I'm writing with great sorrow in my heart , my hands moved by feelings of extreme frustration and despair , now after you read this you wonder If I have the right to call my self an Ultra-Sur but enough is enough .. I can take no more ...  all I'm going  to say  is ,   Real is :

1. Real Madrid is bigger than Miatjovic , a talented player but a failure of a sporting manager . He lacks the vision to build a team capable of being the best in the world , he lack the tactical maturity to lead a world elite team , he lacks the ability to bring match winning  players to the club .

2. Real Madrid is bigger than Calderon , who wanted " Entertainment rather than results" and fired Capello , well were not entertained nor do we see results . Calderon's obsession to bring players who clearly have no intention to leave .. so we a team who were supposed to fight on 3 fronts wasted the transfer period without getting new blood .. and yes we saw today how complete Real is

3- Real Madrid is bigger than Raul , I love you raul , captain .. but please for the love that I have for you .. leave us be .. your making a fool out of yourself and costing us a lot .. please respect the great club your playing with and leave .. respect the people who respect you ... LEAVE

* Schuster ... I believe in you .. I do . I don't blame today's shameful performance on you because your requirements haven't been met by Miatjovic  .. I'm still behind you .. *  



Please forgive me for not being optimistic .. because I care too much to lie to myself

The Official line up of Real Madrid against Juventus  have been announced with Pepe being the most significant absence .  Schuster seems to have a perfect formation with Van Nistelrooy and Marcelo are back from being Injured , I should hear no complaining about lack of talented players . Pepe is certainly out of the line up that will face Juventus today . Pepe was injured during the 1-1 draw against Almeria , his absence was in place of doubt over the past few days .

Schuster will have to think twice about how he will approach the game now , and I hope he chooses right this time around .  Real will go with a 2 goals deficit and I hope that we can score goals enough to edge Juve out . I hope Raul , Higuien will rise to the occasion and actually shine . 

Keep posted for more information as the match come close to begin ! . 

“Noventa minuti en el Bernabéu son molto longo” 

 "90 minutes in the Bernabéu is a very long time "  Real Madrid's Legendary defender Juanito once said . Juanito and his teammates where down 2-1 but 90 minutes in the Bernabéu is a very long time .. in 1984 they were down 2-1 one but came victorious ... a three goals to nil ... Inter Milan since knew how long one minute in the Bernabéu is ...

 5/11/2008 , 20:45 CET ,  Santiago Bernabéu  ... ,   

 24  Years later , Different Victim 

 Real Madrid will face triumphant Juventus who won 2-1 in the first Leg in Turin in the group stage of the champions league . 

After winning the first leg , Juve's form has soared as they won all their there after and the win against Los Blancos was a tournament at its own . Juve will enter the match with sheer confidince and determination to end the group stage first . They have the players to do it , with ace man Del Piero acting as their target man . They will put everything into this match thus we could see a 4-4-2 formation or 3-4-3 . They will attack from the start and try to end the match early and we could see long passes with a quick tempo and fast off the ball movements . 

Real Madrid on the other hand is going into this match with ( I hope ) a " Do or Die" mentality , and they will throw cautiousness to the ground and will attack from the start to the end . Van " Goal" should be Juve's greatest challenge as he already scored in the first leg and may see rough challenges and covering .  A 2-3-5 I see is the fittest , with Iker guarding the post ,  Pepe ( If he recovers) , Cannavaro , Sergio Ramos , Marcelo , Hienze in the defense and V.Der Vaart , Diarra , Snejider in midfield with Raul and Van Nisterlooy as target men . 

My prediction : 3-1 to Real Madrid . 

Official Line up :

Goalkeepers

     Casillas , Dudek

Midfielders

Diarra, Gago, Guti, Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Drenthe, Robben

Forwards

Higuaín, Raúl, Van Nistelrooy, Saviola

 

Discussion Questions : 

Who do you think will start ? 

Who will win and by how much ?

Do you think Higuein would be in position for Raul ? 

Do you think Pepe will start ? 

Morning fellow Madridistas , 

 I'm not really into the mood to write about yesterday's match anymore so here's some news about  the do or die match against Juve :

Pepe Suffers Contusion on his thigh : 

Pepe was injured in the 47th min of last night's 1-1 draw against Almeria , Pepe was replace by Metzelder in early second half as he was not able to go on with the game . The medical staff of Real Madrid stated that " Pepe suffers from a strong contusion in the quadriceps with a hematoma of the left thigh". It is yet not certain if he will be able to play in  Wednesday's Champions league game against Juventus 

Juve's Zannetti may be ready against Real Madrid :

 Cristiano Zannetti seems to  have recovered from his injury and should be able to participate in the game against Real Madrid in two days .Mean while Jonathan Zebina, Claudio Marchisio, Gialuigi Buffon, David Trezeguet and newly operated Dario Knezevic will miss the encounter.

I'll be adding more news along the day , stay tuned