With less than two hours to go, Barcelona and Real Madrid both submitted their starting line-ups for the national derby.

Barcelona start:

Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen.

Backline: Alba, Pique, Araujo, Dest.

Defender: Sergio Busquets.

Midfielders: Gavi, Pogba, Frenkie de Jong.

Forwards: Messi, Pedri.

Barcelona's squad is worth a total of 411 million euros and has an average age of 26.1 years.

Away Real Madrid starts:

Goalkeeper: Thibaut Courtois.

Defence: Mendy, Alaba, Militão, Carvajal.

Midfielders: Toni Kroos, Casemiro, Modric.

Forwards: Rossi, Benzema, Vinicius.

Real Madrid's starting 11 are worth a total of €445 million and have an average age of 28.3 years.

As one of the most watched and technical derbies in world football, the results achieved by the two teams in the past decade have also topped the football world.

First of all, starting with Pep Guardiola, he created the first "six crowns" in world football, and then to Enrique's five crowns, injecting a new tactical concept into world football.

Then there is the "three crowns in four years" created by Ancelotti and Zinedine Zidane, who successfully defended the Champions League twice in a row, making Real Madrid truly the king of the Champions League.

In the previous national derby, the two teams did not defend each other and played offensive football, which was impressive.

In the past two years, Real Madrid has won four consecutive league games, making the national derby more passionate and suspenseful.

The Camp Nou once again has a superstar TIFO, with bright red and blue colors that fill the pitch and bring the ultimate visual impact to the players in the pitch.

The two sides are still star-studded with little investment in the summer transfer window.

In addition to the players on the pitch, Barça's bench features Fati, Depay, Coutinho, Dembele and Sergio Aguero.

On the bench at Real Madrid, Rodrygo, Valverde, Camavinga, Asensio and Isco are on standby.

Messi and Benzema came to the center circle to guess the coin and choose the right to kick off.

Benzema won the right to kick-off for Real Madrid and took the lead.

José Sanchez, with the whistle in his mouth, stared at his watch, blowing the whistle while pressing the button, pointing his arm in the direction of the attack.

After Benzema passed the ball back, Barcelona immediately put pressure on Real Madrid's position.

Koeman's pressing style of play needs no elaboration, but it is worth noting that their principle of pressing is to control all the points of contact of Real Madrid players in the area with the ball and not give them space to turn.

As a result, Real Madrid were forced to return the ball to the goalkeeper or to the two full-backs.

Barcelona's purpose in doing this is because the ball is given to the goalkeeper, both in terms of distance and accuracy.

Real Madrid's two fullbacks have just returned from injury, and their physical condition has not reached their peak, which is also prone to mistakes.

Just two minutes into the game, Courtois was under pressure and passed the ball forward, and Pique, who was snatched up, headed it over to his team-mate.

Barcelona took advantage of the situation and launched a counterattack.

Pedri dribbled forward with the ball at high speed on the side, faced Vinicius's close defense, and occupied a reasonable position while controlling the ball, so that he did not dare to grab easily.

Youngster Pedri came from Las Palmas and officially became a first-team player for Barcelona after a year of training in La Liga.

His ability to see the big picture and read the game makes it easy for the young Pedri to play the ball and his team-mates with the ability to simplify the complex.

His outstanding performance at Barcelona also made him included in the list of this year's Golden Boy Award competition.

It is worth mentioning that in the summer of 2018, Pedri went to Real Madrid for a trial, but Real Madrid did not sign him.

Perhaps for this reason, he was particularly motivated in the game against Real Madrid.

Pedri kept the ball on Vinicius' interference and crossed the ball wide of the middle on the left side of the penalty area.

Messi was closely defended by Alaba in the middle, and there was no space to stop the ball, so he turned his back to the goal and flicked the ball back with the outside of his left foot.

Gavi arrived and slotted the ball down the middle with his right foot in the face of Alaba, Militão and Thibaut Courtois.

Ooh!

There was a loud sigh as the ball grazed the crossbar and flew off the baseline.

Gavi held his head in his hands in even more chagrin, his eyes full of disbelief.

Although this kind of one-handed ball is a bit difficult, if it is Messi, it will definitely score.

In the face of Barcelona's provocation, Real Madrid immediately counterattacked.

In the 5th minute, Real Madrid passed the siege at the back, relied on Alaba to actively grab, cut the ball from the feet of De Jong, and distributed it to Rossi on the left.

Due to Barcelona's pressing style of play, Ancelotti asked Rossi to defend more often in the early stage and participate in the defense.

After receiving the pass, Rossi first used a "small croquette" to pass the snatched Dest, and did not pass directly to Alaba, who had already stepped forward.

Instead, through a long diagonal pass, Vinicius was found on the right.

A seemingly wrong choice, but in fact Rossi's reading of the game and his excellent view of the big picture.

When Real Madrid's attack is concentrated on the left, Barcelona's defense naturally sloers to the right.

Especially when Rossi got past right-back, Pogba was the first to grab and block the passing lane.

Although it is a little difficult to plug directly, with Rossi's ability, it can still be done.

But Alaba can certainly get the ball, but it has fallen into Barcelona's zone defense.

Right centre-back Araujo is ready to go up for the grab.

In this case, Real Madrid's counterattack will end here, unless Alaba plays supernatural and passes Araujo.

But after moving to the right, the situation is quite the opposite.

Vinicius has an absolute advantage of 1v1, and Barcelona have one less defender, and the defense line will inevitably immediately tilt to the left.

Alba on the right can't come back, and Ludest on the left is passed.

Barcelona only have two centre-backs left, and their defensive coverage is seriously inadequate.

When Vinicius and Benzema appeared on the right side at the same time to attract the defence, Alaba on the left was completely empty.

[What did Vinicius deal with? 】

[Is it a sudden or a pass? 】

[Oh, Alaba who crosses to the back point! ] 】

【Opportunity!】 】

【Alaba shoots!!! 】

【The ball is in!】 】

[Real Madrid scored first at Camp Nou!] 】

【1：0！！ 】

[New Recruit Alab! 】

[Start with a steal in the backcourt, sprint all the way to the frontcourt, and finally pick up your teammates to complete the goal!] 】

[This is a way of attacking that Real Madrid has never had before!] 】

[When Ramos was still in the team, his attacking mode was mostly set-piece headers!] 】

[But Alaba is a different style!] 】

[He can be both a central defender and a full-back!]

[You can quickly hold the ball from the back court and complete the shot!] 】

[Both teams each had a great chance to score after the opening!] 】

[Away team Real Madrid grasped! ] 】

[Barcelona is going to come on! 】

After Alaba scored, he immediately looked at Rossi and smiled.

"Luo, when you didn't pass me the first kick, I was going to be angry!"

Alaba smiled and hugged Rosie.

"You have to play with your brain!" Rosie gestured to her head.

Carlo Ancelotti clenched his fists and swung them up and down, the most of all his celebrations.

Rossi's role is too important.

If you don't look at the scene, you can't show it from the data at all.

This is also an important factor in confirming Carlo Ancelotti's return to Real Madrid.

(End of chapter)