Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad – Spanish La Liga Review (Part 3)
With a 4-2-3-1 formation intact, Jose Mourinho played Emanuel Adebayor as a sole striker. It was for the first time that Adebayor featured in the first team and not the Frenchman http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Karim-Benzema-c20350. The French striker was somewhat criticized as he often used
to misfire and caused Real Madrid a lot of chances on goal. However, Adebayor managed to make a dream debut as he scored the last goal of the game.
On the other hand, Real Sociedad played their best 11 as they did not want to take any chances while being away from home, at Santiago Bernabeu. The Real Sociedad number 1, Claudio Bravo Munoz, stood guard between the two poles to help his team by stopping
the ball from finding the back of their net. He was helped by Mikel Labaka, Ion Ansotegui Gorostola, Mikel Gonzales and Dani Estrada at the back. The Real Sociedad coach played a traditional 4-4-2 with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jeffrey-Sarpong-c18270 and Gorka Elustondo Urkola on the flanks.
In the heart of the pitch were Xabi Prieto and Zurutuza. Up front, Antoine Griezmann played along with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Montero-c26784 to help the team in scoring goals.
With such a deadly formation played by Real Madrid, goals were expected to come. After finding the back of the net twice, Real Madrid definitely weren’t through with their opponents and the Portuguese striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629, scored another marvellous
goal in the first half. It was the German midfielder, Mesut Ozil, who took the corner during the 42nd minute of the game. The Portuguese captain was the one who leaped and made sure that he was high enough to get his head on it. After leaping high
into the air, Cristiano Ronaldo headed the ball with a lot of power to find the back of the net. It was a stunning header by Cristiano Ronaldo, who took his goal scoring tally to 24 in the Spanish La Liga which means he is now on level terms with the Barcelona
striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296. Both the players are competing heavily for the Pichichi award, which is won by the highest goal scorer of the Spanish La Liga. Currently, no other player is even close to the scoring rate of these two remarkable strikers who are actually
supposed to be wingers, but cut in to find the back of the net more than the strikers themselves.
The visitors were having an off-night. Their striker Raul Tamudo denied them opportunity after opportunity and misfired throughout the game. The chances did eventually fall for the visiting team but the cause of concern for them was the fact that they were
not converting them into goals. Raul Tamudo finally found his feet on the ground later during the first half. The Sociedad striker shot the ball on target thrice but the Spanish goalkeeper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Iker-Casillas-c16815 made sure that he is on his toes and saved the day for
Real Madrid thrice.
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