City vs Real Madrid: the best team against the biggest club – 07/05/2023 – Juca Kfouri

The team that currently plays the best football in the world, Manchester City, has an appointment this Tuesday (9), at four o’clock in the afternoon, with the greatest shirt in the history of world football, that of Real Madrid, in Santiago Bernabéu.

It would be a good size for Pep Guardiola&Kevin De Bruyne&Erling Haaland and beautiful company if the clash boiled down to the best team against the biggest shirt.

But not. It’s more than that.

Because they wear the merengue shirt Rodrygo, Benzema and Vinicius Junior. In addition to Courtois, Modric and Kroos.

Ignore, if you want, the rare reader and the rare reader, Carvajal, Éder Militão, Alaba, Camavinga, Tchouaméni and Valverde, something that Guardiola will certainly not do.

Madrid and Manchester will star in the cream of the cream of world football in 2023, regardless of who is the other Champions finalist between the Milanese, Inter or Milan.

The blue team, in fact, has been running over whoever is in front of them, and the madridista, not so much, irregular in the other tournaments he plays, although he has just won the Copa del Rey.

But the anxiety for the English club’s first title will meet with the maturity of someone looking for their 15th European title and capable of turning water into wine in the Champions League. Great quality wine.

There are no favorites in a match of this magnitude. Just the certainty of two memorable games.

Ah, yes, the return game, in Manchester, will be on Wednesday of next week, the 17th, also at 4 pm.

CQD RELEASEERS

The three letters followed by a dot were common on math tests and perhaps still are. The uncertainty is only due to the enormous amount of time without contact, fortunately, with math tests.

As we wanted to demonstrate, Libertadores, at the end of the first round of the group stage, reveals neither an encouraging nor a discouraging situation in relation to the seven Brazilian teams.

Exception made to Fluminense that unites performance to results.

In addition, we have two teams in first place, Flu and Athletico Paranaense, three in second, Inter, Flamengo and Palmeiras, and two outside the classification zone, Atlético Mineiro and Corinthians.

Before starting, it was unthinkable that Flamengo and Palmeiras would not be in the lead, but, be patient, they should reach the round of 16 without major problems, and even Galo has good chances.

Only the situation of Corinthians is desperate, which is nothing new for those who were eliminated by Ituano, from Série B, in the state championship, qualified with their pants in their hands, and stained, in the Copa do Brasil, in the dispute with Remo, from Serie C, and has already lost both games at home for the continental tournament to Argentinos Juniors and Independiente Del Valle.

Those who insist on pointing out our teams as favorites don’t learn to realize that they don’t play alone.

REPENTANCE

When we remember, with the eyes of today, that against Croatia, in Qatar, Vinicius Junior was substituted in the 19th minute of the second half, and in his place came his partner from Real Madrid, the former Santos player Rodrygo, that feeling of doubt about whether it would not have been the case to leave the two on the field.

Five months make a difference, and Rodrygo wasn’t even the absolute owner of the position in the Spanish team, but seeing them understand each other through music as they have been doing, doubt does strike, and, perhaps, in Tite, regret.

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