Real Madrid 2-3 Valencia
Villa gave valencia the lead in 35th minute with a neat finish. Real madrid immediately reacted and raul scored the equalizer in the 36th minute after a nice curled cross from robinho, raul headed the ball into the back of the net. Raul pounced on another opportunity in the second half, 55th minute mark when baptista stole the ball and slipped it to guti who played a nice ball to raul and he slipped it past the valencia keeper.
Real madrid was showing one of it’s best performances of this season, but they became arrogant for me, real madrid players looked like as if they were the king of the world, which is obviously not the case anymore as they lost to roma in the champions league. There was no drive in real madrid players to go for the 3rd or keep it solid at the back, despite reaching valencia’s penalty box 30 times that evening the whites ended up on the loosing side.
I was just shocked when I saw how lethargic real madrid players looked after the second goal, misplaced passes were seen and real madrid players were loosing possession, not evening bothering to chase after the ball after being dispossessed. It was just awful, not the way real madrid was playing but the attitude was just so bullish, so cocky so to say.
Eventually, valencia realised that while real madrid are dreaming about another easy win, they could actually get a goal or two and get a goal they did, when silva was brought down by so called world player of the year 2007 cannavaro, a needless penalty, though soft but needless, silva had is back towards the goal and that was not enough for cannavaro to not to push him in the back.
Villa took the penalty and send casillas the wrong way,2-2 was the score line. Real madrid players finally started to bother about completing the game and then think about the night after, but it was too late, valencia had built up too much momentum by then, real madrid pushed some players forward to get the third for the winner but left spaces behind.
In the 86th minute real madrid was made to pay for their supercilious attitude and valencia scored the goal, the winning goal which cut down real madrid’s lead to just four points. Next up is sevilla at the bernabeau, another chance for the whites to augment their lead.
I just want to point out once again the lack of discipline real madrid players showed and finally they had to pay for it, especially guti, man I wish real madrid send him on loan or whatever, because I know he is a good player, can become a great player but he is not consistent enough to wear that white shirt of real madrid, one match he playes like kaka and another match he plays like, flamini of arsenal(which means exceptionally poor). The best thing would be to trade him with deigo, a premanent solution
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