Can Real Madrid reach Barcelona soon? (Yahoo)

Up to now there were played very few matches of the new season to reach a definitive conclusion, but everything indicates that the Real Madrid registered players with enormous potency that could cut the route in the enormous difference that until some months ago had put off their great rival, the Barcelona, though the Catalonian continue showing in every occasion their superiority.

The Real Madrid, considering a team practically new and with scarce minutes shared by their new integrants, marked eleven goals in the three official matches the played (two in League and one in Champions League). What shows for the future times of splendor if the Barcelona does not resist the regularity they had during the season 2008/09 though nothing points that it will change now if we guide ourselves by the present.

It is known the taste of the Chilean coach, Manuel Pellegrini by the teams tactically ordered, but also by the delicate balance of all their lines and as an example there is his long job with the Villarreal with excellent results.

In the Real Madrid, there are players of excellence among who have shone particularly the Brazilian Kaka, who makes play all the team, meanwhile Xabi Alonso establishes the balance in the mid as pivot. Also it results most auspicious for the whites that Cristiano Ronaldo started to mark goals and if he continues with this average he could come near to what was done in the last seasons with the Manchester United.

However, what should be resolved by the Real Madrid goes through the fact that they have the majority of players (except Xabi Alonso or Guti) more skillful for the game of counterattack and speed that the dominion of the matches, therefore, it is very probable that paradoxically, will result more accessible to play outside their stadium than at home in the Santiago Bernabeu, where they are obliged to go looking for the results.

But seeing the few official matches played, the Real Madrid had already obtained to improve a lot the game in all their lines (also in another of their former weaknesses, the coordination between the central defenders that now are Albiol and Metzelder) and the possibilities to grow for this season are enormous.

On their side, the Barcelona changed in the attack Samuel Eto’o for the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic (last days they confronted in Milan for the Champions League) and this generated a certain positional crisis until the adaptation process ends. Ibrahimovic is not one of the area forwarders as his predecessor nor so slippery as this one, but a player more complete and technical, but who plays generally behind, and then he loses the deepness in contact with the two extremes, Messi and Henry, accustomed that with the Cameroonian everything was resolved with assistance toward the inside of the area..

Ibrahimovic, in change, was accustomed in the Inter to be practically the single point of reference in the attack, and who lowered all the air balls that dould rain from the goal line or the defense and here observes that he is surrounded by players with good technique and in less space, because in the Barcelona the attack is of technique forwards and two assistants..

The other matter of Barcelona goes by the return of Andrés Iniesta, after his another hard injury , to come back, finally, to the mother scheme of the team, and add as assistant of Xavi Hernández, who passes through a great personal moment, having to take charge of the creativity in the gestation zone to supply for the forwarders.

The return of Iniesta, will be of great help for Xavi and also there will be more clarity in the balls towards the forwarders, though Ibrahimovic will have to find the right position in the centre or perhaps will stay slightly in front of the two creative and behind o Messi and Henry.

For the moment, and in spite that the coach Josep Guardiola opted for certain rotation in the team, the Barcelona had not many problems in the rival teams and maintained the same spectacular game of the last season, though it is evident that when the first team players return, everything will be more spectacular for the sight and the superiority will be shown..

The only tie that up to the moment was ceded by Barcelona was vs the Inter in Milan in their debut in the Champions but surprised how their coach, the Portuguese José Mourinho, decided a scheme so defensive at home, leaving above Sneijder and the two forwarders, Diego Milito and Eto’o, absolutely isolated.

The dominion of Barcelona and the high percentage of ball’s possession could not, however, be seen in the result, something not frequent in the Catalonian team and this means that it is not totally fine in the definition, just the contrary to the Real Madrid

It is that the Barcelona, also in opposition to the Real Madrid is a team drawn by Guardiola (and the bases have been put before by Frank Rikjaard) to have the ball and attack during the whole match, the opposite to the Real Madrid. This grants a plus of security that is difficult to remount for the others.

Is it possible a final of Champions League on the stadium Santiago Bernabeu between Real Madrid and the Barcelona? It is, at least, it does not result mad, and would be passionate.