Seventeen consecutive victories carry Madrid, Barcelona reached 18, under Rijkaard, straddling 2005 and 2006. It was an unprecedented run that ended on January 26, 2006 in Zaragoza. An amazing achievement, one that Madrid is suddenly away from matching and two wins away from beating. They can surpass it with wins at the Bernabéu against Celta, tonight, and against Ludogorets, on Tuesday. It’s quite possible they will succeed. In any case, credit must be given to Ancelotti, who last year had to work hard and have patience to build his team and who this year had to do it all again. It took two defeats first off, but that’s all.
Since Madrid lost Modric to injury they do not seem the same. Today they will also be missing Isco, whose second yellow card the other day was certainly debatable, but Madrid has preferred to let it go. He will sit out tonight and Illarramendi will play, an interesting player whose time with Madrid perhaps came too soon. His price was so high, and that didn’t help because it always weighed him down. Ancelotti has handled that with tact and wisdom at times, as with all of his players. That is his greatest strength, in my opinion. Illarramendi is today at a crossroads and we will see Kroos playing with more freedom.
One card that was wiped out was that for Messi, and with good reason. Fernández Borbalán was misled, or was insensitive, to the delays of a player who had been hit on the head by an object. The disdain that referees sometime show to players angers me. You think that feel that they are always being deceived, and the worst part is that sometimes they have a point. With the situation with Messi, Borbalán did not stop to think that the linesman could have got involved. Anyway, with all that aside we begin, I hope, a new era. Radicals, abstain.
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