By Ian Chadband, Chief Sports Correspondent 833PM GMT 09 March 2010
Payback Cristiano Ronaldo is starting to fool around similar to a man who is gentle with his �80 million cost tab Photo AFP For a bar who hold so practically in their boundless right to be the gilded captivate at their own jubilee when the last is staged at the Bernabu in 10 weeks" time, disaster to swell over the last sixteen for the sixth uninterrupted deteriorate would be met with some-more groan than if they had usually been scalped at home by Barcelona again.
The players know it and contingency feel the weight. A �250 million plan will not mount or tumble on one game; it usually feels similar to it, generally if, as one inform has referred to in Spain, boss Florentino Prez is unequivocally charity �250,000 per man as a one-off reward for winning.
Real eyes on big esteem Milan choice a nonplus for Ferguson David Beckham is pristine showbusiness to the finish David Beckham "excited" to fool around Man Utd Beckham"s behind in locale Champions League movement"It would be a disaster," pronounced midfielder Guti who, carrying knocked around at the Bernabu for fifteen years, understands improved than majority what a windstorm better would reap.
Lyon, he said, are a great bar but not one of Europe"s genuine elite, that competence well be loyal but is still the sort of accidentally conceited throwaway line written to stir a group who move to Madrid not usually a 1-0 lead from the initial leg, but additionally a challenging defensive record. The French bar have not conceded a thought in some-more than 10 hours of football, stretching behind to January.
Madridistas are counting on a uninformed call of confidence unconditional the group in to the quarter-finals after a feat over Seville on Saturday that had the feel of a season-defining triumph.
Coming from dual goals down with half an hour left, recording a stoppage-time personality by the desirous surrogate Rafael outpost der Vaart and at last supplanting Barca atop the list on thought disproportion was means for majority jubilee at the Bernabu, not slightest in the prodigy that Manuel Pellegrini"s group competence essentially have detected an esprit de armed forces that even Perez"s millions could never have guaranteed.
Take Guti. Earlier this season, the old diva looked as though he competence turn over-abundance to mandate after a half-time bust-up with Pellegrini over his bluff grant during their degrading Copa del Rey better to third-division Alcorcón reportedly finished with him revelation his physical education instructor sulkily to go forth.
Yet right away the 33 year-old is being feted, in rather novel fashion, as the key revivalist, behind in the overlay with an additional of his occasional match-turning cameos opposite Seville. His opening additionally helped to enthuse an additional novelty; the Bernabu resounding the full-throated await when barbs looked likelier.
More of the same tonight, urged Álvaro Arbeloa, their former Liverpool full-back, job on the Bernabu to give an sense of Anfield on one of the majority special Champions League nights.
The responsibility will be on Ronaldo, carrying reached a turn of value not long ago to indicate that he is ever some-more gentle with his rare �80 million cost tag, to yield the impetus. "I am assured that this group will reply and that we will have it by to the subsequent round," he boomed, entrance over increasingly as personality some-more than cheerleader. Maybe it is catching. Sergio Ramos went serve "We will win 3-0. We are going to live an additional enchanting night in the Bernabu."
Perhaps they are all spellbound by the overwhelming thought that, usually as Madrid capped their centenary year in 2002 with a ninth European Cup, La Dcima contingency be annexed in the year the last comes home.
Lyon, who harried Ronaldo and Co to daze in the Stade Gerland by smart pressure, will usually love the thought of despoiling destiny.
