Football’s First Defender

After defeating Sporting Lisbon at home and getting a good start in the Champions League, Real Madrid will go to Barcelona in the weekend's league game and challenge the Espanyol away.

Many people have a misunderstanding, thinking that the Spanish have a better relationship with Barcelona in the Barcelona area, but this is not true.

In the highly autonomous Barcelona area, the Espanyol team is a typical government faction.

Therefore, as a team with sufficient influence from the Spanish government, the Espanyol team is naturally regarded as a hard-core teammate of Real Madrid and a direct younger brother of Real Madrid.

In the Spanish team, there are also many players and coaches from the Real Madrid system.

In a sense, the Espanyol team can be regarded as a small Real Madrid, and even many Real Madrid players of the king will openly express their support for Real Madrid and belittle Barcelona during the season.

In the so-called city derby in Barcelona, ​​the Spaniard will always be the most active playing Barcelona.

Although the strength of the Espanyol team is poor and they need to complete relegation for many years, but every season, the two most desperate games of the Espanyol team must be the same city derby with their city rival Barcelona.

In the game against Barcelona, ​​the Espanyol team will be very desperate. In the game against Real Madrid, generally speaking, the Espanyol team has a so-called relaxed attitude.

Generally speaking, in the game against the Spaniard, if Real Madrid can score the first goal, then the game will become very open.

The Espanyol team will have a good reason to attack, so that Real Madrid can directly counterattack and "help" Real Madrid win the game easily.

As long as there are no major accidents, generally speaking, Real Madrid will win a particularly easy victory against the Spaniard in the league.

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This can be seen from the recent consecutive victories of Real Madrid against the Spaniard.

Even if the Spaniard is in home and away games, he can usually rely on his tenacious defensive end to defend half of the game, but in the second half of the game, it is convenient for Real Madrid to score three points.

This is actually a characteristic of La Liga games. The intensity of the game depends entirely on who the opponent is. Everyone plays like this.

Around the two cosmic teams of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​there are their own direct teams to help them establish their own dynasties. In recent years, Barcelona has been able to dominate the league and win many championships. On the one hand, it is because of Barcelona's own superior strength. On the other hand, it is not because of Barcelona. The Barcelona faction has a stronger team, which poses a greater threat to Real Madrid.

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After all, Real Madrid's "little brother" teams are also Real Sociedad, which can be regarded as a stable second-rate team.

The rest, such as Betis and the Spaniards, are considered to be teams that have to fight for relegation all the year round, while Barcelona has Sevilla, Celta, etc., which are considered to be stronger teams, and there are also teams like Atletico Madrid. A helping hand will show a stronger strength in the game against Real Madrid and pose a threat to Real Madrid.

As long as they win this game, Real Madrid can achieve 16 consecutive victories in the league. As long as they win this game, Real Madrid can break their team's winning streak and tie Barcelona's winning streak in the league.

However, even with the pressure on the record, Zidane continued to use his own rotation concept in the game to protect the rotation of the players, so that the players have more rest time to recover, instead of double matches in a week Under certain circumstances, force players to play to increase the hidden danger of injury

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Among the starting roster, the defense Zidane did not make much change.

Mainly the regular starting lineup. Casilla, Carvajal, Yang Feng, Ramos and Marcelo form Real Madrid's defense.

As for the midfield, a certain rotation was carried out. Toni Kroos did not start this game, but used Casemiro, Modric and Ronaldo to start, forming Real Madrid's three midfielders.

In the frontcourt, the BC among the BBC rotates.

Ronaldo and Bell took turns in this game, and only Benzema started the game. He is partnered with Lucas Vazquez on the right and Asensio on the left

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Zidane likes Asensio very much. After being taken back by Real Madrid from a loan state this season, the young teenager has shown very strong competitiveness and a very good offensive performance on the court.

Zidane even told the media that he believes that Asensio can become Ronaldo's successor and become Real Madrid's striker star in the next ten years.

Actually the game. The Spaniard, who played at home, performed quite well in the first half. Not only could he use his simple and smooth offensive coordination to pose a certain offensive threat to Real Madrid, but he could also use his excellent performance on the defensive end to cause a great deal of damage to Real Madrid. defensive pressure.

Of course, Real Madrid was unable to break the stalemate in the first half. On the one hand, it was because of the Spanish defensive strength. On the other hand, Real Madrid did not show their full strength in the game, or they did not focus on the Espanyol. into the game

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Facing their younger brother, Real Madrid obviously didn't show their full strength, didn't expend too much, but just played the game flatly.

In this kind of dull game, Real Madrid focused on the personal strength of the star. Three minutes of stoppage time in the first half, just before the end of the first half, at the 47th and a half minutes of the game, Real Madrid played a wonderful individual performance.

In the midfield area, Ronaldo dribbled the ball in a small range continuously. After shaking the two of them, he took a long shot with his left foot in front of him and hit a low flat ball. The ball went straight to the lower left corner of the goal.

The Spaniard's goalkeeper, the former Real Madrid goalkeeper Lopez, was too slow to react to Ronaldo's goal this time, and fell to the ground to complete a side attack.

But the outstretched palm was not far enough. The ball hit the left post and bounced into the goal. Real Madrid took the lead 1:0 at the last moment of the first half of the away game

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In the second half of the game, Real Madrid carried out their rotation to the end. Even though they only led 1:0, Real Madrid has been constantly making substitutions and adjustments during the game.

After Ronaldo was replaced by Isco in 63 minutes, Benzema was replaced by Morata in 67 minutes. Including Casemiro replaced by Toni Kroos due to injury in the first half, Zida Nei used his substitutions early because Zidane wanted to ensure the rotation of players without the impact of injuries caused by too long a game.

Even with a 1-0 lead, all three substitutions are completed, and Zidane still needs to bear certain risks. In case of an injury to the team, it is very likely to give the Spaniard a chance to reverse the situation

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But in the 75th minute of the game, Real Madrid once again played a wonderful offensive cooperation in the game.

Carvajal quickly advanced and sent a through ball to the right.

Vazquez slipped to the bottom and sent a cross pass directly through the three Spaniards' defenders. Then Morata followed up in the middle with a push and scored a goal. Real Madrid took the lead 2:0.

In the remaining 15 minutes of the game, even though the score was still only 2-0, the Spaniard, completely in the game, chose to "passively slow down" and hold the ball with Real Madrid, consuming time.

In the end, 2-0, Real Madrid won the away game, and also expanded their winning streak in the league to 16 games, surpassing their own winning streak and tying the winning streak maintained by Barcelona.