Cristiano Ronaldo made a huge contribution to Real Madrid's big win at Getafe and Elche's narrow win away, as did Tang Zheng, whose world wave helped Real Madrid win all three points on the road.

Real Madrid have won two consecutive league games, but there is no change in the standings, as Barcelona and Atletico Madrid at the top of the table have both won two consecutive league games to remain in the top two.

Real Madrid's 1-1 draw away to Villarreal leaves them two points behind Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, which means that Real Madrid's home league game against Atletico Madrid will directly affect the race for the league title this season.

Judging by the current situation in the first six rounds of the league, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are the most likely to compete for the league title this season.

The battle for the top three in the league is tantamount to saying that whoever wins the game will increase their chances of winning the championship.

On the contrary, if you lose, you may collapse.

If the match is a draw, only Barcelona at the top of the table will benefit.

Ahead of the Madrid derby, Barcelona travelled to Almeria, a team that has yet to win a game.

It is equivalent to saying that Barcelona's chances of winning are infinitely close to 100%, while the two sides of the Madrid derby are fighting to the death......

Real Madrid's 153rd Madrid derby at home to Atletico Madrid attracted the attention of the world's sports media.

The Argentine media would not have paid attention to the Madrid derby, but the first Madrid derby of the 2013-2014 La Liga season was a reunion of the brilliant creators of River Plate, which made the local media in Buenos Aires full of interest, especially the pro-River Plate media.

When Tang Zheng was still playing for Dortmund, the Chinese media stayed in Dortmund or Gelsenkirchen almost in droves, and Tang Zheng's transfer to Real Madrid at a sky-high price this summer caused a large number of Chinese media to move to Madrid.

In the past, the domestic media at best only hired local students to shoot and translate local media newspapers on their behalf, but now it is not possible, everyone's eyes are on the star-studded Tang Zheng, and it is no longer news when the international students finish translating, so it is the wisest choice for instant reporters to be stationed in Madrid.

Huge overheads are inevitable, but the rewards are exponentially rising.

Back in a week before the game, Real Madrid's home game against Atletico Madrid was sold out.

As the game time gets closer and closer, the ticket for the 153rd Madrid derby in La Liga history is sky-high, and it is still in short supply.

After all, the tickets are so ordered, and there are so many fans who want to watch the game.

Of course, most of these fans who want to watch the game are fans from China.

In addition to some Chinese citizens working and studying in Spain, some of these fans traveled thousands of miles to Spain to watch the first Madrid derby of Tang Zheng's career up close.

Even fans with a better economic base are waiting for the Spanish national derby to be played in Catalonia in a month's time.

Closer to home, Real Madrid's first-team players at Valdebebas training base are undergoing technical and tactical drills under the guidance of assistant coach Clement in preparation for the Madrid derby at the Bernabeu two days later.

Judging from the vision of head coach Carlo Ancelotti and assistant coach Zinedine Zidane, the connection between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo is basically negligible, which means that Real Madrid's attack has to be divided into 'two sets' of tactics by the two of them.

You can play to each other's strengths against weak teams, but you can be troublesome against strong teams.

In particular, Simeone's Atletico Madrid, the players have excellent running ability, a solid defensive system, and a holistic approach, if there is no way to twist the whole team into a rope, it will be difficult to beat Atletico Madrid even if they play at home.

If Atletico Madrid can take advantage of the limited attacking opportunities, it is not impossible for Real Madrid to lose at home.

Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid players at Espino's training base are preparing for the Madrid derby under the watchful eye of manager Simeone.

Since Simeone took over at Atletico Madrid, he has experienced four Madrid derbies with one win and three defeats.

Three of them are league games, one is the Copa del Rey.

It's all the league that loses, and it's the Copa del Rey that wins.

The results have been a bit unfavourable for Simeone, but not all, with three league defeats being the first time he has taken charge of Atletico Madrid for a season and a half, and he has not yet fully struck out the fighting power of his players.

However, this is no longer the case, and last season's Copa del Rey final confirmed that he has the overall quality to beat Real Madrid.

Playing away?

Why can't you win?

But then again, Real Madrid have the uncertainty that Simeone fears.

That's right, it's his former beloved apprentice Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng had already thought about his future when he first excavated him, but Tang Zheng's development trajectory still surprised Simeone......

From the age of 18 to 23, he has grown into one of the best midfielders in the world in five years, which is really amazing.

Assistant coach Ryan Boggs was in charge of the team's tactical drills, while Simeone was still standing on the sidelines, arms around his chest, thinking about the Madrid derby in two days.

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In fact, judging from the fame of the players, Real Madrid is absolutely the second to beat Atletico Madrid, but the football competition is not about fame, but about playing on the spot.

Simeone has made rapid progress since taking over at Atletico Madrid in December 2011.

He took over in the middle of the season to take Atletico Madrid, who only had 20 points, to fifth place in the league, and even won the Europa League title that season, and the European Super Cup was even more surprising, beating Champions League winners Chelsea 4-1.

In his first full 2012-2013 season, he led Atletico to third place in the league, but beat rivals Real Madrid to win the Copa del Rey.

If you look closely, Simeone's resume as coach of Atletico Madrid is one step at a time.

In the last six rounds of La Liga this season, Atletico Madrid have become the only team outside Barcelona to win all of them.

According to the Spanish media now, Atletico Madrid are the strongest contenders for the La Liga title this season outside of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Since they are strong contenders, the results of each other's head-to-head are particularly important.

Atletico Madrid won six consecutive league games and was full of momentum.

Real Madrid's three consecutive wins in all competitions, coupled with the victory of the last eight league derbies in Madrid, have given Real Madrid fans a lot of confidence.

Real Madrid's home match against Atletico Madrid will be played at 8 p.m. local time in Spain on September 28, which is 4 a.m. Beijing time the next day.

Although the game time is out of step with the schedule of Chinese fans, there are still a large number of fans waiting in front of the TV or computer to watch the first leg of the 2013-2014 La Liga Madrid derby.

During the trip from the hotel to the Bernabeu for the Real Madrid team, Tiger Falcao, who currently plays for Monaco, sent a text message to Tang Zheng.

The text message is very concise, and it is to ask him to be careful.

Why did Falcao remind Tang Zheng?

The reason is simple, Falcao, who also played for Atletico Madrid last season, has a thorough understanding of Atletico's tactical characteristics.

Now Tang Zheng stands on the opposite side of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, facing Falcao's old club Atletico Madrid, Falco, as a friend, naturally wants to remind Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng shook his head, before the Madrid derby, he had studied the full-court pressing tactics of his mentor Simeone.

The advantages and disadvantages of this challenge technique are obvious, and it is easy to say that it is easy to crack, and it is difficult to say that it is difficult.

Simeone's full-court pressing can be said to concentrate the characteristics of Dortmund/Barcelona front-court pressing and Mourinho's swinging of the bus, but the tilt is significantly higher than that of Real Madrid during the Mourinho period.

Full-court pressing consumes more physical energy than high-level pressing and swinging the bus, which is where Tang Zheng can take advantage of it.

But the problem is that getting rid of the high pressure of the whole court requires the tacit cooperation of the whole team, and once one player makes a mistake, it is a fatal blow to the control of the team.

Almost all of the Real Madrid players have superb footwork, flowers under their feet, and all kinds of tacit passing.

However, the problem is that Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo are like the same pole of a magnet and exclude each other, expecting them to play all kinds of small-scale cooperation in the game, which is difficult to get to the sky.

With an hour to go before the game, players from both sides showed up at the Bernabeu Stadium to warm up.

Because of the crucial nature of the match, there was no communication between the Spanish internationals, giving it an oppressive atmosphere of a national derby.

After more than half an hour of warm-up, players from both sides entered their dressing rooms to wait for the start of the first Madrid derby of the new season.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has never been the kind of manager who will stir up the emotions of his players, and he is more likely to repeat the techniques and tactics specified before the game in a kind tone to deepen the impression of the players.

Away coach Simeone is different, he has been passionate throughout his career, and he has continued to do so since becoming manager.

Tang Zheng, who used to be a disciple of Simeone, experienced that it was really a pleasure, and he couldn't wait to play for 90 minutes immediately.

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After the manager's incendiary remarks in the dressing room, the Atletico players looked full of excitement and extraordinary fighting power.

The Real Madrid players, as usual, don't look special.

Actually?

The heart is surging!

Maybe Tang Zheng can't feel it, after all, he didn't play in last season's Copa del Rey final.

Although Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid home and away in the league, the Copa del Rey final was enough to choke.

Tang Zheng followed behind his teammate Coentrão, and his attention was already on the upcoming Madrid derby, but he saw a face full of gangsters at this time.

That's right, it was none other than his mentor at River Plate, Diego Simeone!

It is worth mentioning that after winning the Champions League, Tang Zheng once accepted an interview with the Argentine media, and he admitted that if it were not for Simeone's insight, he would not have achieved what he has today.

It can be seen from this how much Tang Zheng respects his mentor Simone.

He even thought about joining Atletico Madrid and creating a new era with his mentor Simeone.

But many times the reality is very cruel, Atletico Madrid is not a traditional big club, they are not like Real Madrid to launch hundreds of millions of euros of transfers at every turn, and even have to sell the leading striker Falcao in order to survive.

Tang Zheng is very valuable in winning the Champions League on behalf of Dortmund, even if there is no premium for 10,000 steps back, according to the 80 million euros estimated by Germany's "Transfer Market", Atletico Madrid can't afford it......

Seeing his mentor Simeone, Tang Zheng's handsome face instantly overflowed with smiles, opened his arms, and greeted him.

Simeone saw Tang Zheng coming towards him, turned his head and whispered to his assistant Boggs twice, and then walked towards Tang Zheng, also with open arms.

When the master and apprentice meet again after more than four years, even if they are strong men, there will be moments when it is difficult to suppress their emotions.

At that time, Simeone not only found himself, but also cultivated it carefully, otherwise there would not be a super modern 2b2 all-round midfielder.

Remembering that Simone instructed him after work during his coaching at River Plate, Tang Zheng hugged Simone with both hands and said gratefully: "Thank you for your cultivation back then." ”

At the same time, the on-site director's camera was also aimed at Tang Zheng and Simeone.

Yang 5 commentator He Wei saw Tang Zheng's serious expression in the broadcast footage, and touched the scene: "Tang Zheng has not been in River Plate for a long time, but Diego Simeone's influence on him is huge, I remember that Tang Zheng once revealed that Simeone often opened a small stove for him during the River Plate Youth Team, and Tang Zheng can have a magical long pass kung fu, which is inseparable from Simone's careful teaching, and now the master and apprentice are fighting each other, for Tang Zheng...... It hasn't been adjusted yet. ”

British Sky Commentator Andy Grey commented on the master-apprentice encounter between Tang Zheng and Simeone: " In Don's autobiography, the person who has had the greatest influence on his career is the former River Plate coach and current Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone, this battle between master and apprentice, I think it will attract a lot of attention, Real Madrid has won five of the six league games this season, and Atletico Madrid has won all six games, which is a game that both sides cannot afford to lose, because as early as two hours ago, Barcelona had beaten Almeria 2-0, winning seven consecutive league games......"

Simone stood on tiptoe, patted Tang Zheng's shoulder, and said with a smile: "You kid didn't embarrass me. ”

"That's a must. Tang Zheng let go of Simeone, patted his chest and said, "Don't look at who I am......!"

Speaking of this, Tang Zheng looked at his mentor Simeone playfully, and said with a smile: "Don't blame me for not showing mercy to my subordinates if you lose." ”

"Oh?" Simeone looked at Tang Zheng with a smile, pinched the tail finger with the thumb of his right hand, and said with a smile: "Don't say that I didn't reveal it to you in advance, I want to break a gap in my defensive system, and now you are still a little bit behind." ”

"Really?" said Tang Zheng unconvincedly.

"Yes. Simeone tapped his head.

"Okay!" Tang Zheng stretched out his right hand: "Then let's wait and see!"

Simeone greeted him with his right hand and smiled: "Don't cry if you lose." ”

Tang Zheng smiled and didn't say anything more, but said hello and walked to his queue, waiting for the game.

In a short time, the Spanish golden whistle Lahoz stepped forward and led the players from both sides of the tunnel from the players' tunnel to the Santiago Bernabeu.

The Bernabeu Stadium was packed, and from a distance it looked like a sea of white.

The 153rd Madrid derby in La Liga history, because of the current standings, the frenzy is more fierce than in the past......