Om vores rivaler VII

Kom så Sevilla!!
Dette års liga er super. Med nogle kæmpe kampe på det fremtidige program. Barca-Atletico på sidste spilledag!!!
Den skal nok spille sig ud til vores fordel ;-)

Diego Costa er og bliver en ulækker fodboldspiller. Jeg kan ikke fordrage tanken om at skulle glo på ham til sommerens VM-slutrunde. Han fortjente godt nok at få det slag, som han lige modtog fra Fazio.

Roesen7 skrev:
Nu ligner det godt nok, at Atletico får sig 3 point, men ligaen ser da væsentlig bedre ud nu end ved årsskiftet. Fortsættes den gode stime frem til marts måned, så bliver det virkeligt spændende. En marts måned der både byder på El Derbi Madrilleno samt El Clasico!

Lykkedes det mig lige, at jinxe lillesøsters sejr? ;-)

Sikke dog en dejlig søndag!

Mange neutrale fodbold fans har nydt og er blevet fans af det spanske landshold, men det skal der nok bliver ændret på i den grad, med den helt igennem usportslige Diego Costa på holdet.

Iøvrigt endnu engang en helt fantastisk spille runde for os. På blot 2 spille runder har vi indhentet 4 point på Puta 1 og Puta 2.

Yeah genial søndag:)

Er det bare mig eller er der andre, der også synes at vores formkurve er en del bedre end de to øvrige konkurrenter? Vi har hentet den ene sejr efter den anden. Truppen ser mere spillet sammen end længe set, mindre skader og bredden er en anelse bedre end de to andre. Vi har ikke indkasseret nogle mål og har forbedret vores målsnit, så vi er foran Atl. Madrid og mangler et par kasser i forhold til Barca.

Netop Barcelona ser trætte ud, mindre sultne og deres mangler bliver udstillet når de møder et hold, der står godt defensivt og kompakt. ikke at vi selv ikke har problemer med disse hold, men som tingene er lige nu er det os der indhenter de andre og de mister point. Læg dertil at Barcelona igen skal møde Levante på udebane/hjemme om få dage i CDR. Det trækker lidt tænder, selv om jeg regner med at de går videre.

Atl. Madrid har store problemer for tiden, synes jeg. Godt nok er det vildt imponerende at de kun har tabt én kamp i de sidste 31 kampe (i alle turneringer, mod Espanyol ), men som jeg har observeret (jeg kan tage fejl) er deres bredde ikke noget at råbe hurra for. De har haft hård modstand i CDR og kommer til det igen (Mod Athletic Bilbao), hvor de igen er tvunget til at stille op i næsten stærkest mulig opstilling. Alt det her er på få dage, hvor Simeone heller ikke kan undgå at have lidt fokus på de kommende kampe i CHL som hastigt nærmer sig.

Det ser godt ud for Madrid. Lige nu handler det om at vinde næste kamp for at lægge maks pres på de to øvrige hold. Hvem ved, måske snubler en af dem igen. Vi kan kun håbe.

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Vi har der lavet flere kasser end både Barca og Atl.

Alt kan stadig ske, men at hente 4 point ind på vores 2 rivaler over 2 runder, er mere end jeg havde turdet håbe på.

Det kan self vende også. Vi skal snart møde Bilbao ude og Villarreal hjemme, så der skal ikke mere end en Ramos hjerneblødning til at ødelægge det hele, men iøjeblikket ligger vi bedre end længe.

Vores trussel bliver helt klart Barca. Alt. Madrid kommer til at halte efter i anden halvdel. De kan ikke klare presset. Tabte point mod tamme Sevilla idag, hvor de kunne have taget et stort skridt mod mesterskabet. Der skal ikke mere end et par skader til nogle profiler... Også at spille med de samme hele tiden kommer til at gøre dem trætte. Den måde de spiller på kræver mange kræfter fra spillerne.

Vi mangler at får Isco op i gear og Khedira vil være en stor bonus, hvis han kommer tilbage i nogenlunde form sidst på sæsonen.

Problemet med Simeone's tropper er, at han altid bruger de samme 11 spillere, og det er både i ligaen, Cl og Cdr. Så det er klart de kommer til at miste nogle point, og spillerne ser trætte ud. De får gummiben og deres bredde er langtfra god nok. Det er synd Barca og At. Madrid først skal mødes i sidste spillerunde igen, for der er At. Madrid højst sandsynligt slået ud af Cl, og mesterskabet vil de ikke længere være en bejler til tror jeg.

Dejlig weekend, omend jeg "tabte" 2700 kr. på oddset, da At. Madrid ikke vandt med 1 mål. Pointtab er dog mere værd end penge :)

Kamp programmet ser fint ud og vores bredde, men vi skal stramme mere op endnu. Vi har det dog i vores egne hænder.

Barca hjemme
Villareal hjemme
Bilbao ude
ath madrid ude

Real Madrid Look Hot for Liga Glory as Barcelona Will Falter; Atletico Will Tire

One game into the second half of the season and a cursory look at the Liga table shows you don’t have to be a footballing genius to work out that, barring a miracle, the winner of the 2013-14 title will be Barcelona, Atletico Madrid or Real Madrid.

That said, I’ve seen nothing in the first half that can sway me from my original prediction that Real Madrid will be crowned champions in May.

Let’s take a look at the three contenders.

As it was last year, the second half of the season could well prove to be a difficult time for Atletico. Back then, having amassed 44 points out of an available 57 at the halfway stage, they went on to notch just 32 in the reverse fixtures and I expect a similar outcome this time around.

Having broken all kinds of records last year, Diego Costa is still to score in 2014. Meanwhile, Diego Simeone knows his best side and along with that comes a reluctance to rotate, a dangerous game when you’re battling for the league, cup and Champions League.

But Simeone is of the opinion that tiredness is a state of mind and that when things are going well you can push your players that bit more. Unfortunately without fresh legs, things begin to get a bit stale.

That said, the Atletico coach puts great faith in his fitness team and the side, like Real and Barcelona, have been putting in extra sessions over the Christmas break in a mini pre-season type of exercise. He is also hoping, no doubt, that a slightly larger squad will make them more consistent in the second period.

However Josuha Guilavogui has not added much and the jury is still out on Jose Sosa, although Adrian is showing more this season than he did last. It’s crunch time for Atletico and for me I still see them more suited to the sprints of the cup tournaments than the marathon that is La Liga.

Barcelona will, I feel, continue to falter because the structure of the side continues to rely too heavily on the individual quality of certain players at the expense of the team collective. As a result when teams make it hard for them, as Levante did, everything depends on the ‘big boys’ turning up. When they don’t, it ends in tears, and it will happen again before the end of the season.

All teams play—or at least should play—to their strengths. So what you get is rapid counter attacks from Real and loads of hard work and counters from Atletico. Meanwhile at Barcelona what you’re getting is a system that mixes possession with counters. A system that I have always said doesn’t suit the players Tata Martino has in his squad.

The team that are now really finding their feet are Real Madrid.

Carlo Ancelotti is settling on a 4-3-3 formation, albeit with a line-up that has changed following the injury to Sami Khedira.

Angel Di Maria is getting the nod in midfield, ahead of the highly rated Isco who Ancelotti clearly believes is not yet ready to command an automatic place in the Real Madrid starting XI. The Argentinian has scored in each of his last two games and, while he is perhaps a bit too direct to be a natural midfielder, works harder without the ball than his Spanish counterpart.

Alongside him are Xabi Alonso and Luka Modric. The latter has been outstanding and is certainly Real Madrid’s best player this season.

We still have yet to see the very best of Gareth Bale and probably won’t this time around because, despite scoring, he is not involved enough in the game, although this will surely come.

bleacherreport.com/articles/1929751-real...r-atletico-will-tire

Barcelona paid 95 million euros for Neymar, says El Mundo

The newspaper claims that a High Court investigation into the deal has discovered a 10-million-euro signing-on bonus and unjustified commissions.

Barcelona’s signing of Neymar was the most expensive in history and the Catalan club hid the true figures involved in the deal, according to reports in El Mundo on Monday.

According to the Spanish newspaper, Barça “paid 95 million euros for the signing of Brazilian forward Neymar Da Silva Santos, not the 57 that club president Sandro Rosell officially declared. In other words, 38 million euros more.”

The figures appear in “the contracts signed between the Azulgrana club and the Brazilian player." The newspaper insists it has had access to the documents, which are in the hands of a Spanish judicial investigation.

The documents, says the publication, detail “commissions of millions of euros for Neymar’s family” which up to now have remained “concealed”.

El Mundo reports that the player’s family was paid 8.5 million euros for a variety of purposes and with no actual obligation to provide anything in exchange.

The newspaper explains: “Two million euros went to the player’s father to scout ‘new promising players at Santos’, the club from which Neymar was signed by Barcelona. Four million more for the supposed task of attracting ‘advertising contracts with Brazilian companies’ and a further 2.5 for Neymar’s family, theoretically to go on social purposes, specifically to help ‘the children in the favelas of Sao Paulo’.”

The paper also claims that the documents show the existence of a clause in the player’s deal “through which he will earn a minimum of 54 million euros gross throughout the duration of his contract,” a quantity that the club would reportedly pay even if Barcelona do not win the necessary trophies to reach that amount.

According to El Mundo, Neymar’s father will earn “a 5% commission on the 54 million euros quoted. In total, 2.6 million euros.”

as.com/diarioas/2014/01/20/english/1390224247_364732.html