Yang Yang won the Golden Globe Award for the seventh consecutive year!

Barcelona won another draw, and Real Madrid's lead was extended to eight points!

These two pieces of good news came one after another, making the royal horse a joyful one.

From the early morning of the next day, it was not difficult to see the lively atmosphere in the Real Madrid dressing room before training, and everyone in the team felt a strong sense of self-confidence and hope for the team's prospects this season.

At the moment, Barcelona is even one point behind Atletico Madrid in third place.

Today, almost all media outlets, large and small, are asking, what is wrong with Messi?

It's a hard puzzle to find an answer to.

I believe that even Barcelona coach Martino may not know the answer, otherwise, Barcelona would not have come to this day.

Obviously, in the early part of the season, everything looked good, the trident cooperation was gradually getting better, and Barcelona was even more powerful, but why did it suddenly become what it is now?

Yang Yang is a very keen thinker, but also a very good at thinking and analyzing, when everyone in the dressing room is happily celebrating Barcelona's loss, he is thinking about a question, that is, what crisis has Barcelona encountered? And how has Carlo Ancelotti led the team to where it is this season?

It's an interesting tactical question, because the two teams started off to a significantly different start, with Barcelona starting much better than Real Madrid, especially the 7-0 win in the first round, which was a stormy attack.

In contrast, Real Madrid's start has been rocky, with Xavi Alonso injured, new signing Isco in full swing, David Silva forced to sit on the bench, and Robben's place has been gradually replaced by Di Maria this season......

It can be said that the problems and dilemmas faced by Real Madrid after the start of the game are much greater than those of Barcelona.

However, after a few months of adjustments, Real Madrid gradually found a stable tactical style of play, and the team also re-honed its shape, and then played an attacking force in the following months, including big wins over Sevilla and Real Betis.

Barcelona, on the other hand, are increasingly exposed to problems, especially after the defeat to Real Madrid.

From the player's point of view, Yang Yang and the other players of Real Madrid did not feel what Ancelotti had done, and the training was still similar, but the main lineup this season was not very stable.

But Yang Yang knows that sometimes, he doesn't do anything on the surface, but in fact he does a lot.

If you pay close attention to all the games of Real Madrid this season, it is not difficult to find a phenomenon, Isco gradually came out of the amazing period, from the eye-catching at the beginning of the season, gradually returned to normal, David Silva also returned to the starting lineup.

Even to some extent, it will be more difficult for Xavi Alonso to regain his place in the main team after his return, because his rivals have become Mascherano or Ilia Ramendi.

Real Madrid's midfield configuration is largely David Silva and Luka Modric, plus a lagging midfielder, with Mascherano as the main player, and Xavi Martinez now more at the back.

And the team's return to stable play is inseparable from the configuration of the midfield.

David Silva and Luka Modric are two interesting players, both of whom are in their early sevens, they are not tall, they are fine on their feet, both have great dribbling and passing skills, and they have a very good vision......

All in all, if you use the outside media and fans, they are the best midfielders in the world, both attacking and defending, and David Silva's defensive statistics this season are also very eye-catching, with four tackles against Real Betis.

It is clear that David Silva, stimulated by Isco, is also metamorphosing and improving.

Of course, this is a general statement.

When everyone describes Xavi Alonso, Modric, David Silva, Iniesta, Xavi and other types of midfielders, the adjectives are basically those, but as their teammate on the pitch, Yang Yang feels it more deeply.

David Silva is a player who came from a winger and started as a wide midfielder, somewhat similar to Zinedine Zidane, but interestingly, he is short, agile and weak.

Many people say that David Silva is like Iniesta, which is true at first glance, but Yang Yang doesn't think so, he thinks David Silva is like Messi, because both of them are very good at dribbling the ball in small steps, and they dare and can create opportunities with the ball in front of two or three defenders on the other side.

Of course, David Silva is certainly a little worse than Messi.

For example, both like to get the ball out of the crowd, which requires a lot of change of direction, and Messi does a good job of this, while David Silva is slightly weaker, mainly because he is not as flexible as Messi in this area.

Don't underestimate agility, which affects the number of touches and therefore control of the ball.

For example, Messi's dribbling has been analysed at the super training ground, and he can run ten steps in just 2.5 seconds in front of multiple defenders at one time, and in these ten steps, he has four touches and three changes of direction, all in dense defense, which is quite a terrible ability.

David Silva ran 14 steps at 3.52, touched the ball five times and changed direction three times.

That's the difference between David Silva and Messi.

But it's Messi in comparison, and David Silva is no less impressive than other top midfielders in the world.

If you put these boring numbers on the field, you will see that Messi can easily bring the ball out in the three-man defense, but David Silva can't, he can only peek into the opportunity to pass the ball in the bag.

This season, David Silva has grown rapidly under Isco's pressure, and his willingness to invest in defense has become stronger, further amplifying his role in the team.

If David Silva is strong in attack and defense, then Modric is both offensive and defensive.

He seems to be able to do anything, he can pass, he can control, he can shoot with him, but he doesn't seem to have any advantage when he picks it out.

For example, he doesn't possess the ball as well as David Silva and Andres Iniesta, let alone Messi; He is also not as dangerous as the likes of Xavi, Mesut Ozil and Cesc Fabregas; Not to mention his shot from behind, where Xavi Alonso can press him to the ground, let alone the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard.

But it is such a player who seems to be able to do everything, but seems to be at the top of nothing, but has become the most relied on player in Ancelotti's midfield this season, basically he firmly locked a position in the midfield, and the others have no competition at all.

The reason is simple, he is very, very comprehensive.

Yang Yang thinks that if the division of labor and cooperation in football in the past is very clear, and everyone is like a component in a machine, each performing his or her own duties, then in recent years, the development trend of football has become more and more obvious, that is, everyone is developing in the direction of omnipotence.

Because on the court, a lot of the time you have to blur the position.

You can do whatever you want.

Modric is like that, he can attack forward, he can defend when he inserts back, he can comb and pass the ball in midfield, he can defend when he retreats, and he is very stable, he runs a lot, he is the most capable and willing player in the Real Madrid team.

Sometimes Yang Yang feels that Ancelotti has been debugging for two years and finally found Modric's place in the team.

That's balance.

The Croatian midfielder is the balance between Real Madrid's attack and defence!

In two years, it took Ancelotti two years to figure out Modric, David Silva, and others, and it is estimated that he still can't figure out Isco and Ilia Ramendi.

So, on the surface, Ancelotti didn't do anything, but everything in the team is slowly and imperceptibly changing, and even in recent times, they have been playing big scores.

This is the coaching ability of the world's top tacticians!

is completely different from the Van Gaal, Benitez and others that Yang Yang has been in contact with before, Ancelotti will always be like a good old man, but he is subtly transforming the team to create the strongest team.

After realizing this, Yang Yang suddenly felt that his understanding of football was still too superficial.

Even if he has learned a lot of theoretical books on techniques and tactics, and he has a lot of experience in playing football, he is still too far behind world-famous coaches such as Carlo Ancelotti and Benitez.

It is no wonder that after Zidane retired, he still had to learn from Benitez and Carlo Ancelotti.

At the same time, he also realized that with the current situation, Real Madrid has a lot to do this year!

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On the evening of January 21, the Estadio Eprat in Barcelona.

Once again at Espanyol's home turf, the last time Real Madrid played hard, and this time it was all the main players.

At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid launched a wave of indiscriminate bombardment, almost pressing the Spaniards to play, and Yang Yang hit the post with a shot in the 21st minute and rebounded back.

In the 25th minute, Carvajal quickly inserted a cross on the right side, Suarez grabbed the front point, rubbed the header, and Yang Yang, who followed behind, easily headed the ball and broke through the goal of the Espanyol team and opened the scoring for Real Madrid.

Real Madrid then continued to press, and in the 31st minute, Yang Yang and Suarez had a one-two collision with the wall, but Suarez's shot was saved by goalkeeper Casilla.

In the 40th minute, Modric sent an overhead pass, and Yang Yang barbed sideways in the penalty area to break through the Espanyol goal again, giving Real Madrid another goal.

After the rematch in the second half, neither side was able to score again.

In the end, Real Madrid defeated Espanyol 2-0 away with Yang Yang's brace and won the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey.

In the other three games played at the same time as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad beat Racing Santander 3-1 at home, Atletico Madrid beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 at home and Barcelona beat Levante 4-1 away.

Among them, Barcelona has just been forced to draw by Levante in the league, and this time the 4-1 victory can be described as a raising, but among the four goals, one is an own goal, and three are a hat trick scored by the teenager Telo.

That is, the extravagant trident in the front court has still not recovered.