While the whole world is setting off a wave of praise for Yang Yang's independent six yuan, the war in La Liga continues.

After playing the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, Real Madrid challenged Osasuna away in the 31st round of La Liga.

Just seven minutes into the game, Yang Yang crossed from the left flank, and Ibrahimovic fired a stunning volley at the back post to find the Osasuna goal.

In the 37th minute, Xavi Alonso passed, Yang Yang burst into the goal 30 meters away from the goal, and broke Osasuna's goal again, and three minutes later, Herrera passed, Robben cut inside the right side of the penalty area and shook the defender, and then scored with a left-footed volley, expanding the score to 3-0 for Real Madrid.

In the second half, after only three minutes, Real Madrid made a defensive mistake on the right, and Arbeloa rose to the top and was chased back by Osasuna.

But in the 70th minute, Yang Yang was tripped on the edge of the penalty area and personally took the free kick.

Seven minutes later, it was Yang Yang's cross from the left again, and the unguarded Robben at the back post scored a brace.

In the end, Real Madrid defeated Osasuna 5-1 with Yang Yang's two shots and two passes.

In the other match played at the same time, Barcelona defeated the Basque Lions Athletic Bilbao 2-0 at home thanks to penalties from Andres Iniesta and Messi.

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The journey from Madrid to Cyprus is even farther than to Istanbul, Turkey, a distance of 3,300 kilometres in a straight line, and a one-way flight takes six or seven hours.

After Real Madrid's 7-1 win at home, there was basically no suspense, so this time on the trip to Cyprus, Ancelotti decisively arranged a substitute lineup, and finally defeated the opponent 3-0 away.

Substitute centre-forward Alvaro Morata scored twice, Kaka scored a pass and a shot, and all three goals came after 75 minutes.

In the other matchup with Real Madrid, Barcelona defeated AC Milan 3-1 at home, Messi scored a brace, and Andres Iniesta scored another goal.

A day later, the results of the two meetings in the other half were also announced, with Bayern Munich and Chelsea both progressing.

In this way, the Champions League semi-finals have formed a situation between Real Madrid and Barcelona and Chelsea against Bayern Munich.

The day after Real Madrid returned to Madrid from Cyprus, Carlo Ancelotti held a tactical meeting in Valdebebas, focusing on studying and analysing the two-legged match between AC Milan and Barcelona with the players.

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Unlike Rafa Benitez, Carlo Ancelotti is a very meeting-loving manager.

Of course, don't assume that Carlo Ancelotti likes to say a lot of high-sounding, but unrealistic words.

On the contrary, the Italian doesn't have too long to meet every time, and he crumples up some of his ideas and tactical ideas and instills them in the players, bit by bit.

Carlo Ancelotti likes to discuss, which may have something to do with the fact that he is very good at communicating and clearly telling the players what they want, which will undoubtedly give the players a deeper understanding of him.

At the tactical level, it is easy for Real Madrid players to understand his tactical ideas and specific requirements.

When analyzing the opponent's game video, Ancelotti and his team do not release all the game footage, but extract the game clip they want from the game video in advance, make a highlight, and then take it out for the players to watch and analyze, and a game is finally condensed into ten minutes, including many clips of analyzing the same event through different angles.

For the first leg between the two sides, Carlo Ancelotti gave AC Milan a high rating.

As the former AC Milan coach, Carlo Ancelotti believes that the Rossoneri basically did not give Barcelona too many good chances in the first leg, and there were no obvious serious mistakes in the defensive end, but the first leg also exposed a serious problem for AC Milan, that is, the slow transition between attack and defense.

This problem was caught by Barcelona in the second leg and hit again and again.

'It was clear that AC Milan wanted more in the second leg after keeping Barcelona clean sheet in the first leg, but Allegri clearly underestimated Barcelona's determination and the brutality of the Champions League knockout round.

This is Allegri's second season in charge of AC Milan, having lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the round of 16 last season, and this season is Allegri's first run through the quarter-finals.

Newcomers are often inexperienced, especially with a near-perfect clean sheet in the first leg, and Allegri naturally wanted to win more in the second leg, preferably to progress, but Barcelona did not give him that opportunity and dealt a painful blow to the Rossoneri on his home turf.

"They should want to try to control the ball and plan the attack, but due to the aging age structure of the players and the shortage of technical players, the team has been slow to switch from defense to attack, which has seriously lowered the offensive tempo, which has led to too much concentration of the ball in the midfield and backfield, and the reaction to the field is that the midfielders hesitate when they get the ball, which is a big taboo."

Yang Yang shared some of his experiences after watching the video.

"That's right." Ancelotti nodded in approval.

He agrees with Zinedine Zidane that Yang Yang belongs to the kind of player who is very good at using his brain to analyze problems.

"They lack a Pirlo, the speed of switching from defense to attack, and the midfielders don't have many options to play the ball, which leads to Barcelona's midfield pressing effect is very obvious, and Guardiola obviously realized this in the first leg, so he increased his frenzied pressing in the second leg."

As he spoke, Ancelotti played a video.

It happened in the eighth minute and two seconds, Iniesta's pass on the left rib was tackled by Ambrosini who was dragged by AC Milan, as a midfielder, after stealing the ball, it was supposed to be passed quickly, but Ambrosini couldn't find the way out after grabbing the ball.

Barcelona's counter-robbery was very fast, Iniesta and Messi were the first to step forward to attack, Messi quickly cut off Ambrosini's pass, Abate stepped forward to block the first time, and cleared the siege with a big foot, but was tackled by Fabregas who came up later, and finally the ball was out of bounds.

"You see, Barcelona's frontcourt counter-attack is very strong, when Ambrosini broke the ball, there was no other ball around him, but he didn't clear the ball at the first time, which caused Messi's steal, and then Abate was very resolute, but Fabregas stepped forward in time to press."

When Carlo Ancelotti said this, the Real Madrid players knew it all.

Offense and defense are like two sides of a coin, the ball is at your feet, you are attacking, and at the opponent's feet, you are defending, so the integration of offense and defense is the core essence of modern football tactics.

During Benitez's tenure at Real Madrid, in order to train Real Madrid's players to press the overall pressing, he liked to let the coach throw the ball in training to train the players' overall movement and pressing, the purpose was very simple, to keep the overall formation tight.

Don't underestimate that, because if you don't have a tight formation, you'll be cut into pieces like AC Milan, and each area will be separated, and the end result will be like Ambrosini, even if you break the ball, you don't know where to pass.

In the past two days, the Italian media has been applauding AC Milan, because there were two penalties in the game, and Messi scored twice with a penalty, but judging from the game process, although the penalty is controversial, even if there is no penalty, AC Milan is estimated to be enough.

Allegri's team has natural flaws and weaknesses, and if they don't solve the problem of slow offensive and defensive transitions, and don't find an effective solution to the pressure of Barcelona's crazy counter-attacking front, then AC Milan is unlikely to retreat from Camp Nou.

In fact, how to play Barcelona, this is not a new problem.

First Real Madrid, then Inter Milan, and even AC Milan did it in the first leg, and Arsenal did a good job last season, everyone knows exactly how to play Barcelona, but knowing how to do it is not the same thing as whether it can be done and done well.

'Actually, it's not hard to beat Barcelona, we've watched all the games against Barcelona in the last few seasons and we've done both of them.

Ancelotti waited until everyone had largely digested his analysis before giving his most important conversation of the day.

"First of all, we have to face Barcelona in the way that Barcelona is best at, that is, the crazy pressing in the midfield, and use the pressing to face Barcelona, because they are strong in attack and weak in defense, and their weak backline will show their flaws faster and earlier than us."

Everyone in the room nodded, and this was known to all.

"Second, to improve the speed and efficiency of the transition between attack and defense, whether it is from defense to attack or from attack to defense, we need to not only be fast, but also efficient, only in this way can we freeze the opponent in the shortest possible time and create a threat in the shortest possible time."

'AC Milan did the first point over both legs but didn't do the second point, which led to their heavy defeat at the Camp Nou, and that's a lesson we need to learn.

Ancelotti looked up at the Real Madrid players as he said this.

'Of course, there are a lot of chances in the game, such as corners and free-kicks, we have a good high ball advantage, long balls, Ibrahimovic in front of us, those are our strengths.

"After doing the first two things and making the most of our strengths, then we will definitely be able to beat Barcelona at home in the first leg of the semi-final, not to mention that they are now at a low point of morale."

After Yang Yang won six yuan, Messi was hit badly, and Barcelona's morale was also greatly reduced, but Real Madrid was high-spirited.

And after playing the two legs of the Champions League semi-finals, La Liga will usher in the 35th round, and Real Madrid will travel to challenge Barcelona away.

In other words, Real Madrid and Barcelona will play three games in a row in a short period of time.

What's more, there is also a Spanish Copa del Rey final that has not yet been chosen.