Despite Real Madrid's 3-0 defeat at Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals just three days ago, the team's stunning performance against Málaga, who were fighting for European qualification, quickly made fans feel less frustrated by the defeat to their local rivals.

At first, when Real Madrid announced that Zinedine Zidane would replace Carlo Ancelotti in charge of the rest of the season, fans were still quite worried.

Although Zidane helped the team get all the honors he could get when he was a player, as a first-team manager, the French superstar is undoubtedly just a "rookie". Ancelotti, who can be called a world-class coach, has failed to lead the team back to the top, and Zidane, the "rookie" in the coaching world, may not be able to do better than the Italians, right?

However, Zidane, who took office in a hurry, although he was unable to bring great changes to the team at the technical and tactical level in a short period of time, the team's mental outlook, especially the enthusiasm of the players in the game, was obviously a notch higher than that of the previous two years.

In fact, the overall strength of the single-round team, Real Madrid is even higher than the city rival Atletico Madrid, after all, their squad depth is far from being comparable to the opponent. The reason why they have been repeatedly crushed by opponents in the past two years is that in addition to failing to find an effective way to contain the wind, the team under Ancelotti is more than calm and lacks passion.

The calm style may have helped Real Madrid control the pace of the game, but it also made the team lose some of their passion, which indirectly led to the players not being active on the pitch.

Although a wonderful performance in one game alone does not determine that Zidane will be able to lead Real Madrid to glory, the positive changes in the team's mental outlook have at least rekindled some hope for Real Madrid fans to reverse their rivals at home.

In addition, Zidane's Real Madrid has also been praised by many Spanish media, and even Barcelona's "mouthpiece" media "World Sports" has very rare full affirmation of the "debut" performance of the new Real Madrid coach.

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Although Real Madrid's huge change in spirit has given the team's fans hope of a comeback, when they face a more savvy Atletico Madrid, the positive change in spirit will not improve the team's combat effectiveness as much as in the previous game.

Although Atletico Madrid is still a certain distance away from being "invincible in the world", Real Madrid may be able to win by luck, but it is extremely difficult to recover the disadvantage of three goals in a single game when they cannot effectively suppress the wind and play all their own games.

However, since Florentino did not demand too much from Zidane in terms of results, he can only hope that he will not disappoint the fans in the rest of the season. Therefore, Zidane still chose the aggressive tactics of high-pressure pressing in the front court in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final with Atletico Madrid.

Zinedine Zidane's aggressive tactics, although very risky, were Real Madrid's only chance to turn the tables.

Under normal circumstances, when the opponent uses a high-pressure pressing tactic in the frontcourt, Diego Simeone will choose a strategic shrinking formation, and then use the counterattack to maximize the speed advantage of Fengquan.

But in this game, Diego Simeone did not make such a choice, but chose a very rare-for-tat.

Simeone's choice is partly because he has plenty of room to maneuver with three goals in hand, and even if his team loses the game, he can ensure qualification to the Champions League semi-finals as long as he keeps the gap within three goals.

On the other hand, Zidane's Real Madrid won the last game easily with high-pressure pressing tactics, but it is difficult to compare the familiarity with this tactic compared with their own who has long been well versed in this tactic.

With both teams focusing on attack, it is inevitable that the opposition will be left with plenty of space in defence, so whoever can take the opportunity to score more goals could be the winner.

In the 8th minute of the first half, Cristiano Ronaldo cut inside from the left wing to the edge of the penalty area and was caught by Gabi and Koke, and passed the ball to Modric, who received near the top of the penalty area.

Luka Modric received the ball and then tucked it into the space on the right side of the box, before Bale blasted a left-footed shot into the top right corner of the net before Miranda cleared the ball.

Just when the fans were about to cheer, goalkeeper Oblak blocked the ball with one palm like a god.

Five minutes later, Feng Quan first collided with Mandzukic in the middle of the field to get rid of Isco's save, and then drew the attention of three defenders at the top of the box before suddenly passing the ball to the unmarked Griezmann on the right.

Griezmann received the ball and deceived Marcelo with a fake shot to lose his centre of gravity, then led the ball into the box with his left foot, and then swept the ball sideways towards goal before Varane fell to the ground and tackled.

Just when Mandzukic, who was outflanked in place, was about to grab a point to attack the goal, but Casillas, who attacked in time, preemptively defused the crisis.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Feng Quan and Mandzukic forced Khedira's pass to make a mistake, and Koke completed the ball in front of the court.

Koke broke the ball off the ball and then passed it to Antoine Griezmann on the right, and the French striker drove down the flank to six yards from the baseline before delivering a well-curled cross towards the goal.

Mandzukic, who was outflanked in the middle, beat Sergio Ramos to complete the header on goal, but the ball was directly confiscated by the precautionary Casillas.

Eight minutes later, after Ronaldo received Benzema's return from 25 meters from the goal, he directly hit the goal with a powerful heavy cannon.

Although Oblak was prepared, in the face of Ronaldo's shot with good angle power, he struggled to jump and only blocked this very dangerous shot.

However, just when the Atletico Madrid players thought that the danger had been lifted, Benzema, who had just made the ball for Ronaldo, happened to appear at the landing point where the football rebounded like a hound with a keen sense of smell.

The next moment, just as Oblak, who had just made a save, turned to pounce, Benzema took the lead to complete a deft pick.

Although Oblak subconsciously struggled to open his arms at the moment of Benzema's shot, expanding his defensive area as much as possible, he could only helplessly watch the football go around his fingertips and slowly fall into the gate guarded by himself......

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