After just a week of joint training, Real Madrid began their last two warm-up games before the season.

The first game is the Australian Super League champion, Red Bull Salzburg.

It's a young, energetic, driven team that often plays passionate attacking football.

Their characteristic is that they are fast.

Attack fast!

Anti-robbery fast!

Fast conversion of offense and defense!

In his pre-match analysis, head coach Zinedine Zidane highlighted one player.

Erling Haaland.

A 19-year-old Norwegian genius boy with a height of nearly 190cm, but he does not lose his explosive speed and physical confrontation.

What's even more rare is that his foot shooting skills are also very superb.

For a moment, everyone looked at Odegaard.

is also from Norway, and when he was a teenager, he was chased by many wealthy families.

"I don't know him well!"

Ode shrugged his shoulders.

He and Haaland are two years apart, not in the same youth echelon, so they are naturally unfamiliar.

However, in next year's European Super League qualifiers, the two will play together for the Norwegian national team.

"In short, the opponent's attack will be quite sharp, don't rush Haaland." Zidane told again and again.

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos, with a hint of contempt in his eyes, snorted coldly.

Although it was a friendly match, the stadium was still full and the media flocked to it.

They just want to see a match between Rossi and Real Madrid.

Two hours before kick-off, in the starting list submitted by Real Madrid, Rossi did not appear on it, but sat on the bench.

This made the media and fans who came from afar a bit disappointed.

Home team Red Bull Salzburg starts.

Goalkeeper: Chikan Stankovic.

Backline: Ulmer, Onquine, Ramalho, Rasmus.

Midfielders: Szobosloy, Benede, Samasseku, Takumi Minamino.

Forwards: Haaland, Koita.

Away Real Madrid starts.

Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois.

Defence: Militão, Ramos, Varane.

Midfielders: Marcelo, Toni Kroos, Casemiro, Carvajal.

Forwards: Isco, Odegaard.

Forward: Benzema.

It can be seen from Zidane's formation that Real Madrid wants to use the two wing-backs to limit the opponent's wing attack, cut off the opponent's midfield link, and weaken Haaland's threat.

Four technical midfielders could give Real Madrid more control of the ball.

After the start of the game, Isco frequently retreated to get the ball to help Real Madrid quickly grasp the midfield advantage.

Once the advantage is in hand, Odegaard can play a subtle through ball forward from a midfield position.

Just ten minutes into the game, Real Madrid opened the scoring.

After Odegaard split the ball, Marcelo took the ball into the penalty area.

Isco stepped in and received the ball and went down to goal.

Karim Benzema headed home for Real Madrid.

This is one of the familiar attacking routines of Real Madrid.

With Bale unable to start, Zidane asked Isco to make more back-and-forth runs and tandem attacks.

Red Bull Salzburg, who conceded a goal first, made an adjustment and played on either side of Real Madrid's three central defenders through a long ball in the midfield.

Coupled with two full-backs, Takumi Minamino and Szobosloy, who frequently attacked the wings, Real Madrid had to shrink their defence.

And when Real Madrid contracted its defense, there was only one striker in the front, Benzema, and it seemed difficult to support it alone.

Coupled with the fact that Toni Kroos was restricted from the ball, Isco, who was slower to play the ball, was lost in the opponent's quick offensive and defensive transitions.

In the first half, Real Madrid had few threatening goals other than the opening goal.

It was difficult for the midfield to move forward, and it was only Kroos and Casemiro who organized at the back that they barely managed to keep the ball under the high pressure of the opponent.

But once the ball is lost at the back, Red Bull Salzburg's counterattack will threaten the Real Madrid goal in an instant.

Haaland frequently attacked the Real Madrid defense in the ribs, causing a lot of trouble for the defenders.

Especially in the area where Ramos defends.

In the 25th minute of the first half, Haaland shook off Ramos' defense in a counter-attack, and was just about to get up to shoot, but the Real Madrid captain shoveled the ball out of the bottom line from the side.

It was a very dangerous tackle, and only Ramos dared to make a decisive tackle in the penalty area.

Success is world-class defense.

Failure is to eat cards + penalty package.

In the first half, the shooting ratio between the two sides was 7:8, and it was evenly divided.

In terms of possession, Real Madrid has a slight advantage with 58% possession.

At half-time, Zidane was not satisfied with the performance in the first half.

In the absence of Modric, it will be difficult for the team to break through the opposition's high pressing.

That's something he's going to tackle in the new season.

Once one of Kroos, Casemiro and Modric is absent, what will happen to the team's organization?

Zinedine Zidane had hoped that Odegaard would be a regular first-choice sub.

But judging from the first half of the game, in the forward position, there is no Modric who can break through with the ball.

In the central midfield position, the intensity of defensive interceptions is not enough.

Valverde, who is on the bench, does not have the same style of play as Odegaard, but he is very aggressive at both ends of the pitch and can become an excellent midfielder in the future.

Once the midfield problem is solved, the next step is the attack.

Benzema is still in extremely high scoring form, but it is difficult for his teammates to give him a lot of support in the face of high pressing.

In the second half, Zidane made a substitution.

Rossi replaces Odegaard, Vazquez replaces Casemiro and Valverde replaces Militão.

Real Madrid switched to 4-4-2.

Without the threat of the wings, Red Bull Salzburg pressed even higher on the flanks.

Also, after adapting to Real Madrid's style of play, their counter-attacks began to pick up speed.

In the 48th minute, Kroos was forced by the opponent to shoot the ball with his teammates in a row, and then suddenly sent a through ball forward.

Rossi went straight down the ribs to chase the pass.

However, the landing point was too deep and was cut off early by the opposing defender.

Two minutes later, Isco's diagonal pass to Rossi was cut off by a step forward.

From these two attacks, Rossi felt a faint discomfort.

When he was at Bayern before, he and his teammates' passing and running timing were perfectly coordinated, and he could give full play to his starting speed and form an absolute single knife against offside.

But on the two passes just now, he was clearly chasing the ball.

In football, especially in the vicinity of the opponent's penalty area, even half a second of passing time can affect the success or failure of the attack.

Zidane also spotted the problem.

One is that Rossi has not yet been able to integrate into the team's tactical system.

The second is because he and his teammates have not yet formed a tacit understanding in cooperation.

There is no way to improve this immediately, and it can only be cultivated in actual combat and training.

Start, Run, Stop!

Trot, retrace, start acceleration!

Trot, walk, stop!

Start, stop, and start!

For the next ten minutes, Rossi constantly looked for space and opportunities in the front court for each attack, repeatedly running, stopping, and sprinting to interfere with the opponent's defense.

It's not just his responsibility on the pitch, it's an adaptation.

He has to constantly threaten opponents and adapt to the passing habits of his teammates.

Kroos has a good view of the big picture, with small leg swings, fast kicks and high concealment.

Casemiro is physically strong and can find his team-mates with precision in confrontations, whether through short passes or mid-to-long distances.

Isco is a good passer, so keep an eye on the space around him.

Benzema has a lot of ball-making ability and you have to trust him to be able to pass to any area where there are gaps.

The playing habits and styles of his teammates passed through Rossi's mind over and over again.

In the 57th minute, under the continuous high pressure of Red Bull Salzburg, Real Madrid's backfield pass suddenly accelerated.

Kroos and Casemiro's passes were all completed when they were narrowly dispossessed by their opponents.

Benzema began to retreat and meet his teammates.

At the same time, Rossi quickly thrust forward from his body.

The two passed each other, and when they looked at each other, Kroos suddenly made a long pass and hit the front.

While Benzema leaned on the defense, he jumped for the top and rubbed the ball behind him.

The central defenders of Red Bull Salzburg were about to wrap up Benzema, but they never thought that the French striker would pass the ball behind them in such a way.

Rossi, who had already appeared in the most threatening space, received the ball and drove straight in, with only the opposing goalkeeper in front of him.

The opponent's central defender chased back like crazy, and also raised his hand to signal that Rossi was offside.

But the linesman ignored it and ran after Rossi, keeping his eyes on him at the same level.

Rossi faced the attacking goalkeeper, stood firm with his left foot, opened his body to one side, and fired a shot into the far corner of the goal with the arch of his right foot.

The action was so fast that the goalkeeper did not have time to fall to the ground to save, and the ball had already broken through his armpit and drilled into the corner of the goal.

Real Madrid leads 2-0!