Chapter 1487 Isn't This Too Wretched?

On the morning of April 11th, Yang Yang woke up on the soft bed in his bedroom as usual on time.

Every morning after waking up, the first thing he did was to turn his head and look to the side, only to find that his wife, Su Ye, who was sleeping next to him, had already woken up, but the bed was still warm, so it was probably time to prepare breakfast for him.

Today is the match day, tonight Real Madrid will face Juventus at the Bernabéu Stadium.

Since Yang Yang and Zidane coached the first team, Real Madrid canceled the tradition of staying in a hotel the day before the home game, but allowed the players to stay at home independently and live with their relatives, so as to avoid the players' pre-match problems to the greatest extent. tension.

Of course, this also requires players to have sufficient self-discipline.

Judging from the past three years, Real Madrid's players have done well, at least there has been no trouble.

Yang Yang was still the same as usual, he got up after waking up and went directly to the bathroom.

When he came out after brushing his teeth and washing his face, he took the mobile phone from the bedside table and walked out of the room, preparing to go downstairs for dinner.

Turning on the screen of the mobile phone while walking, Yang Yang was shocked by the news pushed by the mobile phone.

"Wow, isn't this crazy?"

Yang Yang was shocked. When he walked down the stairs, he saw his wife Su Ye coming out wearing an apron. Seeing his expression when he went downstairs, he said in a complicated way: "Barcelona fell into the pit away."

"Well, I just saw it." Yang Yang shook his phone.

Instead of going directly to the dining room and kitchen, Yang Yang walked directly to the living room after going down the stairs, making a phone call while walking.

"Did you watch the game last night?"

As soon as the phone was connected, Yang Yang immediately asked.

"Didn't you watch it?" Zidane on the other side of the phone asked without answering.

"I thought I was going to win, so I went to bed early." Talking on the phone, Yang Yang walked to the front door of the living room, looking out at the garden outside through the glass wall, vaguely, "Barcelona really fell into the big game this time." It's in the pit."

"It's been three consecutive seasons," Zidane reminded.

Yang Yang was reminded, and immediately remembered.

Last season, Barcelona suffered two disastrous defeats. First, they lost 0-4 away to Paris Saint-Germain in the top 16 knockout round. San lost to Juventus again, 0-0 at home.

The previous season, in the quarterfinals, Barcelona first defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 at home, but lost 0-2 in the second round at the Calderón Stadium, and was reversed by Atletico Madrid.

And this season it's at it again.

A week ago, in the first leg match between Barcelona and Roma, they defeated Roma 4-1 at home.

Although after this game, Barcelona was criticized to a certain extent, because the victory was achieved by the two own goals of Rome, and Barcelona did not show the level of steadily winning the opponent throughout the game, but in the end it is the victory. And it was a four-to-one victory.

The reason why Yang Yang didn't even watch the game last night and went to bed early was because he felt that there was basically no suspense whether it was Barcelona or Liverpool. The former beat Manchester City 4-1 at home and Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-0 at home. Basically, there shouldn't be any suspense in the second round.

Unexpectedly, Liverpool's side was indeed safe and sound, but Barcelona suffered a perfect 3-0 reversal by Rome.

This is no accident!

Absolutely not by accident!

No team will be reversed by their opponents in the Champions League knockout rounds for three consecutive seasons, or be completely defeated by a big score, but only Barcelona has done this for three consecutive seasons.

Across the phone, many things can't be explained clearly.

Yang Yang and Zidane hung up after chatting for a while, went to the restaurant to have breakfast, bid farewell to Su Ye and his precious son Yang Guang who had just woken up, told them to be careful when they went to watch the game tonight, and then drove to Baer Debebas.

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"Valverde made the same mistake that Unai Emery made last season!"

In the Real Madrid coach's office, analyst David Bertoni analyzed the game and came to his own conclusions.

"Actually, judging from the first round, Barcelona had no effective way to face Roma's defensive formation in the first 30 minutes. At that time, Roma formed a four-five formation with Dzeko in front. , midfielder Nainggolan was absent, so five midfielders were selected."

"The turning point of that game was De Rossi's own goal, which greatly disrupted Roma's deployment, and then the defense lost stability. In the 30 minutes before the own goal, Roma's performance was perfect. Barça left any good chances, but two own goals changed everything and confused Ernesto Valverde."

"In the two games, Valverde did not change even one player. He still firmly believes that the four midfielders of Iniesta, Rakitic, Busquets and Roberto can continue to suppress Rome as in the first round. , took control of the game again, but he forgot, Nainggolan is back."

"Nayinggolan's comeback has qualitatively improved Roma's midfield pressing and running coverage, especially the pressing and pressing of Barcelona's midfield, but Barcelona is not mentally prepared for this. Not only that, Roma He also changed his formation and adopted a three-five-two formation, but in fact, Kolarov and Florenzi on the two wings often retreated and retracted."

"In the opening six minutes, De Rossi made a long pass from the center circle. Dzeko stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area and then stabbed the goal with his left foot. Not long after the start of the second half, Pique's foul on Dzeko resulted in a penalty, which sentenced Barcelona to death."

After finishing his analysis of the game in one breath, David Bertoni smiled gloatingly, "Don't stare at the three-to-zero score, in fact, if the Roma team's ability to seize opportunities is a little bit higher , not to mention anything else, as long as the excellent opportunity can be grasped, then this match will be at least 5-0, or even 6-0."

Everyone in the coach's office was lost in thought.

Barcelona's away defeat sounded a wake-up call for Real Madrid, because Rome was almost playing against Barcelona's weakness.

As David Bertoni said, if Rome had a better ability to seize opportunities, then Barcelona would lose even worse.

And Real Madrid will face Juventus tonight, whose strength is obviously higher than that of Rome.

More importantly, Barcelona remained unchanged, leading to a disastrous away game, while Real Madrid's main central defender Ramos was absent this round.

"This game is indeed worthy of our attention, and it also sounded a wake-up call for us." Zidane's face also became serious.

No matter who it is, before a decisive battle, seeing the mortal enemy lose like this, will inevitably be worried.

"I think the lesson we should learn from this game is that we should not give our opponents any chance." Yang Yang said very seriously, "Juventus scored 4-0 at home, and their morale was indeed greatly depressed at the time, but Now that Rome has reversed, what do you think Juventus will think?"

Roma's big reversal is tantamount to cheering Juventus up, letting the Bianconeri see that even Roma can reverse Barcelona, ​​so how could Juventus have no chance to reverse Real Madrid?

"The absence of Ramos will have a great impact on our backcourt. After all, he is the captain of the team." Zidane agrees with Yang Yang.

Yang Yang kept nodding, "So, we can't take risks, and we can't give Juventus a chance."

After a pause, Yang Yang said again: "Roma's frontcourt attack relies on Dzeko. In the first round of Juventus, Higuain's performance was sluggish. Allegri knows that we are not afraid of Higuain, so I think Mandzukic Will start, just like last season in the Champions League final."

"It's very possible." Zidane agreed very much, "Then let Harvey Martinez come to the right side, cooperate with Azpilicueta, and stare at Mandzukic."

"The other central defender, I think, should be Vermaelen. He is fast, more flexible, and has more experience defending against Higuain."

"That's right, that's fine, but we still need a midfielder. Casemiro has to play. Toni Kroos and Modric still play as three midfielders?" Zidane looked at Yang Yang inquiringly.

"Both Hazard and Isco are pinned, let Kanter go." Yang Yang suggested.

"Kanter?" Zidane and everyone were a little surprised.

The combination of Casemiro and Kanter is not the first time, but it is also extremely rare, because the two defensive midfielders start at the same time, Real Madrid's midfield control will become very weak, which is obviously telling the opponent, we To fight back.

"Juventus' midfield in the first leg was blown up by us. Allegri will definitely change. The effect of Nainggolan should stimulate him. Don't forget, there is also a Matui in the Juventus team. Dee."

After a pause, Yang Yang continued: "Khedira will definitely start. If Matuidi plays again, the only one left is Pjanic. If we let Kanter play, we will grab Pjanic. If the ball is broken, we will be the first one." Fight back!"

Zidane, David Bertoni and others all looked at each other in blank dismay, and then all of them smiled wryly.

This is too obscene, right?

However, let’s not say it, in a game like the Champions League knockout round, promotion is always more important than playing well.

Especially like now, Juventus will definitely fight Real Madrid, so is Real Madrid willing to fight Juventus?

Neither Yang Yang nor Zidane has this kind of confidence, because of the 4-0 advantage in the first round, the players must not be as good as Juventus in terms of fighting spirit.

Sometimes it's like this, when your opponent fights you with your life, but you don't have the courage to do so, then you will be miserable.

"Suarez don't play, let Mbappe play, his speed will be more threatening, Suarez saves his strength to play the second half."

"It makes sense." Zidane nodded, "But in this case, won't the home court be too ugly?"

After finishing speaking, everyone in the coach's office burst into laughter, even Yang Yang couldn't help but smile a little.

In this way, Real Madrid played too conservatively.

But there is no way, who made Juventus aggressive?

With Real Madrid's current strength, if they are slightly inferior to their opponents in terms of morale and fighting spirit, when Juventus came to the Bernabeu with the determination to break the boat, Real Madrid really didn't have enough confidence to go head-to-head with their opponents.

It is very normal to go to Kanter.