Jornada 6: Racing Santander vs Real Madrid [R]

[MadridForever]

Will the team win the first game outside the Bernabeu in liga this year?

Figo and Raul won't play because they are injured.

This game will be the first of Ronaldo in the starting line-up.

Munitis will play against the Real although the team is paying him the 60% of his salary. This has been a polemic this week. The Real Madrid didn't want that that he played and Munitis did want to play. Finally he will play.

The game will be a sold out. With the tickets around 80$!!!!. The Racing will make the money of the year.


Possible starting line-up:

-----------------Casillas
Salgado---Hierro---Helguera-----Roberto Carlos
Solari------Makelele--Cambiasso---Zidane
-----------Guti-------Ronaldo

Subs:
Cesar
Pavon
Macca
Celades
Flavio
Morientes
Portillo

Maybe Macca could play for Solari.

The game will be at 8:30 p.m European central time.

[Bill-DC]

No.

Racing 2
Real Madrid 0

On paper, Real Madrid's roster looks dominant but they don't play futbol on paper.

Bill

[Martin Cutler]

I watched this game today. Racing won at home 2-0 today in a game they thoroughly deserved to win.
Racing played inspired football while Real looked very lackluster after the
week's break for international matches. Neither Raul nor Figo played for
Madrid but Zidane and Ronaldo did and neither of them had any impact on the
game. Racing's Mario Regueiro, Javi Guerrero and Pedro Munitis ran rings
around Madrid's defense and Regueiro and Munitis (on loan from Madrid) got
the Racing goals.

Madrid can't play like this on the road and expect to win the league title.

[kanasai100]

Maybe Real can buy defence players as the team is bad in defence. The defence should also work more like a team. Sometimes their defence look so broken that even small team in Spain can break through. There is still room for improvement for Real.

[MadridForever]

Del Bosque: "There isn't excuses. We were inferior in all the aspects of the game. Racing has not surprised to me, which has surprised me is our bad play. They have been better than us with and withuot the ball, and during all the ninety minutes of play."

I think that the problem this game was the attitude of the players . Seems like they wasn't in the game. I missed Raul, he can play better or worse but he fight all the balls and carry the team over his shoulders Yesterday Hierro and Zidane failed in that.

We were horrible attacking, defending, pressing, ...


And It's not excuse that Figo and Raul didn't play, and that Zidane and Makelele hasn't training with the team because they were with their national team. Or that the Racing has had all the week to prepare the game and the Real Madrid no.

I had much confidence in the team this year. We were playing great at home. And abroad wasn't playing bad - at least we have fought all the games -and i thought that win abroad was time question. But i didn't like nothing what i saw yerterday. I hope the team take note of the game and that this is a isolated case.

[anirbanblah]

Can anyone post some player feedback or rankings so we know who played how?

[Merengue]

The only good thing about Madrid's loss this weekend is that except for Real Sociedad and Malaga, who tied, all the other leading teams lost this weekend so Madrid didn't lose too much ground in the league by losing at Santander.

I agree with the statements that Real Madrid cannot revert to past years' form, where they are inconsistent on the road, if they expect to win La Liga.

[MadridForever]

The Media had criticized very hard the team in Spain. This is the reaction of the players:

Roberto Carlos: "The Racing had one week to prepare the game and we only had one hour. That made the things very dificult for Del Bosque."

Guti: "There were players whom had disputed two games in one week. The Racing was fifteen days to prepare the game. We were more than a week concentrated with the our National teams. What happens is that the called small teams play an encounter a week and we usually play Wednesday and Sunday."

Guti: "It is not a consolation that the others teams have lost, but that means that you must fight very much a game to win it, and that nobody has assured the three points."

Casillas: "This is has been the worst game since i'm with the team. But I don't think that we must dramatize."

[anirbanblah]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/continental/story/0,8018,816358,00.html

According to this report, Macca was an absolute disaster. Both casillas and Des Bosque say this is the worst Madrid performance they have even seen in thier years as goalie and coach respectively. Every report I read said that Madrid were destroyed and outplayed comprehensively, almost like Madrid-Genk in reverse, with fewer goals.

This must have been one ugly game to watch as a Merengue!

I don't understand it... even without Figo and Raul, we're supposed to be better in every position, including defence... and even if a lot of the players did play international football recently, how could we be so completely overrun?

Also, how is it that players seem so ineffective when they come on from the Madrid bench (except Solari) and then go to other teams and play like stars? Look at last years bench, almost everyone played crap... Celades, savio, Munitis, Flavio... or average... Macca, Guti, Pavon/Karanka, raul Bravo. Move them to another team and they will turn on the style...

[Bill-DC]

It happens. Great teams in all sports have crap days. They will bounce back.

[anirbanblah]

Well we've had 6 consecutive "crap days" away from home in the league, with no signs of bouncing back. And that was followed by another crap game in Europe last night...

[Martin Cutler]

Originally posted by anirbanblah
Can anyone post some player feedback or rankings so we know who played how?

In my view the only player who was even average for Madrid was Casillas. Everyone else was way below form.

[Bill-DC]

Originally posted by anirbanblah
Well we've had 6 consecutive "crap days" away from home in the league, with no signs of bouncing back. And that was followed by another crap game in Europe last night...

They are still unbeaten in Champions League and just a few points down in a LONG Liga season. They will bounce back.