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The Almería — Barcelona match had not con­cluded when Real Madrid took to the pitch, but a few min­utes into their match with Sevilla, they knew that Barça slipped at the Esta­dio de los Jue­gos Mediter­rá­neos and dropped two points with a 2–2 draw against Almería.  Expec­ta­tions were that Real Madrid would not have the […]

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In terms of the foot­ball played on the pitch, the Sevilla — Real Madrid clash qual­i­fied as the best match of the young La Liga sea­son.  Hon­or­able men­tions to Ath­letic Bilbao’s 3–2 vic­tory over Vil­lar­real CF in Round 3 and the pul­sat­ing 2–2 draw between Valen­cia and Atlético Madrid last Sat­ur­day night, but this fixture […]

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Tues­day and Wednes­day brought about Match Day 2 in the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League, and the four rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Spain had inter­est­ing ties that helped shape their respec­tive groups.  On Tues­day, Sevilla FC vis­ited Rangers FC at the Ibrox Sta­dium, where the Euro­pean night atmos­phere is sec­ond to none, buoy­ing their beloved Gers, and FC Barcelona […]

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Modest Improvement For Madrid

by Emilee Woods on September 25, 2009 · 0 comments

Vil­lar­real 0–2 Real Madrid 0–1 Ronaldo, 2’ 0–2 Kaka (pen), 73’ With four wins in four league games and three clean sheets in the bunch, it’s sta­tis­ti­cally dif­fi­cult to find fault with Real Madrid’s early sea­son per­for­mances. They have osten­si­bly done every­thing right in their open­ing games: they have incor­po­rated all the new faces into […]

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What Is Wrong With Villarreal?

by Andy Pineda on September 24, 2009 · 0 comments

After another under­whelm­ing per­for­mance in a 0–2 loss to Real Madrid at El Madri­gal on Wednes­day evening, Vil­lar­real cur­rently sits in 18th place with only two points from four La Liga matches.  In their defense for their show­ing against Madrid, Vil­lar­real played with one less man for 65+ min­utes after Gon­zalo Rodríguez received his second […]

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Real Madrid 5–0 Xerez 1–0 Ronaldo, 1′ 2–0 Ronaldo, 75′ 3–0 Guti, 78′ 4–0 Ben­zema, 82′ 5–0 Van Nis­tel­rooy, 89′ Real Madrid moved to the top of the table Sun­day, ahead of Barcelona on goal dif­fer­en­tial, after a 5–0 rout of Xerez that was a more dif­fi­cult affair than the final score might indi­cate. Cris­tiano Ronaldo […]

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Que Mal Que Marca El Madrid

by Emilee Woods on September 14, 2009 · 5 comments

Espanyol 0–3 Real Madrid 0–1 Granero, 39’ 0–2 Guti, 77’ 0–3 Ronaldo, 90’ This was a con­stant refrain from the Span­ish lan­guage announc­ers and the theme of most of the match, as the Merengues strug­gled to hold their nerve at the back, occa­sion­ally look­ing as porous as Sponge­Bob Square Pants in defense. It should be […]

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