Before Real Madrid's match against Manchester City, it was widely believed that if Manchester City were to defend their title, then they would have to cross the hurdle of Real Madrid.

Just a season ago, Real Madrid were a much-mocked team in the Champions League, and although they had nine Champions League trophies to their name, that was eight years ago.

After that, it became difficult for them to even get to the quarterfinals.

was once choked to death by Manchester City in the group stage.

But Real Madrid is different these days, and even the most discerning media have to admit that Mourinho has reborn Real Madrid.

His first season in charge had some ups and downs.

And this second season of Real Madrid is terrible.

Thirty rounds of league play, Real Madrid are as many as six points ahead of second-placed Barcelona. In the just-concluded 30th league game, they swept Real Sociedad 5-1 at home.

Real Madrid fans and Madrid's media are confident that Jose Mourinho helped Real Madrid win their tenth Champions League title this season.

Because Jose Mourinho's team has historically been better in the second year than in the first. When he was coaching at Inter Milan, the Champions League results in the first year were only average, but in the second year, he led Inter Milan to win Italy's first treble!

With such past results as a reference, everyone naturally has confidence in Mourinho.

And Real Madrid has bid farewell to the embarrassing "round of 16" situation since Mourinho took over.

Last season they reached the quarter-finals and were eliminated by Manchester City.

This season, Real Madrid, who are in better and more stable form, have hope of revenge.

Those optimistic Real Madrid fans even thought that God had drawn them together with Manchester City as a revelation and offered them a golden opportunity to get revenge in person.

Manchester City is strong, but Real Madrid is just as strong today.

When these two teams meet, it is the real "strong dialogue"!

This time they must make Glory bow its head to them!

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Before the start of the game, Rongguang was not as provocative as when the draw results just came out.

Of course, this is not because he is instigated, but because the closer he is to the game, the more Rong focuses on the game itself, and does not play much war of words.

In addition, during this time, Kaka is everyone's talking point, so no one is looking for trouble with glory.

He spoke to reporters only the day before the game as Manchester City captain, in which he expressed his confidence.

"We're going to win."

A reporter questioned his self-confidence: "But Real Madrid today is different from the Real Madrid you have met before, they have become stronger, they have ...... in La Liga this season"

Rong Guang did not let the reporter continue to chatter, but interrupted him categorically: "No matter how strong the opponent is, we will win." ”

He doesn't explain why, which doesn't need to be explained, or rather, in Glory's view, verbal explanations are far less powerful than deeds.

If anyone disagrees with him, let them watch the game, which will start soon.

Prior to this game, Glory wasn't the most popular player, Kaka was.

All the media wanted to hear what he thought of the game.

And Kaka still strictly follows his rules for facing the media, and never says a word that may affect his image.

On Real Madrid's side, Cristiano Ronaldo said in an interview that he was happy that Kaka was able to return to form: "I am very good friends with him, and I am happy if my friend is doing well. But I have to say that when I met him in the game, I won't show mercy just because I'm a friend! ”

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In the midst of much anticipation, the match finally kicked off at the Manchester City Stadium.

The first leg between the two sides was played by Manchester City at home.

The fixtures are not very favourable to Manchester City, and of course, City themselves don't care about that.

But there are people who care, like Manchester City fans. Feeling that this arrangement is not good for Manchester City, this is a stumbling block that UEFA deliberately does not want to let Manchester City successfully defend its title.

Rong Guang didn't care the least, he didn't feel that the first home or away away in the schedule could affect the final result of the game.

There is only one factor that affects the final outcome of the game, and that is how well the players play.

Even if it's away from home, there will be some disadvantages, but as long as you play well enough, you can still make these disadvantages become clouds.

He is not afraid to go to the Bernabeu to play away at all.

Last season at the Bernabeu, City were sent off for a revenge foul in the opening minutes when Ibrahimovic was sent off.

At that time, Manchester City was still down by one goal, and everyone thought that Manchester City was finished.

But then the glory was like a hanging, one person scored three goals, completed a hat trick, turned the tide, and defeated Real Madrid 3:1 away, laying a solid foundation for the final elimination of Real Madrid.

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Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid played a counter-attacking tactic that had been vacillating last season, as Real Madrid supporters thought how could a club as noble as Real Madrid play such a lewd counter-attacking tactic. When Capello was in Real Madrid's most difficult time, he came to coach and helped Real Madrid win the La Liga championship and break Barcelona's monopoly on the championship. Relying on defensive counter-attacking tactics, Real Madrid played very badly that season, but it was very bloody.

But after winning the championship, Capello was still swept away by Real Madrid.

It doesn't even matter which president of Real Madrid is in charge, it's a tradition at Real Madrid and it doesn't matter who the president is.

The president of Real Madrid at the time was Calderón.

Because everyone from the media to the fans can't stand Capello's extremely ugly football.

When Barcelona won the championship with an amazing "artistic football", Real Madrid people thought that they could not be worse than Barcelona, if Barcelona can play well and win glory at the same time, then why can't Real Madrid win honor if they play well?

So they hope that Mourinho can also build Real Madrid into that team.

However, although Mourinho's team has scored a lot of goals, he pays more attention to the victory, the result, and the defensive counter-attack is a set of tactics that he has continued from Chelsea to Inter Milan, which is the most efficient and naturally the best.

Mourinho doesn't give up on his ideas lightly.

This clash of minds was on full display in the first national derby of last season.

At that time, before the game, the Spanish media debated whether Real Madrid would have three backs, two backs or single backs in this game.

Behind this controversy is the debate over what kind of football Real Madrid should play.

In the end, Mourinho seemed to succumb to the pressure of Florentino and public opinion and opted for a single midfielder.

As a result, everyone saw that Real Madrid was exposed by Barcelona at Camp Nou, and at 0:5, Real Madrid suffered a heavy defeat. Barcelona's centre-back Gerard Pique even gave a slap to Real Madrid when he was celebrating.

It's like a slap in the face to all Real Madrid people, making them hot in the cheeks.

After that game, the media debate about what kind of football Real Madrid played gradually faded. Mourinho also convinced the most stubborn Florentino with a heavy defeat to allow the team to be formed and trained according to his vision.

Real Madrid's style has gradually become fixed.

However, last season, the whole season was actually used for Mourinho training.

It was only this season that Real Madrid's "Muhammad counter-attack" took shape.

This season's Real Madrid have had a number of classic and wonderful quick counter-attacking goals.

For example, when they played against Ajax at home in the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid took advantage of the opponent's corner kick from the back to play a wonderful pass counterattack, and all the players involved in the attack played the ball with one kick and then ran away. From the attack at the back to the final goal, Real Madrid had five players involved in the team, and there were five consecutive one-kick passes in just 13 seconds. Then the football went in.

Ajax didn't react at all!

It's a textbook case of a quick counterattack.

And it just so happens that Manchester City is also such a team that is good at quick counter-attacks.

These two teams are both defensive and counter-attacking teams together, so who is counterattacked by whom?

That's really a ...... Issue.

After the start of the game, everyone found that Mourinho's Real Madrid took the initiative to fight back. Because it was Manchester City who kicked off, Manchester City had to attack first after getting the ball.

Real Madrid shrank quickly and waited at the back for City to press up.

Manchester City players also often play defensive counterattacks, and you can know what kind of medicine Real Madrid is selling in the gourd when you look at this posture.

Are they going to fight our defense and counterattack?

So Manchester City immediately launched their plan B, which is not in a hurry...... and Real Madrid.

Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid are very good on the counter-attack, they have the speed of several players in the front court, and they are very tacit, and they specialize in practicing this kind of fast attacking routine in training, as long as they are given the opportunity, they will take it.

In response to this characteristic of his opponents, Benitez has designed a B plan for Manchester City.

That is to use the control of the zhì ball to play with Real Madrid.

If Real Madrid defends and counterattacks, then Manchester City will pass back and forth in the midfield, looking for this opportunity in the pass, and then suddenly accelerate and give Real Madrid a fatal blow!