What do you think of the travel players Paris SG in Las Vegas
having three days off, I would have done the same, I’m gone. Maybe not in Las Vegas. But everyone has the right to choose his destination, and it deserved to have some free time after the final won against Lille. The history of jet lag does not concern me. This is Laurent Blanc to judge whether it was good or not. If they had fun the better, but we were not going to have fun against them.
Do you think a possible decompression Parisians?
No. They are disappointed with their elimination in the Champions League, but in the league they want to do the maximum. They still have two home games, they want to celebrate their title with their audience. We saw what they did against Caen, they beat 6-0. Ibra wants to beat his scoring record, and in the league there is no good time to take them. They also have a deadline to prepare the final of Coupe de France against Marseille.
Do you still believe in the possibility of being European to Rennes?
Hang the 6 th place would be a reasonable performance on the season, did not finish in the six would be a disappointment. It is believed there for months, and we know we lost our joker against Guingamp. If we had the same mindset as against Monaco, it would have happened. Here we have a not simple game to play, but very exciting for any player.
What is the best way to play the Paris SG?
If you go looking for them, you expose yourself, and they stand fast with the ball. If you wait for them but you do not pass the center line, it’s hard to hold 90 minutes … It’s not easy.
You, the former PSG player , do you believe that the club should extend Ibrahimovic?
for me yes, but ask it to Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Laurent Blanc. Everyone admires it has a reputation in France, and it would be more to keep it. It would be good even on the European stage, and although Paris is not spent face City. If he leaves, it will be another big club.
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Mardy Collins and GIS play the final return of Eurocup against Galatasaray on Wednesday in Istanbul. On the way, Strasbourg has emerged (66-62). – G. Varela / 20 Minutes
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GALATASARAY – STRASBOURG
“Arrive as a fly in the soup” in the final of the Eurocup, dixit rear Strasbourg Paul Lacombe, GIS won the first leg against the ultra favorite Galatasaray (66-62) on Friday. But here, players of Vincent Collet will compete in Istanbul team galvanized by its very noisy 12,500 fans. Intimidating? No, say the people of Strasbourg that arise as one man in the hell of the Abdi Ipekci Arena.
Will GIS outsmart the odds who give loser? Find out by following this final return from 18.50.
Simulated Wednesday on PES 2016 not FIFA 16 , the semifinals of the Champions League between Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich is subject to the behavior of intelligence artificial. Abused an across the party, mainly because of valuations discounts granted to some of his young players (Lucas Hernandez or Saúl example), the Madrid preserve all their chances before the second leg in six days at the Allianz Arena.
And they can thank for that their Slovenian goalkeeper Jan Oblak, author of several high class parades early in the game. Bayern’s attackers have meanwhile demonstrated an unusual clumsiness when the last act. With a little more success, Atlético Madrid could even win an unexpected victory when Koke had managed to achieve a pass Gabi in stoppage time of the second period …
PSG, already champion of France, is the present club in the list of trophies UNFP 2015-2016. At the ceremony which will take place on May 8 at 17:15, the Parisian club will be cited five times in the four categories of Ligue 1: Laurent Blanc for the title of best coach, Adrien Rabiot for the better hope Kevin Trapp for the best keeper, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Angel Di Maria for the best player of the championship.
Lassana Diarra (Marseille) and Hatem Ben Arfa (Nice) round out the selection. The Swedish giant, top scorer (32) and most assists (13) Ligue 1, is the favorite. It would achieve a unique feat in the history of UNFP trophies by winning the award for the third time (after 2012-2013, and 2013-2014). Alexandre Lacazette, last year’s winner, is not present in the list.
Best player in Ligue 1
Hatem Ben Arfa (Nice), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (PSG), Angel Di Maria (PSG), Lassana Diarra (Marseille)
best hope of Ligue 1
Vincent Koziello (Nice), Thomas Lemar (Monaco), Ousmane Dembele (Rennes), Adrien Rabiot (PSG)
best goalkeeper in Ligue 1
Vincent Eneyama (Lille), Anthony Lopes (Lyon), Kevin Trapp (PSG), Steve Mandanda (Marseille)
The legacy was heavy, while Bayern Munich bosses had chosen for his strong shoulders and the head. Recruited in 2013, for three years to take over from Jupp Heynckes, Pep Guardiola has failed (for now) to do as well as her senior party in Bavaria with a triple-Cup-League Championship champions.
the Catalan technician did his team an unstoppable machine Bundesliga and faithful during three years last four of the champions League, but without going beyond the last two seasons. This has become a problem throughout his tenure on the bench Munich, although the honorary president of Bayern Franz Beckenbauer tried before the quarter-final of the C1 side Benfica to soften a possible exit:
“To say that Guardiola would have failed, it would be totally exaggerated. In three years, he won three times the German Championship. This title is for me still the most important. “
Hear the” Kaiser “show tender with Guardiola fall almost irrational. Since the end of the first season of the technician, the former international defender has regularly displayed his displeasure. With the results, but especially to the face proposed by “his” club.
“We’ll end up looking like Barcelona and no one wants to see us play. It may annoy the fans. I have another vision of football. If I can pull away, so I do. This is an effective approach. “
That was even before the Bayern will not make eliminate semifinals of the champions League by Real Madrid, in spring 2014, after a double defeat without scoring and with a correction at home (1-0, 0-4). While the German newspaper Bild shows scathing ( “ In two games, Guardiola was ridiculed by tactically Carlo Ancelotti “), the chairman of the club board of directors, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, speaks of a “ debacle ” and a “ slap .” But he defended the first months of Catalan in Bavaria:
“Of course we suffered a heavy defeat, but do not jump to conclusions. We have a high quality coach. After so many shares acquired (in 2013), we could have run (this season) but this has not been the case, and thanks to Pep. “
After a another failure last year, this time against his former club, FC Barcelona, a third consecutive Spanish club stands on his way to the final. On the threshold of this double appointment face Atletico Madrid, Guardiola knows that his time at Bayern will be judged – définitivement- its ability to take the Bavarian club above. In June 2015, without explicitly talking about the Champions League, Beckenbauer addressed a tackle finesse to the ex-midfield:
“Love is the most beautiful thing that ‘can we have. (Guardiola) will love the fans when he has won several trophies. If he does not win trophies, that love will just affection. “
In this Bavarian house so special, Guardiola had played the offensive, too, in spring 2014 to assume its responsibilities and assert power, “ the club must decide if the coach is the right ,” he explained by way of analysis, two days after the elimination against Real . “ The team must play with the ideas of the coach, he added. I can not talk to my players ideas which I do not think “
Mathias Sammer, a member of the Board in April 2014. ” There are too many swings of concentration and not enough group dynamics. We are too positive and too nice to each other. “
Next Weeks, chance or not, Rummennige done repeatedly praised his coach and ensures that Bayern “ never will Guardiola at the door .” But while the last three seasons Guardiola contract looming, the idea of an extension is often avoided by those concerned.
Because “ it’s too early ” to or discuss because it is “ not a problem .” Especially because their common history is doomed to end. Beckenbauer willingly allows questioning the identity of a potential successor to Guardiola and, later, in the summer of 2015, Rummenigge primer assuming a start.
“We are very pleased with Pep and his work. If he wants to stay, that’s wonderful, if it does not it will not be the end of the world. “
A year and a half earlier, in early year 2014, the chairman of the Bayern board repeated that “ Guardiola was born to work (at the club). This is a great coach. We think it is a fantastic story he wrote. “remains to be seen if the last page will be blank.
SPORT In Istanbul, GIS defies Galatasaray and 12,500 fans in the final return of the Eurocup Wednesday at 19h. On the way, Strasbourg won by four points …
The Strasbourg are 40 minutes of a coronation Eurocup. For this, the GIS must keep in Istanbul on Wednesday, four points ahead Galatasaray to face in the final return. (Archives) – G. Varela / 20 Minutes
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‘C’ is the match of our careers, perhaps our lives. “Before the final return of Eurocup against Galatasaray on Wednesday at 19h, Romain Duport clearly raises the stakes of this meeting. “We do not know if a European final we play again,” says pivot.
Vincent Collet has coached two Euro with the team of France (2011 and 2013). But club, the Eurocup Final is the pinnacle of his career. “It is not measurable with the rest. I love France but the championship is not comparable in terms of sporting value. Early in the season, I did not even think to get to the final of the European Cup so the win … Only with us talking about. Across Europe, it’s unimaginable. “
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It is reflected on sports paris sites where all dimensions see Galatasaray win despite the success? by four points to go GIS (66-62). “To be in the final is already incredible, admits Paul Lacombe. We arrived like a hair in the soup. “No pressure, then, the back covers this last appointment” to have fun. What can we do? “
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Looking forward, coach added “Strength and Honor” as Russell Crowe in Gladiator? “We must show that does not come in atoning victim but to bring the Cup. When you go into enemy territory, you must show that you’re together, you’re going there as one man. “For this, Vincent Collet wants his bench playing the sixth man to counter the fervor that will identify the 12,500 fans of Galatasaray who promise them hell in the Abdi Ipekci Arena. “It will have a very important role. He will accompany all our positive actions, in all circumstances show this cohesion, this force. “
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If the maxim of the peplum is the rendezvous, the Strasbourg will look in a mirror in case of defeat. But better, if successful raise arms into the arena of his opponent
technical inaccuracies, lack of rhythm and especially envy. While Manchester City discovered this stage of the competition, Manuel Pellegrini’s men have not brought the expected fresh air. Worse, their only merit was to thwart Real lined up in their usual 4-3-3.
A boring match that eventually accelerate in the final minutes. Better physically, the Madrid showed they had a much higher margin than City. And the Citizens are likely to suffer in return.
Players: Hart at, Agüero transparent
In a closed game, difficult to bring out of the players. Joe Hart has kept his rank saving the Citizens late in the game, while the rear guard Mancunian, Kompany head, gave a serious performance. Faced, however, Sergio Agüero was a shadow of himself and has never been in a position to make a difference.
On the side of Madrid, Gareth Bale was not unworthy but failed to take control of the fate of his team in the absence of Ronaldo and Benzema after exiting, replaced at half-time. Modric hit a lot of balls without really create offsets while Toni Kroos has made waves accuracy on set pieces. Only satisfaction: the new good game Marcelo, active on its left side.
Joe Hart before Pepe (City-Real) – AFP
What could change: if Silva could go after …
39th: Touché, David Silva must give way to Kelechi Iheanacho. From a complementary 4-5-1 with De Bruyne in the axis, City going 4-4-2 and deprives himself of a relay in the middle. If “El Mago” Silva is not in the form of his life, its technical quality and ability of passes in the spaces could have been used to bring the binder Citizens and he missed the game Skyblues.
Weekend stat: 43%
As the percentage of games won by Real Madrid without Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League. With him, it goes to 71%. You know what was missing at the Casa Blanca Tuesday.
The tweet that hurts City
If you are looking for the definition of “rotate” the ball, here. But tonight, the Citizens have rather turned round to witness the passes made by City.
The declara: Zinedine Zidane
“It’s still a good result away against a team that did not worry us too . “
the question: can Real win the C1 without Cristiano Ronaldo
Of course, all teams need their big players to get out of trouble. But this season, either with Benitez or with Zidane, Ronaldo Real Madrid-dependency is taken to extremes in the Champions League. In their flamboyant course not always, the people of Madrid are in are each given the exploits of their triple Ballon d’Or, already author of 16 goals. Only two less than the team of Manchester City C1!
Against the Roma in the round, it was his two goals, including one outside, which facilitate the qualification of the Casa Blanca. Against Wolfsburg, is its triple that allowed the Merengue to pass an obstacle that was nearly insurmountable. Against City? Wednesday we will see. But the Portuguese is already doubtful for the second leg. And this is obviously bad news for Zidane and his men. The people of Madrid can cross your fingers as hard as possible. A victory in the Champions League will go through the feet of Ronaldo. Mandatory.
Cristiano Ronaldo in el banquillo contra el Manchester City – AFP
Joe Hart, decisive face Casemiro and Pepe, allows Citizens to stay in the race for qualification.
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outside League champions, Real Madrid has three victories on the road (in Malmo, 0-2 at Shakhtar Donetsk 3-4 in Rome and 0-2) this season, for a draw (in Paris, 0-0) and a defeat Wolfsburg (2-0)
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Gaël Clichy, who added the races, lack of race from start to juice left. The center of the French NRAS land is intercepted by Keylor Navas, left the ground on his right
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Joe Hart manages a masterful display face Pepe, who controlled the area before hitting the left almost touching distance. Gareth Bale had deflected with a header the center of Toni Kroos, left
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Close to the surface, left, Gareth Bale saw his curling shot left foot returned by the Manchester City Wall. Corner for Real
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Freekick dangerous to come to the visitors. Marcelo was improperly stopped at the edge of the area by Fernandinho
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Joe Hart saves Citizens with left foot! The guardian of the England team repels headed in Carlos Casemiro, come cut the center of Toni Kroos, left
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New initiative of Madrid. Luka Modric fires a powerful shot right foot outside the English surface. The frame is hidden
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Jesé, which dominated Fernando in aerial combat at the first post, instead of a recovery head on a cross from the right and signed Daniel Carvajal. Joe Hart beaten, was saved by his cross
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the audience applauds the failed pass Gareth Bale to Marcelo, who made the call on the left flank, along the key. Key for Citizens
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Vincent Kompany, experience, accompanies Lucas Vasquez, came to work on the right wing. Manchester City captain did not throw and avoids the corner
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Sergio Agüero regia and threat on the right of Madrid’s surface. The Argentine made a big bridge on Daniel Carvajal, but abuts Keylor Navas bravely out to the floor. The guard was even touched on the top of the skull
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Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) is working on his left flank and picks a corner , the fight with Pepe
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Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) center on the left corner. At the far post, Vincent Kompany relied on Carlos Casemiro. The ball is lost
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Sergio Ramos, forgotten marking the first post, cutting head central Toni Kroos, right side. His recovery is framed, but Joe Hart is on the path
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Touched by Toni Kroos, Marcelo is working on the left side, resists Bacary Sagna’s low center in the English area where Vincent Kompany clears unchecked.
As in the previous round, we simulated the semifinal that pits Manchester City to Real Madrid on Tuesday. It always takes place on FIFA 16 without any external intervention, since it is the AI is responsible for deciding the fate of the match. A poster that takes here all its promises, with no less than six goals scored, including a sublime Karim Benzema. Despite this good result nil (3-3) got outside, players from the White House, however, have enough to feed huge regret playing the game …
num " 2 "readability =" 18 "> by moving into the box from the kickoff, the people of Madrid have not left a single second of respite to their host evening. Domination immediately materialized by early realization of Casemiro Brazilian midfielder. Before Bale and Benzema will give more scope to the score before the break. But while men Zizou headed for an easy victory without even having to force their talent, they will curiously collapse in the second half.
Thanks in part to a reduction in the score signed Sergio Aguero after the break, Manchester City and succeed miraculously return to the mark, the two teams missing the turn after turn the opportunity to win in any endgame …
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Thank Manchester City! By qualifying for the first time in its history to the semifinals of the Champions League (first leg against Real Madrid on Tuesday at 20.45 at the Etihad Stadium), who defeated the PSG blows a little novelty wind the circle of increasingly closed European heavyweights. Not enough, however, contradict this brazen trend escort C1 “modern” from 1992-1993 in the image of the “closed league” which in his time dreaming of the G14 biggest clubs, those are always the same – the richest – who make rain or shine on the continent
before and after 2004.
No need to go back to Methuselah (the European Cup was created in 1955) to find an evolution obvious to a tightening of the European elite. Just observe the differences between the first and second half of the 24 seasons of “Champions”
First observation: during the twelve editions played after 2004 and the final Porto – Monaco (3-0), sixteen teams. only reached the last four, exactly the same number as in seven seasons between 1998 and 2004 and less than twelve seasons between 1993 and 2004 where 23 different clubs had qualified for the semifinals.
the tight circle of the elect is also measured in terms of nationality. Despite the increasing number of associations within UEFA from the Eastern bloc burst, fewer of them are able to place their clubs in the magic square. Already, since the same final Porto – Monaco, no issue team another championship that four (England, Spain, Italy, Germany) has won or even reached the final. In the same period, only two additional nations have raised their representatives in the semifinals – and only once each: the Netherlands (PSV Eindhoven in 2005) and France (Lyon, 2010).
The contrast, again, is significant with the previous period. Between 1993 and 2004, clubs from seven countries have won the final or participated: besides the big four, France (Olympique de Marseille in 1993 and AS Monaco in 2004), the Netherlands (Ajax Amsterdam in 1995 1996) and Portugal (FC Porto in 2004). In the same period, the semifinals were for a total of eleven countries: the seven already mentioned, plus Scotland and Sweden (Gothenburg and Glasgow Rangers, the second group stage in 1993) and Greece (Panathinaikos 1996) and Ukraine (Dynamo Kiev in 1999).
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with its “Remontada” against Wolfsburg, Real Madrid has offered a semifinal 11th since 1993, as now that FC Barcelona and one more than Bayern Munich (10). A total of seven clubs over five participations in the final four account for nearly two-thirds of all semifinalists since 1993 (59 of 96).
These familiar clubs semifinals – and those who follow more or less far – share their financial power. In the top list, only the Milan absent semis since 2007, won. Conversely, Manchester City may well be a rookie at this stage, his participation was written in 2008 and the massive injection of petrodollars UAE. Other “new rich” Chelsea has managed to reach the last four after 2003 and the club’s takeover by Abramovich. In the same category, PSG QSI (2011) must wait to regain already reached the semifinals once (1995).
The four in the top 15 richest
This season, with the exception of Manchester United, eliminated in the phase groups, and Liverpool, unqualified, the ten richest clubs in the world in 2015, according to calculations by Deloitte, rallied the knockout stages and three of them (Real, Bayern, City) reached the semis. The fourth robber, Atlético, is ranked 15th in world football fortune by the London firm – not really a miserable either.
In the current formula C1 that protects tenors limiting confrontations knockout, he will undoubtedly be increasingly difficult to shake up the established order. Especially because the money from the Champions League (€ 61M for Barca last season) rekindles a virtuous economic circle: New ways to build a competitive team, promised to other successes thus new revenues. ..
Has anyone found the cap to close the bottle of ketchup? Opponents of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League this season still seek. It was six years ago when he had to explain a personal dry spell with the Portuguese selection, the Real Madrid striker had compared the efficacy in football at the famous sweet sauce made from tomato “the goal is like ketchup: when they arrive, they all come together. “ insatiably Illustrating his comparison, that it sickens opposing defenses since September 2015 and the start of the most prestigious European Cups.
16 goals
the addition is salty and figures give dizzy. Before facing, Tuesday, April 26, Manchester City in the semifinals, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 16 goals in 10 European matches. As many as all players of City gathered in the same period. The top scorer of Citizens, the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne in himself is three achievements.
on the continental stage, statistics draw a clear dependence of the Real vis-à-vis its triple Ballon d’or. By itself, Ronaldo weighs almost two thirds of the goals of “Casa Blanca” in the European Cup (61.5% to be precise). The performance is as follows: a quad, two triplets, two doubles, two games to one goal every three games and “virgins”. When added four assists, the Portuguese is directly involved in twenty of the twenty-six goals of his team
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Of the four teams still in contention, none has so dependent attack of one man. Certainly, the French Antoine Griezmann has still scored 50% of their goals Atlético Madrid (6 of 12) but his team is much less prolific. The football fans who are not content to accumulate figures have beautiful game to underline that football is not just aligning individual stats. They are right. The provision of Karim Benzema in the collective fluidity of Real should not be underestimated, for example. And yet.
In the quarterfinals on April 12, when returning to face Wolfsburg game, while Madrid were back from two goals difference, it’s a hat-trick and the inevitable Ronaldo his individual accomplishments that helped topple a well compromised situation. Zinedine Zidane was the boast of the collective merits – “Cristiano needs of the team. He needs others to do what he does. I’m very happy with what the players have done together “, said after meeting French – the scorer of the evening had to offer a demonstration of its decisive importance in the offensive game around. And perhaps, too, further evidence that the results of the Real are often indexed to the performance of its star
Champions League. The crazy “remontada” Ronaldo and Real Madrid
as soon as Ronaldo scored a goal in the champions League this season, the Real is needed (seven wins in as many games). But the three meetings during which the Portuguese has remained silent, the end result appears much more uncertain (one win, one draw, one defeat).
Thirty four straight games in the league in all
Ronaldo has not saved in recent months. Contracture his right thigh in injury time of a folded match against Villareal (3-0), Wednesday, April 20, which prevented him playing against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, was worried the Spanish press. And noted, in passing, a staggering statistic: in thirty-four championship days – to 31 goals – striker played 3060 minutes. Get out your calculator, multiply 34 by 90 and you will understand. Ronaldo had hitherto not missed a single minute since the start of the La Liga season (extra time does not count)
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In the champions League, are things different? Not really. On 17 February, at the eighth-finals against AS Rome, Zinedine Zidane left the blow by asking him to join the bench to rest, the … 89 th minute.
Apart from this episode, the Portuguese played all the other meetings. In ten European games, he has accumulated 899 minutes of play, more than any other outfield player, before Zlatan Ibrahimovic (880) and Antoine Griezmann (843). It ran 92,637 meters, more than two marathons.
would it not make more breathing space? “I do not know why everyone wants to save , Zidane replied to reporters after the announcement of the thigh strain striker. (…) He wants to play all the time, every game. There are players who need to blow, it was my case. But he did not need. From time to time, okay, if he needs it, but he did not need it and it’s great like that. “
On Tuesday night, Ronaldo should studded shoes back to try to panic again statistics. In a corner of his head should trotting scoring record (17) registered in a single edition of the Champions League and he has not beaten. A record that belongs to a certain … Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Since the arrival of Bale to Real Madrid in 2013, his relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo has always been the subject of speculation. Difficult to exist alongside the star of the club who won three Ballons d’Or. Some sequences in the field have even left thinking that no good agreement between the two teammates. But Gareth Bale, who gave an interview to The Times before the semi-final of C1 against Manchester City, everything is going very well between the two behemoths the size of Real Madrid.
“ I’ve never had a fight with him He is a player very, very passionate about the field -.. Everyone knows that he is very determined Sometimes people see it on the wrong side but. no problem with that , “detailed the Welsh when they talk his relationship with the Portuguese. He even spoke of a special bond between the two men. “ We are also linked by the fact that we’ve both evolved in the Premier League we get on very well the press has written about that. maybe it was not true but we get along well. we never had a problem . ”
“You have to be a little selfish when we play attack”
So swept the rumors of a possible disagreement between two of the BBC components. Bale even describes a Ronaldo who helped him get used to his new environment. “ He speaks English which helped me when I arrived in Spain .” Even on the ground, the two men reach an agreement despite their mutual desire to score: “ must obviously teamwork No one can do everything alone, but you have to be a little selfish when we play.. attack . ”
And the Welshman is pleased to work with Ronaldo. “ We found the right balance. We’re playing well, we hope to score many goals and we now reach heights in this end of season and win trophies .” Although he recognizes and smiling, we had set some details between the two players. “ This is now officially recorded: the left side kicks are for him, those are right for me .”
If Bale have seemed uncomfortable at Real Madrid, it’s more because of its position and involvement in the game of the team only because of possible discord with Ronaldo. “ I felt isolated on the wing, I could not do what I wanted and I did not give the best of myself to the club he has recognized. But Benitez me listened and gave me more responsibility. it was what I wanted . ” And Gareth Bale can finally give the full measure of his means. His 18 goals in La Liga this season despite numerous injuries to prove it.
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (L) and midfielder Gareth Bale (R) take a break During a training session ahead of the International Champions Cup soccer tournament in Melbourne on July 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / PAUL CROCK – AFP
