Time cabals

Now that we have a break in the league with qualifying matches for Euro 2012 with a party on Friday and another on Tuesday of next week is a good time to take a moment to analyze the remainder of the season for two contenders for the league title, soon it will be the turn of the teams fighting for the stay. This weekend the two met, with difficulty, against Getafe and Atletico Madrid , but seven days before the Barcelona left two points at the Sanchez Pizjuan with Barca the advantage on the white team was reduced to five, which seems more palatable than the seven previous two games meant more.

There are nine rounds to play and 27 points. In between at least two Champions League matches and the finals of Copa del Rey that will certainly be the focus of both teams. For its part, the football teams did not return until June when they have completed all competitions. In two weekends, and in April, will be held the following day league and then we are now immersed in the Champions League. Once they have completed two weeks of rooms will be played on 20 April, the King's Cup final. Yet know whether the Spanish teams played later, starting from 26, the semifinals of Champions in which face each other. If so, prepare you for what is upon us.

In this post we will, how could it be otherwise, to guess and speculate, but we will leave aside these hypothetical semi-finals and it would be too mean, and Tottenham and Shakhtar are not allowed in the work of the Spanish derby in Europe. league schedule favors a priori to Barcelona, ​​which has its particular league Everest in the next two starts against Villarreal and Real Madrid and later played the title against teams that may struggle to stay except the blue and white neighbors. Receive Almeria, Osasuna, Espanyol and Deportivo, Real Sociedad and visit, Valencia and Malaga. Barcelona has an output more than Mourinho's team.

For its part, Madrid has a complicated timetable with departures to Bilbao, Valencia, Sevilla and Villarreal, will host while Sporting, Barcelona, ​​Zaragoza, Getafe and Almeria. The match against the Catalans will take place after the Champions League quarters before the Cup final. Last year's victory was decisive Barcelona at the Bernabeu, but this year I see things differently: there is more distance between them, but seeing what is left in all the tournaments do not see the two teams win all remaining matches as happened last year to a single encounter is the key.

Madrid is the best team in the league at home where it has not given any points in fourteen games, while Barca have drawn one and lost one in fifteen games. And the Barca team is the best visitor with twelve victories and twelve draws, while the white team has won nine, drawn four and lost two. Is outside the Bernabeu where Real Madrid team will play the league and where you have to prove he can steal Barcelona League this barely leaves points. The visit Madrid as little favorable as fiefs San Mames, Mestalla and the Sanchez Pizjuan, where teams fight for continental objectives.

El Madrigal will also witness the duel between the big two. One team, Castellon, played the third place in Valencia, but has lowered its performance in the league and will have much of their attention on the Europa League, which is a favorite. It is without doubt one of the best teams in the league and is likely to win both, but looked terrible in the first round. For its part, the smaller teams try to avoid the fire of decline and can not afford to lose any point. Barca team has to play against Almeria, Osasuna and Deportivo, meetings apparently feasible, but do not forget that there are three teams before that point is left Madrid. You never know.

If I highlight a key point that can be, without knowing yetChampions semifinals of the above, is the week that surround the Cup final where the nerves are close to the surface. European rooms, classic league and cup final, and if Madrid gets out alive and within acceptable Mestalla visit in week 33, while Barcelona will host Osasuna. If instead you lost too much ground, with the Cup already decided and is in the semifinals, is likely to focus their efforts on the Champions League.

Much to be decided in all competitions, excitement, joy of some, disappointment for others and indifference or weariness of the rest, five point lead and Barcelona as a favorite, but there league.

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