Chapter 538: Seville
The 17th round away to Sevilla is the last league game of the season anyway, and there is no pressure to face Bonfradina at home in the second leg of the Copa del Rey.
As a result, Mourinho has taken all of his main players away from injury.
Sevilla is one of the powerhouses in La Liga, ranking at the top of the La Liga standings for a long time, belonging to one of the second group of strong teams under Real Madrid and Barcelona, and has won the La Liga championship, the Copa del Rey champion, the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and so on.
Although Sevilla is weaker than Real Madrid in terms of the overall record of the historical head-to-head, Sevilla has the upper hand with 33 wins, 16 draws and 22 defeats in the home match.
Therefore, on their home turf, Sevilla are not afraid of Real Madrid.
However, in the last five meetings with Real Madrid, Sevilla have lost all of them, home and away.
As a result, Sevilla are desperate to take advantage of home advantage to win against Real Madrid and then welcome the winter break.
Even if the heat of Real Madrid's 6-0 bloodbath against Barcelona has not been eliminated, Sevilla has not flinched.
Of course, it is useless to back down.
The style of La Liga teams is rarely like Mourinho's defensive counterattack, and if you want to play defensive counterattack, you don't have the defensive ability and player configuration.
Not every team has speed players like Lu Wenbin, Cristiano Ronaldo and Di Maria.
Therefore, in the 17th round of Sevilla's home match against Real Madrid on December 17, Sevilla chose to attack against Real Madrid.
On their home turf, with the cheers of the home fans, Sevilla really got into the groove faster than Real Madrid.
In the 9th minute, Sevilla played a delicate match in front, and the forward midfielder Trokhovski burst into the forbidden area and almost formed a single knife.
There was no way, Pepe took a risk tackle on the side, but instead of making a tackle, he tackled Trokhovsky.
The referee did not hesitate to award a penalty and Pepe was shown a yellow card.
The penalty was taken by Trokhovsky himself.
Despite being one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Casillas has not had much to do with penalties.
He didn't even judge the right direction and pounced to the right, while Trokhovsky hit the left.
The ball went into the back of the net without any suspense, and Sevilla took a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute, with the Sevilla fans in the stands erupting in applause and cheers.
Sevilla, who lead the scoreline, are even more morale-boosting and face Real Madrid in a big offensive battle.
All of a sudden, Real Madrid, who were playing away, was compressed into their own half and beaten passively, which is still relatively rare in Real Madrid's games this season.
However, in the eyes of professionals, Sevilla's offensive is not unstoppable, and the empty backfield is more dangerous.
After all, Real Madrid has Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo in the team.
Although Di Maria was injured a little bit and did not come to this game, even if there are only two people, Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo, it is enough to counterattack.
What's more, although Kaka, who played as a right midfielder in this game, was not as fast as back then, he was also faster than the average player.
Sevilla's wanton attack, as long as Real Madrid breaks the ball and counterattacks, it is very dangerous.
Sure enough, not long after Sevilla's goal, Real Madrid had a great chance to counter-attack.
In the 14th minute, Sevilla's attack was spotted by Carvalho in the penalty area and tackled the ball to the feet of full-back Arbeloa.
Arbeloa's smash flashed a Sevilla frontcourt player and then played the ball in time for Alonso.
After Alonso glanced up, he didn't go through the processing of Lu Wenbin in the front, and directly passed a long pass in the air to the left wing.
Cristiano Ronaldo cut in at high speed unguarded to receive a pass and cut inside, and finally smashed into the penalty area to land a quality shot.
Unfortunately, it was denied by the post in the end, and the rebounding ball was saved by the Sevilla goalkeeper.
This counterattack only went through the pass of Arbeloa, Alonso, and Ronaldo to form a shot, and most of Sevilla's players were even in Real Madrid's half, and they didn't even have time to return to defense.
If it weren't for Ronaldo's bad luck in the end, the goal would have been scored.
Still, the game continues to play like this, and with Real Madrid's counter-attacking ability, it is only a matter of time before a goal is scored.
But for Sevilla, getting them to drop back and defend is not what they're good at.
In that case, it is better to continue to fight against each other, even if it is finally blown up by Real Madrid's counterattack, it can be regarded as a vigorous death.
It would be better if they scored a few more goals and Real Madrid couldn't catch up.
However, it is difficult to think like this.
Not to mention the offensive counterattack ability of Real Madrid's frontcourt players, that is, Casillas, Arbeloa, Carvalho, Pepe, Marcelo, Khedira, Alonso in the backfield, all of whom are extraordinary defensive stars.
Under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho, the defensive guru, it will be quite difficult for any team to break down Real Madrid's defense.
So, despite Sevilla's momentum dominating and looking like they were pressing Real Madrid, there weren't many dangerous attacks and few shots from the woodwork.
In the 18th minute, Sevilla had a chance to extend the score, but striker Negredo's shot was the same as Cristiano Ronaldo's, hitting the post and bounced back into the forbidden area and was cleared, missing a chance to extend the score.
On the Real Madrid side, after more than ten minutes of play, they gradually entered the state and began to exert their strength.
In the 22nd minute, when Sevilla's weak shot was held directly in Casillas' arms and thrown the ball to Marcelo to attack, Real Madrid's counterattack finally showed the power they deserved.
Marcelo's long pass found the unguarded Kaka, Kaka crossed to Lu Wenbin who ran out of the gap in the middle, Lu Wenbin kicked through the last defense of Sevilla, Benzema received Lu Wenbin's through shot on the line of the forbidden area, and the ball flew into the goal without any suspense.
Real Madrid finally equalized in the 22nd minute with Lu Wenbin assisting Benzema, and the few away Real Madrid fans cheered happily in a corner of the stands.
Subsequently, Real Madrid played more and more smoothly.
It was only five minutes before the last goal was scored, and in the 28th minute, Real Madrid scored again.
This time, it was Lu Wenbin himself who connected the two through a long-distance run in the counterattack, and finally forced his foot outside the forbidden area under the pull of an opponent's defender.
The ball went straight into the corner, and goalkeeper Varas couldn't reach it, and he could only watch the ball go into the net.
Lu Wenbin reversed the score for Real Madrid, who led 2-1 away.
After that, Real Madrid, who entered the state, counterattacked more and more sharply, more and more efficient and lethal, but Sevilla did not score a goal in the following time.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-6, and Real Madrid thrashed Sevilla 6-1 away to continue to top the La Liga table with an unbeaten record.