The same reasons, the same excuses

When those who do not like football assert categorically that only gives the ignorance that football is always the same, the football fans usually respond with an argument that, in fact, is common to all team sport: no two equal parties. However, the version of Real Madrid 2012-2013 league seems determined to contradict this maxim. The defeat of the Whites in Granada is, in many respects, a song that we already know by heart. As with Tinker, tanner, there may be some new verses or some different verses, but in the end we all know the song and we know the chorus by heart.

The new song that gave us the Granada CF was a breath of tragicomedy: do not need a single shot on goal to win the game. It came with a corner set piece that ended in a own goal from Real Madrid deserved less bitter taste that flavor, Cristiano Ronaldo. The Real Madrid again lost a game for the same reasons that led him to drop to five times so far this league, and coach resumed their particular script of excuses.

The Madrid of Jose Mourinho lives of his sublime ability to do damage with swift counterattacks after loss of contrast. So to face him what every team is looking to simply lose the least amount of turnovers. For this there are two extreme styles. Whoever used Guardiola's Barça (not the de Vilanova), focused on finding a possession as close as possible to 100%, and that of most less powerful computers, which he was given the ball to Madrid looking for a strategy as surreal as logic: if I have the ball, I can not lose.

So Lucas Alcaraz put it in his debut on the bench Nazari. 4-4-2 with Mikel Rico in charge of operations, two indoor and two front side and second placing landmines, which costs more physical wear that as time progresses, will limit their ability to launch the attack . The Madrid stood in Los Cármenes with five lineup changes over the butler draw against Barcelona , with playmaker Modric as in the usual 4-2-3-1.

Whites brought out all the problems that have led him to lose many points in the league. Everything starts with an alarming lack of competitive tension from minute one that follows the appalling incapacity to compose static attacks against a team that awaits with two lines of four in front of his own area. The Madrid move the ball without pace, in a way too flat, without horizontal or vertical extent amplitude and alarming inability to jump rival lines via quick combinations.

So, the Granada was found with a goal of gift that allowed him to hold in his idea of ​​planting a bus in front of his goal. In front, the Madrid failed to shoot into the net until I became a Christian when I was going to meet the hour. The passage of minutes merengue impotence increases and enhances their anxiety. Proof of this is the Christian commitment to seek door from any position, however distant it may be, something that is not very reprehensible given its ability to invent missiles and their understandable desire to make his own goal. With what you are doing the Portuguese star for his team this season, we spend little criticism.

The Madrid had their chances to at least tie, especially clamorous double that blew from Callejón and Benzema. But merit, merit what is said to take the match, very, very few. The performance of the team against smaller teams are so, so low that it is difficult to listen to the fans meringues using adjectives as "shameful." Madrid seems that only made ​​for large parties, as they managed to tie in the Nou Camp or the annihilation conducted in Mestalla. But on visits to small computer fields, Madrid is just dwarfed.

In this, much of the fault of the players. Clearly. There is an alarming lack of motivation to move forward with these parties more smelling mud and glory to the team as a whole is moving in a very remote settings of the machine to devour rival was the last course. Valga esclarificador the example: Di Maria finished the match in Valencia was saying that I do not know what mouths shut. Last night he returned to his lackluster version, the usual so far this season.

Little or nothing should blame the coach if these problems were flower of a day, a few exceptions to the rule. But when players fail again and again in such an important aspect as the motivational coach can not pass the buck.

It seems that Jose Mourinho is the only one who is not realizing that its military strategy is not working. Change / punish players sitting them on the break is not giving any results. Open but subtly criticize a news conference, either. Yesterday brought to those who had not played on Wednesday (Ramos, Di Maria, Coentrao and Marcelo) expressing their ignorance as to why (what he meant? Did not care and come out at night? What are you making the bed?).

And then, as usual. Their usual complaints about the calendar and the supposed club no ability to solve a problem for Mourinho, Real Madrid only (without going any further, this afternoon Atletico Madrid play their league match after Cup having played on Thursday, ie with the same days off as their neighbors Madrid). An argument as absurd as hurtful to the greatness of the institution. Do not have the budget and staffing Madrid to beat a team like Granada, who was in the relegation zone, making the necessary changes to manage the physical wear of some players? He said such absurd excuses as shameful.