M is for Motivation

By Dominic Vieira, writing from Lancaster, England

French fortunes and MARCA headlines are radically transforming throughout the Spanish capital as Real Madrid’s golden Cristiano Ronaldo remains sidelined whilst Karim Benzema continues to blossom and score under Jose Mourinho. After hat-trick hero Ronaldo hobbled off during the team’s 7-0 thrashing over Malaga, a new talisman was needed but that solution was already on the field as a French striker netted two goals in that fixture.

Real Madrid’s number nine was heavily criticised by the Portuguese manager throughout pre-season and started the campaign on the bench which would disappoint any player of this calibre. However, the second round of La Liga has been the spark in his fairly dim Madrid career, he’s scored 8 goals in the last 9 games in which 6 were evenly scored in the past 3. The spark was not consistently appearing in the first team, dedicating or scoring goals; the catalyst behind it all was Mourinho, the motivator.

(Source: philosofooty)