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Real Madrid – Cristiano Ronaldo Injury Can End Their Season
A Gareth Bale injury? Real Madrid can handle that. A Cristiano Ronaldo one? Not too sure. The Portuguese star, playing better than anyone in the world right now, is going to be out for three weeks with the thigh injury he picked up against Almeria after everyone thought it was a harmless knock. This kind of injury can mean the end to the title race for Real Madrid, unless the whole concept of this being a one man team is wrong.
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AS Monaco – Falcao Doesn’t Like Getting Substituted
With the distance between Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain growing, not winning against Nantes wasn’t an option for Claudio Ranieri. So he took out Radamel Falcao after only 63 minutes. He did get himself a 1-0 win with a goal from Mounir Obbadi, but also some drama with the team’s most important player.
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Bayern Munich – Franck Ribery Really Wants to Win the Ballon d’Or
Knowing that his individual statistics aren’t that impressive when compared to Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, Franck Ribery is trying to campaign his way to the Ballon d’Or, hoping that combining Bayern Munich’s success over the last year and his aggressive approach to the subject will eventually win over the voters.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Knows Big Wins Mean Nothing
It’s quite rare to see a Jose Mourinho team being heavily defeated, but the Portuguese manager knows that a big win doesn’t necessarily mean anything, and that Tottenham, despite their poor form and a 6-0 loss to Manchester City, are still alive and kicking in the title race, just like his Chelsea.
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Mauricio Molina Suffers From a Headbutt and Punch All at Once
Sometimes bad luck hits you from two directions at once, which was what Mauricio Molina, a Colombian player from FC Seoul must have felt in his encounter with both a punch from an opposing goalkeeper and a headbutt from a defender in a match against Busan IPark.
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Champions League – Week 5 Predictions (Groups E – H)
The return of the Champions League puts the focus on two groups: The group of death, where Arsenal should have no problem at home against Marseille and Dortmund try to get over their league slump against a similarly dropping club like Napoli. In the ‘vintage’ group, Barcelona and Ajax should put on quite an interesting show, while Milan will try to get something out of their tough away trip to Glasgow, facing Celtic.
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Soccer Needs Video Technology – Kevin Mirallas and Wayne Rooney as Proof
Referees are human beings, and even five of them on one football pitch can’t see anything. Of course, some of them are actually terrible at their job, but get to keep it through the wrongdoings of FA’s and FIFA. Kevin Mirallas nearly ripping Luis Suarez to pieces and Wayne Rooney kicking violently at Jordon Mutch serve as another example of how the sport needs intervention involving video, replays and cameras.
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Bayern Munich – Pep Guardiola Trying to Stop a Tactics Leaking Mole
Even though Bayern Munich are undefeated in the Bundesliga and the Champions League, enjoying a 4-point lead at the top of the table and just coming off a huge away win over their biggest rivals, Pep Guardiola is finding reasons to remain unhappy. This time? One of his players is leaking his match tactics to newspapers, specifically the Bild.
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Lionel Messi on Cristiano Ronaldo and Teams Trying to Sign Him
It seems that being out injured gives Lionel Messi some time to hand out interviews, and in them he talks about Cristiano Ronaldo, saying there’s nothing surprising about the Real Madrid star being in such fantastic form. He also mentions it’s quite flattering to be on the target list for so many clubs.
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Tottenham Hotspur – Andre Villas-Boas Doesn’t Seem to Know What He’s Doing
It’s not the manager’s fault when a team conceded after only 14 seconds. However, Andre Villas-Boas is to blame when Tottenham have scored only nine league goals through 12 matches, some of them coming thanks to bad refereeing decisions, and it’s his fault Spurs completely fell apart at the Eithad stadium, playing without a bit of sense or caution and intelligence, getting destroyed 6-0, which could have been worse.