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Chapter 1136 The Underrated Carlo Ancelotti
Yang Yang won the Golden Globe Award for the seventh consecutive year!

Barcelona scored another draw, and Real Madrid's lead expanded to eight points!
These two pieces of good news came one after another, making Real Madrid happy.

From the lively atmosphere in the Real Madrid locker room before training early the next morning, it is not difficult to see that everyone in the team felt a strong sense of self-confidence and were full of hope for the team's prospects this season.

Currently, Barcelona is even one point behind Atletico Madrid in third place.

Today, almost all the big and small media are asking questions, what happened to Messi?
This is a hard question to find an answer to.

I believe that even Barcelona coach Martino may not know the answer, otherwise, Barcelona would not be where it is today.

In the early stage of the season, everything looks good, the trident is getting better and better, and Barcelona is even more powerful, but how come it suddenly becomes what it is now?
Yang Yang is a player who is very keen on thinking and is also very good at thinking and analyzing. When everyone in the locker room is happily celebrating that Barcelona is behind, he is thinking about a question, that is, what crisis has Barcelona encountered?And how did Ancelotti lead the team to today this season?
This is a very interesting tactical question, because the start of the two teams is obviously different. Barcelona's start is much better than Real Madrid, especially the [-]-[-] in the first round, which can be said to have played an offensive storm.

In contrast, Real Madrid's start was accompanied by ups and downs. First, Xavi Alonso was injured, but the new aid Isco showed great power. Even David Silva was forced to sit on the bench, and Robben's position was gradually replaced by Di Maria this season...

It can be said that the problems and difficulties faced by Real Madrid after the start are much greater than those of Barcelona.

However, after several months of adjustments, Real Madrid gradually found a stable tactical style of play, and the team was re-formed, and then played offensive power in the next few months, and there were even many victories over Sevilla and Real Betis.

In contrast to Barcelona, ​​more and more problems have been exposed, especially after losing to Real Madrid.

From a player's point of view, Yang Yang and other Real Madrid players didn't feel what Ancelotti had done, and the training was still the same, but the main lineup this season was not very stable.

But Yang Yang knew that sometimes, on the surface, he didn't do anything, but in fact he did a lot.

If you pay close attention to all the matches of Real Madrid this season, it is not difficult to find a phenomenon. Isco has gradually come out of the amazing period. From the eye-catching at the beginning of the season, he has gradually returned to normal, and David Silva has also returned to the starting lineup.

Even to a certain extent, after Harvey Alonso came back, it was more difficult to regain his main position, because his competitors became Mascherano or Illarramendi.

Real Madrid's midfield configuration is generally David Silva and Modric's partner, plus a delayed midfielder, the main force is Mascherano, and Harvey Martinez still appears more in the defense now.

And the team's return to stable performance is inseparable from the midfield configuration.

David Silva and Modric are two very interesting players. They are both just over 1.7 meters tall, not tall, with thin feet. They both have strong dribbling and passing abilities, and they have a very wide vision...

All in all, according to the outside media and fans, they are all the top midfielders in the world, with good offense and defense. Among them, David Silva's defensive statistics this season are also very eye-catching. The steals in the game against Real Betis reached four times.

Obviously, under the stimulation of Isco, David Silva is also transforming and improving.

Of course, this is a general statement.

When everyone describes midfielders like Harvey Alonso, Modric, David Silva, Iniesta, and Harvey, the adjectives are generally those, but as their teammates on the court, Yang Yang feels a little deeper.

The player David Silva was born as a winger. He first played as a wing midfielder. He is a bit similar to Zidane, but what is interesting is that he is short in height, flexible in body, and weak in confrontation ability.

Many people say that David Silva is like Iniesta, which is indeed the case at first glance, but Yang Yang doesn’t think so. Instead, he thinks David Silva is like Messi, because both of them are very good at dribbling the ball in small steps, and both dare to and can create opportunities with the ball in front of two or three defensive players on the opponent.

Of course, David Silva is definitely slightly worse than Messi.

For example, both like to bring the ball out of the crowd, which requires a lot of changes of direction. Messi does a good job in this regard, and David Silva is slightly weaker, mainly because he is not as flexible as Messi in this regard.

Don't underestimate the flexibility, which affects the number of touches, which in turn affects the control of the ball.

For example, the Super Training Ground has analyzed Messi's dribbling. He can run ten steps in only [-] seconds when facing multiple defenders at a time. During these ten steps, he touched the ball four times and changed direction three times, all of which were carried out in dense defense. This is a terrifying ability.

David Silva ran [-] steps in [-] seconds, touched the ball five times and changed directions three times.

This is the gap between David Silva and Messi.

But the comparison is Messi. If compared with other top midfielders in the world, David Silva is not inferior.

If you put these boring numbers on the court, you will see that Messi can bring the ball out of the three-team defense with ease, but David Silva can't do it. He can only pass the ball at the right time in the double-team.

And this season, David Silva has grown very rapidly under the pressure of Isco, and his willingness to invest in defense has become stronger, which has further amplified the role of the individual in the team.

If David Silva is more offensive than defensive, then Modric is both offensive and defensive.

He seems to be able to do everything, he can pass, control, lead and shoot, but he doesn't seem to have any advantages when he is singled out.

For example, his dribbling and ball control is not as good as David Silva and Iniesta, let alone Messi; his threatening ball ability is not as good as Xavi, Ozil and Fabregas;

But it is such a player who seems to be able to do everything, but does not seem to be top-notch, but has become the player Ancelotti relies on most in the midfield this season. Basically, he is firmly locked in a position in the midfield, and the others have no competition at all.

The reason is simple, he is very, very comprehensive.

Yang Yang feels that if football used to have a very clear division of labor and cooperation, and everyone was like a part in a machine, performing their own duties, then in recent years, the development trend of football has become more and more obvious, that is, everyone is developing towards omnipotence.

Because on the court, it is often necessary to blur the position.

Wherever you go, you can do whatever you want.

Modric is like this. He can attack forward, he can defend at the back, he can sort out and pass the ball in midfield, and he can defend when retreating. He is very stable and runs a lot. He is the best runner in the Real Madrid team and is also the most willing to run.

Sometimes Yang Yang felt that after two years of debugging, Ancelotti finally found Modric's position in the team.

That is balance.

The Croatian midfielder is the balance pole of Real Madrid's offense and defense!
It took Ancelotti two full years to figure out Modric, David Silva, and others. It is estimated that he still can't figure out Isco and Illarramendi.

So, on the surface, Ancelotti didn't do anything, but everything about the team is slowly and unknowingly changing, and even recently they have been scoring big scores.

This is the coaching ability of the world's top tactician!

Completely different from Van Gaal, Benitez and others that Yang Yang has come into contact with before, Ancelotti is always like a good old man, but he is subtly transforming the team to create the strongest team.

After realizing this level, Yang Yang suddenly felt that his understanding of football was still too superficial.

Even though he has learned a lot of technical and tactical theoretical books and has a lot of understanding of playing football, compared with world famous coaches like Ancelotti and Benitez, the gap is still too far.

It's no wonder that after Zidane retired, he still had to learn from Benitez and Ancelotti.

At the same time, he also realized that, judging from the current situation, this year's Real Madrid has a lot to do!
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On the evening of January 21, at the El Prat Stadium in Barcelona.

Coming to the Spaniard's home court again, Real Madrid played very difficult last time, and this time they played with all the main players.

At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid played a wave of indiscriminate bombing, almost suppressing the Spaniard. Yang Yang hit the post with a shot in the No. 201 minute and bounced back.

In the 205th minute, Carvajal made a quick pass from the right. Suarez grabbed the front point and headed the ball. Yang Yang, who followed behind, easily headed the ball and broke the goal of the Espanyol team, opening the scoring for Real Madrid.

Then Real Madrid continued to exert pressure. No. 301 minutes, Yang Yang and Suarez had a two-to-one collision with the wall, but Suarez's shot was blocked by goalkeeper Casilla.

No. 40 minutes, Modric sent an overhead pass, Yang Yang hooked inside the penalty area, broke the Espanyol's goal again, and made another victory for Real Madrid.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, neither side was able to score again.

In the end, with Yang Yang's brace, Real Madrid defeated the Spaniard [-]-[-] away and won the first round of the knockout round of the Copa del Rey.

In the other three games played at the same time as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad defeated Atletico Santander [-]-[-] at home, Atletico Madrid defeated Athletic Bilbao [-]-[-] at home, and Barcelona defeated Levante [-]-[-] away.

Among them, Barcelona just suffered a tragic draw with Levante in the league. This time, the four-to-one victory can be said to be elated, but among the four goals, one is an own goal and three are hat-tricks performed by the teenager Tello.

In other words, the extravagant Trident in the frontcourt still has not recovered.

(End of this chapter)