After beating Real Betis in the first round of the league, Real Madrid soon received a piece of unfavorable news.

During an afternoon training session, Xavi Alonso suffered a right foot injury and was immediately taken to La Morareja Hospital for examination, where he suffered an MRI fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his right foot and will be sidelined for at least three months.

This is definitely bad news, especially before playing Atletico Madrid.

Xavi Alonso had a pubic surgery this summer, but he recovered quickly, but no one expected that he would be injured so soon, which is indeed surprising but helpless.

After all, he is already thirty-one years old, and as he gets older, injuries will definitely follow.

When it comes to metatarsal fractures, this is exactly the same as the injury suffered by Marcelo in the national team last season, as a result, Marcelo has been nursing for more than three months, and his state has not been stable since he returned, so Real Madrid is sympathetic and helpless to Xavi Alonso's experience.

Fortunately, in the position of the back midfielder, Real Madrid introduced Ilya Ramendi this summer, plus Modric and Herrera, Real Madrid's personnel reserves in this position are still relatively generous, and the impact will not be as big as Marcelo.

But Xavi Alonso's absence certainly has some impact on Real Madrid.

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Xavi Alonso's test results came out in the evening, except for Yang Yang and a few other close friends who knew about it that night, the other players did not get the news from the coaching staff until the next morning, but Xavi Alonso still came to Valdebebas on crutches.

Like Marcelo, his injured right foot was tightly wrapped, but the Spanish midfielder smiled and encouraged his team-mates.

"I've signed an agreement with the doctor, and I'll be back before the 10th round of the Camp Nou game!" Xavi Alonso said confidently that it was clear that he also took this game very seriously.

Not only him, but also Real Madrid and his subordinates also attach importance to it, because Barcelona has already made a war letter.

The 7-0 in the first round of the league is like Barcelona's charge, they want to take advantage of the momentum of the Champions League to break Real Madrid in one fell swoop, and if Real Madrid can't stop Barcelona at Camp Nou, it will inevitably further boost Barcelona's arrogance.

"Barcelona don't have to worry about you too much, I'll solve it." Yang Yang confidently patted Xavi Alonso's shoulder and smiled, "It's you, when you're old, pay more attention to your body, don't be as potty as someone when you come back." ”

Everyone first felt Yang Yang's strong confidence, and then was amused by his last sentence.

All the players who were in the team last season know that Yang Yang is fighting the guy named Marcelo.

After three months of recuperation, the foot injury was healed, but at the same time, he also developed a body of fat.

Everyone laughed, even if it was an unknown new signing, they quickly learned the cause and effect from the old players, and they were all happy, only Marcelo was so angry that he jumped straight to his feet over there, constantly threatening to refuse to connect with Yang Yang on the court and not pass the ball to him.

But everyone knows that he is purely joking.

This summer, Real Madrid's two wings of attack is a key problem for the coaching staff to solve, Marcelo and Hazard's cooperation is the top priority, how to coordinate the line of the two, how to distribute the ball, these are all particular.

Especially in midfield, there are also David Silva, Isco and Luka Modric, who like to take the ball and these are things that need to be addressed.

Real Madrid has a lot of problems these days, which is a hidden danger, but at the same time it is a potential.

When all these problems are solved, then this Real Madrid team will be invincible!

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Three days after the first round of La Liga, Real Madrid ushered in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup.

Visiting the Stadio Calderón and challenging Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid has a lot of transfer players this summer, the biggest of which is the number one star Falcao who transferred to Monaco for a sky-high price of 60 million euros, but Diego Costa chose to stay under the poaching of Chelsea, and the Sheets brought in David Villa from Barcelona for a low price of 5.1 million euros.

Interestingly, Atletico Madrid brought in Demichelis on a free transfer from Málaga, but sold it to Manchester City for five million euros in the blink of an eye, but in the central defender position, Simeone brought in Uruguayan rookie Gimenez and Ajax rookie Alderweireld.

Yang Yang has an impression of Alderweireld, he and Vertonghen are the strongest central defenders of Ajax after Vermaelen, and they are also favored by many professionals, but the Eredivisie has declined in recent years, and its reputation in Europe is not particularly well-known.

However, before the game, Ancelotti repeatedly stressed that he was most worried about Atletico Madrid's defense.

Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, Felipe, Godin, Miranda and Juanfran at the back, Turan, Gabi, Mario Suarez and Koke in the midfield from left to right, Villa and Diego Costa in front.

In this season's main squad, except for Villa, all of them are Atletico Madrid's players from last season, but because of this, Ancelotti is more familiar with Atletico Madrid, and he also specially watched all the game videos of the pre-season warm-up games and the first round of the league, and in the end, he gave a very high evaluation.

"This season's Atletico Madrid defense has been basically formed under Simeone's tutelage, this will be a very scary team, and even they have the strength to challenge for the La Liga title, at least have the defensive ability of the Champions League semi-finals."

Ancelotti's comment made Real Madrid attach great importance to it, but even so, the game was still very passive at the beginning, and Atletico Madrid used high-intensity pressing at the beginning and played very fiercely.

Less than a minute later, Turan on the left was booked for defending Carvajal, but in the second minute he sent in a cross from a counter-attack, but Villa's header failed to threaten.

Courtois performed very well, saving a single knife from Yang Yang in the fourth minute, the timing of the attack was very timely, and he was tall and long, Modric had just passed into the penalty area, he had already judged it and attacked quickly.

And in the twelfth minute, after a quick counter-attack, Turan hit behind Carvajal again, crossed from the left, and the experienced Villa ran out of space and volleyed in to open the scoring for Atletico Madrid.

After scoring the lead, Simeone's team began to defend steadily, never greedy for merit, especially the restriction on Yang Yang.

The two central defenders, Miranda and Godin, stuck to Yang Yang almost inch by inch, and the midfielders also had Mario Suarez and Gabi, but they didn't give Yang Yang any chance and space, which made Yang Yang almost suffocate.

In the second half, Real Madrid began to adjust, Yang Yang expanded his area of activity, and Hazard and Robben began to actively cut into the box, which caused some problems for Atletico Madrid's defense.

In the 66th minute, Carvajal made up for it, cutting forward to the edge of the box to deliver a cross that Hazard headed into the left corner of the six-yard box and headed into the back of the net to equalise for Real Madrid.

Neither side was able to make any more gains, and finally shook hands to make a peace one-to-one.

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After the game, Real Madrid summed up.

Atletico Madrid are really tough, especially with their pressing and defending.

Ancelotti bluntly said that Simeone has integrated Italy's defense into Atletico Madrid's system, building this team into an iron army, "They may be the most surprising dark horses in La Liga and even the Champions League this season." ”

And for a team like this, no one can come up with a good solution, because their defense hardly makes mistakes.

Facing a team that has no weakness in defense, strong integrity, high tactical execution of players, and at the same time does not easily take risks to make mistakes, no team can come up with a good solution, including Barcelona.

In the first round of the league, Atletico Madrid played Sevilla, with less than three and a half percent possession, and in the first leg against Real Madrid, the Sheets Army had only three percent possession, but they killed Sevilla three to one away and drew with Real Madrid one to one at home, which shows how difficult this team is.

Or it can be said that they are using Real Madrid to restrain Real Madrid in the same way that Real Madrid made Barcelona.

To make matters worse, Suarez continued to be suspended in the early part of the season due to his biting in the Premier League last season, which made it difficult for Real Madrid to organize an effective attacking formation.

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On 25 August, Real Madrid played away to Granada.

The opponent is not strong, although Real Madrid is an away game, but still formed a siege of Granada, but it was scoreless, just in the tenth minute, Di Maria crossed from the right, Hazard stopped the ball directly to Yang Yang on the left side of the penalty area, Yang Yang followed up and swept the shot, scoring the only goal for Real Madrid.

In the end, they won 1-0 against Granada.

In the other matchup played at the same time, Atletico Madrid rotated, but beat Rayo Vallecano 5-0 at home.

Raul Garcia scored twice, while Diego Costa, Turan and Thiago each netted a goal.

And Barcelona relied on Messi's hat trick to beat Malaga 5-0 away and continue to lead the La Liga standings.

After scoring 12 goals and conceding clean sheets in two rounds, Barcelona completely overturned everyone's impression of them overnight, playing a wave of attacks, and the whole world admired this team.

Atletico Madrid also relied on the wonderful matchups in the first two rounds, following Barcelona and ranking second in La Liga.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, did not perform well in the first two rounds and was forced to settle for fifth, even behind Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal.

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In midweek, in the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup, Real Madrid returned to their home stadium and launched a strong attack on Atletico Madrid.

The Sheets still set up an iron bucket formation, completely giving up the attack, and holding on to their own half with all their might.

In the face of Simeone's almost reinforced concrete defensive position, Real Madrid bombarded indiscriminately in the first half to no avail, and continued to attack in the second half, but still achieved nothing.

However, with a score of 1-1 away, Real Madrid can still win the championship even if it is 0-0 at home.

Unexpectedly, in the 72nd minute, Simeone made a substitution, replacing Turan with scorer Adrian, and blatantly strengthened the frontcourt attack.

He wants to win!

Especially want to capture the Bernabeu!