Category Archives: Primera Division

Real fighting with injuries

on September 20, 2011 None comments

Bad news are coming for Real Madrid. After the first defeat of this season and with just one point behind Barcelona, Murinho has to deal now with the injuries of two of his players. Things couldn’t be worse considering that Barcelona blown the charts in their last game making 8-0 with Osasuna.

Jose Murinho sees himself in a difficult situation, first from this season. In the last game lost against Levante with 0-1, Real lost Khedira who was eliminated and another two players after injuries. Pepe and Coentrao won’t be available for Murinho at least for 10 days, both suffering of a tie injury.

After this game the injuries list for Real adds two more, after some old ones like Nuri Sahin and Hamit Altintop. This thing makes it difficult for Murinho to assemble the right team for their next games.

Real Madrid have in their schedule a game with Real Sociedad and with Rayo Vallecano in Primera Division, followed right after by the Champions League fixture against Ajax Amsterdam. Though Champions League is important, they have to focus on the Primera Division because if Barcelona puts a gap between them, they will be very hard to catch.

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Xabi Alonso: this could be it!

on September 17, 2011 None comments

After in last article people tried to explain the way of winning over Barcelona, now, from their most fierce enemy, Real Madrid, comes a modest player. Xabi Alonso is a bit more realistic in declarations comparing with his manager and colleagues.

Real Madrid midfielder spoke about Real’s chances of making a big year this season. His statements are totally different from the usual of Mourinho‘s and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Xabi said: “We are used to play from 3 to 3 days, the coach choose the best 11 and we could play in rotation, that would not bother me, as the coach thinks is best. The decision belongs to him and I will never oppose them. We started well in the championship and Champions League, I have a beautiful premonition, but there is still room for improvement.”

Real Madrid is currently on the first place of the board and the next game they have to face is against Levante.

“We have 36 matches and have to take them one by one. The important thing is that we must grow in value from a match to another. We feel it. We have a nice team. ” said Xabi Alonso.

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Solution to win over Barcelona

on September 16, 2011 None comments

The team saw by everybody as one of the best teams ever, Barcelona, can be beaten. Or at least that’s what some of the biggest names in football say. As a bonus, each of them has the right solution to win against them.

Adebayor said: “Mourinho told us that Barcelona’s 11 is not made ​​of robots, there’s no Robocop, keep in mind that they are also human and make mistakes when they lose the ball!”

Solutions came also from Quique Sanchez Flores, Atletico Madrid coach: “You have to try to play in a limited space in order to prevent them from doing what they know best: playing with the lines. You have to fill this area with players.”

But can a team be that good? Kurban Berdyev, coach of Rubin Kazan had his opinion: “I studied a lot Barcelona’s games and I saw that Xavi and Iniesta don’t get down to help the defence. This leaves a space that you can take advantage.”

Robin van Persie: “They are winning the matches with the help of the fans, because playing on Camp Nou, feels like Barcelona is playing in 12 players.”

Even solutions come from many, the real true is that Barcelona managed to gather one of the best team and the best solution is the one found by Fernando Navarro: “To win with Barcelona you should pray more!“

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Barcelona got the best deals

on September 13, 2011 None comments

Summer has passed, the transfers window is closed now. The clubs are in the position of drawing a line in order to see the spending for the new players and to see if they worth the money.

One of the big spenders of this year is Barcelona who managed to end last year with a deficit of 19 million euro.  This year, they continued on the same route, making the most expensive transfers from Europe by bringing Alexis Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas.

But still, they are very lucky. Once that Fabregas signed for them, the t-shirt sell and the increase of the ticket price on pre-sale, brought them almost 20 million euro, a huge sum of money even for them. The thing that helps with everything is the perfect shape of Fabregas, a midfielder with a scoring rate equal with the one of an authentic striker.

With a squad like this, Barcelona are again favorites for the Champions League trophy. The next meeting from this competition is tonight, when they will face Italy’s champions, AC Milan. It will be a big game, but they have the right players to make a difference.

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Cruyff starts another war

on September 5, 2011 None comments

With the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid, any spark could ignite the fire once again. This time, an old legend, Cruyff, the man who invented the spectacle football at Barcelona, thinks that if Murinho wants to win any trophy with Real Madrid, the only possibility for them is to move in another country:

“The attitude showed by Murinho transmits a lot of helplessness and arrogance. The biggest problem for Real Madrid at the moment is that Barcelona exists.  If they would play in any other league, they would earn much more.” says Cruyff.

But can this be true? Barcelona conquered indeed almost everything and has no plans of stopping. The cost for all that trophies is hard work and a good leadership. One of Barca’s new acquisition, Cesc Fabregas, explains:

“Everyone sees the goals but they don’t pay attention to the other things, in particular, when we talk about defense. I’ve never seen a team more focused in the transition between offence and defence. To play against Barcelona is very complicated but to play for Barcelona it’s even harder.  The thing that makes me wonder is their ability of hiding everything and makes it look easy.”

So let the ball spin!

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