Ronaldo received his marching orders in Real Madrid’s 3-1 Super Cup victory over Barcelona on Monday following two bookable offences. The 32-year-old subsequently received a one-game suspension for the initial red card and a further four games for appearing to shove referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea after being sent off.

In his post-match report, the referee described the incident by stating that the player “pushed me lightly as a sign of his disapproval”, with the Royal Spanish Football Federation then having little choice but to discipline the Portuguese superstar.

Real initially appealed against Ronaldo’s second yellow card on the basis of a dubious call from de Burgos Bengoetxea, who booked Ronaldo for diving after he seemed to go down honestly under considerable pressure from Samuel Umtiti. However, the RFEF appeals panel subsequently upheld their decision and the length of his suspension.

As is evident in subsequent social media postings, Ronaldo clearly felt aggrieved by the length of his suspension, stating: “It’s impossible to be unaffected by this situation; five games! It seems exaggerated and ridiculous; this is called persecution!”

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Ronaldo came off at half-time of Real’s 1-1 draw at home to Atletico Madrid in the Supercopa de Espana first leg after being largely anonymous on Tuesday.

While further tests are required, Ancelotti said the 29-year-old Portuguese attacker should be OK.

“He felt something and was uncomfortable. We’ll evaluate it tomorrow,” Ancelotti said. “Apparently, it was not serious.”

 James Rodriguez, who replaced Ronaldo, put the hosts in control of the tie with his 81st-minute goal.

But Raul Garcia levelled for Atletico, who are well-placed heading into Friday’s second leg at the Vicente Calderon.

Ancelotti believes a similar performance should be enough for Real to win the trophy.

“Atletico do have an advantage for the second leg since now we have to score at the Vicente Calderon,” the Italian said.

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“If we play like we did tonight we will win the Super Cup.

“The team played well. We didn’t have a huge amount of pace in the first half but we improved in the second half.

“We controlled the game pressing up front. Our midfielders were really good.”

Ancelotti, who said he had decided on his first-choice goalkeeper for the season, rued the mistake made by his team for Atletico‘s equaliser.

 Koke‘s corner was flicked in by Garcia, who was unmarked just yards from goal and in front of Iker Casillas.

 “We made a mistake on a dead-ball situation,” he said.

 “We did not cover the front post well and Iker had no chance to do anything in that situation because he had a player in front of him.”

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Real Madrid was on fire at Bernabeu, when they defeated Barcelona in Supercopa second leg last night. In the first half, the Whites literally squashed their rival, with 2 goals against nothing in just 20 minutes.  We can say that Mourinho has brought Real Madrid to another level.

Gonzalo Higuain scored the opening goal at minute 11th, and soon after that, Cristiano Ronaldo doubled the lead for Real Madrid.

Messi’s goal at the end of first half almost destroyed Mourinho’s plan, but luckily 10 men Barcelona weren’t enough to stop raging players who thinks of the field as their playground. The results, Barcelona player lost their tiki-taka style, and tried to use similar counter attack strategy as Real Madrid. But Barcelona is no master of the strategy, and they have failed despite a couple of nice attempts.

In the end, Real Madrid named as the winner of Supercopa after defeating Barcelona with 2-1.

Here are the pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo on the match :

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Jose Mourinho should be proud of the boys, since this is practically the first time in Cristiano Ronaldo’s era that Barcelona gets eaten alive for almost the whole 90 minutes by Real Madrid.  I’ve never seen Victor Valdes running around like crazy throughout the game,  and couldn’t catch his breath because he had to work extra.

For captain Iker Casillas, he did a fantastic job by making at least 3-4 important saves. However, he barely sweats in the first half.

Of course, praise goes to Gonzalo Higuain who did an amazing opening goal in minute 11th, that helped boosting the team’s spirit.  Followed by Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal, 8 minutes later. And after that, the whole field was like a play ground for Real Madrid, as their counter-attack scheme worked amazingly well. 2-0 in Real Madrid’s lead in just 20 minutes.

However, Messi almost ruined the glory after he scored for Barcelona at the end of first half. Although I have to admit, it was actually a brilliant free-kick goal.

Still, Barcelona find it hard to play with only 10 men after Adriano got a red in just minute 28th for his brutal foul on Ronaldo. They need more than just a help from the referee.

Enough said…. Let’s just skipped to the end of the match, since both Real Madrid and Barcelona didn’t score a goal in the second leg.

After a long 45 minutes plus 3 minutes of extra time, the match ended with 2-1, with Real Madrid’s name as the winner.

It was a good game, and Real Madrid have won it fair and square. Hala Madrid !!

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The first leg of Supercopa El Clasico had to end with Barcelona’s victory of 3-2.

Cristiano Ronaldo opened the first goal in minute 55th for Real Madrid’s lead, but unfortunately, Pedro quickly equalized the point by scoring a minute later. The next goal belongs to Barcelona as they awarded with a penalty shot after Ramos made a foul on Andres Iniesta. Messi as the executor did his job well.

In the middle of second half, Xavi Hernandez scored the third goal for Barcelona, and all the hope seemed to be fade away. 3-1 for Barcelona’s lead.

But still, Real Madrid won’t give up just yet. Thanks to Angel di Maria persistent moves, he made the last goal 5 minutes before the match ended. Well, of course, the credit goes to Di Maria and Victor Valdes silly blunder.

Anyway, here are the pictures of Cristiano Ronaldo on the match :

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The Supercopa El Clasico first leg match will be held at Camp Nou tonight. As the opening game of season 2012/13, the match will determine which is the best between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The question is, will Real Madrid survive the game, knowing that they didn’t start the league season in a fancy way after a 1-1 draw over Valencia last week ?

As for Barcelona, it’s out of the question. They have succeeded in tasting their first league victory of the season by trashing Real Sociedad with an amazing 5-1 score. Then again, history still take side on Real Madrid. Statistically, from 5 Supercopa match, Real Madrid have won 4 of them. But we all know, it takes more than just a statistic to win a game against Barcelona.

As we all can remember from last Supercopa, the 5-4 score aggregate result for Barca’s victory came from a highly tension match, if we won’t call it violent. Especially the second leg at Camp Nou, where the referee threw a lot of cards, 8 yellows and 2 reds, which showed their brutality on the pitch. Yet the most annoying thing of the game was Jose Mourinho’s unexceptable behaviour over Tito Vilanova, for poking his eye.

But enough with that, and let us put more focus on the main object here, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. These 2 players are no doubt are the biggest reason why El Clasico become more interesting.

Besides Real Madrid vs Barcelona , El Clasico can also be called the clash of Messi and Ronaldo. However, based on the last Spanish league performance, Messi is one step ahead Ronaldo. As we can see on the game, Cristiano Ronaldo performance was just so-so, and far from dangerous. He played below his own standards and failed to create threatening shots.

For the disappointing performance, Cristiano Ronaldo made a statement :

“Physically, we’re not in our best condition. This is normal. We will be better, we’ll try to,”said Ronaldo. “We have tried everything, but we still have to reach the highest level we can.”

And while Ronaldo is still working out to get his performance back, Messi already shown his best by scoring 2 goals in the 5-1 winning over Sociedad, and helped Barcelona to stole 2 points in the standings. Not to mention the pre-season friendly matches, where Messi made similar action by scoring more goals.

This condition is tough even for Ronaldo, which all his action on the pitch will be putting in comparison by the press.  And what makes it even harder, is that the first leg clasico will be held at Camp Nou, a place that is like a playground for Messi and his teammates. The only thing that Real Madrid can do is to give it all out, with 100% of confidence and optimism.

In the end, apart from the heat between the two team, we still expect to see a fairplay and entertaining football match. And may the best team win.

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