Football’s First Defender

Indeed, Morata's appearance in the second half, compared with Benzema's performance in the first half, made Real Madrid's offense smoother.

It's just that it is not so easy for Real Madrid to really win the final game in the game and score goals.

If, in the first half, Real Madrid's offensive stagnation was due to the combination of Real Madrid's own lack of offensive ability and the opponent's super defensive strength, then in the second half of the game, although Real Madrid's own offensive performance has recovered to some extent. Normal state, better performance than the previous game, but Sporting Lisbon's defensive ability still maintains a super defensive level, not giving Real Madrid players too many offensive opportunities.

Sporting Lisbon's players used their active running and super defensive enthusiasm to build the team's iron barrel formation very solidly, and did not give Real Madrid a good offensive opportunity at all.

Facing Sporting Lisbon's defense, Real Madrid's overall offense seemed somewhat helpless. In other words, Real Madrid's offense seems to lack offensive threat.

Real Madrid's offense, in fact, in the first and second half of the game, they tried their best to create offensive threats in the game.

In addition to the team's common offensive methods in the game, such as long-range shots from the outside and kick-off passes from the wing, Real Madrid's offensive players are actually constantly trying to use pick passes and through balls The way, to directly hit the ball into the Sporting Lisbon penalty area, to seek the creation of offensive opportunities.

It's just that Sporting Lisbon's defense is very defensively integrated, targeted, and defensively active.

The players in Sporting Lisbon use their efficient running and sufficient running to completely lock up the entire penalty area, without giving Real Madrid any room to attack

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Real Madrid tried to use a through ball to penetrate the opponent's defense several times, but almost did not get any effect, whether it was Ronaldo on the left, Bell on the right, or Morata after playing in the second half. Although everyone has excellent physical fitness, facing Sporting Lisbon's sufficient defensive strength within the penalty area, they are still unable to complete effective offensive penetration to form a direct threat to the goal.

Sporting Lisbon's defensive performance in this game was really good. Sporting Lisbon's excellent defense actually caused a lot of psychological pressure for some Real Madrid players on the field.

If the score cannot be equalized before the end of the game, then Real Madrid will have a big problem in the first game of the Champions League of the new season. This season, they will actually suffer a big Waterloo on the way to defend the Champions League.

However, although Zidane on the sidelines was also a little anxious and dissatisfied with the team's performance on the field, he did not lose his inch in the game.

For Zidane, who has come from the player era, Zidane has played for the giants most of the time in his entire career, so for this kind of opponent's iron barrel tactics, Zidane, in fact, no matter whether he is a player Whether it is a player or a coach, it has encountered many situations.

Especially in the era of players, you must know the European league at that time, but utilitarian football prevailed, and the era of 1-0 doctrine prevailed, especially in Serie A. For the game, defense is the most important thing, so Zidane knows , the more this is the case, the less you can worry, and you must patiently look for opportunities.

In particular, Sporting Lisbon has a good player's personal strength, and the iron barrel formation is actually quite difficult to break when the iron barrel formation is in good condition.

But on the football field, it doesn't mean that you can defend if you can defend it. Defense also requires enough physical fitness as a support. Do the Sporting Lisbon players have enough physical fitness to support such a defense in the audience?

In fact, Zidane still has a question mark over Sporting Lisbon's physical fitness.

If Sporting Lisbon cannot maintain this defensive suppression until the end of the game, then when Sporting Lisbon players affect their own performance due to their physical condition, it will be Real Madrid to attack and try. Chances of getting better offensive results

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Real Madrid has always maintained its own offensive suppression in the game, putting more defensive pressure on the opponent to make the opponent consume more physical energy, and forcing the players of Sporting Lisbon to maintain defensive concentration in the game on the defensive end. The physical fitness of the Sporting Lisbon players and their defensive concentration.

Under the high-intensity offensive threat of Real Madrid, amidst the noise of the Bernabéu Stadium, although Sporting Lisbon's defense maintains a relatively high defensive threat, the physical consumption of its own players is also very huge.

Although the score is still at 0:1, for the Sporting Lisbon players, their physical consumption has been revealed on the defensive end

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The main manifestation of this lack of physical fitness on the defensive end is that in the first half of the game, Sporting Lisbon usually chooses to make defensive fouls when Real Madrid players create threats, but after a period of time in the second half, Lisbon The number of fouls by competitive players began to increase significantly.

The obvious increase in the number of fouls proves that their physical fitness has a certain problem, which prevents them from completing effective defensive methods in the game to obtain a better defensive position.

The constant fouls by Sporting Lisbon players are actually for Real Madrid, it is to give Real Madrid a lot of opportunities to set the ball in the frontcourt.

You must know that Real Madrid's offensive line players actually have a super high level of free kick ability.

The right-footed Ronaldo and the left-footed Bale are both players who can often perform wonderful long-range shots in the game.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Bell's super long range and very subtle ability to control the ball allow both of them to directly threaten the opponent's goal with their long shots.

Such an offensive threat means that Real Madrid can use long-range free kicks again and again to try to threaten the gate of Sporting Lisbon.

It is different from long-range shooting in mobile warfare.

In the set-piece tactics, the direct attack from a free kick actually shows the personal competition between the goalkeeper and the offensive players.

Real Madrid successively created offensive opportunities in the midfield, making Ronaldo and Bell get two consecutive free kicks in the frontcourt within five minutes.

Both free kicks were aimed at the dead corner of the goal, posing a huge threat to Sporting Lisbon's goalkeeper.

But it can only be said that the goalkeeper of Sporting Lisbon performed really well today. In the face of Ronaldo's heavy bombardment, the goalkeeper of Sporting Lisbon flew sideways and held the ball out with a single palm. Facing Bell's shot, although Bell's shot angle was tricky, he was also driven away. Go to the defensive position and hit the ball with both hands.

Today, the goalkeeper of Sporting Lisbon showed his super defensive ability, turning into a wall in front of the goal in the game, allowing Real Madrid's offense to block the goal over and over again.

Faced with such a situation, Real Madrid's offense actually had a greater threat in the second half of the game, but it did not reach the time to complete the scoring opportunity.

However, as the game time went on, the situation on the field actually changed more and more in favor of Real Madrid.

In the 73rd minute of the game, Real Madrid played an exquisite offensive coordination in the frontcourt.

Carvajal on the right dribbles forward, and his breakthrough ability on the right also plays a huge role in Real Madrid's offensive penetration. This time, Carvajal did not choose to go down, but chose to dribble diagonally. Moving forward, Carvajal passed the ball back to Toni Kroos centrally, after drawing the attention of Sporting's defenders.

Toni Kroos made a lateral trip, got rid of the defender's first step to follow up, and then chose a through ball to find Modric on the right with ample passing space.

Modric tapped the ball lightly without stopping, and continued to distribute the ball to Bell, who was further to the right.

Bell pulled directly to the far right, and after receiving the ball, he made a strong breakthrough, and chose a half-high ball to pass into the penalty area of ​​Sporting Lisbon.

And this time the coordination reached the final endpoint. It was the starting point of the attack at the beginning. After Carvajal completed the return pass to Toni Kross, he went straight into the penalty area. hit the goal.

With the support of Morata and Ronaldo in the middle, in fact, Carvajal's sudden advance received very little defensive interference. It is a pity that although the ball was played suddenly, he was still in the process of advancing at high speed. Carvajal hit the goal in the air, and Carvajal's final shot angle was a little bit off. He rubbed the post and flew out of the baseline without scoring a goal.

The game time is passing by a little bit, but for Real Madrid, their offense is stronger than one wave.

At least for Real Madrid, their bottom line is that if they cannot win, they must equalize the game.

This is at the Bernabeu Stadium. They don't want to lose in their first Champions League game like this.

At this time, Zidane also made the final targeted substitution adjustment on the sidelines, replacing Ronaldo and Vazquez on the field for the final offensive impact.

For Real Madrid, the appearance of Ronaldo and Vazquez has strengthened the team's offensive strength in the midfield.

It can also create more passing opportunities for Real Madrid. Real Madrid will use Cristiano Ronaldo and Morata, the pair of forwards, as their main offensive weapons in the following games. To complete the offensive layout and offense on the court.

Vazquez replaced Bell and Ronaldo replaced Casemiro.

The substitution adjustments made during the game made Real Madrid's offensive ability stronger and more impactful at the last moment.

The team's passing ability will get better.

And when Real Madrid needed to perform on the offensive end, everyone also gave their best at the last moment.

In the 79th minute of the game, Marcelo suddenly sent a long-distance through pass from the backcourt to his teammates in the frontcourt.

Modric on the left turned his back to catch the ball and got rid of it on the spot, just avoiding the defensive players behind.

After completing the offensive escape, Modric quickly accelerated forward, took aim at Sporting Lisbon's loopholes in the game, and sent a through ball.

Morata at the front succeeded in anti-offside. In the one-on-one confrontation, he showed his absolute speed and the advantage of pace brought by his tall body.

Morata's running ability allowed him to overwhelm the defensive players and take the lead in receiving Modric's pass. However, Morata wanted to adjust the ball to his right foot. The defensive players on the side and rear were given time to follow up. Although there was no way to complete this blocking, the outstretched legs of the defensive players restricted Morata from a certain angle of attack. Morata could only adjust to a certain angle to ensure The ball is not interfered by the defender. But this angle of attack is just within the control of the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper of Sporting Lisbon continued his excellent performance and fell to the ground to block the ball

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Real Madrid's offense showed its super offensive creation ability time and time again in the game, but the score was still 0:1.

This actually puts a lot of psychological pressure on Real Madrid. They need to get better on the offensive end, and they need to be able to get better offensive opportunities to score.

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The game continued. Real Madrid's attack continues to pose a threat.

With the sharp decline in the physical fitness of Sporting Lisbon players. In the game, Real Madrid's offense became more threatening.

Real Madrid's offensive development in the game, while maintaining a very good offensive suppression, has been creating a threat to the opponent

The glory of Meilinger:

Can still be in the previous game. The Sporting Lisbon players who were fully defended on the defensive end entered the final stage of the game and had no physical strength to complete the pace for the entire half, or in other words, they were unable to perform effective methods for the 30-meter area.

Sporting Lisbon players are more likely to stay close to their own penalty area, strictly guard their own defense line, and use their own defense line to fight against Real Madrid's offense.

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In the previous games, Real Madrid's offensive passing would be greatly disturbed, but now Real Madrid's offensive passing, before Sporting Lisbon's big penalty area, can even be achieved without too much defensive pressure. transfer.

The entire Real Madrid offense is now lined up in front of the penalty area and passing the ball continuously, and none of the Sporting Lisbon players have the desire to press forward. The defensive purpose of the Sporting Lisbon players is very simple, that is, to hold their own line of defense when their physical fitness is exhausted, and use their bodies to block the long-range shots of the Real Madrid players.

Then keep the space in the penalty area and do not give Real Madrid players any possibility of attacking in the penalty area.

Real Madrid's offense is constantly accelerating, constantly looking for offensive opportunities.

On the one hand, Real Madrid launched an aggressive attack amidst the cheers of the home fans. Almost every 2 minutes, they were able to complete a goal attempt, constantly creating pressure on Sporting Lisbon.

On the other hand, the leading Sporting Lisbon also tried their best to complete the defense, hoping to win the away game and make history.