<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2741945684044117767</id><updated>2012-01-30T00:02:24.271-08:00</updated><category term='Empezamos'/><title type='text'>Heads or Tails</title><subtitle type='html'>La suerte del Fútbol... ¿está echada?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2741945684044117767/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2741945684044117767/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Juan y Fer</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10947862095874733601</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>255</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2741945684044117767.post-7128999787114390616</id><published>2010-09-24T07:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-24T07:13:46.661-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TRANSFERS</title><content type='html'>During these months many sport teams are improving their level in order to be a more competitive teams. So, there are a lot of news in all the sports about the transactions. If you want to see all the NBA, Euroleague and top football´s club movements, visit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://transfersaqueneutral.blogspot.com/2010/07/nba-transactions.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;NBA Transactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://transfersaqueneutral.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Euroleague Transactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://transfersaqueneutral.blogspot.com/2010/07/european-football-transfers.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Football Transfers (summer´s market).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regards!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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There are many transfers, but, maybe the more important transactions are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;English Premiership&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/TDYZUSm6RLI/AAAAAAAADm0/BpN7cFQhBzo/s1600/foto+silva+blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491604632008017074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/TDYZUSm6RLI/AAAAAAAADm0/BpN7cFQhBzo/s320/foto+silva+blog.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The protagonists are the London´s club: &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Chelsea&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Arsenal&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Chelsea&lt;/span&gt; has acquired the skilful &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Benayoun&lt;/span&gt; from Liverpool ante the European defender pearl, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Tomas Kalas&lt;/span&gt;, who arrives from Sigma Olomuc –Chelsea paid around 8 million euros to Liverppol-.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Arsenal &lt;/span&gt;looked for a player in order to supply the William Gallas´s departure and finally, the gunners have found a player in the French market, the favourite market for Arsene Wenger, whose election is the Lorient´s central defender, Lorient &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Koscielny&lt;/span&gt;, who is 24 year´s old (transfer fee: 12,5 million euros).&lt;br /&gt;Finally, in the English Premiership, we must remark the arrival of &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Roy Hodgson&lt;/span&gt; as &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Liverpool&lt;/span&gt;´s new manager and the two &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Manchester City´&lt;/span&gt;s acquisition: the powerful &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Touré Yaya&lt;/span&gt; and the elegant Da&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;vid Silva&lt;/span&gt; (around 55 million euros for both players).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Spanish Liga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The most important news is the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Dmitro Chygrynskiy&lt;/span&gt;´s departure from&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; FC Barcelona to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Shakhtar Donetsk&lt;/span&gt;. The catalan club has financial problems ant it needs money to pay the salaries of the players and for this reason the club decided to receive 15 million euro for a players, whose price was 25 million euro, one year ago, what a “great” business!.&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, an argentinian player has arrived to la Liga, &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Valencia &lt;/span&gt;is spending the money received for the David Villa and David Silva´s transfer and it bought an offensive midfielder, &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Tino Costa&lt;/span&gt;, who arrived from Montpellier (transfer fee: 6 million euro).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Italian Serie A&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;the protagonist is&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Juventus Torino&lt;/span&gt;, whose directors have signed three news players: the Uruguayan striker &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Jorge Martinez&lt;/span&gt; from Catania and the defenders L&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;eonardo Bonucci and Motta&lt;/span&gt;. Besides, &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Parma &lt;/span&gt;bought the right of the Bulgarians star &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Bojinov&lt;/span&gt; and the argentinian defender &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Paletta &lt;/span&gt;from Boca Juniors. Finally, &lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt;Mark Bresciano&lt;/span&gt; will play in&lt;span style="color:#339999;"&gt; Lazio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/TDYDA6ONiRI/AAAAAAAADms/zy7K-QVjVKo/s1600/abdel_kader_keita_raw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491580109788645650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 196px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/TDYDA6ONiRI/AAAAAAAADms/zy7K-QVjVKo/s320/abdel_kader_keita_raw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Bundesliga,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Wolfsburg &lt;/span&gt;is the team with more news, since during the last days two good central defender arrived to this team:&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Manuel Friedrich and Simon Kjaer&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Other league&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remark the &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Joao Moutinho&lt;/span&gt;´s transfer from Sporting Portugal to its archi-rival&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Porto&lt;/span&gt; (transfer fee 11 million plus Nuno André), the &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Osorio&lt;/span&gt;´s return to Mexican football (Monterrey), the &lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;Kader Keita&lt;/span&gt; transfer to Al Sadd from Galatasaray (8,1 million euro) –&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Marcelo Bordon&lt;/span&gt; will also play in Qatar, Al Rayyan,- and the arrival of the French star &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Sindey Govou&lt;/span&gt; to Panatinaikos (he was a free agent), the Celtic´s acquisition: Korean left back &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Cha doo-ri&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Mista´&lt;/span&gt;s decision to play in the MSL, in Toronto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Maybe this laziness may be enough to win games against normal teams but it is insufficient in important and complicated games like this draw against FC Chelsea and in fact Inter won only 2 Champions league´s game until this moment, showing a poor image in different games like in the game at the Camp Nou against FC Barcelona. &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;José Mourinho&lt;/span&gt; has to work to have a serious candidate to win this draw against FC Chelsea, which continues as habitual in the last year, with good level both defensive and offensive-it is Premier League´s team with less goals received and besides is the top scorer-.Anyway, one thing is clear, any football fan must watch these games, since the spectacle is guarantee with players like J&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;oe Cole, Didier Drogba, John Terry, Deco, Essien, Ballack, Zhirkov&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lucio, Sneijder, Eto'o, Milito, Julio Cesar, Maicon, Balotelli &lt;/span&gt;... ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;-VFB STUTTGART&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;FC BARCELONA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If FC Barcelona is always a favourite, what we can say this time, since it will play against a team which has many problems during this season:15th position in the Bundesliga-3 wins in 17 games-, it has new coach, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Christian Gross&lt;/span&gt;-former Basle´s coach-, who arrive to replace&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Mar&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6W0mEj1LI/AAAAAAAADlc/JLU1YAMfMVo/s1600-h/foto+jens.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417433232090322098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6W0mEj1LI/AAAAAAAADlc/JLU1YAMfMVo/s320/foto+jens.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;kus Babbel&lt;/span&gt; to try to fix the problems of the team, which has both defensively –it is normal if you have a goalkeeper like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Jens Lehmann&lt;/span&gt;(his last mistake was during the last game where he committed an absurd aggression over the Mainz striker Aristide Bance and the result was a red card and a penalty)-and offensively, since although it has good players like the Romanian offensive midfielder &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ciprian Marica&lt;/span&gt;-perhaps is the best player on the team-or the good Russian striker &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pavel Pogrebnyak&lt;/span&gt;, they are not finding the correct way to get a good sum of goals. So, many problems to can be a real alternative and to have some chances to beat an excellent and powerful team like this current &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, which is being a solid and strong team in all the lines and of course with incredible results, 6 titles in a season, the last, the World Championship after a complicated game against a hard Estudiantes de La Plata. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;OLYMPIACOS&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;GIRON&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6XbDYuo6I/AAAAAAAADlk/8BhCcGxsNH0/s1600-h/gouffran_chamakh_gourcuff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417433892794573730" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6XbDYuo6I/AAAAAAAADlk/8BhCcGxsNH0/s320/gouffran_chamakh_gourcuff.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;DINS BORDEAUX&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good and equalized draw, although we think that Girondins has more chances to play next round, cause the &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Laurent Blanc&lt;/span&gt;´s team is showing that the last season French title was not a fluke and this season, it is showing a great strength both in Le Championat-it is the comfortable leader-and in the Champions League, where it finished in top position of a complicated and strong group with Juventus and Bayern Munich as rivals, showing that is a very balanced team in all lines thanks to the level of players like the defender &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ciani&lt;/span&gt;, the midfielders &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fernando Menegazzo and Alou Diarra&lt;/span&gt;, the imaginative and skilled &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Yoan Gourcuff&lt;/span&gt;-many team, like FC Barcelona, are following this player-, the right winger &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Yoan Gouffran&lt;/span&gt; or as the skilled striker &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Marouane Chamakh&lt;/span&gt;, who, by the way, finish his contract with Girondins this summer. So, it is a very good team and I think that it will impose its quality to &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olof Mellberg, Dudu Cearense, Stoltidis, Enzo Maresca and Costas Mitroglou&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;CSKA &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6YakyzVBI/AAAAAAAADl0/F8G2zVRjpVU/s1600-h/article-1149043-0390F67C000005DC-61_468x346.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417434984094061586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6YakyzVBI/AAAAAAAADl0/F8G2zVRjpVU/s320/article-1149043-0390F67C000005DC-61_468x346.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;MOSCOW&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC SEVILLA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It will also be a balanced draw, since although CSKA is not making a good season in the Russian league-5th position in the standing-, it is a dangerous team in this kind of rounds, since it has a competitive squad with players like the great young goalkeeper, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Igor Akinfeev,&lt;/span&gt; or the solid defender like the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Berezutsky&lt;/span&gt; brothers, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sergey Ignashevich&lt;/span&gt; or the Lithuanian back &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Semberas&lt;/span&gt;, or the experienced midfielder Evgeni Aldonin, or the excellent right midfielder &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Milos Krasic&lt;/span&gt;-possibly the best player of the team and one of the best right midfielder of the world- or “the young pearl” &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Alan Dzagoev&lt;/span&gt;, who is on the agendas of many top European clubs. Perhaps the biggest problem of this team is the lack of a great and top striker and its lack of competition´s games, since the Russian league finish this month and of course it will be complicated to the Russian team to play against a team, whose players are 100% and specially if the rival players are players with the level of players like Jesus &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Navas, Kanoute, Luis Fabiano, Alvaro Negredo or Diego Perotti&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6Y_bVEbhI/AAAAAAAADl8/FLmhHxLvmsM/s1600-h/69cad779-bbe0-4ca5-b318-87fd1009ce03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417435617208593938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 245px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 318px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6Y_bVEbhI/AAAAAAAADl8/FLmhHxLvmsM/s320/69cad779-bbe0-4ca5-b318-87fd1009ce03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC PORTO&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;ARSENAL FC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Arsenal-it will play without the injured&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Robin Van Persie&lt;/span&gt;-will have many problems to beat FC Porto, which is a good team , since &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Jesualdo Ferreira&lt;/span&gt; has competitive players in all the lines if we exclude the goalkeeper &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Helton&lt;/span&gt;. It will be very nice to see the different duels during this draw: the hard &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Bruno Alves&lt;/span&gt;-he scores many goals with his head-and &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Rolando&lt;/span&gt; against &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Theo Walcott and Eduardo&lt;/span&gt;; the competitive &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Fernando, Raul Meireles and Fernando Belluschi&lt;/span&gt; against &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Samir Nasri, Francesc Fàbregas and Andrei Arshavin&lt;/span&gt; or the battle between the great&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Hulk&lt;/span&gt; -the "incredible" Hulk is the best player of the team, he has vision, quality and goal-and the wily &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Radamel Falcao&lt;/span&gt;-8 goals in 12 Superliga´s games-against the Arsenal defensive´s line. So, we have a very attractive battle and although Arsenal is the favourite, it has to play 100%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6 &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;– &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;OLYMPIQUE LYON&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;REAL MADRID&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This draw can be a trap for Real Madrid because although it might seem relatively straightforward, since Olympique is making a poor season in the French league –it is far from the first place of the standing, with a terrible and strange st&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6ZrTThiwI/AAAAAAAADmE/7cEFyOijf94/s1600-h/real-milan2-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417436370968873730" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6ZrTThiwI/AAAAAAAADmE/7cEFyOijf94/s320/real-milan2-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;reak of 3 wins in the last 10 games-, we think that Real Madrid should be careful because the Lyon´s coach&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;, Claude Puel&lt;/span&gt;, is a great strategist and knows to get the best performance of his teams in this kind of games, especially if his squad is composed by good players, like this Lyon, where we can find players like the goalkeeper Lloris-player of the French national team-, or the good midfielders like the strong &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Toulalan and Jean Makoun&lt;/span&gt; or the skilled &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ederson, Michael Bastos&lt;/span&gt; or the young Bosnian &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Miralem Pjnaic&lt;/span&gt; (one of the pearls of European football), or the complete offensive line with players like the skilled &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Lisandro Lopez&lt;/span&gt;- he is adapted 100% to the European football- and the powerful &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Bafetimbi Gomis&lt;/span&gt;. In short, it is a complete team and of course it can trouble Real Madrid, whose performance is uncertain, since until this moment it is not playing very well and we will see if in February &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kaka and Karim Benzema&lt;/span&gt; will be 100% adapted, if the team will have defensive problems after the &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pepe&lt;/span&gt;'s injury.... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;BAYERN MUNICH&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;FIORENTINA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems that finally the Lou&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6aPkrXF4I/AAAAAAAADmM/4TVY79wSuhY/s1600-h/foto+roben+gomez.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417436994107545474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6aPkrXF4I/AAAAAAAADmM/4TVY79wSuhY/s320/foto+roben+gomez.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;is Van Gaal´s team has found the correct way and it is gradually improving its level and after a disappointing start-2 points in the 3 first Bundesliga´s games-,it is making a great final part of the year both in the Bundesliga-it is very close of the top position in the Bundesliga´s standing-and in the Champions League, where it got an amazing win at the Olimpico di Torino (1-4). Great results for a team whose squad is very complete, since we can find players like &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Philipp Lahm, Daniel Van Buyten&lt;/span&gt; or the offensive back &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Danijel Pranjic&lt;/span&gt; in the defensive line, the hard &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Anatoliy Tymoshchuk&lt;/span&gt;, young &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Thomas Müller&lt;/span&gt; (one of ”the german pearls” and one of the sensations of the season), the incredible &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Franck Ribéry&lt;/span&gt; (one of the best in the world), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Arjen Robben&lt;/span&gt; or the dangerous &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bastian Schweinsteiger&lt;/span&gt; as midfielders, or the powerful forward´s line with players like wily &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ivica Olic, Mario Gomez and Miroslav Klose&lt;/span&gt;. So, it is a top team, called to make good thing this season and we think that it will not have many problems to beat Fiorentina, cause Fiore in at this moment far from being a competitive team and in fact it is making a poor Serie A´s season- in the middle of the standing- with many offensive problems, which is a bit strange, since &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Cesare Prandelli&lt;/span&gt; has good offensive players like the young&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt; Jovetic&lt;/span&gt;-the Montenegrin has a great future-,&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt; Gilardino or Adrian Mutu&lt;/span&gt;-he is far from his best level-. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8- &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;AC MILAN&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;MANCH&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6al3ZmxiI/AAAAAAAADmU/rgoXNzvwcs4/s1600-h/_45561231_vidic_ferdinand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417437377090471458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 230px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sy6al3ZmxiI/AAAAAAAADmU/rgoXNzvwcs4/s320/_45561231_vidic_ferdinand.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ESTER UNITED&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is unknown what AC Milan we will see against United, if it will show its Bernabeu´s image-it played well against Real Madrid-or if it will show the other face, the face showed during the game against Inter (0-4, hard defeat) or during the games against modest Zurich. Obviously if the AC Milan wants to have any chance to beat Manchester United, it will need the best of all the stars-it needs the best performance of its best player, the Brazilian &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Alexandre Pato&lt;/span&gt;, who will have a complicated games against the great &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Vidic-Rio Ferdinand&lt;/span&gt;-, playing a hard style, closed game, without concession, impeding the United´s style some tough matches, since if United, which has better defensive and offensive level, can play with speed, it will be the clear favourite and it will pass to the next round without many troubles. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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En fin, equipo con muchos problemas y que no debe ocasionar ningún problema al equipo de &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Pep Guardiola&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;OLYMPIACOS&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;GIRONDINS BURDEOS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eliminatoria pareja pero si nos tenemos que decantar por un equipo, creemos que el Girondins pasará pues el equipo de &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Laurent B&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyulVCy_gXI/AAAAAAAADkM/ez9ExRW9qjo/s1600-h/gourcouff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416604757789737330" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyulVCy_gXI/AAAAAAAADkM/ez9ExRW9qjo/s320/gourcouff.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;lanc&lt;/span&gt; está demostrando que el título de campeón de la liga francesa la temporada pasada no fue una casualidad y este año está mostrando una gran solidez tanto en el Championat-cómodo líder- como en la Chamions League, quedando primero en un grupo fuerte con Juventus y Bayern Munich como rivales, gracias a que tiene un equipo muy compensado en todas las líneas con jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ciani&lt;/span&gt; en defensa, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fernando Menegazzo y Alou Diarra&lt;/span&gt; en el doble pivote, el imaginativo y genial &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Yoan Gourcuff&lt;/span&gt;-seguido por muchos grandes como el FC Barcelona-, el medio derecho &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Yoan Gouffran&lt;/span&gt; o como el habilidoso delantero &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Marouane Chamakh&lt;/span&gt;, que por cierto termina contrato esta temporada. Es decir buenos juegadores que creemos que se impondrán a los &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olof Mellberg, Dudu Cearense, Stoltidis, Enzo Maresca o Costas Mitroglou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;CSKA MOSCÚ-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC SEVILLA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyulyfZAZFI/AAAAAAAADkU/P8uRjDIIQDM/s1600-h/krasic-ver.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416605263681578066" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 229px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyulyfZAZFI/AAAAAAAADkU/P8uRjDIIQDM/s320/krasic-ver.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También será un emparejamiento equilibrado pues si bien el CSKA no está realizando una buena temporada en la liga rusa-5º clasificado a 9 puntos del líder, el Rubin Kazan-sí que es un equipo peligroso a doble partido, pues tiene un gran portero, el joven capitán &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Igor Akinfeev&lt;/span&gt;, una sólida línea defensiva con jugadores como los hermanos &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Berezutski, Sergey Ignashevich&lt;/span&gt; o el lateral lituano &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Semberas&lt;/span&gt;, jugadores experimentados como el medio centro Evgeni Aldonin y jugadores muy desequilibrantes como el interior derecho &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Milos Krasic&lt;/span&gt;-posiblemente el mejor jugador del equipo y uno de los mejores del mundo en su puesto-o el joven &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Alan Dzagoev&lt;/span&gt; que está en las agendas de todos los grandes del fútbol europeo. Quizás su principal problema es la falta de un gran nueve y que cuando se juegue la eliminatoria contra el Sevilla, el CSKA llegará sin ritmo de competición-la liga rusa termina ahora-, lo cual es un gran inconveniente si delante tienes jugadores al 100% y de tanta calidad como &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Jesús Navas, Kanoute, Luis Fabiano, Alvaro Negredo o Diego Perotti&lt;/span&gt;. Eliminatoria bonita siendo el favorito el Sevilla CF&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;FC P&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Syumi_CvAgI/AAAAAAAADkc/Of1otIgsgpE/s1600-h/Foto+mereiles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416606096811819522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 219px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Syumi_CvAgI/AAAAAAAADkc/Of1otIgsgpE/s320/Foto+mereiles.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ORTO&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;ARSENAL FC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muchos problemas tendrá el Arsenal-jugará la eliminatoria sin el desequilibrante extremo &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Robin Van Persie&lt;/span&gt;- para eliminar a un buen equipo como es el FC Porto, pues el equipo de &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Jesualdo Ferreira&lt;/span&gt; tiene un muy buena pinta pues si descontamos la portería-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Helton&lt;/span&gt; no es muy fiable-, tiene jugadores de gran nivel en todas las líneas como los duros centrales &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Bruno Alves&lt;/span&gt;-muy peligroso en los córners, consiguiendo muchos goles de cabeza- y &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Rolando&lt;/span&gt;; los correosos medios &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fernando y Raul Meireles&lt;/span&gt;, el habilidoso Fernando Belluschi, el desequilibrante &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Hulk&lt;/span&gt;-el “increíble” Hulk es sin duda el mejor jugador del equipo, tiene visión, regate y gol- y el astuto &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Radamel Falcao&lt;/span&gt;, que se está adaptando bastante bien a la Superliga portuguesa y lleva 8 goles en 12 partidos disputados. Es decir, es un buen equipo y mucho van a sudar los &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Cesc Fàbregas&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Andrei Arshavin, Eduardo, Theo Walcott o Samir Nasri&lt;/span&gt; para poder eliminar al conjunto luso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;5- &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;OLYMPIQUE LYON&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;REAL MADRID&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Eliminatoria trampa para el Real Madrid porque si bien puede parecer relativamente sencilla, pues el Olympique está realizando una mala temporada en la liga francesa-4º &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyunRo-GCwI/AAAAAAAADkk/7BwQJsMQVEs/s1600-h/foto+lisandro+lyon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416606898340629250" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyunRo-GCwI/AAAAAAAADkk/7BwQJsMQVEs/s320/foto+lisandro+lyon.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;clasificado a 8 puntos del Burdeos-, con una pésima y extraña racha de 5 partidos sin ganar-2 victorias en los últimos 9 partidos-, hay que decir que el Real Madrid debe tener cuidado porque el entrenador del Lyon, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Claude Puel&lt;/span&gt;, es un gran estratega y sabe sacar mucho rendimiento a sus equipos en eliminatorias a doble partidos, sobre todo si en sus filas tiene jugadores de mucho nivel como el portero &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lloris,&lt;/span&gt; o los que forman un medio del campo muy compensado-la contención con jugadores como&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Toulalan o Jean Makoun&lt;/span&gt; y la imaginación con jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ederson, Michael Bastos &lt;/span&gt;o el joven bosnio&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Miralem Pjnaic&lt;/span&gt;(una de las perlas del fútbol europeo)- o la buena dupla atacante formada por un desequilibrante &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lisandro López&lt;/span&gt;-totalmente adaptado al fútbol europeo-y el poderoso &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Bafetimbi Gomis&lt;/span&gt;. En fin, una conjunto con jugadores de nivel y que pueden poner en más de un aprieto a un Real Madrid que habrá que ver cómo llega, si&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Kaka&lt;/span&gt; ya se habrá adaptado totalmente, si habrán solucionado los problemas defensivos tras la lesión de &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pepe&lt;/span&gt;, si&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Karim Benzema&lt;/span&gt; se aclimata totalmente, si llegan jugadores de banda….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;BAYERN MUNICH-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;FIORENTINA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Parece que finalmente el conjunto de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Louis Van Gaal&lt;/span&gt; ha puesto la directa y que poco a poco está mejorando el nivel de juego y tras un inicio decepcionante-2 puntos de 9 posibles-, está realizando un gran final de año tanto en la Bundesliga-ya es 3º a 2 puntos del líder, el Bayer Leverkusen- como en la Champio&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyuoPf4hzJI/AAAAAAAADks/0WEdk86xKRo/s1600-h/ribery.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416607961053252754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyuoPf4hzJI/AAAAAAAADks/0WEdk86xKRo/s320/ribery.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ns League con esa gran victoria en el Olímpico de Turín(1-4). Grandes resultados para un equipo que tiene una plantilla muy completa con jugadores de mucho nivel en todas las posiciones y que están llamados a hacer algo grande esta temporada-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Philipp Lahm, Daniel Van Buyten&lt;/span&gt; o el ofensivo &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Danijel Pranjic&lt;/span&gt; en defensa; el duro &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Anatoliy Tymoshchuk&lt;/span&gt;, el joven &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Thomas Müller&lt;/span&gt; (una de las revelaciones de la temporada), los desequilibrantes&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Franck Ribéry&lt;/span&gt;(uno de los mejores del mundo) y Arjen Robben, el siempre peligros&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Bastian Schweinsteiger&lt;/span&gt; en el mediocampo; o la poderosa delantera formada por los astutos &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ivica Olic, Mario Gómez o Miroslav Klose&lt;/span&gt;. Es decir, mucha calidad y que creemos que se impondrá con bastante facilidad en esta eliminatoria, porque la Fiore está muy lejos de ser competitiva, de hecho está perdida en la clasificación de la Serie A-11ª posición- con muchos problemas de pegada, aunque tiene un buen tridente, formado por el joven &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Jovetic&lt;/span&gt;-gran futuro el que tiene el montenegrino&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;-, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Gilardino y Adrian Mutu&lt;/span&gt;-lejos de su mejor nivel-, pero no creemos que pueda ser suficiente para poner al conjunto alemán en serios apuros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;INTER MILAN&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC CHELSEA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A priori parece la eliminatoria más equilibrada, pues ambos conjuntos atesoran &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyuoyQK_32I/AAAAAAAADk0/sDr7j4kt1KA/s1600-h/Wesley_Sneijder_516419a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416608558131175266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyuoyQK_32I/AAAAAAAADk0/sDr7j4kt1KA/s320/Wesley_Sneijder_516419a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;grandes plantillas, líderes de sus respectivas ligas, pero no sé, el Inter no me acaba de transmitir grandes sensaciones, pues juega un poco con desidia , sabiéndose superior en la Serie A y que en cualquier jugada por medio de &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Diego Milito&lt;/span&gt;-grandísimo delantero-, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Samuel Eto´o o Wesley Sneijder&lt;/span&gt; va a decantar el partido, lo cual puede ser suficiente para ganar partidos ante equipos medios pero es insuficiente en los partidos de nivel y exigencia como contra el FC Chelsea y de hecho el Inter en Champions sólo ganó 2 partidos de 6, mostrando una pobre imagen en diversos partidos como el del Camp Nou contra el FC Barcelona. Mucho va a tener que trabajar José Mourinho para que su equipo pueda ser realmente un serio candidato a imponerse en esta eliminatoria ante el FC Chelsea, que sigue como siempre en los últimos años, sólido y con pegada-es el equipo más goleador de la Premier y el menos goleado-. Lo que está claro es que uno no se puede perder un partido cuando en el campo juegan jugadores como&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Joe Cole, Didier Drogba, John Terry, Deco, Essien, Ballack, Zhirkov&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lucio, Sneijder, Eto´o, Milito, Julio Cesar, Maicon, Balotelli&lt;/span&gt;…..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8- &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;AC MILAN-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;MANCHESTER UNITED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyupNW9LFpI/AAAAAAAADk8/-8kQ0gD0VWk/s1600-h/AlexandrePato_468x524.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416609023808706194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 286px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SyupNW9LFpI/AAAAAAAADk8/-8kQ0gD0VWk/s320/AlexandrePato_468x524.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Es una incógnita qué AC Milan veremos ante el United, si veremos la cara que mostró en el Bernabéu o si veremos la cara del partido del Inter(humillante derrota por 0-4) o de los partidos contra el modesto Zurich-el AC Milan fue incapaz de ganarle-. Evidentemente si el AC Milan quiere tener alguna posibilidad necesita lo mejor de todas sus estrellas, haciendo unos partidos duros, sin concesiones, trabados, feos, que el United tenga problemas para darle velocidad al juego, porque si no lo hace así, pocas opciones va a tener de llevarse la eliminatoria. Creemos que en todo caso Leonardo tendrá que confiar en que &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Dida &lt;/span&gt;tenga un día afortunado, lo cual es poco probable y que el gran&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Alexandre Pato&lt;/span&gt;( el mejor jugador de largo del AC Milan) marque las diferencias las diferencias en el ataque y se pueda imponer a una de las mejores parejas de centrales del mundo, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Vidic-Rio Ferdinand&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;En fin, nuestro favorito es el Manchester United, que tiene mucha mejor defensa y ataque que el AC Milan.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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to play in this team during the next 6 seasons. &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_EU8Ys3-I/AAAAAAAADjs/h6cKgzvCRI4/s1600-h/1251907637_0+ric.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377232344189820898" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_EU8Ys3-I/AAAAAAAADjs/h6cKgzvCRI4/s320/1251907637_0+ric.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is that the Ricky´s affair has been a very complicated issue and we have seen many thing and situation during the last 5 months: the player's decision to be in the NBA draft 09- the normal thing when a player of this level decides to be in a NBA Draft is that he and his agent (&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Dan Fegan&lt;/span&gt;) have things more or less clear about the future and the teams which have a real interest in his acquisition and obviously according to the result of the draft ( he was drafted with the fifth pick in the first round by the&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Minnesota Timberwolves&lt;/span&gt;), his agent did not make a good job-; unlucky Ricky's statements-I can not understand the statements appeared in some newspapers in which there was not a real interest to play in teams like&lt;span style="color:#663333;"&gt; Oklahoma City Thunder&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Memphis Gr&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_EnYIXJ7I/AAAAAAAADj0/Jf9MtbyUrOM/s1600-h/ricky-rubio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377232660875126706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 197px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_EnYIXJ7I/AAAAAAAADj0/Jf9MtbyUrOM/s320/ricky-rubio.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;izzlies&lt;/span&gt; and of course the normal thing occurred during the Draft and these teams did not choose Ricky Rubio-; Ricky and his agent´s bad decisions, since according to the Sacramento Bee, Dan Fegan declined to make a trial between Ricky and other rookies for the &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Sacramento Kings&lt;/span&gt; and this team, which was the team wanted by Ricky, did not choose the Spanish guard in the NBA draft-; the complicated situation between Ricky and his team(&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Joventut Badalona&lt;/span&gt;) when Ricky Rubio sued Joventut Badalona because he disagree about the sum of money that he had to pay to the team in order to play in other team-I think that Ricky and his parents signed the contract without any pressure, isn´t it?-; Ricky´s unclear statement about his NBA new team, Minnesota Timberwolves; the interest from teams like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olympiakos&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;New York Knicks&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Regal FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; to sign the young guard-finally the catalan team got the play of the Spanish guard after a transfer fee of 4.2 million euros, which means that it is the most expensive transfer in the history of the European basketball. We'll see if this transfer is a good business for FC Barcelona, since nowadays Ricky is just a good player, especially defensively, he is a player who FC Barcelona needed to complete the guard´s position, since &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic&lt;/span&gt; is especially a shooter and the other guard,&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Victor Sada,&lt;/span&gt; is worker player. But I do not know if to spend 6 millions euros in 2 years(transfer fee + the salary) in this player is the best&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_FD3kWpqI/AAAAAAAADj8/cQGPDhjV1p0/s1600-h/diamantidis_papaloukas_act_485x.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377233150350370466" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 217px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp_FD3kWpqI/AAAAAAAADj8/cQGPDhjV1p0/s320/diamantidis_papaloukas_act_485x.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; idea,since this player has not a big experienced in crucial games, like other European guards like &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Sarunas Jasikevicius&lt;/span&gt;(4 times Euroleague´s champion), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Theo Papaloukas&lt;/span&gt;(2 times Euroleague´s champion) or &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Dimitris Diamantidis&lt;/span&gt; (2 times Euroleague´s champion), who had cost less money. I think the Ricky´s presence is not a guarantee to win the Euroleague, but this was the Joan Laporta´s decision, which can be another example of his mismanagement-;an apparent agreement between the Joventut Badalona and Minnesota Timberwolves for the Ricky´s transfer at the last minute to play this year in the NBA-I do not know if this agreement was true, since there have been many half-truths about the Ricky´s situation during the last 5 months...So, Ricky generated much news during these months and certainly finally it was a bored issue, so we have to congratulate to see the end of this story. Now it's time to see Ricky on the floor, growing as a player and improving his 5-6 metres shot to have many chances to be in 2 years in the starting lineup of any NBA team. The European Championship starts next week and of course it will be a good place to see the Ricky´s play. 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Después ocurre lo norm&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp7p7HPmTwI/AAAAAAAADjc/stiqDCwW1gA/s1600-h/ricki12205487041553359521.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376992206892977922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp7p7HPmTwI/AAAAAAAADjc/stiqDCwW1gA/s320/ricki12205487041553359521.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;al en estos casos, que estos equipos se decantaran por otros jugadores en el Draft-;decisiones desacertadas de Ricky y su entorno-según el Sacramento Bee, Dan Fegan se negó a que Ricky hiciera para &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Sacramento Kings&lt;/span&gt; un entrenamiento con otros rookies y claro Sacramento que era el equipo que Ricky quería, pasó del base español-; la demanda de Ricky Rubio contra el &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Joventut de Badalona&lt;/span&gt; a causa de la cláusula de rescisión-digo yo que a Ricky y a sus padres no le pusieron una pistola cuando firmó el contrato profesional con la “Penya”-: declaraciones de Ricky y su entorno no demasiado claras sobre la posibilidad de jugar en Minnesota; interés de equipos como el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olympiakos&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;New York Knicks&lt;/span&gt; o &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Regal FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;-al final el equipo catalán se llevó el gato al agua tras pagar 4,2 millones de euros al Joventut de Badalona, que significa que es el traspaso más caro de la historia del baloncesto europeo. Ya veremos si el FCB acierta con esta operación, nosotros tenemos muchas dudas, pues hoy por hoy Ricky es simplemente un buen jugador sobre todo defensivamente, un jugador que el FCB necesitaba para completar la posición de base, pues &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic&lt;/span&gt; es sobre todo un tirador y &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Víctor Sada&lt;/span&gt; es todo pundonor. Pero dicho esto, si la llegada de Rubio al Barça le va a costar 6 millones de euros en 2 años, &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp7qSBRmm5I/AAAAAAAADjk/-rEHY2yRZJI/s1600-h/sarunas_jasikevicius_px600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376992600427764626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sp7qSBRmm5I/AAAAAAAADjk/-rEHY2yRZJI/s320/sarunas_jasikevicius_px600.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;¿no hubiese sido mejor que el ”gran” Laporta hubiese apostado por lo seguro y hubiese destinado ese dinero para fichar a jugadores como&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Sarunas Jasikevicius&lt;/span&gt;(4 veces campeón de la Euroliga),&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Theo Papaloukas&lt;/span&gt; (2 veces campeón de la Euroliga)o &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Dimitris Diamantidis&lt;/span&gt;(2 veces campeón de la Euroliga), que son jugadores totalmente hechos y que son sinónimos de títulos europeos?-; un aparente acuerdo entre el Joventut de Badalona y los Minnesota a ultima hora para Ricky jugase ya este año en la Nba-no sé hasta que punto era cierto, porque en toda esta historia sobre Rubio hay muchas medias verdades-…&lt;br /&gt;En fin, demasiadas noticias generadas por Ricky durante estos meses y lo cierto es que al final llegaban hasta aburrir, con lo que nos tenemos que congratular por haberse puesto punto final. A partir de aquí, es momento de que Ricky hable en la pista, que crezca como jugador, que mejore el tiro exterior, que “viva” partidos importantes en la Euroliga y si dentro de 2 años está realmente preparado-yo creo que hoy no lo está- se vaya a la Nba como base titular de cualquier equipo.&lt;br /&gt;La semana próxima comienza el Eurobasket, será un buen momento para seguir creciendo y demostrando su potencial.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;Saqueneutral en Facebook y en Twitter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Saqueneutral"&gt;http://twitter.com/Saqueneutral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Muchas gracias Elliott!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8HUW7bA6I/AAAAAAAADjE/FWNOIIWTKZE/s1600-h/florentino_perez.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359010127927772066" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8HUW7bA6I/AAAAAAAADjE/FWNOIIWTKZE/s320/florentino_perez.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Después de la tormenta, viene la calma. Al menos se dicen. Tras la ola de fichajes de &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Florentino Pérez&lt;/span&gt;, surgen dos preguntas claves para el destino de esta temporada: 1) Cuál será la alineación ideal, y 2) si podrá Pellegrini manejar el vestuario? Intento contestar las dos preguntas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por un lado, decir que al Real Madrid de 2008 le sobraban los volantes y le faltaba un extremo de lujo-especialmente por la derecha, aunque posiblemente también por la izquierda, pues Robben fue demasiado intermitente-. Ahora, con &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Robben, Kaka, y Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt;, el equipo no debería carecer de ideas, de imagin&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8GFd1vVgI/AAAAAAAADik/KsWqOc7pl6E/s1600-h/foto+kaka+cristiano+ronaldo.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359008772573320706" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8GFd1vVgI/AAAAAAAADik/KsWqOc7pl6E/s320/foto+kaka+cristiano+ronaldo.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ación y de amplitud en el juego. ¿Pueden jugar las tres a la vez? Quizás. Cristiano Ronaldo ha jugado de delantero antes, y con su altura y físico puede “hacer estragos”en cualquier posición. Pero con su velocidad y regate, yo lo prefiero ver pegado a la banda-en cualquiera de ellas-. Kaka suele jugar de enlace, detrás de dos delanteros, pero también ha jugado de extremo. Entonces, la mejor alineación seria un delantero de punta, con Kaka y Ronaldo atrás, teniendo ambos plena libertad de movimientos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La pregunta del millón: qué delantero debería ser titular? Por un lado &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Raúl &lt;/span&gt;tiene experiencia pero está en su declive, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt; tiene las horas contadas-no entiendo cómo el Real Madrid se puede desprender del ariete holandé&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8G6aQ8HkI/AAAAAAAADi0/x8C1WkzrSJg/s1600-h/34513_news.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359009682146729538" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 231px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8G6aQ8HkI/AAAAAAAADi0/x8C1WkzrSJg/s320/34513_news.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s, pues sin contar con demasiados minutos, ha demostrado que tiene olfato-, y por otro lado, creemos que &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Benzema &lt;/span&gt;va a necesitar un año para acostumbrarse a La Liga y para demostrar que es un jugador capacitado para jugar en un grande europeo, con lo que entendemos que el puesto de titular debe ser para el &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pipita Higuaín&lt;/span&gt;, que viene de realizar una temporada esplendida-22 goles en 34 partidos-, mostrando velocidad, movilidad, llegada y gol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Con relación a la segunda cuestión, algunos dudan sobre la capacitación de Pellegrini, sobre si sabrá “llevar” a un vestuario tan repleto de estrellas. &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pellegrini&lt;/span&gt; viene de un m&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8Ggq0CncI/AAAAAAAADis/vWn00OzVkho/s1600-h/foto+pellegrini+madrid.bmp"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;undo distinto, pues si bien es cierto que en el Villareal entrenaba a buenos jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Capdevilla, Senna o Pires&lt;/span&gt;, hay que decir que ninguno de ellos tiene la consideración de crack mundial, con lo que el chileno no tuvo demas&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8HGlmlZZI/AAAAAAAADi8/WsePJ71BsyY/s1600-h/foto+pellegrini+madrid.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359009891348735378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 197px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sl8HGlmlZZI/AAAAAAAADi8/WsePJ71BsyY/s320/foto+pellegrini+madrid.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;iados problemas durante la última temporada para lidiar el banquillo amarillo. En cambio, sí que los tuvo cuando en el Villarreal jugaba &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Riquelme&lt;/span&gt;, medio con la vitola de estrella y de carácter complicado, con lo que al menos hay que plantearse si Pellegrini sabrá o no moverse con tanta estrella a su cargo...&lt;br /&gt;Al principio de la temporada, dudamos de que el Real Madrid arranque con el pie derecho, pues los jugadores necesitarán tiempo para conocerse, pero está claro que peleará hasta el final por la Champions y por la Liga. Quizás, tal como se está configurando la plantilla, le faltará la consistencia necesaria para poder vencer un campeonato tan largo y complicado como la Liga española, en la que prima la regularidad. Pero aún en el caso de que conquistasen algún título importante, hay que preguntarse si Pellegrini logrará permanecer en el cargo o si le ocurrirá lo mismo que a &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Fabio Capello o Vicente Del Bosque&lt;/span&gt;, quienes tuvieron que “hacer las maletas”, pese a conseguir buenos resultados, pues ya sabemos que en el Bernabeu no es suficiente ganar, se exige algo más. Dentro de un mes empezaremos a contestar estas cuestiones.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Elliott es responsable y escritor de &lt;a href="http://www.futfanatico.com/"&gt;http://www.futfanatico.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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At this moment, Real Madrid is reluctant to pay the buyout clause of the player and to lower the transfer, it offers a sum of money-around 10 million euros- plus a player, one of the sensations during this season in the Spanish Liga, the striker &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Álvaro Negredo&lt;/span&gt;, who played very well in Almería and he could be a perfect player for Villarreal CF, sinc&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SjE14qIsyGI/AAAAAAAADiU/5k4pbOK1fDs/s1600-h/foto+cazolra.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346113480165214306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SjE14qIsyGI/AAAAAAAADiU/5k4pbOK1fDs/s320/foto+cazolra.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e the Ernesto Valverde´s team is looking for a good substitute to cover the possible departure of the striker &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Joseba Llorente&lt;/span&gt; to Athletic Bilbao. We will see in the following hours the result of the negotiations and if Real Madrid is forced to pay the buyout clause to satisfy the request of the new coach, the Chilean &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Mauricio Pellegrini&lt;/span&gt;, who knows perfectly Santi Cazorla and he wants him to complete a luxury and destabilizing triplet of midfielders, formed by &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way, we can bet the possible Cazorla´arrival in different websites as the Spanish &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bettymovil.com/"&gt;http://www.bettymovil.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We will see the news about this transfer.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bettymovil.com/apuestas/index/-1/1/197/198/mas-apuestas/805"&gt;http://www.bettymovil.com/apuestas/index/-1/1/197/198/mas-apuestas/805&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Join us of Facebook,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saqueneutral on Twitter,  &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Saqueneutral"&gt;https://twitter.com/Saqueneutral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SjEuJojpj8I/AAAAAAAADh8/ctTIKtXXa4Y/s320/Cristiano_Ronaldo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nited&lt;/span&gt; sobre el acuerdo entre el &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; y el United (96 millones de euros por el traspaso)acerca de la llegada del crack portugués&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt; al Real Madrid, Saqueneutral ha podido saber que el club presidido por &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Florentino Pérez&lt;/span&gt; sigue moviendo ficha para conseguir los fichajes de estrellas nacionales e internacionales y realizar de esta forma una auténtica revolución en la plantilla merengue y formar un equipo que aspira a conseguir todos los títulos en disuta.&lt;br /&gt;Podemos adelantar que el siguiente en llegar de forma inminente a Concha Espina será el mediocampista internacional español &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;, que en estos instantes se encuentra en Sudáfrica concentrado con la selección española para disputar la Copa Confederaciones.&lt;br /&gt;En principio el Real Madrid es reacio a pagar la cláusula de rescisión del jugador y para abaratar la operación, ofrece una cantidad de dinero-entorno a los 10 millones de euros- más los servicios del delantero revelación esta temporada en la liga españ&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SjEugqWcGkI/AAAAAAAADiE/diPInUO3XVE/s1600-h/foto+santi+cazor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346105371324586562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SjEugqWcGkI/AAAAAAAADiE/diPInUO3XVE/s320/foto+santi+cazor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ola, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Álvaro Negredo&lt;/span&gt;, que podría encajar perfectamente en el &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt; que está buscando un sustituto de garantías para cubrir la posible marcha de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Joseba Llorente&lt;/span&gt; al Athlétic de Bilbao.&lt;br /&gt;Veremos como evoluciona las negociaciones en las próximas horas y si al final el Real Madrid se ve forzado o no a pagar la cláusula de rescisión del jugador para satisfacer la petición de Mauricio Pelligrini, que conoce a la perfección a Santi Cazorla y lo quiere para completar una tripleta de mediocampistas de lujo y desequilibrante formada por &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo y Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Por cierto, que todos podemos apostar en diversas casas de apuestas sobre el fichaje de Cazorla por el Real Madrid, como por ejemplo en la española &lt;a href="http://www.bettymovil.com/"&gt;http://www.bettymovil.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estaremos atentos a las novedades.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bettymovil.com/apuestas/index/-1/1/197/198/mas-apuestas/805"&gt;http://www.bettymovil.com/apuestas/index/-1/1/197/198/mas-apuestas/805&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;únete a nuestro grupo facebook,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saqueneutral en Twitter: &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/Saqueneutral"&gt;https://twitter.com/Saqueneutral&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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We refer to the best handball player in the world, the French&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Nikola "the Serbian" Karabatic&lt;/span&gt;, w&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SilV31xVgeI/AAAAAAAADho/PbDlaaq0B18/s1600-h/foto+karabatic+france.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343896850666979810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SilV31xVgeI/AAAAAAAADho/PbDlaaq0B18/s320/foto+karabatic+france.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ho after the defeat in the final of the EHF Handball Champions League against the Ciudad Real, announced that he will not continue playing in&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; THW Kiel&lt;/span&gt;, which is the best team of the powerful Bundesliga. During recent weeks the handball´s fans was eager to know if the rumour about a new Karabatic´s destination was true and which team would be the “winner”, being the top candidates 2 teams like &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ciudad Real&lt;/span&gt;-current European Champion- and especially the powerful &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, whose president, Joan Laporta wants to have again a great handball´s team. Finally, as we say, the rumour was confirmed and Karabatic has decided to finish his successful period in the powerful German Bundesliga, where he has won many Championships-1 EHF Champions League (2 times he lost the final), 5 German leagues, 2 German cups and 1 EHF Champions Trop&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SilWTgSQ9jI/AAAAAAAADhw/YnV9ZG6YqFw/s1600-h/foto+nikola+karabatic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343897325935851058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SilWTgSQ9jI/AAAAAAAADhw/YnV9ZG6YqFw/s320/foto+nikola+karabatic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;hy- and surprisingly, rejecting an important FC Barcelona´s bid, he has decided to sign for “his team”, the team where he started to be a handball´s star and where he won his first Champions League, this team is the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Montpellier Handball&lt;/span&gt;, a team with prestige, but it is or was during the last years in a step below the top teams. The reasons to leave to leave Kiel and to discard the FC Barcelona´s bid to sign with Montpellier are: he has illusion to play with his brother&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Luka&lt;/span&gt; and besides he wants to come back home, playing in a league less competitive and demanding as the French league and thus be 100% in the Champions League and the French national team´s game, and finally, of course there is an economic component, since Nikola has some businesses in that area and he can control better these business playing in Montpellier. Anyway, the arrival of this European (2006), World (2009) and Olympic (2008) Champion is a great news for Montpellier, which will be a candidate with the help of Karabatic and other players like &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Michaël Guigou, Vid Kavticnik or Joel Abati&lt;/span&gt; to conquer again the EHF Champions League, which is a great news to all the fans too, because a sport is more important if there are a lot of strong teams from various countries.&lt;br /&gt;Good luck, Nikola.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nikolakarabatic.com/fr"&gt;http://www.nikolakarabatic.com/fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join us on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Nos referimos al mejor jugador de balonmano del mundo, al francés &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Nikola “el Serbio” Karabatic&lt;/span&gt;, que tras perder la final de la EHF Champions League frente al Balo&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SikfFZLqkXI/AAAAAAAADhY/nyJDDzFcmgg/s1600-h/D1-Handball-Karabatic-penche-pour-Montpellier-154052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343836610371424626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SikfFZLqkXI/AAAAAAAADhY/nyJDDzFcmgg/s320/D1-Handball-Karabatic-penche-pour-Montpellier-154052.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nmano Ciudad Real, anunció que no iba a continuar jugando en el todopoderoso equipo alemán del&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; THW Kiel-&lt;/span&gt;gran dominador de la potente Bundesliga-.&lt;br /&gt;Durante las últimas semanas el mundo del balonmano estaba ansioso por conocer si era cierto el rumor sobre el cambio de equipo del determinante y genial Karabatic y cuál sería su nuevo destino, apareciendo como grandes candidatos para disfrutar de su juego 2 equipos como el &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ciudad Real&lt;/span&gt; y sobre todo el &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, cuyo presidente, Joan Laporta quiere volver a ver a esta sección entre los grandes del mundo.&lt;br /&gt;Al final, como decimos, el rumor se confirmó y finalmente &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Karabatic&lt;/span&gt; ha decidido cerrar su exitoso ciclo en la potente Bundesliga alemana, en la que lo ha conseguido todo-1 Champions League(2 veces subcampeón),5 ligas, 2 copas y 1 EHF Champions Trophy-y sorprendentemente, rechazando una gran oferta del FC Barcelona, ha decido fichar por el equipo de toda su vida, el que le dio a conocer y con el que consiguió su primera Champions League, el&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Montpellier Handball,&lt;/span&gt; que es un equipo con prestigio, pero que en los últimos años está o estaba un escalón por debajo de los grandes.&lt;br /&gt;Las razones que ha d&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SikfWeTNGEI/AAAAAAAADhg/C0ozCNcPRPk/s1600-h/karabatic_vsslovaquie_re.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343836903803000898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SikfWeTNGEI/AAAAAAAADhg/C0ozCNcPRPk/s320/karabatic_vsslovaquie_re.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ado este campeón de Europa (2006), del Mundo (2009) y Olímpico (2008) para dejar el Kiel, descartar al FC Barcelona y fichar por el Montpellier han sido además de la ilusión de jugar junto a su hermano &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Luka&lt;/span&gt;, pues que tenía ganas de volver a casa, de jugar en una liga menos competitiva y exigente como es la francesa y de esta forma estar al 100% en los partidos importantes de la Champions League y de la selección francesa, y finalmente, como no, también hay un componente económico, pues Nikola tiene una serie de negocios por esa zona y jugando en el Montpellier los podrá controlar mejor.&lt;br /&gt;En fin, grandísimo fichaje para el Montpellier que tratará con la ayuda de Karabatic el volver a ser el mejor de Europa-jugadores tiene, pues en las filas del Montpellier vemos jugadores importantes como &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Michaël Guigou, Vid Kavticnik o Joel Abat&lt;/span&gt;i-&lt;br /&gt;Buena suerte, Nikola.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nikolakarabatic.com/fr/"&gt;http://www.nikolakarabatic.com/fr/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Únete a nuestro grupo Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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The truth is that this dismissal was quite predictable because the team showed a very poor level during the season and almost every week the team "delighted" with it slow, apathetic, without concentration play, thinking that Fenerbahçe could win the games in anyway and obviously it is almost impossible to win playing with this way and although the players have quality. Aragones can not excuse saying that the players did not have the enough level, since this team is almost the same during the &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Zico&lt;/span&gt;´s period, when Fenerbahçe showed a very nice and quickly play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In fact, if we analyze the results obtained by Luís, we see that Fenerbahçe showed a good performance when it played against the top Turkish teams(it on&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SifTjSgad0I/AAAAAAAADhI/jt6CkRtjB9w/s1600-h/foto+luisar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343472086115055426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 209px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SifTjSgad0I/AAAAAAAADhI/jt6CkRtjB9w/s320/foto+luisar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ly lost one game, the played at Sivasspor´s stadium) and therefore it means that the team was good and it had many chances to win the Süper Lig´s title but Luis was not able to motivate the players when they had “easy” games against modest teams, which found an easy rival when they played against Fenerbahçe, since the Istambul´s team was in these games a team without ideas, with many problems in all the lines:&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Güiza or Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt; played very lonely, the team played many times without a specific right midfielder, the defensive line was very fragile, players like &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Deivid or Kazim-Kazim&lt;/span&gt; playing very far from their best level…and besides the team did not have a boss on the bench, since Luís Aragonés was not able to look for solutions and many times he committed many mistakes with the tactics or the substitutions, seeming that he had not the control of the team and that the players did what they wanted, seeing that the coach did not take any drastic decision- like for example when he decided to dispense with Raúl during his period as Spanish national coach. If he had taken these decisions during his Fenerbahçe´s period, maybe the team had performed better, but he was not brave-. So, it was clear that Luis Aragonés could not continue as Fenerbahçe coach and it is normal and logic t&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SifT2jOG7_I/AAAAAAAADhQ/cXne3KxAkbU/s1600-h/daum_DW_Wirtschaft__355660g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343472417019195378" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SifT2jOG7_I/AAAAAAAADhQ/cXne3KxAkbU/s320/daum_DW_Wirtschaft__355660g.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;he decision of the president. We will see the future of the "Wise" of Hortaleza and of the Fenerbahçe, which has signed as coach the German&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Christoph Daum&lt;/span&gt;, who must decide about the future of the other Spanish members of Fenerbahçe,&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza and Josico-&lt;/span&gt;we think that Josico will not continue (his performance has been very irregular and nowadays he is worse than other Fenerbahçe´s midfielders like Selcuk Sahin) and that Güiza will prolong his stay in Istanbul (he finished very well his correct season. 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cedió a las pres&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie-Sikx2nI/AAAAAAAADgo/RTCOAqb9uKk/s1600-h/foto+yildiz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343448708626373234" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie-Sikx2nI/AAAAAAAADgo/RTCOAqb9uKk/s320/foto+yildiz.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;iones y no tuvo más remedio que destituir, tras una mala temporada, al peculiar&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Luís Aragonés&lt;/span&gt;, que por cierto sigue con su mala educación, como nos mostró a su llegada a Madrid cuando insultó a una periodista de Antena3 televisión.&lt;br /&gt;La verdad es que esta destitución era algo muy previsible pues el equipo de Luís ha mostrado durante todo el año un nivel de juego muy bajo y prácticamente cada semana nos “deleitaba” con un ritmo de juego muy lento, jugando con mucha apatía, desidia, sin concentración, pensando que los partidos se ganan sin jugarlos y evidentemente jugando de esta forma es casi imposible cumplir los objetivos, por muy buen equipo que tengas-Aragonés no puede excusarse en el equipo no daba para más, pues hace un año estos mismo jugadores, con &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Zico &lt;/span&gt;en el banquillo, deleitaban a la Europa futbolística y de hecho si analizamos los resultados cosechados por Luís vemos que Fenerbahçe ha rendido cuando ha jugado contra sus rivales directos(de todos los partidos disputados contra los otros 4 equipos punteros sólo perdió 1 partido, el disputado en el campo del &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sivassp&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie_lf8LJRI/AAAAAAAADgw/a8VdiS9GiqM/s1600-h/aragones_322.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343450133848335634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie_lf8LJRI/AAAAAAAADgw/a8VdiS9GiqM/s320/aragones_322.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;or&lt;/span&gt;), con lo que nivel de plantilla tenía de sobras para mostrar algo más-.&lt;br /&gt;Quizás el problema de Luís fue el de no saber o no poder motivar a sus jugadores cuando el equipo jugaba contra equipos modestos, pues muchos de estos equipos encontraron en el Fenerbahçe, a un auténtico coladero que hacía aguas por todos los lados, &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Güiza&lt;/span&gt; muy solo, sin jugadores específicos de banda derecha, con una línea defensiva muy insegura, con jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Deivid o Kazim-Kazim&lt;/span&gt; fuera de forma, en fin, un desastre, un barco que se iba a la deriva en cada partido, que navegaba con un capitán que no supo o no tuvo la valentía para tomar decisiones drásticas (como cuando en su época de seleccionador nacional apartó a Raúl de la s&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie_5A-q8gI/AAAAAAAADg4/tT97GmNqFLg/s1600-h/foto+daum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343450469134692866" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sie_5A-q8gI/AAAAAAAADg4/tT97GmNqFLg/s320/foto+daum.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;elección española) y evidentemente tiene el final que se merece, la destitución.&lt;br /&gt;Estaremos atentos al futuro del “Sabio” de Hortaleza y del Fenerbahçe, que por el momento ha fichado a &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Christoph Daum&lt;/span&gt; como entrenador y ya veremos lo qué el técnico alemán decide sobre los otros españoles del equipo, &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza y Josico&lt;/span&gt;-suponemos que Josico no continuará (su rendimiento ha sido muy irregular y hoy por hoy está muy por debajo de otros jugadores del equipo que juegan en la misma posición como &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Selcuk Sahin&lt;/span&gt;) y que Güiza prolongará su estancia en Estambul( su temporada-con una buena recta final- ha sido bastante correcta si tenemos en cuenta las circunstancias: las tácticas y cambios sorprendentes de jugadores que Luís hacía en muchas ocasiones y que tenían como consecuencia que Dani jugase demasiado solo en el ataque).&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;únete a nuestro grupo Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Of course, Keegan was right and the results of the team during the season have been very poor and besides showing a very bad image: it has been a broken team, without ideas, without playmakers, showing a very predictable play, which is very easy to defend and with horrible results- 7 wins in 37 games(2 in the last 19 games played)-, arriving to the last day with many problems to remain in the Premier League, since it must win its complicated game at Villa Park and besides it needs a &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Hull City&lt;/span&gt;´s defeat-it will plays at home against &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester Untied&lt;/span&gt;, which will have its head in Rome-or a &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sunderland&lt;/span&gt;´s defeat-it will play at home against&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Chelsea&lt;/span&gt; which will play with calmness-. So, the magpies´s fans needs to see a big miracle to see their team playing next season in Premier League…this is football, ¿who could think up 9 months ago that this team-players like &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Michael Owen, Obafemi Martins, Fabricio Coloccini, Damien Duff, Gérémi, Mark Viduka and Nicky Butt&lt;/span&gt;- would be in this situation? ... the final result, this Sunday at 17.00 CET.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shffax6iLJI/AAAAAAAADfo/cgcqR0prcB0/s1600-h/02-camacho.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, there will be also very interesting games in the Spanish league, because if we exclude the 3 top &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shffax6iLJI/AAAAAAAADfo/cgcqR0prcB0/s1600-h/02-camacho.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338981534439451794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shffax6iLJI/AAAAAAAADfo/cgcqR0prcB0/s320/02-camacho.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;teams in the standing, almost all other teams will play very important games to decide their future, as for example the decisive match to play next Champions League between &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Valencia CF&lt;/span&gt;(Valencia will play without &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Manuel Fernandes and David Silva&lt;/span&gt; and Villarreal without &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;),or the key game to remain in Primera division between&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Getafe&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Numancia&lt;/span&gt;-if Numancia can win this game, it will have the same point as Getafe in the standing and besides it can advance&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Osasuna&lt;/span&gt; in the standing, since the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jose Antonio Camacho&lt;/span&gt;´s team has a complicated game at Camp Nou stadium against &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;-. Anyway, it will be a day with high emotions in the Spanish league, as in the German league, whose teams will play this Saturday at 15.30 CET the last game of the season to decide which team will be the champion of the Bundesliga, being&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; VfL Wolfsburg&lt;/span&gt; the team with more number to be, because it arrives in the top position of the standing(66 points) and it will play at home, where is an excellent team, since it has won 15 games and it has drawn only one game during this season, so it has many chances to win today the Bundesliga, since its rival, &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Werder Bremen&lt;/span&gt; does not arrive in its best moment after its Uefa Cup Final´s defeat last Wednesday in Istambul-I can not understand why&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Diego&lt;/span&gt; has some critics, since it is very clear that he is a key player and without his play, Werder Bremen is&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShffwnhJZgI/AAAAAAAADfw/zaZd4v-zhms/s1600-h/foto+trio+wolfsburgo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338981909605737986" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 243px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShffwnhJZgI/AAAAAAAADfw/zaZd4v-zhms/s320/foto+trio+wolfsburgo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; simply a normal team, without the necessary imagination of a top player, since &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Mesut Özil&lt;/span&gt; is a young player and he must learn many things to be a good Diego´s replacement-. If the Wolfsburg excellent trio-the brilliant &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Zvjezdan Misimovic&lt;/span&gt;(19 assists this season in the Bundesliga –he sounds as Bayern Munich´s future player-), &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Grafite&lt;/span&gt; (26 goals) and &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Edin Dzeko&lt;/span&gt; (25 goals-he is in the agendas of the European top teams-)- does not have its best day and these players can not overcame the pressure and Wolfsburg can not win the game, the fans must pay attention to the other Bundesliga´s game between &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bayern Munich&lt;/span&gt;(second in the standing with 64 points) and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Stuttgart&lt;/span&gt; (third in the standing with 64 points), since the winner of this game can be the Champion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, possibly we will have emotion until the last day in the Turkish Süper Lig, since 3 teams arrive to the last 2 days with many chances to be the Champion-&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas&lt;/span&gt; is the leader with 65 points, followed by&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Sivasspor&lt;/span&gt; with 63 points and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Trabzonspor &lt;/span&gt;with 62 points-, so anything is possible, because Besiktas has a complicated derby this Sunday at 19.00 CET against &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray,&lt;/span&gt; which wants that its top rival does not win the Lig. &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShfgLF9w1kI/AAAAAAAADf4/8Cj1Rjez_q0/s1600-h/2009_04_05_ERSNT_yusuf_simsek_besiktas_sevinc_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338982364455425602" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShfgLF9w1kI/AAAAAAAADf4/8Cj1Rjez_q0/s320/2009_04_05_ERSNT_yusuf_simsek_besiktas_sevinc_1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Probably Besiktas is the team with a more attractive play of Turkish Lig and it is a more consistent team since the arrival of &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Fabian Ernst&lt;/span&gt; (Besiktas have lost only 1 game with the German player in the field) and&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Yusuf Simsek&lt;/span&gt; last January, but now it is the time to show that its players can play well under pressure and against a top team-although Galatasaray is not in its best moment-, since until this moment Besiktas has not win any game played against the top Turkish team-it drew the 2 games played against Sivasspor, Trabzonspor, and Bursaspor and it lost the 2 games against Fenerbahçe and the match played against Galatasaray in the Ali Sami Yen stadium-.So we'll see if Besiktas, which will play without &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Matías Delgado and Mert Nobre&lt;/span&gt;, can beat the judge of Süper Lig, Galatasaray-the Ali Sami Yen´s team will play next week against Sivasspor-, at the Inönü stadium(obviously about Luís Aragonés, it is better not talk because his performance is very poor, both in results as play showed, having a listless team, being normal that Fenerbahçe is far from the leader in the standing-it is 5th in the standing with a gap of 10 points to the leader, which is not the paradigm of authority-).&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we should also indicate that there are attractive and critical games in Italy-a crucial Chievo Verona-Bologna on Sunday at 15.00 CET- and in France- decisive games as Sochaux-Nantes or Olympique Lyon-Caen, on Saturday at 21.00 CET-.&lt;br /&gt;Good luck.&lt;br /&gt;Join us on Facebook, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Está claro que el Newcastle es un claro ejemplo de que lo que mal empieza, mal acaba, pues recordemos que el equipo de St James´ Park tuvo un comienzo convulso tras la dimisión del entrenador,&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Kevin Keegan&lt;/span&gt; que se fue tras el fichaje del delantero español Xisco, pues entendía que no era lo que el equipo necesitaba, ya que el Newcastle era un equipo muy descompensado, con demasiados delanteros, pero con poca creación y evidentemente el tiempo le ha dado la razón, pues durante este año hemos visto a un Newcastle roto, sin ideas, sin creación en medio campo, con un juego muy previsible y primitivo, muy fácil de defender y ahí están los resultados 7 victorias en 37 partidos-2 en los últimos 19 partidos-, llegando a la última jornada con el agua al cuello, pues tiene que ganar en un campo difícil como es Villa Park y luego esperar un tropiezo del &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Hull City&lt;/span&gt;-jugará en casa ante un Manchester Untied que tendrá la cabeza en Roma- o del &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sunderland&lt;/span&gt; que recibe a un Chelsea que poco se juega. En fin, las urracas lo tienen muy difícil y salvo milagro veremos como desciende un equipo con jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Michael Owen, Obafemi Martins, Fabricio Coloccini, Damien Duff, Gérémi, Mark Viduka o Nicky Butt&lt;/span&gt;…el desenlace, este domingo a las 17.00 c.e.t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por otro lado, también está la cosa muy interesante en la Liga española, pues si excluimos a los 3 primer&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shau_MA6j6I/AAAAAAAADfI/tRttNuhKJGE/s1600-h/michel-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338646808874356642" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shau_MA6j6I/AAAAAAAADfI/tRttNuhKJGE/s320/michel-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;os clasificados, prácticamente el resto de equipos se lo juegan todo en los 2 próximos partidos, siendo decisivos los partidos entre el&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt; y el &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Valencia CF&lt;/span&gt;-el que pierda se despedirá de poder jugar la próxima temporada en la Champions League(el Valencia jugará sin Manuel Fernandes y sin&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; David Silva&lt;/span&gt; y el Villarreal sin &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;) y entre el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Numancia y&lt;/span&gt; el &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Getafe&lt;/span&gt;-partido clave para ambos equipos, pues como el Numancia gane(aunque hay que decir que de momento sólo ha sido capaz de ganar 1 partido como visitante-en el campo del Espanyol-), empatará a puntos con el Getafe y con muchas posibilidades de adelantar al Osasuna que tiene un difícil compromiso en el Camp Nou ante el FC Barcelona-. En fin, jornada de altas emociones en la liga española, como sin duda ocurrirá en la liga alemana, cuyos equipos disputarán este sábado a las 15.30 cet la última jornada, en la que se decidirá el campeón, teniendo todos los números para serlo el &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Vfl Wolfsburg&lt;/span&gt;, que llega como líder en solitario(66 puntos) y sólo tendrá que hacer lo que ha hecho durante toda la temporada, ganar en casa( de 16 partidos disputados, ha ganado 15 y ha empatado 1) su partido ante un tocado &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Werder Bremen&lt;/span&gt;-para algunos&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Diego&lt;/span&gt; no es un jugador decisivo, pero el pasado miércoles quedó claro q&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShavQIzIaTI/AAAAAAAADfQ/jxm5tW7wKOA/s1600-h/wolf_bie_468x345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338647100069013810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ShavQIzIaTI/AAAAAAAADfQ/jxm5tW7wKOA/s320/wolf_bie_468x345.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ue el Werder Bremen lo necesita, porque sin él, pocas ideas hay en el campo y de momento &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Mesut Özil&lt;/span&gt; aun tiende mucho que aprender- . En caso que la gran tripleta que forman el genial &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Zvjezdan Misimovic&lt;/span&gt;-19 asistencias durante esta temporada en la Bundesliga(suena como futurible del Bayern Munich)-,&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Grafite&lt;/span&gt;(26 goles) y &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Edin Dzeko&lt;/span&gt;(25 goles-suena para todos los grandes del fútbol europeo) no tenga el día o le pueda la presión y el Wolfsburg pierda el partido, habrá que estar muy atentos al partido entre el segundo clasificado (&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bayern Munich&lt;/span&gt;) y el tercero (&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Stuttgart&lt;/span&gt;), que están empatados a puntos (64 puntos) y que esperan un tropiezo del Wolfsburg para poder ser el campeón.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Además, reseñar que en la Süper Lig turca es posible que tengamos emoción hasta la última jornada, pues quedan 2 jornadas y el líder es el &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas&lt;/span&gt; con 65 puntos, seguido por el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sivasspor&lt;/span&gt; con 63 puntos y tercero es el &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Trabzonspor&lt;/span&gt; con 62 puntos, con lo que cualquier cosa es posible, pues el Besiktas tiene un derby complicado este domingo a las 19.00 cet ante el&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt; Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt; que evidentemente pondrá las cosas muy difíciles para intentar evitar que pueda ganar la liga uno de su máximos rivales-el Besiktas es posiblemente el equipo turco que mejor fútbol práctica y está realizando una muy buena 2ª vuelta tras las llegadas de&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Fabian Ernst&lt;/span&gt;(con el alemán en el campo, el Besiktas sólo ha perdido 1 partido&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shavp6rpifI/AAAAAAAADfY/1f7gpvJcTks/s1600-h/Delgado6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338647542956132850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Shavp6rpifI/AAAAAAAADfY/1f7gpvJcTks/s320/Delgado6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) y &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Yusuf Simsek&lt;/span&gt;, pero habrá que ver cómo responden los jugadores ante la presión y ante un rival duro y potente-aunque no está en su mejor momento- como el Galatasaray. Veremos si de una vez el Besiktas puede ganar en Liga a un equipo potente, pues por el momento no ha ganado a ninguno de los 6 primeros clasificados, ya que ha empatado los 2 partidos que ha jugado contra el Trabzonspor, Sivasspor y Bursaspor y ha perdido los 2 partido disputados contra el Fenerbahçe y el partido jugado contra Galatasaray en el Ali Sami Yen, con lo que veremos si el Besiktas, que jugará sin &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Matías Delgado y sin Mert Nobre&lt;/span&gt;, podrá vencer en el estadio del Inönü al Galatasaray que va a ser el juez de liga turca, pues la última jornada se enfrentará al Sivasspor(evidentemente de &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Luís Aragonés&lt;/span&gt; mejor no hablamos, porque su rendimiento está siendo muy bajo, tanto en resultados como en nivel mostrado, con un juego apático y muy lento….en fin, jugando así es normal que esté en 5ª posición a 10 puntos de un líder que como vemos tampoco es que sea el paradigma de autoridad).&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, indicar que también habrá que prestar atención a la zona del descenso en el Calcio con el decisivo Chievo Verona-Bologna, el domingo 15.00 cet y en Le Championat francés con los partidos Sochaux-Nantes y Olympique Lyon-Caen, el sábado a las 21.00 cet.&lt;br /&gt;Suerte.&lt;br /&gt;Únete a nuestro grupo Facebook, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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By the way, Mr Hiddink, please, remember what you said about the strange decisions of the referee of the game Korea-Spain in the WC 02, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Mr Gamal Ghandour&lt;/span&gt;, ¿do you remember that you said that the teams must think about the own mistakes and do not look for absurd excuses like the labour of the referee? ¿why do not you do now? I think because it is difficult to explain to the fans that your team was not able to have the ball´s possession and to score a second goal during the last 30 minutes of the games, when FC Barcelona played with 10 men after the&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Abidal&lt;/span&gt;´s red car. So, as it is difficult to say that your team committed mistakes during these minutes, I think it is easy to look for another culprit, the referee, who took wrong decisions according your opinion-if we read the rule 12 of the FIFA´s Laws of the game, we can find that “a direct free kick(or penalty) is also awarded to the opposing team if a player handles the ball DELIBERATELY, ¿do you think that the Samuel Eto´o and Piqué´s actions were deliberately?...-&lt;br /&gt;So, Mr Hiddink, less excuses an&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SgQxjUUHk3I/AAAAAAAADe4/C5-0HfDIgxg/s1600-h/iniesta_vschelsea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333442341531784050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SgQxjUUHk3I/AAAAAAAADe4/C5-0HfDIgxg/s320/iniesta_vschelsea.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;d more coherency and self-criticism and learn that your teams can not play in this way when your teams play against teams with players like &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Messi, Eto´o, Xavi or Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;, because the normal situation is that these players can score a goal in any moment, like last Wednesday when&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Andrés Iniesta&lt;/span&gt; scored the decisive goal in the last minute of the game.Finally, we want to congratulate &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; for theirs successful season and for their qualify to the Champions League´s final, in which we will see the 2 best teams of the year and of course both deserve to be in Rome next May 27. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Join us on Facebook, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Posiblemente ahora habla de una posible conspiración porque sabe cómo funciona este negocio….por cierto, Sr Hiddink, refresque un poco la memoria y acuérdese de lo que dijo sobre el Korea-España del mundial 02 y sobre la actuación del árbitro &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Gamal al Ghandour&lt;/span&gt;, pues dijo algo así como que los equipos que pierden lo que tienen que hacer es Autocrítica y ver lo que han hecho mal durante el partido y no culpar de la derrota a un tercero.¿por qué no lo hace? ¿por qué trata de excusarse y justificar que su equipo no haya sido capaz de cerrar el partido, buscando la posesión del balón y un segundo gol, ante un rival que ha jugado la última media hora de juego con 10 jugadores? Supongo que es difícil explicarlo y lo fácil es cargar contra el árbitro por no pitar un mano de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Eto´o&lt;/span&gt; o no sé qué falta-Por cierto, si nos atenemos a la normativa, la regla 12 de las Reglas de juego de la FIFA establece que para que sea falta se requiere que s&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SgNL8KV5KEI/AAAAAAAADeo/PapJPQIxLWY/s1600-h/gol+iniesta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333189880677214274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 198px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SgNL8KV5KEI/AAAAAAAADeo/PapJPQIxLWY/s320/gol+iniesta.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e toque el balón deliberadamente con las manos, ¿ realmente se puede decir por ejemplo que Eto´o e incluso Piqué cortaron la jugada con la mano de forma deliberada?.....-&lt;br /&gt;En fin, Sr Hiddink, menos excusas y más coherencia y autocrítica y aprenda a que no se puede jugar con fuego en este tipo de partidos, porque si tienes delante jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Messi, Xavi, Eto´o o Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;, lo normal es que al final te marquen algún gol, como ocurrió ayer con el golazo de Don Andrés en el último minuto.&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, desde que Saqueneutral queremos felicitar al &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt; y al&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; por conseguir la clasificación para la final de la Champions League, sin duda son los 2 mejores equipos del año y ambos merecen estar en Roma el próximo 27 de mayo.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;únete a nuestro grupo en Facebook, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Normally, CSKA plays with long possessions, slow play´s rhythm and with important defensive concentration during all the game-it is very difficult to see a CSKA´s rival scoring more than 65 points-. So if Regal FC Barcelona wants to have any chances to beat CSKA, it needs a fast game with a lot of point, since normally CSKA has many problems to win these kind of game during this season, since in fact CSKA has lost all the Euroleague´s games when its rivals scored more than 70 points and therefore if the &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Xavi Pascual&lt;/span&gt;´s men want to stop the play of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Trajan Langdon&lt;/span&gt; (10, 3 points per game, with 55% 2FG and 43 % in 3FG ), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Erazem Lorbek&lt;/span&gt; (the elegant forward is scoring 12.6 points per game with a 59.9% 2FGP and 47.1 3FG and 5,4 rebounds), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Matjaz Smodis&lt;/span&gt; – the fine forward has a 41.7% 3FG),&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ramunas Siskaukas&lt;/span&gt; and company, they must play with fast style and a lot of defensive concentration, having an important defensive role players like&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Gianluca Basi&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsGSgG5OEI/AAAAAAAADeA/2f_md_dY2Xg/s1600-h/ersan-ilyasova-regal-fc-barcelona.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330861498849376322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsGSgG5OEI/AAAAAAAADeA/2f_md_dY2Xg/s320/ersan-ilyasova-regal-fc-barcelona.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;le&lt;/span&gt;-good defender and he is the best to score the impossible shots-, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Roger Grimau, Lubos Barton and Victor Sada,&lt;/span&gt; who have to be the great complement to the shooters of the team &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic and Juan Carlos Navarro&lt;/span&gt; (14.8 points per game with 49.5% 2FG and 92, 6 in free throws), whose performance will be decisive for the result of the game, although of course we can not forget the important and powerful FC Barcelona´s play in the paint, where we can find players like &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fran Vázquez&lt;/span&gt;-finally we are seeing an excellent level in this player, who said no to Orlando Magic some years ago-, the intimidator &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Daniel Santiago&lt;/span&gt;, the phenomenal and polyvalent Turkish player &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ersan Ilyasova&lt;/span&gt;-he is a perfect player: points, rebounds, blocks...-and the elegant &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;David Andersen-&lt;/span&gt;he always appears in the important moments of the game-, who will have a complicated battle in the paint against big men-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lorbek, Smodis, Terence Morris, Viktor Khrya&lt;/span&gt;pa (everyone plays well both inside and outside the paint and therefore there are many difficulties to defend these players) – of the italian &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ettore Messina&lt;/span&gt;, who is possibly the best European coach-he has won 4times the European Championship-. We'll see who will have more fortune and it gets a place in the Sunday´s final to play against an Athens´s team, which play the other semifinal on Friday at 21:00 cet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other semi-final between &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olympiacos&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt; is also very open, since both teams have an impressive roster and besides every team knows perfectly the other team. However if we have to chose a favourite, we think that Panathinaikos has more chances to win this semifinal, because:&lt;br /&gt;1-The coach of Panathinaikos, &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Zeljko Obradovic&lt;/span&gt; is a winner and besides he is a specialist in this kind of competitions, since he has won 6 times this trop&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsHFqplKJI/AAAAAAAADeI/B097SkpHDwU/s1600-h/josh_childress.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330862377852545170" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 298px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsHFqplKJI/AAAAAAAADeI/B097SkpHDwU/s320/josh_childress.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;hy(1 with Partizan Belgrade in 1992-the unforgettable last 3 points shot in the last second of the game scored by Sasha Djordjevic-, one with Joventut Badalona in 1994, 1 with Real Madrid in 1995 and 3 with Panathinaikos in 2000, 2002 and 2007 ... amazing).Instead, the coach of Olympiacos, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Panagiotis Giannakis&lt;/span&gt;, still has to demonstrate as coach what is his performance in this kind of competition.&lt;br /&gt;2-Olympiacos has not convinced us during the season in general and in the 4th final against Real Madrid in particular, because It did not show all the potential that it can show a team with players like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Theo Papaloukas, Josh Childress&lt;/span&gt; -after his herniated disc, he is not playing with his best level-,&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Jennero Pargo&lt;/span&gt;-no news of his abilities-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Halperin&lt;/span&gt;- he is an excellent shooter-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Nikola Vujcic-&lt;/span&gt;excellent player ... pure spectacle-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Lyn Greer&lt;/span&gt;-he is the key player of the team, since when the team needs 3 points, he has the responsibility to shot-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ioannis Bourousis&lt;/span&gt;-he is playing very well during thi&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsHSVAkUNI/AAAAAAAADeQ/1Oi9VRAO6v8/s1600-h/diamantidis____.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330862595381678290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfsHSVAkUNI/AAAAAAAADeQ/1Oi9VRAO6v8/s320/diamantidis____.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s season, being a very dominant center-. If we say that this team did not convince is because for example during the last 4th finals against &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, it was not able to attack a Real Madrid´s no individual defensive system and in fact during this defensive´s style, Real Madrid scored 26 points and Olympiacos only 1 point. So, we will see what will happen if the Panathinaikos´s coach, Obradovic, opts to use a non individual defensive´s system.&lt;br /&gt;3-If you look at the results during this season when these 2 teams have played one against the other, it seems that&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt; knows very well the way to stop Olympiacos, since Panathanikos won 2 games and Olympiacos (last March 1 Olympiacos won 77-75, on November, 23 Panathinaikos won 86-69 and in the Greek Cup final on February 22, Panathinaikos won 80-70).&lt;br /&gt;4-The Panathinaikos´s defensive level, with players like &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Nikos Hatzivrettas or Dimitros Diamantidis&lt;/span&gt; –Dimitros is the best defensive player in Europe-, who will complicated the labour of players like&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Greer or Halterin&lt;/span&gt;, which can be decisive, since if these 2 Olympiacos´s players “are not in the game”, the Giannakis´s team will have many problems to be in the Final.&lt;br /&gt;We'll see what will happen.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;Other Euroleague´s articles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2009/03/euroleague-quarterfinals-article-in.html"&gt;EUROLEAGUE: THE QUARTERFINALS (article in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/10/euroleague-is-here-this-article-is.html"&gt;THE EUROLEAGUE IS HERE (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/06/euroleague-spectacular-market.html"&gt;EUROLEAGUE: SPECTACULAR MARKET!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/07/nba-childresss-surprise-this-article-is.html"&gt;NBA: THE CHILDRESS´S SURPRISE (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;br /&gt;Join us on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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El &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;CSKA&lt;/span&gt; juega con largas posesiones de balón, marcando un ritmo lento de jugo y con mucha concentración defensiva durante los 40 minutos dejando en general a sus rivales por debajo de 65 puntos, con lo que al Regal FC Barcelona le interesa jugar con un juego rápido y buscando una anotación alta y un partido un tanto alocado, pues en estas circunstancias de juego, el CSKA no se desenvuelve demasiado bien y suele tener bastantes problemas para poder ganar los partidos; de hecho, el CSKA ha perdido siempre esta temporada en la Euroliga cuando su rival ha anotado más de 70 puntos, con lo que los hombres de Xavi Pascual ya saben lo que tienen que hacer para parar a los &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Trajan Langdon&lt;/span&gt; (10, 3 putos de media, con un 55% en tiros de 2 y un 43% en triples), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Erazem Lorbek&lt;/span&gt; (elegante pívot que está consiguiendo esta temporada 12,6 puntos por partido -con un 59,9% en tiros de 2 y un 47,1 en triples-y 5,4 rebotes), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Matjaz Smodis&lt;/span&gt;-fino ala-pivot que tiene un 41,7% en triples), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ramunas Siskaukas&lt;/span&gt;- y compañía: mucha concentración defensiva y juego rápido, con lo &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoBs4zy6qI/AAAAAAAADdQ/F8zKmeFk4SQ/s1600-h/foto+navarro+lakovic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330574979621907106" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 259px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoBs4zy6qI/AAAAAAAADdQ/F8zKmeFk4SQ/s320/foto+navarro+lakovic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;que deben tener mucho protagonismo los siempre intensos exteriores &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Gianluca Basile&lt;/span&gt;-buen defensor y un gran tirador sobre todo de los tiros imposibles y complicados-,&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Roger Grimau, Lubos Barton y Victor Sada&lt;/span&gt; que deben ser un gran complemento para los &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic y Juan Carlos Navarro&lt;/span&gt;(14,8 puntos por partido con un 49,5% en tiros de 2 y 92,6 en tiros libres), cuyo rendimiento va a ser clave para el devenir del partido, aunque evidentemente no nos podemos olvidar del potente juego interior barcelonista formado por un inmenso &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Fran Vázquez&lt;/span&gt;-por fin vemos un gran nivel en el jugador que dijo no a los Orlando Magic-, el siempre intimidador &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Daniel Santiago&lt;/span&gt;, el fenomenal y polivalente turco &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ersan Ilyasova&lt;/span&gt;-anota, rebotea…jugador total-y el elegante &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;David Andersen&lt;/span&gt; -siempre aparece en los momentos importantes- que tendrán una dura pugna en la pintura contra los hombres interiores-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Lorbek, Smodis, Terence Morris, Viktor Khryapa&lt;/span&gt; (todos juegan bien tanto dentro como fuera de la pintura, con lo que es muy difícil marcarlos)- del laureado &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ettore Messina&lt;/span&gt;-4 veces campeón de Europa-, que es posiblemente el mejor entrenador de Europa.&lt;br /&gt;Veremos quién se lleva el gato al agua en esta primera semifinal y juega la final contra uno de los equipos de Atenas que disputarán la otra semifinal el viernes 1 de mayo a partir de las 21.00 c.e.t.&lt;br /&gt;La semifinal entre el &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Olympiacos&lt;/span&gt; y el &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt; también se presenta muy abierta pues ambos conjuntos se conocen a la perfección y atesoran unas formidables y completas plantillas, formadas a golpe de talonario. De todas formas si tenemos que quedarnos con uno de estos 2 equipos, quizás e&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoCtmSaS9I/AAAAAAAADdg/BSfTvzUogAY/s1600-h/foto+obradovic.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;l Panathinaikos sale con cierto favoritismo para ganar esta semifina&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoC9JmYioI/AAAAAAAADdo/ZVNV8s1buD4/s1600-h/foto+obradovic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330576358518590082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 220px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoC9JmYioI/AAAAAAAADdo/ZVNV8s1buD4/s320/foto+obradovic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;l, pues:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1-El entrenador del Panathinaikos,&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Zeljko Obradovic&lt;/span&gt;, es uno ganador nato y es un especialista en este tipo de competiciones, en la que se mueve como pez en el agua como lo demuestra el hecho de que ya ha conseguido 6 títulos de campeón de Europa ( 1 con el Partizan de Belgrado en 1992-aquel inolvidable triple en el último segundo de Sasha Djordjevic-, una con el Joventut de Badalona en 1994, 1 con el Real Madrid en 1995 y 3 con el Panathinaikos en 2000, 2002 y 2007…casi nada). En cambio, el entrenador del Olympiacos, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Panagiotis Giannakis&lt;/span&gt;, aun nos tiene que demostrar cómo se desenvuelve en este tipo de competiciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2-Olympiacos no nos ha convencido en demasía durante la temporada en general ni en los 4º de final contra el Real Madrid en particular, pues no acabo de mostrar todo el potencial que debe tener un equipo con jugadores como&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Teo Papaloukas, Josh Childress&lt;/span&gt;-tras la hernia discal, le está costando encontrar su mejor nivel-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jennero Pargo&lt;/span&gt;-muy poco protagonismo-, Halperin-su tiro siempre es un seguro-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nikola Vujcic&lt;/span&gt;-el jugador tot&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoDGU6zUqI/AAAAAAAADdw/gUcb4ibTpME/s1600-h/olympiacos-childress-vujcic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330576516175844002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoDGU6zUqI/AAAAAAAADdw/gUcb4ibTpME/s320/olympiacos-childress-vujcic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;al…puro espectáculo-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Lyn Greer&lt;/span&gt;-al final es el que está sacando las castañas del fuego- o &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ioannis Bourousis&lt;/span&gt;-gran nivel durantes está temporada, siendo un pívot muy dominador-. Si decimos que no nos convenció fue porque por ejemplo este equipo fue incapaz de atacar una defensa zonal del &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; y&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfoCSM4N5FI/AAAAAAAADdY/NvzjbwNoyQw/s1600-h/olympiacos-childress-vujcic.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; de hecho el Real Madrid con este sistema defensivo consiguió un parcial de 26-1, que se dice pronto. Seguro que Obradovic tomó muy buena nota de estos problemas que tiene el Olympiacos para atacar este sistema defensivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3-Si analizamos los encuentros disputados esta temporada entre estos equipos, vemos como parece que &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt; le tiene tomada la medida al Olympiacos pues de 3 partidos ha ganado 2 y además con autoridad (el 1 de marzo Olympiacos ganó 77-75, el 23 de noviembre Panathinaikos ganó 86-69 y en la final de la Copa de Grecia, el 22 febrero, Panathinaikos ganó 80-70).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4-la solvencia defensiva de Panathinaikos que presenta jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Nikos Hatzivrettas o Dimitros Diamantidis-&lt;/span&gt;elegido mejor jugador defensivo de Europa- que seguro que le pondrán las cosas muy difíciles a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Greer y Halterin&lt;/span&gt; y si estos 2 jugadores exteriores de Olympiacos no funcionan, el equipo de Giannakis tendrá muchos problemas para anotar.&lt;br /&gt;Veremos lo que acontece.&lt;br /&gt;A disfrutar!!&lt;br /&gt;Otros artículos sobre la Euroliga:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2009/03/euroligalos-4-de-final-article-in.html"&gt;EUROLIGA:LOS 4º DE FINAL ( article in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-euroliga-vuelve-this-article-will-be.html"&gt;LA EUROLIGA VUELVE (This article is availble in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/06/euroligael-mercado-esta-muy.html"&gt;EUROLIGA:EL MERCADO ESTA MUY CALIENTE!(This article is in English too )&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/07/nba-la-sorpresa-de-childress-this.html"&gt;NBA: LA SORPRESA DE CHILDRESS (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;únete a nuestro grupo en Facebook,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heads-or-Tails/48667610259&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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El Chelsea salió a defenderse conscientes de que estaban en un escenario donde pocos se han llevado la victoria este año. &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjJ1ds1CjI/AAAAAAAADco/AdYHllyP9CY/s1600-h/petr-cech-chelsea_1393337c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330232079335885362" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjJ1ds1CjI/AAAAAAAADco/AdYHllyP9CY/s320/petr-cech-chelsea_1393337c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El técnico holandés planteó el partido siendo prioritario no encajar ningún gol en el Camp Nou, más que buscar el gol en campo contrario. La jugada le salió bien al también entrenador de la selección rusa. &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lampard y Ballack&lt;/span&gt; anularon por completo a&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Xavi&lt;/span&gt;, y &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Essien e Ivanovic&lt;/span&gt;, tuvieron problemas, pero al final pudieron con &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Bosingwa&lt;/span&gt; no pueden decir lo mismo de su batalla particular con &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Messi,&lt;/span&gt; con el que todavía tendrá pesadillas un par de días, y eso que le argentino no tuvo el día.&lt;br /&gt;Pep por su parte no se guardó ningún as en la manga. El juego azulgrana fue claro, ataque continuo sin piedad sobre el rival, buscando la máxima renta en territorio local, ya que el viaje a Londres no va a ser fácil. Dejó a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Puyol &lt;/span&gt;en el banquillo, pero el internacional español tuvo que sustituir al lesionado Márquez en la segunda parte. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjKGW3TZ0I/AAAAAAAADcw/_W5fRjc6N4Q/s1600-h/rafaelmarquez_2232832.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330232369558546242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 298px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjKGW3TZ0I/AAAAAAAADcw/_W5fRjc6N4Q/s320/rafaelmarquez_2232832.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El encuentro comenzó como todos esperaban, el Barcelona metido en terreno inglés y los visitantes achicando balones e intentando anular la creación de juego en el centro del campo. Henry fue el único que parecía saber cómo sortear el muro inglés, a lo mejor por su experiencia en Inglaterra, pero sus llegadas siempre acababan en las manos del meta checo. Una de las mejores oportunidades de la primera parte, y aunque parezca mentira, la tuvo &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Drogba&lt;/span&gt;, el cual se aprovechó de un fallo de&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Márquez&lt;/span&gt;, pero no pudo batir a &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Valdés&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Al comienzo de la segunda mitad se vivieron unos momentos de sustos continuos para la zaga culé. Primero&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Henry&lt;/span&gt; se medio desmallaba tras un golpe con Alex, y aunque se recuperó no volvió a ser el mismo. Después &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Márquez&lt;/span&gt; no tuvo tanta suerte, el solo se lesión’ la rodilla y puede que se pierda la temporada. Tras lo del mejicano,&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Dani Alves&lt;/span&gt; dio otro susto y Guardiola se desesperaba en la banda pensando en el partido contra el Real Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;Todo esto enfrió el partido, lo que claramente beneficiaba al Chelsea, y de hecho no fue hasta el 70’ cuando el Barcelona volvió a tener otra ocasión clara. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Eto’o&lt;/span&gt; le hizo un cañ&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjK1sK6DxI/AAAAAAAADc4/BWs4BwBMxMw/s1600-h/foto+samuel+etoo.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330233182731767570" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjK1sK6DxI/AAAAAAAADc4/BWs4BwBMxMw/s320/foto+samuel+etoo.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;o en carrera a &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;John Terry&lt;/span&gt; y le hizo un recorte a&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Alex,&lt;/span&gt; pero su disparo se encontró con Petr Cech. A pesar de estas ocasiones, los centrales del Chelsea estuvieron espectaculares durante todo el partido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bojan&lt;/span&gt; saltó al campo sustituyendo a Eto’o, lo cual no gustó mucho al Camerunés, pues quería el gol consciente de que la noche de ayer era un buen escaparate. El joven jugador culé tuvo la mejor oportunidad del partido con un remate de cabeza en boca de gol, pero el cuero se le marchó alto. Era la última oportunidad que tenía el Barcelona para salir con algo de renta de este duelo, pero parece que el viaje a la capital inglesa va a ser más complicado de lo esperado.&lt;br /&gt;Aún así ambos equipos tienen que marcar, por lo que en Stamford Bridge a los ‘blues’ no les va a servir salir a aguantar. En Londres se abrirán más los espacios, y la vuelta promete tener más espectácu&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjLMeaRQ9I/AAAAAAAADdA/zmpHZ529pyo/s1600-h/john_oshea_1243295c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330233574175097810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfjLMeaRQ9I/AAAAAAAADdA/zmpHZ529pyo/s320/john_oshea_1243295c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;lo que lo vivido ayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente reseñar que hoy &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;United&lt;/span&gt; y&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Arsenal&lt;/span&gt; se han visto las caras en la otra semifinal y que el United ha golpeado primero tras una buena primera parte del equipo de Ferguson en la que tuvo bastante acorralado a unos gunners que gracias a la buena labor del meta español, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Manolo Almunia,&lt;/span&gt; han salido vivos del Teatro de los sueños y tendrán todas las opciones el próximo martes de pasar a la final porque sólo tienen que remontar el gol de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;O´Shea&lt;/span&gt; y porque será difícil ver un peor partido de jugadores como&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Nasri o Walcott&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;La próxima semana tendremos el desenlace de ambas eliminatorias.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Carlos Cruz (Leeds, UK) (colaborador de Saqueneutral)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHD2qGKuuI/AAAAAAAADb4/xG-fcOf2SjM/s320/robben1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the one hand, on Tuesday we could watch another bad game, especially during the first half, played by the men of &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Juande Ramos&lt;/span&gt;, whose results are indisputable, but the image showed by &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; ,since the arrival of Juande, is arguable, thus example its first 45 minutes of the match against Getafe were a constant display of mistakes-players like &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Gago, Higuaín, Guti&lt;/span&gt; (during this match which saw the 2 faces of Guti, who is a player capable to make during the same game horrendous mistakes and excellent plays-last Tuesday he made an excellent long assist to&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Klas Jan Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt; but the Dutch striker missed the opportunity to score a goal-) or&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Sergio Ramos&lt;/span&gt; committed a lot of mistakes with the ball-.The players were not in the correct place and they showed a poor defensive and offensive balance…So, a very poor level showed by the Real Madrid players, who could repair during the second half thanks to the heart and pride of them, who want to continue having chances to be the Spanish Champion-by the way, many things occurred during the second half of the game against Getafe, since we could see a very open game, the injury of &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Robben&lt;/span&gt;(he will not play the next 3 games), a&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Pepe´s&lt;/span&gt; tremendous aggression(the Portuguese defender said to the newspaper Marca that he is thinking about his retirement-10 games is the punishment for the action-), a Panenka penalty missed by &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Javi Casqu&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHEMQ5_TWI/AAAAAAAADcA/n6oOL9NpFdo/s1600-h/foto+xavi+iniesta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328255549131672930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHEMQ5_TWI/AAAAAAAADcA/n6oOL9NpFdo/s320/foto+xavi+iniesta.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ero&lt;/span&gt;, an heroic Real Madrid´s reaction to win the game-.&lt;br /&gt;But, although Real Madrid is getting excellent result with Juande Ramos, to think that this team can be the Champion is rather a chimera, since although the gap in the standing between &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; and Real Madrid is not very important(6 points), there is a big difference between the style of each team, since FC Barcelona continues showing an incredible “jogo bonito”, shattering any rival like &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sevilla FC,&lt;/span&gt; which was impotent to stop the electrics combinations and plays between the FC Barcelona and especially the actions of players like &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Andres Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;-one goal and 3 assists last Wednesday-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Xavi, Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry&lt;/span&gt;, who were brilliant and stepped forward to win la Liga, the King´s Cup and the Champions League, which is very possible if FC Barcelona´s atmosphere continues calm, which seems difficult having a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Joan Laporta&lt;/span&gt; as the president of this club, since Laporta continues with his mismanagement-we have spoken many times about it on this blog- and this week he decided to elect 2 new directors- the eccentric Columbia University´s professor of economics, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Xavier Sala i Martín&lt;/span&gt;, a&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHEtfNK5DI/AAAAAAAADcI/AOujY2Ef8PQ/s1600-h/47144538_GCRNY2004salaimartin3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328256119905903666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 209px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHEtfNK5DI/AAAAAAAADcI/AOujY2Ef8PQ/s320/47144538_GCRNY2004salaimartin3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nd Magda Oronich-, which –specially the arrival of Sala i Martín- is criticized by other FC Barcelona´s directors, since they see in this man a very hard rival to be the substitute of Laporta as FC Barcelona´s president. So, it is very probable that during next months, we will see a big battle to be the substituted, who later will have a hard electoral process against &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt;-the &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Felipe Scolari´&lt;/span&gt;s friend was a former sport vice-president with Joan Laporta (FC Barcelona was lucky when Rossell could not sign the overvalued Scolari some years ago)-. We'll see if this Joan Laporta´s decision affects to club and the players´s performance, but it is clear that for one reason or another since Laporta is president, the club is synonymous of tension and conflict between managers, players and directors-examples are the dismissal of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pesic&lt;/span&gt;(a Basketball´s coach and FC Barcelona was the European Champion with him on the bench), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Valero Rivera&lt;/span&gt; (handball´s coach), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt; (vice-president), Marc Ingla (vice-president), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ferran “Mr Power Point” Soriano &lt;/span&gt;(vice-president), &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Albert Vicens&lt;/span&gt; (vice-president) or the vote of confidence against Joan Laporta, the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ronaldinho&lt;/span&gt;´s situation…&lt;br /&gt;Moreover in the Spanish li&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHE9K8CUuI/AAAAAAAADcQ/2xauquuWM5I/s1600-h/foto+luis+garcia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328256389343236834" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 315px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfHE9K8CUuI/AAAAAAAADcQ/2xauquuWM5I/s320/foto+luis+garcia.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ga, we want to remark that there is a big battle between many teams to remain in the Primera División and yesterday&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; RCD Espanyol&lt;/span&gt; confirmed our predict and it showed that it has experienced and quality players (De la Peña, Tamudo, Luis Garcia, Jarque, etc) and it could win a “final” at Gijón in the game against Sporting Gijón (0-3), showing that it has many chances to remain in Primera División, which seemed a chimera 4 games ago, but now it is very close to get it, since it is gradually recovering the best level of players like &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;De la Peña, Raúl Tamudo or Luís García&lt;/span&gt;(yesterday he made 2 assists).&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we want to indicate that we have the teams qualify to play the Final of the Turkish Cup(&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe &lt;/span&gt;will be the final) and the Italian Cup &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;(Lazio&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Sampdoria&lt;/span&gt;;the Genova´s team could bear the Inter´pressure and it will play again a final after 15 years)&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB5dMUZDkI/AAAAAAAADbY/CjtaNAmhwKY/s320/pepe-realmadrid.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por un lado, el martes asistimos a otro lamentable juego, especialmente durante la primera parte, del &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; de &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Juande Ramós&lt;/span&gt;, cuyos resultados son indiscutibles, pero sí que es más que discutible la imagen que nos ofrece cada semana el equipo blanco, pues por ejemplo los primeros 45 minutos del partido contra el Getafe fueron una constante “exhibición” de imprecisión-jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Gago, Higuaín, Guti&lt;/span&gt;( durante este partido vimos lo que es Guti, un jugador capaz en un mismo partido de lo peor y de lo mejor-gran pase de gol que le dio a Klas Jan Huntelaar que el ariete holandés no supo aprovechar-) o&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Sergio Ramos&lt;/span&gt; fallaban increíblemente pases muy fáciles-, mala colocación, mal balance defensivo y ofensivo, en fin, un despropósito que pudieron arreglar en la segunda parte-tuvimos de todo durante los segundos 45 minutos: otra lesión de “cristal de Bohemia”&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Robben,&lt;/span&gt; partido de ida y vuelta, tremenda agresión de&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Pepe&lt;/span&gt; que hoy ha dicho al diario Marca que se está pensando si se retira, un penalty a lo Panenka lanzado por&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Javi Casquero&lt;/span&gt;, remontada heroica del Real Madrid…-, pero no por el juego, sino por el corazón y orgullo de los jugadores merengues que quieren seguir teniendo opciones de ganar el título liguero, lo cual parece una quimera y no tanto por los 6 puntos de difere&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB5p_QA25I/AAAAAAAADbg/UtvyB1NRb4w/s1600-h/iniesta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327892121439493010" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 265px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB5p_QA25I/AAAAAAAADbg/UtvyB1NRb4w/s320/iniesta.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ncia a falta de 6 jornadas, sino sobre todo por el nivel que sigue mostrando el &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, que este miércoles volvió a sacarse de la manga un partido de 10 y eso que enfrente tenía un rival que a priori es rocoso, duro y peligrosos como el Sevilla FC, pero que en todo momento se vio superado por un ciclón blaugrana encabezado por un magistral&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Andrés Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;-lleva un último mes de ensueño y ayer se volvió a salir, marcando un gran gol y dando la asistencia en los otros 3 goles del equipo-, que estuvo muy bien acompañado por el juego&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Xavi, Henry y Eto´o&lt;/span&gt;. Es decir otra exhibición de un equipo que está lanzado para conseguir la triple corona-Liga, Copa del Rey y Champions League- siempre y cuando &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Joan Laporta&lt;/span&gt; no haga de las suyas y no enturbie el ambiente en Can Barça, como parece que va a hacer con su decisión de designar a 2 nuevos directivos, el extravagante catedrático de economía por la Universidad de Columbia, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Xavier Sala i Martín&lt;/span&gt;, y la “independentista” &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Magda&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB5-6spcuI/AAAAAAAADbo/P1FSu6J6QYc/s1600-h/sala-i-martin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327892480994669282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB5-6spcuI/AAAAAAAADbo/P1FSu6J6QYc/s320/sala-i-martin.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Oronich&lt;/span&gt;-la llegada de Sala i Martín se está viendo con muy malos ojos por parte de un sector importante de los directivos de Joan Laporta, que ven en el catedrático a un duro rival de cara a sustituir a Laporta en la presidencia del Barça, siempre y cuando en las elecciones logren vencer al amigo del perdedor y sobre valorado &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Felipe Scolari&lt;/span&gt;, el ex vicepresidente deportivo del FC Barcelona, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt;(el FC Baracelona tuvo fortuna cuando Rossel no pudo firmar a Scolari)-. Veremos en qué medida afecta esta llegada a la marcha de un club en el que por una razón o por otra desde que llegó Laporta a la presidencia es sinónimo de crispación social y de conflicto entre direcitvos-durante estos años de Laporta, hemos visto la marcha de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pesic&lt;/span&gt;, la dimisión de&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Valero Rivera&lt;/span&gt;, la dimisión de&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt; y sus directivos afines, la moción de censura contra Laporta, la dimisión de los vicepresidentes &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Marc Ingla, Ferran “Mr Power Point” Soriano, Albert Vicens &lt;/span&gt;y ahora ésta nuevo conflicto en la cúpula barcelonista, no está mal para 2 mandatos, no, Sr Laporta?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por lo demás, ho&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB65siY2CI/AAAAAAAADbw/tXBhf8SRp8s/s1600-h/tamudo_luis_garcia_de_la_pe%25C3%25B1a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327893490805823522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SfB65siY2CI/AAAAAAAADbw/tXBhf8SRp8s/s320/tamudo_luis_garcia_de_la_pe%25C3%25B1a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;y estaremos muy atentos a lo que acontezca en el Molinón de Gijón a las 20.00 c.e.t pues se jugará el partido entre &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sporting de Gijón&lt;/span&gt; y el &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;RCD Espanyol de Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, partido decisivo en la parte baja de la tabla, pues una derrota del Espanyol prácticamente significaría su descenso a la segunda división. Veremos lo que ocurre en tan trascendental partido en el que se debería imponer el Espanyol, pues sus jugadores atesoran mucha más experiencia en partidos importantes-muchos jugadores Espanyolistas (&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;De la Peña, Tamudo, Luís Garcia, Jarque&lt;/span&gt;, etc) han ganado alguna Copa del Rey o han jugado finales de la Copa de la Uefa-.&lt;br /&gt;Estaremos atentos.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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His 50 minutes on the floor of the &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;TD Banknorth Garden&lt;/span&gt; can be described as excellent, because during those minutes, we watched a display of an example of a good playmaker (11 assists with a great connection between Rose and the French center Noah), shot, layup shots and good defense of Derrick Rose, who scored 36 points (12-19 FGP and 12-12 FT)-he is one of the best rookie scorers in a playoff debut in the NBA´s history (he tied the legendary &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Kareem Abdul-Jabbar&lt;/span&gt;) - with “impossible” shots , as his first 2 points shot in the third quarter or some 2 points shots during the final minutes of the fourth quarter and showing t&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepVABRgIAI/AAAAAAAADbI/r_X7x1DT8lU/s1600-h/85624a8e-4a66-4c43-ad92-dbfb9540de20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326162968149237762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepVABRgIAI/AAAAAAAADbI/r_X7x1DT8lU/s320/85624a8e-4a66-4c43-ad92-dbfb9540de20.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;hat he has an excellent performance when he is playing under pressure, since for example he made 2 essential FT during the decisive moments of the game. Anyway, he played as an star and besides he was helped by the intensity of the French center &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Joakim Noah-&lt;/span&gt;17 rebounds!, 11 points (many ally oops thanks to the Rose´s passes), 3 blocks-, by the excellent&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Ben Gordon&lt;/span&gt;´s last 3 minutes of the 4th quarter, by the good and intense minutes of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Kirk Hinrich&lt;/span&gt;, by the incredible success of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Tyrus Thomas&lt;/span&gt; during the overtime –he made some essential 5-6 meters shots- and by the painful game of the one of the Boston Celtics´s starts,&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Ray Allen&lt;/span&gt;, who is emulating his pathetic start of the playoffs during last season and today he made an "exhibition" and finished the game with 4 points (1-12 FGP) – to win this first game of this Playoffs´s series, where Chicago Bulls confirmed its good level during the last game of the Re&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepV4K95ipI/AAAAAAAADbQ/877tlS1arLQ/s1600-h/2501415998.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326163932824046226" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepV4K95ipI/AAAAAAAADbQ/877tlS1arLQ/s320/2501415998.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;gular Season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll see what will be the Boston Celtics´s reaction after this disappointed game, played without the classical Boston´s intensity- especially during the first half-, and without two members of the Boston´s "&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Big Three&lt;/span&gt;"- Garnett was injured and Allen was very unlucky-, which is a big advantage to the rivals, because it is not enough to win this kind of games the good labour of &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Paul Pierce&lt;/span&gt; (23 points, with 8-21 FGP),&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Rajon Rondo&lt;/span&gt; (29 points, good game although maybe he made too risked plays-9 rebounds and 7 assists) and &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Glen "Big Baby" Davis &lt;/span&gt;(18 points).&lt;br /&gt;The answer will be next Monday at Boston.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Magistrales se pueden calificar sus 50 minutos disputados en el &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;TD Banknorth Garden &lt;/span&gt;de Boston, pues durante estos minutos hemos asistido a una exhibición de dirección (11 asistencias-una gran conexión entre Rose y el center francés Noah-), tiro, entradas a canasta, de lectura del partido e incluso de buena defensa de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Derrick Rose&lt;/span&gt;, que se ha ido hasta los 36 puntos(12 de 19 en tiros de campo y 12 de 12 en tiros libres)-es una de las máximas anotaciones de un rookie en un primer partido de playoffs(iguala al mítico &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Kareem Abdul-Jabbar&lt;/span&gt;) - con canastas imposibles, como su primera canasta en el tercer cuarto o alguna en los últimos minutos de partido y demostrando que tiene sangre fría y que si tiene que anotar 2 tiros libres en el momento decisivo del partido, los anota como si nada. En fin, partido de mega crack y que si encima está asistido por la gran labor de un correoso e intenso &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Joakim Noah&lt;/span&gt;-17 rebotes!!!, 11 puntos(bastantes ally oops aprovechando los pases de Rose), 3 tapones-, por 3 magistrales últimos minutos del 4º cuarto del base británico Ben Gordon, por los buenos e intensos minutos de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Kirk Hinrich&lt;/span&gt;, por el increíble acierto en los tiros de 5-6 metros de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Tyrus Thomas&lt;/span&gt; en la prórroga y por el penoso partido de una de las estrellas de Boston Celtics, &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Ray Allen&lt;/span&gt;-está emulando s&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepKKZY9-1I/AAAAAAAADa4/ado0cKAR0ec/s1600-h/foto+del+big+three.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326151051793791826" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 230px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SepKKZY9-1I/AAAAAAAADa4/ado0cKAR0ec/s320/foto+del+big+three.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;u patético comienzo de playoffs de la temporada pasada y hoy ha hecho una “exhibición” pues ha finalizado con 4 puntos(1 de 12 en tiros de campo) -, no nos debe extrañar que el partido haya finalizado con victoria-en la prórroga por 103 a 105- de unos Chicago Bulls que llegaban a este playoffs tras un buen nivel final en la fase regular de la competición y que hoy han confirmado dando este golpe encima de la mesa.&lt;br /&gt;Veremos cuál será la reacción de unos Boston Celtics que han jugado sin demasiada intensidad-sobre todo durante la primera parte- y sin dos de los miembros del &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;“Big Three&lt;/span&gt;”-Garnett estaba lesionado y Allen jugó “ausente”- y eso es dar mucha ventaja a los contrincantes, pues se necesita algo más para ganar además de un buen &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Paul Pierce&lt;/span&gt; (23 puntos-8 de 21 en tiros de campo),&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Rajon Rondo&lt;/span&gt; (29 puntos-buen partido aunque en algunos momentos arriesgó demasiado-9 rebotes y 7 asistencias) y&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Glen “Big Baby” Davis&lt;/span&gt;(18 puntos)&lt;br /&gt;La respuesta la tendremos el próximo lunes en Boston.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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First, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Wayne R&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUBM60FuBI/AAAAAAAADaQ/edvbC0kU2lw/s1600-h/foto+lampard+gerrard.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324663455893272594" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUBM60FuBI/AAAAAAAADaQ/edvbC0kU2lw/s320/foto+lampard+gerrard.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ooney&lt;/span&gt; trudging alone up front in Germany, growing frustrated as the technical Portuguese passed circles around&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Lampard, Gerrard, and Hargreaves&lt;/span&gt;. Eventually, Rooney would stomp &lt;span style="color:#663300;"&gt;Carvalho&lt;/span&gt;, see red, and England would lose in penalties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, at home in Wembley, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;David Beckham and Peter Crouch&lt;/span&gt; enter as substitutes and soon combine for a goal. The euphoria is short-lived as Croatia respond with a stunning goal that would send&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; the Three Lions&lt;/span&gt; on an extended summer break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quarterfinal exit stung like a bee sting in the spring: painful but passing. The failure to qualify for Euro 2008 induced a collective psychosis: root and branch analyses of the English game emerged. Was the problem not enough training grounds for five year olds? Perhaps England should cease importing stylish continental players?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Capello,&lt;/span&gt; a man of conviction and bravery, assumed the mast amidst a tempest of uncertainty. While the Italian has the ego to overpower any individual English&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUBjDx1xAI/AAAAAAAADaY/5FtvICGTHt8/s1600-h/fabio-capello.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324663836256879618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUBjDx1xAI/AAAAAAAADaY/5FtvICGTHt8/s320/fabio-capello.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; player, and his ruthlessness is legendary, signs are emerging that his reign may reap results equal to his predecessors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Three Lions has 5 straights wins and a cushion over &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Croatia,&lt;/span&gt; but the lack of a striking option not named Rooney is troublesome. &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Michael Owen&lt;/span&gt;, if fit, would be the logical choice. However, the former talisman’s career has been more desert than oasis, and as of late his struggles to regain match fitness threaten to cast a dark shadow over a solid career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other options, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Heskie, Crouch, and Defoe&lt;/span&gt;, lack international class. All of them have faults obvious to the amateur’s eye, let alone professional assistant scouts preparing a match report in a knock-out setting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUCBdnuCNI/AAAAAAAADag/QibM6pMpHNQ/s1600-h/foto+owen+michael.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUCNdIJN_I/AAAAAAAADao/ecTlOMMs-h0/s1600-h/foto+owen+michael.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324664564615821298" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeUCNdIJN_I/AAAAAAAADao/ecTlOMMs-h0/s320/foto+owen+michael.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the win over the&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Ukraine, &lt;/span&gt;Capello played &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Barry, Gerrard, and Lampard&lt;/span&gt; all at once. The midfield triangle, reminiscent of the Sven era, was slow and imprecise in the pass – a deadly combination against technical sides. &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;John Terry&lt;/span&gt; headed home a setpiece to seal the game, but such scores, a dime a dozen in domestic leagues, will be hard to come by in South Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spain won the last European with a salivating frontline of &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fernando Torres and David Villa&lt;/span&gt;. The Spaniards bombarded the flanks with &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Iniesta and Silva&lt;/span&gt; providing a handful. England, in &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Joe Cole and Theo Walcott&lt;/span&gt;, certainly has the widemen to create. But who will head home those crosses?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the meantime, expect more of the slow, lumbering 3 man midfield. &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Gerrard and Lampard&lt;/span&gt; may not work well together, but they are both superior to the options up front. Until a genuine #9 emerges to steal once and for all &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Michael Owen’s&lt;/span&gt; shirt, the semifinals of a major tournament will remain a bridge too far.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Elliott (a member of &lt;a href="http://www.futfanatico.com/"&gt;http://www.futfanatico.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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The same circumstance will be in other championships, since &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt; will receive&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Blackburn Rovers&lt;/span&gt; at Anfield Road on Saturday at 13.45 c.e.t, or &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt; will play at &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sunderland&lt;/span&gt; on Saturday at 16.00 c.e.t –, or&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Olympique Lyon&lt;/span&gt; will play against &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;AS Monaco &lt;/span&gt;on Sunday at 18.45 c.e.t-it could be a great weekend for the &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Claude Puel's&lt;/span&gt; team because its rival, Olympique Marseille can have a complicated game after its Uefa Thursday´s game and besides other Lyon´s rivals, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;OSC Lille&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;PSG &lt;/span&gt;will have a direct duel-.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, as these European championships do not have attractive games, I think that the attention will be at Istanbul with the decisive derby between &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBv9OjUhSI/AAAAAAAADZ4/LTQJSkn5Wmc/s1600-h/foto+servet+lesionado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323377857220871458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBv9OjUhSI/AAAAAAAADZ4/LTQJSkn5Wmc/s320/foto+servet+lesionado.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe&lt;/span&gt;. It is a decisive game, because we can say that a defeat will mean to say goodbye to the Lig title-although the Turkish Süper Lig is “crazy” and anything is possible in any game- because after this weekend, the teams will play only 7 more games and the looser will have an important gap with the leaders of the championship &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas&lt;/span&gt;-yesterday it won 1-3 at Kocaelispor(Agbetu scored for Kocaelispor and &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Zapotocny, Bobo and Simsek for&lt;/span&gt; Besiktas) and&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Sivasspor&lt;/span&gt;. To this derby, the teams arrive at a different moment, because on the one hand, Galatasaray seems that it is accusing the injured of &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Servet Cetin&lt;/span&gt; and the departure of &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Fernando Meira&lt;/span&gt; to Zenit St. Petersburg and it is showing defensive problems during the last games and in fact it has won only 1 game in last 3 played –it drawn the game played against Trabzonspor(2-2), it beat Gaziantepspor (0-1) and it lost the game played at Ali Sami Yen against Eskisehirspor (0-1)-. On the other hand, &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe&lt;/span&gt; is living a good time, especially if we refer to its level of play, since maybe we saw the best Fenerbahçe of the season during the last 2 games, showing seriousness, good mentality and order and the defeat at &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Bursa&lt;/span&gt; can be described as a mere accident, since the team played well and the only problem was its last minutes of the g&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBwPLEUEgI/AAAAAAAADaA/R8YQQpZ1zNI/s1600-h/AlexES0104_468x281.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323378165523157506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBwPLEUEgI/AAAAAAAADaA/R8YQQpZ1zNI/s320/AlexES0104_468x281.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ame when the players committed some defensive mistakes and besides it suffered an hesitant penalty in the last play of the game during a &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Yildirim&lt;/span&gt;´s play. Furthermore&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Luis Aragones&lt;/span&gt; has good news, since finally we are seeing the best &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt; of the season and it seems that he has recovered his smell to score goals and in fact he scored in the last 2 games played with Fenerbahçe and besides he was decisive with his play in the game between Turkey and Spain. So, finally it seems that he is thinking in football and not in his “girls affaires” and he starts to assume the responsibility in the important moments as this Sunday´s game at Ali Sami Yen (at 18.00 c.e.t), where his team will need his best performance to supply the absence of the brilliant Brazilian star&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Alex&lt;/span&gt;, who has muscular problems and until the last minute his presence will be hesitant. Absences:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray: Servet Cetin and T&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBwss8jr4I/AAAAAAAADaI/9N4K_kqYpRY/s1600-h/raul-tamudo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323378672833638274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SeBwss8jr4I/AAAAAAAADaI/9N4K_kqYpRY/s320/raul-tamudo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;obias Linderoth&lt;/span&gt;. Hesitant: &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Shabani Nonda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe: Edu Dracena&lt;/span&gt;; hesitant: &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, we will make our prediction of the Spanish League´s games, where the attention will be in the relegation´s zone, where we will see crucial game as the duel between&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Numancia&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Espanyol Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;, which will try to win the game and to reduce the gap with &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Getafe&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Recreativo de Huelva&lt;/span&gt; or&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Real Betis&lt;/span&gt;, which have complicated games. This is our prediction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Saturday&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;20.00 &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Recreativo Huelva&lt;/span&gt; 4-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;22.00 &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Malaga CF&lt;/span&gt; 3-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Sunday &lt;/span&gt;at 17.00:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Racing Santander&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Real Betis&lt;/span&gt; 1-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Real Mallorca&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Almeria &lt;/span&gt;1-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Real Valladollid&lt;/span&gt; 3-0&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sporting Gijón&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Valencia CF &lt;/span&gt;1-2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Numancia&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;RCD Espanyol &lt;/span&gt;1-2 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Osasuna&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Athletic Bilbao&lt;/span&gt; 2-1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Sunday&lt;/span&gt; at 19.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sevilla CF&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Getafe&lt;/span&gt; 2-0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Sunday&lt;/span&gt; at 21.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Deportivo Coruña&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atlético Madrid&lt;/span&gt; 2-2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good luck!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd8y-Xp3hZI/AAAAAAAADY4/JAlY3zOlKhY/s320/Pep-Guardiola_1666996.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;na&lt;/span&gt;-enésima vez que vemos este año como el equipo de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Pep Guardiola&lt;/span&gt; se va al descanso con un 4-0-, vuelven la ligas nacionales con partidos en principio asequibles para todos los equipos grandes y con un atractivo derby en Estambul, entre el &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt; y el &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Como decimos, los equipos grandes y que se están jugando el ser campeones de liga tendrán compromisos asequibles, pues el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; recibirá al &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Recreativo de Huelva&lt;/span&gt; el sábado a las 20.00 c.e.t-¿otro 4-0 al descanso-y el&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; recibirá el domingo al &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Real Valladolid&lt;/span&gt; a las 17.00 c.e.t.&lt;br /&gt;Tampoco tendrán compromisos complicados el &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt;-jugará en Anfield el&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd8zVM7poaI/AAAAAAAADZA/ccJcnpbryZI/s1600-h/puel_depart_lyon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323029723916902818" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd8zVM7poaI/AAAAAAAADZA/ccJcnpbryZI/s320/puel_depart_lyon.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sábado a las 13-45 frente al &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Blackburn Rovers&lt;/span&gt;-,el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt;-jugará en &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sunderland&lt;/span&gt; el sábado a las 16-00- ni el &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Olympique Lyon&lt;/span&gt;-jugará contra el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;AS Monaco&lt;/span&gt; el domingo a las 18-45 y además el equipo de&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Claude Puel&lt;/span&gt; puede ser el gran beneficiado de la jornada pues podría aprovecharse de un posible pinchazo del&lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt; Olympique Marsella&lt;/span&gt; que jugó el jueves Copa de La Uefa y del duelo directo entre &lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;OSC Lille&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;PSG&lt;/span&gt;-.&lt;br /&gt;Con relación al derby de Estambul, hay que decir que es un partido decisivo para estos 2 equipos, pues el que no gane este partido prácticamente dirá adiós al título de Liga-aunque esta Süper Lig turca está loca y cualquier cosa puede pasar en cualquier partido-pues a falta de 7 partidos quedaría bastante rezagado con relación al &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas&lt;/span&gt; y al &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sivasspor&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A este partido, los equipos llegan en distinto momento, pues por un lado &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd8zsoR2RYI/AAAAAAAADZI/1pua8ldxo6w/s1600-h/fernando-meira.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323030126394754434" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd8zsoR2RYI/AAAAAAAADZI/1pua8ldxo6w/s320/fernando-meira.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;el &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt; viene de ganar 1 solo partido de los últimos 3 disputados-empató a 2 con el Trabzonspor, ganó 0-1 al Gaziantepspor y perdió en el&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt; Ali Sami Yen&lt;/span&gt; con el Eskisehirspor por 0-1-, mostrando cierta debilidad defensiva-sigue acusando la baja del lesionado &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Servet Cetin&lt;/span&gt; y la marcha de &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Fernando Meira&lt;/span&gt; al Zenit de San Petesburgo-. En cambio, el&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe &lt;/span&gt;viene en un buen momento, sobre todo si nos referimos a su nivel de juego, pues en sus 2 últimos partidos, posiblemente hemos visto al mejor Fenerbahçe de la temporada, mostrando seriedad y orden y su derrota frente al Bursaspor simplemente puede ser calificada como mero accidente, pues el equipo jugó bien pero pagó unos despistes finales y un penalty más que dudoso sobre &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Yildir&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd80DWL1eSI/AAAAAAAADZQ/6Z3pqrA9g_s/s1600-h/guiza_david.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323030516674689314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 274px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd80DWL1eSI/AAAAAAAADZQ/6Z3pqrA9g_s/s320/guiza_david.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;im&lt;/span&gt;. Además Luís Aragonés tiene una buena noticia en la delantera y es que por fin &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt; está viendo puerta y recuperando el olfato goleador, pues marcó en los 2 últimos partidos jugados con el Fenerbahçe y viene de hacer la jugada decisiva en el partido Turquía-España, así que además de verlo correr y presionar-esto siempre lo ha hecho durante la temporada-, por fin le vemos cumpliendo el rol por el que fue fichado, marcar goles y siendo decisivo en los momentos importantes como el partido de este domingo en el Ali Sami Yen, donde su equipo posiblemente jugará con la ausencia del genial brasileño &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex,&lt;/span&gt; que tiene problemas musculares y hasta última hora será seria duda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003333;"&gt;Bajas en los equipos&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Servet Cetin, y Tobias Linderoth.&lt;/span&gt; Dudosos: &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Shabani Nonda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Edu Dracena&lt;/span&gt; y la duda de &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd82O7-IcuI/AAAAAAAADZg/QPD_VJFIgsw/s1600-h/20090222elpepidep_7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323032914819576546" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd82O7-IcuI/AAAAAAAADZg/QPD_VJFIgsw/s320/20090222elpepidep_7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, haremos nuestra predicción de la jornada de la&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Liga Española&lt;/span&gt; en la que el interés está en la &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;zona de descenso&lt;/span&gt; con el duelo directo entre el Numancia y el Espanyol de Barcelona que intentarán ganar y aprovecharse de los partidos complicados del Getafe, Recreativo de Huelva y Real Betis.&lt;br /&gt;Sábado:&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sd800xLVpHI/AAAAAAAADZY/DpK2vfcxfVU/s1600-h/foto+ivan+de+la+pe%C3%B1a.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;20.00 &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Recreativo Huelva&lt;/span&gt; 4-1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;22.00 &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Malaga CF&lt;/span&gt; 3-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Domingo a las 17.00:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Rácing Santander&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Real Betis&lt;/span&gt; 1-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Real Mallorca&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Almería &lt;/span&gt;1-1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Real Valladollid&lt;/span&gt; 3-0&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Spórting Gijón&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Valencia CF&lt;/span&gt;1-2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Numancia-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;RCD Espanyol&lt;/span&gt; 1-2 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Osasuna&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Athlétic Bilbao&lt;/span&gt; 2-1&lt;br /&gt;Domingo a las 19.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sevilla CF-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Getafe&lt;/span&gt; 2-0&lt;br /&gt;Domingo a las 21.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Deportivo La Coruña&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atlético Madrid&lt;/span&gt; 2-2&lt;br /&gt;Suerte!!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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If we have to emphasize any players of this game, perhaps it was very remarkable the play of the Brazilian &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fernando&lt;/span&gt;-yesterday the game was an exhibition of this Brazilian center midfielder, because he was always in the correct place, stopping the United´s game… it seemed that he had a magnet because the ball always ended up in his feet. This 21 year´s old midfielder is a player to follow, since although he has not a big experience-this is his first season at FC Porto (the Portuguese club paid 720,000 euros for him!),after a year on loan at Estrela Amadora-he is showing that he has a great future and that he is ready to play important games like Yesterday´s game. Alongside Fernando, we want to emphasize the play of Brazilian striker Hulk, which was again “&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;The Incredible" Hulk&lt;/span&gt; since he was synonym during all the game of: mobility, quality and danger for the United´s defensive line, whose level is worse when Rio Ferdinand do not play&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdzPi_OMOPI/AAAAAAAADYw/PyV3jq0-2C8/s1600-h/carlos_tevez_wayne__365169a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322357059638540530" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdzPi_OMOPI/AAAAAAAADYw/PyV3jq0-2C8/s320/carlos_tevez_wayne__365169a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and of course yesterday the play of &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lisandro Lopez, Lucho Gonzalez, Cristian "El cebolla" Rodriguez and Hulk&lt;/span&gt; was a nightmare for them. About Manchester United, per&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdzPMlYYUXI/AAAAAAAADYo/DLW7Q_oZ41g/s1600-h/carlos_tevez_wayne__365169a.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;haps the best player during the Tuesday´s night was &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Wayne Rooney&lt;/span&gt;, who showed during the game his abilities: the intelligence-he was in the correct place to take advantage of the tremendous &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Bruno Alves&lt;/span&gt;´s mistake- and quality-it was excellent his assist to the decisive “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Apache" Tevez&lt;/span&gt; during the United´s second goal-, showing that even when&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt; does not have a good day-maybe the Portuguese star did not play well because he played in the center-, the &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sir Alex Ferguson&lt;/span&gt;´s team is a very dangerous team and any player of the team can decide the game.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, there were and excellent game and we hope that today we can also enjoy with the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bayern Munich&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Chelsea FC&lt;/span&gt;- at 20.45 c.e.t.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Si tenemos que destaca&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdyGAfman5I/AAAAAAAADYI/2gQwVk00OHw/s1600-h/foto+fernado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322276202685833106" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdyGAfman5I/AAAAAAAADYI/2gQwVk00OHw/s320/foto+fernado.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;r a algún jugador de este partido, quizás nos quedemos con&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Fernando&lt;/span&gt;-exhibición la del medio centro brasileño, pues estaba siempre en el lugar necesario, cortando el juego del United, parecía que tenía un imán porque el balón siempre acaba en sus pies. Jugador muy a seguir, sólo tiene 21 años y está jugando su primera temporada el FC Porto(pagó por él 720.000 euros!!!) tras jugar la temporada pasada cedido en el Estrela Amadora- y con el delantero brasileño &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Hulk&lt;/span&gt;, que volvió a ser el “Increíble” Hulk pues su continua movilidad y muestras de calidad fue una preocupación constante para una zaga del United, que sin Rio Ferdinand tuvo bastantes problemas para controlar el juego de los &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lisandro López, Lucho González, Cristian “el cebolla” Rodríguez y el desequilibrante Hulk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Con relación al United, quizás, en la noche en que &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt; estuvo gris-posiblemente porque jugó por el centro-, haya que resaltar la inteligencia y calidad de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Wayne Rooney&lt;/span&gt;, que como buen delantero que es, en el primer gol del United supo estar en el lugar correcto para aprovecharse del tremendo fallo de &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Bruno Alves&lt;/span&gt; y en el segundo gol del equipo de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sir Alex Ferguson&lt;/span&gt;, se “sacó de la chistera” un gran pase para asistir al siempre decisivo “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Apache” Tévez&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;En fin grandes partidos los de este martes y esperemos que esta noche se repita el mismo espectáculo y emoción en el FC Barcelona-Bayern Munich y en el Liverpool FC-Chelsea FC.&lt;br /&gt;A disfrutar!!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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But the big teams and the teams with a winning mentality are those, whose maximum performance appears during the complicated games, with a very hostile environment such as this&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Ali Sami Yen&lt;/span&gt;´s game. And this is what Spain did yesterday, since the Spanish team started the match pretty well-especially after the minute 10- and it seemed that it had everything under control until a pass from &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Arda Turan&lt;/span&gt;-maybe he and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mehmet Aurelio&lt;/span&gt; were the best Turkish players in this game- to &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Tuncay Sanli&lt;/span&gt; arrived and the Middlesbrough´s forward “helped” by an asleep&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Carlos Marchena&lt;/span&gt; assisted to the Fenerbahçe´s striker &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt;, who was alone and scored the first goal of the game in the minute 26. Since this moment, we saw some minutes of an Spanish collapse-it was during the rest of the first half and during some minutes of the second half-until a &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Volkan Demirel&lt;/span&gt;´s mistake arrived-for the umpteenth we could see another mistake of this goalkeeper, who is not having his best season and of course (as we said in the last article)it was very normal to see a Volkan Demirel´s mistake during these 2 games against Spain-. The Demirel´s mistake was profited by Fernando Torres, since “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;El Niño&lt;/span&gt;” could force a penalty-his shot was stopped by the hand of the defender &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ibrahim Üzülme&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdTDFvGgOKI/AAAAAAAADXw/macH_bMGhro/s1600-h/foto+pique.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320091563141904546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdTDFvGgOKI/AAAAAAAADXw/macH_bMGhro/s320/foto+pique.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;z-&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Xabi Alonso &lt;/span&gt;did not miss the penalty and equalized the game-minute 63-(by the way, Xabi Alonso did not have a good days, since he was very imprecise many times). From that moment we saw a very open game, because the Turkey had to win the game to continue with chances to play next World Cup and of course both team had clear options to score, since the Turkish team pushed the Spanish defensive line-Turkey was very close to score when &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sentürk&lt;/span&gt; could not profit a great &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Gönül&lt;/span&gt;´s pass- and Spain profited the important spaces in the Turkish defensive line and it has a great chance to score in a play between &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Piqué, Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt;-he received a great 30 metres´s pass from Gerard Piqué- and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Fernando Torres&lt;/span&gt; and finally it scored the decisive goal when the controversial &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt; took advantage of a great shot of Marchena and the slow Hakan Balta and he assisted to &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Albert Riera&lt;/span&gt;, who was alone and he could score the last goal of the game -at the end Turkey paid the 35 year´s old of the defender &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Emre Asik and Ibrahim Üzülmez&lt;/span&gt;-. The goal arrived in the minute 92 and of course it was decisive for see another Spanish win-it has won its last 11 games played and besides its last defeat was 31 games ago!!!- and now “la roja” is very close to South Africa, where we will see whether Turkey will play, because after this game it is quite complicated its qualify, although if the Fatih Te&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdTDkPQJIQI/AAAAAAAADX4/maqC0VpcIf4/s1600-h/NihatK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320092087168344322" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdTDkPQJIQI/AAAAAAAADX4/maqC0VpcIf4/s320/NihatK.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rim´s men play like against Spain, they should have no problems in the other games, especially if we see players like the central defender &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Cetin and Zan&lt;/span&gt; and if players like &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Kazim-Kazim or Nihat&lt;/span&gt; have a better performance –the Villarreal´s striker has not scored any goals during this season-and if we see playing the brothers &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Altintop, Mehmet Topuz, Mehmet Topal or Ugur Boral&lt;/span&gt; and if the &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Fatih Terim´s decisions&lt;/span&gt; are better and we see experienced players in the important moments of the games- I do not understand how could play the decisive moments of this important games players like &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Batuhan Karadeniz&lt;/span&gt; (17 year´s old) and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nuri Sahin&lt;/span&gt; (20 year´s old), who are not used to assume this responsibility and to play these game ... anyway, this is Terim. After the Wednesday´s games-Bosnia beat Belgium2 (Dzeko)-1 (Swerst)- the group 5 is:&lt;br /&gt;1-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Spain&lt;/span&gt;, 18 points&lt;br /&gt;2 &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Bosnia-Herzegovina,&lt;/span&gt; 12 points&lt;br /&gt;3-&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Turkey&lt;/span&gt;, 8 points&lt;br /&gt;4-&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Belgium&lt;/span&gt;, 7 points&lt;br /&gt;5-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Estonia&lt;/span&gt;, 5 points&lt;br /&gt;6-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Armenia&lt;/span&gt;, 1 point&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Pero los equipos grandes y que aspiran a todo, son los que se levantan y saben sacar el máximo rendimiento en todo tipo de partidos y sobre todo en los partidos complicados, con un ambiente muy hostil como el de esta noche en el &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ali Sami Yen&lt;/span&gt;. Y esto es lo que ha hecho hoy España, que inició bastante bien el partido-sobre todo tras el minuto 10- y parecía que lo tenía todo bajo control hasta que llegó un gran pase de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Arda Turan-&lt;/span&gt;posiblemente el mejor jugador turco esta noche, sin olvidar el trabajo de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mehmet Aurelio&lt;/span&gt;-a &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Tuncay Sanli&lt;/span&gt;, que se aprovechó de un dormido Marchena y dejó el gol en bandeja al delantero del Fenerbahçe&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt;,1-0 en el minuto 26 y a partir de ahí tuvimos a una espesa España hasta el final de la primera parte y durante unos minutos de la segunda, hasta que llegó un falló-el enésimo de la temporada- del portero &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Volkan Demirel&lt;/span&gt;-era esperable que fallase como dijimos en el artículo de la previa-en un corner, en el que despejo mal un balón que llegó a &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Torres&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdPe6CKVgZI/AAAAAAAADXY/rop6YvCFSxk/s1600-h/1192307137442riera-detdn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319840673448690066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdPe6CKVgZI/AAAAAAAADXY/rop6YvCFSxk/s320/1192307137442riera-detdn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;que consiguió forzar un penalty-su disparo topó en la mano de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ibrahim Üzülmez&lt;/span&gt;-que no lo desaprovechó&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Xabi Alonso&lt;/span&gt; (el donostiarra tuvo una noche no demasiado precisa)en el minuto 63 y consiguió el empate en el marcador. A partir de ese momento, vimos un partido muy abierto, pues a los turcos no les valía el empate y tenían que buscar la victoria como fuese-gran ocasión de&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt; tras pase de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Gönül&lt;/span&gt;- y claro dejaron muchos espacios que fueron aprovechados por los veloces delanteros españoles en varías ocasiones, resaltando una combinación entre &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Piqué-&lt;/span&gt;gran pase de 30 metros tras robar el balón en medio campo-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Santi Cazorla y Torres&lt;/span&gt; que estuvo apunto de acabar en gol y claro, la jugada del segundo gol en el que &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt; se aprovechó del despeje de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Marchena&lt;/span&gt; y de la lentitud de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Hakan Balta&lt;/span&gt; y dio el gol a un &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Albert Riera&lt;/span&gt; que estaba totalmente solo- al final Turquía acusó los 35 años de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Asik y de Ibrahim Üzülmez&lt;/span&gt;-, era el minuto 90 y la victoria estaba sellada para la roja, que ya lleva 11 victorias consecutivas y 31 partidos seguidos sin perder y que ahora se acerca casi de manera definitiva al Mundial de Sudáfrica, donde ya veremos si jugará Turquía, pues tras este partido se le complica bastante la clasificación, aunque también es cierto que si juega como hoy, no debe tener problemas en el resto de partidos, sobre &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdPf1CqqbkI/AAAAAAAADXg/EwdosxHVO_0/s1600-h/altintop_763887o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319841687196560962" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SdPf1CqqbkI/AAAAAAAADXg/EwdosxHVO_0/s320/altintop_763887o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;todo teniendo en cuenta que en principio podrá contar con los centrales habituales-&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Cetin y Zan&lt;/span&gt;- y que jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nihat&lt;/span&gt; no tendrán seguramente una rancha goleadora tan mala y tendrán más afinada la puntería-de momento el delantero del Villarreal no ha marcado ningún gol en toda la temporada- o que &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Kazim-Kazim&lt;/span&gt; estará en mejor forma o que los hermanos &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Altintop, Mehmet Topuz, Mehmet Topal, Mehmet Yildiz o Ugur Boral&lt;/span&gt; jugarán con la selección y que&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Fatih Terim&lt;/span&gt; optará por jugadores más experimentados en los momentos importantes de los partidos-no entiendo como al final le da la responsabilidad a jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Batuhan Karadeniz&lt;/span&gt; de 17 años o &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nuri Sahin&lt;/span&gt; de 20…en fin, Terim sabrá-.&lt;br /&gt;Tras los partidos de esta noche-Bosnia venció a Bélgica por 2(Dzeko)-1 (Swerst), el grupo 5 queda:&lt;br /&gt;1-España, 18 puntos&lt;br /&gt;2-Bosnia Herzegovina, 12 puntos&lt;br /&gt;3-Turquía, 8 puntos&lt;br /&gt;4-Bélgica, 7 puntos&lt;br /&gt;5-Estonia, 5 puntos&lt;br /&gt;6-Armenia, 1 punto&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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But perhaps the most interesting games will be in European Group 5 between &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Spain &lt;/span&gt;(first of the Fifa ranking) and&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Turkey&lt;/span&gt; (11 of the Fifa ranking) on Saturday at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid and on Wednesday at Istanbul.&lt;br /&gt;Spain arrives to these decisive games with calmness, since it has a c&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScucMFnziQI/AAAAAAAADWg/zk0POmFELGM/s1600-h/foto+terim.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317515516522498306" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScucMFnziQI/AAAAAAAADWg/zk0POmFELGM/s320/foto+terim.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;omfortable advantage in the standing with the rest of the teams of the Group 5-Spain has won the 4 games played with 10 goals scored and only 1 goal received and it has 4 point more than its principal rival, Turkey and 5 points more than &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Belgium&lt;/span&gt;-and therefore “la roja” can play these 2 games without much pressure, aware that even a draw would be a good result in both games. But obviously, Spain should not start these games with this mentality, because if the Spanish players do not play with intensity and winning mentality, they can have many troubles in these games because Turkey is a team, whose players show a great performance when they play against a top and powerful teams(remember the good Turkish tournament during the last Euro in Switzerland and Austria or the excellent 2002 World Cup, when Turkey finished in third position thanks to the goals of &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ümit Davala and İlhan Mansız&lt;/span&gt; during the tournament) and it is sure that they will do again during the games against Spain.&lt;br /&gt;The team coached by the&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Fatih Terim&lt;/span&gt;´s team arrives to these games with some problems especially in the defensive line, because some important players will not play these games due to injuries, in this way, key defensive players like the central defender &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Servet Cetin&lt;/span&gt; (the hard and aggressive Galatasaray´s player-with 35 games played with the Turkish National team- is the pillar of the defensive line)and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Zan&lt;/span&gt; (the Besiktas´s central defender has played 28 games with the national team) will not be in these 2 games, which has importance, because these are the usual and experienced defenders of the nat&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScudaWBwDQI/AAAAAAAADWw/LxYEg-L4YtA/s1600-h/emre_asik.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317516860956085506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScudaWBwDQI/AAAAAAAADWw/LxYEg-L4YtA/s320/emre_asik.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ional team and therefore Fatih Terim has to look for good solutions in order to stop the Spanish attack. Of course the performance of the defensive line, without these 2 men (besides another defender player&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;, Emre Güngör&lt;/span&gt; from Galatasaray, is injured) will be a mystery-anyway, although Cetin and Zan were playing, anything would be possible, because a team with &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Volkan Demirel or Rüştü Reçber&lt;/span&gt; as goalkeep&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScudEGIxzdI/AAAAAAAADWo/6qcMuG8IL3g/s1600-h/6577_B_hakanbalta001b.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ers, can not have any guarantee of security ...it is sad for a team to have these 2 goalkeeper, who can commit a stupid and absurd mistake in any moment of the game-. So, it is very possible that we will see in the Turkish starting lineup a player like the veteran Galatasaray´s central defender &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Asik&lt;/span&gt; (he is 35 year´s old and of course he is far from his best moment and he can have many problem to stop the speed of the Kid &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Fernando Torres&lt;/span&gt;) and alongside Asik an inexperienced player liker or &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ibrahim Kas&lt;/span&gt;(he is not lucky in his current period at Getafe)or one of the “mainstay” of the best Turkish teams defensively, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Eren Güngör&lt;/span&gt; (the Kayserispor´s player is 20 year´s old and he has played 1game with the national team) or&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Sedat Bayrak&lt;/span&gt; from Sivasspor-the leader of the Turkish league-. We assume that Terim will choose &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Asik and Ibrahim&lt;/span&gt; Kas, who will play alongside the classic left back of Galatasaray,&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Hakan Balta&lt;/span&gt; (13 games with the Turkish national team) and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Gönül&lt;/span&gt;(Fenerbahçe) or &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sabri Sarioglu&lt;/span&gt;(Galatasaray) as right back-I think Sabri will play, cause Gönül is a very offensive defender, which can be dangerous, because his spaces can be exploited by the lethal Spanish offensive line-.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To counteract the defensive problems, Terim will use a strong midfield-there are also some midfielders injured like &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mehmet Topal&lt;/span&gt; (Galatasaray) and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Hamit Altint&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScudzMYy58I/AAAAAAAADW4/zt88O3qEw5I/s1600-h/EmreTurkey_940443.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317517287865116610" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScudzMYy58I/AAAAAAAADW4/zt88O3qEw5I/s320/EmreTurkey_940443.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;op&lt;/span&gt;(Bayern Munich)-, composed by the combative and elegant Arda Turan-the Galatasaray´s midfielder can play in any midfield´s position and besides he has a good shot with his right leg-, who will play alongside 3 experienced centermidfielder as &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mehmet Aurelio&lt;/span&gt;(Real Betis), &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ayhan Akman&lt;/span&gt; (Galatasaray) and technical but sometimes apathetic &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Belözoğlu&lt;/span&gt;-he is not playing very well this season in Fenerbahçe-. On the bench, Terim will have another good midfielders like the young pearl &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nuri Sahin&lt;/span&gt; (Borussia Dortmund) and a not known &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Kazim Kazim&lt;/span&gt; (not known because he is making a very bad season in Fenerbahçe, without the &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Luis Aragonés&lt;/span&gt;´s confidence and showing a very poor level, far from the last year´s level, when he delighted us).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, Spain must be careful with the Turkish attackers, since they have a lot of quality and they can score in any play. So they must be careful with the skilled &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Tuncay Sanly&lt;/span&gt;-the Middlesbrough´s forward has a great mobility and&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScueFlnGDBI/AAAAAAAADXA/J5SZkjohrBE/s1600-h/tuncay_millisus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317517603873623058" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 276px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScueFlnGDBI/AAAAAAAADXA/J5SZkjohrBE/s320/tuncay_millisus.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; great ability-, who will be in the starting lineup alongside &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nihat&lt;/span&gt; (the Villarreal´s striker has played 59 games with the national team and he arrives to these games after a not very good season at Villarreal-in fact he has not scored any goal at La Liga during this season-, since he had many problems with some injuries)if Terim wants to profit his speed or with a pure “9” like the opportune and good striker &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt;, who has had a complicated first half of the season, since he was injured and he had the new competence of&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt;, but Semih could improve his level and now he is the owner of the Fenerbahçe´s attack line, displacing an unfortunate Dani Güiza- I can not understand how Güiza is in the Spanish National team for these games against Turkey, because he is showing a poor level during the last months-.On the bench, Terim will have other interesting Turkish strikers like the FC Sochaux´s player &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mevlut Erding&lt;/span&gt; (he is quite fast and he has good definition with his right leg), the young &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Serca Yildirm&lt;/span&gt; (the 18 year´s old Bursaspor´s player has good dribbling, a great mobility and his name appears on the agendas of teams like Manchester United; he arrives to these games after a good game played against Fenerbahçe, where he forced the decisive penalty in the last minute of the game), the powerful &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Ünal&lt;/span&gt;(the Trabzonspor´s striker has a good shot with his right leg) and the young-17 year´s old- &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Batuhan Karadeniz,&lt;/span&gt; who is a Besiktas´s good “killer” who is plays on loan in Eskisehirspor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, it is a good team and although it has some important absences, it is sure that it will put in troubles the Spanish team, which arrives to these games as usual in the recent times with the discussion about the absence of &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Raul&lt;/span&gt;- if we speak about his football´s level, it is very difficult to understand how a man with 20 goals in 37 matches this season, is not in the National team, but another issue is that he has bad relation with other important players of the National team, which counsels his absence- and the criticism of some team-in this&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScuegkgrZtI/AAAAAAAADXI/8kUBGB7d-RI/s1600-h/VillaTorres2Gall_650x425.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317518067434743506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScuegkgrZtI/AAAAAAAADXI/8kUBGB7d-RI/s320/VillaTorres2Gall_650x425.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; case &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Valencia&lt;/span&gt; is the team-about the call of its players to the National team ... , so as usual in Spain. About the Spanish starting line up next Saturday and as &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Francesc Fàbregas, Andrés Iniesta and Carles Puyol&lt;/span&gt; are injured, it is very probable that we will see the same players, who played against England one month and half (Spain won 2-0) with the inclusion of &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt; to replace the injured Iniesta, so the team will be: &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Iker Casillas&lt;/span&gt; (although &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Diego Lopez&lt;/span&gt; is showing a better level at this moment), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sergio Ramos, Raul Albiol (or Marchena), Gerard Pique, Joan Capdevila; Xavi, Xabi Alonso, Marcos Senna, Santi Cazorla; Fernando Torres and David Villa.&lt;/span&gt; So, a lot of quality to continue with its particular Spanish "jogo bonito"- an excellent play and performance, since the Spanish team has a great record of 29 consecutive games without losing, which is always complicated-.&lt;br /&gt;¿Will be Turkey the team, which can beat this current Spanish team?&lt;br /&gt;The answer this Saturday at 22.00 CET and next Wednesday at 20.00 c.e.t&lt;br /&gt;şanslı!!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Pero quizás los partidos más interesantes serán los que se disputen en el grupo 5 europeo entre &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;España&lt;/span&gt; (primera del ranking Fifa) y &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Turquía&lt;/span&gt; (posición 11 del ranking Fifa), el sábado en el estadio Santiago Bernabeu de Madrid y el miércoles en Estambul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;España &lt;/span&gt;llega a estos partidos decisivos con cierta tranquilidad en cuanto a la clasificación para el Mundial, pues lidera con comodidad el grupo con 12 puntos (4 victorias en 4 partidos, 10 goles a favor y 1 en contra), teniendo a su máximo rival para conseguir la&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq1hdqRQEI/AAAAAAAADV4/t9dFN3s-9_U/s1600-h/FatihTerimEPA_468x340.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317261896566521922" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq1hdqRQEI/AAAAAAAADV4/t9dFN3s-9_U/s320/FatihTerimEPA_468x340.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; clasificación directa, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Turquía&lt;/span&gt;-con permiso de &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Bélgica&lt;/span&gt;-, a 4 puntos, con lo que “la roja” puede afrontar estos 2 partidos con cierta calma, sabedora de que incluso les vale empatar ambos partidos. Pero evidentemente España no debería salir al campo con esta mentalidad, pues como no juegue con intensidad y mentalidad ganadora, puede pasar muchos apuros y complicarse de mala manera la clasificación directa, pues Turquía es un equipo que en los últimos años se crece en los partidos ante rivales poderosos(recordemos el buen papel que hizo en la última Euro de Suiza y Austria o el gran mundial que realizó en el 2002 donde acabó en 3ª posición gracias a los goles durante la competición de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ümit Davala e Ilhan Mansiz&lt;/span&gt;)y seguro que volverá a hacerlo frente a España.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El equipo entrenado por&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Fatih Terim&lt;/span&gt; llega a estos partidos con ciertos problemas sobre todo en la línea defensiva, pues s&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2DTw5MtI/AAAAAAAADWA/iFMayCrE-ko/s1600-h/cetin+lesionado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317262478025503442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2DTw5MtI/AAAAAAAADWA/iFMayCrE-ko/s320/cetin+lesionado.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e van a perder estos compromisos por lesión, jugadores clave como los centrales&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Servet Cetin&lt;/span&gt;(el duro y contundente central del Galatasaray es el pilar defensivo de una selección con la que ha jugado 35 partidos) y&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Gökhan Zan&lt;/span&gt; del Besiktas(28 partidos con la selección)-tampoco podrá estar otro central del Galatasaray,&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Emre Güngör&lt;/span&gt;-. Estas lesiones son muy importantes, pues éstos son los centrales habituales y experimentados para este tipo de partidos de la selección turca y sin ellos, el rendimiento defensivo va a ser una incógnita-ya lo iba a ser de todas formas, pues teniendo en el equipo a &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Volkan Demirel o Rüstü Recber&lt;/span&gt; como porteros, cualquier cosa mala te puede pasar a lo largo de un partido…parece mentira que un equipo tenga 2 porteros tan irregulares, capaces de lo peor en cualquier momento-, pues Fatih se va ver forzado a alinear o bien a centrales muy veteranos como &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Asik&lt;/span&gt; del Galatasaray (35 año) y que ya no están en su mejor momento y que lo puede pasar muy mal con la velocidad de Fernando Torres o bien alineará a gente inexperta para estos partidos como &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ibrahim Kas&lt;/span&gt; del Getafe (no está teniendo demasiado fortuna en la liga española)o los 2 puntales defensivos de los mejores equipos de Turquía, defensivamente hablando, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Eren Güngör&lt;/span&gt;(20 años y 1 partido internacional) de Kayserispor y &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sedat Bayrak&lt;/span&gt; del Sivasspor-líder de la liga Turca-. Suponemos que se decantará por &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Asik e Ibrahim Kas&lt;/span&gt; que jugarán junto al clásico y correcto lateral izquierdo del Galatasaray &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Hakan Balta&lt;/span&gt; (13 partidos con la selección turca) y Gökhan Gönül del Fenerbahçe o &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sabri Sarioglu&lt;/span&gt; del Galatasaray por la derecha-creo que será Sabri el titular, pues &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gönül&lt;/span&gt; es un lateral muy ofensivo y su juego podría ser muy bien aprovechado por los delanteros españoles, pues tendrían mucho espacio por esa banda-. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2a3MzU0I/AAAAAAAADWI/FCe2cGPww-8/s1600-h/foto+aurelio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317262882674791234" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2a3MzU0I/AAAAAAAADWI/FCe2cGPww-8/s320/foto+aurelio.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para contrarrestar los problemas defensivos es probable que Terim opte por alinear un potente mediocampo-finalmente serán bajas por lesión los mediocampistas&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Mehmet Topal&lt;/span&gt; del Galatasaray y &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Hamit Altintop&lt;/span&gt; del Bayern Munich- formado por el polivalente, combativo y elegante Arda Turan-buena pegada con la pierna derecha- del Galatasaray que jugaría con libertad junto a 3 medio centros experimentados como son&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Mehmet Aurelio&lt;/span&gt; del Betis, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ayhan Akman&lt;/span&gt; del Galatasaray y el técnico aunque un tanto apático &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Emre Belözoglu&lt;/span&gt;-no está haciendo demasiada buena temporada en el Fenerbahçe-quedando en el banquillo jugadores como la joven perla del Borussia Dortmund &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nuri Sahin&lt;/span&gt; y un desconocido &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Kazim-Kazim&lt;/span&gt; (decimos lo de desconocido porque está haciendo una temporada horrible en el Fenerbahçe, sin la confianza de &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Luís Aragonés&lt;/span&gt; y mostrando un nivel muy por debajo del esperado tras su gran temporada pasada).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente como delanteros es muy probable que España se encuentre con el habilidoso &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Tuncay Sanly&lt;/span&gt;-mucha calidad y desequilibrio en este jugador ofensivo del Middlesbrough; mucho ojo con este jugador que en cualquier momento se la puede “liar” a la defensa española- que jug&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2s7gfp7I/AAAAAAAADWQ/HtylLitABAY/s1600-h/foto+nihat+semih.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317263193068775346" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq2s7gfp7I/AAAAAAAADWQ/HtylLitABAY/s320/foto+nihat+semih.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ará en el ataque junto posiblemente a&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Nihat(&lt;/span&gt;59 partidos con la selección) del Villarreal-hay que decir que a causa de las lesiones, el delantero turco no está teniendo su mejor temporada-si Terim decide jugar a la contra o bien junto a&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt; que es un jugador más de área y que tras un comienzo un tanto irregular de temporada debido a lesiones, ya se ha consolidado como el delantero titular del Fenerbahçe, desplazando a un desafortunado&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt;-pero qué hace Güiza en el equipo nacional, pues está jugando fatal, intentar lo intenta, pero está muy poco preciso-.Esperando una oportunidad quedarán en el banquillo turcos jugadores interesantes como el delantero del FC Sochaux &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mevlüt Erding&lt;/span&gt;(bastante rápido y con buena definición con su pierna derecha), el joven &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Sercan Yildirm&lt;/span&gt; del Bursaspor (buen regate y mucha movilidad en este delantero de 18 años, que está en las agendas de equipos como el Manchester United y que viene de hacer un buen partido contra el Fenerbahçe-forzó el penalty decisivo en el último minuto-), el potente &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Gökhan Ünal&lt;/span&gt; del Trabzonspor (buen remate con la pierna derecha) y el jovencísimo de 17 años &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Batuhan Karadeniz&lt;/span&gt;, que es un buen rematador que juega en el Eskisehirspor cedido por el Besiktas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En fin, buen equipo y que aunque tenga alguna baja importante seguro que pondrá en apuros a un equipo español que llega a este partido como es tradicional en los últimos tiempos&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq3k-WUkrI/AAAAAAAADWY/08i6_L3ykkU/s1600-h/raul2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317264155904086706" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 317px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Scq3k-WUkrI/AAAAAAAADWY/08i6_L3ykkU/s320/raul2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; con el debate de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Raúl-&lt;/span&gt;deportivamente no pude haber ningún tipo de discusión sobre la inclusión de Raúl, pues, un jugador que ha marcado 20 goles en 37 partidos disputados está temporada, debe estar con el equipo nacional. Otro tema es si tiene mala relación con el núcleo duro de la selección nacional y que hace que sea aconsejable su exclusión del equipo-y las críticas de algún equipo-en este caso el&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Valencia&lt;/span&gt;-a la llamada de alguno de sus jugadores… Es decir, lo de siempre. En cuanto al aspecto deportivo, conocidas las bajas de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Cesc Fàbregas,Puyol e Iniesta&lt;/span&gt;, en principio el equipo será el mismo que jugó contra Inglaterra con la incorporación posiblemente de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Santi Cazorla&lt;/span&gt; en lugar del lesionado Iniesta, es decir: &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Iker Casillas&lt;/span&gt;(aunque quizás deportivamente está en mejor forma &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Diego López&lt;/span&gt;); &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sergio Ramos, Raúl Albiol(o Marchena),Gerard Pique, Joan Capdevila; Xavi, Xabi Alonso, Marcos Senna, Santi Cazorla; Fernando Torres y David Villa&lt;/span&gt;. O sea, mucha calidad para seguir con el particular “jogo bonito” español que tanto está haciendo disfrutar a una afición española que está viendo como su equipo nacional lleva 29 partidos seguidos sin perder, lo cual no está nada mal.&lt;br /&gt;¿saldrá España indemne de este doble enfrentamiento contra Turquía?&lt;br /&gt;El sábado a las 22.00 c.e.t y el miércoles a las 20.00 c.e.t tendremos las respuestas&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Después del artículo en el que criticaba a El Pelusa Maradona, ahora le toca al entrenador del Real Madrid, Juande Ramos, el ser el blanco de sus críticas&lt;br /&gt;Gracias de nuevo Elliott!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Juande y la Varita Magica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por Elliott&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgADZA559I/AAAAAAAADVI/q6kPbpM4PKA/s1600-h/Juande_Ramos_676131a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316499418365159378" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgADZA559I/AAAAAAAADVI/q6kPbpM4PKA/s320/Juande_Ramos_676131a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Es &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Juande Ramos&lt;/span&gt; el salvador de los merengues? No se puede negar que el Real Madrid, a pesar de las derrotas con Liverpool, está jugando a un nivel muy alto-sobre todo en cuanto a resultados-. Dentro de dos meses, los merengues incluso pueden voltear la situación y llevarse el título liguero ¿Pero el éxito hay que atribuirlo al entrenador? Simplemente parece que se está aprovechando del trabajo realizado en el pasado por otros-Directores deportivos y antiguos entrenadores-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para echar adelante, hay que mirar atrás. &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Fabio Capello y Bernd Schuster&lt;/span&gt; llevaron al Madrid a dos campeonatos se&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgAb_jmCtI/AAAAAAAADVQ/uePclu7KLKU/s1600-h/Madrid_equipo_espanol_lesiones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316499841028066002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 280px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgAb_jmCtI/AAAAAAAADVQ/uePclu7KLKU/s320/Madrid_equipo_espanol_lesiones.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;guidos. Al principio de esta temporada, los blancos seguían de cerca al Barcelona. ¿Qué pasó? Lesiones de &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Diarra, Rudd Van Nistelrooy, Pepe, Rubén De la Red, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder&lt;/span&gt;, que evidentemente son un gran contratiempo para cualquier equipo y sobre todo si el entrenador, en este caso Schuster, menosprecia al resto de la plantilla con afirmaciones como que “no es posible ganar al Barça”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tras la destitución de Schuster y en un momento de desencanto en la afición blanca, se hizo cargo del banquillo merengue Juande Ramos, pero hay que preguntarse: ¿de dónde salió el técnico manchego? Juande dejó a un &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Tottenham&lt;/span&gt; lleno de talento, en una paupérrima posición en la Premier League y sin ser capaz de sacar algo de rendimiento de una plantilla formada a golpe de talonario-se gastó entorno a los 100 millones de euros-y que tras su marcha, comenzó a funcionar-y no sólo los fichajes de invierno(Keane y Palacios), sino también los jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Modric&lt;/span&gt; que llegaron durante el periplo del español en White Hart Lane- y de hecho ahora está totalmente salvado y sueña con entrar en competición europea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgAvrSoBAI/AAAAAAAADVY/lC6-_hGYnww/s1600-h/satellite-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316500179185566722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 205px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgAvrSoBAI/AAAAAAAADVY/lC6-_hGYnww/s320/satellite-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando Juande llegó al Real Madrid, tuvo la fortuna de que los lesionados poco a poco iban saliendo del “dique seco” y así volvieron a los terrenos de juego jugadores fundamentales en el esquema blanco como &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Pepe y Robben&lt;/span&gt; que vieron como se reforzaba el equipo con la llegada de 2 jugadores importantes como &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Lass y Klass-Jan Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt;-el holandés está demostrando una tremenda pegada, pues ya lleva 8 goles en 11 partidos-. Algunos critican a Juande, la elección de Lass en vez de Klass-Jan Huntelaar para jugar la Champions, pero entiendo que no habría cambiado nada en la eliminatoria contra el Liverpool, porque hoy por hoy el equipo de Benítez está muy por encima de este Real Madrid, que sí, tiene talento y juega bien como colectivo, pero creo que a la plantilla le falta “cancha”-sobre todo a jugadores como Lass o Marcelo-. Si el núcleo de jugadores continúa unas temporadas más, puede ser que dentro de 2 años est&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgBcGbLdwI/AAAAAAAADVw/p3-UPhK-jFk/s1600-h/1236460916_extras_albumes_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316500942383445762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScgBcGbLdwI/AAAAAAAADVw/p3-UPhK-jFk/s320/1236460916_extras_albumes_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;é en disposición de ganar la Champions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Juande es el capitán del barco: si hay sol y el viento sopla a su favor-&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Pepe y Cannavaro&lt;/span&gt; defienden a la perfección y&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Raúl&lt;/span&gt; sigue en racha-, todo va bien. Pero cuando surjan inconvenientes, no esperen que Juande sea el salvador, pues como demostró en los Spurs, le cuesta solucionar los problemas y evidentemente tiene los días contados en la casa blanca, pues ni su estilo es el adecuado para el Real Madrid y encima se lleva mal con “vacas sagradas” en el vestuario blanco como&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Guti&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Elliott  es responsable y escritor de &lt;a href="http://www.futfanatico.com/"&gt;http://www.futfanatico.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Of course, we will have great matches between the best European teams, the teams with the best rosters and winning mentality. Maybe the only big absences in this round is on the one hand, the historical &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Maccabi Electra Tel-Aviv&lt;/span&gt;-anyway, we said in an article last October( &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/10/euroleague-is-here-this-article-is.html"&gt;THE EUROLEAGUE IS HERE (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; that Maccabi was a team, whose performance was unknown-and the Turkish &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Efes Pilsen Istanbul&lt;/span&gt;,whose roster was “a priori” very good but it had a very bad Euroleague´s season (4 wins and 6 losses)-it is difficult to understand this poor performance, since we can find in the Efes Pilsen´s roster, experienced and good players like Charles Smith, Mario Kasun, Preston Shumpert, Bootsy Thornton, Kerem Gonlum, Kaya Peker, Milos Vujanic, Predrag Drobnjak Michailis or Kakiouzis-. But now it is not time to analyse the competition, since we must focus on the Quarterfinals. &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;PANATHINAIKOS&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;MONTEPASCHI SIENA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If powerful Panathinaikos does not want to suffer again a fiasco(last year it could not play the Final Four), it must play 100% this hard quarterfinals against the competitive Montepaschi, which is a great team-the best of Italy, where it has not any rival during the last years-, thanks to its excellent backcourt´s line, where we can find players like the elegant &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Terrell McIntyre&lt;/span&gt;-the American&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU0U2Lsb0I/AAAAAAAADT4/z_snzMiIQqw/s1600-h/1773158_lavrinovic3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315712467927330626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU0U2Lsb0I/AAAAAAAADT4/z_snzMiIQqw/s320/1773158_lavrinovic3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; guard is an excellent shooter (15.3 points per game-63.3% 2FG, 38.6% 3FG and 89.5% FT-, 4.5 assists and 1.7 steals), the experienced Lithuanian &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Rimantas Kaukenas&lt;/span&gt; (14.7 points -56.8% 2FG, 39,4% 3FG and 86.8% FT) and the decisive &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Henry Domercant&lt;/span&gt; (11.3 points-43,9% 2FG, 41.8%FG and 92,3% FT), who are well helped by the complete &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Romain Sato&lt;/span&gt;-anybody can explain me why this player(10 points per game with good percentages -50.7% 2FG, 43.9% 3FG and 86.7 FT-) did not have any chances to play during his FC Barcelona´s period when the “superb” Duško Ivanović was the coach of this team…well this is Duško- and the hard worker&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Shaun Stonerook&lt;/span&gt;-6 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game-. Perhaps the only problem for the team of Simone Pianigiani is the important absence during this Playoff of the center&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt; Ksistof Lavrinovic&lt;/span&gt;, who is one of the best current European centers (he is good for the rebounds and with his shot and even he can score 3FG, which is always a nuisance for the rival defensive line, because if the rivals want to block a Lavrinovi&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU0oXaJwmI/AAAAAAAADUA/rWimVE1rvMU/s1600-h/foto+saras+y+diamant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315712803263857250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 283px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU0oXaJwmI/AAAAAAAADUA/rWimVE1rvMU/s320/foto+saras+y+diamant.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;c´s 3FG, they unprotect the paint´s area) and of course he is the owner of the Siena´s paint and therefore his absence will be exploited by the phenomenal Panathinaikos´s paint play, where we can find players like &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Nikola Pekovic and Mike Batiste&lt;/span&gt;, who are the top scorers of the team (12.5 points per game), a team, which is a constellation of stars-&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Dimitrios Diamantidis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Vassilis Spanoulis, Drew Nicholas, Kostas Tsartsaris or Antonis Fotsis&lt;/span&gt;-who are accustomed to play around 20 minutes per game during this season-Diamantidis is the player with more minutes on the court, he plays 27 minutes-. The only drawback for the great coach &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Zeljko Obradovic&lt;/span&gt;, it is that the play of Diamantidis during the first 2 games of the draw is doubtful because he is injured, but having in the roster a guard like Šarūnas Jasikevičius, who is one of the best European player- although he is not having his best this year- is always a guarantee. Prediction: the home factor will be decisive, Panathinaikos has lost only 1 game during this current Euroleague at the OAKA of Athens-it lost the game played against Regal FC Barcelona- and Montepaschi Siena has not lost any game at the Mens Sana Palasports, even it beat Panathinaikos (81-76).&lt;br /&gt;So, Panathinaikos will win, 3-2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;CSKA MOSCOW&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;PARTIZAN BELGRADE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although CSKA is not having its best season of last years, it is still a very hard team and it seems that it has been used to playing without the brilliant Papaloukas and David Andersen-they left Cska last summer to play in Olympiakos and Regal FC Baracelona respectively-, showi&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU1pIJObfI/AAAAAAAADUI/zzdjN-LDAVI/s1600-h/el_langdon_060206.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315713915857825266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU1pIJObfI/AAAAAAAADUI/zzdjN-LDAVI/s320/el_langdon_060206.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ng again its typical power after a difficult short period when it lost 3 Euroleague´s game- one of those defeats was against Partizan at Moscow (63-66) -. Cska is a strong team, with a winner coach like&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ettore Messina&lt;/span&gt;, and a complete roster- the elegant Croatian guard&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Zoran Planinić&lt;/span&gt;, the secure &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nikos Zisis&lt;/span&gt; (55% in 2FGand 92% FT), the decisive and competitive JR Holden, the technical &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Erazem Lorbek and Matjaz Smodis&lt;/span&gt;, the determinant &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Trajan Langdon&lt;/span&gt; "the Alaska´s killer" and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Ramunas Siskauskas&lt;/span&gt; or the former NBA player &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Viktor Khryapa and Terence Morris&lt;/span&gt; ...-, which is almost unbeatable team when the players are 100% and it should have too many problems to beat Partizan, whose top star is its coach, the sensational &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Dusko Vujosevic&lt;/span&gt;, who is making an incredible work since he arrived to Partizan in 2001,because he is getting great results and it does not matter if the stars leaves the team (players like &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Predrag Drobnjak, Dejan Milojevic, Nikola Pekovic, Kecman or Kosta Perović&lt;/span&gt; has left the team during this years). A Vujosevic´s team is always synonym of proud and winning mentality, specially when it plays at home with the incredible help of the enthusiastic fans-this season 22,567 fans went to Belgrade Arena to see the game between Partizan and Panathinaikos-.But althoug&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU2f06x5LI/AAAAAAAADUQ/z5Xopl4JJ2c/s1600-h/vujosevic_jpg_1263901871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315714855589766322" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU2f06x5LI/AAAAAAAADUQ/z5Xopl4JJ2c/s320/vujosevic_jpg_1263901871.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;h Vujosevic is a very good coach, Partizan almost need a miracle to beat CSKA in this draw, because Partizan is a young team, whose players are not accustomed to play this kind of games and besides we do not find any star in the current roster of Partizan, since after the departure of Nikola Pekovic, there are simply good players, being the most remarkable the shooter &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Milenko Tepic&lt;/span&gt; (10.2 point per game-38.6% 2FG, 40.6% 3FG, 3.5 rebounds and 3.6 assists), the guard &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Uros Tripkovic&lt;/span&gt; (10, 8 points, 41,1% 3FG and 84.8 % FT), the center &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Novica Velickovic&lt;/span&gt; (11.4 points-50, 6% 2FG and 5.2 rebounds) –these 3 players have confirmed our predictions in our article &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/10/euroleague-is-here-this-article-is.html"&gt;THE EUROLEAGUE IS HERE (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; and they are the current key players of the team- and &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Stephane Lasme&lt;/span&gt; (11.2 points-57% 2 FG and 6.7 rebounds). Good players, but they are not enough to beat CSKA. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Prediction:&lt;/span&gt; 3-1 for CSKA Moscow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;OLYMPIAKOS&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;REAL MADRID&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The truth is that it is difficult to predict the result of a Real Madrid´s game because on the one hand, it can win difficult games- it beat CSKA Moscow at Moscow during this Euroleague-, but on the other hand, it can lose “a priori” easy games-it lost games played against teams like Panionios on Telecoms (its record was 3-7) or AJ Milano (7- 9) - but if we have to chose a favourite for this draw, we think that Real Madrid has not many chances to beat Olympiakos with this Euroleague´s series-the best of 5 s&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU4fx0nGVI/AAAAAAAADUo/JW-KJjlfkm4/s1600-h/foto+bullock.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315717053781842258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 244px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU4fx0nGVI/AAAAAAAADUo/JW-KJjlfkm4/s320/foto+bullock.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;eries-. If the format was the best of 3 series, Real Madrid could think that the miracle is possible and if Olympiakos had a bad day, the &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Felipe Reyes&lt;/span&gt;-he is a guarantee of intensity, character and concentration-, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Tomas Van den Spiegel&lt;/span&gt;-he arrived some weeks ago to replace the departure of the unlucky Lazaros Papadopoulos-, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Louis Bullock&lt;/span&gt;- after a bad start, he is gradually recovering his best level-,&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Axel Hervelle, Alex Mumbrú, Jeremiah Massey&lt;/span&gt;-he is playing worse than during his Aris Thessaloniki´s period-, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Raul Lopez and Sergio Llull&lt;/span&gt;-he is one of the sensation of the year in the European basketball, since he is showing a great level and intensity both offensive and defensively and besides he assumes the responsibility during the important moments of the games (Real Madrid is lucky with Llull, because other guard of the team, the Argentine &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Pepe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Sánchez&lt;/span&gt; is playing horrible, even worse than during his FC Barcelona´s period)- could win at the Palace of Peace and Friendship in Athens and then finish the series at Madrid, helped by the madridistas fans. But with the current format and without the homecourt advantage, honestly, I think that Real Madrid does not have any option to beat Olympiakos, which has an incredible roster, with many super stars of the European Basketball. Olympiakos is confirming the prevision and it is showing a hard and powerful play both in Greek league and in Euroleague, since if we exclude a short bad moment during the last games of the Regular Season, it has played very well and even it could win the 2 Top 16´s games played against the powerful Tau Cerámica. This good results are normal if we check the name of the players, since we can find guards like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Theodoros Papalou&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU46pam8ZI/AAAAAAAADUw/tv7RnUv273I/s1600-h/josh_childress_olympiakos1_afp_jpg_1263901871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315717515381764498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU46pam8ZI/AAAAAAAADUw/tv7RnUv273I/s320/josh_childress_olympiakos1_afp_jpg_1263901871.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;kas&lt;/span&gt;-the great playmaker of the European basketball; perhaps he is not having his best year, but of course he always show his quality and vision of the game(5 assists per game)-,&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Jennero Pargo&lt;/span&gt;-the last superstar to arrive, he is gradually coming into the team´s dynamic-, the superb shooter &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Yotam Halperim&lt;/span&gt;- the Israeli has a 65.9 % in 2FG and 51.4% 3FG&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;-,Milos Teodosic&lt;/span&gt;-the young Serbian player continues progressing- and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Lynn Greer&lt;/span&gt;-another excellent shooter-, the forward &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Josh Childress&lt;/span&gt;- the man of the 20 million euros per 3 years was playing well(scoring and rebounding) until he suffered an hernia and he had to stop during a month-and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Georgios Printezis&lt;/span&gt; or the center&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Nikola Vujcic&lt;/span&gt;-he scores, assists and a lot of rebounds-,&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Ioannis&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Bourousis&lt;/span&gt;-other example of the ineptitude of Duško Ivanović as coach, since Bourousis did not have any chance to play when he was a FC Barcelona´s player; this season, his numbers are 12 points and 7 rebounds per game- or&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Sofoklis "Baby Shaq" Schortsanitis&lt;/span&gt;-it is a pity his weight´s problem because he could be the most dominant European center-…So, it is an incredible team and besides it has a winner coach, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Panagiotis Giannakis&lt;/span&gt;, who has only one objective, to win the Euroleague. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Prediction:&lt;/span&gt; Olympiakos won 3-1 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;REGAL FC BARCELONA&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;TAU CERAMICA VITORIA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Those who follow us, know our "love" to the current coach of Tau, Duško Ivanović, who is a coach with a big "virtue", since he can get that good players show a bad performance in the important moments of the games or competitions. So if we are consistent with our ideas, we bet on Regal FC Barcelona as the winner of this great draw between these 2 great teams, which arrive in different moment, because on the one hand, Regal FC Barcelona arrives showing a great level, both defensively and offensively and being an intractable team, since it has won the last 9 Spanish league´s games, being the last defeat on the 3rd of January when Tau Cerámica beat Regal FC Barcelo&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU6KtZOm3I/AAAAAAAADU4/P_MJbVFp2yQ/s1600-h/20081230103106-constant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315718890839251826" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU6KtZOm3I/AAAAAAAADU4/P_MJbVFp2yQ/s320/20081230103106-constant.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;na (70-74), although we should say that Regal FC Barcelona played that game with the significant absence of the Slovenian guard Jaka Lakovic. Besides Regal FC Barcelona is making an excellent Euroleague and it is the team with the best record of the competition with 14-2.On the other hand, Tau is not living its best moment of the season, since it has lost 4 games in the last month of the competiton-2 Spanish league´s games, matches played against Real Madrid and Bilbao Basket Iurbentia, and the 2 games played against Olympiakos in the Euroleague-. So Tau gradually begins to show the typical weaknesses of the&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Ivanovic&lt;/span&gt;´s teams when the important moments of the competitions arrive-one example is the last Euroleague game between Tau and Olympiakos, because Tau Vitoria had to win this decisive game played at Vitoria (Fernando Buesa Arena) to finish in the top position of the group and to get the homecourt advantage in the quarterfinal playoffs... obviously Tau lost this game, what was not strange for. So if Tau continues with this dynamic, although it has a good team -perhaps the only weak point is the substitute of the great Argentine guard Pablo Prigioni because after the departure of &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Planinic&lt;/span&gt; to CSKA, Tau has not found a good replacement, first election was&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Goran Dragic&lt;/span&gt; but the Slovenian decid&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU6d4xdhhI/AAAAAAAADVA/Tb46qeezynU/s1600-h/foto+splitter+vz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315719220311197202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScU6d4xdhhI/AAAAAAAADVA/Tb46qeezynU/s320/foto+splitter+vz.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ed to go to “play” with Phoenix Suns, later &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mustafa Sakur&lt;/span&gt; arrived but he was unlucky and now it is time for the apathetic &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Vlado Ilievski&lt;/span&gt;-, we do not believe that is capable to beat Regal FC Barcelona, which transmits very good sensations- as Tau, the Regal Barça´s problem is with its playmakers, because &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Andre Barrett&lt;/span&gt; is unlucky and the other guards of the team, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic and Victor Sada,&lt;/span&gt; have many virtues, but they are too good as playmakers-. Anyway, it will be a wonderful draw and any basketball´s fan must watch these games, where we will enjoy with some great duels as the duel between some of the best European basketball ´s shooters: &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Juan Carlos Navarro &lt;/span&gt;(50% 2FG and 91, 5 in FT), &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic&lt;/span&gt; (He is recovering gradually his best level after a time stopped because of a tumour),&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Gianluca Basile&lt;/span&gt; (he scores the difficult shots) vs&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Igor&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Rakocevic&lt;/span&gt; (53.8% in 2FG, 43.5 in 3FG and 90% in FT) and &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mirza Teletovic&lt;/span&gt; (75.9% In 2FG and 45.9 in 3FG) or the intense duel to control the paint between the Barcelona's center &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Fran &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Vazquez&lt;/span&gt;-finally we are seeing the best Vazquez-, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Daniel Santiago&lt;/span&gt;-he is always a nuisance for the rivals-, and the elegant &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;David Andersen&lt;/span&gt;-good shot-and the competitive &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ersan Ilyasova&lt;/span&gt; against baskonistas &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Will McDonald, Pete Mickeal and the great Thiago Splitter&lt;/span&gt;, whose play has one destination, the NBA-it is sure that he will continue the steps of the former Tau players(&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Jose Calderon, Carlos Arroyo, Raja Bell, Luis Scola, Fabrizio Oberto, Andres Nocioni and Jorge Garbajosa, Ukic&lt;/span&gt;), who arrived to the NBA-. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Prediction:&lt;/span&gt; The Regal FC Barcelona will win 3-2 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enjoy with this quarterfinal, which will start next Tuesday, March 24. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Schedule:&lt;/span&gt; First game, March 24, the second will be on Thursday, March 26, the third will be Tuesday March 31, the fourth if it is necessary will be on Thursday, April 2 and the 5th game, if it is necessary, on Wednesday, April 8. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Pero del análisis de la competición ya nos centraremos cuando ésta termine, ahora es momento de los 4º de final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;PANATHINAIKOS&lt;/span&gt;- &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;MONTEPASCHI SIENA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mucho tendrá que trabajar el Panathinaikos si no quiere volver a sufrir el fiasco del año pasado cuando no pudo jugar la Final Four. Fácil no lo va a tener, pues el Montep&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLWRXUnhzI/AAAAAAAADSw/vCFAZQXIu14/s1600-h/foto+terrell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315046104057218866" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLWRXUnhzI/AAAAAAAADSw/vCFAZQXIu14/s320/foto+terrell.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;aschi es un gran equipo-el mejor de Italia, donde se pasea desde hace unos años-, con un buen juego exterior, en el que sobresale el elegante base norteamericano &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Terrell McIntyre&lt;/span&gt;-es una auténtica ametralladora (15,3 puntos de media-63.3 % en tiros de 2, 38,6 en triples y 89,5 en tiros libres-, 4,5 asistencias y 1,7 robos), el experimentado lituano &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Rimantas Kaukenas&lt;/span&gt;(14,7 puntos-56.8% en tiros de 2, 39, 4 en triples y 86,8 en tiros libres-) y el fino &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Henry Domercant&lt;/span&gt; (11,3 puntos-43,9% en tiros de 2, 41,8 en triples y 92,3 en tiros libres-), que están bien secundados por el completo &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Romain Sato&lt;/span&gt;- alguien puede entender como Dusko Ivanovic, cuando era entrenador del FC Barcelona, no vio nada en un jugador que es capaz de meter 10 puntos por partido con unos muy buenos porcentajes (50,7% en tiros de 2, 43,9 en triples y 86,7 en tiros libres)…en fin, es Dusko, sin más- y por el trabajador y duro &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Shaun Stonerook&lt;/span&gt;-6 rebotes y 2,4 robos por partido-. Quizás el único problema para el equipo de &lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Simone Pianigiani&lt;/span&gt; es que no va a poder contar con&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt; Ksistof &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Lavrinovic,&lt;/span&gt; que es uno de los mejores pivots europeos( es un jugador con buena mano-incluso es buen lanzador de triples, lo cual es siempre un incordio para su defensor, pues se ve forzado a salir a c&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLWi3YRXTI/AAAAAAAADS4/SMFXyjJ--n8/s1600-h/foto+batiste.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315046404720254258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLWi3YRXTI/AAAAAAAADS4/SMFXyjJ--n8/s320/foto+batiste.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ubrir el tiro, dejando desprotegida la zona-y buen reboteador) y que es, sin duda, el dueño del juego interior del equipo de Siena y que su ausencia seguro que será aprovechada por los fenomenales jugadores interiores del Panathinaikos, &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Nikola Pekovic y Mike Batiste&lt;/span&gt;. Ambos son los máximos encestadores (12,5 puntos) de un equipo, que es una auténtica constelación de estrellas-&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Dimitrios Diamantidis, Sarunas Jasikevicius,Vassilis Spanoulis, Drew Nicholas, Kostas Tsartsaris o Antonis Fotsis&lt;/span&gt;- y en él los jugadores se reparten mucho el protagonismo y los minutos de juego- el que más juega es Diamantidis con 27 minutos y el resto están alrededor de los 20 minutos-. El único inconveniente que puede tener el gran Zeljko Obradovic es que es dudosa la participación de Diamantidis en los 2 primeros partidos de la serie, pero en fin, teniendo a &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Sarunas Jasikevicius&lt;/span&gt;-uno de los mejores jugadores de Europa, aunque este año no está a su mejor nivel- tampoco tiene porqué preocuparse mucho.&lt;br /&gt;Pronóstico: el factor cancha va a ser decisivo, Panathinaikos sólo ha perdido 1 partido de Euroliga en el caliente OAKA de Atenas-contra el Regal FC Barcelona- y el Montepaschi Siena no conoce la derrota en el Palasports Mens Sana-con victoria sobre el Panathinaikos incluida (81-76)-, así que 3-2 a favor de Panathinaikos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;CSKA MOSCU&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;PARTIZAN BELGRADO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Cska es una auténtica apisonadora y si bien este año no está tan fino como en otras temporada, parece que ya se ha acostumbrado a jugar sin el genial Papaloukas y David Andersen-se marcharon el pasado verano al Olympiakos y al Regal FC Barcelona respectivamente- y que ya han cogido la velocidad de crucero, dejando aparcadas la&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLXWQAd5JI/AAAAAAAADTA/LiL16nPHqtQ/s1600-h/siskauskas%2520reuters.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047287504626834" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLXWQAd5JI/AAAAAAAADTA/LiL16nPHqtQ/s320/siskauskas%2520reuters.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s dudas de la fase regular de la Euroliga, en la que perdieron 3 partidos- una de esas derrotas fue en Moscú contra el Partizan, que dio la campanada y derrotó al gigante ruso por un ajustado 63-66-. Y es que un equipo, con el ganador Ettore Messina como entrenador y con un plantel de jugadores extraordinarios-el elegante base croata &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Zoran Planinic&lt;/span&gt;, el siempre seguro &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nikos Zisis&lt;/span&gt; (55% en tiros de 2 puntos y 92% en tiros libres), el determinante y competitivo &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;JR Holden&lt;/span&gt;, los técnicos y elegantes &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Erazem Lorbek, Matjaz Smodis&lt;/span&gt;, y los determinantes &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Trajan Langdon “el asesino de Alaska” y Ramunas Siskauskas o los ex nba Viktor Khryapa y Terence Morris&lt;/span&gt;…-es casi imbatible cuando sus jugadores están en forma, pues es un auténtico equipazo y no creo que deba ten&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLX2qUQOII/AAAAAAAADTI/ZiisL8rN5aA/s1600-h/milenko-tepic-partizan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047844322752642" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLX2qUQOII/AAAAAAAADTI/ZiisL8rN5aA/s320/milenko-tepic-partizan.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;er demasiados problemas ante un Partizan, cuya máxima estrella es su entrenador, el sensacional&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Dusko Vujosevic&lt;/span&gt;-no tiene precio el trabajo que está realizando Vujosevic en el Partizan desde que llegó en 2001, pues le da igual si se van las estrellas(en los últimos años se fueron &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Predrag Drobnjak, Dejan Milojevic, Nikola Pekovic, Kecman o Kosta Perovic&lt;/span&gt;), porque su equipo siempre rinde a las mil maravillas, apoyados por una tremenda afición, que este año llegó a llenar el Arena de Belgrado cuando su equipo jugó contra el Panathinaikos con 22.567 hinchas, que se dice pronto-. Pero por muy bueno que sea Vujosevic, casi hace falta un milagro para que su equipo pueda eliminar al todopoderoso CSKA, porque Partizan es un equipo formado por gente joven que no están acostumbrados a este tipo de partidos-en el actual Partizan no encontramos ninguna súper estrella como lo era el año pasado Pekovic, pero es un buen bloque, con buenos lanzadores como&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Milenko Tepic&lt;/span&gt; (10,2 puntos-38.6 en tiros de 2 puntos, 40,6 en triples, 3,5 rebotes y 3,6 asistencias), el escolta &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Uros Tripkovic&lt;/span&gt; (10, 8 puntos- 41,1 en triples, 84,8 en tiros libres), el pivot &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Novica Velickovic&lt;/span&gt; (11,4 puntos-50,6% en tiros de 2-y 5,2 rebotes)-estos 3 han confirmado nuestros pronósticos en el artículo &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-euroliga-vuelve-this-article-will-be.html"&gt;LA EUROLIGA VUELVE (This article is availble in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; y han sido los que han cogido las riendas del equipo- y &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Stephane Lasme&lt;/span&gt;(11,2 puntos-57,7% en tiros de 2-y 6,7 rebotes). Buenos jugadores, pero creemos que insuficiente para dar la campanada-&lt;br /&gt;Pronóstico: 3-1 a favor de CSKA Moscú&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;OLYMPIAKOS&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;REAL MADRID&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;La verdad es que con este Real Madrid es difícil hacer pronósticos, porque es un equipo capaz de lo mejor-ganó en Moscú al CSKA- y de lo peor-ha perdido partidos a priori fáciles contra equipos como el Panionios on Telecoms (3 victorias en 10 encuentros) o AJ Milano (7 victorias y 9 derrotas)-, pero si tenemos que decantarnos, diríamos que a una serie al mejo&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLZA0TgWpI/AAAAAAAADTQ/qayf7aNkELU/s1600-h/Noticias%255CFotoNoticia_24445_Big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315049118314289810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLZA0TgWpI/AAAAAAAADTQ/qayf7aNkELU/s320/Noticias%255CFotoNoticia_24445_Big.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;r de 5 partidos, el Real Madrid tiene pocos números de eliminar al todopoderoso Olympiakos, si fuera al mejor de 3, sería posible el milagro, que Olympiakos tuviera un día tonto y los&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Felipe Reyes&lt;/span&gt;-una garantía de intensidad, carácter y concentración-, &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Tomas Van den Spiegel&lt;/span&gt;-llegó para suplir la marcha del inadaptado Lazaros Papadopoulos-,&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Louis Bullock&lt;/span&gt;-después de un inicio de temporada un tanto dubitativo, poco a poco está recuperando su mejor nivel-, &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Axel Hervelle, Alex Mumbrú, Jeremiah Massey&lt;/span&gt;-me está decepcionando un poco, pues poco tiene que ver con el jugador que deslumbraba en el Aris de Salónica-, &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Raúl López o Sergio Llull&lt;/span&gt;-gran temporada la del joven base mallorquín, llamado a hacer grandes cosas, pues juega con mucha intensidad, tanto defensiva como ofensiva, asumiendo responsabilidades(menos mal para el Real Madrid que Llull ha explotado, porque el que debería ser segundo base del equipo,&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Pepe Sánchez&lt;/span&gt; está realizando una temporada paupérrima-incluso juega peor que durante su etapa en el FC Barcelona, donde no mostró nada de nada)-, pudiesen ganar el Palacio de la Paz y la Amistad de Atenas y después rematar el trabajo en Vistalegre con la ayuda del publico madridista. Pero a 5 partidos y con el factor campo en contra, sinceramente, poco que hacer, sólo salir a d&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLZdpChakI/AAAAAAAADTY/1ZICIt5nnYM/s1600-h/foto+pargo+jenero.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315049613506472514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLZdpChakI/AAAAAAAADTY/1ZICIt5nnYM/s320/foto+pargo+jenero.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;isfrutar y ver lo qué pasa cuando delante tienes una constelación de estrellas, fichados a golpe de talonario y que están cumpliendo las expectativas de inicio de temporada-sólo tuvieron un pequeño bajón a finales de la fase regular, del que ya sean recuperado y de hecho han sido capaces de ganar los 2 partidos del Top16 al intratable Tau Cerámica de Vitoria-. Y es que si repasamos la plantilla, es para ponerse a temblar, pues no tiene ningún punto débil, con grandes jugadores en todas las posiciones como los bases &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Theodoros Papaloukas&lt;/span&gt;-el gran director del baloncesto europeo, quizás no está como en otros años pero su calidad y visión no la ha perdido(5 asistencias por partido)-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Jennero Pargo&lt;/span&gt;-la última superestrella en llegar, poco a poco están entrando en la dinámica del equipo-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Yotam Halperim&lt;/span&gt;-gran clase la del israelí, con un 65,9% en tiros de 2 y 51,4% en triples-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Milos Teodosic&lt;/span&gt;-sigue progresando este joven jugador serbio de gran calidad- o&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Lynn Greer&lt;/span&gt;-una auténtica ametralladora-, los ala-pivots &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Josh Childress&lt;/span&gt;-el hombre de los 20 millones de euros por 3 años está cumpliendo, estaba anotando y reboteando bien hasta que tuvo que estar un mes parado a causa de una hernia discal-y &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Georgios Printezis&lt;/span&gt; o los pivots Nikola Vujcic-jugón, anota, rebotea, asiste, en fin, jugador total-, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ioannis Bourousis&lt;/span&gt;-otro que Dusko Ivanovic no “supo” aprovechar cuando estuvo en el FC Barcelona…tiene delito!! Porque se está marcando una gran temporada con 12 puntos y 7 rebotes por partido- o &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sofoklis “Baby Shaq” Schortsanitis&lt;/span&gt;-una lástima que no cuide sus problemas con el peso porque lo tiene todo para ser el pívot dominante del baloncesto europeo-…en fin, calidad para dar y tomar en el equipo que dirige un ganador como &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Panagiotis Giannakis&lt;/span&gt; y que es sin duda el principal candidato para ser el campeón de Europa.&lt;br /&gt;Pronóstico: Olympiakos ganará por 3-1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;REGAL FC BARCELONA-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;TAU CERAMICA VITORIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los que nos seguís, conocéis el “cariño” que le tenemos al actual entrenador del Tau, Dusko Ivanovic, a ese entrenador que tiene como principal “virtud” el conseguir que un buen jugador no rinda en los momentos importantes. Así que partiendo de esta premisa y siendo coherentes con nuestras ideas, apostamos por el Regal FC Barcelona como vencedor de esta gran &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLaNHFLEjI/AAAAAAAADTg/4Sb8iYX3CeE/s1600-h/navarro-0202-jm020-300.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315050429024506418" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLaNHFLEjI/AAAAAAAADTg/4Sb8iYX3CeE/s320/navarro-0202-jm020-300.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;eliminatoria entre estos 2 grandes equipos que llegan a este eliminatoria de distinta forma, pues por un lado el &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Regal FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; llega lanzado, con una gran defensa y mostrándose intratable pues en la liga española ha ganado de forma consecutiva sus últimos 9 partidos-su última derrota fue el 3 de enero ante el Tau Cerámica(70-74), aunque el Regal FC Barcelona jugó con la importante baja del base esloveno Jaka Lakovic-y en la Euroliga sólo ha perdido 2 de 16 partidos disputados-es el equipo con mejor record de la competición-.En cambio el &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Tau&lt;/span&gt; no llega en su mejor momento de la temporada, ya que en el último mes ha perdido 4 partidos-2 en liga frente Real Madrid y al Iurbentia Bilbao Basket y 2 en Euroliga frente al Olympiakos-, con lo que poco a poco empieza a mostrar las debilidades propias de los equipos de Ivanovic-sus equipos bajan el nivel cuando más presión y partidos decisivos hay y como muestra, el último partido disputado en la Euroliga contra el Olympiakos, en el que el Tau tenía que ganar para acabar primero de grupo y conseguir el factor campo a favor en los cuartos de final…evidentemente el Tau perdió en su pabellón del Buesa Arena este importante partido, qué raro, no? jeje-. Así que, si el Tau sigue con esta dinámica, por muy buen equipo que tenga-quizás el único punto débil es el base sustituto del genia&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLauojMTlI/AAAAAAAADTw/-xO1tX3yZ64/s1600-h/rakocevic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315051004944469586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/ScLauojMTlI/AAAAAAAADTw/-xO1tX3yZ64/s320/rakocevic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;l &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Pablo Prigioni&lt;/span&gt;, pues tras la marcha de Planinic al Cska, el Tau no ha encontrado un buen relevo, pues primero &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Goran Dragic&lt;/span&gt; dejó al Tau plantado para irse-no sé muy bien a que-a los Phoenix Suns y luego &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mustafa Sakur&lt;/span&gt; no cuajo y &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Vlado Ilievski&lt;/span&gt; es demasiado apático-, no creemos que sea capaz de eliminar a un Regal FC Barcelona que tiene muy buena pinta-como el Tau, el Regal Barça tiene algún problema con los bases creadores, pues &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Andre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Barrett &lt;/span&gt;no ha cuajado y los otros, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Victor Sada y Jaka Lakovic&lt;/span&gt; tiene muchas virtudes, pero no la de repartir juego-.&lt;br /&gt;De todas formas, es una eliminatoria para no perderse, pues calidad hay de sobras en ambas plantillas y podemos disfrutar mucho de los duelos entre por ejemplo algunos de los mejores lanzadores del baloncesto europeo &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Juan Carlos Navarro&lt;/span&gt;(50% en tiros de 2 y 91,5 en tiros libres),&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Jaka Lakovic&lt;/span&gt;(está recuperando poco a poco su nivel tras estar un tiempo parado a causa de un tumor), &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Gianluca Basile&lt;/span&gt;(sinónimo de encestar canastas difíciles) contra &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Igor Rakocevic&lt;/span&gt;(53,8% en tiros de 2, 43,5 en triples y 90% en tiros libres) y &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Mirza Teletovic&lt;/span&gt;(75.9% en tiros de 2 y 45.9 en triples) o el intenso duelo en la pintura entre los barcelonistas &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Fran Vázquez&lt;/span&gt;-por fin, estamos viendo su mejor versión-, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Daniel Santiago&lt;/span&gt;-siempre un incordio para los rivales-y el elegante&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; David Andersen&lt;/span&gt;-gran clase-y el siempre competitivo &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ersan Ilyasova&lt;/span&gt; contra los baskonistas &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Will McDonald, Pete Mickeal&lt;/span&gt; y el gran &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Thiago Splitter&lt;/span&gt;-no tardaremos en ver al brasileño en la NBA, pues es seguro que seguirá los pasos de otros jugadores que pasaron por el TAU como &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;José Calderón, Carlos Arroyo, Raja Bell&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Luis Scola, Fabrizio Oberto, Andrés Nocioni o Jorge Garbajosa&lt;/span&gt;-.&lt;br /&gt;Pronóstico: El Regal FC Barcelona ganará por 3-2&lt;br /&gt;A disfrutar de unos cuartos que empiezan el martes, 24 de marzo.&lt;br /&gt;Calendario: Primer partido, el 24 de marzo; el segundo será el jueves 26 de marzo; el tercero será el martes 31 de marzo; el cuarto si es necesario será el jueves 2 de abril y si es necesario un 5º partido, será el miércoles 8 de abril.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Armador. Playmaker. Quarterback. El 10 tiene muchos nombres, pero, últimamente, se llama dinosaurio. En el juego moderno, cuando los entrenadores cínicos apuestan por ganar por la mínima, 1-0, un jugador que ni corre ni defiende, “chupa” banquillo. Entonces, que pasaría a la selección albiceleste sin &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;Román Riquelme&lt;/span&gt;? &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sb-NTnX2_4I/AAAAAAAADSg/IS2cjh-Ae74/s1600-h/foto+maradona.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314121453446561666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 259px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sb-NTnX2_4I/AAAAAAAADSg/IS2cjh-Ae74/s400/foto+maradona.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sb-NMh77kaI/AAAAAAAADSY/H9PTOaZKWwU/s1600-h/foto+maradona.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pues, no queda claro que se ha retirado Riquelme definitivamente. Supongamos que sí. ¿Maradona piensa meter a &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;D’Alessandro&lt;/span&gt;? ¿Se puede comparar el diez pelón de Internacional con el armador de Boca? Al nivel de club, sí. Al nivel internacional, nada que ver. Mientras que Riquelme se fue de Villareal debido a fuertes discusiones con&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(153,102,51)"&gt; Pellegrini&lt;/span&gt;, D’Alessandro volvió desgraciadamente de Europa-no acabo de cuajar en ningún equipo en los que estuvo (Vfl Wolfsburg, Portsmouth y Real Zaragoza)-.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La otra opción: que Argentina juegue con una alineación “europea”. Es una gran posibilidad por que en la selección albiceleste sobran los volantes de contención: &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;Gago, Cambiasso, Mascherano&lt;/span&gt;. Maradona puede poner a&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt; Kun y Tevez&lt;/span&gt; de delanteros, a Messi de extremo, Mascherano y Cambiasso de ce&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sb-PL_fB3cI/AAAAAAAADSo/4QwIzyKlG7g/s1600-h/foto+roman+r.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314123521503387074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 305px; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sb-PL_fB3cI/AAAAAAAADSo/4QwIzyKlG7g/s400/foto+roman+r.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ntrocampistas, y a &lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;Maxi &lt;/span&gt;de medio extremo/medio contención.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sería una lastima. La selección argentina de 2006 fue mi campeón mundial. Perdieron por penales con el anfitrión, pero siguen mandando en mi corazón. Cuando&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt; Riquelme&lt;/span&gt; esta de racha y pisa el terreno, los demás compañeros se muestran y llegan como si fuera machina de feria. Desde las tribunas se puede ver y oír el ritmo del equipo, mientras los defensores abajo andan como gallinas degolladas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hablando del público argentino, lo más preocupante de la jubilación temprana es el mal manejo que tiene Diego en lo que se refiere al trato personal con diversos jugadores. No todos los jugadores se arrodillan en su presencia. Las críticas lanzadas en ruedas de prensa arden. Maradona no llamó a Riquelme para decirle que no iba a Francia. ¿Si Riquelme ya se había retirado antes, debido a las críticas, así por qué rayos lo vuelve a hacer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;Argentina&lt;/span&gt; puede tener éxito sin Roman, pero el “&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,102)"&gt;Pibe Diez&lt;/span&gt;” necesita aprender de su error. Ser entrenador de una selección nacional es como ser político: hablas mucho, haces poco. Mourinho llama la atención para aliviarles la presión de los medios a los jugadores. Maradona, al revés, busca apretarles por los jornaleros. Quizás hablarles de cara a cara seria método preferible.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Elliott ( responsable y escritor de &lt;a href="http://www.futfanatico.com/"&gt;www.futfanatico.com/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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So, the protagonists were the midfielders during some minutes of the game until we could see some punctual plays-some defensive mistakes and the ability of the forwards- caused variations in the scorer. On the one hand thanks to a great “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Apache” Tévez&lt;/span&gt;´s pass, the good Korean &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ji-Sung Park&lt;/span&gt; provoked a penalty committed by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pepe Reina&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt;-today the Portuguese did not have his best day as Manchester United´s player and he was controlled by &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fabio Aurelio&lt;/span&gt;- scored the first goal for Manchester United, which seemed that it had the game controlled, but five minutes later arrived the first Vidic´s mistake after a &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Martin Skrtel&lt;/span&gt;´s long “pass”, which was exploited by the speedy and elegant &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fernando Torres&lt;/span&gt;, who had a face to face with Edwin van der Sar and he could score the goal to equalize the game and to cause some doubts in the Manchester United´s defensive line, which had another setback before the half time when there was another example of the connection &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fernando Torres-Steven Gerrard&lt;/span&gt; and the Manchester United´s left back, Patrice Evra, was forced to commit a penalty and Gerrard did not miss this opportunity and he scor&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbwb9NRrcII/AAAAAAAADSQ/eWUs-hETzb8/s1600-h/gerrard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313152398740123778" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbwb9NRrcII/AAAAAAAADSQ/eWUs-hETzb8/s320/gerrard.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ed the penalty in the minute 44 of the game. After the half time Manchester United tried to equalize the game and it pushed Liverpool, but when Sir Alex Ferguson decided the incorporation to the game of &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Giggs, Berbatov and Paul Scholes&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Vidic &lt;/span&gt;committed another mistake and he lost a dangerous ball and he had to commit a foul over &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Gerrard,&lt;/span&gt; which caused that Vidic was sent off and besides that &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fabio Aurelio&lt;/span&gt; score a wonderful goal thanks to a free-kick, which supposed the final of the game for Manchester United, whose players suffered other setback when the Liverpool´s left back, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Dossena&lt;/span&gt;, exploited a Pep Reina´s long pass and he could score the last goal of this game.&lt;br /&gt;After this result, the Premier League is open and we will enjoy with a hard battle during the last 10 games of the League between Manchester United-we will see if this result does not have bad consequences for the &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Red Devils&lt;/span&gt;-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt; and the "new"&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Chelsea&lt;/span&gt; of Hiddink, which has a complicated game this Sunday (14:30 cet) against Manchester City(Manchester United, 65 points in 28 games; Liverpool FC, 61 points in 29 games and Chelsea FC, 58 points in 28 games).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United:&lt;/span&gt; Van der Sar, O'Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Park, Carrick, Anderson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Tevez, Rooney. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Liverpool&lt;/span&gt;: Pepe Reina; Carragaer, Hyypiä, Skrtel, Fabio Aurelio, Kuyt, Leiva, Mascherano, Riera, Gerrard, Torres &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Goals&lt;/span&gt;: 1-0, Cristiano Ronaldo, m 23, Torres 1-1, m 28, 1-2 Gerrard (penalty), m 44 , 1-3 Fabio Aurelio, m 77, 1-4 Dossena, m 90. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Yellow cards&lt;/span&gt;: Liverpool: Carragher, m 35, Mascherano,m 60, Skrtel,m 64; Manchester United: Ferdinand,m 37, Van der Sar,m 43. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Red Card&lt;/span&gt;: Vidic in the m 76&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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en Old Trafford, pues por primera vez esta temporada hemos visto algún síntoma de debilidad en un &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt;, que ahora ve como su ventaja se ve reducida a 4 puntos con &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbvlMkN-wlI/AAAAAAAADR4/1LiCZOE6ses/s1600-h/sns1949f280_391139a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313092189457138258" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbvlMkN-wlI/AAAAAAAADR4/1LiCZOE6ses/s320/sns1949f280_391139a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;relación al Liverpool-aunque hay tener en cuenta que el Manchester United tiene un partido pendiente-.&lt;br /&gt;El partido estuvo muy equilibrado durante la primera parte con una dura pugna entre los dos equipos para hacerse con el control del mediocampo, lo cual hizo que viéramos un partido con mucho “mediocampismo” y con pocas ocasiones de gol y que fueran claves ciertas jugadas puntuales-ya fuesen errores de unos y genialidades de otros-y así, merced a un gran pase del “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Apache” Tévez&lt;/span&gt;, el siempre cumplidor coreano&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Ji-Sung Park&lt;/span&gt; pudo forzar un penalty-cometido por&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Pepe Reina&lt;/span&gt;-que &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt;-hoy el luso ha estado bastante apagado, muy bien controlado por &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fabio Aurelio&lt;/span&gt;- no perdonó y adelantó al Manchester United, que parecía que a partir de ese momento iba a tener el partido controlado, pero llegó otra jugada puntual, cuando Martin Skrtel despejó con contundencia un balón y que el central del Manchester &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Vidic,&lt;/span&gt; en uno de sus peores partidos desde que llegó a Manchester, no supo controlar y su error fue aprovechado por el veloz &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fernando Torres&lt;/span&gt; que encaro la meta contraria y definió con maestría ante &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Edwin Van der Sar&lt;/span&gt;, consiguiendo de este modo el empate y que su equipo se volviese a meter en el partido y generar ciertas dudas en la defensa del United, que volvió a ser superada en el minuto 44 cuando Torres conectó con el capitán &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Steven Gerrard&lt;/span&gt; que pudo forzar un penalty-fue derribado de forma clara por &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Patrice Evra&lt;/span&gt;- que el propio Gerrard se encargó de transformar. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbvl3-2-fYI/AAAAAAAADSA/g2EDLT3gYsw/s1600-h/9.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313092935342783874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbvl3-2-fYI/AAAAAAAADSA/g2EDLT3gYsw/s320/9.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tras el descanso el United se volcó y presionó al Liverpool, buscando el empate, pero cuando Sir Alex Ferguson se decidió poner toda la carne en el asador y dio entrada a la vez a &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Berbatov&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Giggs y Paul Scholes&lt;/span&gt;, llegó otro error de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Vidic,&lt;/span&gt; que volvió a perder un balón y para evitar el gol de Gerrard, tuvo que cometer una falta-que fue magistralmente lanzada por &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Fabio Aurelio&lt;/span&gt;, que consiguió de esta forma el 3 gol- y fue expulsado, lo cual significó el fin del partido para el United, que aunque siguió poniendo pundonor, buscando recortar la diferencia en el marcador, aun tuvo que ver como otro error defensivo, significaba que &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Dossena&lt;/span&gt;-pase largo de Reina, la defensa del United no sabe controlar el balón y el lateral italiano marcó desde fuera del área- marcase el 4º y definitivo gol de un partido que pone la liga al rojo vivo con 10 jornadas por jugarse.&lt;br /&gt;Veremos quién se lleva la Premier, si el Manchester-veremos si acusa el resultado de este sabado-, el Liverpool o el “nuevo” &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Chelsea&lt;/span&gt; de Hiddink, que tiene este domingo(14.30 cet) un partido complicado contra el Manchester City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt;: Van der Sar; O´Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Park, Carrick, Anderson, Cristiano Ronaldo; Tevez, Rooney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt;: Pepe Reina; Carragaer, Hyypiä, Skrtel, Fabio Aurelio; Kuyt, Leiva, Mascherano, Riera; Gerrard, Torres&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Goles:&lt;/span&gt; 1-0, Cristiano Ronaldo, minuto 23; 1-1 Torres, minuto 28 ; 1-2 Gerrard(penalty), minuto 44; 1-3 Fabio Aurelio, minuto 77; 1-4 Dossena, minuto 90&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Tarjetas amarillas&lt;/span&gt;: Liverpool: Carragher-minuto 35-,Mascherano-minuto 60-, Skrtel-minuto 64-; Manchester United: Ferdinand-minuto 37-, Van der Sar-minuto 43-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Tarjetas Rojas&lt;/span&gt;: Vidic en el minuto 76 &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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On the one hand, we watched an incredible&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;´s&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmRGQAlxMI/AAAAAAAADQ4/PanwAhec0IQ/s1600-h/messiampetooamphenry_178663.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312436772022895810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmRGQAlxMI/AAAAAAAADQ4/PanwAhec0IQ/s320/messiampetooamphenry_178663.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; first half of the game played against&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Olympique Lyon&lt;/span&gt;, whose players could not make anything to stop the electric passing game of FC Barcelona, whose players made an exhibition both with the ball and when they pushed the rival, whose ball possession was minimal during many minutes of the game, since there was always a FC Barcelona´s player pushing the Olympique´s defenders and of course they lost many balls and committed some mistakes-like Boumsong during the 2 first FC Barcelona´s goals- and of course the result during the first half was clear, 4-1 and it seems that FC Barcelona recovers the great level after a last doubtful month.&lt;br /&gt;More&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmRVFh3TKI/AAAAAAAADRA/m3op5bamIKc/s1600-h/drogba.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312437026907704482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmRVFh3TKI/AAAAAAAADRA/m3op5bamIKc/s320/drogba.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;over, we want to remark the efficiency of&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Liverpool FC&lt;/span&gt;-it is clear that&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Rafa Benitez&lt;/span&gt; is a great coach for this kind of round…it is a pity that his players do not play with this intensity in all the Premier League´s game, but this is a topic for another article-,&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Chelsea FC&lt;/span&gt;-of course, it was a great decision the departure of &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Scolari,&lt;/span&gt; cause now we have a “new” team, with the players united and besides with the best&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Drogba&lt;/span&gt;, who is showing that he continues being a great players, showing his best level during the important moments of the season, like this round against &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Juventus&lt;/span&gt;, whose players made good games, but at this moment this is the level of this Italian team, whose future is good with young and talented players like &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Giorgio Chiellini, Dario Knezevic&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Cristian Molinaro, Paolo De Ceglie, Claudio Marchisio, Momo Sissoko, Sebastian Giovinco&lt;/span&gt;-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Bayern Munich&lt;/span&gt;-what can we say about a team whose players can score 12 goals in 2 games to Sporting Lisboa…it can beat any team, so it is possible to see again a Bayern as European Champion- and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt;-it had a hard and complicated round with Inter Milan and it showed why it is the current champion and why it has lost only 2 game during all this season. It has an incredible defensive line-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Van der Sar, Ferdinand, Vidic, Carrick, Hargreaves&lt;/span&gt;,etc-and besides a wonderful attack&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;-“Apache” Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Berbatov, Rooney&lt;/span&gt;…-and of course it has many chances to be again the Champion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand,Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid were the other face of this week.&lt;br /&gt;About the Spanish team, I want to say that &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; made ridiculous during this round, where we saw controversial decision of the “great” &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Juande Ra&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmTBFMms1I/AAAAAAAADRY/Zpz9nJzPKEg/s1600-h/1235600884extrasalbumes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312438882244408146" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmTBFMms1I/AAAAAAAADRY/Zpz9nJzPKEg/s400/1235600884extrasalbumes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;mos&lt;/span&gt;. On the one hand, it was clear that it was a mistake to dispense with &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Klaas Jan Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt;, since Real Madrid during these 2 games played with a reference in the attack and the result is clear-0 goals scored in 180 minutes-, besides it is difficult to understand why ,if &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Arjen Robben&lt;/span&gt; was injured last Wednesday, he “played”-it is better to say that he was at Anfield Road- during the first half, since these games require players 100%-besides if Juande said that Real Madrid plays better without Robben, ¿why did he play this important game?-. Moreover, I think he was not very intelligent when he decided to substitute &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Gago for Guti&lt;/span&gt; in the 77 minutes, cause now Guti is very angry and it is not the best idea, if Juande wants to have any future at Real Madrid, to have as enemy important players like Guti….(by the way, ¿what´s the matter with the new players, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Faubert &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Parejo&lt;/span&gt;? Pedja Mijatovic said that they were good acquisitions, but ¿what for? ¿To spend money and to receive commissions?&lt;br /&gt;On the oth&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmTs4Fa32I/AAAAAAAADRg/oze4tv-tB2Y/s1600-h/foto+forlan.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312439634638856034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmTs4Fa32I/AAAAAAAADRg/oze4tv-tB2Y/s400/foto+forlan.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;er hand, the&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Atletico Madrid&lt;/span&gt;´s coach, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Abel Resino&lt;/span&gt;, must think about his abilities to be a coach for an important team, ¿how is it possible that &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Diego Forlan&lt;/span&gt; was on the bench many minutes of the yesterday´s game? The answer of Abel Resino is very convincing:”Atletico Madrid will have a very important and difficult game this weekend and it will need the best Forlán”. This answer can be described as joke, cause the important game of the season for Atletico was last Wednesday´s game and of course it was a big mistake dispensed with Forlán(his numbers during this season: 25 goals in 40 games) in the starting lineup…Abel, you seems Aguirre-the former Atlético Madrid´s coach-, so please, go home!!!!.-anyway, he has a complicated future, since important players of the team like&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Kun Agüero, Diego Forlan and Maxi&lt;/span&gt; Rodriguez are angry with him-&lt;br /&gt;About&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Inter,&lt;/span&gt; its defeat was very different to Real and Atlético Madrid´s d&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmUHln8xlI/AAAAAAAADRo/hyyDhPtHOhM/s1600-h/Jose-Mourinho-puffs-Inter-Milan-v-Cagliari-20_1760905.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312440093539878482" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmUHln8xlI/AAAAAAAADRo/hyyDhPtHOhM/s400/Jose-Mourinho-puffs-Inter-Milan-v-Cagliari-20_1760905.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;efeat, cause, if we exclude the first half of the first leg, it played well during this round, but this is football, maybe it needed a bit of fortune in concrete moments- &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ibrahimovic and Adriano&lt;/span&gt; had clear chances to score yesterday- to beat a great team like Manchester United. But, although it played well and it was unlucky, this defeat can be described as failure to &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;José Mourinho&lt;/span&gt;, because his great bet for this season was to win the Champions League and of course this result is a reverse for him and we must think about the performance of his team in this competition-at least, he was brave and we could see in the starting lineup, young players like &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;“Super” Mario Balotelli and Davide&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Santon&lt;/span&gt;-.&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I want to speak about the draw&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Arsenal FC&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;AS Roma&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Villarreal CF&lt;/span&gt;, where we could see a very balanced games, being decisive on the one hand,the important tiredness and absences of the Romanista players-&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Cicinho, De Rossi, Mexes, Juan, Cassetti, Perrota, M&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmUxZk4ouI/AAAAAAAADRw/7d2cNFaxrMc/s1600-h/foto+villarreal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312440811860304610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 271px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SbmUxZk4ouI/AAAAAAAADRw/7d2cNFaxrMc/s400/foto+villarreal.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;enez … and besides Baptista, Vucinic, Pizarro&lt;/span&gt; played having some problems-and the other hand, the better quality and important experience of the Villarreal´s squad-it is not a surprise that this team is in this round, since we can find in its squad players like Gonzalo Rodriguez, Diego Lopez-he is an excellent goalkeeper-,&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Pirès, Nihat, Rossi, Cani, Santi Cazorla, Marcos Senna, Ibagaza,&lt;/span&gt;etc, so it is a good team and one clear example is that it did not lose the 2 games played this season against Manchester United….So, it is not impossible to think that this team can arrive to the semi-final of the Champions League, as some years ago-it played a semi-final against Arsenal when Riquelme could not score a decisive penalty in the last minutes of the draw-…so be careful with this “yellow submarine”, which can destroy any team,which also must be careful with this Arsenal, because the “gunners” will have a stronger team in the next round, since players like&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Adebayor and Cesc Fràbregas&lt;/span&gt; will be available to play, so be careful!!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Los de Ferguson marcaron dos goles en Old Trafford dentro de los primeros 4 minutos de cada parte, y con este resultado, el entrenador escocés, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Sir Alex Ferguson&lt;/span&gt;, consiguió su segunda victoria en 14 partidos sobre el siempre criticado y polémico ex técnico del Chelsea.&lt;br /&gt;El serbio &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nemanja Vidic&lt;/span&gt; consiguió acertar en la diana tras un córner de Ryan Giggs en el minuto 4 del comienzo del encuentro, lo que ponía las cosas muy favorables para los ‘Red Devils’. Pero los de Old Trafford no dominaron como lo hicieron en la ida, y tanto&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Zlatan Ibrahimovic&lt;/span&gt; como &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Adriano &lt;/span&gt;pusieron a prueba la meta del holandés Van der Sar, encontrándose con el poste en dos ocasiones. &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbkz-vY8StI/AAAAAAAADQo/DcUt1uqcFA0/s1600-h/foto+ronaldo+rooney.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312334388426197714" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 263px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbkz-vY8StI/AAAAAAAADQo/DcUt1uqcFA0/s320/foto+ronaldo+rooney.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘The Theatre of Dreams’ vio como los suyos trataban de aprovechar la magia del Balón de Oro portugués ante la inexperiencia del lateral izquierdo del Inter, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Davide Santon&lt;/span&gt;, quien con 19 años demostró tener un gran potencial pero también que un encuentro de estas características requiere algo más de rodaje-quizás debió jugar&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Maxwell o Chivu&lt;/span&gt;-.&lt;br /&gt;Tras el gol del central del United, la escuadra ‘Neroazzurra’ no se echó atrás y busco la portería del meta holandés con la confianza de que un gol les volvía a meter en la eliminatoria debido al resultado de 0-0 en el Giuseppe Meazza.&lt;br /&gt;El bando local tampoco estuvo callado tras el gol, y el gran trabajo de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Giggs-&lt;/span&gt;parece que el elegante zurdo galés ha hecho un pacto con el diablo para que no pasen los años por él- y &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Rooney&lt;/span&gt;, no se vio recompensado con más goles para el United “gracias” a la gran labor-una vez más- del seguro portero brasileño&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Julio César&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Tras el descanso el Inter de Milán volvió a salir demasiado relajado en un estadio donde no existe el ‘tea time’ inglés, y los de Sir Alex Ferguson volvieron a aprovecharlo para con la calidad de un Rooney incansable y la definición de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt; hacerles el segundo a los italianos y ahora sí que prácticamente recibir la confirmación de su billete a cuartos.&lt;br /&gt;En el minuto 75’ de partido, el sueco del Inter, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Zlatan&lt;/span&gt;, tuvo una oportunidad de oro para hacer el gol y poner el miedo sobre la ciudad de Manchester, pero&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Evra&lt;/span&gt; consiguió alejar el peligro de la portería y dejar claro que la defensa de los ‘Red Devils’ es una de las más firmes del continente.&lt;br /&gt;Con el resultado de 2-0 aca&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbk0Fc_rmJI/AAAAAAAADQw/jd155MToWFU/s1600-h/foto+mou+triste.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312334503747491986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sbk0Fc_rmJI/AAAAAAAADQw/jd155MToWFU/s320/foto+mou+triste.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;bó el encuentro lo que deja a los actuales campeones de Europa esperando ya a su siguiente rival. Gran trabajo de ambos conjuntos, pero el resultado de la ida, el cual no fue muy bueno para los italianos tras una penosa primera parte neroazzurra, dejó la cosa muy favorable para el lado inglés.&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente destacar que presuntamente, tras el encuentro,&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; José Mourinho&lt;/span&gt; agredió a un aficionado del Manchester United en la zona de autobuses, hecho que está investigando al policía inglesa y que nuevamente crea la polémica alrededor del entrenador portugués, que podemos decir que ha fracasado en esta primera temporada en Italia, porque su Objetivo real para esta temporada era la Champions. En fin, otro año más que tendrá que esperar la afición interista para volver a ver su Inter campeón de Europa.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;Carlos Cruz (Leeds, UK) (colaborador de Saqueneutral)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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First, we lived on Tuesday the "exhibitions" of FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, whose actions can be described as “gray” if we are good.&lt;br /&gt;On one side, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt; was dom&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanZBupGZGI/AAAAAAAADPw/pve-LwnhDlc/s1600-h/foto+vv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308012259556353122" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 203px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanZBupGZGI/AAAAAAAADPw/pve-LwnhDlc/s320/foto+vv.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;inated by a good Olympique Lyonnais, specially during the first half of the game, where we watched the powerful play of &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Toulalan and Makoun&lt;/span&gt; and the constant danger caused by &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kader Keita, Ederson&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Benzema and Juninho&lt;/span&gt;, who scored the Lyon´s goal thanks to another &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Víctor Valdés&lt;/span&gt;´s mistake-it is clear that FC Barcelona has a problem with the goalkeeper, since Victor Valdes has never been very reliable and if he has not received many goals is because the good play of the team does not let the opponents to have clear shots on target(if VV is not reliable, what can we say about the other goalkeepers of the team, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Jorquera&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Pinto ...&lt;/span&gt; so, it is clear that this team needs a total renovation in this position) -. However we believe that FC Barcelona will win the 2 leg of this round a&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanZpZBi3PI/AAAAAAAADP4/W3ddMChy-fA/s1600-h/foto+sergio+kun.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308012940948069618" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanZpZBi3PI/AAAAAAAADP4/W3ddMChy-fA/s320/foto+sergio+kun.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nd it will play the next round of the Champions League, which it will be very complicated for &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atletico de Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, because it has a big problem with its defensive line, which is showing a deplorable level. We already said in the article &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2009/02/first-knockout-round-of-champions.html"&gt;THE FIRST KNOCKOUT ROUND OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE(I) (article in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; that the Perea´s injury could be decisive for the draw, because the substitute would be &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pablo &lt;/span&gt;Ibáñez-the player who arrived an agreement with a Real Madrid president´s candidate to play in Real Madrid some years ago-, whose play is always synonym of insecurity and obviously we watched a Pablo´s big mistake during the first FC Porto´s goal scored by the determinant&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Lisandro López&lt;/span&gt;, who had many facilities during the game and in fact if he and the other strikers of the team-Hulk- could not score more goal was because the Atlético´s goalkeeper, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Leo Franco&lt;/span&gt;, played very well and he counteracted the bad level showed by the defensive, midfielder and offensive line-especially when the coach, Abel Resino, took a bad decision, the substitution of &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Kun Agüero&lt;/span&gt; ... -. It is clear that Atletico must improve in many aspects if it wants to have any option to beat FC Porto at Dragão, because if it expects to qualify through other Helton´s mistake, I think that it will be very difficult.&lt;br /&gt;But if on Tuesday the Spanish teams played bad, what can we say about the Wednesday´s game at the&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Bernabeu&lt;/span&gt; (I can not criticize &lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt;Villarreal,&lt;/span&gt; because although it drew the game played against &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos&lt;/span&gt;, it played well and it could win the game if it were luckier with the shots on target, but this is football and besides it received a&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Karagounis&lt;/span&gt;´s great goal…). Although somebody may not believe me, &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; played a g&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanaCKzaVPI/AAAAAAAADQA/jGvlT8JbpcM/s1600-h/foto+rafael+vdv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308013366627423474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanaCKzaVPI/AAAAAAAADQA/jGvlT8JbpcM/s320/foto+rafael+vdv.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ame last Wednesday, at least the players were on the field, since I think that they did not play football. I suppose that&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Juande Ramos&lt;/span&gt; will have his fans, but it is quite clear that although he win the Spanish Liga or the Champions League, his style is not for Real Madrid, whose fans are accustomed to seeing a good play, with creative players, with quality. So, the opposite to Juande´s team, whose team had last Wednesday 7 defensive players(&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Cannavaro, Heinze, Gago, Lass, Marcelo&lt;/span&gt;) plus &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Iker Casillas&lt;/span&gt; in the starting lineup, so it is normal that the team had many offensive problem during the game, because&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Raul, Robben&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Higuaín&lt;/span&gt; were very alone to play against the hard Liverpool´s defensive line. Please Juande, more imagination and quality on the field, ¿is it very difficult to see for example in the starting lineup a player like &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Rafael Van der Vaart&lt;/span&gt;, who is a player who can have a defensive role-for example he was fantastic during the last Euro when he stopped the Andr&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanabMNA8WI/AAAAAAAADQI/lm_eqddwm8o/s1600-h/foto+fauvert.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308013796499976546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 185px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanabMNA8WI/AAAAAAAADQI/lm_eqddwm8o/s320/foto+fauvert.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ea Pirlo´s play- and besides he has quality with ball to be the playmaker of the team and besides he has a great shot?. But we know the conservative and many time absurd Juande´s idea and decisions-it was a mistake his decision about dispense with&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Klass-Jan Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt; to play in the Champions League, because the Lass work can be done perfectly by &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Javi Garcia&lt;/span&gt; and without Huntelaar, as Real Madrid demonstrated last Wednesday, the team play without an attack´s reference and the team has many problems to score, since Raul can not run, defend and score the goals ... - (by the way, I can not conclude the Real Madrid´s situation without a mention about the Faubert´s situation, since he continues at Real Madrid, I say this because the only news about &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Faubert&lt;/span&gt; is that Juande described as "gray" his play against Racing Santander and that according Juande, Faubert is injured although the French player does not know it, which is difficult to understand, but this is the current Real Madrid, a team that for example tonight it shoot only 2 shots on target against RCD Espanyol(19 in the Spanish Liga´s standing)…ok, it won 0-2(good Guti´s free kick and of course the goal from the determinant Raul) but it is very poor to shot only 2 shots in 90 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;We must refer to the other dismal games played by &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Deportivo La&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Coruña&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Valencia CF&lt;/span&gt; (it was very difficult to see one of these 2 team, wining the Uefa Cup this year, so it seems these defeat were the best for this team in order to focus on the respective objectives in the Spanish league).&lt;br /&gt;We must also remark the bad week for the Italian te&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanbFWXyDBI/AAAAAAAADQY/6O51fx3V2pI/s1600-h/PhilippeMexes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308014520783997970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanbFWXyDBI/AAAAAAAADQY/6O51fx3V2pI/s320/PhilippeMexes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;am, because if we except that &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Udinese &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Calcio&lt;/span&gt; could qualify for the next round, the rest of the transalpine teams could not win their matches, and for example&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Inter&lt;/span&gt; drew its game-we can say that it was lucky because &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt; played better and specially during the first half of the game-and the other lost the games or said goodbye to the competition: &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Juventus&lt;/span&gt; played well but it lost the game played against &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Chelsea FC&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;AS Roma&lt;/span&gt; suffered again the &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Mexes&lt;/span&gt;´s mistake, since he caused an unnecessary penalty; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Sampdoria&lt;/span&gt; could not beat the fashionable Metalist;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt; Fiorentina&lt;/span&gt; forgot that the games have 90 minutes!; and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;AC Milan&lt;/span&gt; returned to commit the mistake to play in the starting lineup with “grandfathers”-it is difficult to understand why did Milan play with players like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Dida &lt;/span&gt;(35 year´s old), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pepe Favalli&lt;/span&gt; (37 year´s old), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Paolo Maldini&lt;/span&gt; (40 year´s old) and&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Andriy Shevchenko&lt;/span&gt; (he is in a deplorable level), ¿When we will see new defenders at Milanello?-&lt;br /&gt;Finally, I want to finish the article speaking about the game played this Satu&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanbhyUGp_I/AAAAAAAADQg/PHV8FCu9d0k/s1600-h/BORAL_Ugur_20081105_NT_R.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308015009321101298" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 239px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SanbhyUGp_I/AAAAAAAADQg/PHV8FCu9d0k/s320/BORAL_Ugur_20081105_NT_R.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rday between &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Si&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;vasspor&lt;/span&gt;, where we watched a team, Sivasspor, which will have many problems to be the Turkish Süper Lig´s Champion, because although it is the leader of the Lig, it showed a very poor image at Istanbul and although it could score 2 goals-it is not very difficult if you are playing against this current Fenerbahçe-, it had not any chances to win the game, since it played like a “small” team with a defensive mentality and waiting that &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mehmet&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Yildiz &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Yannick Kamanan&lt;/span&gt; could score any goal in individual plays, which is possible one or two times in 90 minutes but more times it is difficult, although your rivals are players like &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Deniz Baris&lt;/span&gt;-he committed many mistakes all the game-or the unlucky &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Deivid&lt;/span&gt;. Anyway, it was important Fenerbahçe´s victory, because it continues with chances to win this Lig, where anything is possible and I will do not any more prediction about the possible champion, although if&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Alex de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Souza, Ugur Boral, Gökhan Gönül or Semih Sentürk&lt;/span&gt; continue playing well, Fenerbahçe will be until the last game with chances to be the Champions (this Saturday it won 4-2 the scorers were Ugur Boral-2-Sentürk and Lugano for Fenerbahçe, Mehmet Yildiz and Murat Sözgelmez for Sivasspor.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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De todas formas creemos que el FC Barcelona, que pudo salvar los muebles en la segunda parte gracias al gol de Henry, pasará esta ronda sin d&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SalsPJWNMFI/AAAAAAAADPQ/cuDSd-TMySQ/s1600-h/foto+pablo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307892643295735890" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SalsPJWNMFI/AAAAAAAADPQ/cuDSd-TMySQ/s320/foto+pablo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;emasiados apuros, lo cual no podemos decir del &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atlético de Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, cuyo nivel defensivo fue lamentable. Ya dijimos en el artículo &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2009/02/first-knockout-round-of-champions.html"&gt;THE FIRST KNOCKOUT ROUND OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE(I) (article in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; que la baja de Perea podía ser decisiva, porque esto haría que Pablo jugase y con “el vendido&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;” Pablo&lt;/span&gt; cualquier cosa mala puede pasar y evidentemente ocurrió durante el primer gol del FC Porto, cuyos delanteros encontraron muchas facilidades y de hecho si no es por la buena actuación del portero &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Leo Franco&lt;/span&gt;, el Porto podía haber conseguido un marcador de escándalo, porque el Atlético parecía que jugaba sin línea defensiva, bueno y sin medio campo y casi sin delanteros-sobre todo cuando Abel Resino hizo una “aguirrada” y mandó al&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Kun Agüero&lt;/span&gt; al banquillo…-. Mucho tiene que mejorar el Atlético si quiere tener alguna opción de eliminar al Porto en el Dragao, porque si espera clasificarse gracias a otro fallo de Helton, creo que lo tendrá crudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero si el martes los equipos españoles hicieron lo que hicieron, qué decir de lo que pasó el miércoles en el Bernabeu (el&lt;span style="color:#cc9933;"&gt; Villarreal&lt;/span&gt; aunque empató con el &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Panathinaikos,&lt;/span&gt; al menos lo intentó y dominó el partido, pero no estuvo acertado en el remate y además se encontró con un gol en contra gracias a un gran disparo de Karagounis). Aunque alguno no lo crea, el &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Real Madrid&lt;/span&gt; jugó el pasado miércoles, o mejor dicho estuvo en el campo, porque decir que jugó al fútbol es una broma de mal gusto. Supongo que &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Juande Ramos&lt;/span&gt; tendrá sus partidarios, pero está muy claro que por mucho que gane la liga o la champions, su estilo de “juego” no es para el Real Madrid, cuya afición está acostumbrada a ver buen juego, con jugadores creativos, con calidad, es decir, todo l&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SalsjxvtPQI/AAAAAAAADPY/2vt3MF2tMxY/s1600-h/foto+jan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307892997737495810" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SalsjxvtPQI/AAAAAAAADPY/2vt3MF2tMxY/s320/foto+jan.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;o contrario a las alineaciones de Juande, que el pasado miércoles “se quedó muy a gusto” alineando en el equipo inicial a 7 jugadores de corte defensivo(&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Cannavaro&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Heinze, Gago, Lass, Marcelo&lt;/span&gt;) más Iker Casillas, con lo que es normal que el equipo no funcionase ofensivamente, pues qué pueden hacer Raúl, Robben e Higuain ante la maraña defensiva de Benítez…poca cosa, como quedó demostrado. Por favor, un poco más de imaginación y calidad en el campo, que no es ningún pecado, al menos Juande podía haber alineado a&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Van der Vaart&lt;/span&gt;, que es un jugador que, como demostró en la pasada Euro en el partido de Italia, en el que anuló a Pirlo, puede cumplir perfectamente en labores defensivas y además tiene salida de balón y un buen lanzamiento, pero ya conocemos a Juande, para qué voy a jugar con 5 defensas si puedo jugar con 8, por algo prefirió inscribir en la Champions a Lass en lugar de &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Klass Jan&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Huntelaar&lt;/span&gt;-lo cual fue un error, porque la labor de Lass la puede realizar perfectamente&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; Javi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;García&lt;/span&gt; y como quedó demostrado el pasado miércoles, al Real Madrid con la ausencia de Huntelaar, le falta la referencia en el área, pues Raúl no puede estar defendiendo, haciendo la jugada y rematando…-(por cierto, no puedo concluir lo relativo al Real Madrid sin mencionar la situación del “salvador” &lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Faubert&lt;/span&gt;, que por cierto sigue en el Real Madrid, lo digo porque de él sólo sabemos que Juande calificó de “gris” su actuación contra el Racing de Santander y que según Juande, Faubert lleva sin saberlo 10 días lesionado!!!…sin comentarios… veremos lo que acontece en el partido de este sábado entre el RCD Espanyol y el Real Madrid a las 22.00 c e.t&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por lo demás debemos referirn&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaltnDgrSFI/AAAAAAAADPo/J6w2BAEtHbg/s1600-h/paolo-maldini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307894153557526610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaltnDgrSFI/AAAAAAAADPo/J6w2BAEtHbg/s320/paolo-maldini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;os a los pésimos partidos del &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Deportivo La Coruña&lt;/span&gt; y del &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Valencia &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;CF&lt;/span&gt; (parece que es lo mejor que les puede haber pasado, para que de esta forma se centren en los respect&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaltPOU6bKI/AAAAAAAADPg/6bjJ85sTDn4/s1600-h/shevchenko.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ivos objetivos en la liga española), debemos también destacar la mala semana de los equipos italianos, pues si exceptuamos al&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Udinese&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Calcio&lt;/span&gt; que pudo por los pelos clasificarse, el resto de equipos transalpinos no pudieron vencer sus partidos, así empato su partido el &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Inter&lt;/span&gt;-tuvo fortuna porque el Manchester United fue muy superior durante la primera parte-y perdieron o quedaron eliminados la &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Juve&lt;/span&gt;-no jugó mal contra el Chelsea FC-, la &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;AS Roma&lt;/span&gt;-como predijimos, &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Mexes &lt;/span&gt;hizo de las suyas y provocó un penalty innecesario-, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;la Sampdoria&lt;/span&gt;-al final se rindió ante el equipo revelación de esta UEFA, el Metalist-, &lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;la Fiorentina&lt;/span&gt;-los partidos duran 90 minutos!!- y &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;el AC Milan&lt;/span&gt;-con todos mis respetos, pero no entiendo cómo pueden jugar un partido tan importante jugadores como &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Dida&lt;/span&gt;(35 años), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pepe Favalli&lt;/span&gt;(37 años), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Paolo Maldini&lt;/span&gt;(40 años) y &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Andriy Shevchenko&lt;/span&gt;(que se encuentra en un nivel lamentable), ¿Cuándo veremos la operación renovación defensiva en Milanello?-&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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In relation to the UEFA Cup, the names that we must emphasize are: the "modest" Ukrainian team &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Metalist Kharkov&lt;/span&gt;, which continues its dream, showing that it was not casual its victory in the first round of the Uefa Cup over a team with character, quality and prestige as &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas&lt;/span&gt;, and in fact since this round, it has not had any defeat in the Uefa Cup, beating team like &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Benfica&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Sampdoria &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Olympiakos&lt;/span&gt;. The Metalist´s season is meritorious, because the&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Miron&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Markevich´&lt;/span&gt;s team does not have stars and in fact if we look at the squad, the truth is that we find simply good but modest players like the strikers &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Jaja Coelho&lt;/span&gt;-he was unlucky during his Getafe´s period- or &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Marko Devic&lt;/span&gt;, the Brazilian midfielder &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Edmar&lt;/span&gt; or the Argentine defender &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Jonathan Ramón Maidana&lt;/span&gt;. Anyway, it is a team without big names but with a lot of strength (it has only received 2 goals during the Uefa &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah6UiJOn1I/AAAAAAAADOg/ltAvpZnqJHQ/s1600-h/foto+karvets.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307626654037614418" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah6UiJOn1I/AAAAAAAADOg/ltAvpZnqJHQ/s320/foto+karvets.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cup´s competition), whose next objective is to defeat in the next Uefa Cup´s round, its maximum rival, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Dynamo Kiev&lt;/span&gt; (these two clubs are having a beautiful duel in the league of Ukraine and in fact next 4 of March they will have the decisive duel to decide the League´s champion). As we have mentioned Dynamo Kiev, it is moment to remark the play of a young striker during the Thursday´s game against Valencia, because the level showed by the young &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Artem Kravets&lt;/span&gt; was incredible, since he was a constant synonym of mobility, dribbling, vision of the game, speed and definition (he scored the 2 goals), showing that we should follow his developments, since he can be a very important and famous player soon, we will see….&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other protagonists were &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Bülent Korkmaz&lt;/span&gt;, the new coach of&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt; Galatasaray&lt;/span&gt;- after the disa&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah7RBr-S8I/AAAAAAAADO4/h6ZzVkWGg2k/s1600-h/foto+bulent+korkmaz.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307627693296995266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 207px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah7RBr-S8I/AAAAAAAADO4/h6ZzVkWGg2k/s320/foto+bulent+korkmaz.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;strous match against Kocaelispor last Sunday(Galatasaray lost 2-5), the German coach &lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Michael Skibbe&lt;/span&gt; was sacked and Bülent arrived as the substituted to the&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt; Ali Sami Yen&lt;/span&gt;´s bench and he started very well, qualifying the Istanbul´s team to the next Uefa Cup´s round after a vibrant game played against&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Girondins Bordeaux&lt;/span&gt; (4-3 was the final score)(it is sure that Galatasary, whose squad is really good, will have good record since this moment, being for me a serious candidate to win the Uefa Cup)- and &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Craig Bellamy&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Manchester City&lt;/span&gt; striker, who took advantage of &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Ireland and Robinho&lt;/span&gt;´s assists (the Brazilian made a good play during the second goal) and he scored the 2 decisive goals to qualify his team to play the next round against the amazing&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; A&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah7mvGsq8I/AAAAAAAADPA/2BsZgg-JxGA/s1600-h/foto+claudio+pizarro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307628066265934786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/Sah7mvGsq8I/AAAAAAAADPA/2BsZgg-JxGA/s320/foto+claudio+pizarro.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;alborg&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;BK.&lt;/span&gt; Finally we must also emphasize the goal of &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Leonardo Vitor Santiago&lt;/span&gt;-the &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ajax´&lt;/span&gt;s striker after a good individual play, could score the decisive goal in the 88 minutes of the game Ajax-&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Fiorentina&lt;/span&gt;- and the definition of &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Claudio Pizarro&lt;/span&gt;-the player from Peru is showing that maybe Chelsea committed a mistake when it dispensed with the play of this good striker, who is always a guarantee and specially during the important games, when the team needs his performance as for example this Thursday at San Siro where he took advantage of the&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt; Diego and Boenisch&lt;/span&gt;´s assists and he scored 2 goals with his head to counter the &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pirlo &lt;/span&gt;(penalty) and &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pato&lt;/span&gt;´goal (the Brazilian scored an excellent goal) and to qualify &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Werder Bremen&lt;/span&gt;(Pizarro has scored 28 goals in 17 games during this season)- .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Cheers, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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Mucho merito tiene el equipo de Miron Markevich, porque si analizamos su plantilla, la verdad es que no encontramos a ninguna estrella, siendo sus jugadores más de&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahkcPt2gqI/AAAAAAAADN4/RkXR9k7kbhw/s1600-h/foto+artem.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307602597274092194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 279px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahkcPt2gqI/AAAAAAAADN4/RkXR9k7kbhw/s320/foto+artem.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;stacados los de los delanteros &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Jaja Coelho&lt;/span&gt;-paso con más pena que gloria por el Getafe-o &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Marko Devic&lt;/span&gt;, el mediocampista brasileño&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Edmar&lt;/span&gt; o el defensor argentino &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Jonathan Ramón&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Maidana.&lt;/span&gt; En fin, pocos nombres pero mucha solidez (sólo ha encajado 2 goles en toda la competición Uefa) en un equipo que en la siguiente ronda se las verá con su máximo rival, el &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Dynamo de Kiev&lt;/span&gt; (ambos están teniendo un bonito duelo en la liga de Ucrania y de hecho este fin de semana se enfrentan entre sí en un partido decisivo para definir cual será el campeón de liga). Ya que hemos mencionado al Dynamo de Kiev, aprovecharemos para referirnos a otro de los grandes protagonistas de este jueves, el joven ucranio &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Artem Kravets&lt;/span&gt;, que ayer tuvo su primer gran partido europeo pues dio una auténtica exhibición de movilidad, regate, visión de juego, velocidad y definición (marcó los 2 goles), demostrando que a sus 19 años es un jugador que hay que seguir muy de cerca su evolución porque puede ser uno de los grandes en un futuro no muy lejano…..&lt;br /&gt;Otros protagonistas fueron &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Bülent Korkmaz&lt;/span&gt;, el nuevo entrenador del &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Gal&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahkzPJ6jPI/AAAAAAAADOA/pMUkWCtLmII/s1600-h/foto+bulent.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307602992260353266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahkzPJ6jPI/AAAAAAAADOA/pMUkWCtLmII/s320/foto+bulent.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;atasaray&lt;/span&gt;-tras el desastroso partido contra el Kocaelispor del pasado domingo en el que el Galatasaray perdió por 2-5, el entrenador alemán &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Michael Skibbe&lt;/span&gt; fue destituido y su cargó lo ocupó Bülent, que comenzó con buen pie y consiguió que el Galatasaray eliminase al Girondins Burdeos tras un vibrante partido( 4-3)-seguro que el equipo de Estambul ahora va para arriba en lo que se refiere a las prestaciones y puede ser un serio candidato al título europeo (plantilla tiene de sobras)- y &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Craig Bellamy&lt;/span&gt;, el delantero del &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Manchester City&lt;/span&gt;, que aprovechándose de las asistencias de &lt;span style="color:#336666;"&gt;Ireland y Robinho&lt;/span&gt;( buena jugada por la izquierda del brasileño), consiguió los 2 tantos decisivos para que su equipo se pudiese clasificar para la siguiente fase en las que se las verá con el sorprendente Aalborg BK.&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente también debemos destacar el gol de&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt; Leonard&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahlaGWFPBI/AAAAAAAADOI/JkiKoXpjfEc/s1600-h/foto+leonardo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307603659910364178" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SahlaGWFPBI/AAAAAAAADOI/JkiKoXpjfEc/s320/foto+leonardo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;o de Vitor Santiago&lt;/span&gt;-que tras una buena jugada personal, consiguió en el minuto 88 el gol decisivo para que la&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt; Fiorentina&lt;/span&gt; quedase eliminada y el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ajax&lt;/span&gt; pudiese pasar a la siguiente ronda donde se enfrentará al Olympique Marsella-, la definición de &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Claudio Pizarro&lt;/span&gt;-está demostrando que quizás el Chelsea debió confiar un poco más en él porque es un delantero muy solvente y sobre todo en los partidos en los que el equipo lo necesita como en el de ayer en San Siro donde con 2 cabezazos se aprovechó de las asistencias de &lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;Diego y Boenisch&lt;/span&gt; y contrarrestó los goles de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pirlo&lt;/span&gt;(de penalty) y de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Pato&lt;/span&gt;(golazo desde fuera del área) y dejó en la cuneta al todopoderoso AC Milan(el peruano ya lleva 17 goles en 28 partidos)-.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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On Tuesday at 20.45 ce.t we will have the first game of the draw between:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;FC Porto&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atletico Madrid&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHW0Ny4wUI/AAAAAAAADMw/D9IXqaON0V4/s1600-h/lucho-lopez-porto-514.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305758028563792194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 185px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHW0Ny4wUI/AAAAAAAADMw/D9IXqaON0V4/s320/lucho-lopez-porto-514.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keys:-¿who will show a better performance, the Atlético´s duo &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Kun Aguero-Diego Forlan&lt;/span&gt; or the Argentine Porto´s duo &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lucho González-Lisandro Lopez&lt;/span&gt; (Lisandro is not making a great season, but if last season he could score 24 goals in 27 games was because he is a brilliant striker and he appears when the team needs his goals, like for example during the crucial game against Fenerbahçe and Arsenal some months ago) -.&lt;br /&gt;-The rhythm of game, cause as the new Atlético´s coach, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Abel Resino&lt;/span&gt;, has been recognized the players of Atletico Mad&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHXHmpZZlI/AAAAAAAADM4/a08siuf2p4M/s1600-h/Forlan_Aguero.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305758361652389458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHXHmpZZlI/AAAAAAAADM4/a08siuf2p4M/s320/Forlan_Aguero.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rid are not goo fitness and they have many problems during the last minutes of the game, so FC Porto should impose a high rhythm of play if it wants to have more chance to win this round.&lt;br /&gt;-Defensive rigour: Both teams are receiving quite a lot of goals-Atletico Madrid has received 35 in 24 league games and FC Porto, 18 in 15 Portuguese Superliga (last season, Porto received only 13 goals in 30 games) and they want have any chance in this Champions League, they should improve once to see the authentic level of players like &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ujfalusi, Perea, Heitinga&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Rolando, Pedro Emanuel and Fucile&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Our favourite: &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atlético Madrid,&lt;/span&gt; because it has better quality in the squad and besides its players are more experienced, although the Perea´s injury can be decisive-he will be out 2 months-, because if &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Pablo Ibañez&lt;/span&gt; play in the starting lineup, FC Porto has many chances to win, because Pablo is a very bad and unsecure player.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Olympique Lyon&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously everyone thinks that FC Barce&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHXqkO37nI/AAAAAAAADNA/Mn3HZclYdfo/s1600-h/messi-gol-5000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305758962299694706" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHXqkO37nI/AAAAAAAADNA/Mn3HZclYdfo/s320/messi-gol-5000.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;lona is the clear favourite in this round, because the Pep Guardiola's team is making an impressive season, showing an excellent play´s level and a great record during this season in all the championships thanks to the wonderful season of players like the amazing &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Messi&lt;/span&gt; (29 goals in 43 games) and the indomitable &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Samuel Eto'o&lt;/span&gt; (34 goals in 37 games). But FC Barcelona fans should not be relied and think these games will be easy, since if Espanyol could win yesterday at Camp Nou, ¿what can do Olympique Lyon? Specially this Olympic Lyon, which is a much more competitive team than other years. Perhaps it plays worse and it is a less offensive team, but this is the style of the great French coach&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Claude Puel&lt;/span&gt;, whose team always bear his stamp of identity, order, work, sacrifice-Lyon is showing a better defensive performance (it has received 16 goals league goals in 24 games-last season it received 37in 38 games-). In addition to these characters, Lyon offers another feature, the quality, reflected in players like &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Benzema&lt;/span&gt;-he is not having his best season in terms of score goals, but we know his power, quality and ability to decide&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHX802dasI/AAAAAAAADNI/JEgg8zv2a3U/s1600-h/Juninho-envoie-Lyon-en-finale-122181.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305759275998341826" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHX802dasI/AAAAAAAADNI/JEgg8zv2a3U/s320/Juninho-envoie-Lyon-en-finale-122181.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a match (this season, he has scored 19 goals in 37 games)-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Juninho-&lt;/span&gt;excellent if we speak about the free-kick-, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Ederson-&lt;/span&gt;the new Junihno is starting to show all his great potential- or the powerful Midfielders &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Jean Makoun and Jeremy Toulalan&lt;/span&gt;-both will be key if Olympique wants to have any chance to beat FC Barcelona, because it will be very important their task to stop the FC Barcelona´s playmakers, trying to steal balls to start quick and dangerous attacks with players like Kader &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Keita,&lt;/span&gt; Benzema or Ederson, who are much better than Nene and Ivan Alonso (Espanyol´s strikers). So, it is a complicated round for both teams and finally we will see the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Pep Guardiola&lt;/span&gt;´s performance during a difficult test,¿will we see some more Guardiola´s experiments like during the Espanyol´s game?&lt;br /&gt;Injuries: &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Govou, Réveillère&lt;/span&gt; in Lyon;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Abidal, Milito and Iniesta&lt;/span&gt; in FC Barcelona&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Inter Milan&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHYVIPGWvI/AAAAAAAADNQ/Uwf0drh8NdA/s1600-h/WayneRooney460.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305759693518822130" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHYVIPGWvI/AAAAAAAADNQ/Uwf0drh8NdA/s320/WayneRooney460.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is a very close eliminatory…because these are very similar teams, since both have excellent defensive level-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Van der Sar&lt;/span&gt; received his last goal 1302 minutes and the Inter´s defensive line in general and &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Julio Cesar&lt;/span&gt; in particular are showing a great strength- and both have a lot of quality in the offensive line with players such as the destabilizing &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Cristiano Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt; (16 goals in 37 games during this season), &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Berbatov&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Rooney&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Adriano and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Zlatan Ibrahimovic&lt;/span&gt; (this season 17 goals in 36 games ). The truth is that it is difficult to choose a favourite, but maybe we thin&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHYsJqVpnI/AAAAAAAADNY/LtzEurq-g8Q/s1600-h/foto+adriano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305760089038497394" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHYsJqVpnI/AAAAAAAADNY/LtzEurq-g8Q/s320/foto+adriano.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;k that Inter has more chances to win this draw, since the great José &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Mourinho &lt;/span&gt;is always a guarantee for this type of games and besides he was preparing the team for these games-finally the best system for this Inter is the 4-4-2 with a powerful midfield-because the Champions is the main objective for Inter and Mourinho, whose players come to this draw totally focused, since we can say that Inter will win the Scudetto easily, which we can not say about Manchester United, since it will have more difficulties to win the English Premiership and of course &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sir Alex Ferguson&lt;/span&gt; will not can concede rest during the weekend to the key players of the team. Anyway, we will have amazing games in this draw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;FC Arsenal&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;AS Roma&lt;/span&gt; It is a nice draw between 2 teams whose philosophy is v&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHZaO4iXII/AAAAAAAADNg/UjT07tPl1Jo/s1600-h/totti+baptista.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305760880714210434" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHZaO4iXII/AAAAAAAADNg/UjT07tPl1Jo/s320/totti+baptista.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ery similar, since both teams want to show a great and offensive play, showing very open games. In this case, we think that AS Roma will have more chances to play next round, because we think that the &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Spalleti´&lt;/span&gt;s team is much more competitive, because it has a better defensive level, which is decisive in this kind of games. AS Roma had a horrible start of the season but bit by bit it improved the level and the results and now we can say that it is in its best moment of the season-specially if we talk about the result (the last defeat against Atalanta should be understood as an accident)-thanks to return of the great captain &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Francesco Totti-&lt;/span&gt;he is the soul of the team (this season, 8 goals in 20 games)-, the reborn of&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; Julio Baptista&lt;/span&gt; and the opportu&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHZqqtEE3I/AAAAAAAADNo/xLDICI3UvqQ/s1600-h/fabregas-and-rosicky_92273.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305761163060188018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SaHZqqtEE3I/AAAAAAAADNo/xLDICI3UvqQ/s320/fabregas-and-rosicky_92273.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;nism of&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; Mirko Vucinic&lt;/span&gt;(this season,16 goals in 32 games), who will have many facilities to score when they play against the innocent Arsenal´s defensive line-I did not understand as Arsene Wenger did not seek a solution in the winter market. It is a good news to acquire a player like Arsahvin, but ¿what ´s the matter with the defensive line?To win this kind of draw is necessary to have a balance squad and specially good defensive and experience central midfielders, which we can find in the Arsenal squad ... So, this is big problem but this is not the only one for Wenger, since he will suffer important absences, since there are injured important players like &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Fabregas,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Rosicky or Eduardo&lt;/span&gt;- the Croatian has injured again (now he will be out during 2 months) - ...So, too many problems to play with some guarantees against a great team like AS Roma, whose only the question is whether the defensive line can show strength without the play of the experienced &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Christian Panucci&lt;/span&gt;-he is suspended after his critics to the team-, since Mexes is capable of the best and the worst ... but despite &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Mexes,&lt;/span&gt; we think that AS Roma will win this round, where we will see many goals.&lt;br /&gt;Injuries:AS Roma: &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Marco Cassetti and Florian Pit&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Menez and Aquilani&lt;/span&gt; are hesitant. Arsenal:&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Fabregas, Rosicky, Eduardo&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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se puede imponer a la &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;pareja Lucho González-Lisandro López&lt;/span&gt; (Lisandro no e&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_n8R48Z4I/AAAAAAAADLw/SEvDDwaf-is/s1600-h/foto+aguero+forlan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305213908846143362" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 217px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_n8R48Z4I/AAAAAAAADLw/SEvDDwaf-is/s320/foto+aguero+forlan.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;stá realizando una gran temporada, pero si la temporada pasada consiguió 24 goles en 27 partidos fue por algo)-.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;El ritmo de juego&lt;/span&gt;: como ha reconocido el nuevo entrenador del Atlético de Madrid, Abel Resino, los jugadores del Atlético de Madrid no están bien físicamente, con lo que el Porto debería imponer un alto ritmo de juego si quiere tener posibilidades de salir vencedor de esta eliminatoria.&lt;br /&gt;- Rigor defensivo: ambos equipos encajan muchos goles-el Atlético de Madrid ha recibido 34 en 23 partidos de liga y el FC Porto 14 en 18 de la Supeliga portuguesa(la temporada pasada el Porto recibió 13 en 30 partidos)-y el que quiera tener alguna posibilidad de llegar lejos, debe mejorar de una vez-será fundamental la labor de los &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ujfalusi, Perea, Heitinga&lt;/span&gt; por parte Atlética y &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Rolando, Pedro Emanuel, Fucile&lt;/span&gt; por parte del FC Porto-&lt;br /&gt;-Nuestro favorito: &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Atlético Madrid&lt;/span&gt;, por la calidad y experiencia de la mayor parte de sus jugadores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Olympique Lyon&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;FC Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidentemente todo el mundo piensa que el FC Barcelona es el claro favorito de esta elimina&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_oOQAZuXI/AAAAAAAADL4/8ETOYg5xSuI/s1600-h/Messi+samuel+Eto%27o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305214217578199410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 275px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_oOQAZuXI/AAAAAAAADL4/8ETOYg5xSuI/s320/Messi+samuel+Eto%27o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;toria, pues es el equipo de&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt; Pep Guardiola&lt;/span&gt; lleva una temporada impresionante, tanto en lo que se refiere al nivel de juego como a los resultados cosechados y además porque puede contar con el juego del maravilloso y desequilibrante &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Messi&lt;/span&gt;(29 goles en 42 partidos) y el indomable &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Samuel Eto´o&lt;/span&gt;(34 goles en 36 partidos). Pero, los aficionados blaugranas no deben confiarse y pensar que los partidos están ganados, pues este Lyon es un conjunto mucho más competitivo que el de otros años-quizás no juega tan bien-, notándose la mano del genial entrenador galo &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Claude Puel&lt;/span&gt;, cuyos equipos siempre llevan su sello de identidad, es decir, orden, trabajo, sacrificio, eficacia-el Lyon de este año es un equipo menos goleador que el de otros años, pero también ofrece unas mejores prestaciones defensivas(en liga ha encajado 16 goles en 24 partidos-en la temporada pasada encajó 37 en 38 partidos)-.Además de estos caracteres, el Lyon ofrece otro rasgo más, la calidad, que se manifiesta en jugadores como el desequil&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_of6ro3bI/AAAAAAAADMA/GsBkEt6P6uU/s1600-h/benzema_buteur.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305214521091612082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_of6ro3bI/AAAAAAAADMA/GsBkEt6P6uU/s320/benzema_buteur.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ibrante &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Benzema&lt;/span&gt;-no está teniendo su mejor temporada en lo que se refiere a olfato goleador, pero ya conocemos su potencia, calidad y capacidad para decantar un partido(esta temporada lleva 19 goles en 37 partidos)-, Juninho-sinónimo de gol cuando se dispone a lanzar una falta-, &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ederson&lt;/span&gt;-el nuevo &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Juninho &lt;/span&gt;empieza poco a poco a mostrar todo su gran potencial- o los poderosos mediocampistas &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Jean Makoun y Jeremy Toulalan&lt;/span&gt;-serán clave, si el Lyon quiere tener alguna posibilidad, estos 2 medio centros que deben formar un pareja infranqueable que impida la fluidez en el juego azulgrana, tratando de robar balones para que &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Kader Keita&lt;/span&gt;, Benzema o Ederson puedan salir al ataque con espacios-. Eliminatoria complicada para ambos equipos y por fin asistiremos a la primera gran prueba de fuego para Pep Guardiola y veremos cómo la resuelve.&lt;br /&gt;Lesiones: &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Govou, Réveillère&lt;/span&gt; en el Lyon; &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Milito e Iniesta&lt;/span&gt; en el FC Barcelona&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Inter Milan&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Eliminatoria muy pareja en la qu&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_ovEQmSmI/AAAAAAAADMI/8ax7u8HT8Gs/s1600-h/van-der-sar-001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305214781360589410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_ovEQmSmI/AAAAAAAADMI/8ax7u8HT8Gs/s320/van-der-sar-001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e es muy que probable que veamos una prorroga, pues son 2 equipos muy similares en el sentido de que ambos ofrecen unas grandes prestaciones defensivas&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;-Van der Sar&lt;/span&gt; lleva 1302 minutos sin encajar un gol y la defensa Interista en general y &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Julio Cesar&lt;/span&gt; en particular también están mostrando una gran solidez-y además ambos tienen muchísima calidad en la línea ofensiva con jugadores tan desequilibrantes como &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Cristiano &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Ronaldo&lt;/span&gt;(15 goles en 36 partidos, &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Berbatov,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Adriano o Zlatan Ibrahimovic&lt;/span&gt;(esta temporada lleva 17 goles en 35 partidos). La verdad es que es difícil decantarse por uno como favorito, pero quizás veamos al Inter con má&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_pJGb1ajI/AAAAAAAADMQ/ztSUVNBPbG0/s1600-h/jose-mourinho+gol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305215228621187634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_pJGb1ajI/AAAAAAAADMQ/ztSUVNBPbG0/s320/jose-mourinho+gol.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;s números de pasar la eliminatoria, pues el gran &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;José Mourinho&lt;/span&gt; es siempre una garantía para este tipo de partidos y además lleva toda la temporada preparándose para estas eliminatorias-al final se ha decantado por utilizar 4-4-2, teniendo un poderoso y físico mediocampo-, pues la Champions es el principal objetivo para Mou y el Inter, cuyos jugadores llegará a este partido totalmente centrado, despreocupado de un Scudetto que ya tienen prácticamente ganado, con lo que Mou podrá dar descanso a sus principales jugadores durante el partido de este sabado(16.00 c.e.t) contra el Bolonia para que puedan llegar frescos al coche contra el Manchester Untied, partido en el que el espectáculo está garantizado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4-&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;FC Arsenal&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;AS Roma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Eliminatoria bonita entre 2 equipos que practican un juego alegre y vistoso y en la que sale como favorito el AS&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_pa14LnYI/AAAAAAAADMY/jZJAg2sIq8E/s1600-h/roma-love.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305215533414325634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_pa14LnYI/AAAAAAAADMY/jZJAg2sIq8E/s320/roma-love.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Roma, pues entendemos que el conjunto de &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Spalleti&lt;/span&gt; es mucho más competitivo, ya que tras un inicio horrible de temporada, por fin se ha reencontrado con el buen juego y con los buenos resultados-la derrota en el último partido en el campo de la Atalanta debe ser entendido como una anécdota- gracias al buen juego de &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Francesco Totti&lt;/span&gt;-el alma de este equipo(8 goles en 19 partidos)-,de un renacido &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Julio Baptista&lt;/span&gt; y del oportunista &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Mirko Vucinic&lt;/span&gt;(16 goles en 32 partidos), que deberán sobresalir ante la inocencia defensiva del Arsenal-no entendí como &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Arsene Wenger&lt;/span&gt; no buscó una solución durante el pasado mercado invernal. Está muy bien fichar a &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Arsahvin&lt;/span&gt;, pero ¿qué hay de la defensa? Para ganar este tipo de eliminatorias se necesita medio centros defensivos experimentados y el Arsenal no tiene ningún jugador de este perfil…Gran problema, que se une al otro problema de Wenger, las lesiones de &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Fabregas, Rosicky, Eduard&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_pqQxInQI/AAAAAAAADMg/cZmKcYhtyYg/s1600-h/cesc.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;-el croata se ha lesionado otra vez (ahora estará 2 meses más lesionado)-……En fin, demasiados inconvenientes para enfrentarse a un gran equipo como la Roma, cuyo principal interrogante es si la línea defensi&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_p7l3DFDI/AAAAAAAADMo/7Dqc0usf_Ws/s1600-h/cesc-fabregas_1211681c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305216096050287666" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZ_p7l3DFDI/AAAAAAAADMo/7Dqc0usf_Ws/s320/cesc-fabregas_1211681c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;va podrá mostrar solidez sin la participación del experimentado Panucci-recordemos que &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Panucci &lt;/span&gt;está “apartado” del equipo tras unas declaraciones en las que criticaba a la plantilla-, teniendo en cuenta que Mexes es capaz de lo mejor y de lo peor… pero pese a Mexes, creemos que la AS Roma se impondrá en esta eliminatoria, en la que tenemos el espectáculo y goles asegurados.&lt;br /&gt;Lesiones: En la AS Roma serán bajas seguras &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Marco Cassetti, Florian Pit&lt;/span&gt; y es dudosa la participación de&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; Menez y Aquilani&lt;/span&gt;; en el Arsenal, los mencionados Fabregas, Rosicky, Eduardo.&lt;br /&gt;Disfrutar.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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(article in English and Español)</title><content type='html'>Finally&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Chelsea FC&lt;/span&gt;´s fans can breathe with calmness because there has been the dismissal of coach&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Felipe Scolari&lt;/span&gt;, whose low performance over the 6 months is not a surprise for us and in fact last September-&lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/09/english-premier-league-spectacle-is.html"&gt;ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE, THE SPECTACLE IS HERE!(This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; -we said that Chelsea committed a mistake with the ar&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCHYQhHmGI/AAAAAAAADLI/4YCR3plYY40/s1600-h/scolari0916afp_978951c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300885612235561058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCHYQhHmGI/AAAAAAAADLI/4YCR3plYY40/s320/scolari0916afp_978951c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rival of this overvalued coach, who, after his poor performance during his period as Portuguese National coach, does again the ridiculous with an European team and we will see if this was his last opportunity with a Big European Club, because the clubs can think that this coach is not unable to get a good performance with this squad, ¿what does he need?-we'll see if when&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt; Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt;(former FC Barcelona vice-president) is presented to the elections to be FC Barcelona´s president, opt for Felipao to be the FC Barcelona´s coach (remember that Rosell wanted Scolari to be the coach of FC Barcelona some years ago) -. We believe that this decision comes at a good time because if&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Abramovich&lt;/span&gt; wants that his Chelsea have any chance to win the Champions League´s round against Juventus Torino, the team needed a change at the helm of the team, a change to see a new Chelsea, a Chelsea with winning ment&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCIlkl5xZI/AAAAAAAADLY/mmtNXdx3l4A/s1600-h/foto+drogba.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300886940474262930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCIlkl5xZI/AAAAAAAADLY/mmtNXdx3l4A/s320/foto+drogba.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ality and being a fearsome team and a team with chances to win in any stadium. So, opposite to the current Chelsea, which has only been able to draw a game in all the games played against the other big teams of the Premier-&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Manchester United&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Liverpool&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Arsenal&lt;/span&gt;- and it has only been able to win 4 of the last 12 Premier League´s games played, being the last disappointment, the last Saturday tie at Stamford Bridge against a simply headstrong&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt; Hull&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;City-&lt;/span&gt;we can say that Chelsea was lucky, because the Hull City´s striker, &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Craig Fagan&lt;/span&gt; was unlucky and he had many chances but he could not score any goal during this game(it is a bit sad that the solution to try to score a goal for a team like Chelsea is the right back&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Belleti&lt;/span&gt;) -. So, we believe that the ordeal finished for the Stamford Bridge´s fans, who should be hopeful for the future, because their team have a good squad and the only necessary thing is to have a coach whose decisions are based on the common sense and with winning mentality, since the difficult thing is to see bad record, when you have in the squad players like &lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Terry, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba or Malouda&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously we will pay attention to the future of this great club, as well as any developments with &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Luis Aragonés&lt;/span&gt;, after the sad and painful games played &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCJrLe1rTI/AAAAAAAADLg/4DeQ1hzo55I/s1600-h/aragones_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300888136324590898" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCJrLe1rTI/AAAAAAAADLg/4DeQ1hzo55I/s320/aragones_3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;by his team this Sunday against the modest &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Büyüksehir Belediyespor Istanbul&lt;/span&gt;. Frankly, I do not remember a game as bad as yesterday &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe&lt;/span&gt;´s game, because this team showed an “spectacle” of play without concentration-many absurd mistakes-, without any pressure and besides against a simply headstrong rival-we can remark the job of the goalkeeper &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Mehmet Ali T&lt;/span&gt;unc and of the technical &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Ibrahim Akin&lt;/span&gt;, who if he continues at this level, will be soon again playing for a big clubs(in the past he played during 3 seasons and a half for &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Besiktas)&lt;/span&gt; -, which had the setback of play with 10 men during many minutes of the game, but despite this, it was able to defeat the almighty Fenerbahçe (2-0), whose coach, Luis Aragonés, returned to make strange decisions and he "delighted" us with some strange substitutions,¿ how is it possible that if the team is losing and playing against 10 players, the Luis Aragones´s decision is &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex &lt;/span&gt;–he is the bes&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCJxgAQBfI/AAAAAAAADLo/n1-RN6w8SBo/s1600-h/alex9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300888244912653810" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 221px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZCJxgAQBfI/AAAAAAAADLo/n1-RN6w8SBo/s320/alex9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;t player of the team and he can decide a game at any time- and &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt;-although he is not playing very well, he should be in the field, cause he is always synonym of danger- to the bench?, if &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex, Güiza,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Deivid, Semih Sentürk, Ugur Boral&lt;/span&gt; and&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt; Kazim&lt;/span&gt; can not play together against Büyüksehir Istanbul, ¿when they will do?. It was a very bad Fenerbahçe´s game and we'll see if this is result means the dismissal of "&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;El Sabio"(“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;the wise”)&lt;/span&gt; Aragonés because the team needs something different to change this current dynamics-the team is playing very bad during all the season and if it is having good results, is because the individual quality of some players, since the team, as collective, does not exist, which is always dangerous, because finally one day the individualities do not appear and the team shows a lamentable spectacle as yesterday... .- We will be attentive to the news.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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(article in English soon)</title><content type='html'>Los aficionados del&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Chelsea &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;FC &lt;/span&gt;ya pueden respirar tranquilos porque por fin se ha producido la destitución del entrenador&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Felipe Scolari&lt;/span&gt;, cuyo bajo rendimiento durante es&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZBzgkfXsDI/AAAAAAAADKg/JufZougkZXE/s1600-h/Scolari.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300863764803334194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 241px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZBzgkfXsDI/AAAAAAAADKg/JufZougkZXE/s320/Scolari.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;tos 6 meses es algo que no nos sorprende y desde el principio dijimos( &lt;a href="http://saqueneutral.blogspot.com/2008/09/la-premier-comienza-el-espectaculo-this.html"&gt;PREMIER LEAGUE: COMIENZA EL ESPECTACULO (This article is available in English and Español)&lt;/a&gt; )que el Chelsea de esta temporada presentaba muchas sombras y especialmente en la figura de su entrenador, que tras sus malos resultados con la selección portuguesa, vuelve a fracasar en el fútbol europeo y ya veremos si vuelve a tener otra oportunidad en un grande del fútbol europeo-veremos si cuando &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Sandro Rossell&lt;/span&gt; se presente a la presidencia del FC Barcelona elige al “grande” de Felipao para el banquillo blaugrana (recordemos que para Rosell, Scolari era el técnico ideal para el Barça)-.&lt;br /&gt;Creemos que la decisión llega en un buen momento porque si&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Abramovich&lt;/span&gt; quiere que su Chelsea tenga alguna posibilidad de eliminar a la&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; Juventus de Turín&lt;/span&gt; en los 8º de final de la Champions League, el equipo necesitaba un cambio en el timón del equipo, un cambio que haga que el Chelsea recupere su mentalidad ganadora y vuelva a ser un equipo temible y capaz de ganar en cualquier campo y contra &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZBz6_jBufI/AAAAAAAADKo/hU_lUIdGWx8/s1600-h/belletti.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300864218743028210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 190px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZBz6_jBufI/AAAAAAAADKo/hU_lUIdGWx8/s320/belletti.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;cualquier rival, es decir, un equipo opuesto al actual Chelsea, que sólo ha sido capaz de 4 de los últimos 12 partidos disputados de la Premier y que sólo ha sido capaz de sacar un triste empate en todos sus enfrentamientos contra los equipos grandes de la Premier-empato a 1 con el Manchester United en Stamford Brigde y perdió los restantes partidos contra el Liverpool, Manchester United y Arsenal-y que ha tenido como “broche de oro” un lamentable empate el pasado sábado en Stamford Bridge contra un simplemente voluntarioso &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Hull City&lt;/span&gt;-empate y gracias, porque si &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Craig Fagan&lt;/span&gt; hubiese estado un poco más acertado, el Chelsea hubiese perdido el partido(un poco triste que un equipo como el Chelsea tenga como recurso para ganar un partido, la incorporación al campo de&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt; Belleti&lt;/span&gt;)-.&lt;br /&gt;En fin, creemos que se acabo el calvario para la afición de Stamford Brigde, que debe estar esperanzada con el futuro, con independencia de quien sea el nuevo entrenador, porque simplemente con sentido común y mentalidad ganadora, este equipo tiene que funcionar sí o sí porque lo difícil es lo ha hecho Scolari, teniendo en plantilla jugadores como Terry, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba o Malouda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evidentemente estaremos atentos al futuro de este grande, como&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZB0YCmkm3I/AAAAAAAADK4/6RgWHlBvKww/s1600-h/luis-aragones_1107531c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300864717779409778" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZB0YCmkm3I/AAAAAAAADK4/6RgWHlBvKww/s320/luis-aragones_1107531c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; también de lo que acontezca con &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Luis Aragonés&lt;/span&gt;, tras el lamentable y pésimo partido disputado este domingo ante el modestísimo &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Istanbul Büyüksehir Belediyespor&lt;/span&gt;. Sinceramente, hacía tiempo que no veía un partido tan malo por parte de un equipo que debe ser considerado grande, pues vimos un recital de falta de concentración, de intensidad, de errores absurdos en pases facilísimos, de carencia de juego, sin presión de ningún tipo y todo ello ante un equipo simplemente ordenado-destacar al portero Mehmet Ali Tunc y al técnico &lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Ibrahim Akin&lt;/span&gt;, que si sigue a este nivel no debería tardar en volver a un grande(ya jugó durante 3 temporadas y media en el Besiktas)- y que jugó gran parte del partido con 10 jugadores, pero que pese a esto, fue capaz de ganar por 2-0 al todopoderoso &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Fenerbahçe,&lt;/span&gt; cuyo técnico, Luis Aragonés, volvió a hacer de las suyas y nos “deleitó” con una serie de cambios totalmente inexplicables, ¿cómo es posible que si el equipo está perdiendo y jugando contra 10&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZB0kqeXeXI/AAAAAAAADLA/1jzBSVxbNKY/s1600-h/foto+alex+guiza.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300864934640843122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oKtwokOEUpk/SZB0kqeXeXI/AAAAAAAADLA/1jzBSVxbNKY/s320/foto+alex+guiza.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, saque del campo a &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Alex&lt;/span&gt;-mejor jugador técnicamente del equipo y capaz de decidir un partido en cualquier momento- y a &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Dani Güiza&lt;/span&gt;-vale que no está en su mejor momento, pero siempre es un peligro para las defensas rivales-? si Alex, Güiza, Deivid, Semih Sentürk, Kazim y Ugur Boral no pueden jugar juntos contra el Istanbul Büyüksehir, ¿cuándo lo harán?. Partido muy malo y ya veremos si no produce la destitución de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;“el Sabio&lt;/span&gt;”, porque el equipo así no va a ningún sitio-realmente si Aragonés ha podido llegar hasta estas alturas de temporada, ha sido porque ha ido consiguiendo buenos resultados que enmascaraban un juego totalmente pésimo, simplemente basado en las individualidades del equipos, lo cual siempre es peligroso, porque al final, ocurre lo de este domingo…….-&lt;br /&gt;Estaremos atentos a las novedades.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;J&amp;amp;F&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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