raul albiol

Denial Although Real Madrid needed five goals to over­turn their Round of 32 tie with Alcor­cón, a cer­tain sense of denial was impor­tant in this par­tic­u­lar sit­u­a­tion so that they could believe that their task was not impos­si­ble.  Kaká stated, “For the pride and for the his­tory of Real Madrid, we have to win this […]

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The fash­ion­able dis­trict.  The working-class south.  The estab­lished.  The dis­re­spected.  Com­merce.  Indus­try.  A com­par­i­son between the two top Madrid clubs.  Getafe just wants to be in the con­ver­sa­tion.  They are in the city too, they say.  Real Madrid does not dis­re­spect them because they are not in Real’s radar.  With Atlético Madrid strug­gling to steer […]

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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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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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The much-anticipated return of La Liga began with a scin­til­lat­ing match between the new galác­ti­cos of Real Madrid and the pesky Deportivo La Coruña, who always gives Madrid a run for their money, lit­er­ally.  Because of the con­tin­ued sus­pen­sion of Pepe and the ten­dini­tis suf­fered by Ser­gio Ramos, the Real Madrid defense was not at […]

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