CL: Olympiakos Vs. Real Madrid (Preview)

  Real Madrid will be playing their 4th match in the Champions League Group C, nicely standing top of the table with 7 points, while Olympiakos is playing at home and is 2nd place with 4 points.

As we can recollect, Robinho played a very important role in the last match which ended 4-2 for Real Madrid, the match was sensational really made us all be on edge. Real Madrid players showed their real spirit in that match and showed how much they want to win this season.

One weird observation is that Real Madrid lost a match before meeting Olympiakos, in the first match they lost 2-1 to Espanyol and now they just got a 2-0 loss against Sevilla. But i still expect Real Madrid to focus in this match and just put whatever past wins and losses aside.

Wingers Arjen Robben and Gonzalo Higuaín and the backup goal keeper Jerzy Dudek are still injured but the central defender Pepe and midfielder Wesley Sneijder are back and going to be traveling with their team mates but not sure if any of them would be able to play full 90 minutes.

Olympiakos will be missing injured defender Paraskevas Antzas and Vassilis Torossidis who was sent off in the previous match. Michal Zewlakow is back from injury and might feature in the match, although i seriously doubt he could play a full match.

My eyes will be locked on 3 main players today, ofcourse Robinho especially after his great show against Olympiakos although he wasn’t able to do much against Sevilla in the Spanish league but still its going to be different here. Another Real Madrid player to watch would be Wesley Sneijder that is if he played any part in the game. From Olympiakos the amazing midfielder Predrag Djordjevic who is 35 years old and plays as if he is 25 amazing speed and dribbling.

Real Madrid expected formation (4-1-3-2): Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Metzelder, Cannavaro, Marcelo, Heinze,  Diarra,  Sneijder, Guti, Robinho – Raúl, van Nistelrooy 

Olympiakos expected formation (4-5-1): Nikopolidis, Patsatzoglou, Julio Cesar, Zewlakow, Bravo, Archubi, Ledesma, Djordjevic, Stoltidis, Galleti, LuaLua

I expect a win for Real Madrid, maybe 2-1, in the worst situations i would expect a draw 1-1 or 2-2. But i believe we will win tonight.

CL: Real Madrid 4 -2 Olympiakos

As expected, 4-2 with robinho being the keyword here. I wont say that it was a perfect show, the red card given to Vassilas Torosidis on the 13th minute did help.

The main thing that made me go mad, no REAL MAAAD is the penalty ruud lost, its like my heart was eaten by my stomach, unbelievable. Of-course the one thing that nearly 100% of real madrid fans agreed on was that salgado is not on the same level with the game being played, and it will take something soooooooo special to get him back to his old him or at least get a bit more awake and aware of things happening around him.

As i said before Schuster has to use Robinho on the left wing and leave the arguing and fighting and warnings for later. Robinho just proved his worth in this match but i still bet Schuster will forget all about this when Robben comes back after 6 weeks.

A whisper to Schuster’s ear “Robinho saved your ASS”.

Here are the goals…

Spanish League: Real Madrid Vs. Espanyol (Quick Preview)

 Real Madrid are really in a bad situation, Arjen Robben and Heinze returned from their international matches with very serious injuries. Robben might be able to come back in december but Hienze is out for 3 months. Adding to that Guti might also be out for sometime after injuring his claf muscle in training.

So the match wont be easy, but metzelder is expected to make his comeback in this match but if he wasnt cleared fit, most probably sergio ramos will return to play center beside cannavaro who also was injured but he is cleared to play today.

So i am worried especially that we are playing a a capable team, espanyol now is fifth in the table and they have been winning lately.

This is the  expected  formation:

Casillas, Torres/Salgado, Sergio Ramos, Cannavaro, Marcelo – Diarra – Higuaín, Sneijder, Drenthe/Robinho – Raúl (c), van Nistelrooy.

I predict a Draw of 1-1.