Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

The International Champions Cup match between Wolfsburg and Real Madrid at the Longgang Universiade Center Stadium in Pengcheng has not yet started. Martin and Ronaldo's "battle of skills" with each other's long passes during the warm-up period became a hot topic among fans before the game.

Dragon Country fans are becoming more and more fond of Martin.

Competent, confident, no stage fright!

Especially when Ronaldo obviously showed that he was slightly inferior, he took the initiative to admit defeat, which suddenly widened the road.

He asked Cristiano Ronaldo to run nearly fifty meters to come over, hug and greet him, and chatted for a long time.

About five minutes before the game, players from both teams came to the tunnel from the locker room.

The two teams still have many old acquaintances. Gustavo and Marcelo are old acquaintances of the national team, and Schürrle and Kroos are teammates of the national team.

Pepe, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Vierinha are teammates of the Portuguese national team. Carvajal and Schürrle were teammates in Bayer Leverkusen in the 2012-2013 season, and they have a very good relationship.

Modric, Kovacic and Perisic, who were not included in the starting list, are teammates of the Croatian national team.

Several people had a brief exchange before the game.

Cristiano Ronaldo took the initiative to find Martin again, smiled and raised his right hand: "Come on, little guy, I heard that your single defense ability is very strong, and you have not been broken since the beginning of your career. I want to... break your record."

Martin shrugged and held Ronaldo's outstretched right hand: "I forgot which person you said this to, but what is certain is that my record will always be preserved."

"Haha~ See you on the field then."

Ronaldo heard what the referee team from the Dragon Kingdom was saying. He patted Martin on the shoulder and returned to the queue.

"aaoaooaoaoooooo——"

The two sides held the ball boy's hand and followed the referee team into the stadium. The atmosphere of the Universiade Center Stadium instantly erupted, with huge and violent shouts like a tsunami wave after wave.

The fanatical atmosphere has gradually emerged.

The fans in front of the TV seemed to be impatient.

However, the first five minutes of the game were not exciting. Both sides had just started training for the new season and had not fully recovered from their pleasant vacation.

Both sides need to slowly adjust their status.

"pretty!!"

Martin was in very good condition, and he made another beautiful tackle to intercept Bell's accelerating ball, which caused the audience to let out a burst of joyful cheers.

Wolfsburg's preparation for the new season is to continue last season's fast counterattack style, focusing on high speed from stealing the ball to counterattack.

After a few simple passes, De Bruyne received the ball and sent a precise through ball. Schurrle, who was attacking at high speed on the left, took the ball and cut inside.

I don’t know if he hasn’t fully adapted to the preparations for the new season. He didn’t feel very good when cutting inside after receiving the ball. Pepe, who was fighting and retreating, saw through it and broke the ball out of the sideline.

A minute later, Real Madrid's offense made a comeback.

After a tentative attack at the beginning, Real Madrid became patient when they attacked again.

Under Kroos' rhythm control, the game was quite steady, with constant passes back and forth through the three lines affecting Wolfsburg's seemingly solid defensive system.

Martin's performance in the right midfielder position is still eye-catching, and he uses a wide range of runs to make up for the gaps exposed by movement in the center and right.

Kroos' long-pass accuracy is as accurate as Martin's, and his stability is very high. He can often adjust his position according to the game situation, use long and short passes to control the rhythm of the game, and is good at using his conceptual skills to pass to the opponent. to threaten.

With Modric not playing, Real Madrid's midfield and frontcourt offense was organized in an orderly manner.

As the game time passed by second by second, Real Madrid's offensive became more and more fierce, one wave after another.

After a while, it was a half-court offensive drill.

The pressure on Martin's defensive zone is increasing, but he insists on ensuring the absolute safety of the defensive zone by relying on reasonable position selection, just the right complement and tough frontal defense.

Isco, who played as an attacking midfielder in this game, received the football and intended to seek a breakthrough.

He is a technical player who is very good at dribbling and has outstanding footwork, but he can't find a breakthrough rhythm in front of Martin.

The distance between the two was just right, and his brain even had a rather outrageous illusion.

If you force a breakthrough, it is very likely that Martin will intercept the ball.

Isco shook his head, put the bad idea behind him, and decided to give it a try.

Previously, Martin was motionless, giving people a sense of déjà vu.

But everything is just imagination. Whether a breakthrough can be achieved depends on actual actions.

Isco, who did not believe in evil, received Marcelo's pass and decisively used his best breakthrough method to test whether Martin's defense was as good as the rumors.

As a typical 55-year-old body, his legs are shorter than others, so the chassis when dribbling the ball is lower. This is often accompanied by a huge body twist, causing his butt to swing accordingly, so his teammates give him Got the nickname 'puppy'.

Because his legs and butt were twisting like a flying puppy when he broke through with the ball.

Martin, who kept a safe distance, knew that Isco was going to end the tentative stage and enter the practical stage.

He stood ready, lowering his body's center of gravity while also capturing the situation around the two men to ensure the safety of the defensive area.

In the final analysis, football is a team sport, and Isco is well aware of this. He does not have much possession of the ball despite being a superstar, so he must consider the word 'efficiency' in everything he does.

Too many invalid judgments will first cause dissatisfaction among coaches and teammates, and secondly, they will bring a great risk of losing the ball when switching from offense to defense.

Wolfsburg is a team that is very good at counterattacking.

Isco also knows this very well, so he wants to get rid of Wolfsburg's strongest defense to help the team create absolute scoring opportunities.

The pre-season warm-up match is also an important means for the main substitute players to seek to advance to the main position.

Martin, who fought and retreated, always maintained a high level of attention. When Isco took advantage of the change in rhythm to suddenly move the ball in the opposite direction, his reaction was as fast as a rabbit running away.

I saw Martin's body rotate ninety degrees clockwise with his right foot as the axis, and his left foot stepped out in the direction of the body's rotation. From facing Isco to facing away, he used his body to separate the two. contact.

Isco, who was chasing the ball forward, felt his eyes go dark, and it was too late to subconsciously brake. He seemed to have knocked down a green wall.

"Nice defense!"

Central 5 commentator He Wei said impassionedly: "Martin intercepted the ball from Isco's foot, and Wolfsburg quickly counterattacked!"

After completing the turn and blocking, Martin immediately handed the ball to the right back Tresch, and then followed Isco to complete a 180° turn to the right, changing from facing his own goal to facing the attacking direction.

Tresch did not stop the ball and directly gave the ball to Martin's forward running route. Marcelo, who stepped forward to defend Tresch, missed the ball.

Facing Casemiro, who has a strong defensive awareness, Martin dropped his left shoulder, stopped and took the ball in the direction of travel.

Casemiro retracted his center of gravity and waited for Martin to dribble the ball forward.