“It will be essential to mark their key players tightly. Higuain, Cristiano and Kada is playing very well, so we have to be very careful while marking.”

Barca is best because have only two-point advantage with many citing the showdown in April at the Bernabeu.

Following some poor matches we gave a better showing against Malaga and caused more risk,” he said. Valencia were well-beaten by Atletico Madrid 4-1.

Villarreal play Espanyol with still a lot of ground to catch up on sixth-placed Deportivo who face a Tenerife side that although second from bottom,

Xerez’s hopes of survival have appeared forlorn for some time and as they prepare for the game against Malaga they are 12 points from safety.

Zaragoza, also in trouble on the edge of the relegation zone, have been boosted by the news that their in-form striker Humberto Suazo is fit for the tricky clash with Atletico Madrid.

Returned from injury, the France star hit a bang this weekend. He powered the only goal as Bayern Munich beat Hamburg by 1-0.

Real Madrid is in hope of stealing a march on the Gunners, both the Barcelona and Manchester clubs by opening talks the Germans this week at a meeting of the European Club Association.

It is feared that Ribery may prefer of moving to Bernabeu. The Roman Abramovich is also prepared to bankroll a £45million summer bid for this player.

Bayern even now have not lost hope of signing a new contract for their star player. He will be running to the end of next season. If talks are not so successful by this month then they will sell him.

Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, will be meeting Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, chief executive of Bayern, at the ECA’s general assembly. Over 100 clubs’ representatives are expected at the event.

Uli Hoeness, president of Bayern, has confirmed that Ribery was interested in joining the Real Madrid last summer.

He said, ‘Last year he certainly wanted to leave… He had a lot of problems with Jurgen Klinsmann and I’m pretty sure that he had reached an agreement with Real Madrid.’

Estimated layoff: seven days, depending on his clinical progress.” Benzema would definitely be highly disappointed with his reports, as he advanced through the ranks at the French club Lyon and was a key player for the French club until his transfer to Real Madrid last summer.

According to reports, the club earlier chosen of offering ‘Pipita’ improved terms for ensuring parity of earnings between Higuain and Karim Benzema. Jorge Valdano, the Sporting Director, commenced that negotiations with his representatives is going on and both the parties will be in a position over the next few days to make an announcement.

Higuain got injury on Saturday evening and returned back to a rapturous reception from the home support. He sealed a 3-0 win over the Espanyol with a sublime finish.

Marcelo and Esteban Granero, the team-mates, heaped praise on Higuain after the match. The player said that he believes La Liga title is within their reach.

The injured Felipe Luis was replaced by the moving Manuel Pablo from the right, by Deportivo and he also drafted Lauri into the side. Riki and Bodipo were also in the bench because of some physical problem and the team suffered because of this.

Though, the Real Madrid is lacking with its star players, it started taking the lead in 13 minutes. Laure was failed to deal with Raul Albiol, the header.

In the mid week, after playing a Copa del Rey quarter final, the Real Madrid was playing well. Before half time, Benezema scored the second five minutes.

Ronaldo was healthy once more for the November 29 “Clasico” gone to Barcelona, but might not stop a thin 1-0 beat. The year finished with Barca Charming the globe association beaker and thus claims six trophy in 2009, a novel global evidence.

On Sunday Madrid woke up in an unattractive broad mist followed by unrelenting grey light rain. The realization of it is that the mainly luxurious players in global football history will be on the road due to failure.

The Madrid spent a huge amount similar to football betting. An astonishing 260 million euros (374 million dollars) preceding summer on 8 innovative group of players, counting Cristiano Ronaldo, by far the mainly exclusive player in football narration.

His contract is finishing at the end of this season, even though in his contract there is a clause that stipulates the prolongation of the contract for another year at Racing Santander. However, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool were able to start negotiations with the player. Real is a bit further, being already started the negotiations directly with the player, is stated in Marca.

Fernando Gago added further, “I do not see myself anywhere else. I know that today I have a contract at Real Madrid and I have to earn a place, so I must fight to earn a place in the team.”

He also mentioned that he must continue his working effort every time and he knows that a chance comes to him every time and he must take full advantage of it.

Fernando Gago resumed to action for Los Merengues by playing the complete 90 minutes in which they won by 2-0 over Mallorca at the Bernabeu.

This was the first involvement of Gago with the Los Merengues after he humiliating Copa del Rey exit at the hands of lowly Alcorcon.

He is yet to make his first-team debut for Primera Division giants. He has spent most of his two years at the playing for reserves. He is said to be strengthening the Bundesliga side ahead of the second half of the season.

Thomas Tuchel, the coach of Mainz said, “He is just the player we wanted in attack… He is versatile and can play as a target man, as a second striker or even behind the forwards.”

In the past also Tuchel has worked with Szalai. He has coached him in 2004 when he was in charge of Stuttgart’s youth team. Then Szalai joined from Ujpest Budapest to the Swabians. After this Szalai moved to Real Madrid, but he is seen to be happy in coming back in the Bundesliga.

Tuchel mentioned on the official website of the club, “I have chosen Mainz because the club really tried hard to get me and I know the coach Thomas Tuchel from when I was at Stuttgart.” He also added there, “I also see good perspectives for me and the club.”

The Madrid has notably rebuffed interest from Jonathan Cicero Moreira of Brazilian side Cruzeiro. Moreira is seen keen to be moving to the Spanish capital.

Even Real Madrid will not be letting others also to leave this winter like Argentine Gago. Earlier it was seen that he has sparked interest from Juventus and Boca Junior.

The Spanish media also noted recently that Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the Dutch striker, who has been mostly sidelined this season. He, however, had received green signal of leave the club this winter, and perhaps to the Liverpool.

Real Madrid has spent 250 million euros under new chairman Florentino Perez, who took over last summer. The club has spent in getting expensive players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Kaka and Xabi Alonso.