Rotations despite Barca defeat

Jose Mourinho still believes, as the vast majority of Real Madrid, the league is impossible. Nor defeat Barca in Anoeta, which could leave Madrid 15 points behind Barca win in Mestalla, or the accumulation of two consecutive punctures rival impregnable suggest that the League is possible.

Thus, everything indicates that the Portuguese reserve some players for Wednesday's game, also at the Mestalla, looking for the Cup semifinals Casillas, Xabi Alonso, Di Maria, Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo can best start on the bench at Mestalla . Very different is Wednesday.

Crop for the first time
It is a symptom of how things are going in the League to Real Madrid. On the first day of the second round the team of Jose Mourinho can for the first time all season the gap on Barcelona, although it seems too late.

From the first day, in which whites lost just two points before his opponent this Sunday, Valencia (1-1 at the Bernabeu), the reigning champion of the league has not done more to lose points over its rival , almost incontestable leader of the championship.

In direct confrontation between the Camp Nou, Real Madrid had opportunities to shorten three points, although the final tie (2-2) left things as they were at the time.

The difference has grown to the current 18 point gap, which could run in 15 whites if they are victorious in a complicated field Mestalla. Although it consiguiesen, and although the club collects for the first time this season without winning consecutive games (against Malaga in Copa and in Anoeta against Real), the feeling will remain that of an impossibility