Starting with Real Madrid kicking the midfielder

Chapter 168 The four battles of Real Madrid, the sluggish Barcelona and the explosive Real Madrid!

The topic of defending the title has not been discussed in Real Madrid for a long time.

Mourinho doesn't like to keep talking about the champions he hasn't won.

After the Real Madrid players had the experience of winning the championship last season, they also understood the importance of ladder goals.

You can be happy, and you can even celebrate a few times, but the Real Madrid players understand that the game still has to be played one game at a time.

This season, Real Madrid also does not have a huge point advantage in the mid-term lead.

Even though Barcelona has finally started to lose the chain now, to be honest, the difference is only two points. In the most ideal situation, Real Madrid wins the make-up match and widens the difference to five points.

Is there a lot of fault tolerance for less than two wins?
At the end of the season, Real Madrid will inevitably give a few small opportunities. In the case of psychological advantages, it is the most correct way to not pay more attention to the public opinion of the outside world.

So after making a profit, Real Madrid appeared to be extraordinarily "silent".

"Aspen" sent a large number of paparazzi reporters, and originally wanted to shoot some gossip about the Real Madrid players' wild life during the holiday.

In the end, besides the photos of Ronaldo and Elena shopping in the duty-free area, the biggest news they took was that Li Ang stopped practicing!
Yes, after Li Ang finished playing the league with Vallecano, he did not choose to continue training during the two-day vacation. Instead, he went for a stroll along the Mediterranean coast with Marcelo and Nacho.

The temperature in Madrid in winter is not bad, and the weather below zero is rare, but the air is still a bit dry.

In contrast, the weather in Valencia is much better.

Li Ang has never found it troublesome to travel, and Marcelo also prefers Valencia Beach, which has mild sunshine in winter.

So Li Ang took Nacho, and then turned to Marcelo, and the three of them took a short trip as soon as they said it.

It is not far to drive from Madrid to Valencia, less than [-] kilometers away.

Three people plus assistants and security guards made a total of seven people. Two cars went there on the morning of the holiday. At noon, a few people sat in a restaurant along the coast of Valencia and enjoyed a seafood feast.

When they met reporters on the way out, Li Ang and the others greeted them in a relaxed mood.

So "Aspen" soon published the news that Li Ang and the others went to Valencia for fun.

The truth is that no news was found during Real Madrid's short break.

The three of Li Ang played until the evening of the second day before driving back to Madrid.

There were no beauties in luxury cars during this small holiday, but a few men woke up naturally after sleeping at the beach, and even ate three seafood meals, which made them feel full of happiness.

After relaxing, the Real Madrid generals returned to a fulfilling training life.

Mourinho didn't give any more reminders, but Real Madrid's stars consciously devoted [-]% of their efforts to preparing for the league and the next round of the Champions League.

Before the start of the No.20 five rounds of La Liga, the first round of the remaining four rounds of the UEFA Champions League also kicked off the battle.

Malaga and Barcelona represented La Liga in Borussia Dortmund and AC Milan.

But the result was that the Western media and the entire Spanish football world were blown up.

Because both teams lost.

Malaga lost 1-3 at Dortmund's home court, and the result naturally did not satisfy Malaga's supporters and the Western media.

If only one goal is lost, such as 1-2 or 2-3, Malaga, which returned to the home court in that round, still has a certain initiative.

But after losing two goals, Malaga's second round will be very difficult.

However, Malaga's loss to Dortmund is not an upset.

After all, Dortmund has shown their superior strength in the two battles with Real Madrid before.

But Barcelona's loss was simply a 0-2 loss to Milan at San Siro, which is quite inappropriate.

Many fans have speculated that Barcelona brought the downturn in the league to the Champions League.

They lost two goals in the first round and haven't scored an away goal yet, so the second round can only be said to be bad luck.

Milan scored a goal in the Nou Camp in the second round, and Barcelona had to score four goals to advance, and scored three goals and had to be eliminated. It was too passive!

Bayern Munich defeated the Portuguese Super League giants Porto with a clean 3-0 at the Dragon Stadium.

Like Real Madrid, after the first leg, Bayern stepped into the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League.

Galatasaray drew with Schalke 04. No matter who wins the two teams, it will basically be counted as a big gift package in the quarterfinals.

Barcelona, ​​which was blown cold, became the most embarrassing team in this round of one-eighth knockout rounds.

The strong teams basically didn't turn over much. Manchester United still scored an away goal, but Barcelona didn't score an away goal, and they were directly bald.

And Milan's explosive performance has gained praise from the media and fans.

Li Ang's memory of most of the Champions League matchup scores this season is already very vague.

What he remembers most clearly is that the two heroes of the Western Super League were slaughtered by the top two in the Bundesliga in the semi-finals.

Those two matchups slapped the fans who were generally optimistic about the Western Super League duo at the time.

Cough. At that time, Li Ang was among the fans who were slapped in the face, so after so many years, he still has such a deep memory of these two games.

In any case, the Barcelona in his memory still made it to the final four, even though this season's Barcelona seems to be in a state of ups and downs.

But after returning to the Nou Camp, Li Ang felt that Barcelona was more likely to win in the end.

If Milan still has Ibrahimovic and Master Pi sitting in charge, then Li Ang must have no brains to stand on Milan's side.

But after Ibrahimovic left Paris and Master Pi also switched to Juventus, Milan only had a nerve knife, but no ability to stabilize the field.

Compared with Barcelona, ​​who will desperately try their best in the second round, the current Milan is at least a level behind, and they can't be stable.

After the Champions League game ended, whether Real Madrid or Barcelona, ​​they all put their focus back on the league.

Real Madrid's opponent in the No.20 five-round league is the newly promoted Mara Coruña.

Super Depor is currently ranked second to last in La Liga, which is one point more than Mallorca. After the first 24 rounds of the league, they only won three games, and their strength can be said to be extremely weak.

Belleron still played an important role in Deportivo this season.

In the first 24 league games, he started [-] games and scored [-] goal and assisted [-] times.

This data is placed on a veteran who is about to turn 38 years old. No matter who reads it, he has to give a thumbs up and say:
Do your best!
In the last round against Deportivo, it was a pity that Li Ang did not play against Belleron.

This time he waited.

Belleron started and played the entire game.

The old master still tried his best to win points for Deportivo.

But the reality is cruel. Facing the pressure of Real Madrid's soldiers, the weak Deportivo midfielder cannot be supported by Belleron alone.

Li Ang didn't let go of the water at all. Today, he was very excited and played offensive and defensive all-round performance in front of Belleron.

The audience contributed nine effective steals, seven successful interceptions, and the same seven one-on-one top fights were all successful!

The key is on the offensive end, and Li Ang also contributed personal data for passing shots.

In the end, the semi-main attacking Real Madrid took a four-goal victory at the Riazor Stadium, and Deportivo didn't even get a goal.

After the game, Li Ang once again received the champagne that symbolized the best player in the game, but for him, getting the off-field jersey of Belleron made him even happier.

"Good job, little lion, keep working hard, remember the path you want to take, and just go to the end firmly like this."

Master Belleron gave Li Ang a firm hug, and also gave Li Ang another heartfelt blessing.

Li Ang had nothing to say, and hugged Belleron's hands tightly.

Both of them know that this is the first time the two have played against each other in La Liga, and it will probably be the last time.

Even if Deportivo are not relegated this season, Belleron should consider returning to his home team Las Palmas to enjoy the last few years of his career.

There is freedom and ease in reluctance, but also blessings.

Li Ang knew that he was the heir to Belleron's mantle, because he continued to understand Belleron's "organizational core essentials" and slowly grew up on the offensive organization side.

Facing his "mentor", Li Ang can only wish him to continue to enjoy the happiness brought by football after returning to his home team.

And watching Li Ang hugging in the field is like embracing Belleron who is encouraging from his satisfied junior.

Thousands of Real Madrid fans and more than 3 Deportivo fans stood up and gave their heartfelt applause.

This is not a preferential treatment, but they are sending their respect and blessing to a true midfield maestro.

Regardless of whether Deportivo play home or away this season, the fans at the scene will applaud Belleron at the start and after the game.

This is the highest respect from the fans.

After the warm round of the game, the Real Madrid players were all gearing up and began to sharpen their knives and look at Barcelona.

Yes, the second national derby in La Liga this season is about to start!

The Barcelona players who just defeated Sevilla 3-1 will not care about being happy.

Because they must now face an important choice.

On February 2, before the national derby with Real Madrid, will they give up the Copa del Rey rematch with Atletico Madrid?
If they don't give up, in order to reverse Atletico Madrid, they will definitely do their best to score more goals.

But if they give up, the Barcelona players who have come to this point are really unwilling.

It's a pity that the tight time left Barcelona no extra time to think about it.

Three days after the league game with Sevilla, they ushered in a Copa del Rey matchup with Atletico Madrid at home.

It can be seen that Vilanova finally echoed the will of the Barcelona players.

Although his expression was helpless, he still formed Barcelona's most offensive four-three-three pure main formation.

But today's Barcelona are destined to be tortured by the scrappy Atletico Madrid players in the game.

The first half was okay, Atletico Madrid only conceded one goal under the defense, Simeone was more satisfied, and the Barcelona players seemed to see the hope of a reversal.

But in the second half, when Costa exerted his strength, Pique and Mascherano lost their mentality in just 10 minutes, and each received a yellow card.

The situation of the game began to tilt towards Atletico Madrid.

Falcao's grabbing points became more unscrupulous, and neither Mascherano nor Pique dared to make big defensive moves.

So in the second half, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid became a 2-2 tie.

Although Barcelona won this game 3-2, the gap in the total score made them eliminated!

Cracked.

The mentality of Barcelona fans is split again!
Still playing Real Madrid in this state?
It's hard to come by, the suspense in La Liga is over!
(End of this chapter)