On the evening of January 16th, San Mames Stadium, Bilbao.

In the 18th round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Athletic Bilbao away.

When the referee Vazquez blew the whistle to the end of the game, deafening cheers rang out in the entire San Mames Stadium.

Forty thousand Athletic Bilbao fans were cheering wildly, celebrating a difficult victory for the team they supported, while many people were shouting the name of goal hero Fernando Lorent.

One to zero, this is the final score of this game.

Real Madrid received their third defeat of the season, which also made the team's situation after Christmas once again worsen.

Yang Yang kicked the audience, sweating all over. He was still trying to get the opportunity the moment before the whistle sounded, but when the whistle sounded, he seemed to have been hollowed out.

Standing on the unfamiliar court, tilted his head and let the sweat fall down on his face.

The Basque Lions are famously xenophobic and are quite unfriendly to the visiting team. They all thought of these difficult teams before the game.

But no one expected that the game would be so difficult.

Less than two minutes into the game, Athletic Bilbao relied on a corner kick and Lorent headed the ball.

That's right, it's a corner kick again!

From Liverpool to Real Madrid, Benitez's team has been tortured in pain by corner kicks.

The team's defensive problems are constantly exposed and digging, especially after Christmas.

First, the team's condition has fluctuated after the holiday, and second, the team's defensive problems are frequently used by opponents.

First, he drew with Osasuna in the league, then was eliminated by Athletic Santander in the Copa del Rey, and now he has lost to Athletic Bilbao. Such a report card is definitely not satisfactory.

Athletic Bilbao also paid a heavy price, and they received eight yellow cards and one red card throughout the game.

Among them, Gupegg's red card was obtained by accumulating yellow cards in the final stage of the game.

In the last few minutes, Athletic Bilbao was delaying time, and after Aesop was warned by the referee, they still did not restrain themselves.

Yang Yang worked very hard throughout the game, but his condition has not been very good recently. In addition, the team's overall performance is not good, and the support he has not given enough, which has led to him not being able to score in this game.

In this game, he was impatient and lost control of his emotions and received a yellow card.

It was at the end of the game. Yang Yang tried his best to chase a ball that was about to go out of the baseline, but was disturbed by Athletic Bilbao's defender and failed to catch up, which made him feel a little angry.

But at this moment, the fans of the San Mames Stadium stirred up a slander of insults at Yang Yang, and the whole audience was infuriated.

From beginning to end of the game, the home team fans were attacking Yang Yang with all their might, and even attacking him with some vicious words. Yang Yang endured it, but when the game was approaching the end, the fans sitting in the front row almost pointed at Yang Yang who was chasing the ball and cursed.

At that time, Yang Yang was a little anxious, and his opponent had been deliberately delaying time. Now he was pointed at the nose and scolded by the other party. The distance between them was only less than one meter away, and there was a billboard. How could Yang Yang resist it?

He grabbed the ball on the ground and was about to smash it directly, scaring the fan to retreat in the seat.

But at this critical moment, he finally regained his rationality and quickly dunked the ball back, but the Athletic Bilbao fans all seemed to be too high and even more hoarse, cursing him overwhelmingly.

Yang Yang was shown a yellow card by the referee, believing that his actions provoked the visiting team fans.

"Don't worry, I will write their attacks on you into the game report." After the referee gave the yellow card, he comforted Yang Yang.

But in the end, Real Madrid failed to beat Athletic Bilbao away.

Yang Yang stood in the stadium, and the cheers at the scene were deafening.

He knew very well that it was the visiting fans who were demonstrating to him and showing off to him.

And he could also imagine that after tonight, his situation will be even more difficult for Real Madrid.

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Real Madrid lost 0-1 to Athletic Bilbao away, but Barcelona defeated Sevilla four-zero at his home court.

Yang Yang's former teammate Escud scored an own goal, Pedro scored the second goal, and Messi scored twice.

These two goals helped Messi reverse Yang Yang with 15 goals and lead the La Liga scorer list.

Barcelona's ace star was very excited after the game, saying that La Liga has only been in 18 rounds and scoring fifteen goals is not enough to explain the problem. More importantly, after this round of game, Barcelona was still three-pointer behind Real Madrid.

"I hope to help the team reverse Real Madrid in the standings and win the championship!" Messi said confidently.

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The narrowing advantage in the standings was tragically reversed by Messi on the scorer list. Yang Yang seemed to be knocked down to the ground from the legendary cloud of the three-time World Footballer, making him clearly aware of the fierce competition.

Messi said that he wanted to defeat Yang Yang, which is definitely not a vernacular sentence.

What's even more terrible is that Real Madrid is really in trouble now, and Yang Yang himself is not in his best condition.

After the game, Marca analyzed Yang Yang's recent problems and believed that the main reason was that the team did not provide him with enough support, and even believed that Benitez's tactics were somewhat conservative.

You should know that in the Premier League last season, Yang Yang scored 44 goals in 38 rounds, and in the previous season, Yang Yang scored 34 goals, but so far this season, he only scored 14 goals in 18 rounds. Although he contributed nine assists, this report card is indeed inferior to the past.

Marca also believes that Real Madrid's current problem is that the team's offensive end fails to fully activate the attack power of the superstar Trident, Ibrahimovic and Robben, but at the same time, serious problems were exposed on the defensive end, which led to the team's continuous battles being unfavorable after entering January and was eliminated from the Copa del Rey.

Not only Marca, but Ass also deeply analyzed Yang Yang's performance this season, and believed that it would be much lower than the past two seasons.

"Analysis of the problems Real Madrid has encountered at present, the main reason is that the team's tactics have not been fully shaped, especially the team's defensive tactic system. Playing against Athletic Santander and Athletic Bilbao both exposed defensive problems. Several superstars in the team have not yet integrated into the team 100%, which will become a very serious problem for the team."

Ass believes that being eliminated from the Cup of del Rey is not important because this cup itself is a bit useless, and the real challenge is to be in the Champions League quarterfinals in February.

This time Real Madrid draws the opponent Lyon, the French Ligue 1 bully.

"Ligue 1 Lyon is nicknamed by the media as [Real Madrid nemesis], because in the past few years, Real Madrid has been divided into the same group with Lyon twice in the Champions League group stage. Real Madrid has two draws and two losses in four matches, and has not won a single victory."

"In the group stage of the 05-06 season, Real Madrid lost to Lyon 0-3 away in the first round away game. After returning to home, they drew 1-1. After that, Lyon beat Real Madrid to advance from the top in the group. The Galaxy unfortunately won Arsenal, who finally reached the final, and stopped in the quarterfinals."

"A year later, in the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid encountered Lyon again, and the first round away game, with a score of zero to two. Then he returned to home court, Real Madrid drew Lyon 2 to two, but still failed to win the opponent. In the end, he still stood under Lyon, qualified as the second in the group, drew Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals knockout round, and failed to score in the quarterfinals again."

Assas believes that Real Madrid was given the embarrassing nickname of the Champions League Sixteen, and Lyon can be said to be the initiator. This team is known as the star of Real Madrid and has brought countless painful experiences to Real Madrid.

This season, a very important mission of the Galaxy battleship that Benitez reorganized is to break out of the top 16 of the Champions League, but unexpectedly, he met his mortal enemy Lyon again.

What's even more serious is that Real Madrid is in a bleak situation now. First, Kaka is seriously injured, and then the team's defensive problems are exposed. Now the team is generally sluggish and Yang Yang is in poor condition. These make people worry about Real Madrid's subsequent performance.

"Does the team continue to stop at the quarterfinals this year?"

It is obvious that this is a statement that will not be accepted by management and fans, even the players and coaching staff, no matter what.

He invested huge amounts of money and introduced so many superstars and world-class stars, but he still stopped in the top 16?

Is this reasonable?

However, the team's performance since January has indeed been unsatisfactory, which has caused a lot of public opinion outside the team. There are even tabloid media creating momentum, believing that the team should make a decision as soon as possible and let Benitez be dismissed.

The reason is simple. Benitez's football is not pleasing. Real Madrid prefers a refreshing offense. At the same time, they all believe that Benitez cannot solve the crisis and challenges the team is currently facing, and it is necessary to inspire the team's vitality and fighting spirit by changing coaches.

"The most important thing is that we need a head coach who is good at coaching offense to activate Yang Yang. If the team wants to break through the top 16, which goal is needed to score like picking up grass, Yang Yang who is unstoppable!"

And within the team, there is also something strange.

Real Madrid's locker room has never been a good person. Some people even believe that Real Madrid's locker room is the most complex locker room in the world.

The team kept winning the ball before, and everything was fine, but now the team lost, and although it still leads the standings, this is nothing to Real Madrid.

In the eyes of the media and fans, and even in the eyes of the management, with Real Madrid's investment and the team's current lineup strength, if they cannot lead the standings, they would have proposed to change their coaches long ago.

There was a lot of discussion outside, people were panic inside and internally and externally, Benitez's Real Madrid encountered its first major crisis since its coaching.
Chapter completed!