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Valladolid vs. Real Madrid

Real Madrid received their biggest blow this season after being knocked out of CL. This team once again failed to do their work correctly under the spotlight. Although I’m sure that if you have seen the match against Lyon you would agree with me that Real Madrid deserved much more. The first 40 minutes was one of the best Real Madrid’s this season where they missed a huge amount of big and easy chances including an incredible open-goal miss by Higuain. When the first half ended, Real Madrid could have been up 4-0 easily. The second half we can say that Lyon manager was smarter than Real Madrid’s manager Pellegrini putting in more midfielders to create traffic. As the time passed Real Madrid players fell into the trap of doing everything by themselves and the team paid a very high price for this excessive individuality from their stars. We can consider this year as a year of failure once more because it is obvious that we expect more from a team that spent 250 million Euros on summer. But I believe that this is why they will return to their winning ways against Valladolid as it is the only thing they have left and will definitely hold on to it as if it was matter of life or death. They will be counting with all their stars once more and this is a great moment for them to heal their wounds and rebuild confidence.

Valladolid is clearly one of the worst teams in La Liga. Not a single victory in at least the last 10 matches which is quite a worrying fact for them. I think that they will surely fall into the hypnotizing effect of seeing football stars in front of them just like when Barça visited them and won 0-3 with excessive easiness. There is not much to add to this team for this match.

Real Madrid so far is the most solid team in league and probably the most convinced of winning this title as they have been week after week winning matches in the cat and mouse game in order to catch Barça and will surely defend their leadership with everything they have left. This year is already a failure for them but they will be much happier if Barça ends with nothing this year and for that they need to make sure they win this league. Lyon exposed their weakness this week but for that it required a huge amount of teamwork, skill, patience and luck. Valladolid is too weak to surprise Real Madrid.

Real Madrid should win this easily by at least a 2 goal margin. Real Madrid -1. 50 AH @ 1. 92 looks great.

Record Date : 12/03/2010 19:18