Chapter 080: The Battle for the First Brother
In the summer of 2013, Tang Zheng joined Real Madrid at a sky-high price, and clashed with Cristiano Ronaldo at the motor show and Valdebebas training base, but both sides were restrained, and the outside world speculated at best, but this time it was different, and the two had fierce verbal conflicts in the game.
The lip language expert translates according to the lip shape given on the broadcast screen, and their conversation is unbearable, so ...... The media can speculate without reservation.
Real Madrid President Florentino rarely took the initiative to find Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, but what gave Florentino a headache was that Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo had no intention of making concessions, even if it was at the cost of the team's results.
Real Madrid in the Audi Cup in Munich had a good result, and in the semi-finals against Tottenham Hotspur advanced to the final 1:0 with Tang Zheng's hammer, but lost 1:2 in the final against the host Bayern Munich.
It is worth mentioning that Tang Zheng once equalized, while Cristiano Ronaldo frequently squandered opportunities, and the two were in stark contrast.
Real Madrid won the treble last season, and Real Madrid fans are naturally full of illusions about the results of the new season.
In 2009, Barcelona won an unprecedented six crowns – the 2008-2009 league title, the 2008-2009 Copa del Rey, the 2008-2009 Champions League, the 2009 Spanish Super Cup, the 2009 UEFA Super Cup and the 2009 Club World Cup.
It is undeniable that Real Madrid's summer warm-up results were not ideal, but considering that the International Champions Cup before the start of the 2014-2015 season did not achieve good results, it is not too worried.
As the treble winner last season, Real Madrid won all competitions against Barcelona in all competitions, and should have beaten Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup, but lost to Barcelona 3:4 on aggregate home and away, losing the first title of the new season.
If the Spanish Super Cup is that the whole Real Madrid team has not yet found the state, then the next European Super Cup loss means that there is a huge problem in the Real Madrid team, Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, who have been called the '200 million Gemini constellation' by Real Madrid fans in the past two seasons, have not been linked at all in the game, and there have been media reports that Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo have completely broken up!
Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo did not communicate in training, but there was a verbal altercation in the game, so that Ancelotti came up with the idea of letting the two take turns to play.
Of course, this possibility is clearly not going to work.
With an annual salary of 24 million euros after tax, it is not valid from the perspective of basic costs, and the president Florentino disagrees, and the fans do not agree.
As a result, the break between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo completely affected Real Madrid's results in the new season.
In the past ten rounds of the 2015-2016 La Liga season, no one expected that Real Madrid, as the defending champion, would not appear in the top four, or even the top six.
With a measly four wins, three draws and three defeats in ten league games, they are a full eleven points behind leaders Barcelona and tied for seventh in the league with Valencia.
The Champions League is unbeaten in three rounds with two wins and one draw, and it ranks first in front of Paris Saint-Germain by virtue of goal difference.
Ranked seventh in the league, the pressure on coach Carlo Ancelotti is getting stronger and stronger, and Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo have also been pushed to the forefront, but the two still have no idea of bowing to each other.
However, Tang Zheng's role is clearly much greater than that of Cristiano Ronaldo, and he has continued the consistency of his early career.
Real Madrid's poor results at the beginning of the season are of course directly related to the discord between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, but in the final analysis, it is Cristiano Ronaldo's declining state, or his more focus on competing with Tang Zheng for the right to speak in the dressing room, so that his competitive state has been greatly affected.
Captain Iker Casillas joined Porto on a free transfer this summer, vice-captain Sergio Ramos was promoted to captain and Marcelo became vice-captain, but they were both helpless about the relationship between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Everyone is an adult and has their own ideas, and they all have a good relationship with Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, and they don't want to favor one over the other.
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The league has been nearly 1/3 in the past, Real Madrid has fallen behind the top Barcelona by a full eleven points, but it cannot be said that it is very difficult to withdraw from the league title competition, but it is very difficult to compete for the league title again, so coach Ancelotti is wondering whether he should choose to give up the league and focus on the Champions League.
At the end of the league, Carlo Ancelotti temporarily forgot about the poor results in the league and focused on the fourth round of the group stage of the Champions League.
With two wins and one draw in three previous group games, and seven points tied with Paris Saint-Germain, the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu is particularly important.
The strength of the two teams in Group A can be said to stand out from the crowd, but the qualification position is important for both sides, no one wants to finish second in the group to play the first place in the other group, they want to get the first place in the group to play the second place in the other group.
The Champions League group stage at the Bernabeu was a visit to Di Maria's former club, who contributed so much to Real Madrid in the 2013-2014 season that he was welcomed by the home fans when he returned to the Bernabeu.
Thunderous applause, Di Maria was very touched.
In the past, Tang Zheng and Di Maria had a very good relationship, so the two chatted before the game started.
Of course, the discussion is more about recent media rumours about the rift that he and Cristiano Ronaldo have appeared.
Tang Zheng did not answer directly, but said meaningfully: "It's going to change." ”
Both sides fielded their strongest line-ups, Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas, defenders Marcelo, Raphael, Ramos and Carvajal, three forwards Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Tang Zheng, and three forwards Jesus, Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez.
Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Trapp, four defenders Maxwell, Thiago Silva, David Luiz and Aurier, three central midfielders Verratti, Motta and Matuidi, three forwards Di Maria, Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani.
In Karim Benzema's absence due to injury, Cristiano Ronaldo had to be at the front of the attack, but he was rarely fixed in one position as he was uncomfortable being marked by Thiago Silva and David Luiz.
However, neither Jesse nor James Rodriguez liked to be at the front, so Real Madrid's attack was very problematic, and coupled with the negligible connection between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, the shots that threatened Trapp in the back of the net became a handful.
After all, PSG's strength is no match between Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo.
Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain is mainly anti-away, and the offensive created frequently threatens Navas to guard the goal.
Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo have been lacking in contact, and have to focus more on defense when the team is under frequent defensive pressure, and Toni Kroos and Modric have lost sight of each other, making it difficult to support the attack......
"What should I do?"
In the past half hour of the game, Real Madrid not only did not score, but continued to defend passively, and the Real Madrid fans at the Bernabeu Stadium were already a little unbearable to let out sporadic boos, so Ancelotti stood in the home team's command area and was a little overwhelmed.
Real Madrid fans are notoriously difficult to serve, and the first two seasons have been somewhat restrained by Real Madrid's very good results, and now they are a little overwhelmed by the stalemate.
At this moment, Cristiano Ronaldo received Modric's pass with the outside of your right foot and stopped, Aurier was too reckless and rushed too hard, he didn't close his foot when he realized that he might be out of position, so his knee went to the outside of Cristiano Ronaldo's left knee.
Cristiano Ronaldo fell to the ground in response, and the referee's whistle sounded: "Beep~"
Aurier, who committed a foul, was good at fouling and the referee still gave him a yellow card.
After a while, the team doctor who came on the field, Olmo, made a gesture towards Ancelotti to make a substitution.
This......
Isco replaced Cristiano Ronaldo, who couldn't hold on to the game, and it was surprising that Real Madrid's transition was much more fluid than before, and Trapp's goalkeeping was gradually tested as time went on.
Carlo Ancelotti has had a successful coaching career, so where is the problem?
In fact, he has long seen where the problem of Real Madrid's attacking threat is declining, or where everyone knows where it is, it is just a matter of trade-offs.
The importance of Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid is self-evident, so they must be chosen in the face of irreconcilable contradictions, but the problem is that they cannot be trade-offs with sky-high annual salaries......
Now that Cristiano Ronaldo is injured, judging from the news from the team doctor Olmo, it is very likely that Cristiano Ronaldo will not be able to play until the winter break.
This...... It may be an opportunity for the results to pick up.
Before the end of the first half, Tang Zheng took the ball in the midfield and suddenly accelerated past Verratti and Motta after decisively splitting the ball, and played a one-two with Isco to force Matuidi to leave without permission, and the retreating Jesse did not turn around after receiving Tang Zheng's pass, but sent a very comfortable pass to James Rodriguez, who was wiped into the penalty area.
James Rodriguez met the ball into the box and then slotted a left-footed shot before David Luiz could block it.
Although the shot was not very powerful, it was close enough to the goal, and it was the goalkeeper's most hated slash, and the ball grazed the inside of the left goal post and rolled over the goal line, and then crashed into the snow-white net......
1:0
Real Madrid take the lead at home!
Fifteen minutes of half-time passed in the blink of an eye, and the second half changed sides again.
Paris Saint-Germain, who were on the side, obviously did not want to lose on the road, so they stepped up their attack, and Real Madrid, who were at home, had to defend steadily before waiting for an opportunity to attack.
Unfortunately, there was no way to knock on Navas's goal, in addition to Navas's excellent personal performance, Tang Zheng, who actively helped the defense, also played a crucial role, and his supplementary defense directly defused Ibrahimovic and Cavani could form scoring opportunities.
In the 67th minute, Isco's breakthrough gave Real Madrid a well-placed direct free-kick.
In the case of Cristiano Ronaldo being substituted due to injury, Tang Zheng deservedly stood in front of the football.
Tang Zheng's form this season has been affected by the conflict with Cristiano Ronaldo, but the free-kick shooting rate is still quite good, and he has scored four direct free-kicks in all competitions.
So, Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Trapp was very nervous.
“Gooooooooooooooooal——”
With the whistle of the referee on duty, Tang Zheng ran up, stood with his left foot, hit the middle and lower part of the football with the instep of his right foot, and the football took off into the air, flying over the top of the Paris Saint-Germain five-man wall, flying to the upper right corner of the goal, and the football reached the highest point and then there was an obvious fall, so the goalkeeper Trapp made a save and failed to touch the football, the football grazed the inside edge of the right post of the goal and flew into the goal, and the British Sky commentator Andy Gray suddenly stretched out his voice.
It was also the last goal of the game as Real Madrid defeated visiting Paris Saint-Germain 2-0.
Shakhtar Donetsk beat Malmo 4-0 at home in another match at the same time to secure their first Champions League group stage victory.
In the past four rounds of the group, Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo have three points, ranking third and fourth in Group A respectively, which means that Real Madrid, which won this round, has accumulated ten points to qualify from the group ahead of schedule, but whether they can get the first place in the group depends on the results of the next round of group stage.
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Real Madrid's two-goal home win over Paris Saint-Germain should have been a no-brainer, but both of their goals came after Cristiano Ronaldo went off injured, in stark contrast to Real Madrid's poor record and unthreatening attacking at the start of the season.
Some media said that Cristiano Ronaldo's injury solved Real Madrid's urgent need, and at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, he has gradually become a cancer of Real Madrid, and manager Ancelotti should use this opportunity to create a set of tactics with Tang Zheng as the core.
Because after Cristiano Ronaldo went off, Tang Zheng had more football distribution rights, and Real Madrid's two goals were the best basis.
In fact, Carlo Ancelotti is also thinking about it.
The first leg of the 2015-2016 Spanish national derby is about to start!
Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been diagnosed with an MRI diagnosis, has been diagnosed with a ligament strain in his left knee and will miss Real Madrid for up to two months, which basically means that he is determined to miss all matches before Real Madrid's winter break.
"Damn it!"
Cristiano Ronaldo, who saw the media reported in the media, broke angrily, at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, he is entering the end of his career, and now it is a critical time for his brother to defend the battle, but the result is an injury.
How can you not be angry?
At the weekend, Real Madrid travelled to the Estadio Pizjuán to take on Sevilla.
Real Madrid, who were without Cristiano Ronaldo, avenged the defeat in the UEFA Super Cup and won 4-1.
Cristiano Ronaldo was sidelined and Real Madrid won two in a row.
As a result, the media has some more basis.