What Real Madrid need to do to beat Barcelona!

The 2 horse race or also known as the La Liga has been under the complete dominance of the Barcelona dream team of Josep Guardiola. The beautiful Total Football/ Tikki Takka style of play has many plaudits for showing the true meaning of the Beautiful game.

Real Madrid's season for sure has been of disappointment, the failure to stop Barcelona's dominance and the mayhem caused during the 5 El Classico's.  Yet what can Real Madrid do in order to beat Barcelona?

There are many ways to beat Barcelona and recapture the La Liga.

Again, please forget the players that have been chosen, since Nuri Sahin and fellow Turk Hamit Altintop have joined the club. Barcelona's weakness stems from the opposing team playing a high defensive line. The reason is to pressurise Barcelona into their own half. What this could lead to is easy interception, and with the quality of Real Madrids attackers, this could lead to good old fashioned break rather than Mourinho's negative anti-football tactics that were displayed in the 2-0 loss in the UCL semi final first leg.

Also, what I have seen  is heavy reliance on Ronaldo. Major mistake, never rely on one player. Real Madrid boast some of the best playmakers in the world, for sure Ronaldo is a fantastic player yet Real Madrid have many other outlets such as Kaka, Khedira, Ozil and now Sahin.

Finally, What has been noted with Barcelona's style of play is the direct quick passing. majority of their play is central compared to numerous other teams who utilise the wings. With Real Madrid's taller players and quality they should be able to beat players like Puyol, Alves and Abidal. Barcelona might be untouchable at the moment, but their not unbreakable.

What Chelsea Need to do to win next year!

So what is wrong with Chelsea and what can they do to beat United, City, Arsenal and resurging Livepool?

Firstly, Tactics must be changed. As you can see, Fernando Torres Plays very well as a lone striker, thus no need for Drogba and Anelka, (especially since Drogba might be leaving the Team).  In this case, 4-5-1 would be deemed suitable for the West London Side.

This is what I propose (Please note that these are not the players that I would like in those positions) 

As you can see, The anchorman role should be covered Michael Essien. Mikel has seemed to be a major flop for Chelsea (thank god United didn't buy him)  Chelsea should follow the concepts of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United of letting their young players have a chance of starting in the starting XI. 

If he is touted as one for the future, surely more first team action would greatly help his development and form formidable partnership with Frank Lampard.

Finally, who to buy. With the current Transfer market still up for grabs, there are numerous exciting prospects that any team would love to have. For instance Kun Aguero, Kaka, Lukaku. Yet the most important prospect is Neymar, A Trequartista that he is, he can be utilised as a winger and striker for the currently misfiring Fernando Torres

Villarreal's Giuseppe Rossi: I dream of playing for Barcelona

Villarreal Striker Giuseppe Rossi has expressed his desire to join The Catalan Giants Barcelona.  Rossi stated that: "Barcelona are the best club in the world. Every player in the world dreams of playing for the best team and so do I," Rossi was quoted as saying by Catalunya Radio.


Rossi then added that he's not yet been involved in discussions over a summer move stating; "It is always nice when you are being linked with a big club, but I have yet to speak with anybody about this issue."

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United will sign Atletico Madrid's David De Gea

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Manchester United are set to sign Atletico Madrid goalkeeper David De Gea.

Edwin van der Sar will retire after his side’s Champions League final against Barcelona on Saturday and Ferguson, who was speaking after Gary Neville’s testimonial, revealed the 20-year-old is on his way to replace the Dutchman.

“Well we’ve been working on it for quite a while. We identified him quite a while back as one we should go for. He’s a young goalkeeper, very quick, good composure, presence, he’s an outstanding replacement to Edwin van der Sar,” Ferguson told Sky Sports



The Spanish goalkeeper has also beaten other prospective targets such as Schalke’s Manuel Neuer and Ajax’s Maarten Stekelenburg and Ferguson conceded the hunt to find Van der Sar’s replacement was difficult, given the form of the 40-year-old this term