http://www1.realmadrid.com/web_realmadrid/images/pixel_blanco.gif Zinedine Zidane couldn´t sleep! but he says Real Madrid isn´t afraid of Juventus, his ex-team. I think Juve will be a hard rival, Real Madrid will not have an easy game but they are good enough to face again the Italians and also if they come with an offensive game as before.
I think that very hard game. The Juventus will wait the Real near of its area, and they will wait the Real Madrid mistakes to make fast counter- attacks. The Real will have to move very well the ball to find spaces in the Juventus defense. Also the team will have to be careful and don't lose balls in the middle that let the Juventus make easy counter-attacks. We will see which starting team make Del Bosque. There are some variations: - Guti as forward, Flavio midlefielder - Guti as Midlefielder, Macca in the left - Others ¿?
Will Raul be back in time for the final? Solari was very good last year but he has not played much this year. I think he should be a possibility on the left. Moro, Guti, and maybe even Portillo would all be good choices. Guti can be the link-up in a 4-5-1, while the other two would be out and out finishers. Real Madrid have many players who can win a game almost by themselves, as Ronaldo did in England. With a strong defense it may just be a question of when one of the cracks can produce a little magic.
Real Madrid is missing Raúl, specially in these days when the team in doing the semi-finals of CL. Raúl is starting to train again I have heard, but still he needs time to join the team. Anyway we thrust in Ronaldo, Guti, Portillo or Moro as strikers, Zizou, Lucho Figo and the rest of the great team . Everybody says Real defence is not as good, I hope Bigotón del Bosque take precautions about it. Was the last Juve and Madrid match in 1998?UEFA final in Amsterdam: The Juve had Zidane and Madrid had Raúl and Morientes, of the actual players in those teams, Madrid winned the UEFA cup that year.
¡Hala Madrid! Real Madrid this time suffered to win over Juventus. In the first half Madrid dominated and had many chances to goal, in fact Ronaldo scored the first goal,Juve was defending and injuried Ronaldo. The second half Juve started to attack and attack, the game was 1-1, Ronaldo had to leave and Portillo came in.Juve had too good chances to goal, also almost injuried Figo too. Roberto Carlos was the savior of Madrid. In 1998 Real Madrid defeated Juve and won the Champions League, now they meet again and Real win again.