TOUR EVENT
What year, “Atletico” can not beat “Real” in the Madrid derby - the impression is that soon the victory will be for “mattresses” an obsession, like, say, a triumph in the Champions League for Arsene Wenger. On Saturday, “Atletico” went to the match with a crazy mood and all 90 minutes pressed, crushed, outplayed the opponent. Fernando Torres opened the score in the first half, and then the hosts could repeatedly increase the advantage. But still, the current “Atletico” - the team is still raw, otherwise the “mattresses” would never let Real go. And so the Capello team kept an eye on the opponent’s error in defense, and Cassano, returned by the coach to the squad, made a pass to Higuain. The Argentinean scored his first goal for Real Madrid. The removal of Cannavaro, which happened at the end of the match, finally drove the “Real” into the trenches, but failed to score the “Atletico”. Draw in favor of Real Madrid.
HERO TOUR
Fernando Torres, striker Atletico . After the late president of Atletico, Jesús Gil, disbanded the club school and forced young Raul to change Atletico to Real, the striped team did not have much Spanish hope for a long time. Now she has appeared, but here's the trouble - until recently, “El Nino” could not beat a principled opponent. And on Saturday, the curse was lifted - Torres scored. Down and Out trouble started.
TOUR FAILURE
Fabio Cannavaro, defender of Real Madrid . The best football player in Europe and the world earned a second removal in a short Spanish career. Cannavaro has twelve yellow cards. Either Spanish football is too fast for the Italian, or his holidays have dragged on. In the Champions League match against Bayern Cannavaro missed Lusio in the penalty area, and in the second half he allowed Pizarro to beat himself with outrageous ease. And in the derby he fouled throughout the match - the referee Dowden Ibáñez spared the defender for a long time, but in the end his patience came to an end.
TOUR SENSATION
Draw “Valencia” with “Nastik”. It’s not the first time that Kike Flores’s team has been able to find a puddle in sunny weather and flop into it on a grand scale. It would seem that the match against the outsider is a guaranteed three points, but there it was. "Bats" let down the desire to win a little blood. Having scored a goal in the middle of the second half, “Valencia” considered the matter done, and in the 90th minute “Nastik” punished the opponent for passivity. Wednesday's champions match against Inter was no excuse for Valencia. Such a team as Gimnastic, mice should beat in any state.
TREND
Three zero draws on the tour. The perception of the Spanish championship as a tournament of “soft, technical teams that do not know how to play in defense” has long been hopelessly outdated. Most of the teams here play precisely from defense, and the average performance is much lower than in Italy, not to mention the Bundesliga. In the reporting round, just three games did not give the audience goals - including the Getafe - Sevilla match. Alexander Kerzhakov came on as a substitute in the second half, but in that game 11 forwards would not have gotten a goal. The teams so successfully restrained one another that the result of the match did not provoke - nothing but two zeros simply could not work out.
CM. ALSO
Barca striker Samuel Eto'o, recovering from an injury and forging a relationship with the team’s leadership, celebrated his return in the very first match, scoring an Athletic goal from Bilbao.
TOUR DIGIT
23 shots on goal of “Real” hit Madrid “Atletico” on Saturday derby, but it did not bring victory to the team.
Kirill DEMENTYEV