Ridin’ High

By: Cesar | September 27th, 2007

Looks like our mini-crisis has passed.
Maybe Franky, the poster from Chicago had it right all along.

Valencia looked good again yesterday, defeating Getafe 2-1 at the Mestalla.
But before we go crowning our boys World Heavyweight Champions, let’s see who we’ve beaten:

- Real Betis, 18th in the league with 2 points from 5 games.
- Getafe, 19th in the league with 2 points from 5 games.
- Valladolid, 12th in the league with 5 points from 5 games.
- Almeria, 8th in the league with 7 points from 5 games.

We’re not talking about world beaters here.

But still, I’m not here to rain on the parade.
I think we’ve looked a lot better the past few weeks. It looks like Quique’s strategy of getting back to the basics has panned out so far. For that, you have to give the man credit.

I didn’t see the game (again), but read that Villa was all over the place, dazzling as always, that Timo let in a soft goal and that Silva scored, but didn’t have the greatest game.

Anyone else have some observations?
Anyone have ANY ideas on how I can watch these matches?? It’s pretty frustrating to blog about a team and never watch them play! Maybe someone knows where I can watch a replay of the matches online? Download them to my iPod? ANYTHING??

Now it’s on to Recreativo Huelva, 7th in the league with 8 points. We should win.

Why not, right?
After that, a midweek clash with a club in distress, Chelsea. No more Special One and a new coach (Roman Abramovich) should mean an easy victory.

Then again, we could be talking about our club being in crisis again in a few weeks.

*Note:
I’m writing for a new blog along with some fellow Offside.com Spain writers!
Corey from the Real Madrid blog and Ryan from the Sevilla blog invited me to contribute some posts for a brand-new La Liga new blog, Hay Liga!.

As the tagline of the new blog says, ‘¡Hay Liga! was founded in September of 2007 with the goal of being one of the major sources for La Liga news, in English. Most of the La Liga news is obviously in Spanish, and thus for those of us who want to follow the game, but don’t speak Spanish, coverage is, shall we say, lacking. Thus Ryan, Cesar and Corey, who are all established bloggers at The Offside will bring you all of the La Liga coverage that you can handle.’

Make sure to check it out! My latest article concerns our former national team captain, Fernando Hierro. Enjoy!!

And PLEASE, someone tell me how to watch these games. It’s too frustrating now …