Good Old Raul
Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Borris Becker in General
Hi everyone,
First off, before everything. Raul has broken Di Stefano’s record for the most goals scored for Real Madrid and has therefore become, the greatest striker that has ever played in a Real Madrid jersey and guess what. He did not cost a penny, came from the youth system when he was snatched by Real Madrid by none other than Atletico Madrid).
Raul is the greatest goal scorer of all time for Real Madrid STATISTICALLY. If talent and skills are taken as criteria s then I think it would either be Stefano, Puskas or may be, in recent times, Ronaldo and before you point fingers, let me just say that Zidane and Figo were not strikers (Dumb, I know).
Raul did not do much in our previous game against Santander which Real Madrid won 1-0 at home. The only goal of THAT game came from Higuain and what a goal that was. Just wonderful. It was a through ball behind the defence to Higuain, he was being closely marked as he made his way at full pace inside the penalty box. Higuain made a fake shot and cut the ball inside the defender which left him blank and then finished the move from an impossible angle. Superb goal.
However, Raul was the man in the game this weekend against Gijon while Higuain took the backseat as quite frankly he missed some sitters.
Anyway, Real Madrid won their 7nth straight league game this Sunday with a 0-4 away win against Sporting Gijon (not the strongest side in La liga) and are now 10 points behind Barcelona, who drew their match with Real Betis (Damn that Eto’o, I wish he was still playing for Real Madrid). Anyway, Barcelona were 0-2 down at half time but two goals in the second half by Eto’o saw Barcelona earn a vital point which could prove to be decisive come the later stages of the league.
Hopefully, I think this is where Barcelona’s purple patch is going to come to an end and I hope it does. I think, they will start to loose some points and by that I do not mean, that they will loose like 5 games in their next 10 matches, just that, now other teams will look at this result and will get some motivation that they can beat Barcelona atleast away from home where Barcelona have the history of not performing well (this season, they have broken all record, home and away, so that is not really a big plus, but hye, Real Madrid need the slightest edge that there is to win the league this time around).
Coming to Real Madrid’s match this weekend. It was an awesome performance, without Robben and Guti, we managed to beat Gijon by a comprehensive margin. I just love Diarra, man he marshells the field like no other, no wonder they call him the next Makalele. He is so strong for his size and anticipates really well.
Sergio Ramos and Marcelo were other notables. Sergio Ramos had an almost perfect game, he really took control of the right flank. Suceh a dynamic defender. He has speed, control and everything that you would want in a defender, not to mention the good looks (which is rare these days in football, if you do not believe me, then have a look at Patrice Evra and Vidic Lolz). Point is, that defenders are not the most beautiful people on the planet.
First goal was scored by Raul and it really showed that why Raul is one of the best strikers of the past decade. Sergio Ramos drilled the ball into the penalty box and Raul just got a foot to it, into the back of the net.
After that, it was just easy going as Gijon tried but just did not have enough power in attack to threat the pace of Pepe and Sergio Ramos (though Cannavaro and Heinze are not slow by any means, hmmmmm, on second thought, I think Heinze is slow, damn slow).
Marcelo added the third goal which also a nice move built with the help of Higuain and Raul. Juande Ramos has done well to define the positions of certain players in this squad and that I think is very important when you are considering that Real Madrid is the biggest club in the world. the reason why Manchester United are winning so much these days is that, every player on their squad knows his exact position, so if any of their key players get injured, they just replace him with another that is equally as efficient as the one replaced.
Juande Ramos, now has changed Marcelo’s position a little bit and now Marcelo plays on the left wing but I do not know how long thi will last, as though Marcelo has performed well there, I think Juande Ramos is only doing this because Real Madrid is short of left sided players this season.
The second goal was scored by Huntelaar (and there is nothing to describe about that goal apart from the fact that he did not take a touch and hit the ball the first time as the ball was coming down from some height and the goal keeper was rushing towards him, wait….. did I say that he took it on his first touch, yeah actually he did, but he let the ball bounce once). Shu, am I relieved or what. Now Juande Ramos says that Huntelaar will play more from now on, well ofcourse he would, he has scored a goal now. It is going to interesting to see how Juande Ramos would have managed this side had there been no injuries to Real Madrid this season, but we will leave that for another day.
The fourth goal was added by Raul. It was just a stupid little goal. All the work was done by Higuain, he controlled a loopy ball outside the penalty box (on the right side of the pitch) and then beat 3 defenders and then took a shot as soon as he reached the top of the penalty box, his shot was not blocked well by the keeper who spilled it into the path of on coming Raul who converted the opportunity with ease.
Now what Real Madrid would want to do is to win all of the remaining games in La Liga (do not call me stupid as I am talking about what Real Madrid would WANT to do, not what they WOULD do, you know, just like Roger Federer. When Roger was asked, what we wanted to do this year (at the start of the season), he said that he wanted to win Australian Open and then the French and then Wimbledon and then US OPEN, lolz, he lost the Australian Open and there is no chance of him winning the French I think, though I would love it if Roger wins that) and hope that Barcelona loose atleast 4 games before the next El Clasico, for me, Real Madrid have to win that Derby, no matter what. No matter what.
HALA MADRID!!!!
