TIME AND VENUE:
La Liga| Sunday| 23 October 2005| 21:00 CET| Estadio Santiago Bernabéu
This is without a doubt one of the toughest matches of the season for us. Valencia, currently 5th in the table 3 pts under Real Madrid who atm tops La Liga.
We are without Brazilan's Ronaldo (ankle injury) and Julio Baptista (knee injury). both are said to be out for a month. and also right-back Salgado who's also injured.
Guti will take Baptista's place. Diogo will cover the right-back instead of Salgado and Robinho will fill in for Ronaldo at attack.
Valencia will have Aimar back, who just has recovered from a stomach bug. and also David Villa which is back from a 1-match suspension. Patrick Kluivert has been training with the team and he could get some playing time tomorrow. after recovering from a long-time injury.
probable lineups:
REAL MADRID 4-4-2 Diamond
----------------Casillas-----------------
----------Helguera--Sergio Ramos-------
--Diogo-------------------------Carlos--
----------------García------------------
---Beckham-----------------Guti--------
----------------Zidane-----------------
---------Raúl------------Robinho-------
VALENCIA 4-5-1
---------------Cañizares------------
----------Marchena--Ayala----------
--Moretti------------------Aurelio---
------------Baraja----Albelda--------
------Rufete-----Aimar----Vicente---
------------------Villa--------------
Previous meeting:
5 March 2005
Valencia CF 1-1 Real Madrid CF
(Aimar 14, Ronaldo 28)
TV:
Premiere Sport 1
TV4 Plus (Sweden)
Kanal 5(Denmark)
C+Ned. Blauw
Diema + TV
Taquilla 0
Sport 2 HU
Aljazeera Sport +2
RushHD
my prediction
3-1
Raúl 2x, Robinho
Villa