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Chapter 1487 Isn't this too wretched?

On the morning of April [-]th, 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 has canceled the tradition of staying in a hotel the day before the home game. Instead, players are allowed to stay at home independently and live with their relatives, which can minimize the tension of the players before the game.

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, looked out at the garden outside through the glass wall, vaguely, "Barcelona really fell into a big hole this time."

"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 to Paris Saint-Germain [-]-[-] away in the top [-] knockout round, and then returned to the home court for a [-]-[-] comeback.

The previous season, in the quarterfinals, Barcelona first defeated Atletico Madrid [-]-[-] at home, but lost [-]-[-] 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 [-]-[-] at home.

Although after this game, Barcelona was criticized to a certain extent, because the victory was established 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 they won, 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 was [-]-[-] at home, and Liverpool beat Manchester City [-]-[-] at home. There should be no suspense in the second round.

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

It's 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, and told them to be careful when they went to watch the game tonight, and then drove to Valdebebas.

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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 of the game, Barcelona had no effective way to face Roma's defensive formation in the first 10 minutes. At that time, Roma formed a four-five formation with Dzeko in front. The midfielder Nainggolan was absent, so they formed a five-middle midfielder."

"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 and did not leave any good opportunities for Barcelona, ​​but the two own goals changed everything and confused 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 and control the game again like the first round, but he forgot that Nainggolan is back."

"Nainggolan's comeback has qualitatively improved Roma's midfield pressing and running coverage, especially for Barcelona's midfield pressing, but Barcelona is not psychologically prepared for this. Not only that, Roma also changed their formation and adopted a three-five-two formation, but in fact Kolarov and Florenzi on the two wings often retreat and retract."

"In the opening 6 minutes, De Rossi made a long pass from the middle circle. Dzeko stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area and then stabbed the goal with his left foot. This basically established the trend of the game. Afterwards, Roma got many good opportunities in a row, but unfortunately the players were limited.

After finishing his analysis of the game in one breath, David Bertoni smiled gloatingly, "Don't stare at the [-]-[-] 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 they can grasp the best opportunities, then this game will be at least [-]-[-], or even [-]-[-]."

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 chances." Yang Yang said very seriously, "Juventus' home game was [-]-[-]. It was indeed a demoralization 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's 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 that we must defend and counterattack.

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

After a pause, Yang Yang continued: "Khedira will definitely start. If Matuidi plays again, then Pjanic will be left. We let Kanter play, and then we will grab Pjanic. If the ball is broken, we will counterattack!"

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 [-]-[-] 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.

(End of this chapter)