On the evening of December 22, at the Rose Garden Stadium in Malaga.

In the seventeenth round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Malaga away.

After returning from a long trip to Japan to play the Club World Championship and then to Malaga away to Málaga, Carlo Ancelotti had to rotate the squad and Yang Yang was put on the bench for running back and forth for two consecutive days.

The first half was tied 0-0 and neither side was able to score.

However, at the start of the second half, Manuel Pellegrini's side were the first to attack, and the Spanish teenager Isco, who had just won the European Golden Boy award, opened the scoring for Malaga with a volley past Casillas.

It was the first Spanish player to score a Real Madrid goal at the Rose Garden in nearly 12 years.

Isco has gone from strength to depth in the last two or three seasons, and has flourished in La Liga and the Champions League this season, leading Malaga to top of the group ahead of Chelsea and other strong teams.

There is news that Barcelona are coveting him and have always wanted him.

With a goal behind, Real Madrid also had to make adjustments, and Yang Yang came on as a substitute in the 60th minute.

Six minutes later, Xavi Alonso crossed diagonally, Yang Yang pulled to the right side of the penalty area, turned and crossed after stopping the ball, and Xavi Martinez inserted a header to equalize the score for Real Madrid.

After that, until the eighty-second minute, Camacho made a mistake in returning Demichelis, and after being intercepted by David Silva halfway, he made a diagonal pass and sent it to the penalty area.

In the end, Real Madrid relied on Yang Yang's pass and shot to reverse Malaga 2-1 away.

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With a 26-game winning streak against Malaga, Real Madrid equalled Cruyff's record at Ajax, but the game was very difficult, especially Isco, who was extremely active.

On the other hand, the whole Real Madrid team is obviously in a sluggish state, but both the media and fans are more tolerant of this.

Any team like Real Madrid, who has played so many games in a row and almost become a trapeze, can't bear the iron body, let alone beat the opponent in the last game.

Malaga are not underdogs, and the team's performance in the Champions League is proof enough.

With 26 consecutive wins and 14 consecutive La Liga wins, Real Madrid is not far from Mancini's seventeen consecutive wins at Inter Milan, which is the longest winning streak in the history of the five major leagues in history.

While Real Madrid reversed Malaga 2-1, Barcelona beat Valladolid 3-1 away, with Xavi, Messi and Telo scoring successively.

With this goal, Messi continued to chase with 26 goals, keeping a step away from Yang Yang's 27 goals.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, are three points behind Barcelona in the standings but six points more than Atletico Madrid because of a game less.

Since losing to Valencia, followed by defeats to Real Madrid and Barcelona, the situation has been nowhere near as strong as it was at the start of the season, which proves that Simeone's side are still unable to compete with the Spanish Super League duo for the time being.

As for Falcao, who competed with Yang Yang and Messi for the scorer list at the beginning of the season, he has only scored 17 goals so far, and he has been left far behind, which is really difficult to see signs of catching up.

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After the seventeenth round of La Liga, the league was suspended, ushering in the Christmas and winter break.

However, this winter break is still not easy for Real Madrid.

Due to the absence of a game in the Copa del Rey and La Liga, Real Madrid's winter break is shorter than other teams, and they need to start early, against Celta Vigo, and after the winter break, they play La Liga and Copa del Rey in a row.

Because of this, the club's winter break this year is only one week, and after Christmas, it will return to the team early for training on the 29th to prepare for the next Copa del Rey supplemental match.

At the club's Christmas dinner, Real Madrid President Florentino thanked the players on behalf of the club for their efforts over the past year, and also expressed his pride for the team's six crowns and three consecutive Champions League titles, and hoped that everyone could continue to do so.

Not only that, although the renovation project of the Bernabeu Stadium has begun, Real Madrid still fulfilled the bonus promise of the player, and also said that it will start a new round of player contract renewal plan, including Marcelo, Xavi Alonso and other players are already underway, or have already negotiated contract extensions.

Among them, Marcelo started talking before the injury, and with his serious injury, Real Madrid did not pause, but directly signed a contract extension with him, leaving the world's top left wing-back at Real Madrid.

Xavi Alonso's situation is relatively special, his contract expires in 2014, and there is still a year and a half left, Real Madrid hopes to renew his contract for two years, and his salary will be appropriately increased, but Xavi Alonso said that he only wants to renew his contract for one year, and then sign it once a year, depending on his status.

In addition, this time Xavi Alonso did not ask for a salary increase, because before, Real Madrid took the initiative to give him a salary increase when he did not ask for a salary increase, which made him satisfied with his current treatment, so he did not plan to ask for a salary increase.

In addition to Marcelo and Xavi Alonso, the contract renewal of some other players is also on the agenda, especially young players such as Jesus and Morata, who have performed well this season, are very optimistic players in the Real Madrid team.

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Due to the tight schedule, Yang Yang did not go out on vacation during the winter break, but worked hard to adjust his physical condition, especially physical fitness, according to the plans of the coaching staff and Winston Bogard.

The first half of the race was stressful, but the second half was significantly bigger and more challenging.

On December 29, Real Madrid's first training session after the winter break was held at the Stadio di Stefano, home of the second team at the Valdebebas training base, and it was open to fans, attracting more than 10,000 fans.

At present, there are still two injured players in the Real Madrid team, one is Marcelo, the fracture has made him miss for nearly three months, but there is no sign of returning to training, and then he will have to adjust his physical condition and condition, which will take time, so the day of return is still far away.

Marcelo also came to the scene that day, and he looked a lot fatter, which was also the result of long-term recuperation.

But any professional player, as long as he lacks training for a long time, will definitely be blessed.

Then there's Vermaelen, but his problem is a small thing, he strained his leg before, and he will be able to return to training in a few days.

But after the first training session on the first day of the team's training camp, the Real Madrid team doctor began to conduct a detailed medical examination on Pepe, because Pepe reported that he had unbearable pain in his right ankle during training.

At the time of the examination, Pepe had to undergo ankle surgery as soon as possible.

This is not a sudden injury, but a long-term accumulation of hidden dangers, which may not have been noticed before, but when the winter break stopped, and now I have started training again.

According to preliminary estimates, Pepe will be absent for at least a month.

Marcelo, Vermaelen and Pepe, Real Madrid were injured again at the beginning of the winter break.

To make matters worse, Ramos received another yellow card against Málaga, accumulating five yellow cards, and he must be suspended for the next 18th round of the game at home to Real Sociedad.

As a result, Real Madrid's centre-back is left with only Raphael Varane, as well as versatile Nacho and Arbeloa.

But Real Madrid really don't have time to adjust and try slowly.

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On the evening of January 3, the first leg of the Copa del Rey round of 16 was played.

Real Madrid away to Celta Vigo.

Carlo Ancelotti fielded a whole new set of defence for this game, with Cesar Azpilicueta, Xavi Martinez, Sergio Ramos and Arbeloa.

Xavi Martinez has played at centre-back before, and even Rafael Benitez once thought he would be a good centre-back, but under Carlo Ancelotti he has always been an important candidate in the midfield position, but now the centre-back position is short of manpower and has to be relegated to the backline.

In the first half, the two sides were in a bitter battle, and each other was not in good shape, while Real Madrid took the lead in the second half through Xavi Alonso to assist Yang Yang to score, and then in the 78th minute, Robben scored again to help Real Madrid extend the score to 2-0.

But in the last ten minutes, Real Madrid was bombarded by their opponents and conceded a goal in the 87th minute, and finally it was Casillas and Javi Martinez who played well to keep the victory.

In the end, Real Madrid narrowly beat Celta Vigo 2-1 away.

Javi Martinez, who returned to central defence, was named Man of the Match mainly because he impressed both defensively and on the ball throughout the game.

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With the 27th consecutive victory, Real Madrid broke Cruyff's winning streak set at Ajax, set a new winning streak and created a new legend, which caused widespread discussion and praise from the media and fans around the world.

But for Real Madrid itself, there is no sense of joy at all.

Pepe has been out for more than a month after surgery, Marcelo has no timetable for his comeback, Vermaelen has not recovered, Ramos will be suspended in the league, and the next home game against Real Sociedad will be played?

There are three days between the Copa del Rey rematch and the 18th round of La Liga, and there is no time for Real Madrid to think carefully, and all the Real Madrid players are also trying to adjust their form, because the away game against Celta Vigo is indeed a slump.

To face Real Sociedad with such a performance is definitely a lot of bad luck.

Coach Carlo Ancelotti had no choice but to line up a centre-back combination of Xavi Martinez and Raphael Varane.

One made a cameo in friendship, but fortunately Celta Vigo was very brave in the last game, and the other was a young player, can such a partner stop Real Sociedad?

No one knows the answer, but they can only bite the bullet.