La liga Game 12. Real Madrid - Albacete [R]

Discussion in 'Real Madrid' started by MadridForever, Nov 23, 2003.

  1. MadridForever

    MadridForever Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 29, 2001
    Madrid, Spain
    After the game of Sevilla and after a National teams weekend, la liga returns.

    We play in Bernabeu against Albacete. Theoretically must be a easy game, but Queiroz only has been able to train yesterday with all the players. These last ten days he only has trained with 5-6 players because the other players were with their NT.

    The next 30 days will be a madness, Real Madrid will play 9 games. A game each 3 days. La liga games will be all very dificult games - Osasuna (we usually lose in Pamplona), Atletico Madrid (A classic), Barcelona (other classic), Deportivo (a Modern classic), Mallorca. I hope that Querioz take advantage of that already we are classified for the CL, and he give rest to the important players in the CL (Oporto, Marseille). We also will play a deathmatch against Leganes in the Spain Cup.


    For the today game, it seems that Roberto Carlos won't play. He is OK, but Queiroz doesn't want to risk. Raul Bravo will play in his position.

    The journalists say that Queiroz have doubts about play with Ruben-Pavon as CB and Helguera- Beckham in the middle, or Pavon-Helgura as CB and Cambiasso- Beckham in the middle. I would choose the second option. We will se which players play this afternoon.

    The game will be the 24 consecutive sold out in la liga. For this game the stadium will have a new roof in the east side, with that roof that has cost 9M€ all the stadium will have roof, the zones just near the pich will be the only zones without roof. The stadium will also have new vip zones, with this zones the stadium will have 3000 Vip seats. Now, the capacity of the stadium will be a little more of 80,000 seats.

    Valdano that has been in a bed in a hospital the last 11 days, because he eat bad food in the Valladolid 75 aniversary party, could be in the stadium. More than 70 people (journalist, directors, ...) were affected for the bad food, but Valdano had the worse symptoms.

    If we win this game we could be in the first position in la liga, because Deportivo tied yesterday against Betis.


    The game will be at 7:00 p.m, Central European time.
     
  2. Danks81

    Danks81 Member

    May 18, 2003
    Philadelphia
    Where did you get the info about the stadium? I would love to be able to read more about it.
     
  3. MadridForever

    MadridForever Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 29, 2001
    Madrid, Spain
    I'm socio/member of RM and i received in my house the Hala Madrid magazine, the RM news bulletin and this month i have received a book and a CD-Rom with a very detailed information and all kind stadistics of what happened in the RM in 2002/2003 season and RM objetives for next season (budget, injuries of the players!!, future projects, international market objetives, ...) In that aspect the club give much more information to its socios than four or five years ago. If i can i would try to translate the information with all the details about the stadium.

    Anyway, in as.com or marca.es you can also find some information, it's in spanish and not too much but .....

    Here you have a link of realmadrid.com of today that speak about the estadium, it's in english.

    http://www.realmadrid.com/web_realm...=39814&sec=1&subsec=0&esp=3&id_idiomacambio=2
     
  4. Danks81

    Danks81 Member

    May 18, 2003
    Philadelphia
    Ronaldo and Helguera started on the bench?
     
  5. Sinko

    Sinko New Member

    Dec 28, 1999
    xalapa ver mx
    Club:
    Harrisburg City Isl.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  6. Danks81

    Danks81 Member

    May 18, 2003
    Philadelphia
    How did Borja look?
     
  7. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Re: Well what do you know... top of the table!

    Finally, RM started to play Portillo and rested their star players.
     
  8. Sinko

    Sinko New Member

    Dec 28, 1999
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    Club:
    Harrisburg City Isl.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Re: Re: Well what do you know... top of the table!

    Finally is right.

    It's just too bad that Queiroz was criticized in the press for the rotation, as well. He'll take flack for any decision he makes, but at least he made the correct one this time.

    At least Beckham publicly supported the decision.
     
  9. Sinko

    Sinko New Member

    Dec 28, 1999
    xalapa ver mx
    Club:
    Harrisburg City Isl.
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  10. Sinko

    Sinko New Member

    Dec 28, 1999
    xalapa ver mx
    Club:
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    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  11. barça

    barça New Member

    May 31, 2003
    In a plane
    Re: Re: Well what do you know... top of the table!

    I am a fan of at least mild rotations, espcially when a team plays so many matches. Portillo, however, was the worst Madrid player in the pitch yesterday, he was booed when replaced.

    A funny note on the game, and to show that Ronnie is not used to being a sub, he banged his head against the roof of the bench when called into the game. Funny as hell.

    Albacete played very well, Pirro and Aranda are two young and exciting players, but ince the substitution of Aranda happened, it was all over for Alba. Too much defending and lost.
     
  12. Adidas343

    Adidas343 Member

    Sep 8, 2003
    Diamond Bar, CA
    anyone got the goal clips?
     
  13. anirbanblah

    anirbanblah New Member

    Jan 16, 2002
    India
    Borja was non-existent in the first half. Improved in the second. I actually thought he should have given Cambiasso a start. I know he had a long journey but he did not play much. Or when Helguera came on, I thought he would replace Borja, so that we would win more balls in midfield.

    Portillo lacked match-fitness.And I am also beginning to doubt his quality. He can't turn a man, he isn't particularly fast or powerful... but you could make the same accusations about raul and he's doing fine, isn't he? :)

    But all credit to Queiroz for tryin to rotate the squad. this is the only way we will know if people like POrtillo and Borja can cut the mustard.

    I thought Figo had a poor game yesterday, while Zidane had a pedestrian first half and a brilliant second half where he was the greatest threat.

    Solari was another player to have an excellent game. I am convinced he should start all home games. On current form he is better than Figo, and he can play in the centre alongside Beckham, on the left with Zidane in the middle, or (I'm sure I'm the only one who thinks so) even on the right. I know he's left-footed but I've seen Solari play on the right and do a good job.

    A big disappointment for me yesterday was Raul Bravo. He has speed and he reads the game decently, but is poor in the air. But yesterday, he was also poor at tackling opposing players. He just stands and faces them with poor balance and just keeps backtracking. Because he is standing so square it's easy for them to go past him (it happened twie for two shots on goals), and it makes it harder for him to turn quickly and keep his balance. In case he does tackle it leaves him over-committed and if the tackle fails, the attacker has the time to go past him. So he just stays in front of the attacker and backtracks. Eventually, especially against an Inzaghi or a Ronaldinho, he will either backtrack into the box and give away a penalty, or he will be left behind with a shoulder feint or two. He needs to really take a slightly more side-on position when facing opposing players.

    But i was happy with the result. The teams that win a season win it by also winning the games where they are not at their best. Sunday was one of those games.

    hala Madrid
     
  14. Danks81

    Danks81 Member

    May 18, 2003
    Philadelphia
    I read that Figo hurt his ankle in the match. That might be the cause for his sub-par performance.
     
  15. anirbanblah

    anirbanblah New Member

    Jan 16, 2002
    India
    ... and also, when it comes to making an impact and delivering results, I am convinced that Ronaldo is still the best player in the world, the greatest player of the last decade and not Zidane. The guy is a phenomenon.
     
  16. MadridForever

    MadridForever Moderator
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    Apr 29, 2001
    Madrid, Spain
    The starting 11 was a big surprise for the sport journalist in Spain.
    Nobody thought that the team would be:

    Casillas
    Salgado, Pavon, Raul Bravo, Solari
    Figo,Beckham, Borja, Zidane
    Portillo, Raul

    Many of them that some days before attacked Queiroz because he didn't
    give opportunities to the subs, and specially the youth players, now he is attacked by the opposite
    . It's very funny. But some of them ,like the director of
    Diario
    As, are changing his opinion, and they said that Queiroz was right the
    sunday. now the new debate It is that maybe the youth players haven't
    enought quality to play in the first team, or still they are not prepared.


    Speaking about the game, it wasn't a good game. But like Anirbanblah
    said, win this kind of games is very important to win la liga.

    In my opinion, the positives things of the game were:

    1 -That we win and we are in the 1st position of la liga.

    2- The extraordinary first goal of Beckham. A beautiful shot of 25
    meters.

    3- The great second half of Zidane.

    4- The 30 minutes that played Ronaldo. You could feel the danger every
    time that he touch the ball. The team improved when he entered in the field.
    At this moment he is essential for the team, as happened the last year
    in the second half of the season.



    Negatives things:

    1- Portillo played bad. The game was a big opportunity for him and
    failed to take advantage of it. He is not a "rookie" like Borja, Ruben or Nuñez. It's
    his second year with the team and he must demostrate that he can play in
    the first team. And more when he is speaking almost all the weeks that he
    deserve/wants to play more.

    2 - He played very bad in the first half. He didn't help Beckham to
    create play, nor to destroy play and he failed even easy passes. Well, it is
    too soon to value him for only one game, but the sensations weren't
    good. Cambiasso must be the second option in that position.


    3 - Solari. In attack he played well in the first half, and very
    well in the last 30 minutes of the game. But defensive he played bad. The
    defense had a big problem in his side all the game. In my opinion he isn't a good
    option to replace RC. Against Alba and playing at home he had many
    problems, I don't want to think what would have happened playing an away
    game and against a big team. I'm happy that Solari played 90 minutes
    because it's one of my favourtes players, but it's not his position. The first
    option must be Raul Bravo althouth we lose offensive power.


    4- Raul isn't playing good. If he don't recover his form we will have a
    lot problems in the future. We are surviving this year mainly with the
    Ronaldo goals, but Ronaldo won't score goals all the games. If i were Queiroz, i would let RM rest in one of the CL games, we are already classified.
     
  17. barça

    barça New Member

    May 31, 2003
    In a plane
    Nice review MadridForver;

    Becks goal was fantastic.

    I don't think Solari can defend at all and thats why Ales in the Sevilla game was so good.

    Thebest player in the pitch, imo, was Aranda :eek: he created danger every time he touched the ball and Alab was not the same team once he was taken out. After that you could feel that it was only a matter of time until Madrid would score.

    The current Raul, I love. Great in the NT and poor in Madrid. :)
     
  18. Danks81

    Danks81 Member

    May 18, 2003
    Philadelphia
    Is that the same Aranda who used to play for Real Madrid('s B Team)?
     
  19. barça

    barça New Member

    May 31, 2003
    In a plane
    Yes
     

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