Real Madrid and Portugal are very similar. Casillas is better than Eduardo, Ozil is a million times better than Matins, and Higuain is better than Almeida, but I think Portugal is just good, if not better, on the wings and the defense. Danny is the attacking midfielder we need.Some posters here love him while others don't, but I really don't think that the doubters have seen him play in his true position.

He plays as an attacking midfielder between 2 wingers and behind one striker for Zenit. He is not a Rui Costa type of player who dictates the game with spectacular passing. He is a good passer, but he is a much more direct attacking mid like Joao Pinto. He is very quick and can easily dribble through defenders and create oppertunities with team mates. I know he plays in the Russian League which is similar in terms of quality to the Portuguese League, but he has had man of the match performances against Real Madrid and Manchester United as well. He is without doubt, better than Carlos Martins.

Lets hope C-Ron can keep this up. He's looked a lot better under the stewardship of Bento and Real seem to have gelled as a team. I was somewhat cautious abotu Ozil's ability to reproduce his World Cup form with Germany for Real Madrid but he has stepped up and shown than he is capable of playing consistently at a high level. Di Maria, C-Ron, Ozil, Higuain...just complete and utter filth (in a good way of course ;)

I would like to do a little compare and contrast for you guys really quickly so please be patient and maybe this will open up some eyes. I was speaking my father yesterday about how real madrid and portugal have similar qualities. When you look at the Defense carvalho and pepe make up the back and marcelo is similar to coentrao as both of those players like attacking and can stick with opposing wingers with pace and accurate tackling. The right back for madrid is sergio ramos and when bosingwa is healthy I think he is a better player then ramos. So in theory real madrid and portugal have the same defense. Ronaldo and Di Maria attack on the wings for madrid and on portugal Ronaldo and Nani do the same thing. I think Nani is a little better then Di Maria as of right now too. The players that madrid have that portugal does not is in ozil and higuain. Ozil can attack through the middle which frees up ronaldo and di maria on the outside. Moutinho is a good option but not quite ozil. I would like to see Varela maybe play that attacking center mid spot perhaps instead of moutinho but moutinho played well last time out for portugal. Almeida on his best day is similar to higuain but I like higuain better. What I am trying to get at is that if portugal can find an attacking center mid that can create and penetrate the opposing teams defense their is not much seperating the ALL star team of Madrid to Portugal. I thikn we can all agree that Club Teams are usually better than National teams so with that being said I am optomistic. What do you guys think?

Madrid is going to be very tough to beat this year. Ronaldinho was back tracking very slowly. His legs have given up on him these days. AC Milan are like the stars of the last decade. They were turtles moving forward and left huge gaps at the back. CR, Di Maria, and Ozil completely teared them apart. C.Ronaldo in the best form of his life right now. This will be his year of dominance. I hope he stays in form atleast for the Euro.

Ronaldo is king.

Great game from Carvalho also! Mourinho is the master!

It's like Brazillian Ronaldi, won it, lost it for a bit then won again two times in a row. He needs to regain the title again for all the haters.