Chapter 130: Intense and intense
The Mestania Stadium is the home of Valencia, where this year's Copa del Rey is scheduled to be held, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with Valencia. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's also interesting to say, after Mourinho came, the confrontation between Real Madrid and Barcelona escalated, the Copa del Rey lasted to the end, the league duo continued to stage, and everyone met in the semifinals of the Champions League.
In Valencia, Real Madrid rested in the morning and had a training session in the afternoon, and did not leave for the Mestania Stadium until an hour before the evening game, which is in the centre of the city, although it is neither the Bernabeu nor the Camp Nou, but the streets are still occupied by fans of both teams, and it can be seen that everyone is more concerned.
Barcelona was also unconvinced after the last loss to Real Madrid, they thought that Real Madrid was just lucky, and at the same time, Real Madrid's foul action on the field was also relatively large, and Pique continued to hum triumphantly after the final break, "Five points, five points...... The league title is ours!"
It means that even if Real Madrid wins this game, they are still five points short of the league, and there is no suspense in the league, such irony naturally caused dissatisfaction among Real Madrid's players, and Carvalho was angry and almost caused controversy when he shut him up.
Real Madrid's side is not easy to mess with, the evil man Pepe deliberately took advantage of the conflict environment at the time to spit in the direction of Messi, Messi doesn't look short, and he is not easy to mess with, the two of them almost did it on the spot.
Barcelona and Real Madrid seem to have escalated after Mourinho came, and he himself is happy to see Barcelona belittled and ridiculed the players, and it is best to stimulate Barcelona to mess up!
The referee who officiated the game was Marenco, who had officiated the national derby four times, but Barcelona did not lose a single one, and before the game began, some media ruled that Barcelona would win the Copa del Rey according to this rule, which is simply nonsense.
Real Madrid has been unable to do Barcelona in the new century, of course, the reason is not the referee's problem, the media summed up such a law skillfully in order to attract the attention of readers.
There is only one change in Barcelona's starting line-up today compared to the previous game, Puyol is injured, Mascherano partners Pique as central defender, and there are no changes in other positions.
Real Madrid, on the other hand, continued the 433 formation in the previous game, due to Albiol's suspension, Real Madrid put Ramos in the central defender position, Arbeloa played at right-back, and Di Maria in the front line replaced him with Ozil due to his poor performance on the field.
Ozil retreated a little deeper in this position, Zhang Yuan was still a single striker, and Ronaldo was active on Zhang Yuan's left side.
After the start of the game, Real Madrid entered the state quickly, frequently creating threats to Barcelona, today's Barcelona seems to be in a more average state, their best possession did not play a powerful role, just ten minutes into the opening game, Real Madrid almost scored twice directly.
In the 5th minute, Ozil crossed the ball from the right side, Zhang Yuan ran to grab the front point, shook his head to attack the goal, and the ball hit the crossbar fiercely.
Mascherano's height disadvantage was evident at this moment, he started fast enough to keep up with Zhang Yuan, but he really couldn't take advantage of it at all when competing for the top.
Pep Guardiola frowned, Real Madrid is not good at playing high-altitude balls, maybe Mourinho will make some changes today, but he can't replace Mascherano at this time, Mascherano has his advantages, and he can't let Mascherano go off because of the loss of high-altitude balls.
In the 8th minute, Ronaldo missed another great opportunity, Alonso passed directly to Zhang Yuan, after Zhang Yuan took the ball, picked up the pass behind Pique, Ronaldo followed to form a single knife, but unfortunately he faced the attacking Valdés and missed the ball.
Cristiano Ronaldo knelt on the ground and hammered the ground so hard that even he couldn't believe he had hit such a shot.
Zhang Yuan was ready to celebrate, but the result was disappointed, and he suddenly complained a little about Ronaldo, my brother didn't score this goal, and we couldn't do more.
Real Madrid surprised Barcelona at the beginning, but then they took the initiative again, even if they were in average form, they still firmly controlled the ball at their feet when they woke up.
They also started to have some dangerous attacks, and in the 17th minute, Messi dribbled laterally, passed Alonso and Carvalho in succession, and fired a low shot into the Real Madrid goal, thanks to Casillas's quick reaction to seal the ball off the line.
This kind of derby is naturally indispensable for vicious fouls, and the players of both Real Madrid and Barcelona can be called bad birds in such a game, and the national derby is so tense and intense.
In the 28th minute, Villa received the ball in front of the court and was put down by Ramos, Arbeloa and Ramos lifted Villa directly, and before that, Arbeloa stepped on Villa's feet very covertly, Villa was very angry and almost clashed with Real Madrid players, he accused Arbeloa of fouling too much, and although Real Madrid was not reasonable, but the momentum was not weak, they in turn accused Villa of falling down as soon as he touched it.
Under the coordination of Marenco, the two sides calmed down, no one received a yellow card for this, and the Barcelona players were very dissatisfied but helpless.
The consequence of Marenco's actions is that everyone has contacts with each other, you are cruel and I am cruel, and for a while, the field feels like "flesh and blood"!
In the 30th minute, Zhang Yuan received the ball with his back, and Mascherano also took a retaliatory action in the back, slamming Zhang Yuan's back with his fist and kicking Zhang Yuan's leg with his foot.
Swinging over, Zhang Yuan knelt on the ground and touched his back, while Mascherano covered his face and fell on the court, both as if they were victims.
"Hey, hey, hey, he hit me in the back with his fist!" Zhang Yuan complained to Marenco with a bitter face.
Marenco didn't know much about Mascherano's small movements, but he saw Zhang Yuan deliberately waving his hand to hit Mascherano, of course, the current situation is also obvious, and he can guess that the two must have made small movements towards each other.
Seeing the players of the two teams gathered around and prepared to entangle, Marenco immediately made a decision and showed a yellow card to Zhang Yuan and Mascherano who were pretending to be garlic.
Zhang Yuan didn't get entangled, and immediately got up, while Mascherano pretended to go to the sidelines for treatment.
"Dog, let's see who is ruthless!" Zhang Yuan's heart was quite happy!
The first half of the game was spent in such entanglement, of course, the problem is mainly on the side of Real Madrid, they must try their best to prevent Barcelona from passing the ball, and the Barcelona side in the face of Real Madrid's super fast counterattack speed can not achieve the integrity of the defensive system, they also use foul tactics to stop Real Madrid's attack.
So this half of the ball is good-looking, but unfortunately it is all confrontation, and the number of shots on goal on both sides is very small!
Mourinho is very satisfied, Guardiola has a headache, Mourinho's tactics are nothing to guess, but due to the strong individual ability of Real Madrid players, they can obviously play better than Gijon, which is directly reflected in the decline in the number of shots on goal by Barcelona.
In the league, Real Madrid have the highest average shots per game, and Barcelona is also high, ranking behind them, and at the Camp Nou, Barcelona played Real Madrid with more than average shots on goal, but in these two games Real Madrid did what other teams could not do, limiting Barca's number of shots on goal to less than 15.
This shows that the Real Madrid players are very thorough in implementing Mourinho's tactics, and they are very good at building the defensive layer, and the area between the back line and the midfield is where Barcelona concedes the most concentrated goals, and it is difficult for Barcelona to penetrate.
But Barcelona has very little room for control, they have always been like this tactic, the team does not have a high striker, and Guardiola will not play, what he can do now is to make some adjustments in personnel, such as dribbling with players with strong breakthrough ability to share the pressure on Messi.
Barcelona did not make personnel adjustments at halftime, and Mourinho did not make adjustments on Real Madrid's side, and Ozil was okay at the beginning of the first half, but it was getting worse and worse later.
Ozil used to play on the wing in the Bundesliga, but he is not a breakthrough fullback, his main strength is in passing, and today Real Madrid's tactical frontfield is not a lot of troops, Ozil wants to pass the ball less than he is in the midfield, midfield position, as a result, he also made more mistakes, and it is normal for him to perform poorly. (To be continued.) )