937 That's the goal conceded?
At one point, Ferguson commented on Inzaghi as a player born on the offside line.
It means to describe the Italian striker's outstanding ability to run off the ball.
In recent years, with the aging of Inzaghi, all media reporters and fans often think of Yang Yang first when evaluating the running without the ball of active players.
There are even many people who believe that Yang Yang's ability to run without the ball is his magic weapon to score goals endlessly.
And Yang Yang also has a very deep understanding of this, because he knows that for an offensive player, running without the ball is crucial, and it can even be said to be the key to determining the success or failure of a team's attack.
It's like this opening of the Champions League final.
When the ball was in Valdés' hands and Yang Yang stepped back, he was facing the Barcelona goal, not only closely watching Valdés' movements with his eyes, but also observing every move around him with the divine vision of the super training ground.
He was the first to judge that Valdés would throw the ball to find Alves, so he pounced on Alves as soon as possible.
Yang Yang pounced quickly, and Alves retreated deeper at that time, so Yang Yang was very sure that Alves only had two options, either to kick forward, but this might lose the ball, or to pass back to goalkeeper Valdés.
To some extent, Yang Yang wanted him to pass back, so he deliberately kept a hand.
The Brazilian right wing-back really chose to pass back to the goalkeeper, because this is the philosophy of Barcelona football, and it is not easy to hand over the ball.
When he saw Alves pass back to the goalkeeper, Yang Yang just rushed to the corner of the penalty area, and immediately changed direction, returned to the penalty area, and approached Valdés, because it was impossible for Valdés to receive such a return pass.
And as long as you stop the ball with your feet, there will always be chances.
Ibrahimovic knew Yang Yang's thoughts very well, so he also put pressure on Barcelona's two central defenders for the first time.
Valdés faced the return pass, and there was Yang Yang who rushed over quickly, he barely had time to think, and his first reaction was to pass the ball to the player who was closest to him and should be considered the safest, Pique.
As soon as Pique received the ball, Ibrahimovic entangled him, which gave the Barcelona centre-back no time to think, plus the Swedish centre-forward forced him from behind, forcing him to pass in the direction in front of him, that is, on the right side.
So, Pique passed back to Alves on the right side almost without thinking, but at this time Alves was still thinking about receiving Valdés, and the position was still relatively backward, Pique passed in front of him, which was not a problem, but no one could have imagined that Marcelo would suddenly stab in obliquely.
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When Yang Yang forced Valdés to pass the ball to Pique, he ran back quickly.
Because he wants to put himself in a position where he is not offside.
It has become his instinct as an offensive player.
No matter how good his position is, no matter how favorable the situation on the pitch is, as long as you are offside, everything is in vain, even if you score, it will still be blown away.
Yang Yang retreated to a position further back than Alves to keep himself from being offside, and at this time Marcelo intercepted the ball halfway and quickly grabbed Alves before he got close, and passed back into the penalty area.
With his back to the direction of the attack, Yang Yang was startled by this sudden pass, and when he reacted, the ball had already come to the front, and as soon as he stopped, Alves and Pique had already rushed towards him, striking left and right.
Yang Yang didn't have time to think about it at all, he immediately judged that he didn't have a chance to face the goal, so he chose to take a step outside the penalty area, quickly took the ball, and passed it back to Kaka outside.
The Brazilian midfielder stopped the ball and Sergio Busquets was the first to appear in front of him.
Kaka made a gesture to get straight to his feet, and after deceiving Busquets to block sideways, Kaka suddenly took a step to the right and picked up a pass into the box.
In the box, Ibrahimovic blocked Puyol with his body.
The Barcelona captain was blocked by the Swedish center and couldn't resist at all, but he was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he didn't hold Ibrahimovic anymore and no longer retreated, so that the Swedish center had no chance to kick at all, and could only use his head to grab the ball.
A little far from goal, there was little chance of a header on goal, and with Gerard Pique already pressing, if Ibrahimovic wanted to stop the ball with his head, there was little chance of creating a threat.
But the Swedish center still pressed Puyol stubbornly, not giving the opponent a chance to resist, facing the incoming ball, heading the ball directly to the left side of the penalty spot.
Yang Yang ran out of space here, Pique ran to pinch Ibrahimovic, Alves behind him was approaching, he could just get a chance, but Ibrahimovic's header was high, his best option was to stop first, and then get up, but then it was likely to be blocked by Pique and Alves.
In the face of the fleeting opportunity, Yang Yang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, the whole person ran to the position, after standing with his left foot, he saw the momentum of the ball, the whole person turned around, his right foot volleyed up, and directly made a sideways volley.
At that moment, Yang Yang could clearly feel the feeling of the instep of his right foot hitting the football in mid-air, very steadily, exactly as he had expected before, and the football flew towards the upper right corner of the goal at a very fast speed, as he expected.
Valdés hurriedly tried to block the near corner, but missed the far corner, and Yang Yang's turnaround volley was deliberately hit the far corner.
The ball crashed into the Barcelona goal almost unhindered.
1 to 0!
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“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!”
"Just three minutes into the game, Real Madrid took the lead in scoring the Barcelona goal!"
"A very wonderful turning volley from Yang Yang!"
"Oh my God, this is Real Madrid's second shot of the game, Yang Yang hit a wonderful volley."
"That's a superstar! This is Yang Yang! ”
"At the critical moment, Yang Yang is able to grasp the opportunity created by his teammates and hit it with one hit!"
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In order to hit this volley, Yang Yang's whole body fell backwards, and he almost fell to the ground after hitting it, but after standing firm for the first time, he saw the ball into the net, turned around and quickly rushed out of the court, running all the way.
The entire Wembley Stadium erupted in cheers and exclamations.
The cheers came from the Real Madrid fans, while the exclamations came from the Barcelona fans.
No one expected that the goal in this game would come so quickly and so suddenly.
The game had just begun, and even Barcelona had not even organized a shot on goal, a decent attack, and was directly scored by Real Madrid.
Yang Yang quickly rushed to the bottom of the stands where the Real Madrid fans were, and slid to his knees excitedly, rushing to the camera on the sidelines.
On the big screen of the stadium, on all the TVs around the world watching the live broadcast of the game, there was a picture of Yang Yang laughing and celebrating the goal, and then he was seen being thrown to the ground one by one by his Real Madrid teammates who rushed out.
Even Casillas, who was in front of goal, jumped high and slapped the crossbar of the goal, shouting incessantly.
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'It was a very, very unexpected goal.'
"It is not difficult to see from the slow-motion replay that Yang Yang's running position is very smart, and he did not put himself in an offside position, and the final volley was also played very beautifully, and at the same time it was very sudden, the Barcelona players did not even have time to react, and Valdés watched the football enter the net."
'That's what superstars come out of when it matters most, they just take some of the little ones and turn them into goals.
"The game has just begun, Barcelona still has a chance, but they fell behind at the beginning, which is obviously very disadvantageous and at the same time very demoralizing, I hope Guardiola and his team can adjust as soon as possible."
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Guardiola stood on the sidelines in a daze, his ears filled with cheers, and his eyes were on the stunned Barcelona players and the Real Madrid players running wildly, and he couldn't react.
That's a goal?
Barcelona didn't even have a chance to attack before Real Madrid broke the goal.
Guardiola knew very well in his heart that this was Real Madrid's attack after the opening, which caught Barcelona off guard.
Whether it is Yang Yang's step-by-step pressing, or Ibrahimovic's suppression of the central defender, or Kaka's back-insertion, these are all offensive routines deliberately arranged by Real Madrid before the game, and they are all aimed at Barcelona's weakness and shortcomings.
But the most critical factor is Yang Yang.
In the situation just now, the most likely thing that would happen was offside, but instead of being offside, Yang Yang ran out of the opportunity.
This is the gap, and it is also the embodiment of Yang Yang's strength.
"Three backs, the opening attack, this dead fat man's wishful thinking has begun." Villanova said angrily.
Benitez's tactics made Barcelona feel uncomfortable and disgusting, but there was nothing disgraceful, at best he was conservative, and now, Yang Yang's goal has undoubtedly further boosted Real Madrid's confidence.
Can Barcelona break down Real Madrid's back three?
In fact, Barcelona now have very few chips on hand to change the situation on the pitch, especially when Real Madrid retreat across the board.
This is also why in the past two seasons, in five games, Barcelona has not grabbed a point, ending in five consecutive defeats, in the final analysis, Barcelona can't find a way to break Benitez's defensive formation.
Not only Barcelona, but also in European football, no team has really broken through Real Madrid's defense.
Guardiola is very unconvinced, and even disagrees with Benitez's tactical style and Real Madrid's defense, because these are contrary to the football philosophy he has accepted since childhood, but now, he has to admit that he really can't come up with an effective way to break through the opponent's defense.
So, he can only wait.
Wait for the flash of inspiration from the Barcelona players on the pitch, and wait for the Real Madrid players to make mistakes themselves.
This gave rise to a sense of weakness in the Barcelona coach's heart.
Especially Yang Yang's goal, it's terrible!