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August 14 at 22 p.m., at the Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, Spain.
In the first leg of the Super Cup, Real Madrid hosted Barcelona.
This is the first official match of the new season and the first performance of the new season for both sides.
The much-hyped parade in the week leading up to the game didn't take place, and Barcelona clearly couldn't accept their queue at the Bernabeu to host Champions League champions Real Madrid as they were runners-up.
In fact, this is more of a media hype and fan coaxing, and everyone on both sides knows that neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona will accept to be greeted by a queue for each other to win the championship, which has nothing to do with demeanor, but more because of the century-old enmity between the two sides.
For this, everyone in Real Madrid saw it very clearly, and no one blamed Barcelona for this.
From the moment the two sides walked into the Santiago Bernabeu, the starting line-ups of both teams were already revealed.
The home team Real Madrid still has a four-two-three-one formation, the goalkeeper is Casillas, the backline is Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos and Arbeloa, the midfield is Xavi Alonso and Xavi Martinez form a double midfield, David Silva is in the middle, and the front is still the trident combination of Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Robben.
With the exception of Marcelo, none of the Copa America internationals were in the starting line-up, including Mascherano, Maxwell, McConn, Kaka and Di Maria, as they didn't return until late July and early August, and their form and fitness reserves were clearly not up to pace.
Barcelona's side still lined up their own four-three-three formation, with goalkeeper Valdés, Adriano, Abidal, Pique and Alves at the back, Iniesta, Thiago and Xavi in midfield, and Villa, Messi and Sanchez in front.
Of the two new signings, Alexis Sanchez was in the starting right wing-up position, Cesc Fabregas was on the bench and Sergio Busquets was replaced by an in-form Thiago after a poor warm-up performance.
It is clear from Barca's starting line-up that Pep Guardiola is also looking for a change, and he also wants to introduce a competition system within the team to stimulate the form of the players, especially for the midfield.
The iron triangle of Sergio Busquets, Xavi and Andres Iniesta is too important and too strong, and sometimes after playing together for a long time, starting the game becomes a habit, and when the quality of the performance is no longer the basis for the player's appearance, there will always be slackness, which has been showing signs last season.
Barcelona's performance during this summer's build-up to the campaign has been a real disappointment, and Pep Guardiola is naturally hoping to bring in players such as Thiago, Cesc Fabregas and Seydoux Keita who are determined to show themselves to re-compete and rejuvenate the team.
Of course, the premise is that the substitute player must also have a good performance.
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Yang Yang stood on the left side of the middle line, waiting for Barcelona to kick off.
After he returned to Madrid from China, he did two things, one was to accompany his wife Su Ye to the hospital for a gynecological examination to prepare for his upcoming son, and the other was to carefully prepare for the upcoming derby of the century.
Carlo Ancelotti is also very serious about this game, as it will be his first official game in charge of Real Madrid.
In terms of the truth that ordinary fans understand, no matter how good the warm-up game is, it is useless, the official game cannot be played, and the strong dialogue cannot defeat the opponent, then everything is in vain.
Since it is a home game, Ancelotti's tactics in the first game will be more proactive, and he hopes that Real Madrid can try to grab the ball with Barcelona in the first half, and at the same time be able to impact the opponent as much as possible, and strive to form an effective counter-attack when Barcelona has the ball, and then play a quick counterattack.
Real Madrid is no stranger to this style of play, Benitez has always adopted this style of play before, but the manager's requirements are slightly different, Benitez is more stable, and Ancelotti hopes that the team can play more openly, and the tactical details will be richer, especially the attack.
One of the most noticeable changes is that Carlo Ancelotti has given the two full-backs more freedom to cut forward, and the team has more pull and ball shift, with more through and diagonal passes.
For example, in the warm-up game, Xavi Alonso played several long diagonal passes directly behind the opponent, taking advantage of the speed and impact of the wings, a style of play that was rare during Benitez's tenure.
How effective it will be, we still need to see the game to be accurate.
Yang Yang exhaled deeply, habitually turning his head to look in the direction of the familiar stands, but suddenly realized that Su Ye had been rejected by him from the Bernabeu.
This is the advice from the doctor, the atmosphere of the scene and the rhythm of the game, and the fact that there are too many people, which are not conducive to expectant pregnant women like Su Ye, so Yang Yang unceremoniously blocked her from the Bernabeu.
During the training camp with the team, Yang Yang's mother, Su Ye's mother and cousin Shen Yuzhu, as well as his uncle Shen Ming and his wife all came to Madrid to accompany Su Ye and wait for Yang Yang's children to come to this world.
Yang Yang raised his head, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled heavily.
The race is on!
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"Barcelona kicked off first."
"Real Madrid pressed near the halfway line and retreated steadily in the midfield."
"I don't know if Ancelotti will continue the defensive counter-attacking strategy of the previous Benitez era in tonight's game."
"Let's look at Barcelona, the continuous passes, through the midfield, to Xavi's feet."
"Xavi will pass it back to Thiago."
'Ibrahimovic pulls back and Thiago passes back to Xavi.'
"David Silva grabbed the ball, tripped Xavi and lost the ball for Barcelona."
"Yang Yang takes the ball in front and starts ...... quickly"
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When Yang Yang received the kick from David Silva, he quickly rushed forward.
Barcelona's players are on the fast rear.
Yang Yang was fast with the ball, and Alves and Pique, who were closest to him, kept retreating, but the two sides quickly shortened the gap.
As soon as they entered the 30-meter zone, Alves and Pique realized that they had no way back.
Pique greeted and stood up directly, wanting to entangle Yang Yang.
Yang Yang has been closely watching their every move when he is dribbling the ball, and when Pique stands in position and is ready to grab, he reacts, suddenly accelerating, quickly closing the distance between himself and Pique, and at the same time stabbing the ball behind Pique first.
The ball passed under Pique's feet and the Barcelona centre-back immediately realised something was wrong.
The ball is divided!
But before Pique could react, Yang Yang had already sprinted forward at the fastest speed, and the whole person quickly cut into the gap between Alves and Pique, and blocked Alves with his left shoulder with his body.
The Brazilian right full-back scolded his mother in his heart, which was simply bullying him for being short and suffering from his physical confrontation ability.
But things on the football field are sometimes so rough, simple and straightforward.
After Yang Yang blocked Alves, the Brazilian right full-back could inevitably only slow down, while Yang Yang quickly avoided Pique, quickly inserted diagonally, and caught up with the ball just distributed on the left side of the front of the penalty area.
"Beautiful man has a ball!"
"In less than a minute of the opening game, Yang Yang made a beautiful breakthrough in the front court."
"Yang Yang dribbled the ball into the Barcelona penalty area and formed a single-knife ......"
"Valdés strikes ......"
"The Pendulum ......"
"It's over!"
"The ball is in!!!!!"
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!”
"Just 46 seconds into the game, Real Madrid opened the scoring for Barcelona."
"A wonderful individual breakthrough from Yang Yang, he used the speed, with a beautiful human ball, forced to rush away from the front of Barcelona's defense, Pique and Alves were completely left behind by Yang Yang."
"Then it was another wonderful pendulum pass, and after shaking off Valdés, Yang Yang calmly pushed and hit."
"One to zero!"
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Yang Yang quickly opened his arms and glided into the Bernabeu stadium, where he was shouted and cheered by more than 80,000 Real Madrid fans.
It's so beautiful! It's so exciting! What a surprise!
Everyone was expecting to see Real Madrid's goal, but no one expected that this goal would come so quickly, so suddenly, and so beautifully!
It was definitely a wonderful solo show!
Only Yang Yang can still calmly and calmly score such goals in the face of two world-class defenders, Alves and Pique, and he simply treats Barcelona's defenders as nothing.
The Real Madrid fans in the entire stadium rushed out of their seats, all frantically shouting Yang Yang's name.
And Yang Yang finally rushed to the front of the live TV camera, and made two actions of kissing and sucking the pacifier towards the live camera.
Everyone understands his intentions because all the fans around the world know that his child is coming.
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"From the very beginning of the competition, Yang Yang showed us all his best form."
"This is unbelievable, the ball and the pendulum are too many, and Yang Yang completely calmed us down at once."
"We thought Real Madrid would take the lead, but we never thought that Real Madrid would take the lead so quickly."
'It's a world-class goal!'
"Yang Yang's goal gives us reason to believe that he will continue to perform best and best in the new season, let us all wait and see!"
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Yang Yang scored less than a minute into the game, which really surprised everyone on both sides, including Real Madrid themselves.
Even Yang Yang himself couldn't believe it.
But that's the way it is in football, there are all kinds of changes on the pitch and players need to be improvised.
After taking the lead, Yang Yang also told all his teammates who rushed up to celebrate that he felt that the state of the Barcelona players today was still not ideal, at least the ball was shared just now, whether it was Pique or Alves, it was obviously a little slower, which is unlikely to occur in normal times.
"I think we should take advantage of the opportunity to kill them!" Yang Yang said confidently.