Sunday, November 19, 2006

Guti dismissal left Capello fuming

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Real Madrid paid a fitting tribute to the late Ferenc Puskas in last night's 3-1 defeat of Racing Santander.

Real marked the occasion with a lone cellist playing during a minute's silence before the match while the giant screens at the Bernabeu showed a video montage of the much-respected Hungarian, who died on Friday at the age of 79.
Goals from Sergio Ramos, Jose Antonio Reyes and Mahamadou Diarra put Real on their way to a seventh league win, with Ezequiel Garay's spectacular reply for Racing little more than a consolation.
Guti saw red and afterwards coach Fabio Capello said: "That dismissal angered me in two ways. Firstly, because I was going to replace him with a youth player and secondly, now he is suspended for the Valencia game. Guti's send-off has cost a young boy his debut."
He went on: "We have created clear opportunities to score goals and Racing has been dangerous twice through the head of Zigic. The result is good and has merit.
"In the first-half we had opportunities, I warned yesterday that they are a team in good form after seven games without losing.
"It was not an easy game."