Chapter 974 A Game that Doesn't Belong to Guardiola

In the Champions League in the middle of the week, Yang Yang did not play, and he did not even enter the squad.

Everyone knows that against Dinamo Zagreb at home, the probability of Real Madrid winning the opponent is very high, and there is no need to use the nuclear weapon Yang Yang at all.

And the facts have proved that it is.

In the opening two minutes, David Silva assisted Ibrahimovic to score.

In the seventh minute, Ibrahimovic assisted Robben to score.

Then in the ninth minute, Morata received Abeloa's cross and scored, extending the score to 3-0.

In the 20th minute, Ibrahimovic assisted Modric to score again.

In the second half, after changing sides and fighting again, Varane made a long pass from the backcourt. Robben easily turned offside and dashed the ball into the penalty area all the way, scoring a single goal, extending the score to 5-0 for Real Madrid.

After that, Morata and Ibrahimovic played a quick cooperation and went straight to the penalty area. After Ibrahimovic leaned on the defender with his body, he stopped and took him directly into the penalty area. than zero.

After winning the big score, Real Madrid relaxed the offensive, Dinamo Zagreb counterattacked to preserve his dignity, and then scored a goal. In the end, Real Madrid was at home with Ibrahimovic's excellent performance, six. Biyi rout Dinamo Zagreb.

With five consecutive victories in the group, Real Madrid has no suspense to qualify as the first in the group.

But what surprised the team even more was Modric.

The Croatian midfielder was praised by the media as "white Xavi" after the game, meaning that he was Real Madrid's midfielder Xavi.

Judging from this game, although he only scored one goal, after partnering with David Silva, he firmly helped Real Madrid lock the midfield, allowing Real Madrid to play very smoothly in the first 70 minutes. A wave after wave of offensives was organized.

According to the comments of the media after the game, Real Madrid not only has possession of the ball, but also has a threatening attack. Even if the players in the frontcourt are better at grasping opportunities, they should score at least five or six goals in the first half.

"He is a keen and insightful player!" Marca applauded after the game.

The Real Madrid locker room is also very positive on Modric's performance, especially four months after joining the team, the Croatian midfielder is obviously getting better and better. Midfielders like Leyla and Xavi Alonso have special preferences.

If the existence of Xavi Martinez and Mascherano ensures Real Madrid's midfield defense, then in Ancelotti's mind, these four midfielders represent Real Madrid's midfield organization ability and creativity.

And Kaka is still working hard for the transformation, but there is really not much time left for him.

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At 20:00 on the evening of November 26, Madrid Bernabeu Stadium.

The fourteenth round of La Liga, the Madrid derby, Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid.

It's a derby, but you can't see the enthusiasm of the crowd, because Atletico Madrid has not won a derby for 12 years, which is a very scary number.

Before each derby, they vowed to break the fate of the past, but after each game, they failed to reverse the situation, and always fell at the feet of the hated Real Madrid again.

Former President Hill once said that as long as you can win Real Madrid, it doesn't matter if you lose to the world!

This sentence has always been the motto of Atletico Madrid, and this season's sheet army is also spending a lot of money, introducing stars such as the standard king Falcao, and the team also has powerful players such as Diego, Savio and Felipe, Among them, Felipe is Yang Yang's friend during his time at Ajax.

The head coach Manzano was obviously well prepared. He defended at the start, blocked the first wave of Real Madrid's attack, and waited patiently for the opportunity. Finally, in the fifteenth minute, he played directly behind Marcelo and was launched by Savio on the right. Counterattack, Falcao successfully countered offside and hit the goal from a small angle, opening the scoring for Atletico Madrid.

It looked like a game tempo that was going to upset.

But Real Madrid is not a fuel-efficient lamp in its own home.

In the 24th minute, after Yang Yang got the ball in the middle, he turned to get rid of the defender, dribbled the ball forward, and went straight into the penalty area to find Ibrahimovic. This season, he has performed well after loaning to Atletico Madrid from Chelsea. Belgian goalkeeper Courtois was forced to abandon the goal, and without being able to stop Ibrahimovic, he directly knocked the Swedish center to the ground.

The referee gave a red card and a penalty kick. Ibrahimovic originally wanted to give it to Yang Yang, but Yang Yang refused and finally took the penalty himself and equalized the score for Real Madrid.

In the second half, after changing sides and fighting again, Real Madrid launched an offensive. Yang Yang forcibly broke through the cross from the left. Ibrahimovic in the middle deliberately missed, and Robben, who was at the back, followed up and hit the shot, reversing the score for Real Madrid.

In the 65th minute, Marcelo got the ball in the backcourt and launched a long pass to counterattack. Godin made a mistake. After Ibrahimovic grabbed the ball, Yang Yang broke into the penalty area and passed the substitute goalkeeper Asenho. , pushed the empty goal and succeeded, three to zero.

Then in the 82nd minute, Yang Yang passed the ball with his heel and cooperated with Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Godin fouled outside the penalty area and was sent off with a red card. Yang Yang took the free kick himself and took it overnight to expand the score again.

Four to one, in the end Real Madrid won Atletico Madrid at home with Yang Yang's two shots and one pass.

The 12-year derby unbeaten record has been extended again after this game.

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When Real Madrid won 4-1 at home to Atletico Madrid, the Barcelona team was in Madrid, but at another stadium, Getafe's Alfonso Perez Stadium, waiting to kick off.

In the middle of the week, Barcelona suffered a hard fight on the road. In the face of AC Milan, who fell behind twice and equalized twice, Barcelona finally assisted Xavi to score a key goal and defeated AC Milan 3-2 on the road. After trailing Real Madrid, he qualified first in the group and advanced to the round of 16.

After the game, Guardiola's three-four-three style of play was appreciated by all the media and fans, and many people even compared it with Cruyff's dream team's three-four-three play, because Guardiola is The core player of the Dream Team.

But perhaps it was because of the high consumption of players due to the deadly fight against AC Milan in the middle of the week, or because of other reasons, in the weekend away game against Getafe, Guardiola returned to the back four.

The lineup is neat and the main force is out. Even the newly joined No. 9 winger Sanchez has returned from injury and formed a trident with Messi and Villa. The Fonso Perez Stadium had nothing to do with Getafe's defense. Instead, in the 67th minute, Real Madrid's youth training player Sarabia passed a corner kick and assisted Barrera to score a header.

In the final stage of the game, Messi also hit the goal after the chest stopped in the penalty area, but he pursued the angle too much and hit the post, which failed to help Barcelona equalize the score.

In this way, Barcelona lost 0-1 away to Getafe and suffered their first defeat of the new season.

After this battle, the points gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid further widened to eight points.

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After the game, there was dead silence in the visiting locker room at the Alfonso Perez Stadium.

Guardiola didn't say a word from the moment he walked into the dressing room, just sat in his seat blankly, with his head down, as if he was worried about something.

This is not a game for him!

It's not the team he wants either!

If Athletic Bilbao's San Mames is a place where any team could drop a point, then at the Alfonso Perez Stadium, failing to take a single point away from Getafe, This is definitely problematic.

where is the problem?

Messi, Villa, Pedro, Sanchez, Cesc Fabregas, Iniesta...

Barcelona's midfield attack is definitely not weak, and some people have even estimated the price. This set of strikers is worth at least 200 million euros, even if it is not inferior to Real Madrid, but the problem now is that the team faces Getafe. , it is difficult to even score a goal.

Villa's form has slipped too fast, Sanchez has not yet integrated into the team, but these are not problems.

Outsiders don’t know, but Guardiola himself is very clear that the biggest problem with Barcelona today is its dependence on Messi.

It's as if Benitez's Real Madrid relied too much on Yang Yang on the offensive end.

This season, Messi has taken 70 shots, and the Barcelona team has taken 217 shots. Messi alone accounts for more than 30% of the shots, and the Argentine star has scored 15 so far. The team only scored 38 goals, a ratio of 40%, but Messi has only 5 assists this season, a very obvious drop.

That said, Messi is gradually transforming into a scorer, which was not the case with Messi before.

Let's just say that last season, he swept everything in the frontcourt. Except for corner kicks, he was involved in almost all of Barcelona's attacks, so his goals and assists have created career highs.

But this season, Messi is occupying more shooting opportunities and reducing his investment in other aspects, so this part of his reduction, in the current Barcelona team, no one can fill it, but he is squeezed by him. Shooting resources, compressed the performance of other players such as Villa.

The final problem has become like this. When Messi is not in ideal condition, or when he is tired, there is a problem with Barcelona's offense. What's worse, Guardiola, as the head coach, has nothing to say about this. .

He knows that Messi wants to compete with Yang Yang, and both Barcelona and Barcelona fans want to see a more ambitious Messi, but the result is that the team has problems.

What the management means is that, like Real Madrid, the team and tactics are built around Messi, and the resources are maximally tilted towards Messi, and he will be trained into a superstar like Yang Yang.

But this is not what Guardiola wants to see, because the biggest difference between Messi and Yang Yang is that he is too emotional, while Yang Yang is always so calm, so stable, and even sometimes makes people wonder if he is a robot.

Guardiola has no way to bet the fate of his team on a player who is easily influenced by emotions, whether it is Messi or Yang Yang!