The moment Cristiano Ronaldo sent Di Maria's cross into the Barcelona goal, the entire Bernabeu Stadium seemed to explode.
Nearly 80,000 Real Madrid fans rushed out of their seats crazily, roaring and shouting towards the stadium with all their strength, venting the sudden surprise in their hearts.
This is the charm of football!
It can bring you suffering, endurance, and even pain for a long time.
But when the goal comes, everything will turn into excitement and excitement.
It will make you feel that everything you have invested in it is worth it!
Countless fans were cheering and shouting crazily.
Gao Shen clenched his fists vigorously in front of the home team's coaching bench.
Before this goal, Di Maria had already completed a position change with Ronaldo. This is also what Real Madrid often happens in the game. Sometimes, Di Maria and Ronaldo will even be on the same side, forming a partial area.
Advantage.
But this time the goal reflected something more.
That's Barcelona's problem.
Gao Shen realized that something was going on, and when the players were walking back after celebrating, he walked to the sidelines and signaled them to continue with this style of play, work harder, and try to score another goal.
Don't tell me, the opportunity really did come up again.
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After the game restarted, Real Madrid continued to adopt the previous tactics.
They still deployed heavy troops near the midline to suppress Barcelona's passing and ball control.
After Barcelona stabilized possession of the ball, they quickly launched a long pass from the backcourt.
This time he went straight in front to find Neymar on the left, but Pepe stepped forward first and headed the ball back.
The ball crossed the halfway line and was pushed back into Real Madrid's half by Busquets, but Xabi Alonso pushed the ball back again.
Modric stopped the ball with his back, turned to the right, and handed it to Carvajal.
Real Madrid's right back quickly stepped forward, received the ball, and directly passed the ball to the back of the defense.
Cristiano Ronaldo moved forward at great speed and squeezed Alba away with his body. After receiving the ball on the right side of the Barcelona penalty area, he paused, made continuous fake moves and then made a pass.
Benzema followed up from the center and hit the goal with a header, but it was slightly higher.
There was a cry of regret throughout the Bernabeu Stadium.
Gao Shen also shook his head helplessly on the sidelines.
This is the value of Ronaldo!
Maybe many people think that his skills are not as good as Messi's, his talent is not as good as Messi's... He is even too wasteful in many cases.
But Ronaldo is the kind of player who can seize opportunities very steadily.
If Cristiano Ronaldo had hit the ball like just now, it would probably have gone in.
But Benzema failed to grasp it.
Because the timing and position of his jump were not the best.
It is this extremely trivial detail that ultimately determines success or failure.
If this goal is scored, the game will be easy to play.
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Real Madrid's two consecutive counterattacks created a dangerous situation in front of Barcelona's goal.
Even if Martino reacts slowly, he can still realize that there is a problem with the team, especially the offensive problem.
Neymar, Aguero and Messi are too loosely separated.
This situation is very common in South American leagues, even very common.
Because in that place, the pressure exerted by the defensive players is not that great.
Even in many cases, after players get the ball, they can talk back and forth with the opponent slowly.
But in the European leagues, especially in this kind of strong dialogue, this is obviously not the case.
The defense is very meticulous and hardly gives the opponent any chance to breathe, let alone get the ball.
The most typical example is that Neymar fell to the ground during a physical confrontation with Carvajal. The Brazilian winger fell to the ground in pain, but the referee did not even whistle and directly signaled the game to continue.
This is considered the most basic physical confrontation in the four major European leagues.
Martino suddenly realized that he was just another Neymar?
Neymar has to adapt to the defensive intensity of the European League, doesn't he do the same?
Coupled with the fact that Lula and Rubit found themselves before the game and said a lot of insinuations, looking back now, they were actually reminding him that the defensive intensity of La Liga and the Champions League is very different.
Thinking of this, Martino quickly walked to the sidelines and called Xavi's name, indicating to him to control the team's rhythm and at the same time bring the front trident closer to try to form coordination.
But in terms of mid-to-long distance and long passes, he still doesn't let up.
This is his reform of Barcelona!
If Barcelona continues to use the same style of play before, then what is the significance of Martino coaching Barcelona?
Then there is no need for him Martino, wouldn't it be enough to just let Lula take over?
Or Luis Enrique, who was competing with him at the time?
Besides, reforming Barcelona will encounter difficulties, which Martino had anticipated before taking charge.
Not only him, but also Barcelona executives, Messi and others have also communicated with him about this matter before.
The reason why Messi is willing to return to the right wing is that he wants to actively cooperate with Martino's reforms.
Reform will bring about labor pains, but as long as the labor pains are gone, new life will soon come.
Martino believes that he is on the right track.
The premise is that a suitable path must be found.
Looking towards the home team's coaching bench, I found that Gao Shen had once again walked to the sidelines and was making gestures towards the Real Madrid players, constantly telling them to move forward, move forward.
Martino didn't understand what Gao Shen was shouting, but he felt that he was not asking Real Madrid players to press forward and attack.
It's more like calling them again to be quick when counterattacking and to dare to invest troops.
What a troublesome opponent!
Martino thought.
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Another long pass from Barcelona, trying to break into Real Madrid's penalty area.
Goalkeeper Casillas decisively abandoned the goal and picked the ball out of mid-air.
The Real Madrid captain held the football in one hand and signaled his teammates to hold on with the other hand.
But suddenly, Casillas kicked the ball forward with a big kick.
The football crossed the center line and landed on the right side of Barcelona's half.
Benzema grabbed the first spot, headed the ball down, rushed over to grab the second spot, and kicked the ball directly to Modric.
The Croatian midfielder came to receive the ball, and immediately passed it to Di Maria on the right, and he pushed forward.
The Argentinian had returned to the right side at this time, and passed the ball to Modric with the outside of his left foot.
Modric was pressed hard by Busquets and immediately passed the ball back, but he continued to move forward and opened up the defense.
After Di Maria stopped the ball with the outside instep of his left foot, he cut inward laterally.
Everyone knew that Di Maria's inward pass was a big threat. Busquets immediately dropped Modric, turned around and rushed towards Di Maria, flanking Alba at the same time.
But Di Maria was very fast and was about to rush over in no time.
In a hurry, Busquets directly stepped out to steal the ball.
The moment he took the ball, he already knew that he couldn't steal the ball, but he could trip Di Maria.
The referee blew a clear whistle, walked over, raised a yellow card towards Busquets, and at the same time gave Real Madrid a set kick opportunity near the 30-meter area on the right side of the front court.
Busquets didn't know the difference either. He already knew this was the result and slowly backed away.
Xabi Alonso and others ran over, pulled up Di Maria from the ground, and at the same time began to discuss how to punish this free kick.
The distance is a bit far, so hitting the door directly will definitely not work.
Ronaldo also waved his hand and said that he would not take the penalty and would have a better chance of winning by staying in the penalty area to grab points.
Just now, he was lying in ambush on the left side of the penalty area, waiting for Di Maria to pass the ball.
If Busquets hadn't fouled decisively, this would have really been an opportunity.
Ramos and Pepe also ran forward and entered Barcelona's penalty area, preparing to compete for the free kick.
Toni Kroos and Xabi Alonso both stood at the penalty spot.
This location is actually pretty good, just a little far.
Real Madrid also quickly formulated a strategy.
After the referee blew his whistle, Toni Kroos quickly stepped forward.
The German midfielder just made a false shot, Xabi Alonso followed closely and took a run-up, and a muffled bang was heard at the scene.
The Spanish midfielder took a precise free kick with a wonderful arc.
This kick was like a precise guided missile, landing just right in Barcelona's penalty area. There was a rapid drop at the edge of the small penalty area. This is a characteristic of Xavi Alonso's free throws.
In Real Madrid's free kick drill, adapting to and judging Xavi Alonso's arc is an ability that several Real Madrid players competing for headers must possess.
After the penalty kick started, the Barcelona penalty area was also in chaos. Players on the defensive side were all marking people, but the Real Madrid players on the offensive side were doing everything possible to get rid of the entanglement of the defensive players.
In the final chaos, Ramos suddenly jumped up, got ahead of everyone, and hit Xavi Alonso's free kick. The ball changed direction and went into the left side of Barcelona's goal.
Goalkeeper Valdez flew to save, but was a little slow and the ball went into the net.
“goallllllllllllllll!!!!!!”
"Ramos!!!!"
"Thirty-seven minutes into the first half, Sergio Ramos!"
"Real Madrid leads 2-0!"
After Ramos landed, he jumped up again and rushed out of the stadium crazily, waving his arms all the way to signal the Real Madrid fans to be more enthusiastic.
The fans at the Bernabeu also responded with even more enthusiastic applause.
"Guards with swords!"
"Ramos' header has always been a powerful weapon in Real Madrid's set-piece tactics."
"Barcelona's set-piece defense failed to follow Ramos in time. Ramos was the only one taking off in the entire penalty area."
"It was definitely a defensive mistake on set pieces."
"Barcelona didn't even have anyone who could compete with Ramos in time."
"From the slow-motion replay, we can see that Xavi Alonso's free throw dropped sharply, which made the Barcelona defensive players who were originally judging the landing point unexpected and made a mistake in their judgment."
"While they were still looking for a landing spot, Ramos was already jumping up."
"This is a tacit understanding!"
"Two to zero!"
"Real Madrid performed very well tonight."
"In terms of ball possession rate, 44 vs. 56, Real Madrid's possession of the ball is not far behind Barcelona."
"In terms of effective offense, Real Madrid's number of shots and the number of attacks into the penalty area are significantly higher than Barcelona's."
"This also proves once again that sophisticated tactics work!"
