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Justice served in Style? It was a friendly match calm down. If it wasn't then Mourinho would have started all his top players and team set up to beat them. He was clearly experimenting.
I didn't mind being beaten by Madrid because Jose already said it was still a friendly to him and he was just testing out the team, but I do mind when all of a sudden it's called "justice served in style". If Mourinho gave a **** about the match yesterday the score would have been much more different. This match proves nothing and there was no "justice served in style"
Why would he say that about CR7 if it's only a friendly? You can't just say crap whenever you want and back out with excuses when you are beaten or maybe because you are a coward and can't keep your words straight!
Keep in mind I am not bashing against Chelsea, but against Mourihno. But think what you want if it makes you feel better!
@AlexBatak there was nothing friendly about the match though! It gave me the sensation of a heated league match.
Justice served in style? Not really. Neither Mourinho or Ancelotti cared much of this match because it was a friendly. There were no use of tactics whatsoever, and both teams basically played normally. And Chelsea weren't even at full strength, since Mata and Luiz were both missing. And we were missing Varane as well.
I would call it "justice" when Real beats Chelsea in a UCL tie. THEN we can call it "justice".
But at the same time, despite Mourinho's disgusting comments about us and our players, I still have to thank him for all he did for us in the first two seasons he was here. He brought us up from a team who can't get past the UCL Round of 16 to a team who consistently appears in the Semifinals of the UCL three times in a row. The last season though, it seemed as if he did everything possible to get himself fired at the end (benching Casillas and Ramos, disrespecting Alonso, taking away Casillas' captaincy, talking rugged about Ronaldo, etc.). :/
@Joe_Manchester: There is no doubt that Ronaldo is a class player but like I said, if Mourinho really gave a shit about that match we would have fielded a much better team.
Petr Cech; Branislav Ivanovic, John Terry, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole; Marco Van Ginkel, Frank Lampard, Ramires; Eden Hazard, Oscar; Romelu Lukaku
Iker Casillas; Alvaro Arbeloa, Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Marcelo; Sami Khedira, Luka Modric; Isco, Mesui Özil, Cristiano Ronaldo; Karim Benzema.
I don't want to take anything away from Madrid because they really did great yesterday and they deserved the win but just look at the difference. Obviously Madrid have the much better team in this.
My point is though, its not really justice because Jose didn't give a shit about the damn game. It's not justice because Mourinho didn't even bother caring to fight back. He just did what he did this whole pre-season and experimented with our team and completely ignored the Madrid squad (that he helped rise back to dominance). Mourinho shouldn't have said what he said about Ronaldo (even though I still see it as not an insult), but this match doesn't prove who was right all along. Ronaldo was always going to be the big player in the game because he is one of the best players ever. We can talk about "justice" if Madrid and Chelsea face off in the 2014/13 when the squad are settled.
@Joe
Cristiano Ronaldo is arrogant as much as Jose Mourinho it's been like that since 2004.
@Vendetta
Well, tell me how Jose could've fielded a better squad. I don't see it. Obviously Mata and Luiz are missing, and we had Varane missing, but other than that, both teams put out their best possible squads.
And if you're going to say that Essien could've been fielded instead of Van Ginkel, I actually thought Van Ginkel did fantastic. Much better performance from Van Ginkel than I would've expected from Essien.
@Alex
I don't know how you can say that. Ronaldo dropped his arrogance a LONG time ago. Name one arrogant thing he's said in the past 2-3 years.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3277/la-liga/2013/08/08/4173013/mourinho-defends-real-ronaldo-jibe
"I said the thing about the Brazilian Ronaldo being the real one because he was the first Ronaldo," Mourinho told reporters.
"If you would ask me who the real Muller is, Thomas Muller or Gerd Muller, I would say the latter. For me, he is the real Muller because he's the older one of the two.
Well to respond to that, there's no "real" Ronaldo or Muller. There is Ronaldo, and there is Cristiano. There is Gerd, and there is Thomas. You can compare them with each other, but just because they have the same names doesn't mean that one is "real" and the other is "false". Again Mourinho, you make stupid comments to bring unwanted attention onto yourself.
@Dynastian I agree with you, the term "real" is not the best choice, but I don't think it's an insult either, he should have said "the brazilian" instead of the real, but if the medias hadn't made a mountain from a little rock, nobody would care about...
@netsten
But the reason Mourinho used the term "real" is because he WANTED to instigate CR7 into a war of words. When Mourinho was speaking, he was talking of his time in Barcelona in the late 90's, and brought up Ronaldo (something completely irrelevant to his Chelsea interview). Obviously, any "Ronaldo" he coached in the late 90's will HAVE to be the Brazilian one. Therefore, there was no need for him to explain which Ronaldo he was managing in the first place. He used the term "real" to make the mountain out of a molehill.
It's just like Alex Ferguson saying Cristiano is better than the "older, fatter Ronaldo". Mourinho wanted to say something similar about CR, but there's really nothing he can pick on CR about except for the fact that he's not as "good" as his predecessor.
@Dynastian:
1) Well Lampard just played his first match since the last match of last season after his injury. He was extremely rusty.
2) Yes we needed Essien but not for Van Ginkel, for Lampard. While Lampard was lethal upfront, he can't defend and his age can't handle the likes of Madrid right now.
3) We have to play Ivanovic as RB because Azpi, our best right back had to be rested.
4) KdB is currently better than Oscar and when he was finally on Mourinho decided to test him in the pivot, because he didn't care.
5) Ramires isn't suited to be a right winger despite his good efforts. Moses (or even Schurrle) would have been a much better option.
6) Finally, as you said, we're missing Mata and Luiz because of injury. (Also, it's easy to spot which team has the more experienced players from the two.)
So basically this could have been our XI:
@dynastian I agree with you, but I don't think or I'm not sure he says that intentionnally to insult Cristiano, it's just the way he is and the way he speaks, as I said in a previous post I respect the coach but I don't like the man. I let him "the benefit of the doubt" for this time (I don't know if this expression works in english...)
@Ven
Seems fair enough. But do you think that Luiz and Mata can replace the effect and experience that Terry and Lampard bring to the pitch? After all, John and Frank are both natural leaders.
@V +1 for showing our best Starting XI but I want to edit one thing (Moses/Oscar/KDB)
@Dynastian: Terry and Lampard are leaders but they can't easily handle Madrid. They can still play but not in high tempo games. Plus, Luiz is also a natural leader. He can take Terry's place in the future. Remember, Mourinho only cares about who plays better in their position.
Before it was decided that Chelsea would play Real Madrid in the International Champions Cup final in Miami, Cristiano Ronaldo became the latest former colleague singed by Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid bridge burning campaign. "I was manager for the first time in the 2000 year but, before that, I was assistant in big clubs and with big managers and coaching the best players in the world so I was 30 and I was coaching Ronaldo, not this one [Cristiano], the real one, the Brazilian Ronaldo," Mourinho told ESPN.
When this comment got back to Cristiano in the lead-up to his first match against his former manager, he played it cool and told reporters, "I prefer to remember the good things from coaches. I don't spit on the plate from which I eat and I don't speak about people who say bad things about me."
Well, it seems Cristiano subscribes to the "don't get mad, get even" credo because in the 31st minute of the match, he pinged a free kick off the bottom of the crossbar to put Real Madrid up 2-1 on their ex-coach. Ronaldo then cockily turned in Mourinho's direction and pointed to himself as if to say, "checkmate, dingus."
Real Madrid opened the scoring with a goal from Marcelo set up by Ronaldo in the 14th minute. Marcelo then had a few aggressive words for the Chelsea bench, but Ramires equalized just two minutes later by chipping another target of Mourinho's derision, Iker Casillas.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored again in the 57th minute to make it 3-1. If there is a Ronaldo Highlander, he's showing Mourinho that is it right now.
<http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/cristiano-ronaldo-pays-back-jose-mourinho-real-ronaldo-021344688.html>