In the first Champions League quarter-final on April 9, Real Madrid, which won 3-0 at home a week ago to seize the opportunity to advance, lost 0-2 at Dortmund's home stadium and was almost staged a big reversal by the opponent.

In fact, Real Madrid should have had a fantastic start to the game, but a slightly slippery pitch after the rain saw them miss out on the chance to open the scoring.

Less than three minutes into the game, Coentrão received Isco's ball from the middle near the corner of the box on the left and hit the defender's arm when he crossed into the box. Immediately, the referee on duty decisively pointed to the penalty spot and awarded a penalty to Real Madrid.

It's a pity that Di Maria, who took the penalty, kicked the ball directly into the arms of the opposing goalkeeper because of a slip under his feet.

Dortmund, who escaped a demoralized attack, immediately launched a ferocious press into Real Madrid's half and took the initiative on the pitch with more aggressive running.

As a result, under the impact of the opponent's ferocious front-court pressing attack, Real Madrid, who obviously underestimated the difficulty of this game, found it difficult to create a threatening attack near the opponent's penalty area, and only frequently relied on long-range shots from the perimeter to return possession to the opponent.

Under the wave of attack of the opponent, the goal of the Real Madrid team was finally declared lost in the 24th minute of the first half.

At that time, in the face of Grosskreutz's long pass over the top that was not very good on the right side of the backfield, when the central defender Pepe was about to pass back to goalkeeper Casillas with a header, he did not notice the "little rocket" Reuss who was cutting forward at high speed on the right side.

Just the next moment when Pepe chose to head back, Reus, who suddenly started, got the ball before Casillas, who rushed out of the box, and then pushed the ball into the unguarded gate before Sergio Ramos, who came from the defense, fell to the ground and slid the tackle, 1-0.

Fifteen minutes later, Reuss dribbled all the way to the top of the box after successfully cutting off Illah Ramendi's return pass in front.

Just when Pepe thought that Reus would choose to shoot from outside the box, the "little rocket" suddenly passed the ball to the space on the left side of the box.

Lewandowski, who had been following Reuss forward quickly, entered the box and made a slight adjustment to aim for the post at the far end of the goal to complete a push.

Although Lewandowski's shot hit the post because of the excessive angle, it was added into the goal by the reflexed Reuss, 2-0.

Although Dortmund, who dominated the home field, created many good chances to score in the following games, they were all denied by Casillas, who seemed to be "hanging".

In fact, with the quality of the Real Madrid team, the road to the semi-finals should not have been so thrilling. But the easy win at home made them think that their away trip was just a passing scene. In particular, they were awarded a penalty shortly after the opening period, which made them more convinced of their opinion.

However, when the Dortmund players relied on more ferocious pressing, more active and frequent running, and launched wave after wave of attacks, the Real Madrid players finally realized how difficult the opponent was. But at this time, the "Galaxy Battleship", which was already difficult to keep up with the rhythm of the other party, could only be reduced to a situation of being passively beaten.

If it weren't for the state of "San Cassie" who happened to explode in this game, I am afraid that it would be the cumulative running distance of all the players who advanced to the semifinals of the Champions League, surpassing Dortmund, which is as high as 1.7 kilometers from Real Madrid.

After the game, even Real Madrid's mouthpiece Marca, the mouthpiece of the newspaper, tactfully criticized the players' enthusiasm for the game and coach Carlo Ancelotti's underestimation of the difficulty of the game.

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Due to the huge gap of 4 goals in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Barcelona's hope of advancing to the next round of matches has become extremely slim, but at the pre-match press conference held on the afternoon of April 9, Messi, who has been in excellent form recently, firmly believes that as long as Barcelona can quickly open up the situation in the opening stage of the second leg, there may be hope of a reversal.

Although the vast majority of reporters at the press conference did not take Messi's words too seriously, after all, Barcelona faced Atletico Madrid, the most defensive club in Europe this season, and it was difficult to recover a four-goal disadvantage at their home stadium.

However, when the second leg on April 10 really began, Messi, who has been in excellent form recently, took less than a minute to help Barcelona recover a goal disadvantage.

At that time, Xavi, the brain of Barcelona midfielders who got the right to kick off, made a wall-to-wall combination with Busquets, got rid of Alda Turan's marking and came to the middle circle of the front, and sent a scalpel-like through ball directly.

The ball passed through the defensive gap between Raul Garcia and Gabi and went straight to the feet of Messi, who was cruising in the middle of the field.

Although Atletico Madrid did not adopt a man-to-man defensive strategy, in the first leg of the contest between the two sides, whether it was Messi, Neymar or other attacking players, as long as they got the ball in the middle of the front court or when their teammates were ready to pass the ball to them, Miranda, who was responsible for intercepting the two central defenders, would be the first to step forward to interfere with them.

However, Jose Jimenez, who replaced Miranda, who was suspended for accumulating yellow cards in this game, as the starting central defender, was belatedly blocked between Messi and the goal until Messi completely stopped the ball and turned to face the goal.

Because Neymar, Iniesta and A. Sanchez are ready to meet Messi on the left, middle and right sides respectively, Godin, as the last barrier on the backline, does not dare to rush forward to help Jimenez defend Messi.

Seeing that no one on the other side stepped forward to form a pinch defense against him, Messi was immediately overjoyed.

Facing Jimenez, who kept a safe distance of two meters from himself, Messi lowered his shoulder to the left and broke through from the opponent's right side with his left foot, when Jimenez lowered his center of gravity and took a step to the right, Messi suddenly held the ball sideways with his left foot, and then blocked the ball forward with the inside of his right foot, and then used a beautiful "croquette" to get rid of the opponent's entanglement.

Messi, who suddenly took the ball to the penalty area, first deceived Godin into making a sliding tackle to lose his center of gravity, and then used his left foot to flick the ball sideways, dodge the shot, and then used the inside of his left foot to make a curling ball to attack the goal, rewriting the total score of the two teams to 2-5.

Until the moment when the ball hit the net and fell into the goal, it was only 39 seconds before the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game......