Los Blancos continue preparation for the La LIga game on Sunday. Keep in mind that main opponents will play with each other. Barca will face Atletico, So Real Madrid has a chance to see those two teams lose points!
Lesson learned from Sheriff defeat
The defeat to Sheriff Tiraspol was the first warning to Carlo Ancelotti and his Real Madrid team. This is football at its most painful and the surprising defeat questions the side’s good start to the season. The only way back is to return to winning ways. That’s the only option. The Italian manager has always said that football is results and, on Tuesday night, Real Madrid made history by allowing Sheriff four shots, three of which were converted (one of them disallowed for offside) and the other was saved by Thibaut Courtois, the same man who was decisive in avoiding defeat in their game against Villarreal.
30 goals without many goals!
The game against the Moldovan side was incredible. Real Madrid had 30 shots on goal. They shot from afar and from close, but Giorgos Athanasiadis stood tall, even stopping one shot with his face. Overall, the Greek goalkeeper made 12 stops, putting on a performance that he will remember for the rest of his life, alongside those that support a Sheriff side that astonished Europe by getting into the group stage of the Champions League and then earning six points in their first two games. Real Madrid have shown weaknesses in their last two matches. They’ve only scored one goal in these games, and it was a penalty, after the scoring frenzy of the first few rounds of the LaLiga Santander season. It is true that Sheriff’s success is almost impossible to repeat, but Ancelotti’s side are showing a lack of concentration when defending, leaving gaps open as was shown in Sheriff’s first goal and in the disallowed one.