There is a big chunk of season left
Real Madrid lost 0-5 to Barcelona at the Camp Nou. To many people Barcelona humiliated Real Madrid. Mauled Real Madrid. Destroyed Real Madrid. Not to me and not to Jose Mourinho. As from his interview after the game, he also said that Real Madrid lost but not humiliated.
Real Madrid were at their worst when they faced Barcelona, who were at the absolute best. Add to that , poor performances individually by the likes of Ronaldo, Pepe and Sergio Ramos and there you have it, a 5-0 scoreline that no team deserves.
Anyway, much has been made about what happened a on monday. People have formed opinions and lots of opinions. From theleaguebeing over to the utter destruction of the image of the club due to the mauling handed by Barcelona and the misconduct of Jose Mourinho in the game against Ajax in UEFA Champions League. But here are 2 reasons why any of that is of little importance.
- Despite the fact that we lost 5-0, had we even lost 10-0, Barcelona is and would have remained just 2 points ahead of us.
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hehe, you can give us 2 reasons why it wasn’t a blow. I can give you a 100 reasons why it was 😛
play nicely
A Record 400 million around the World saw the destruction Barca handed to Madrid, this was a Madrid team who’s players (Ronaldo) claimed they would beat Barca, a Madrid team claimed by most as the best Barca would face. They came in unbeaten in all competitions, with the best goals for and against. Ronaldo even challenged Barca to score 8 against them…a sarcastic comment in response to Barca’s previous weeks demolition at Almeria…..Barca almost did score 8 and maybe should have. Mourinho said he knows how to plan the game with his eyes closed mmmmmmm…not sure about that, he lost twice to Barca last year in the Champions League in 4 matches failing to score in 3, one lucky 3-1 win and he is the best. Commentators and pundits worldwide alike said they never witnessed such footballing master class in their lives, a master class handed to a team which was built with over 300.00 million by a team with 8 youth products in their line up. It was like boys against men, Barca were too quick for Madrid to even put in a tackle. Madrid weren’t poor, it’s just that Barca were too good for them, its not as if they came in to the came in poor form, they were destroying everyone else until they got destroyed themselves. Humiliation has no relations to whether you are only 2 points behind or 2 points ahead, humiliation means a 5-0 destruction and the manner of it in front of millions around the world, and then the dirty tackles and unprofessional behaviour which followed once that humiliation set in to the minds of the Madrid players, when one is shamed or embarrassed then they lose their cool…that’s exactly what happened towards the end. Real should sell Ronaldo…..even Tom, Dick and Harry can score against lower teams but fail when it matters.
Head to head goal difference counts though. Oh, and Madrid weren’t at their worst, they were playing winning football in the 17 games prior to it.. Barcelona just mauled you. If you not embarrassed about it, your deffinatley not a true Madridista. 5 goals is huge either way, win or loose, if I were you I’d be embarassed.
But saying that, the league isn’t over, there’s still plenty to go!
This is a horrible attempt at excusing the capitulation of the world’s most expensive team to the world’s best. Real Madrid and Mourinho should have the decency to give credit where credit’s due and Monday night’s game was billed as the clash of the century because both teams up till then set the pace in La Liga. Barca demonstrated that teamwork rather than individualism triumphed and given the money Madrid have spent you would expect some sort of performance against quality opposition particularly from Ronaldo, Ozil, Di Maria and the “special one”! Sure – if you think Madrid need time to gel then in my opinion I thought they already had with their results in La Liga and the Champions League so far. Simply put, Barca outplayed, outwitted and outclassed their greatest rivals – have done for the last 5 meetings (6-2 @ the Bernabau was my favourite!).
Keep on that positive attitude. It’ll be good for your self-esteem just like it was for the last two season. Yeah so what what if it’s 5-0 or 1-0 or 0-2 or 2-6 for that matter.
Had it been the other way. I know I would scream my hearts out so the world can hear me say Madrid is the best team ever and with Mou, my team have the best coach ever. Yeah….