In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Real Madrid and Barcelona have two of the most talented, and expensively assembled, teams in world football. But who would make a combined XI out of the two squads based, not on reputation, but on current form? Allow me to get ahead of the fury of the comments section. If you're Ancelotti do you pick Ronaldo? Of course you do. Cristiano Ronaldo may be the World Player of the Year, but on current form he doesn't make combined XI Our combined XI, which has no place for Ronaldo, but does feature some of the world's best players Ronaldo hasn't scored a league goal from open play in a month, and Gareth Bale is preferred on the wingReal Madrid travel to the Nou Camp to face Barcelona on SundayBarca are top of the league, one point ahead of their great rivalsCristiano Ronaldo is out of form this year, so misses out on Clasico teamBut Messi, Bale and Suarez make up formidable front three 
 Question:There is also only one player who has scored with a direct free-kick for _ this season... and it isn’t Ronaldo it’s Bale.
Real Madrid

From awkwardly handing a beggar some change, to failing at eating a bacon sandwich, it is fair to say Labour spin doctors have so far failed to make Ed Miliband look cool. But now Twitter users are attempting to give the somewhat uninspiring party leader a makeover, by editing his face on to famous men's bodies. From Hollywood legends Marlon Brando and Harrison Ford, to astronaut Neil Armstrong and even TV's latest heart-throb Poldark, these images prove there is nothing that photoshop cannot achieve. Scroll down for video Ed, Ed Miliband: In an attempt to make the Labour leader look cool, Twitter users have begun editing his face on to the body of famous men, including Daniel Craig as James Bond in movie Casino RoyaleEd Miliband has history of appearing awkwardly in front of the cameraTwitter account aims to reinvent Labour leader as a symbol of coolMiliband's face edited on to famous men's bodies such as Daniel Craig 
 Question:Cool _, which was created just last Saturday, has already posted 45 images of the Labour leader, and has attracted 3,500 followers.
Ed Miliband

(CNN) -- He is arguably the most well-known American general since MacArthur, and perhaps the most effective since Eisenhower. Now Gen. David Petraeus takes on what many believe will be his biggest challenge yet: reversing the momentum of the Taliban in Afghanistan and helping to stabilize the rickety regime of Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Petraeus faced far more daunting challenges in Iraq when he assumed command there in early 2007. Those challenges, and how they were overcome, are worth recalling as he assumes command in Afghanistan, as they may provide some indicators of the way forward there. First, Iraq was embroiled in a vicious civil war in which Shia and Sunni civilians were showing up dead on the streets of Iraq's cities at the rate of 90 a day, some tortured in the most unspeakable manner, their heads drilled open.Gen. David Petraeus, who has a Ph.D. from Princeton, wrote the book on counterinsurgencyPeter Bergen says Petraeus accomplished a huge turnaround in IraqThe general took many steps to gain public support for U.S. efforts in Iraq, Bergen saysHe notes Petraeus has said Afghanistan will be harder 
 Question:There were also shifting dynamics on the ground in _ that would make the additional combat brigades of the surge a force multiplier rather than simply more cannon fodder for Iraq's insurgents.

Iraq