Big match coming up in the UEFA Champions League for Real Madrid. Big match not in the traditional sense but in the sense that a win at San Siro would really boost Real Madrid’s chances of going into the knockout stages with big confidence.
Real Madrid will surely get through to the knockout stages after group stages I think. I think we need a point or two to make sure that we progress to the next round. That is something Real Madrid has done for ages, but it is the knockout stages where Real Madrid have been struggling for the past 6 years now.
We have not gone past the knockout stages into the 2nd round for that many years now, this is really unacceptable for a club as big as Real Madrid and I think it is one of the main reasons Jose Mourinho has been brought in and given immense amount of money to buy any player that he thinks Real Madrid would need to make sure that it goes through to the next round.
Therefore, just to get our form going I think it is vital that we at least put up a good fight against AC Milan. I know AC Milan is not the AC Milan of the old and quite frankly, it should not be considered amongst the elite clubs in Europe now.
I think Inter Milan have been winning a bit too much in Serie A to give AC Milan any credit of having bad luck or something. I know Real Madrid have also been eclipsed by Barcelona in recent years but their dominance has not been to the level of Inter Milan in La Liga.
We have beaten Barcelona couple of times and the matches we have lost were all close ones except for the 2-6 defeat at home of which we all know that at least 4 were not legal goals or were caused by horrendous mistakes on part of Real Madrid.
I think the main player for Real Madrid would be Oezil. Yeah Oezil not Ronaldo, he will be marked far too tightly. For Higuain or Benzema to be effective, Oezil will have to put in some good passes consistently enough.
For AC Milan, I think Pato and Ibrahimovic would be crucial. Zlatan has a knack of scoring important goals in big matches by pure luck on most occasions. He is far too flamboyant to be an effective player consistently. Most of the time he is complaining to the referee about how he was not allowed to win the air ball despite his huge size or complaining to the teammates for not passing him along his right foot instead of the left.
Robinho, if he plays, will certainly cause havoc in the Real Madrid defense though I am 90 percent sure that we will not start, probably won’t even come on as a sub.
Anyway, lets hope Real Madrid can make a statement through this match to the rest of Europe that this year is going to be Real Madrid’s year.
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