Post by Giorgio Pirelli

The gamers who wear the most popular of all soccer uniforms, Real Madrid, will not be seen in Europe once again this season following being dumped out of the Champions League by Lyon. Actual Madrid necessary just a one- home win to secure passage through to the very last eight and looked on-course following an early Christiano Ronaldo objective. A aim in the 75th minute from Lyon’s Pjanic gave the guests a 1-1 draw and 3-two aggregate win consigning Real Madrid to their sixth consecutive Champions League exit in the round of sixteen. The ultimate is to be held at the popular Bernabeu in Madrid but the hosts will be mere spectators in their very own stadium.Not astonishingly reaction to the defeat has been defensive from the club but aggressive from the media and enthusiasts. There had been high expectations of Real in Europe this season soon after enormous investing in the summer brought the likes of Kaka, Ronaldo, Alonso, Albiol and Benzema to the club, signaling what a lot of observers referred to as the 2nd galacticos era. There are by now calls for supervisor Manuel Pellegrini to resign or be sacked but Jorge Valdano, the club’s director standard, supplied him his assistance. “It’s a unfortunate night but it’s time for institutional calm. The strategy is for him to carry on being our coach,” he mentioned.The manager himself was in a bullish mood soon after the match.”I have mentioned it just before that I will not resign,” he explained. “I think it is absurd to leave this behind when this is only just beginning. We are very disappointed about this and it truly hurts. But I don’t think this is a 1 year project, far from it.”The Spanish media have been offering him small sympathy though as the following choice of quotes from different newspapers suggests.”Not even winning the league… will eliminate these kinds of a scandalous stain, the worst in the current history of Madrid given the such lofty heights they were obliged to get to,” said Carlos Marcote, composing in day-to-day El Periódico”The catastrophe endured by this pharaonic Madrid staff is as if an earthquake had destroyed the Valley of the Kings. Watching the competition to which they owe their legend from the sidelines will be their penitence and torment,” explained Orfeo Suárez in El Mundo.Julián Avila wrote about “stratospheric spending” along with headlines “Sixth galactic failure” and “Far more than €250 million down the drain”.”The jewel in the crown, Cristiano Ronaldo, Champions League finalist in the previous two seasons, is out of the tournament at his 1st try in a white shirt,” said Avila.Meanwhile Kaka’s advisor Diogo Kotscho utilised his personal Twitter account to label Pellegrini a “coward” for changing Kaka with Raul three minutes right after Lyon scored. He also recommended that Pellegrini was “trying to get the focus off [his] personal incompetence.” Kaka, his annoyance at being substituted plain for all to see, refused to be crucial of Pellegrini. “I did not like the situation of the game. I was not angry about the change, but the scoreline. I was replaced by Raúl, who has a whole lot of expertise in scoring,” he stated.Only time will inform who pays the price for this failure but the odds of Pellegrini surviving the axe do not look great really should they fail to win the Spanish Primera League as well.

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