Real Madrid vs Real Betis (R) I guess I'll make this into the Real Madrid vs Real Betis game analysis thread. Real Madrid with a 4-1 victory. Goals by Raul, Figo (penalty), Zidane and Ronaldo. Ronaldo's goal followed a missed penalty by himself. The goalie, Prats of Betis who played well, saved the shot but Ronnie tapped in the rebound. The best goal was by Zidane. He takes a pass from Makelele near midfield on the left, dribbles into the middle of the field on a diagonal and plays aq uick one-two with Ronaldo just outside of the penalty area. Then Zizou hits his shot low and hard on the ground past Prats outstretched arms. A beautiful goal! Raul also scored a nice goal, he receives the ball inside the penalty area with his back to goal, pushes it to his right and turns and fires into lower left corner of the goal. A deadly finish. Overall, a nice game from Real Madrid. They played good soccer and on this form will be hard to beat.
More on Zidane's goal Again a jewel of a goal by the great magician. You failed to mentioned how he first "trapped" the ball, with a back heel little self pass. Tremendous!!!!
Well the one bad piece of news from the Betis game was that Hierro injured his knee and will miss 6 weeks of action. One of Madrid's other centrals Ruben also was injured playing for Madrid B. Time for Francisco Pavon to play. I believe he can do well enough in this spot for the next 6 weeks but Madrid's lack of depth in the central defense may be a problem if there are anymore injuries.
Re: More on Zidane's goal Tell me about it! I just get axed Zizou out of my fantasy team and he scores like that!!!