Saturday night was the first “clasico” of the Spanish league this season, the clashes between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid that have come to symbolize the centralist view of Spain versus the nation of states espoused by many Catalans and that in the last year have frequently become overheated on the pitch and spilled over into some pretty upsetting scenes.
With FC Barcelona trailing Real Madrid by three points despite having played an additional match thanks to having to play a match early thanks to the Club World Cup in Japan in December and Real Madrid having a unimaginable string of wins in a row it was looking as if Bara’s recent stranglehold won't be so tight.
And having been widely criticised for his before and after match escapades, Madrid coach Jose Mourinho stayed silent on the subject of the upcoming clash, having maybe realised that his taunts and inflammatory behaviour only appeared to make Barcelona’s backbone all of the stronger.
Nonetheless in the 1st 25 seconds of the match something sudden happened and Real Madrid capitalised on a rare mistake by Victor Valdes permitting their foe to score. This looked to be the type of nightmare start a few individuals were fearing, not believing that it'd be possible to beat Real Madrid once more 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 favour and they were obviously outmanoeuvring Madrid in spite of some strong and perilous looking counterattacks.
Barcelona equalised after 30 minutes and looked as if they were more than back in the game. And in the second half they were soon in the lead directly to make winning look like an increasingly likely option. When Barcelona’s third goal was scored it was clear that Madrid couldn't match the brilliancy of Barcelona and in spite of being in robust form this season, still not in the same class.
So , what now for Real Madrid? How can they regroup as this defeat by Barcelona will have severely dented their confidence. He is already tried one or two different strategies to beat Barcelona but in the last eight encounters has won just once. So how will Jose Mourinho prepare for the subsequent clasico in April?
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