Sunday, April 8, 2012

Los Che Visit The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, as Mourinho and Co look to Extend lead Over Rivals

The Rampant Madridistas host Valencia tonight in a fixture that is sure to guarantee plenty of goals, and exciting footbaling moments.

Real Madrid are currently top of the Spanish league standings with 78 point .leading Barcelona by 3 point and a game in hand. Valencia are third place with 48 points leading 4th place Levante only on goal difference. Valencia Coach Unai Emery has praised his team ahead of the fixture and believes his team has the quality to achieve a positive result. He mentioned in the pre match press conference that keeping Rolando quiet throughout the game will be the decisive factor. 
"Cristiano has scored 35 goals this season and keeping a hold on him has to be one of our targets. We have to be optimistic," 

Valencia Coach will instruct player to double up on Ronaldo 


Real Madrid has won 7 out of 8 home games this season scoring 100 goals, averaging 3.3 goals per match.
they recently reached the champions league semi finals ,they face German Power house Bayern Munich on 17 April.Cristiano Ronaldo has been influential for the Los blancos he  became the fastest player to reach 100 goals in the Spanish league ,he achieved this extraordinary feat in only 92 games. Ronaldo will be looking to add to his goal tally as he currently trailing the mercurial Argentine Lionel Messi by 1 goal. Fellow blancos Karim benzema and Gonzalo Higauin have also been on good goal scoring runs with 17 and 20 goals respectively. Jose Mourinho will be happy to see Pepe back in the staring line up after serving a domestic ban of two games. Alvaro Arbeloa is likely to replace fellow Spanish international Sergio Ramos as the Central Defender is serving a suspension. 

Valencia duo Sergio Canales and Miguel have recovered from their knee and hamstring injuries, respectively, and the latter has a chance of making the bench. Captain David Albelda and defender Victor Ruiz are likely to be restored to the starting XI after being omitted from the squad for Thursday's Europe League victory over AZ.

Probable Line Ups 




Casillas
Arbeloa, Pepe, Albiol, Marcelo
Khedira, Alonso
Di Maria, Ozil, Ronaldo
Benzema







Guaita
Barragan, Rami, Ruiz, Mathieu
 
Albelda, T Costa
Feghouli, Jonas, Alba
Soldado



Final Verdict 


With real Madrid s great home record, and the Valencia's poor away form this one is not very hard to call. The last time Valencia beat real Madrid was back in march 2008, and that was with the like s of David villa and David Silva in their ranks. Nothing is impossible when it comes to football however, Valencia do have a bright young side, they may be the underdogs but do posses the quality to upset teams of Madrid’s caliber. I’m giving this one to real Madrid as I think this season they just have too much attacking flair for any team to handle. 


Real Madrid                                                         Valencia

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