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Before the final whistle had sounded, the brow-furrowing and hand-wringing and calls for Carlo Ancelotti’s head had already begun. Real Madrid, looking less than resplendent in their hot pink away kits, were staring at a 4-2 defeat at the hands of Real Sociedad – a team they beat 9-1 on aggregate last year and a team they had not lost to since 2004. Just two matches into the season, the outlook in Madrid seems to have taken a drastic turn southward. Adding James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos in the offseason had Real fans dreaming of a triple. Now, after the Sociedad loss and an unimpressive opener against promoted Cordoba, clouds have started to form over El Bernabeu.
The question now remains – are the clouds here to stay, or is it merely a storm passing through? Luckily for Madrid fans, Los Blancos’ rough start is most likely an aberration – a result of the team working to gel with new additions Kroos and Rodriguez, while coping with the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo and the departure of Xabi Alonso. Rome was not built in a day, and sporting empires are not typically built in a single match.
The biggest problem facing Madrid is luckily one that will eventually come to pass, and that is Ronaldo’s flagging health. Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Rodriguez are three of the best strikers in the world, yet they are not Ronaldo. When a team is built around a talent as transcendent as Ronaldo, no amalgam of players can compensate for his absence. As well as Bale and Benzema played during Madrid’s title run last year, they were playing with Ronaldo most of the time. Bale and Rodriguez are both insanely promising talents, yet they are both still young and need more time to develop into the kind of strikers that and offense can be built around. Until Ronaldo returns to full health, this is not the same side that looked so dominant last year.
While that problem will eventually solve itself, the other problems facing them are more permanent. The first is the departure of Alonso to Bayern Munich. This is mitigated by the earlier arrival of Kroos, who is highly talented and eight years younger. However, while Kroos is probably a more talented midfielder, he lacks the experience and intelligence of Alonso. Although Ronaldo is the club’s leading player, Alonso was the heart and soul of Real for the past five years. That cannot be replaced immediately, and it it will take time for the team to figure out who they are now that the former Liverpool man is gone. For the meantime the side’s raw talent should be enough to compensate for the loss of Alonso. &nbsp;A combination of veteran leadership from Ronaldo and Iker Casillas should also help.
The final problem facing Madrid is the most difficult to rankle with, and that will be incorporating new additions Rodriguez and Kroos into the lineup. In theory, more talent will bring about more success, but talent must be integrated and utilized correctly for it to be truly effective.
The solution to this problem is actually very straightforward, but it is not a quick fix by any means. The only real solution to this problem is time. The more time the teams spends together, the greater chance they have of becoming a cohesive unit. This is also dependent on Ancelotti’s coaching abilities and the team’s leadership. Kroos and Rodriguez are far too talented to fail in Madrid, especially when world-class talent like Gareth Bale and Ronaldo surrounds them. Their success may not come immediately, but the powers that be in Madrid will be able to help expedite the process.
The road to the treble will never be an easy one to traverse. Right now, for Los Merengues, it may seem as if the end of the trail is so far out of sight that it does not exist. Just because clouds may obscure it now, however, does not mean that it is not there. So hold tight, Los Blancos. The clouds are dissipating ever so slowly and right now patience is a virtue.

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On Monday morning, David Moyes arrived at Manchester United’s Carrington training complex to start work, a whole 42 days ahead of schedule. In another line of work, Moyes would be commended for his professionalism, or, on the flip side, he might be encouraged to enjoy his time off by his flabbergasted employers. However, working for The Red Devils is a full-time job, and though Moyes is destined for a short holiday, there is little doubt that his mind will be concentrated firmly on the task at hand.
Amongst many objectives, one of the Scot’s top priorities is to undertake the club’s transfer proceedings, which are always under the intense microscopic eye of fans and journalists alike. With Sir Alex Ferguson having departed after 26 and a half years at the helm, it is up to his successor to continue the magisterial triumphs that United have been afforded over the past two decades. Though there are rumors swirling around that the swashbuckling Cristiano Ronaldo might be on his way back to romance The Theatre of Dreams, the reality of proceedings is a far cry from the champagne fantasies that many United fans like to entertain.
In truth, Moyes will have to aim a little lower than the likes of Ronaldo, Falcao and Gareth Bale. Such prospects may excite you to <a href="http:\/\/sports.williamhill.com/bet/en-gb">place your bets online</a> on who United are most likely to sign, but they are surely out of the question, and though they would inevitably make a profound impact on a squad that is still lacking a touch more excellence, it is not United’s attack line that needs addressing. With Ferguson gone, perhaps United will now seek out a dexterous central midfielder to support Michael Carrick, who was more or less left to solely hold the fort last season. The Geordie-born midfielder duly undertook the task with aplomb, but if he had not been around so frequently his team-mates would have suffered a great deal.
With Paul Scholes retired, Darren Fletcher hampered by a chronic bowel condition, and the likes of Tom Cleverley and Anderson failing to step up a gear, the issue of midfield is now more pressing than ever. If the team is to continue its trophy-winning haul in the forthcoming years, the chasm in the middle must be filled. So, step forth Marouane Fellaini, the man Moyes brought to Goodison Park for a club record fee of £15 million.
Last weekend, the gangly Belgian dropped a barefaced hint that he would be interested in a move to the English champions when discussing the subject of a potential transfer with The Sunday Mirror:
<blockquote>“If I’m leaving Everton, I say, it will depend on lots of factors,” Fellaini told the paper.
“I only want to go to a club where the manager really wants me.
“In 2008, Everton did everything to convince me, especially David Moyes. He made me the player I am now.”</blockquote>
Fellaini also revealed that Moyes had told him he wanted him to become a deep-lying midfielder in the future, as opposed to the role of an attacker that he has assumed in the last few years.
<blockquote>“I’m not a number 10. David Moyes predicts my future as a defensive midfielder, but due to a lack of offensive power, he plays me up front.
“In the future I want to play as a six or an eight. From there, I can create danger and score goals.”</blockquote>
Although Fellaini halted at the point of implying that he had been harboring desires to leave Everton, stating his contentment at the club, the message was crystal clear. In previous interviews, the midfielder has confessed a desire to play Champions League football, the pinnacle of every professional footballer’s aspirations, and though Everton have made sterling efforts to attain European status, the riches of the teams above them have squashed these hopes again and again. For Fellaini, United would be a perfect fit, giving him the chance to compete for silverware whilst serving a manager who knows his game inside-out. But United and Everton are two polar opposites, and it is debatable as to whether Fellaini has the essential attributes to pull on the red jersey.
Having played in an advanced role last season, due to the dwindling form of Nikica Jelavic at the apex of Everton’s offensive unit, Fellaini has produced decent performances intermittently in the last ten months, his finest coming at the very beginning against Manchester United when he ran riot at Goodisan Park, scoring the only goal to cap off a cogent display of dictatorial robustness. Of course, he can be forgiven for a lack of consistency at times when playing for the greater good of the team, and his sacrifices are most admirable in an age where many players are prone to throwing their toys out of the pram if their egos are not pandered to.
Nevertheless, when Fellaini has been given free reign in the centre of the park, he functions as more of a hindrance than a dictator, a mountainous obstruction for the bigger teams as opposed to a conductor of affairs. It is his strength and size, combined with his warrior-like disposition, that make him an asset, but in the technical department he comes up short in comparison to his contemporaries Carrick, Yaya Toure, Mousa Dembele and Steven Gerrard. On the ball, he is capable and efficient, but often looks clumsy when traveling at speed, and though it can be argued that it is his composition that creates this illusion, there is evidence to suggest that he might not be up to scratch in a United team that likes to play rapid attacking football.
According to research on WhoScored.com, Fellaini averaged 1.3 key passes per game, a stat that bettered that of Michael Carrick’s (1), but came below Toure (1.4), Dembele (1.8) and Gerrard (2.6). Seeing as Fellaini worked higher up the pitch than his fellow compatriots, often in and around the penalty area, this figure is quite lackluster as forward players are responsible for the fluidity and accomplishment of offensive moves. Furthermore, Fellaini was dispossessed on an average of 2.4 times per game, compared with Carrick (0.8), Toure (1.2), Dembele (1.3), and Gerrard (0.8). When it came to passing, Fellaini had a success rate of 79.3 %, with Carrick (88.1), Toure (88.9), Dembele (90.9) and Gerrard (85.5) all bettering the Belgian by quite some distance.
Some will argue of course that statistics are a lousy way of determining a player’s ability, and are only one component of settling a debate. That may be true, for following matches instead of figures is far more important when it comes to judgement. Even so, one cannot ignore the calculations entirely, especially now when technology and research is having such an impact on the modern game, influencing the opinions of even the most seasoned managers. Fellaini’s results are not up to standard with the level he aspires to reach, and United could do better than him, especially if they want to keep up with the pace in Europe where footballing erudites in the mould of Schweinsteiger, Xavi, and Alonso effortlessly dictate the pace of matches with their rangy passing, deft touch, and guileful movement.
On the list of alleged targets United have been mulling over, perhaps Kevin Strootman of PSV Eindhoven would be a better bet. Having already captained the Dutch national team, Strootman would prove to be a valuable acquisition with an affordable price tag in the region of £12-15 million. Strootman is a box-to-box midfielder, equally comfortable on the ball as he is off it, and is never one to duck out of a challenge. In in the Eredivisie, he scored 6 goals and provided 10 assists, impressing many with his snappy passing, purposeful runs, and leadership qualities. On United fan forums, he is the favored choice, and some have compared his game to a little known bloke by the name of Roy Keane.
If Moyes is to sign a player from his old club, Leighton Baines will surely be the man heading to Manchester. With Patrice Evra not getting any younger, Baines would be the ideal replacement after a highly prosperous season marauding up and down the left flank, curling in delicious crosses that Robin Van Persie would thrive upon after a lack of service from the dreary Antonio Valencia, a frequently crocked Ashley Young, and, well…the less said about Nani the better.

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<div style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><div><figure class="image"></figure></div>On the path Real Sociedad is heading, there will be no need to celebrate promotion to the Primera División as they did here in June because they will stay in La Liga.</div>
For a club with an illustrious history, a three-year internment in the purgatory of the Segunda División almost erased the San Sebastián club from the collective consciousness. &nbsp;As with most historical clubs who end up falling to the second division in the past couple of decades (Leeds United, Napoli, Marseille, etc.), the main problem stemmed from crippling financial woes, and in the case of Real Sociedad, they were forced to enter the ignominy of administration in 2007.
As late as the 2002-03 season, the Erreala finished second in La Liga, pipped at the death by Real Madrid by a mere two points. &nbsp;Leading the Madridistas by a point in the penultimate round, Sociedad lost at Balaídos to Celta de Vigo 3-2 while Real Madrid humbled Atlético Madrid 0-4 at the Vicente Calderón with two braces from Raúl and the original Ronaldo. &nbsp;It was no shame for Sociedad to lose at Celta, who would finish fourth that campaign to continue a six-season streak of top-seven finishes, but a final day 3-0 win at Anoeta over Atlético Madrid ultimately came in vain as Real handled Athletic Bilbao 3-1 at the Bernabéu with another Ronaldo double to secure Madrid’s 29th Spanish crown.

That halcyon year, however, was sandwiched in between four seasons previous and four seasons afterward that saw Sociedad finish tenth or worse, and the man that is currently the president of the LFP, José Luís Astiazarán, eventually led Sociedad into the downward spiral as Real Sociedad president before being elected as the head of Spanish professional football in 2005.
With the core of that second-place team gone from Sociedad by 2007 (Xabi Alonso, Nihat Kahveci, Darko Kovacevic, Valeri Karpin, and Agustín Aranzábal), they finished five points from safety and were relegated. &nbsp;With no parachute payments for the relegated teams like what the Premier League does for its relegated clubs, they could not bounce back into La Liga immediately, so three hard years with the likes of Numancia and Xerez promoted ahead of Real Sociedad only threw more dirt on their increasingly covered coffin.
What made the difference last season to earn promotion as the winners of the Segunda División? &nbsp;Antoine Griezmann, please stand up.
Looking at Griezmann just for his physical numbers, he does not jump out as a physical specimen. &nbsp;At a gangly 5′ 8″, his slight stature did not impress any of the clubs in his native France, and only in a chance encounter did the Real Sociedad scouts witness Griezmann’s burgeoning talent in a friendly youth match between Montpellier and Paris Saint-Germain in 2005.
At the tender age of 14 at the time, Sociedad offered Griezmann a one-week trial, then a second-week trial, and then a full youth contract to cross the border and train with the Sociedad youth team. &nbsp;Climbing the ladder within the youth ranks of Sociedad, new Sociedad trainer Martín Lasarte saw enough of the young, 19-year-old Frenchman to give him his professional debut at the beginning of the 2009-10 season, and he immediately became a regular with the first team. &nbsp;Slotted on the left of the three man attacking midfield in Lasarte’s 4-2-3-1 formation, he assisted in numerous goals for Carlos Bueno, Xabi Prieto, and Imanol Agirretxe while providing six goals of his own.
When Real Sociedad officially earned promotion on June 13, 2010, ironically it was a defeat of Celta de Vigo in the penultimate round, the same team that essentially tore the La Liga trophy away from Real in the penultimate round in 2003.
Coming into the 2010-11 La Liga season, Martín Lasarte set out a modest goal of avoiding relegation by reaching the forty-point mark, an aspiration held by all promoted teams. &nbsp;If Lasarte stressed patience with this inexperienced team, their opening round 1-0 victory over Villarreal accelerated expectations for captain Mikel Aranburu’s club. &nbsp;With a settled squad, a couple of new recruits in €2.4 million striker Joseba Llorente and €1.5 million striker Diego Ifrán, whom Lasarte coached while he was at Danubio in Uruguay, and a contract extension for Lasarte through 2012, the Sociedad board’s prudent practices under president Jokin Aperribay look to have returned Real Sociedad back into a stable first division club.
In a respectable ninth place with a chance to climb within one point of a Europa League place heading into the late Sunday kickoff against Atlético Madrid, Lasarte’s men felt confident that they could earn the three points against los colchoneros at Anoeta.
Sociedad had won four of its first five home matches with the one blemish coming against Real Madrid, where Sociedad deserved a share of the points, outplaying Real for large stretches of the match. &nbsp;An Ángel di María golazo and a Cristiano Ronaldo free kick that came off Pepe’s back prevented Sociedad from a landmark victory. &nbsp;Add to the facts that Atlético had not won in San Sebastián since 1991 and had&nbsp;never won at the Estadio Anoeta since it was opened in 1993 gave Sociedad more motivation to defeat Atlético Madrid.
For the first forty-five minutes, Real Sociedad’s defense, which had only given up two goals at home for the season, limited Atlético to potshots from outside the area and the odd header from corner kicks. &nbsp;The txuri-urdin only had three shots for the entire half, but all three were on target and came on three separate scoring chances. &nbsp;Their goal came from a slice of Antoine Griezmann magic, where he mesmerized Luís Amaranto Perea with his footwork and crossed to the six-yard box in a flash, where it is still unclear after many replays whether Tomáš&nbsp;Ujfaluši or Joseba Llorente got the final touch, but Llorente received credit for the goal. &nbsp;On the two other scoring opportunities, David de Gea just got to the ball in the box before Llorente could get a touch, and Llorente’s extended foot in the air from Xabi Prieto’s cross was inches away from making contact with the ball and giving his team a priceless 2-0 lead.
While Atlético seized control in the second half while Sociedad sat back to protect their one-goal advantage, a fifteen second splice of time in the 71st minute turned the match around from a potential 2-0 scoreline for Sociedad to a 1-1 equalizer for Atlético.
Referee Miguel Ángel&nbsp;Ayza Gámez did not blow his whistle for an apparent handball on Tiago Mendes in the box after Ion Ansotegui flicked the ball in Tiago’s direction, and immediately after the no-call, Atlético countered and converted to equalize. &nbsp;José Antonio Reyes started the&nbsp;lightning-quick counter-attack from the disputed call with a sixty yard diagonal ball that found Sergio Agüero in stride at the top of the penalty area, and with a two-on-two with the Sociedad defense, Agüero cut back the ball for Forlán in the box, and Forlán made no mistake with his effort to the left near post and past a stunned Claudio Bravo. &nbsp;Naturally, the Sociedad players acted with justified disgust and dismay after Ayza Gámez refused the penalty calls, but one of the basic tenets of football is to play to the whistle, and they let their guard down for a few seconds, and Atlético capitalized for the tying goal.
If Sociedad felt wronged for Atlético’s first goal, their heads exploded after Atlético’s second goal because&nbsp;the linesman did not call Agüero offside even though he was more than a body length off.
Atlético Madrid would win the match 2-4, capping off nineteen years of frustration in San Sebastián, but Martín Lasarte summarized the match perfectly in his comments to MARCA following this loss:
<blockquote>“Losing is always a bitter feeling but harder to accept in certain circumstances. &nbsp;We tried our best to get a result.”</blockquote>
On pace for fifty-one points and a mid-table finish, Real Sociedad is heading in the right direction both on and off the pitch. &nbsp;While this loss to Atlético Madrid comes with an extra sting because of two no-calls by the referee crew that directly led to two Atlético goals, they can take solace in the idea that they controlled a potential Champions League team for seventy minutes without needing to play perfectly to keep their 1-0 lead.
These types of performances at home will keep Real Sociedad in La Liga for next season and the foreseeable future, and while Antoine Griezmann will likely get snapped up by one of the big European clubs within a year or two, the potential sale of their best talent since Xabi Alonso could continue the renaissance of a club that was an original founder of La Liga in 1928 and has been instrumental in weaving the fabric of Spanish football for the past century.
Fueras de Juego
– Juan Manuel Lillo and Pep Guardiola are close friends, stemming from their time together at Mexican club Dorados de Sinaloa when Lillo was the manager and Guardiola was in his last year as a player. &nbsp;When Guardiola’s Barcelona team hardly played at full form yet won at Almería 0-8 on Saturday, it did not give Guardiola any joy not only because he demoralized and crushed one of his mentors but because Lillo was subsequently sacked following the match. &nbsp;The 0-8 scoreline tied Barcelona’s biggest away win in their history when they defeated Las Palmas 0-8 in 1959. &nbsp;The aura of inevitability and fatalism in the crowd said all that needed to be said, as they did not even make the effort to boo, whistle, or jeer their team with Almería falling six, seven, and eight goals down.
– Not to be outdone by Barcelona’s performance, Real Madrid shook off any notion of a trap game against Athletic Bilbao with an emphatic 5-1 win at the Bernabéu. &nbsp;Cristiano Ronaldo matched Lionel Messi’s hat trick with a hat trick of his own, and while Athletic made it hard for Real for the first hour of the match, an idea foreign to Almería against Barcelona, Real eventually turned on the class and shoved Athletic away with Barcelona now squarely in their crosshairs next Monday night. &nbsp;Real does have a difficult match at Ajax in the Champions League in the midweek, but with qualification to the knockout round already secured, expect a much changed lineup for Ajax to have their best starting eleven healthy for El Clásico.
– Villarreal and Valencia played to a mildly entertaining 1-1 draw in the Valencian derby in the opening match of the round, but more importantly, the draw, combined with the Real and Barça wins, has enlarged the gulf between Real Madrid and Barcelona and the rest of La Liga. &nbsp;Villarreal currently sits third, eight points behind Real Madrid and seven points behind Barcelona, and the only chance that Villarreal has to keep pace with them is for Villarreal to take care of business against Real Zaragoza while El Clásico ends in a draw. &nbsp;It only took twelve rounds to separate Barça and Real from the rest of Spain, and with the new TV deal giving them 34% of the money (17% for each) while the other professional teams split the remaining 66%, Real and Barcelona could make it a two-horse race earlier and earlier in the coming years.

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La Liga Jornada 12 Review: Real Sociedad on the Up and Up Despite the Loss to Atlético Madrid

<a href="http:\/\/epltalk.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2010/04/RealMadrid.jpg"></a><div><figure class="image"><a href="http:\/\/epltalk.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/6/files/2010/04/RealMadrid.jpg"></a></figure></div>The titans of Spanish football will face off next weekend at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in the traditional El Classico which will carry an even greater importance this&nbsp;time because it could decide the&nbsp;league&nbsp;title’s destination. The two clubs are tied on top of la Liga with the same number of points but Los Galacticos are one goal ahead in terms of the goals scored and conceded differential.
Barca have the stronger defensive line while the hosts who are led by record signing Cristiano Ronaldo have the better offensive record. While some might see this clash as a duel between Ronaldo and Barca’s Lionel Messi, this is far from the accurate truth as Los Galacticos have Gonzalo Higuain in their ranks and he is the club’s top scorer with 23 goals to Ronaldo’s 17. In Barca’s case Messi might be the star who is on a level above everyone else but his teammates have a crucial role and their contribution cannot be underestimated. Messi might be the top scorer in la Liga with a stunning ratio of 26 goals in 27 matches and he has provided 9 assists, but midfielder Xavi Hernandez and full-back Daniel Alves&nbsp;have both&nbsp;given 7 assists this season. Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has contributed 15 league goals including the important winner in the match between the two earlier this season.
Real Madrid have won all 15 of their home games so how will Barca cope with that and can they be the first to at least force a draw in Madrid? One key element for Barca will be how long their defenders can hold Real Madrid’s offensive weapons, particularly Ronaldo, in check. The responsibility will fall on the shoulders of club captain Carles Puyol who will have to lead the back-line by example and keep an eye on not just&nbsp; on goal scorers Ronaldo and Higuain, but also be aware of the danger posed by Kaka, Xabi Alonso, Marcelo and Rafael Van der Vaart who all have at least 5 assists or more.
On the other hand, Los Galacticos will rely on home court advantage having won all their games at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in la Liga as well as the marquee&nbsp;players mentioned above. In addition, the Real Madrid defenders will also play a massive role since they will have to contain not just Messi but Swedish striker Ibrahimovic, midfielders Xavi and Andres Iniesta among others. This is shaping up into a clash of epic proportions and the supporters of the beautiful game will be hoping for a spectacle filled with goals and punctuated by fair play.
For the fans of either club the focus will be on achieving victory in order to push ahead with the drive for the Spanish title. Barca would like to retain their crown while Real Madrid are hoping to justify all their spending which reached stratospheric proportions. To some it might be&nbsp; just about&nbsp;Ronaldo versus Messi but who will be celebrating at the end of the match could very well depend on the contribution of their teammates.
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