1234 Real Madrid's Achilles heel
After Christmas, Real Madrid began to regroup and immediately rushed to Dubai, the Middle East to train.
In Dubai, Real Madrid played a warm-up match, but the main players including Yang Yang and Suarez did not play. They eventually lost to A Milan 2-4, ending the final match of 2014 with a loss.
But everyone knows that Real Madrid doesn't pay attention to this game at all, it's just for the three million euros.
In the next second half, Real Madrid's game pressure was still very high. First, the two-line battle between the King's Cup and the league, then the Champions League rekindled the battle. There was also a league that was postponed due to the Club World Cup, which made Real Madrid's schedule extremely dense, so the short-term training camp during the winter break became very important.
In such an important and even a time-to-minute training stage, how could Ancelotti do his best to play a warm-up match?
Not only does Real Madrid not pay attention to it, but the media and fans also do not pay attention to it.
On the contrary, at the end of 2014, major media launched the 2014 annual awards, which successfully attracted the attention of media and fans around the world.
The first to be released was the last issue of the 2014 issue of the veteran British football magazine [World Football]. They selected Player of the Year, Team of the Year and Head Coach of the Year.
The selection process is to invite 100 authoritative journalists from all over the world to select the top ten of the year in their minds, and then give the rankings, from first to tenth, and give ten to one point respectively.
Yang Yang won the Player of the Year with an absolute advantage, and his total points reached an astonishing 996 points. In other words, among the 100 authoritative reporters, only four did not award the top title to Yang Yang, and the other 96 people all put Yang Yang first without exception.
This is the absolute dominant scoring data, which also makes [World Football] say in the final comment that Yang Yang is the Person of the Year in the World Football World in 2014 and one of the greatest players in the history of world football.
But unfortunately, among Player of the Year and Head Coach of the Year, Real Madrid and Chinese national teams lost to Germany, and Ancelotti also lost to Loew in the head coach-style competition.
In addition to [World Football], Spanish Marca is also conducting its annual selection. Yang Yang has won many awards, and the most substantial figure of the year was also won by Yang Yang. Marca commented that Yang Yang is at the peak of his career, and no one in football can match him today.
In addition to Marca, Spain's Ass, National, French, German Photos, British Times... Every year at the end of the year, major media throughout Europe and even around the world will select the best player of the year.
If Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were able to pose some threats and challenges to Yang Yang in previous years, then this year, this threat and challenges will be almost zero.
Almost everyone believes that Yang Yang is the best and best player in 2014.
There are many awards from all over the world, so Yang Yang cannot participate in them all, and not even all awards can come to Madrid. Only authoritative media from all over the world can apply for such opportunities.
Among them, Yang Yang attaches great importance to authoritative media from the motherland and authoritative media from other Asian countries, because Asia is his base camp, especially the motherland.
When accepting awards from authoritative domestic media, he said that he regretted that he was unable to return to China to receive the award, and he was also sorry that he failed to return to China to participate in the Asian Cup. He hoped that the Chinese team could work hard to achieve his level in the next Asian Cup.
Many authoritative media from the United States flew directly to Dubai to present awards to Yang Yang as early as when Real Madrid was training in Dubai, which will undoubtedly further enhance Yang Yang's influence in North America.
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Time passed 2014 and entered 2015.
After Real Madrid returned to Madrid, they immediately ushered in the 17th round of La Liga, challenging Valencia away.
Although Real Madrid scored a goal in the 14th minute, Hazard scored a goal to lead Real Madrid, looking at the entire game, Real Madrid's performance was unsatisfactory and was seriously out of shape.
The reason is also very simple. Many main players, including Yang Yang, did not appear in this game.
In the end, in the second half, Valencia first tied the score with a goal from Baragan, and in the 65th minute, Otamendi once again overtook the score with a header from a corner kick.
It is unacceptable that Valencia's two goals were planned and assisted by former Real Madrid player Parejo.
One to two, Real Madrid finally returned away with a grudge, and the winning streak was completely over.
But Real Madrid had no time to stop and reflect slowly, and the first leg of the King's Cup 16 knockout matches followed one after another.
Real Madrid's luck has obviously become worse. In the quarterfinals, he met his mortal enemy, Atletico Madrid early.
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On the evening of January 7th, 21:13.
Atletico Madrid's Calderon Stadium, in the Copa del Rey knockout stage, Atletico Madrid's home game against Real Madrid.
In the thirteenth minute of the game, Real Madrid got a free kick opportunity on the left side of the frontcourt, which was created by Hazard's forced breakthrough.
Atletico Madrid has rich experience in fouls and is good at capturing the referee's psychology and law enforcement. At the same time, they are also very afraid of Yang Yang's free kick, so when fouls, they often choose relatively remote areas.
This is the case this time. The outside of the penalty area is on the left side, not far away, but it is difficult to punish.
Usually, this kind of ball is directly crossed, allowing teammates in the penalty area to grab it.
David Silva stood outside the free throw point, and Yang Yang was the one who supported him.
No one knows who will punish this ball, and even Real Madrid players on the court don't understand it.
Because Yang Yang shouldn't have stood at the free throw point, but should have ambushed in the penalty area and grabbed the front point, but he had a temporary idea and suddenly decided to come to the free throw point, which surprised everyone.
The reason why Yang Yang changed his mind temporarily was that until the thirteen minutes of the game, Real Madrid had two corner kicks and one frontcourt set-piece, but they failed to create a threat. Atletico Madrid was very tight in this area of defense and did not give Real Madrid a chance.
"This time the penalty is probably the same." Yang Yang said gently to David Silva in front of him.
How smart is the Spanish midfielder, "You want to play directly?"
"According to surprise, give it a try." Yang Yang said.
As long as he makes a decision, all the players on Real Madrid will obey and cooperate unconditionally, because Yang Yang is the number one attacking firepower in Real Madrid. He has unlimited firepower. He can directly attack at any time, anywhere, or even in his own penalty area as long as he wants.
What's more, over the years, Yang Yang has long conquered his teammates bit by bit with his performance.
"Okay, I'll cover you later." David Silva said without hesitation.
What he implied was that he ran first and pretended to go to the cross to find the penalty area, but Yang Yang personally shot the ball.
But after hearing this, Yang Yang shook his head, "I'll fight first!"
"You fight first?" David Silva was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what Yang Yang meant.
Since it is a surprise, it is best to surprise the end, without even covering it, just hit the door.
But even so, David Silva still pretended to make gestures to his teammates in the penalty area, which seemed to be sending some signal just like when he took a free kick on weekdays.
The distance is a little far, but the angle is indeed too biased and it is not suitable to shoot directly. Therefore, everyone in the penalty area basically speculates that David Silva will pass it, and then the teammates in the penalty area will compete for the top. Yang Yang just made a fake shot.
But with the referee's whistle, Yang Yang rushed out quickly.
This seemed to be confirming the outside world's speculation. The first ones who came out were often covered.
But what was really surprising was that Yang Yang rushed to the front of the ball, but did not run over as they expected and cover David Silva. Instead, he stood up and kicked out his right foot quickly.
Only a loud bang was heard at the scene, and the ball was seen flying out quickly, climbing at an extremely fast speed, then falling rapidly, and then making an elegant arc, it directly into the right side of Atletico Madrid's goal, almost rubbing the post and crashing into the side net.
One to zero!
Goalkeeper Oblak had just rushed to the side, but was one step late, and he was so angry that he kept slapping the grass.
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With Yang Yang's direct free kick, Real Madrid took the lead, but in the subsequent games, Real Madrid still played unsatisfactory, which is also a problem facing Real Madrid now.
In the first half, Real Madrid was unstoppable and performed very well, but the pause of the winter break interrupted Real Madrid's state. Then the team began to prepare for the second half. Now it is in the adjustment stage and its condition is not ideal.
Not only are the other players in their poor condition, but even Yang Yang himself feels that he is not in his best condition.
On the contrary, Atletico Madrid has fewer games than Real Madrid since December, and this game is home to play. Simeone's team is indeed in better shape than Real Madrid.
But in the 52nd minute, Real Madrid used a quick counterattack. Marcelo passed the left foot to the back point of the penalty area. Suarez inserted it and passed the ball from the front of the small penalty area to the front of the goal from mid-air. Yang Yang followed up in the middle and easily scored, scoring twice, helping Real Madrid take the lead 2-0.
But just six minutes later, while defending a corner kick, Ramos held Raul Garcia down in the penalty area and was awarded a red card and penalty kick by the referee. Navas did not perform the feat of saving the penalty this time, and Atletico Madrid scored a goal.
In the 76th minute, Gabi took a corner kick and Gimenes headed the ball in the penalty area.
Two to two!
Chapter completed!