Real Madrid vs. Barcelona (0 AH) - Preview

First test for Real Madrid this year. It will show how much the methods by their new psychologist will affect on their play, considering that manager Mourinho admited after their first meeting between, about two months ago at Bernabeu, where Real Madrid took the lead in the first minute thanks to Barcelona\'s goalkeeper mistake, but the Catalans bounce-back easily, scoring three goals and again, they proved that are better than the Los Blancos.

It have became a "Catalan syndrome", as I remmember, Real Madrid have one only once against Barcelona since Pep Guardiola took the manager place and that was in the Cup. Real have won that match in the overtime thanks to their talisman Ronaldo who scored the decisive goal. However, I will disagree with everyone who says that the adjective talisman belongs to Ronaldo when Real Madrid is playing against Barcelona. I don\'t know does he have complex every time he plays against the Catalans, but he is showing very, very poor performances and part of that is the reason why Lionel Messi is better than him on the world player rankings. Honestly, I like his profile, he is strong, he got one of the best technique in the world and so more advantages than other players, but playing against Barcelona is surely his worst nightmare. The only thing that has to be proven is the reason for that, is it about Dani Alves and Pique who are covering in every match or is it because of his mental preparedness?

Few things importnat for this match. Firstly, like every match in the Cup, Pinto will be between the sticks, while on the other side, Pepe is doubtful. This will give few headaches for Mourinho because if Pepe is not ready for this match, he has to put Albiol or Varane to play like central defender next to Ramos.

All in all, I expect one dominating side like in the previous matches, so definitely an away win but with one eye looking on the draw...