Its a rivalry game older than the Red Sox vs. Yankees, Lakers vs. Celtics. During a Clasico match, most of the soccer spectating world stops to see the most famous, skilled, and exciting players go head to head. This time Real Madrid will have to battle Barcelona in their home field Camp Nou, as they fight without any other option but to win against their bitter rivals who are leading them with and 8 points and a perfect winning streak. The Spanish giants, Barcelona are for the first time during the Liga season at a disadvantage, truly needing this home team advantage to contend with Real Madrid’s rapidly improving team, due to their two star defenders, Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol being out due to injury. In addition to the excitement of the games rivalry, is the fact that Leo Messi and Christiano Ronaldo, number 1 and number 2 best players also go head to head to prove to the world who is better. And the game proved to be the perfect spectacle of why these two players derived such notoriety. Both scored a pair of goals, the only four games of 2-2 draw, breaking Barcelona’s winning streak, but keeping them at 8 points about Real Madrid. The three points Madrid desperately needed were not attained even by Cristiano who has scored a remarkable 8 goals in three games. Although in my opinion, a win for either team would have been a preferred ending, I believe the fans got what they wanted out of it thanks to the Messi and Ronaldo show.
In other news, Chelsea still leads in the Premier league with 17 points, Manchester United trailing by 3. You can sense my enthusiasm.
