Sat. night was the first “clasico” of the Spanish league this season, the clashes between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid that have come to symbolize the centralist view of Spain vs the nation of nations espoused by many Catalans and that in the year have regularly become overheated on the pitch and spilled over into some pretty upsetting scenes.
With FC Barcelona trailing Real Madrid by 3 points regardless of having played an extra match thanks to having to play a match early thanks to the Club World Cup in Japan in December and Real Madrid having a unbelievable string of wins in a row it was looking like Bara’s recent stranglehold might not be so tight.
And having been widely criticised for his pre and post match escapades, Madrid coach Jose Mourinho stayed silent on the topic of the upcoming clash, having maybe realized that his taunts and inflammatory behavior only appeared to make Barcelona’s backbone all the stronger.
Nonetheless in the first 25 seconds of the match something unexpected happened and Real Madrid capitalised on a rare mistake by Victor Valdes allowing their foe to score. This looked to be the kind of nightmare start a few of the people were fearing, not believing that it might be feasible to beat Real Madrid once more in their home stadium.
This early shot across the bows from Madrid seemed to focus the minds of the Barcelona players are they soon got back onto winning form. The game angled in Barcelona’s favour and they were clearly outmanoeuvring Madrid in spite of some robust and dangerous looking counterattacks.
Barcelona equalised after 30 minutes and looked like they were more than back in the game. And in the second half they were shortly in the lead directly to make winning seem like an increasingly likely option. When Barcelona’s 3rd goal was scored it was clear that Madrid could not match the brilliancy of Barcelona and in spite of being in powerful form this season, still not in the same class.
Therefore what now for Real Madrid? How will they regroup as this defeat by Barcelona will have severely dented their confidence. He's already attempted several different methods to beat Barcelona but in the last eight encounters has won just once. So how will Jose Mourinho get ready for the subsequent clasico in April?
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