On May 22, the Champions League final.

From the beginning of the morning, the whole Madrid was immersed in the atmosphere of the final.

Tonight's clash of the stars will be Real Madrid's final and most important game of the season, and the media and fans around the world will be eagerly awaiting to see if Real Madrid will come out on top or Inter Milan will perform their magic again.

The city government of Madrid has also been well prepared, with traffic police on duty at almost every intersection in the city, for fear that fans of the two teams will clash before the game, especially near the Bernabeu Stadium.

At noon, there are still eight or nine hours before the Champions League final, but the main urban road leading from the Plaza de la Ville in the center of Madrid to the Bernabeu Stadium is full of fans of both teams.

But interestingly, tonight at the Bernabeu, Real Madrid will use the away dressing room.

Since Inter Milan's home jersey is blue and black, Real Madrid's home jersey this time is still white at home.

On the road, there were significantly more Real Madrid fans in white jerseys than Inter Milan, and they were also more active and excited.

Real Madrid have reached the last three Champions League finals, winning all of them without exception, beating Juventus, Valencia and Bayer Leverkusen respectively, which shows that Real Madrid have more experience in dealing with Champions League finals.

The last time Inter Milan reached the final of the Champions League was back in the 71-72 season, when they lost the Champions League final to Ajax at the Feyenoord Stadium in the Netherlands, and the Nerazzurri have also lost their last two Champions League finals, the other to Celtic.

Interestingly, though, while Real Madrid have reached the Champions League final twelve times, taking nine of them, one of their only three defeats has come to Inter Milan, the only time the two teams have ever met in a Champions League final.

At that time, Inter Milan defeated Real Madrid 3-0, laying the foundation for the era of Greater Inter.

The historical feud between the two teams has made fans on both sides tense their nerves, and the two teams represent two different styles.

Inter Milan is known for its tenacious defense, and Real Madrid has the sharpest offensive firepower in world football today, and this spear and shield battle has also made the media and fans around the world full of expectations.

Everyone wants to see who will have the last laugh at the Bernabeu tonight.

This sentiment is also reflected in the tickets.

The Bernabeu Stadium can accommodate more than 80,000 fans, but as soon as the tickets went on sale, they were immediately snapped up by enthusiastic fans, and even tickets were hard to find, and on the morning of the match day, there was news outside that the scalpers for the final had been sold for 2,000 euros, but still no one wanted to sell them.

Not only did the fans of the two sides react wildly, but even the Chinese media reporters and fans were very excited.

Long before the match, UEFA included a number of domestic Chinese media in the list of official media partners, including a number of domestic media outlets who had the right to ask questions at the pre-match press conference for the first time.

You must know that Yang Yang answered more than 30 questions at the press conference the night before the game, in addition to questions from UEFA officials and world authoritative media, three of China's media were qualified to ask questions.

This also made the domestic media and fans very excited, because they all knew very well that it was because of Yang Yang.

Yang Yang has reached the Champions League final for the fourth time, winning all the first three times, and this time everyone is full of expectations for him, with such a top superstar participating, plus UEFA and Real Madrid are interested in developing the Asian football market, it is natural to give the green light to the Chinese media, and welcome the Chinese media and fans to participate in the Champions League final.

According to the news revealed by the Chinese media, Real Madrid has set aside a total of 1,000 tickets for Chinese fans, which is still in short supply, and the fans are extremely enthusiastic, and countless fans have to give up their plans to watch the game in Madrid because they can't grab tickets.

And on match day, hotels and restaurants in downtown Madrid are packed.

As the time for the game approached, the roads leading to the Bernabeu in the city were also full of fans, and some fans could be seen everywhere holding up tickets to buy a scalper ticket at the last minute, and the sign also wrote their psychological price, which had reached a maximum of 3,000 euros.

This is equivalent to twice the average monthly salary in Spain, and even in Madrid, where the salary is the highest, is only about 1,800 euros, which shows how popular the tickets are.

The closer you get to the Bernabeu, the more fans there are, and the slightest movement immediately attracts the attention of countless fans at the scene.

For example, a car with the Inter Milan emblem approached the Bernabeu, and was immediately "blocked" by the fanatical fans, almost unable to enter the stadium.

But it is also clear to everyone that the footsteps of the final are getting closer.

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There are still three hours left until the final.

The whole Real Madrid team boarded the bus in Valdebebas and officially headed to the Bernabeu Stadium.

The journey was supposed to be around fifteen minutes, but given the crowds on the day of the Champions League final, the club doubled the time, which proved to be very necessary.

The bus moved forward under the attention of the fans throughout the journey, and Real Madrid fans kept chasing after them along the way, cheering for the team.

Inside the carriage, everyone was trying to adjust their emotions.

Yang Yang sat in his place, listening to Jay Chou's singing voice in the headphones, sometimes looking out the window, sometimes looking at the information beating on the mobile phone screen.

Since this morning, he has been receiving blessings from friends and family, as well as former teammates and even opponents.

He also patiently replied one by one and thanked them.

At this moment, sitting on the bus to the Bernabeu, to say that he is not nervous, it is absolutely deceitful, he is not a robot, he will have the emotions of ordinary people, he will be nervous, but he has his own set of ways to decompress.

This is his fourth Champions League final and he believes that if he walks onto the pitch and steps on the soft turf, he will leave all his mixed emotions behind.

But before that, he was as nervous, apprehensive, and excited as everyone else...... Even a little scared.

He has always been apprehensive about Jose Mourinho's side.

Benitez was right, everyone thought it was a contest between Real Madrid's spear and Inter's shield, but in fact, it was also a contest between Real Madrid's shield and Inter's spear.

But as a team that advocates attack, as a top club in La Liga, Real Madrid's defense has never been reassuring.

Even if Benitez has done very well this season, it still can't change that.

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The closer the bus got to the Bernabeu, the more fans it encountered.

The police came to greet them and took charge of clearing the way in front of them to prevent fans from storming the team's bus.

Countless Real Madrid fans chanting slogans and even singing the team's anthem, which should be the main theme of tonight's Bernabeu, although Inter Milan also had close to 30,000 fans in attendance.

When I arrived at the Bernabeu Stadium, the bus stopped directly at the entrance of the players' tunnel.

Everyone in the team, led by Benitez and the coaching staff, as well as the staff at the stadium, quickly got into the tunnel and did not have any contact with the fans outside.

The whole process took a total of half an hour.

Yang Yang and his teammates cleaned up in the locker room, changed their clothes, and left the locker room on time two hours before the game, walked out of the players' tunnel, and went to the stadium for the last training session before the game.

At this time, Inter Milan had already arrived at the scene in advance.

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"Hey, Yang."

Mourinho was standing at the entrance of the players' tunnel, and as soon as he saw Yang Yang and others walking out, he immediately greeted him.

"Hello, José, welcome to the Bernabeu." Yang Yang walked up with a smile and hugged the Portuguese madman who had always been optimistic about him, although he didn't appreciate Mourinho's style of football, but this did not prevent him from admiring Mourinho's personality and his coaching ability.

"Oh come on, we're the home team tonight." Mourinho was humorous.

Yang Yang smiled and shook his head, he really forgot about this.

Mourinho then met with several Real Madrid players, including Ibrahimovic and Raul, and exchanged a few polite greetings.

The players in the Inter Milan team also noticed Yang Yang, especially McConn.

The Brazilian right wing-back has performed very well at Inter Milan in the past two years, which can be called a wing dragon, and even in the Brazilian national team, he has firmly surpassed Barcelona's Daniel Alves to play the main role of the national team.

This comrade-in-arms who followed Yang Yang at Ajax has now become an opponent in the game.

Mai Kong first greeted Yang Yang and the others from afar, and then took advantage of an opportunity to pick up the ball and came over to meet Yang Yang.

Reunited after a long absence, the two right-sided partners hugged warmly.

Sneijder, Vermaelen and Maxwell, among other former teammates, also stepped forward to meet them.

"We're unlucky, we're facing you tonight!" Yang Yang pointed at Maikong and smiled.

McCone laughed along, "I only have one mission tonight, and that's to stare you to death!" ”

Real Madrid has always been rumored to buy McConn, and the Brazilian international has mentioned to Yang Yang more than once that he is eager to come to Real Madrid and continue to play alongside him, but no one knows what the specific transfer will be.

But the only thing that is certain is that tonight Yang Yang and Mai Kong must have a needle-to-needle battle against Mai Mang.

Yang Yang is also very clear about McConn's strength, if the Brazilian right full-back really focuses on defense all over the field, it will indeed be a very headache for him.

Moreover, he had a vague hunch that Mourinho would certainly not just let McCone defend him alone.