Raúl

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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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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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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Would You Pick Real Madrid Or Barcelona?

by Rami Soufi on September 17, 2009 · 2 comments

It is mouth-watering just to imag­ine a match fea­tur­ing the likes of Cris­tiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xabi Alonso and Karim Ben­zema tak­ing on an oppos­ing team which includes Lionel Messi, Thierry Henry, Xavi Her­nan­dez and Zla­tan Ibrahi­movic to name just a few. The dream of many foot­ball fanat­ics has come true fol­low­ing a spend­ing frenzy by Los […]

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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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Real Madrid vs Juventus: 3 Things to Look For

by Michail Adzhiashvili on July 31, 2009 · 12 comments

I should clar­ify, 3 Things to Look  For- From a Madrid Per­spec­tive. This is a Span­ish soc­cer web­site after all. Although the pre­sea­son is young, sev­eral trends have emerged in Real Madrid’s per­for­mences and it will be inter­est­ing to see if they con­tinue when Real take on the Old Lady of Ital­ian Foot­ball, Juven­tus(Kick-off: Fri­day, July 31 2009, 20:30 […]

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