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Bury continued their impressive form in the new League Two season after managing a 2-1 win over Accrington Stanley. This result means that the team has been unbeaten in the last four matches, while this run includes only two dropped points. This sees Bury only three points behind table leaders Burton Albion in what is turning out to be an intense fight for the top of the table in this year’s League Two season. Despite having played five matches, the top six teams are separated by just three points. Bury did not make a great start to the season after losing 1-0 against Cheltenham Town in the opening game of the season.

However, they have since recovered to put together an incredible run of form, but there was a danger of Accrington inflicting a defeat on the home team. The visitors took the lead in the 19th minute through Naismith. For long periods of the match, Bury were the dominating force and it was not pleasing to see them get ahead in front just after the hour mark. Danny Rose had equalised in the first half before Danny Mayor’s 62 minute goal that eventually turned out to be the winner.

The last 15 minutes were extremely nervous for the home team because of McNulty receiving his marching orders due to his second yellow card.

“We had to grind it out so I have to give Accrington credit. In the first half they gave us more problems than most teams. They passed it well and we weren’t at the races. We didn’t get to grips with their shape, so I was delighted to come in at the break 1-1 and not be a goal down. In the second half I saw a better performance from most of our players. With 11 men we took the game to them, forced them onto the back foot and created some decent chances,” said Flitcroft.

With James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos officially signing with Real Madrid, the task is now up to Carlo Ancelotti to make the dream team work as he has to find a way to balance the team out in a team that is filled with superstars in almost every position of the team.

Toni Kroos and James Rodriguez both stood out in the 2014 World Cup with a series of impressive performances throughout the entire tournament and these performances lured the attention from the Spanish club, Real Madrid who were willing to spend a combined total of around €92 million for both players.

The German midfielder was given the chance to play in the centre of the midfield where he transformed into an all-around midfielder as he averaged 95.3 passes per game with a 94% success rate according to whoscored.com. Toni Kroos already has experience playing in big clubs such as: Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich.

James Rodriguez on the other hand is accustomed to switching to different leagues and clubs around the world as he started his career by playing in a local club in Colombia before moving to Argentina, Portugal, France and now Spain as he will be joining the likes of: C.Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale, and other world class players.

Carlo Ancelotti now has all the elements needed in order to turn his current team into a side that can battle against any other team out there. The Preseident of Real Madrid, Fiorentino Perez continues spending astronomically high amounts of money with the objective of further upgrading the squad. David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Luis Figo and Raul were the main figures behind the ‘Galacticos’ team of some years ago but Fiorentina Perez is building the next version of the previous squad which helped them securing some of the most prestigious titles in the world of soccer.