5-0: The seventh great victory must be the definitive

A night of goals and a show at Bernabéu. Real Madrid achieved their seventh consecutive victory and the best way they could: making the public enjoy themselves. Two goals from a masterly Raúl, other two from Ronaldo on his way to get the “pichichi” title, and another goal from Owen, make signal that this victory will be the definitive one, the one that will allow Madrid get closer than ever to the League.

Real Madrid went out with two main objectives: the first to achieve the seventh consecutive victory to continue the previous winning period; and the second and more important, to put pressure on Barcelona towards their difficult game against Valencia at Mestalla. Real Madrid´s players have repeated it during the whole week: “ this game where we can make the League more exciting”.

From the initial whistle, it was clear how the script of the game was going to be. Real Madrid had the control, meanwhile Racing were looking for a loose opportunity with intercepted balls or in the counterattack, to get ahead on the scoreboard. With this share of roles, Madrid´s leadership was translated into goal opportunities through Raúl (3th minute) and Roberto Carlos (9th minute), with two shots that tested the goalkeeper Aouate. From then on, the game went through ten minutes of stoppages due to two encounters between Helguera and Bertín, first and then between Salgado and Bertín once more. But despite these two mishaps Real Madrid maintained theiraim: to drill into Racing´s net.

Raúl´s recital

The visitors´s tactics were going to give the first fruits with two occasions through Benayoun and Morán, who warned the local defensive line, though the best part was still to come and not exactly from the Racing´s forwarders. At the minute 28th, Raúl started his recital with a pass over the defence, that reached Ronaldo, who served it to Owen to open the scoreboard. A perfect line-up that made the way easier towards the seventh consecutive victory.

We didn´t have to wait much to see 2-0, hardly seven minutes, with another masterly pass over Raúl towards Ronaldo, who was taken down by the Racing´s goalkeeper. A penalty launched by Ronaldo to score, walking with big steps towards the “pichichi” title, and achieved his number 100 goal in the Spanish League. The hardest bit, to open Racing´s net, it was already done, but the night was aiming a bigger victory. Until the break the occasions repeated in both areas, but the scoreboard didn´t change.

At the resumption, Racing risked a lot more than in their first forty five minutes – they didn´t have another choice – and went out decided to shorten the distance. But a shot from the offside from Guerrero (4th minute) gave away to the 3-0. Raúl had already warned before with a header, but his real performance came when taking advantage of a rebound from Aouate, scored the third goal of the night. A goal making justice to the best game of Raúl during this season. But when the number 7 player appears he does it properly, and a new goal from him after a pass from Owen made Bernabéu stand up, in this magic night.

With Figo and Guti on the pitch, the public didn´t stop cheering up from the stands to a team that were trying to be pleased with themselves. And the fifth goal came from Ronaldo at the end. In the eyes of Madrid´s fans it will forever be a night of goals and show.