super storm

Chapter 1152 The label of the top giants

Some people say that European football is like a pyramid. Standing in different positions, the pursuit is naturally different.

It seems that for those professional or semi-professional teams in low-level leagues, their biggest pursuit is not performance, not strength, but survival. All they want is to struggle to survive.

For the downstream teams of the four major leagues, they also want to survive, but they hope to live more decently.

The pursuit of mid-range teams is naturally much more complicated. They don’t have to worry about survival anymore. They start to want to climb up and strive to climb higher. They even hope to be like Real Sociedad, occasionally break out, get in the top four of the league, rush to the Champions League, attract the attention of the world, or be upset when facing powerful giants.

When they reach the upper reaches, they start to pursue results, and they can participate in more competitions. In addition to domestic leagues, cup competitions are also their pursuit, and European results are also their concern. They will even start to compete with powerful giants for rookies.

Because they can't afford the best stars, they can only snatch those players they can afford and who are expected to become the best stars in the future. They even start to pay attention to every strong dialogue.

But when it comes to giant teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​they no longer need to worry about survival, because they are rich and powerful, and they don’t need to worry about performance, because no matter how bad they are, they can keep the top three in the league, and they don’t have to compete for any stars.

But teams at this level still have their own pursuit, which is excellence.

They are unwilling to be mediocre. Every season, every game, even every minute, they want to prove their excellence to the world, to prove that they are different from others and from other teams.

Excellence is the label of the top giants!

Throughout the ages, there may have been many teams that have achieved excellence, but most of them are only short-lived. If they can maintain excellence for a long time, they are qualified to be called giants.

But how easy is it to maintain excellence for a long time?
Especially in the strong dialogue between the two giants, when an excellent team is defeated by another even better team, these star players will inevitably become dejected.

For these outstanding top stars, there is nothing more disappointing and sad than accepting the helpless reality and accepting failure, especially when they are still facing their mortal enemies and number one competitors.

With a score of four to one, during the intermission, the Barcelona locker room was filled with helplessness and frustration.

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In the summer of [-], Real Madrid swept the entire European football world with the triple crown. They won the Champions League three times in a row, established an inexhaustible feat, and achieved great achievements in the eyes of countless people.

It was hailed as the peak moment of Real Madrid in the past half century.

But also in that summer, Real Madrid sold four important players, Ibrahimovic, Maicon, Kaka and Maxwell, and everyone began to speculate that this would be the beginning of Real Madrid's turn from prosperity to decline.

Also in this summer, Barcelona introduced Neymar with amazing investment, sounding the horn of the arms race.

At that time, everyone in Barcelona believed that they began to have the strength to challenge Real Madrid, because the Galacticos lost several heavyweight superstars, and they began to become no longer outstanding, no longer so impressive.

Last season, Real Madrid won the double crown, but missed the Champions League and only stopped in the semi-finals. Everyone believes this even more, because the La Liga championship is more like the afterglow of the Real Madrid dynasty, and the Copa del Rey has always been relatively tasteless.

Under such circumstances, Barcelona increased their investment and introduced Cristiano Ronaldo with a huge sum of money. They want to surpass Real Madrid in one fell swoop and become the greatest and most outstanding giant on the planet. Everyone in the team is full of expectations.

But a few months passed, and most of the season was over, everyone found helplessly that the powerful and invincible Real Madrid team was back!

Yang Yang is fighting more and more bravely, and is ushering in his golden years. With the new round of superstars who are maturing Hazard, Di Maria, Modric, David Silva, etc., he has formed a galaxy battleship that is even more powerful than before, and has come back again.

This time they are more balanced and more stable.

La Liga has played 28 games so far, they remain unbeaten, and they only drew two games. They won all eight games in the Champions League, and they also maintained a record of all victories in the Copa del Rey. This is a crazy Real Madrid team that has played crazy results.

Ancelotti has reached the pinnacle of his coaching career with his outstanding performance this season, and Yang Yang has also ushered in the pinnacle of his career.

In La Liga, Barcelona used to be the number one favorite to win the championship, but was quickly taken away by Real Madrid; in the Champions League, Barcelona was once the number one favorite to win the championship, but was quickly taken away by Real Madrid.

But now, this powerful giant team known as the second only to Real Madrid in European football, this superb giant that can kill opponents in the Champions League, has been beaten into a sieve by the almost invincible Real Madrid at the Bernabéu Stadium.

With a score of four to one, it can be said that the game has ended early.

This is a helpless and frustrating fact!

Perhaps, in this battle, we will send Real Madrid to the championship podium with our own hands!

That's what's on the minds of all the Barcelona players in the dressing room, and it may be true, depressingly, reluctantly.

In front of other people and other teams, they are a lofty, invincible Barcelona, ​​one of the best teams on the planet, but in front of Real Madrid, they are a bunch of losers, a bunch of losers who can't beat Real Madrid no matter what.

This made this group of outstanding, even great stars in the locker room feel depressed and frustrated.

Perhaps, in the locker room of the home team not far away, they are celebrating!
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In the locker room of the home team, the Real Madrid players were not celebrating.

Although the atmosphere in the locker room is indeed very good, and many players are very active and elated, in fact, Real Madrid also exposed many problems in the first half.

For example, the first conceded goal is that the team's defensive attention is not concentrated enough, the formation is not widened, and the distance between the defenders is not maintained well.

Another problem is Ramos, which is a hidden danger.

Real Madrid's vice-captain is also a player with obvious strengths and weaknesses. His strengths make people love him to death. This is what any team wants. He is always full of fighting spirit and enthusiasm for the game. At the same time, he also has the blood of Real Madrid's traditional Juanito spirit.

But his flaws are equally hateful, because he is very rash.

Harvey Martinez and Vermaelen are Ramos' regular partners. Both of them are relatively calm and calm, and they must constantly remind Ramos during the game.

Just like the pass that Harvey sent to Messi in the first half, if Ramos rushes to grab it rashly, Messi will definitely break through and form a single-handedly, which is very fatal.

Because later, a similar scene appeared once. Fortunately, Harvey Martinez returned to the defense in time, and Messi's shot was also a bit hasty, which did not form a chance, but he had to defend.

There are also Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar. The personal abilities of these two superstars are quite amazing, and both need to be given enough attention by the Real Madrid defenders. Once there is a slight mistake, it may immediately cause a goal.

Ancelotti and Zidane reminded the players that the advantage of four to one is indeed great, but they still have to stay focused.

"We are facing Barcelona!"

In the second half, Real Madrid's game strategy was also different from the first half, that is, to seek stability.

Ancelotti hopes that the team will close when it is good.

The stadium is like a battlefield, and there is a saying.

Choosing when to start a war is certainly a wisdom, but choosing when and how to end a war is a much more profound art.

As early as when he was at Ajax, Yang Yang learned a truth from Van Gaal and Van Basten. A truly smart player must learn how to stop and slow down on the court.

Anyone can run, but how to stop and how slow is not necessarily impossible.

All of these are to show one thing, it is also a kind of wisdom to accept as soon as it is good, and it is even a more advanced wisdom.

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Yang Yang got six very good scoring chances in the first half, and he seized four of them and scored four goals.

This is an amazing efficiency, because in comparison, Barcelona's Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have wasted a lot of opportunities. This should be the difference between Yang Yang and other superstars.

He's been very consistent, unbelievable even.

But also because of this, in the second half, Barcelona began to increase the intensity of marking Yang Yang. He could only start to change his function and create space for his teammates through running positions, and then Suarez, Hazard and Di Maria got more opportunities.

Barcelona has become more stable, began to patiently control the ball, looking for opportunities, but easily no longer give Real Madrid a counterattack.

Moreover, due to physical exhaustion, Real Madrid failed to continue to insist on high-position pressing and oppressive tactics in the second half, which also made Barcelona's midfield control smoother.

You know, most of Real Madrid's consecutive goals in the first half were due to their high pressing and oppression.

But in the slow delivery, Barcelona was hiding a sharp murderous intent.

Messi retreated to the center line to respond to the ball from the center and backcourt. After stopping the ball and turning around, he quickly caught a gap, and quickly sent a long-distance long pass to the ground, which directly tore through Real Madrid's defense and sent it behind him.

Cristiano Ronaldo slanted behind him at a very fast speed, Ramos quickly chased back all the way, but still a little slower, the Portuguese took the ball first and waded into the penalty area.

Ramos followed closely, but also rushed out.

The Real Madrid vice-captain's calf touched the Portuguese's as Cristiano Ronaldo collapsed in the penalty area.

The whistle of the referee's foul sounded immediately, and he reached into his breast pocket and ran towards Ramos.

(End of this chapter)