Villareal vs Real Madrid | La Liga | Matchday 4 | 09/14/13 | 22:00 (Local)

He hasn't played a single minute with Real Madrid all preseason

 

He played all 90 minutes in Gothenburg unless my eyes deceive me.

 

Blondie played in preseason and is playing for Portugal.

 

Will Isco be back in time for this game?

 

We have too much quality to beat the majority of teams we face but it doesn't always go according to script. Villareal have started this season strongly, ahead of us in the standings on goal difference and they have players like Cani, Dos Santos, Viera, etc who could potentially cause us fits especially at El Madrigal and coming off an international break. We should smash them in theory but this could get tricky as well.

 

these breaks are just aweful ;/ only injuries.

 

Marcelo, Ronaldo, Isco, Modric....just too much all at once..

 

probably nothing serious with Ronaldo and Modric

In case all of them are injured I would play like this:

- Benzema -​

Di Maria - Jese

Khedira - Illarra - CASEMIRO

Coentrao - Ramos - Pepe - Arbeloa

Diego Lopez​

 

Pepe has been playing very well though, he won't be dropped unless something disastrous happens.

 

More than a few players can still have a chance here. If Ronaldo can't make it, Di Maria can. If Isco can't Jese can. It can work out. Coentrao can come in for Marcelo, I expect Varane and Illaramendi to step in too.

Bale's response should say where/when he should play. Ronaldo's response too is also important. Bale should realize Ronaldo hasn't been too interested in him, judging by his playing ways. So Bale should be prudent and see how it goes for him.

 

Trivote?

I don't see much creativity in that line up.

 

It's a 4-3-2-1 formation, and without Isco and Modric we don't have much creativity unless Di Maria (or Benzema) plays in the midfield, which seems unlikely.

 

If Bale wants to stay and improve, he has to push himself all the way, till he reaches his very limits of his powers to the top most level of everything. There is of course, a chance things don't go in the right direction and Bale's frustrations get to him. He can still try. There's no stopping him here. So long as he tries to bring his best games, even with false starts, he can succeed eventually.

 

It really must be the third testicle

 

training session for the match against Villarreal.



Ronaldo



Varane

 

We still do not know how many of these injuries are real how many of them are "convenient" much like Bale's preseason "injury" for Spurs. Marcelo obviously looks very serious, and I would be that Isco's is probably for real, the rest of them just look like I don't want to play in meaningless International friendlies, especially since my spot is 100% guaranteed, re: Ronaldo, Bale, Modric.

Now is the time for Mr. Perez to sit Coentrao down and use some of his convincing skills. Make him understand that Madrid pays his salary, that his chosen transfer did not go through despite Madrid's full effort (complete lie), and now we are in a situation in which we should move forward with what is best for both sides. Which is, Coentrao needs to give his 100% for the team. Sitting on the bench at this point is of no use to Coentrao, get on the pitch and keep up your skills for when you leave to another team. Let's put by gone's behind us and move forward. His transfer will come soon enough, remember you love this game and show it on the pitch. Some BS like that should at least raise the likelyhood of Coentrao helping out a team in dire need. Of course none of this would be necessary if the idiot Perez wouldn't have concentrated on non-essential and some would say down right negative actions, and instead signed some much needed help for defense, but what are you going to do. It's too late to turn back time now, you gotta work with what you have.

 

Looking forward to seeing how we do. This sort of feels like a completely new team without Oezil. Ok I'm exaggerating... but still looking forward to seeing how Bale and CR do.

I like this 4:00PM Sunday match time. It gives me time to get off work and will give our injured players more time to hopefully recover. Returning to the Madridgal... it seems like we haven't been there in forever eh?