Due to the presence of Yang Yang, Real Madrid's third trip to China attracted the attention of everyone in the country.

Compared to the previous two times, Real Madrid came to China with the strongest squad this time, and promised to do their best to give two of the best games for the Chinese fans, and lowered their profile in all aspects.

For example, on the previous two occasions, Real Madrid lived in the presidential suite, but this time everyone in Real Madrid chose a mid-range room, including Yang Yang and Ibrahimovic, exactly like everyone else.

The domestic media also greatly appreciated this, because when Barcelona visited China last year, the club specially chartered a luxury courtyard house for Messi and Guardiola, which was close to 20,000 yuan a night, compared to Real Madrid, which is undoubtedly much closer to the people.

This time, Real Madrid came to China, in addition to playing two warm-up games, will also participate in a number of charity activities, and the whole team will also participate in the ribbon-cutting and unveiling ceremony of the training base of Guangzhou Hengda team, Real Madrid and Guangzhou Hengda will become partners in mutual assistance and co-construction.

Chinese fans are also full of enthusiasm for the arrival of Real Madrid, there are more than 500 fans who went to the airport to pick up the airport, and then in the training session of Real Madrid, more than 4,000 fans came to the scene to watch the training, and Yang Yang is undoubtedly the most popular among all Real Madrid fans, and the fans on the scene spared no effort to cheer for him.

In conjunction with Real Madrid's trip to China, major newspapers such as Marca, As, Le Monde and ABC have followed up and reported, almost all newspapers are reporting the crazy enthusiasm of Chinese fans for Real Madrid, and Marca newspaper used the Chinese headline "Hara Madrid!" for the first time on the front page. ”。

The newspaper reported that in order to be able to witness their idols, more than 4,000 fans bought tickets to enter the stadium to watch a training session of Real Madrid, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Robben and Casillas and others have caused Chinese fans to scream, but Yang Yang's appearance caused the craziest shouts on the scene.

The Spanish newspaper then followed up on the activities of the Real Madrid players, as well as a free activity in the morning of the second day after arriving in Guangzhou, Yang Yang, as the host, invited everyone in the team to play and shop in Guangzhou's Shangxiajiu and other places, which attracted a lot of fans to gather, and finally the police were dispatched to maintain order.

In addition to the players' own shopping, Yang Yang also gave everyone in the team a precious gift with Chinese characteristics.

In the open training session the day before the match between Real Madrid and Guangzhou Hengda, Adidas arranged 109 Chinese teenagers to "play" against Real Madrid, this group of Chinese teenagers represents the 1009-year history of Real Madrid, and most of them are football players from China's formal youth training system.

In the end, the two sides fought 2-1, and Real Madrid won "narrowly", but the atmosphere at the scene was very active, and even because there were too many people on the scene, there were small players who collided, and then they started.

is different from the crowd tactics of young players, Real Madrid's game against Hengda, the team is real.

Before the team came to China, Real Madrid publicly stated that they would take the warm-up matches seriously and let Chinese fans see the strongest Real Madrid.

As it turns out, Real Madrid did exactly that.

In the game, Real Madrid kicked overhead, without the slightest force, and unceremoniously played an 8-0, which was still the result of Yang Yang and all other main players being replaced in the 60th minute, otherwise, they could brush up a double-digit goal at any time.

Although the game was lost badly, from Hengda up and down, to the domestic media and fans, they all agreed with this game, believing that there is still a huge gap in strength between Hengda and Real Madrid.

"Of course, today's Real Madrid team is here to make money, but unlike the previous two times, and unlike Barcelona last year, they played games worthy of the crowd, and Real Madrid showed their best form, the most beautiful football, to all the fans who like them."

"The 8-0 score was brutal, but it also made us all see clearly the essential gap between Chinese football and the most advanced football in Europe, Real Madrid let us see the gap clearly, and also let us see the direction clearly, they beat us on the pitch, but they also gave us respect."

Ancelotti was also blunt in a subsequent interview with the Chinese media, saying that the skills of Chinese players have made great progress, but the gap with the advanced level of Europe is still obvious.

"I know that there are more and more Chinese players playing in the Europa League, which is a very good phenomenon, Yang Yang is an incredible player, the core competitiveness of our Real Madrid, I believe that in the future, there will be a second, a third, more Yang Yang in China."

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After playing Guangzhou Hengda, Real Madrid flew north to Tianjin that night, and defeated the Tianjin team 6-0, ending all their pre-season warm-up matches with seven consecutive wins.

After the Tianjin match, Real Madrid had a day's rest in Beijing the next day, Yang Yang invited all his teammates to his villa next to the Summer Palace, and asked Winston Bogard, an old acquaintance of Real Madrid, to accompany him to the Summer Palace to enjoy the beautiful scenery, and prepared a sumptuous and delicious meal at noon.

During this period, the Real Madrid players also visited the fitness club of Yang Yang and Winston Bogard, and praised the software and hardware facilities of the club, after all, these are all run by Winston Bogard himself.

It wasn't until late evening that the whole Real Madrid team boarded the plane back to Madrid, Spain.

But at this time, the whole of Spain has long been fried.

In seven consecutive warm-up games, Real Madrid can be described as full of firepower, not to mention winning seven consecutive victories, and the offensive strength has also been greatly improved, and Real Madrid under the coaching of Ancelotti has obviously adjusted its state after a month of adjustment and preparation.

But as Real Madrid's sworn rivals, Barcelona's performance this summer has not been ideal.

Pep Guardiola's side beat Bayern Munich 2-0 at home in the Audi Cup invitational match, but they drew 0-0 with Croatia's little-known side Hakidduk in their previous two warm-up matches, followed by a 2-2 draw with Inter Brasil in the opening game of the Audi Cup.

After winning the Audi Cup, Barcelona went directly to the United States, just in time to stagger the time with Real Madrid, but in Washington, Barcelona lost 1-2 to Manchester United in the Premier League in their first game, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring twice.

Immediately afterwards, in Miami, Barcelona lost 4-1 to Guadalajara.

Yes, that's right, it was the Mexican powerhouse that was beaten 3-0 by an in-form Real Madrid.

It was mid-July, Real Madrid had just started summer training, and Ancelotti went straight to a large number of them, which led to the poor form of the Real Madrid team, but even so, the team still won the Mexican team 3-0.

However, in early August, when the Spanish Super Cup was very close, Barcelona lost 1-4 to Guadalajara in Miami, and Real Madrid beat Guangzhou Hengda 8-0 in China.

When the news of the war between China and the United States came back to Spain, the whole of Spain was fried.

The media in Spain were initially worried about Real Madrid's summer preparations, as the seven warm-up matches almost ran half a circle around the globe, which was very physically exhausting for the players, and too much commercial activity would distract the players.

But when the summer training camp began, everyone found that Ancelotti and his team had developed a high-intensity pre-season training program for Real Madrid, and Real Madrid officials were also very cooperative, trying not to arrange players to attend commercial activities during the trip to the Americas and China, and even if there were, they were all individual players to ensure that the whole team could concentrate on preparing for the new season.

During the period in Guangzhou and Tianjin, Ancelotti even arranged for the players to practice more, and the training intensity was also more than the daily training, two holidays, one after arriving in Guangzhou, and the other to wait for the flight back to Madrid.

On the other hand, Barcelona, whether it is in Eastern Europe and Germany, or the subsequent training in the United States, Barcelona's training camp is not ideal, according to Catalan media reports, this trip to the United States was arranged in a hurry, and the Barcelona official was obviously underprepared, which was a disaster for the team's pre-season preparation.

Guardiola said in an interview with the Spanish media in an interview with the Spanish media just after the 1-4 defeat to Guadalajara, "We are here for tourism, this is not the real training camp I need, and even the hot weather here makes the players very uncomfortable, which is not a good phenomenon." ”

The 1-4 loss to Guadalajara, Mexico, undoubtedly annoyed Guardiola, because this team had just lost 0-3 to rival Real Madrid not long ago, but in a blink of an eye, it gave Barcelona such a heavy defeat, which put everyone in Barcelona under heavy pressure.

Even the media in Catalonia then questioned how Barcelona could break the curse of the past two years against Real Madrid in the face of Real Madrid in such a state?

Fortunately, in the final warm-up game in the United States, Villa and Seydou Keita scored to help Barcelona beat América Mexico 2-0 and avoid an embarrassing defeat to end the América training.

The summer training camp and warm-up matches did not have any practical significance, but the situation reflected from the training camp and warm-up matches was undoubtedly very informative, so much so that when Real Madrid and Barcelona both returned to Spain, the attitude of the Spanish domestic media towards the two teams was completely different.

Many believe Carlo Ancelotti has learned from Benitez's experience and adjusted his form in the summer build-up and is now gearing up for the new season to come, starting with the first competitive game of the new season, the Super Cup against Barcelona.

The Catalan media, on the other hand, were worried about Barca's condition, and Le Monde Sport even ran a question mark on the front page the morning after Barça's return to Spain.

Barcelona, are you ready?