Chapter 239: When Everyone Waits

In terms of form, whether it is Atletico Madrid's players or Real Madrid's players, their current form is not as good as the game a week ago, in that game, the players on both sides are concentrating on their full energy, and have an extremely good performance in the game, although the main players of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid did not play in the weekend game, but this kind of consumption can not be recovered after a week's rest.

What is good for Atletico is that they have taken the lead before, and what is good for Real Madrid is that they are playing at home, playing in a place like the Bernabeu, which is enough to make Real Madrid's players full of confidence and pride, which is also the essence of home and away games, the second leg is played on their own home turf, and the advantage can be reflected here.

When more than 70,000 Real Madrid fans shouted in unison, the whole stadium seemed to be able to hear only one voice!

Although Atletico's players have come to the Bernabeu for the fourth time in almost two years, the environment will still have a considerable impact on them.

However, Real Madrid also has a downside.

Since yesterday, Madrid has been raining lightly, although the drainage system of the Bernabeu stadium is very good, but the lawn is still very slippery, which makes Real Madrid's midfield attack not run very smoothly......

Although Atletico Madrid's attack is also based on the ground, they can also play a counterattack with long passes, Jardel's strength and height, the speed of Vicente and others, and it is not bad to play long passes and hang up, in fact, Bosque has also taken this into account, he only goes to the back to make Erguera, who has better air defense ability, to the position of central defender, and it is more about the factors of the field.

On such a field, it is naturally difficult for both sides to play any flashy attacks, they are more quick to pass the ball to the front, and then through the individual ability of the players to create opportunities, the game at the beginning, it seems very dull.

On the muddy turf, players on both sides are actively scrambling, and then quickly attacking, but they have not been able to create too good opportunities, water battles, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid are not good at it, and there is little experience in this area, the ball rolling on the turf is quite important for them, and at the beginning of the game, basically both sides are adapting to this kind of field.

Whoever can adapt to such a field first will be able to attack first.

In the end, Real Madrid, who was playing at home, first adapted to the venue, after all, the Bernabeu is their home stadium, and they have a very tacit understanding of this stadium, even if it looks a little different from usual because of the rain, but the feeling in most places is still the same, so after 20 minutes, Real Madrid took the lead in launching a more threatening attack!

With Carlos in the assist, Zidane pulled a beautiful curling ball with his left foot at the edge of the penalty area, Molina barely reacted to the bizarre curling ball, but the ball eventually flew off the crossbar and caused Real Madrid fans to sigh with regret.

Hierro then brought down Camoranesi from just outside the box and Atletico won a free-kick, which was also a little higher than Belleron's.

In the next game, Real Madrid began to gradually gain the advantage, and Raul seemed very active - he was the banner of the Bernabeu, and he had to step up at this time!

Raul counter-attacked with the ball, he started from the middle and dribbled the ball to Atletico's half, and then quickly distributed the ball to Morientes who ran into the box, Morientes controlled the ball a little and then suddenly shot from a small angle, the ball was blocked by the well-positioned Molina from the bottom line, a corner.

Figo took a corner, Zidane was about to head the goal, but Stamm rushed the ball out of the penalty area, Solari received the ball and passed the ball to Raul in the penalty area with his back to the goal, Raul stopped the ball with his left foot, and then suddenly turned around while stopping the ball!

Such a dexterous action made Thuram a little caught off guard in defense, he was shaken by Raul, after shaking out such a shot gap, Raul did not hesitate, but directly picked up his left foot to shoot, Thuram struggled to reach out to block but could not block Raul's shot, fortunately Molina concentrated, a side pounce to press the ball under him.

The stands resounded with the disappointed sighs of Real Madrid fans, and Molina also broke out in a cold sweat - on such a slippery lawn, this kind of save is also very risky, because you don't know when the ball will speed up because of the turf, and in an instant it will speed up and fly under your armpit.

After Real Madrid's continuous attacks, Atletico Madrid also quickly launched a counterattack, Belleron picked up the front, Jardel's header was ferried, and Camoranesi, who burst into the penalty area, took a step horizontally and then shot with his left foot, which was saved by Casillas, which was also a corner.

For Atletico, the threat of corners was much greater, with Stam and Baraja both rushing into the box and they didn't get much set-pieces in the first leg, so their set-piece tactics didn't make much of a difference, and now that the pitch is slippery, set-piece opportunities are precious.

Bosque also stood up, looking at the situation in the field a little nervously, in terms of defending high-altitude balls, although Real Madrid is much stronger than Barcelona, but it is not much stronger, Hierro and Elgra are good, but they also lack that kind of strong high-altitude ball control.

Bosque couldn't help but start complaining about Florentino at this time, you said you, can't you spend money to buy Figo, buy Zidane, and buy a better central defender? If he really wanted to grab it, Stam would definitely choose to come to Real Madrid instead of Atletico Madrid, but Florentino put forward his Zidane Gavin policy, and he didn't think about buying a top central defender at all, but hoped to train himself.

At this time, if Real Madrid has a Stam, still worry about Atletico Madrid's high-altitude ball bombardment?

Just when Bosque was a little up and down, Belleron had already kicked the ball out,

The ball went directly around the front point, and then flew straight to the middle, Stam observed the ball landing, while squeezing towards the penalty area, Elgra continued to scramble with Stam, but was suppressed by Stam with his body, Stam suppressed Elgra while facing the flying ball, directly shook his head to attack the goal!

Casillas lifted his hand and hit the ball off the line.

Bellerón ran to the right again and then took another corner, this time Hierro was the first to clear the ball out of the box, and Vicente followed up with a long-range shot high.

Bosque breathed a sigh of relief, set-pieces were indeed torture for him, and now that the threat of set-pieces was gone, he was relieved.

Dick shook his head and sat back, it was a bit of a shame that such a set-piece opportunity was not taken.

After sitting back, Dick looked at his watch and saw that nearly half an hour had passed in the first half - and time seemed to pass quickly in such a dull game.

"It seems to be a little more beneficial for us to continue fighting like this." Dick thought to himself, after all, they are now leading the aggregate score, and if they continue to draw, they will be the ones who advance.

Bosque is not in a hurry, after all, they only need to be 1-0 to qualify, and now is not the time to rush.

The two sides began to continue to attack, hoping to seize the opportunity first, but correspondingly, the defensive focus was more concentrated, Real Madrid carefully wanted to maintain the advantage of away goals, and Atletico Madrid, although they wanted to use more attacks to take the initiative, but because of the weather, they could not do so.

The clock was in the 40th minute, and the Real Madrid fans in the stands began to feel a little uneasy, if this score was maintained until the end, then Real Madrid would have no hope of qualifying!

Real Madrid's fans are also a little afraid of Atletico Madrid's defensive ability - they are really capable of keeping Real Madrid unable to score goals by defending all the time!

It was at this time that their banner, their prince, stood up at the most critical moment!

Forty-third minute.

Real Madrid launched an attack at the back, Figo passed the ball to Raul, Raul moved forward with the ball, Zidane's oblique insertion attracted the attention of Makelele and Baraja, Atletico Madrid's midfielder did not come up to defend at the first time, and the central defender did not have time to come up to block, Raul adjusted slightly, and then suddenly shot from a distance of 20 meters from the goal at the edge of the penalty area!

The ball arced through the air and flew past Molina, who was struggling to leap up, before diving headlong into the corner between the crossbar and the post!

When the ball flew into the goal, countless Real Madrid fans in the stands erupted in huge cheers! They are constantly shouting, venting countless emotions in their hearts!

In four meetings this season, Real Madrid took the lead in the game for the first time!

And it could well be a very important goal, as Real Madrid equalised on aggregate after Raul scored the goal, and they took the lead on away goals!

After making sure the ball flew into the goal, Raul kissed his left ring finger, where the wedding ring was worn, and rushed to the stands to the cheers of more than 70,000 Real Madrid fans!

"The ball is in! Raul Gonzalez! He stepped up at the most critical moment! A beautiful long-range shot equalised the aggregate score for Real Madrid and gave them the advantage in qualifying! Beautiful goal! An opportunity that is not an opportunity! Zidane's forward cut caught the attention of the Atletico midfielder, and Figo's pass was on point! Of course, the most beautiful is Raul's long-range shot, the prince and flag of Real Madrid, which shows his value in this moment! ”

While the Real Madrid fans were in a frenzy, the Atletico Madrid fans were collectively stunned - they began to realize that Real Madrid had the advantage just because of this goal! Although Atletico Madrid won the first leg of the match and beat Real Madrid twice in the league, they are still very likely to be eliminated by Real Madrid!

And Raul, who scored the goal, once again caused them painful memories - such a striker should have belonged to Atletico Madrid!

I don't know when, the stands suddenly resounded with the chorus of Atletico fans.

"Di! Di! Di! ”

The chorus of 4,000 Atletico Madrid fans stubbornly came from the stands, they kept shouting, even the shouts of the Real Madrid fans who had an absolute advantage in numbers could not suppress their shouts, at this time, Atletico Madrid fans were extremely hopeful that Dick could lead the team to turn the tide with a magical performance as usual, win again, and create their history!

Dick was stunned for a moment when he heard the shouts coming from the stands, and then laughed.