With the development of professional football in Europe, data has become a tool that everyone has become accustomed to over the years.

Even in the Europa League, there are a lot of professional data companies that provide all kinds of data for clubs, such as OPTA in the United Kingdom, which started out only providing data for Sky live broadcast and analysis, but gradually they developed more business, not only began to collect all kinds of granular data, but also gradually cooperated with clubs.

In addition to OPTA, there are many other similar professional data companies that have related operations.

Up to now, before every game, if the major media do not give a detailed matchup and historical data, it is very unqualified, and the data that the club can get, whether it is detailed or rich, is far beyond the imagination of everyone in the outside world.

Before each game, it is normal for the coaching staff to provide the players with a copy of the details and statistics of the opposing players.

For example, Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdés, before the game, he got the shooting habits of all Real Madrid players, especially Yang Yang's probability of what kind of shooting method he would use under what circumstances, he got detailed information.

There are also free kicks, what position Yang Yang likes to take free kicks, and in what way to punish them, these are all statistics and calculations.

Valdés is not a particularly diligent football maniac, but as a professional player, he has been competing with Real Madrid for many years and has played more than ten or twenty games with Yang Yang.

When he saw Yang Yang put the ball at the penalty spot and the whole person slowly retreated, he immediately habitually entered his mind, searching for the information in his memory, and he wanted to see what Yang Yang's habit of taking penalties was.

But when he dug deep into the ground and searched, he was completely stunned.

He never thought that in his memory, Yang Yang's record of penalty kicks would be blank.

That's impossible!

Valdés shook his head for the first time, this is simply impossible, this is a very important piece of data, how can it be blank?

It is absolutely impossible for him to forget the penalty record of the enemy's top scorer, not to mention that this person is still Yang Yang.

He searched again a second time, a third time, but the results were still blank.

No! There is no record of this at all!

Damn, what's going on?

How could this be?

Valdés immediately turned his head to look at the coaching staff in front of the home team's dugout on the sidelines, assistant coach Lula's temporary head coach Vilanova's work, and at this moment he was also in front of the coach's bench as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

Obviously, the coaching staff also did not find the data of Yang Yang's penalty kick, and they were anxious over there.

Not only the Barcelona coaching staff, but even the TV station and the media could not find a record of Yang Yang's penalty kick.

……

"What's going on? How could it be that there was no record? ”

José Ramón de la Morena is the director and host of sports programming at Radio Serre, where he hosts a program that has reached more than two million listeners, making him the first person in the Spanish sports media.

And every derby of the century, he broadcasts it live on his own radio.

Although he is a die-hard Atletico Madrid fan, he has to admit that Real Madrid and Barcelona are the teams that attract the most fans and listeners in Spain, so he has never resisted the derby of the century.

And now, he is angry at his assistant, because they can't find Yang Yang's record of taking a penalty.

"No, not really." The assistant replied with a sad face.

"Why not? It is impossible not to have one. De la Morena shouted angrily.

"But we searched the database, and we really didn't find any record of Yang Yang's penalty kicks."

De la Morena was stunned, if there was no one in the database, it would prove that there really was none.

That means he hasn't taken a penalty in the last few years, at least in the years when the statistics began.

'But that's not right, I remember he won a lot of penalties.' De la Morena asked again depressedly.

'Yes, he's got a lot of penalties, but he's ceded them a lot before, some for Ibrahimovic, some for Robben, some for Xavi Alonso, some for Modric, but at least in the Premier League and La Liga, he's never taken a penalty himself.

De la Morena was a little dumbfounded that there was such a monster.

Immediately afterward, he thought of an even more terrible fact, that is, all of Yang Yang's goals were goals in sports battles, direct free kicks or corner kicks, so he did not have a record of penalty kicks.

Oh boy, he scored so many goals and didn't even have a penalty!

De la Morena was a little unable to accept this fact because he felt so horrible.

You know, whether it is Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, they score a lot of penalties every season, and they are also the top penalty takers of their respective teams, which earns them a lot of goals.

But Yang Yang scored more goals than them without taking a penalty, what a terrible attack is this?

After realizing this, it suddenly occurred to De la Morena that Falcao's remarks about wanting to challenge Yang Yang at the beginning of the season were still too ridiculous, and even Messi could hardly keep up with Yang Yang's footsteps.

Don't look at the two now neck and neck on the scorer list, but in fact, Messi has taken a lot of penalties this season.

"God, look at Valdés' expression, and look at the chaos in the Barcelona coach's box, I'm afraid they're also surprised, right?" De la Morena laughed a little gloatingly.

He was in the background, but the goalkeeper and coaching staff of Barcelona were in plain sight.

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"Fans and friends in front of the TV, I have just reconfirmed, and I can tell you with certainty that during his time in the Premier League for Liverpool and La Liga Real Madrid, this is the first time that Yang Yang has personally taken a penalty."

"And what we can search for at present, Yang Yang's penalty record, the farthest is during the Ajax period, when the statistics were just starting, and no one has counted the data of the Eredivisie, and we can only see from the media reports that Yang Yang has taken a handful of penalties, but the hit rate is 100 percent."

"There is also a report in the Dutch media that Yang Yang pushes straight to the middle every time he takes a penalty, but I wonder if he will take the same penalty this time?"

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The TV station can Google old news, but on the field, Valdés has no extra time to learn about it, and when Yang Yang sets the ball, the players on both sides stand outside the big penalty area, and the referee Marenko also begins to signal to prepare.

Yang Yang faced the goal, with a very familiar and unfamiliar feeling.

Familiar because he knows exactly how to kick the ball in, strange because he hasn't taken a penalty for a long, long time, and even when the last time he took a penalty, he himself has forgotten.

Of course, he wouldn't know, because of this, the outside media backstage has already been in turmoil, and I don't know how many media have called the data company and asked why they don't have the data of Yang Yang's penalty.

But Yang Yang didn't know any of this.

Now, he was looking at Valdés opposite, he felt Valdés' uneasiness, and even a little anxious, so the Barcelona goalkeeper bent over and made a gesture that he would save at any time, but his eyes were a little erratic.

Valdés was guessing which side Yang would be punished towards.

With the referee's whistle, Yang Yang began to run, the speed was not fast, and there was a deliberate pause in the middle, which made Valdés, who had all his attention on Yang Yang, also stunned.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Yang suddenly accelerated and rushed up, making a gesture to hit the door.

Valdés quickly made a judgment, and according to Yang Yang's movements, he flew to the bottom of the right side of the goal.

But when he threw himself out sideways, he suddenly realized that he had been fooled!

Yang Yang directly pushed the ball into the middle, and crashed into the goal from the position where Valdés was standing just now.

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！”

"In the thirteenth minute, Yang Yang used a penalty kick to open the scoring for Real Madrid."

"This is another penalty that pushes straight to the middle, Yang Yang showed his super confidence, according to the news we got, Yang Yang has taken penalties in the Eredivisie several times before, and he has also pushed straight to the middle, and every time he has deceived the goalkeeper."

"This is a golden goal, and it is also the first penalty scored by Yang Yang after landing in the four major leagues."

"Let's congratulate Yang Yang! Congratulations to Real Madrid! ”

After Yang Yang scored the penalty, the whole person quickly rushed out of the field, rushed all the way, rushed to the corner kick area, knelt down with the momentum, and shouted to the fans in the stands, venting his joy after scoring the goal.

He doesn't resist a penalty because he's confident that even if it's on the wing, he can do it so that the goalkeeper can't guess or save.

In fact, as long as the speed is fast enough, the angle and strength are right, and the penalty is almost a must.

For this, Yang Yang has enough confidence, because he has been conducting basic training all the time over the years.

Real Madrid's players also rushed over, hugged Yang Yang and celebrated the team's lead.

You know, one goal ahead of Barcelona at Camp Nou is definitely a big advantage, especially for Real Madrid.

After Yang Yang scored this goal, the total score has now become 3-2, Real Madrid is ahead, if Barcelona still wants to advance to the Copa del Rey final, then it must take the initiative to press out to attack, and Real Madrid can use its own advantages to continue to adopt a strategy of steady counterattack.

In the past, Real Madrid even slaughtered Barcelona 5-0 at Camp Nou, and tonight, everyone in Real Madrid is full of confidence that the team will be able to get out of the Camp Nou.

Because each of them felt that the emotions of the Barcelona players were gradually getting out of control.

The poor record against Real Madrid over the past few years has made them start to get scared, they start to become scared, and they have a huge psychological shadow.

If they didn't have this goal, they could still pretend to be strong, but Yang Yang's goal completely ruthlessly tore apart their fragile psychology again and exposed it to everyone.