Four Madrid-Barça in eighteen days: feast or overdose?

In exactly one week will begin an eighteen-day period in which, except round defeat in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will face four times. The first on Saturday April 16th in La Liga Classic to be played at the Santiago Bernabeu at 22:00 The second game will be to the final of the Copa del Rey, to be held on Wednesday April 20 at the Mestalla, at 21:30 pm And the third and fourth will, presumably, the semifinals of Champions: The leg will be played in the white stronghold, on Wednesday, April 27, at 20:45 h, and the return will be at the Nou Camp on Tuesday, May 3 also in the usual time champions. Let's whet your appetite:

A Classic Decaf

One of the hottest games of the year is the league clash between Barcelona and Madrid, more specifically, the second round, in part because, mysteries of life, always tends to fall in the last ten days and usually both clubs reach this meeting risking much of their aspirations in the domestic tournament.

This was the last year, when Pep Guardiola gave him the final blow to the League by winning the home of their arch rival 0-2, and last year, with the now legendary 2-6. Not to forget last season when Barca coach Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho Madrid honored the hall making it deserved for having already proclaimed champion.

However, the Classic this year is quite decaf. A lack of playing games this afternoon, the club leads the championship with eight points ahead of Madrid, a difference that's kept after this day, Real Madrid could only exploit the game to trim the field to five points with only 24 left to play until the end of the league. In addition, the proximity of the Cup final to be held just four days later, he made plenty of shade league confrontation.

An unpublished Cup Final in the last 21 years

The Final of the Copa del Rey next April 20 is the first to race the Real Madrid and FC Barcelona in the last 21 years. The last time they met for the throne-borbonesco football season was in 1989-1990, in which the Blaugrana were crowned by a final score of 2-0. The last Cup Madrid dates from a year earlier, while Barcelona, ​​including the year 90, has won four since then.

The great festival of Spanish football will be held at the Mestalla, where without VIP's and other business plugged, there will be 20,000 throats cheering for each team. Be the first time that Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola will face their books, or whatever it is, their philosophies, in a final. He who leave the Cup in Mestalla with the plane charged a psychological advantage for the future (and still only presumed) Champions League games.

The central importance of the Champions

The last time culés meringues and crossed paths in the Champions League was precisely in the semifinals of the 2001-2002 season. At that time the group led by Vicente del Bosque won the game in the top of Charly Rexach and ended up winning the Champions League final that goal by Zidane against Bayer Leverkusen.

Since that time the Real Madrid do not know what it is to reach a final, while at that time the club won its second and third twisted Europe in 2006 (2-1 at Arsenal) and 2009 (2-0 Manchester United). How could it be otherwise, the way in which each team gets to the semis of the Champions League will be well marked by its two previous meetings in the League and Cup A priori the club has the advantage of playing the second game in their field (though I am among those who do not believe in the maxim), but also had the supposed superiority last year against Inter Mourinho and we all know how the movie ended.

Conclusion

Once we already clinched the league and almost no doubt that the most important match for both teams is the Champions League. The European trophy is always brighter than the butler and none of the two teams will draw chest Cup if the other is the victor in the semifinals and finished in Wembley.S crowningi Barca earn his fourth Champions, the second in three years, the third in the last six, will earn a spot in the top of Olympus football and, excluding the oldest, all talk about the best team we've ever seen . But on the other hand, if Madrid manages the Tenth eliminating Barca, will talk about changing cycle of Mourinho effect and many say that it is back up mom dad.

In short, in eighteen days live four games between Barcelona and Madrid. If the press and calls every game of the second round league as The Party of the Year (Century or Millennium), there is no doubt that we will live an overdose information from which many will end up jaded. Football In Letters will try to focus on what really matters, giving weight to the ball and other players and leaving empty polemics and without giving the slightest rattle silly. Depart from the roncerus and carazensis , do not fall into temptation. Amen.