Thursday, April 14, 2011

Champions League: Real Madrid is looking forward to matches against Barcelona

"El Clasico" in the premier class: the German international Mesut Özil and Sami Khedira are with the Spanish record champion Real Madrid in the semifinals of the Champions League moved, where they take on arch-rivals FC Barcelona. The Royal won the second leg at Tottenham Hotspur by Cristiano Ronaldo's sixth goal of the competition 1-0 (0-0).

Already in the first leg was 4-0 Real have been successful against the English. Thus, it is within 19 days to four youthful duels of the two Spanish football powers. Real fights on Saturday at home in Estadio Santiago Bernabeu is the last chance in the title race, four days later, the rivals are in the Spanish Cup final against Valencia.

The semi-final first leg of the Champions League will be held on 27th April in Madrid, the return match on 3 May at the Camp Nou in Barcelona. Real and Barca were three occasions so far in the European Champions Cup and the Champions League against. Recently the Royal set in the semifinals of the 2001/2002 season with a 2-0 victory in Barcelona and a 1-1 draw at home by then and won the last of their nine titles with a 2-1 in the final against Bayer Leverkusen.

In London, Madrid, left after the clear lead from the first leg burn not much. Star coach Jose Mourinho was up to the yellow-locked central defender Pepe and the full scoop afford the luxury of stars such as Kaka, let Karim Benzema, Angel di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain to start on the bench.

Özil and Khedira played by 90 minutes. Real was the beginning of offensive accents. The first chance Özil awarded but lightly with a weak conclusion (3.) While Cristiano Ronaldo and Emmanuel Adebayor is then how to hack tricks tricks in limited series, Tottenham took slowly to the ex-Hamburg Rafael van der Vaart to ride and always came back to winger Gareth Bale to promising opportunities.

The best striker Roman Pavlyuchenko but was far above the box (27). Also called the "Spurs" after controversial actions in the Real penalty area against Luka Modric (6th) and Pavlyuchenko (28) each without success penalty. At the meeting of the day Cristiano Ronaldo benefited from a mistake of Tottenham goalkeeper Gomes, who let slip the shot of the Portuguese on the finger into the goal (50th).

The only downside for Real: central defender Ricardo Carvalho is missing in the semi-final first leg after the third yellow card.

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