Comfortably the Champions League's all-time leading scorer, predatory striker Raúl González Blanco finally opened his account in the Europa League to fire former champion Schalke into the knockout stage.
The legend scored a 57th-minute winner as Schalke sealed first place in Group J by beating Steaua Bucharest 2-1 in Gelsenkirchen. Yet, Raúl has been failed to find the net in four Europa League matches before breaking his duck against Steaua, pouncing on a loose ball to steer home a close-range finish after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's shot was blocked by Eric Bicfalvi.
The first goal in Europa League makes him "unreachable" at the top of the list of all-time leading scorers with 74 historical goals in all UEFA European competition, 4goals away from the nearest challenger Italian opportunist striker AC.Milan's Filippo Inzaghi.
"It is great to play alongside him (Raúl) because he is very experienced, clever, and has seen so much." - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
"Raúl's goal was the result of an individual mistake of us , but everyone knows that you can't make a single mistake if he (Raúl) is on the field." - Ilie Stan, Steaua coach
"Playing against player like Raúl González gave us extra motivation, shame we were losing concentration for some minutes and player like him (Raúl) just needed few seconds to change the game." -Geraldo Alves, Steaua defender
Maybe Schalke is the luckiest team in the world, why? because they got the best striker in the history of football, Raul Gonzalez Blanco.
The match of spieltag 19 in the AWD-Arena began entertaining. Both teams started committed, but could be first to miss some considerable precision pass relay races in the final ball. chance After chance, Lukas Schmitz was sent to the left, the left-back crossed accurately from the box. There, the lurking Raul was against his opponent by and completed with the left foot from close range to the guide (33). it was an amazing goal from the Prince of Madrid, it been prove his class, that he's not over yet.
Ironically, Real Madrid is currently in desperate need of a great striker, after an awful injury of Gonzalo Higuain and the 'over-rated striker' Karim Benzema could never showed why he is extremely pricey.
well... maybe God has a plan, maybe Florentino Perez is now wondering why he hasn't noticed that Real Madrid is actually already got the best striker in the world since 16 years ago, and unfortunately that man is already wearing a blue shirt with Schalke logo on his chest and that man couldn't stop scoring a goal till this minute.
At the start of voting for Player of the Month Raul and Manuel Neuer were almost level, but at the end ,the Spanish striker had the better end in itself. In the voting on schalke04.de he could ultimately prevail against the winner of the previous months of November and October.
The Hat-trick from the game against 1.FC Cologne recorded 46 percent of the total 3667 votes cast for themselves. In second place was Manuel Neuer with 35.8% of the vote, Jefferson Farfan was third (17.8%).
this award is just another fact how great he is, Raul Gonzalez blanco is not over yet
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Congratulations!
Raul: 46.4 % (1702)
Manuel Neuer: 35.8 % (1312)
Jefferson Farfan: 17.8 % (653)
Schalke is back to the race in the Bundesliga thanks to a hat-trick from Raul with a brilliant 3-0 home victory over Cologne.
Became the first, The half-hour, el siete headed in a pass from Rakitic, who took advantage of a defensive mistake Schorch. Five minutes after the break, Raul again demonstrated that instinct remains intact and, after a poor clearance after a shot of Farfán, shot on goal with his left foot. If that was not enough, The Angel of Madrid completed the task with two minutes remaining with a header after a free kick from Edu, which led 3-0.
In the final minute coach Felix Magath changed Raul so the living legend of football could enjoy an standingovation from the 62,000 fans at the stadium. El siete, with 11 goals in 20 games played with the Royal blues, has made clear he still has a lot of rope. In fact, the fifth scorer in the Bundesliga with nine goals.Schalke joins his fifth straight home win with a total of 15 goals scored.
Raul : "Physically I feel great, I know this competition little by little and became more and more each day, where many equality, this is a solid tournament and the fact is : that scoring goals is a stimulus for me to restore my confidence in a club that always bet for me since the first time. Now we must continue with the same humility as always to keep progressing, ".
"The fans have turned me on from the day one and for all of them are my goals. I'm living one of the most beautiful moments of my life. It's a new experience for me and my family. And bounce they have given me today when I left the field has been unforgettable, "he added
Raul, is clearly became a new symbol of Bundesliga
Felix Magath : "Raul is our most important player, not only in the game, but in the way of understanding and work on team play,His first goal today is truly class player, was not easy to beat his opponent with one stroke. He is accepted by everyone, his teammates and is looking fit. Run, run a lot, sometimes even too" .
Schalke out of the crisis in the Bundesliga with 2-0 win at Bayern. The goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Raul and Jurado earned top marks the party, while Van Bommel highlighted by a hardness that it should have received a red card.In the first half everything pointed to a victory Bavarian, but FC.Hollywood wasted so many clear chances, Gomez, Kroos and Ribéry, well because of the pole as in the case of Schweinsteiger, either by goalkeeper Neuer reacted repeatedly the right time.
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In return what happened had to happen: Raul, who just received a pass, went into the area, but Huntelaar struck, the ball ended up in the boots of Jurado who shot to the top. Raul had to be replaced with a wound in the mouth, too bad!! but it's enough he's already inspiring his team-mate with that assist, after that the Ruhr boys became more confident till Höwedes make it 2-0 and Schalke finally ended up the big match with a smile on their face. Well done Schalker, Amazing Raul..!!
Raul is nominated for Bundesliga Goal of the month on November 2010 edition. after won the schalke Goal of the month, Raul is also nominated for the more prestigious award.
please vote for the Prince of Madrid follow the link below, and make sure you vote for el siete!!
thank you very much, muchas gracias, and vielen dank!!
TORero RAUL got more than 80% vote
Raul won the Schalke goal of the month award for November 2010 edition with his 3rd goal against Werder Bremen. That goal been voted for more than 80 %,to gave him an absolute victory.
as we know that goal was so Fantastic, he scored it with his right foot,a wonderful chip shot. Raul's trademark!!
congratulations don Raul...!!
here's the complete result for Schalke Goal of the month November 2010 :
Raul's 4:0 against Bremen: 83,8 %
Raul's 3:0 againstBremen: 6,6 %
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's 2:0 against Lyon: 4,4 %
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's 3:0 against Lyon: 3,2 %
Edu's 1:2 in Wolfsburg: 2 %
