As early as half a month ago, CCTV's Channel 5, which has a cooperation with La Liga officials, began to promote the Spanish national derby at the Temple Bernabeu at 6pm on December 5, so more Chinese fans tuned in to watch the live TV broadcast than the national derby at the Camp Nou two months ago.

Of course, compared to the Real Madrid Barcelona battle at Camp Nou last Saturday, it is also better.

After all, there is a huge difference between the Spanish national derby without Chinese players and the Spanish national derby with Chinese players, especially after Ailo returned to Valencia, he led the team to kill all sides and ranked first in the league, and Ailo habitually occupied the top spot in the league scorer list, which also indirectly increased the desire of Chinese fans to watch the game late at night.

Two days before the game, Ailo and Wang Xiaolei were interviewed exclusively by CCTV at the Valencia training base, which can be regarded as indirectly helping Valencia Chinese boss He Puqi to do publicity.

Today, Spain's third-largest team has a deep Chinese imprint, which has increased the recognition of the club by many Chinese fans.

As the game approaches, Real Madrid's players also feel the pressure on themselves, losing 2:6 to Barcelona in the last round, which made their league points shrink by Barcelona, and at the same time the points with the leader Valencia have been stretched to five points.

Although there was no war of words between the two sides in the national derby, a number of Real Madrid players took to social media to express their confidence in the days leading up to the game, having just lost to Barcelona, and the team needed a hearty victory against the big clubs to boost their morale.

Cristiano Ronaldo spoke to the Portuguese media outlet Gazette about the upcoming national derby, showing confidence: "At the Bernabeu, we are not afraid of any opponent, not even Valencia, who are currently unbeaten in the league, and winning the game is the common goal of the team! ”

When asked if there would be a goal in the game, Cristiano Ronaldo showed his humorous side: "Goal? Why not? God will let me score a hat-trick. ”

If it weren't for the 90 million pounds that Ailo transferred to Valencia in July this summer, then Cristiano Ronaldo, who transferred to Real Madrid for 80 million pounds in early June, would be the highest value in the history of world football.

Therefore, in this direct confrontation of the national derby, Cristiano Ronaldo is looking hard to play his best in this game and prove that he is stronger than Elo!

Valencia, in order to fully reflect the importance of this round of the league, compared to arriving in Barcelona on the same day as the national derby with Barcelona, the whole Valencia team went to Madrid at noon the day before the game, and had a routine training session at the Bernabeu Stadium in the afternoon.

As Valencia's star and second captain, Ilo was surrounded by a swarm of reporters before stepping on the field, and it was normal to mention Cristiano Ronaldo's confidence in the game, he shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "It's okay, I'm used to Cristiano guy showing his confidence before the game, but I will tell him that having confidence is not enough, because ...... His team is playing against Valencia, where I am! ”

Elo's answer immediately drew cheers from Valencian and Chinese reporters, who felt like victory was imminent.

Again...... Who doesn't want to see their team show confidence before a game?

And Iroh has always done what he says, so far as he participates in the big battles, the winning rate is more than 90%!

So even if the local media in Madrid felt very unhappy, they didn't stand up and say that Ailo was not, and as for sarcasm, they didn't have the courage to do so......

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This time, Valencia visited the Temple Bernabeu, and the Real Madrid hierarchy took into account the huge pressure that Valencia brought to the team, so only 3,000 tickets were allocated to the away team.

Considering that Real Madrid, the owner of the 94,497-seat Bernabeu, only gave the away team 3,000 tickets, while the owner of the Camp Nou, which has a capacity of 98,260, gave Valencia 8,000 tickets, from this detail, Real Madrid is very afraid of Valencia winning the game on the road.

Of course, this didn't have much of an impact on Valencia.

How could a self-proclaimed member of Real Madrid put down his body and booed for the entire 90 minutes of the game?

At most, they only show their presence for a while, and more time is spent watching the game quietly.

The Santiago Bernabeu Stadium is located in the center of Madrid, so it is destined to be a well-developed area, and four hours before the start of the game, there are already many die-hard Real Madrid fans surrounding the stadium, they are wearing Real Madrid's fans of the new season, holding up the fan scarves in their hands, and they gather in twos and threes to sing the Real Madrid team song "Come on!" Madrid》

As the time for the game approached, the fans cruising around the Bernabeu Stadium knew ...... The National Derby, just a stone's throw away.

Two hours before the start of the game, home fans are allowed to enter the stadium to set up the home atmosphere, while away fans are only allowed to enter the stadium one hour before the game.

Spanish derbies like Real Madrid and Valencia are festive for football lovers, so fans with tickets and fans without tickets are very happy, after all, these two teams only play one game a season at the Bernabeu.

At around 4:30 p.m. local time in Spain, the buses used in the game were parked at the designated locations at the Bernabeu Stadium.

The reporters who were ready to cover the event were crowded around the perimeter by the security guards who had prepared in advance, allowing the players from both sides to enter the stadium through the dedicated tunnel.

Real Madrid and Valencia's brightest stars are undoubtedly Cristiano Ronaldo and Elo, so they were in the media spotlight as soon as they appeared on the pitch, but to their dismay, the two stayed in their respective halves for warm-up training without any communication.

However, the media were not discouraged, and there will definitely be communication in the players' tunnel before the start of the game, and the same will be true for follow-up when the time comes.

Although Spain and Africa are in transition, the weather in Madrid in December is still relatively cold, especially when the game time is changing day and night, and the temperature is lower, so players like Iello and Cristiano Ronaldo, who are more afraid of the cold, are fully armed to warm up, and the game is played in long sleeves.

Due to the cold weather, the warm-up took a little longer, and it was not until 20 minutes before the start of the game that they entered the locker room.

At this time, the Bernabeu stadium was already full, and from a distance, it was all white......

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Carlo Ancelotti had already made detailed arrangements for this game before the game, and after beating Almeria at home in the last round of the league, he made targeted arrangements and drills for Real Madrid's possible defensive counterattacks, and this explanation only deepened the on-field memory of the starters.

But the most important thing is to give the starting XI some confidence, especially in this game to replace Juan Mata who is out due to injury, and the starting midfielder James Rodriguez.

Fortunately, the team's big brother Iroh has been counseling him and decompressing him.

Carlo Ancelotti did not say before submitting his starting XI that James Rodriguez would take over from Juan Mata, who was absent due to injury, so he was also a surprise for Valencia and caused problems for Mourinho.

Indeed, Mourinho, who was given a starting XI for Valencia half an hour before the game, was speechless, and he did not expect Carlo Ancelotti to take such a risk to start a 19-year-old player in a high-profile national derby, and if he was not careful, it could have caused a huge psychological shadow on the extremely talented James Rodriguez.

However, this has nothing to do with his team, although the defeat to Barcelona in the last round was a high-level reason, but it was also a big blow to his heart.

It can be said that the 2-6 defeat away to Barcelona was the worst defeat in his coaching career, and it would be a complete lie to say that he didn't care.

Mourinho made only one change when his players returned to the dressing room, with Las Diarra, who was in charge of marking Mata, changing to Jammes Rodriguez, and the rest of the tactics were implemented according to the pre-match tactics.

Seven minutes into the game, players from both sides came to the tunnel from the locker room.

At this time, the live director also switched the camera to the players' tunnel, just enough to see the players from both sides walking down the stairs from the corner to the passage.

Two minutes later, the two stars that fans watching live TV wanted to see were also in the camera, with Iello and Cristiano Ronaldo smiling and hugging each other, high-fives, and then talking about the goal as well, with Iroh jokingly saying, "Want to score more than me?" No way. ”

"Hey, I don't believe in this evil!"

Both of them had loud voices, so their voices traveled far away, and they spoke Spanish, completely unaware of the three black lines on the foreheads of goalkeepers Casillas and Wang Xiaolei.

To openly discuss the topic of goals in front of La Liga's famous two great goalkeepers is tantamount to completely ignoring their existence.

But thinking of the terrifying goal-scoring ability of the two, Casillas and Wang Xiaolei could only stare dryly.

Real Madrid and Valencia did not have a holiday, so the Spanish national team-mates on both sides hugged each other and encouraged each other......

Goalkeeper Casillas and Wang Xiaolei hugged each other heartily and cheered each other......

When the time came, the players of the two teams followed the referee from the players' tunnel into the Bernabeu stadium, which means that the third national derby in the 2010-2011 La Liga season officially kicked off!