The aftermath of the World Cup groupings is still reverberating. Fans and the media can continue to discuss this topic, look forward to the prospects of their respective national teams in next year's World Cup, and imagine how their respective "roads to the World Cup" will go.
But the players still have to get back to the game in front of them.
No matter how much we look forward to next year's World Cup, we must first play well in the league, Champions League and other competitions.
After the national team match day, there is the league match.
La Liga will usher in a major event:
The "El Clasico" between the Kings of Madrid and Catalonia United at home.
As the key battle of this round of La Liga, and even the entire European League, this game is not placed at the end, but at the very beginning - the first game of this round of La Liga is the "El Clasico".
This game attracted so much attention that even the entire Madrid Pirates team gathered in the hotel conference room after dinner to watch the live broadcast of the game.
They will challenge Baetic away at 10 o'clock tomorrow evening, and the result of tonight's match between Kings Madrid and Catalonia will determine where Madrid Pirates will be in the league standings after tomorrow's game.
Catalonia United currently ranks first in the league with 30 points.
Madrid Pirates are ranked second in the league, tied with 30 points.
The Madrid Kings ranked third with 28 points.
If the Madrid Kings defeat Catalonia United, they will temporarily be in first place with 31 points.
But wait until tomorrow night, as long as the Madrid Pirates defeat Baetic away, they can win the first place in the league with 33 points.
This is the result that is most beneficial to Madrid Pirates.
But as the rival of the Madrid King in the same city, it is not a happy thing to see the King win the El Clasico.
As for Catalonia beating Madrid Kings, let alone that - they will continue to stay at the top of the league.
And if Catalonia can defeat the Madrid Kings away from home, it will greatly improve the morale and confidence of this team.
If Madrid Pirates wants to surpass them in the future, the difficulty will increase sharply.
Since the Madrid Pirates will be unhappy with whoever wins between the Madrid Kings and Catalonia United, it is naturally in the Pirates' interests that a draw between the two sides is most beneficial.
It is said that "the snipe and the clam compete with each other and the fisherman gets the benefit".
In the event of a tie, Catalonia will have 31 points, Madrid Kings will have 29 points, and Madrid Pirates will have 33 points as long as they win, leading the two opponents by two points and four points respectively.
For this reason, the Madrid Pirates are naturally very concerned about this El Clasico.
"Although I really hope that the two teams will tie, I think the Kings should beat Catalonia at home..."
"It's hard to say. Kabangca's condition this season is really good, and Brazil has also been training in Europe before, so Kabangca is not tired from traveling, and his physical condition is better than Melly... Melly has returned to Argentina. He was playing in the warm-up match, and during the national team competition, you could tell that Melli's condition was not very good."
"The Kings have home court advantage, which is very important..."
Before the game started, everyone was sitting in the conference room and discussing the warm-up scenes of both sides.
Generally speaking, although they hope that the two teams will draw, the vast majority of people still believe that this game will definitely be decided, and most people are optimistic that the Madrid Kings can win.
After all, this is the home game of the Madrid Kings.
When the two teams are about the same strength, the home court is a very important factor in determining the outcome.
But the Madrid Pirates players never expected that the game would be played like this...
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"Melli! Melli broke through with the ball! Oops, it was interrupted!"
Amid the exclamations of the commentator Sanchez, Melly stumbled and fell to the ground.
At the same time, the Catalan United midfielder Victor van der Stern next to him dropped him and passed the ball that had just been broken to Rosas in front.
Rosas handed it over to Campuzano.
The latter made a long diagonal pass and found Kabangka on the right!
When Kabangka received the ball, he stopped the football inside in a premeditated manner, just passing by the Kings left back Fonseca who came up to tackle him.
The two men only played side by side in the national team four days ago, and now they are each their own.
Fonseca obviously didn't expect that Kabangka didn't stop the ball, but stopped the ball, and just saved it.
He wanted to reach out and pull Kabangka's arm or clothes, but he didn't touch them.
Kabangka starts up very quickly!
So even though it looked like he stopped the ball too much, he immediately took control of the ball again.
This caused Madrid Kings midfielder Osei, who originally wanted to steal the ball, to hesitate and fail to block it in time.
After Kabangka took control of the football, he only took one step forward and shot directly!
About thirty-five meters away from the goal, the football drew a white light and flew towards the King's goal!
Kings goalkeeper Rodriguez Barker jumped into the air and fought hard to save the ball, but did not touch the ball!
Under everyone's stunned gaze, the football plunged into the net!
The ball...went in!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!"
Sanchez, the commentator on the TV, shouted in a long voice.
In front of the TV, a group of Madrid Pirates players were stunned.
"World wave-!! Ka-bang-ka-!!"
Sanchez's passion is still gushing.
The Madrid Pirates players recovered from the initial shock and looked at each other.
Hu Lai's eyes also widened - he originally thought that this kind of scene would only happen when others were watching his game, but he didn't expect that such a famous scene would be repeated when he watched other people's games...
"The game only started for 21 minutes, and Catalonia took the lead in the away game! It's unbelievable! It's unbelievable! The King's start was terrible!"
Vukovic shook his head and said: "The commentator will exaggerate. How is it unbelievable? Although Kabangka's world-famous goal is a bit sudden, Catalonia did play better than the Kings in the first 20 minutes...
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Yes, in the first twenty minutes, even though it was the home court of the Madrid Kings, it was Catalonia United that had the upper hand.
Just like this ball, Melli's state was relatively sluggish in the first twenty minutes. I don't know if it was the fatigue from the long flight that caused his body to not be in the best condition.
The goal conceded by the Madrid Kings started when Melli's dribbling was intercepted.
The reason why Melli was intercepted while dribbling the ball had a lot to do with his not being in the best physical condition.
His dribbling steps are frivolous, stumbling, and his rhythm is unstable, and he will naturally be easily intercepted by Van der Stern.
After losing the ball, the TV broadcast quickly gave Melli a close-up shot.
Obviously the director also knows what the problem is with the King in this game.
In the camera, Melly opened her mouth wide and gasped, with a dull expression.
He didn't have the emotion he should have after losing the ball, and he didn't run to the referee to protest to him that Van der Stern had just committed a foul when grabbing the ball - there was nothing, so calm, but it was the biggest abnormality.
"Meli himself knows his problems..." Ramirez said with emotion as he looked at this scene.
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Melli's condition in this game was indeed not very good, and this caused a very serious problem:
The King of Madrid relies heavily on Melli's performance.
After all, Tavares' tactic is nicknamed "pass the damn football to Mellie."
Therefore, the quality of Melli's performance directly determines the quality of the Madrid King's offense.
In other words, King Madrid's offensive threat has dropped sharply.
If the opponent is an ordinary team, then even if the Madrid Kings do not rely on Melli, they can still win the game with a stronger overall strength.
But against Catalan United, an opponent of the same level, if Melli cannot output at full power, the Kings will be in danger.
Sure enough, before the end of the first half, Rosas assisted Mario Salado to score.
Catalonia led the Madrid Kings by two goals in the first half.
When the players from both sides left the field, boos could already be heard in the stands of the Crown Stadium.
Kings fans are looking forward to head coach Tavares making effective adjustments during the halftime break to reverse the situation in which the Kings were passively beaten in the first half.
They were disappointed in the second half.
Although the Madrid Kings made some substitution adjustments, they did not have any effect.
Because of the change, Melli, who was in poor condition, was still on the court.
Melly's sluggish performance made Kabangka look like a god descending from heaven.
In the 66th minute of the game, Kabangka received Salado's cross in the penalty area and rarely used his head to head the ball into the goal.
He scored twice at the Crown Stadium!
Although Merry finally seemed to find some form, it was too late.
In the end, Catalonia United was somewhat surprising in the away game, beating the Madrid Kings with a score of 3:0.
Won the first "El Clasico" of the season and also got the key three points.
These three points allow them to continue to lead the league standings.
At the same time, winning this game is also very important to Kabangka.
This was not the first time he defeated the king, but it could indeed be regarded as his complete victory over Merry.
While Melli and Hulay were chasing each other and having fun, Kabangka used the victory in this game to show the world that today's world football is by no means two heroes competing for hegemony, but three strong ones!
