Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 514 Intense Intense

The Mestagna Stadium is Valencia's home stadium. This year's Copa del Rey is scheduled to be held here, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with Valencia.

It’s also interesting to say that after Mourinho came, the confrontation between Real Madrid and Barcelona escalated in an all-round way. The Copa del Rey lasted to the end, the league duo continued to be staged, and everyone in the Champions League still met in the semi-finals. The cup final also attracted the attention of many parties. This will be the first championship under the confrontation between the two sides.

In Valencia, Real Madrid rested in the morning and had a training session in the afternoon. They did not leave for the Mestagna Stadium until an hour before the game in the evening. The Mestagna Stadium is in the city center, although this is neither the Bernabeu It's not the Nou Camp, but the streets are still occupied by fans of the two teams. It can be seen that everyone is more concerned.

Barcelona was also very unconvinced after losing to Real Madrid in the last game. They thought that Real Madrid was just lucky. At the same time, Real Madrid's foul moves were relatively large. Pique continued to hum triumphantly after the final break , "Five points, five points...the league championship is ours!"

It means that even if Real Madrid wins the game, they are still five points short, and there is no suspense in the league. This kind of irony naturally arouses the dissatisfaction of the Real Madrid players. Carvalho angrily shut him up and almost caused controversy.

Real Madrid is not easy to provoke, the villain Pepe deliberately took advantage of the conflict at the time and spat in the direction of Messi, Messi is not easy to provoke despite his short stature, the two of them almost did it on the spot stand up.

The relationship between Barcelona and Real Madrid seems to have been fully upgraded after Mourinho came. He himself also belittled and ridiculed the players.
The referee who enforced this game is Marenco. He has enforced the national derby 4 times. As a result, Barcelona did not lose a game. Before the game started, some media judged that Barcelona would win the Copa del Rey according to this rule. This is simply nonsense.

The reason why Real Madrid can't compete with Barcelona in the new century is of course not the referee's problem. The media concluded that such rules are proficient in order to attract readers' attention.

Barcelona's starting lineup today has only one change compared to the previous game. Puyol was injured, Mascherano partnered with Pique as a central defender, and other positions remained unchanged.

Real Madrid continued the 433 formation of the previous game. Due to the suspension of Albiol, Real Madrid put Ramos in the central defender position, Arbeloa played right back, and Di Maria on the front line. After a poor performance on the field, Mourinho replaced him with Ozil.

Ozil's position is a little deeper, Zhang Yuan is still a single forward, and Ronaldo is active on the left side of Zhang Yuan.

After the start of the game, Real Madrid entered the state very quickly and frequently created threats to Barcelona. Today, Barcelona seems to be in a relatively average state. Their best ball control did not show their power. Just 10 minutes into the game, Real Madrid almost scored twice directly. .

In the 5th minute, Özil kicked the ball from the right and made a pass. Zhang Yuan moved forward to grab the front point, shook his head and hit the goal, and the ball hit the crossbar hard.

Mascherano's height disadvantage was fully revealed at this moment. He started fast enough to keep up with Zhang Yuan, but he really couldn't take advantage of it when he was fighting for the top.

Guardiola frowned, Real Madrid is not good at playing high-altitude balls, maybe Mourinho will make some changes today, but he can't replace Mascherano at this time, Mascherano has his Advantages, you can't let Mascherano end because of the high-altitude ball.

In the 8th minute, Ronaldo missed another great opportunity. Alonso made a direct pass to Zhang Yuan. After Zhang Yuan took the ball, he passed it behind Pique. Stuart misses the ball.

Cristiano Ronaldo knelt on the ground and hammered the ground hard, even he himself couldn't believe that he had made such a shot.

Zhang Yuan was ready to celebrate, but it turned out to be disappointing. He immediately blamed Ronaldo. My brother didn't score this goal. We can't do more.

Real Madrid gave Barcelona a bad start at the beginning, which surprised Barcelona, ​​but then they took the initiative again. Even if they were in a normal state, they still kept the ball firmly under their feet when they woke up.

They also started to have some threatening offensives. In the 17th minute, Messi dribbled horizontally, passed Alonso and Carvalho in a row, and shot a low shot at Real Madrid's goal. Thanks to Casillas' quick reaction, he put The ball blocked the baseline.

This kind of derby is naturally not without ferocious fouls. The players of Real Madrid and Barcelona can be called not good birds in this kind of game. The national derby is so tense and intense.

In the 28th minute, Villa received the ball in the front court and was brought down by Ramos. Arbeloa and Ramos lifted Villa directly, and before that, Arbeloa stepped on Villa very covertly On his feet, Villa was extremely angry and almost had a conflict with the Real Madrid players. He accused Arbeloa of making too many fouls. Touch and fall.

Under the coordination of Marenco, the two sides calmed down, and no one got a yellow card for this. The Barcelona players were very dissatisfied but there was nothing they could do.

The consequence of Marenko's doing this is that everyone comes and goes, you are cruel and I am cruel, and for a while it feels like "flesh and blood" on the court!

In the 30th minute, Zhang Yuan received the ball with his back. Mascherano also took a retaliatory action from behind. He punched Zhang Yuan's back hard and kicked Zhang Yuan's calf. It was so annoying that he waved it with a slap.

After the swing passed, Zhang Yuan knelt on the ground and touched his back, while Mascherano covered his face and fell on the court. Both of them seemed to be victims.

"Hey, he hit me on the back with his fist!" Zhang Yuan complained to Marenko with a bitter face.

Malenco is not too clear about Mascherano's small moves, but he saw Zhang Yuan deliberately waving his hand to hit Mascherano. Of course, the current situation is also obvious, and he can guess that the two must have each other. There are small movements.

Seeing players from the two teams crowding around and preparing to entangle, Marenco made a decisive decision and showed a yellow card to Zhang Yuan and Mascherano, who were pretending to be sullen.

Zhang Yuan didn't bother, and got up immediately, while Mascherano pretended to go to the sidelines to receive treatment.

"Damn it, let's see who is more ruthless than whom!" Zhang Yuan was quite happy in his heart!
The first half of the game was spent in such entanglements. Of course, the problem here is mainly on the Real Madrid side. They must try their best to prevent Barcelona from passing the ball. The counterattack speed cannot achieve the integrity of the defensive system, and they also adopt foul tactics to stop Real Madrid's offense.

So this half of the game was really good-looking, but unfortunately it was all confrontation, and the number of shots from both sides was very small!

Mourinho is very satisfied, but Guardiola has a headache. There is nothing to guess about Mourinho's tactics, but because Real Madrid players have stronger personal abilities, they can obviously play better than Gijon. This is reflected in the decline in the number of shots taken by Barcelona.

In the league, Real Madrid has the highest average number of shots per game, and Barcelona is also very high, ranking behind them. When Barcelona played Real Madrid in the Nou Camp, the number of shots per game exceeded the average level, but in these two games, Real Madrid did other things. What the team can't do is limit Barcelona's shots to less than 15.

This shows that the Real Madrid players are very thorough in implementing Mourinho's tactics and are very strong in the construction of the defensive level. The area between the back line and the midfield is where Barcelona concedes the most goals, and it is difficult for Barcelona to penetrate.

But Barcelona has very little room for regulation. They have always used such tactics. The team does not have a high center forward. Besides, Guardiola can't play. What he can do now is to make some adjustments in personnel, such as the last one Dribble players with strong breakthrough ability to share the pressure on Messi.

Barcelona did not make personnel adjustments during the intermission, and Real Madrid's Mourinho also did not make adjustments. Ozil's opening stage of the first half was okay, but it became more and more ineffective later on.

Ozil used to often play on the wing in the Bundesliga, but he is not a breakthrough winger. His main strength is in passing. Today, Real Madrid's tactics do not invest a lot of troops in the frontcourt. Ozil wants There are fewer receiving points for passing the ball than he is in the front midfielder and midfield position. As a result, he also makes more mistakes. It is normal for him to perform poorly.

(End of this chapter)