On the evening of February 13, the Jerez Flat Stadium.

In the fifteenth minute, Real Madrid played a back pass to midfield after an attack from the left was contained.

Sneijder slid a through ball into Jerez's penalty area, and Arbeloa, who was unguarded in the back row, won the ball and calmly pushed home from the right side of the box to open the scoring for Real Madrid.

1 to 0!

The goal also completely disrupted Jerez's defensive deployment.

Just four minutes later, Real Madrid played another wave of attack, this time Robben suddenly switched to the left side, forced a breakthrough after winning the ball, and relied on his personal ability to rush to the left side of the penalty area with the ball on the left side, picking up the front point.

Yang Yang quickly intervened, jumped to the top from close range, and hit the goal with a header, penetrating Jerez's goal again.

Two to zero!

Two minutes later, it was Robben who got the ball on the right side of the penalty area, tried to break through to the bottom line without success, suddenly stopped the ball, turned around and passed the ball horizontally to the left side of the penalty area, Yang Yang quickly followed, almost in the absence of defense, calmly pushed the shot.

Three to zero!

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Brace!

Another brace!

Yang Yang pointed at Robben excitedly, and the whole person kept retreating.

Dutch Flyer rushed forward quickly and hugged Yang Yang hard, and the two rushed to the sidelines at the same time to celebrate together.

During this period of time, Real Madrid gradually regained its form, and Yang Yang began to pick up his sense of goal again.

With the likes of Ibrahimovic, Arjen Robben, Sneijder and Xavi Alonso in mind, Yang found it easier to score goals at Real Madrid than at Liverpool.

Robben himself was very excited.

As early as last summer, he was mentally ready to leave the team, but in the end, due to Yang Yang's intercession, he was retained and trained with Winston Bogard for physical strengthening, which has really improved his performance this season, especially his attendance.

What's more, with the likes of Yang Yang and Zlatan Ibrahimovic by his side, Robben finds himself able to get more space on the pitch and he is more comfortable playing.

This is the role of strong combinations, as long as they are well matched, they can often play the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

……

"Another brace!"

"Yang Yang's form from the end of January to the present has been better than one game, and we can see that he has scored 20 goals in La Liga so far, and he also has 13 assists, which is really impressive."

"Looking at the four major European leagues this season, no player can perform as well as Yang Yang."

"However, Real Madrid will soon usher in the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League, which is a big test for Real Madrid this season, especially the first leg away to Lyon, and I hope Real Madrid can maintain their current excellent form."

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Due to the midweek play against Lyon, Benitez replaced Yang Yang and Robben in the 60th minute of the second half, and Yang Yang unfortunately did not get the opportunity to score a hat-trick.

After joining La Liga, although he has scored a lot of goals, he has not scored a hat-trick so far.

Originally, he scored two goals in a short period of time in the first half, and he was still thinking about the opportunity to score a hat-trick, but as a result, Jerez then adjusted, contracted the defense, and did not give Real Madrid too many chances.

However, there is such a thing as scoring goals, and Yang Yang can see it more openly.

While Real Madrid beat Jerez 3-0 away, Barcelona challenged Atletico Madrid away.

Pedro and Lionel Messi scored for Barcelona in the ninth and twenty-second minutes of the first half respectively, before Forlan pulled one back for Atletico Madrid in a 2-1 home defeat to visiting Barcelona.

At the end of the 22nd round of La Liga, Real Madrid topped La Liga with 58 points, followed by Barcelona with three points.

The Spanish Super League duo are far ahead, more than a dozen points more than Valencia in third place, and anyone can see that the competition for the La Liga title this season will be born between Real Madrid and Barcelona, and there is nothing else to do.

In the scorer list, Yang Yang led the scorer list with 20 goals with 20 goals by virtue of this explosion in late January and early February, followed by other players such as Ibrahimovic and David Villa.

And the recent momentum has also made the outside world and the royal horse full of confidence.

Everyone in the team is holding their breath to win Lyon away and break through from the last 16 of the Champions League.

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On the evening of February 16, at the Gerland Stadium in Lyon, France.

When the game reached the 81st minute, Yang Yang took the ball on the left side, faced the right full-back of the Lyon team, Levier, and sent the ball to the penalty area behind the defensive line.

Sneijder cut in quickly and headed straight for the ball, but Revier was quicker and got ahead of Sneijder before he fell to the ground to deliver a corner from the Dutch midfielder.

Sneijder's corner was headed in by Ramos, but it went just wide.

Real Madrid suffered another setback.

Yang Yang has forgotten that this is the first time in this game.

However, the scoreboard at the Gelland Stadium clearly shows the score of the game so far, 1-0!

In international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.

Real Madrid are one goal behind Lyon.

The scorer was Lyon's talented French striker Karim Benzema.

At the beginning of the second half, Lyon completed a quick counter-attack after a break in midfield, and Real Madrid defended well, forcing Lyon's counter-attack to the side, but also giving the opponent a corner.

Real then couldn't go far when they cleared a corner, and Benzema fired a direct volley from the top of the box to find the back of the net that Iker Casillas was guarding.

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It's a game of stability.

Not only because this is the away game of the Champions League round of 16, not only because of Lyon's good quality, but more importantly, the last time Real Madrid reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League was in 2004, a full six years ago.

Looking at Real Madrid's current lineup, there were only three players in the team six years ago, goalkeeper Casillas, midfielder Guti and striker Raul, of which Guti and Raul have been reduced to substitutes.

In other words, Real Madrid's current first-team players have all joined in succession during the six years when the team has stopped in the round of 16.

Before this game, Benitez and Yesterdam had warned the players that Real Madrid had enough strength advantage in the face of Lyon, but on the psychological level, Real Madrid was very vulnerable, whether it was the four games against Lyon in the past, or the Champions League round of 16 for many years, it was a huge pressure on the psychology of Real Madrid players.

It's a team-wide lack of self-confidence, a collective uneasiness from the management to the players to the fans.

Therefore, Benitez adopted a more secure tactical style of play in this game, and the main lineup did not make much adjustment, he let Maxwell play on the left, Vermaelen and Ramos occupy the middle, Arbeloa plays on the right, Mascherano and Xavi Alonso are still double midfielders, Sneijder is in the middle, Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Robben play the trident.

This is the team's best and most consistent main lineup since the winter break, and it has won consecutive games in recent times.

What's more, the likes of Maxwell, Vermaelen, Arbeloa, Mascherano, Xavi Alonso, Yang Yang and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are all new signings who have performed well in the Champions League in the past and should be completely immune to the so-called last-16 curse.

But it turns out that emotions are contagious.

Real Madrid played very out of shape throughout the first half, very awkward, and a very important point is that the players' thoughts and rhythms are not unified, and they want to win but are afraid of losing, and this mentality of suffering from gains and losses is very fatal.

Lyon coach Claude Pierre saw this clearly, so he attacked at the beginning of the second half, caught Real Madrid off guard, and took advantage of Real Madrid's weakness in set-piece defense to seize a chance and score.

After the goal, Lyon retreated all the way, and Real Madrid was in a hurry to equalize, and was even hit by Lyon once on the post and almost conceded again.

Yang Yang has a feeling that after the whole game, Real Madrid is completely different from the previous games, as if it is stunned, and the reason for this is the curse of the top 16 in the past six years.

In terms of strength, he can defeat his opponent and suppress his opponent on the field, but he always feels that he is missing.

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In order to highlight the importance of this match, Florentino accompanied the team on a rare trip to the away field.

At this moment, he was sitting in the stand of the chairman of the Stade Gerland, accompanied by the president of the Lyon team, Aulas, to watch the game.

Zinedine Zidane, the special adviser, sat on the sidelines and explained to Florentino what was happening on the pitch.

As a professional footballer, his explanations are often more acceptable.

"We're just a breath away from it now!" Zidane shook his head and sighed.

The last time Real Madrid reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Zinedine Zidane was still the core of the team, but now, he has become a retired celebrity and a senior member of Real Madrid.

Seeing that his beloved team has not been able to break free from the curse of the top 16 for six years, Zida is also very unhappy in his heart, because this is also something he failed to do back then.

Not only him, but Ronaldo, Raul, Beckham, Figo, and ......

There were so many superstars in Real Madrid back then, and so many stars in Real Madrid in the past few years, but no one has been able to do it.

"We need someone who can step up and lead the team out of this cage and get back into life!" Zidane said eagerly, but with unconfidence in his tone.

Because, he himself can't be sure if there will really be such a person, whether it will appear tonight.

Florentino also frowned, worried, "Could it be him?" ”

Zidane shook his head, he didn't know either.