And now they complain about the referees!"
Barça doesn't have any systematic strategy organized to coerce and influence referees, like Real Madrid does with Real Madrid TV. Another thing is a specific complaint.
4.- "They lack experience, because they lack edge, because you can't stop competing defensively. Minute 93, go down and the game doesn't play."
"Go down and the game doesn't play." It's the concept of what soccer is for some mouthpieces in Madrid. Win at any cost.
5.- "But they've filled their heads with the treble, the best team in history, a new era... And they've forgotten to compete, to waste time. It's no big deal."
Nobody in Barcelona "sees things" or bets on coming back from a 3-0 against Arsenal "without any sporting argument." Just for the thrill of it. If anyone knows how to fill heads with nonsense, it's the Real Madrid propaganda machine.
6.- "If the fans talked so much about the treble and boasted so much. And they mocked Real Madrid throughout the season, now it's your turn to bow your head."
In Barça, they talked about a treble. In Real Madrid, about a septuple, about being 20 points ahead of Barça, about anything less than beating them by more than 3-0 being a bad game.
That if they won LaLiga and the Champions League without Mbappé, with him they were going to sweep. That the Cup was won because "I see things"... And in the end, 0-4 and 2-5.
7.- "And the best Barça of the last ten years has made it to the semifinals."
The best Real Madrid in history, with Vinícius, Bellingham, Rodrygo, and Mbappé, who was going to sweep everything, has made it to the quarterfinals.
8.- "And they get knocked out in the first difficult field. Benfica in the round of 16, Dortmund in the quarterfinals, and now Inter"
Dortmund was a formidable rival when they faced Real Madrid in last year's final. And Arsenal, a very powerful rival this year, hasn't won the Premier League in 22 years. And their international record is limited to a Cup Winners' Cup in 1993 against Zaragoza in the final.
9.- "And the nice touch and how good we are and how we laugh... It's a good team, but... home!"
Yes, home. We'll have to settle for the Spanish Super Cup, the Copa del Rey, and LaLiga, where they have everything in their favor. And in all three competitions, going over Real Madrid.