More than 70 years as club members. Sergio Nieto, number 1, Manuel Fernández-Guisasola, number 56 and Luis Andaluz, number 64, have been bound to their beloved team their whole lives. #HalaMadrid
Real Madrid continue their preparations ahead of next Saturday's game (16H CET) against Real Sociedad. The La Liga leaders completed the third training session of the week at Ciudad Real Madrid. Pepe came out on the pitch and did running drills by himself.
The session centred around ball work, and Ancelotti was also joined by the reserve players Álvaro Medrán, Javi Muñoz and Diego Llorente. Modric continues to recover.
AFTER THE RED CARD HE WAS SHOWN IN CÓRDOBA
Cristiano Ronaldo has been handed a two-match ban after being sent off during Real Madrid's 2-1 win over Cordoba. The Portuguese star will will miss home ties against Real Sociedad and Sevilla and he will be available for the derby face Atletico
Why Cristiano banned for only two games? Very simple: 1) Ref didn't report Cristiano's agressive actions.
2) Video images are not being used to ban a player.
Former Real Madrid player and Portugal captain Luís Figo has confirmed he has entered the race for FIFA presidency, against Blatter. - Florentino Perez wil also help him in getting votes.
Lucas Silva has recently joined the whites for a fee in the region of about 14M from Brazilian club Cruzeiro.We will discuss the effects of his transfer now.
Since the season started,Real Madrid seemed to be missing a proper CDM in the centre of the midfield which was full of stylish ball playing attacking players but lacked in the department of strength when it came to stopping the attacks of other teams.This was the reason due to which we lost our matches whenever we came across strong teams with a good midfield like Sociedad,Atletico and Valencia.
Whenever we faced a strong opponent,We missed the dirty work and challenging nature of Alonso in our midfield.Khedira remains injured and hardly plays well these days.Kroos was given the job to do the work of Xabi but TBH he is an attacking midfielder naturally and still he partnered with Modric excellently in a deepish role ,that was the time when Real Madrid started to initiate the basis of a 22 game winning streak. But then Modric got injured and things started to change.
Lucas Silva's addition is a step towards redemption by Perez and Ancelotti after losing against Valencia and losing out on Copa Del Ray.Silva is young, 6'0 ft tall,quick and has good reflexes on the ball.He will play behind Kroos and James/Isco with a front 3 of BBC. Apart from the defensive work,Lucas Silva has great ball distribution technique too which will help RMD to switch the play with Bale and Ronaldo on the wings making space in the centre for Benzema and James/Isco while attacking.
Lucas is a good signing in my opinion after Modric's injury and He can play for Real Madrid for a long time if he hits the ground running against our next 3 opponents in important fixtures against Sevilla,La Real and Atletico. Let's hope for the best.