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Chapter 1138 It's over!
On the evening of January 28, at the Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid.

Just 2 minutes into the game, the Bernabéu erupted with thunderous cheers, but it was not because of a goal, but because Real Madrid has kept a record of 660 minutes in official matches without conceding a goal in the past period, creating the best record in the history of the club in the past 110 years.

This is an astonishing report card!
Especially for Real Madrid, which advocates offensive football, defense has always been the team's weakness, and even the goalkeeper problem has always plagued Real Madrid, but under such unfavorable circumstances, Real Madrid just created the best defensive record in history.

Casillas' performance this season is not satisfactory, but his state has been relatively stable recently. In addition, Ancelotti began to withdraw Javi Martinez to the central defender more often, and often switched to playing three defenders. This made Real Madrid's defense stronger.

This created the best record in the club's century-old history.

But this is just a record, the players and fans didn't pay much attention to it, but after 2 minutes, the scene erupted into wild cheers again.

This time it was a goal.

In the 4th minute, Yang Yang relied on a chance to set the ball on the left side of the penalty area, 28 meters away from the goal, and directly kicked a strong free kick, piercing the Espanyol's goal and opening the scoring for Real Madrid.

Subsequently, the Spaniards began to fight back, because they had to score three goals to come back.

In the 7th minute, after the Real Madrid midfielder intercepted the ball, Xavi Alonso dribbled the ball just past the center line, and directly passed the ball with a long pass, accurately crossing the Spaniard's defense line. The teenager Jesse quickly inserted, stopped the ball in the chest, broke into the penalty area, and scored the goal.

Two to zero!
Yang Yang was also sprinting at high speed just now. Although Hesse didn't pass the ball to him, Yang Yang was very happy for him when he saw the kid hit the goal himself. He was the first to run over to celebrate with him.

Nowadays, more and more people have begun to believe that Hesse is not only Yang Yang's apprentice, but also will fight side by side with Yang Yang in the near future, and even take over Yang Yang's class.

Although, Yang Yang is only 27 years old.

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After Barcelona defeated Levante [-]-[-] in the away game, they returned to the Nou Camp and defeated Levante [-]-[-] again, with a total score of [-]-[-] to advance to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey.

This is undoubtedly quite an astonishing record, because in the two rounds, Barcelona played an astonishing attack.

But what's interesting is that both of these games were reversals.

At the Nou Camp, former Barcelona youth player Sergi Roberto scored the first goal for Levante. After that, Adriano and Puyol scored successively to reverse the score. Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice. Finally, the Portuguese assisted Fabregas to score a goal.

Messi sat on the bench in this game and did not play for 1 minute.

After the game, the media and fans gave Barcelona both bad and bad reviews for the two rounds.

It is worth affirming that Barcelona's offense is indeed very good, but the two games are reversed after conceding the ball first, which has to make people wonder, because this is definitely not a coincidence.

There is also the absence of Messi.

The explanation given by Martino was to let Messi rest, but it cannot be denied that after Messi's absence, Barcelona's frontcourt offense played very lively, which instead made people suspenseful.

Is Messi still an essential player for this Barcelona team?
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The other two teams that entered the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey were Atletico Madrid, who defeated Athletic Bilbao, and Real Sociedad, who eliminated Racing Santander.

According to the previous schedule draw, Real Madrid met Atletico Madrid and staged a city derby.

Barcelona had better luck and met Real Sociedad.

Therefore, many people are looking forward to the Derby of the Century again in the Copa del Rey final.

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Since the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final match will be held in the same city in the middle of the week, Ancelotti made a strong rotation in La Liga on the weekend, and Yang Yang sat on the bench.

Before Real Madrid, Barcelona had just lost [-]-[-] to Valencia at Camp Nou.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal for Barcelona in the 7th minute, but then Banega and Piatti scored successively to reverse.

Messi broke a recent scoring drought with a penalty four minutes into the second half, but Paco scored for Valencia just five minutes later.

No. 709 minutes, Alba accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off by a red card. Barcelona was forced to fight with one less player. In the end, they had to resent their loss to Valencia at home and get their third defeat of the season.

After the game, the Catalan media was in mourning, and Martino's coaching position was seriously questioned.

Although Messi scored a goal in this game, it was a penalty kick. Except for this penalty kick, Messi basically did not perform well in the rest of the time. Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar also performed poorly.
Barcelona godfather Johan Cruyff even said in his column that Barcelona should start thinking about next season.

The implication is that Barcelona this season, facing Real Madrid, which has maintained an unbeaten record so far, is dead!

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Atletico Madrid beat Real Sociedad [-]-[-] at home.

The two top four teams that also reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey ended with a big score. Atletico Madrid's performance and state are impressive.

And Real Madrid drew [-]-[-] with Athletic Bilbao in the away game, and the teenager Jesse scored a goal.

Although it was a draw, Real Madrid won the No.20 second round unbeaten this season. This is also the only team among the five major European leagues that has maintained an unbeaten record so far.

Even many Catalan media believe that although Ancelotti's team has stumbled this season, it is actually very stable, never losing points easily, and so far leads Barcelona by as much as nine points, and leads the current second-ranked Atletico Madrid by as many as eight points. Winning the championship is already a high probability event.

What annoys Barcelona fans even more is that in the latest issue of the world-renowned sports magazine [World Football], a detailed annual salary ranking of players was made. Yang Yang is far ahead with an annual salary of 500 million euros after tax. This is a fact that everyone knows, so it is not surprising.

What is really surprising and what annoys Barcelona fans is that in this list, there are five Barcelona players among the top ten players.

Once this result was announced, it immediately caused shock in the football world.

There is only one Real Madrid player among the top ten, and that is Yang Yang. It can be seen that Real Madrid has done a good job in salary control, but Barcelona has five players selected. This has to be said to be quite a scary thing.

Although before, the German authority announced that Barcelona's financial revenue last season reached [-] million, but it was more because they won the Champions League, and they were still far behind Real Madrid. The Galaxy Battleship's financial revenue last year was close to [-] million euros, a substantial increase for several consecutive years.

With financial income far inferior to that of Real Madrid, Barcelona's players' salary expenditures are so huge, which makes the outside world express their incomprehension. Barcelona fans are deeply annoyed, especially now that so much money has been invested, but the team's competitiveness has not improved.

After the introduction of Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, Messi fell into a trough instead, which made the media and fans outraged. Martino's coaching position was in jeopardy, and the acting chairman Bartomeu was also in a deep crisis of trust.

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Halfway through the schedule, Real Madrid ranked first, Atletico Madrid ranked second, and the Madrid duo ranked the top two in the La Liga standings. This situation has never happened in the past few decades, which also made the first game of the Copa del Rey between the two sides more intense.

Atletico Madrid is currently eight points behind Real Madrid, and the possibility of a reversal is unlikely, so they are also aiming at the cup, while Real Madrid also wants to make a difference in the cup by virtue of the team's excellent bench thickness.

Never give up any championship, this is Real Madrid's creed.

Especially this season, the growth and progress of teenagers such as Jesse, Morata and Illarramendi have allowed Real Madrid to see the confidence of multi-line combat. In this scene against Atletico Madrid, Jesse replaced Hazard in the starting lineup and appeared in the left winger position.

The Real Madrid youth player who just scored a goal against Athletic Bilbao played in the derby but was not stage-frightened. Instead, he performed very bravely.

The main entanglement between the two sides still occurred in the midfield.

Atletico Madrid's actions are as rough as ever, and Simeone has made it very clear that they must do everything possible to limit Real Madrid's passing and possession, and then contain Real Madrid's offense.

Just at the beginning of the game, Diego Costa knocked over Vermaelen directly when he was pressing in the frontcourt, and Ramos rushed up and knocked him to the ground. Fortunately, the referee did not give a penalty.

But then, Diego Costa pulled down Javier Mascherano when he was fighting for the top again, but the Argentine was also unambiguous, and he also pulled down Diego Costa before falling to the ground, and the two fell into a ball.

This time, the referee gave warnings to both players.

In addition to Real Madrid's half-court, Atletico Madrid also frequently used fouls to interrupt the game. Based on the principle of surpassing the ball, they made full use of the referee's soft whistle-handling style in this game, and made full use of the rules to disrupt Real Madrid's rhythm and deployment.

This is an obvious tactical feature with the style of Atletico Madrid and Simeone.

In the first 10 minutes, the two sides only had one shot. Real Madrid took a corner kick. Vermaelen's header was blocked by Courtois. Atletico Madrid made a quick counterattack from the side. Turan's header was strong and was saved by Casillas. Neither side could create a threat.

This made the situation on the playing field very stalemate, and no one was able to take advantage of the other party.

Atletico Madrid's defensive tenacity, Real Madrid has long been taught, and has made sufficient preparations, but on the field, facing such an opponent, they are really powerless.

"We can only see the performance of the players!" Ancelotti sighed on the sidelines.

At least, facing such Atletico Madrid, everyone will have a headache.

(End of this chapter)