Sat. night was the 1st “clasico” of the Spanish league this season, the clashes between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid that have come to designate the centralist view of Spain versus the nation of nations espoused by many Catalans and that in the year have often become overheated on the pitch and spilled over into some pretty upsetting scenes.
With FC Barcelona trailing Real Madrid by 3 points despite having played an extra match thanks to having to play a match early thanks to the Club World Cup in Japan in December and Real Madrid having an incredible string of wins in a row it was looking like Bara’s recent stranglehold may not be so tight.
And having been widely criticized for his before and after match escapades, Madrid coach Jose Mourinho stayed silent on the subject of the forthcoming clash, having maybe realized that his taunts and inflammatory behaviour only appeared to make Barcelona’s resolution all of the stronger.
Nevertheless in the first 25 seconds of the match something unexpected occurred and Real Madrid capitalised on a rare mistake by Victor Valdes allowing their foe to score. This looked to be the type of nightmare start some people were fearing, not believing that it would be feasible to beat Real Madrid once again in their home stadium.
This early shot across the bows from Madrid seemed to focus the minds of the Barcelona players are they shortly got back onto winning form. The game slanted in Barcelona’s favor and they were obviously outmanoeuvring Madrid in spite of some robust and perilous looking counterattacks.
Barcelona equalised after 30 minutes and looked like they were more than back in the game. And in the second half they were shortly in the lead directly to make winning look like an increasingly probable option. When Barcelona’s third goal was scored it was clear that Madrid could not match the brilliancy of Barcelona and notwithstanding being in strong form this season, still not in the same class.
Therefore what now for Real Madrid? How do they regroup as this defeat by Barcelona will have seriously dented their confidence. He is already tried several different strategies to beat Barcelona but in the last 8 encounters has won just once. So how will Jose Mourinho make preparations for the following clasico in April?
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