Chapter 611: Unbeaten in 50 games in La Liga
The victory over Barcelona not only halted a seven-game winning streak, but also extended Real Madrid's unbeaten run in La Liga to 49 games, tying Arsenal's record of 49 games in the Premier League.
Of the top five leagues, only AC Milan's 58-game unbeaten run is longer than Real Madrid's.
It is entirely possible for the now strong Galaxy Battleship to catch up with, or even surpass, AC Milan's longest unbeaten run in the top five leagues.
However, after the national derby with Barcelona, the league was temporarily suspended, and all the internationals had to return to the national team to play in the World Cup qualifiers.
On October 16, in the fifth round of the top 10 matches in the Asian region of the World Preliminaries, the Chinese team challenged Oman away, Iraq faced Australia at home, and the Japanese team had a bye.
After the first four rounds, Oman is in fourth place with only 2 points, a large gap from the previous points.
Therefore, in this game, Oman took the initiative to press the attack with the mentality of not succeeding, hoping to destroy the Chinese team with the attack in the cheering of the home fans.
However, it backfired.
Without Lu Wenbin, perhaps Oman would have beaten China at home.
But with Lu Wenbin, and Lu Wenbin is also all-round in attack and defense, it is impossible for the Oman team to defeat the Chinese team.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-4.
Although the Oman team scored one goal with the overall attack, it was beaten by the Chinese team four times on the counterattack, three of which were scored by Lu Wenbin.
China thrashed Oman 4-1 away, while Australia also beat Iraq 2-1 away in the other game.
After the fifth round of the top 10 matches, more than half of the schedule, the Chinese team ranked first in Group B with 12 points, the Japanese team ranked second with 7 points, Australia was third with 5 points, Oman was fourth with 2 points, and Iraq continued to be at the bottom with 1 point.
Third-placed Australia are seven points behind China, and with two direct qualifiers in each group, and with only five rounds left and four games left for each team, the Chinese team is almost on the verge of qualifying.
Of course, theoretically speaking, Australia and Japan are still capable of beating the Chinese team to qualify directly.
Therefore, the real qualification will have to wait a little longer.
After playing the world preliminaries, Real Madrid returned to China, and Real Madrid ushered in the 8th round of La Liga.
On October 20, in the 8th round of La Liga, Real Madrid hosted Celta.
Real Madrid's stars have just returned from the national team competition, and they are not in good shape after a long journey, the journey is tiring, and two main players are injured in the national team competition and cannot play.
In addition, four days later, he will fly away to play the third round of the Champions League group stage with Dortmund, and Mourinho has also rotated to a certain extent, and Real Madrid's strength and form have declined more seriously.
Fortunately, Lu Wenbin was fine, and was in stable condition as always, starting and persevering until the end of the game.
At the end of the game, the score was 3-2 on the big screen, and the exhausted Real Madrid were almost overturned by Celta Vigo after scoring two goals.
Fortunately, Lu Wenbin was there, and Lu Wenbin led Real Madrid to a narrow 3-2 victory with two shots and one pass, extending Real Madrid's unbeaten La Liga record to 50 games, officially surpassing Arsenal and becoming the second unbeaten league record in Europe's top five leagues.
It is also the seventh-ranked unbeaten record of all the national top leagues in all of Europe.
In front of Real Madrid, there are also Ajax, Porto, Benfica and so on, and the longest unbeaten record is 104 games unbeaten in the Romanian league set by Steaua Bucharest.
However, this kind of minor league record is meaningless for Real Madrid, who are unlikely to surpass the record of Steaua Bucharest.
This 104-game unbeaten record is far less famous than AC Milan's 58-game unbeaten run.
The unbeaten record of the five major leagues is recognized as a difficult unbeaten record.
As long as Real Madrid surpasses AC Milan, it can boast of decades of awesomeness!
Four days later, on October 24, at the Westfaren Stadium, Real Madrid officially began the third round of the Champions League group stage against Borussia Dortmund, the Bundesliga champion.
In the first two rounds of the group stage, Dortmund ranked second with 4 points with one win and one draw, and its strength was good. In particular, the away draw with Premier League champions Manchester City proved that Dortmund's Bundesliga title last season was not a fluke.
Sure enough, with the home fans cheering on, Dortmund attacked aggressively and scored ahead of Real Madrid.
In the 16th minute, Dortmund defender Reus crossed from the side, and striker Lewandowski resisted Pepe's collision in the forbidden area and scored the goal.
Borussia Dortmund lead Real Madrid 1-0.
The Dort fans in the stands immediately erupted in enthusiastic cheers, especially the die-hard fans who had been standing in the south stand, the most crazy.
However, Mourinho rotated in the last league game against Celta Vigo in preparation for this Champions League match.
Five minutes after Dort's goal, in the 21st minute, Real Madrid finally played a successful quick counter-attack.
This time it was Gotze's dribbling on the flank that was cut off by Marcelo and then passed to Xavi Alonso on the counter-attack.
Alonso's long pass of more than 40 meters from the back found Benzema with precision. Although Benzema was defended by the opponent's central defender and failed to break through into the forbidden zone, Lu Wenbin in the back quickly rushed up.
Benzema crossed lightly, and Lu Wenbin fired a powerful long-range shot from the top of the arc of the forbidden area into the Dortmund goal.
Goalkeeper Weidenfeller made a save, but Lu Wenbin's shot was powerful and fast, and Weidenfeller failed to touch the ball in the end.
Real Madrid equalized through Lu Wenbin's goal.
Next, the two sides went back and forth, and the fight was very intense.
The two champions of their respective leagues, in the Group of Death and at the Westfaren Stadium, which is known as the craziest stadium in Europe, are naturally very desperate.
Especially Dortmund, who is behind in points, must fight Real Madrid.
However, Real Madrid's backline itself is world-class, and Lu Wenbin can also use his superhuman defensive ability to counter-attack or intercept interference in the frontcourt, so that Dortmund has been slow to score a second goal.
Real Madrid, on the other hand, turned the score on their way with a second goal just before half-time.
This time, it was Dortmund who fell in the midfield, carelessly was interfered with by Lu Wenbin, and Gundogan made a mistake in passing and was intercepted by Khedira halfway.
After Khedira stopped the ball, without waiting for the opponent to counter-rob, he directly found Ronaldo with a long pass on the side, and Ronaldo played a quick counterattack with the ball.
With Benzema involved one of the opposing centre-backs, Cristiano Ronaldo managed to get past one man, cut inside from the wing, and fired a shot into the far corner near the corner of the forbidden area.
Real Madrid 2-1 Borussia Dortmund reversed the score.