{"id":177069,"date":"2024-04-30T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/30\/bernardo-silva-explains-what-makes-weird-real-madrid-so-hard-to-beat\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:32:28","slug":"bernardo-silva-explains-what-makes-weird-real-madrid-so-hard-to-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/30\/bernardo-silva-explains-what-makes-weird-real-madrid-so-hard-to-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva explains what makes \u2018weird\u2019 Real Madrid so hard to beat \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has admitted Real Madrid are a \u201cweird\u201d team to face because of their ability to thrive on the counter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two sides have been regular opponents in Europe over the past five years and faced off for the third time in this season\u2019s quarter-finals, where Madrid secured a 3-3 draw in the first leg before advancing on penalties in the reverse fixture.<\/p>\n<p>City\u00a0managed well over 60% possession in both legs this season and 45 shots on goal across the two games, but\u00a0Madrid\u00a0soaked up the pressure and punished Pep Guardiola\u2019s side on the break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid are a weird team,\u201d Silva told\u00a0<em>TNT Sports<\/em>. \u201cSometimes it seems like you have control of the game and out of nowhere, they run twice [on the counter] 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you attack with too many players, they run on the counter. If you don\u2019t attack with many players, it feels like you\u2019re not effective enough to attack them properly. So it is difficult to make these small decisions in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/01hwmyk94q0dj29vtvfm.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo Silva, Antonio Rudiger\" title=\"Bernardo Silva, Antonio Rudiger\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Silva was left frustrated by Madrid \/ Marc Atkins\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Silva will enter the final two years of his contract this summer and is reported to be a target for\u00a0Barcelona, while there have even been claims that Madrid could try and secure his signature ahead of their Clasico rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international\u2019s contract includes a release clause worth \u00a350m which becomes active this summer but that sum could still be too high for Barcelona, whose current focus is on balancing the books and not striking summer transfers.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola has always made it clear that he will not stand in the way of any player who wants to leave City, providing the club receive a fair bid for their services. With a release clause already in Silva\u2019s contract, a deal for the 29-year-old could be fairly simple to execute.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-1375-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-856997\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has admitted Real Madrid are a \u201cweird\u201d team to face because of their ability to thrive on the counter. The two sides have been regular opponents in Europe over the past five years and faced off for the third time in this season\u2019s quarter-finals, where Madrid secured a 3-3 draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bernardo Silva explains what makes \u2018weird\u2019 Real Madrid so hard to beat \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/30\/bernardo-silva-explains-what-makes-weird-real-madrid-so-hard-to-beat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bernardo Silva explains what makes \u2018weird\u2019 Real Madrid so hard to beat \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva has admitted Real Madrid are a \u201cweird\u201d team to face because of their ability to thrive on the counter. 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