All posts tagged "Real Madrid"

  • MOTD: Real Madrid 1-0 Atletico Madrid (1-0 agg)

    Nothing has come easy for Javier Hernandez at Real Madrid, so naturally, neither did his first Champions League goal for the club. He only appeared as a replacement for the unavailable Karim Benzema, and was caught up...

    • Posted April 22, 2015
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  • MOTD: Atletico Madrid 0-0 Real Madrid

    Emotions were running so high that Mario Mandzukic would probably have taken off with a needle dangling from his head from the Atletico Madrid medical team had his services been urgently required while he was off receiving...

    • Posted April 14, 2015
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  • Why El Clasico trumps all

    England’s horrid week in football will only get more embarrassing; two great derbies are set to take place this weekend, Liverpool-Manchester United and El Clasico, but once again England will be trumped by their foreign counterparts in...

    • Posted March 20, 2015
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  • Nothing in Martin Odegaard’s path to greatness but himself

    Not even a year ago Martin Odegaard was a youth team player at Stromsgodset, and it was only last May that the then 15-year-old signed his first professional contract.  It stands testament to his astronomical rise that...

    • Posted January 22, 2015
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  • 2014 Club of the Year – Real Madrid

    The case of picking the world’s best player has, for the past five years, been easy. There is a fifty percent chance you will get it right as long as you stick with the only two viable...

    • Posted December 25, 2014
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  • Admitting, and not admitting defeat – Thoughts from two UCL matches

    Jose Mourinho, prior to his Real Madrid side facing Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League today, said that “against the most difficult opponents, I will try to go with my best team”. It was a thinly veiled...

    • Posted November 4, 2014
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  • MOTD: Real Madrid 3-1 Barcelona – El Clasico delivers again

    Its expectations keep getting higher and higher, but somehow, El Clasico keeps meeting them. The match’s television ratings smash even those of the Champions League final, with an estimated half billion tuning in around the world, and...

    • Posted October 25, 2014
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  • MOTD: Liverpool 0-3 Real Madrid

    Anfield has been the backyard playground of so many greats down the years. Robbie Fowler, Ian Rush, and more recently, Steven Gerrard. And while Gerrard was on the pitch at Anfield tonight, as captain of Liverpool, it...

    • Posted October 22, 2014
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  • Where will Ronaldo and Messi be in 5 years?

    Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are arguably the best two players the world has ever seen. Certainly, as their careers begin to wane, it is up for debate whether they matched those careers of namely Diego Maradona...

    • Posted October 13, 2014
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  • Ronaldo return may actually happen

    It goes without doubt that every summer until it happens there will be rumors of Cristiano Ronaldo returning to Manchester United, and has been just a few seasons after he made his original move away from United....

    • Posted September 25, 2014
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