Chinese The first leg of the Champions League, Real Madrid's match against Arsenal, was soon staged at the Emirates Stadium.

In this game, Arsenal was well prepared. Goalkeeper Fabianski and back line are Sagna, Toure, Djouru and Gibbs. In midfield, they are Alexander Song, Gareth Bale, Nasri, Cesc Fabregas, and up front, Robin van Persie and Bam Adebayor.

This lineup looks like a 442, but it is actually a deformed 451.After all, Van Persie's playing characteristics can be said to be quite flexible, and if necessary, he can also switch to the midfield line to get the ball. His position at Barcelona is roughly equivalent to Bergkamp's previous position, and with Bam Adebayo he can play quite calmly.

Such a lineup, although it is not the strongest state for Arsenal, is also quite powerful. Arsenal's Galla is injured and Arshavin is unavailable because he has played in the Champions League, but everyone else is allowed to play. In particular, the availability of old sick Robin van Persie and Diaby is good news for Arsenal.

But even so, they are still the underdogs.

And it was not without reason, as Real Madrid had the upper hand at the start of the game. They dribbled with the ball and began to press and attack, which immediately put the Gunners' defence in a hurry.

"It can be seen that Real Madrid's strength is above Arsenal." Regarding this problem, commentator Lineker expressed his opinion, "In fact, we can see the gap between Real Madrid and Arsenal through the comparison of two sets of data: Real Madrid's possession rate this season is about 60%, and the pass success rate when they play is about 85% on average." Arsenal's possession rate is almost similar to that of Real Madrid, about 60%, but in terms of pass success rate, it is only about 75% - it can be said that Arsenal's passing ability is a notch worse than Real Madrid. ”

"If I remember correctly, the highest of these two stats this season is Barcelona. Possession was 73 per cent, while pass completion rates were close to 88 per cent. However, against Real Madrid, Barcelona still lost. Alain Hansen, who is his partner, said.

"Yes, at that time, Real Madrid won, but they still don't have an advantage in possession. I think that's what Arsenal should learn from when they play and what they did with Real Madrid at that time – what they need is to learn how to play counter-attacks. ”

Although Real Madrid seems to be less pressing than Barcelona's style of play this season, in terms of playing style, it is still biased towards attack and has a lot of possession of the ball. After all, the team that plays control of the ball can give the players a lot of autonomy, which is in line with the requirements of Zhao Yaning and Ibrahimovic, they are both people who need to play according to their own will, so they are of course happy to have high autonomy. Moreover, such a formation is also relatively easy to supplement and rotate new players, making the team more flexible and even more efficient, which is also a great benefit for a team like Real Madrid. After all, everyone knows that Real Madrid's love of buying newcomers is not a year or two. Ancelotti's arrangement is also for future consideration.

When I was in La Liga, no one mentioned Real Madrid's ability to control the ball because there was a more perverted Barcelona in La Liga. 73% possession, this is already a rare level of perversion in football history, compared to them, Real Madrid's 60% possession rate is nothing. However, when it came to meeting Arsenal, Real Madrid's advantage was seen. Arsenal is the best attacking team in the entire Premier League, they have been the proudest attacking team in the Premier League since they switched to possession play since the 0708 season, but compared to Real Madrid, their possession rate is not superior, and the pass success rate gap with poor pass success rate is a terrible thing? Xavi has a 90% success rate and is touted by Barcelona as the world's number one organizer. And an 80% pass success rate can be achieved by any team's backfield player who passes the ball well. The difference between one person and one can imagine how big the difference is in a team's 10% pass completion rate.

For a long time, Real Madrid's players' ability to control the ball was not very good in everyone's impression - at least not the main attribute of the type of player, which is not Real Madrid's strength compared to other aspects. However, Ancelotti's quiet change in tactics has made excellent use of Real Madrid's advantages in empirical tactical literacy and personal ability, and has given this team a fluent attacking style of play. In the first half of the season, because the main opponent was Barcelona, such a change was not obvious, but after beating Lyon, the whole world was staring at this team and saw their change. When it comes to the average team, Real Madrid is still an extremely dominant team.

Carlo Ancelotti's reform at Real Madrid has been a rare success. Although he can be said to have made a lot of reforms, let Raul change positions, let Guti play on the bench, change positions for Ramos and Pepe, and revamped the whole team, but he still received good results.

In a sense, Raul's support is indispensable. Raul, as the captain of the team, has always played a positive role in this change. He has been working hard for changes in the team, ensuring stability and unity in the dressing room, and it is with his support that Real Madrid have the way they play now.

And in this game, Real Madrid's lineup is much more dazzling than Arsenal. On the forward line, Real Madrid is Ibrahimovic as a single striker. In the midfield, it is Ribery, Raul, Zhao Yaning, above the midfield, Yaya Toure and Pepe, and in the back line, Marcelo, Cannavaro, Ramos and Ivanovic, and the goalkeeper is still Casillas.

"There's a pretty interesting thing about it." Looking at this lineup, Lineker couldn't help laughing, "Yaya Toure, Zhao Yaning, and Ibrahimovic are all players who have had scandals with Arsenal. When they played, the initial choice was also Arsenal, not other teams, Zhao Yaning was born in Monaco, Yaya Toure's brother is still playing at Arsenal, and Ibrahimovic has already arrived at Arsenal, and at the same time as the physical examination, he also took photos of wearing Arsenal jerseys...... But now, they are all on the opposite side of Arsenal and against Arsenal. ”

"If that's the case, there are also Cristiano, Drogba, Essien, Pique, all of whom Arsenal have looked at and offered, but in the end there are no players who can get them. In the past few years, Arsenal has really been dragged down by the stadium too badly, and the players they fancy have no money to buy, and in the end, they are not as good as they are playing year by year. If they don't win the title again this season, then they will be four years in a row without a title...... This time is a bit long. ”

Arsenal's long-term slump has a lot to do with their poverty, after all, the team has no money, it can't bring in good players, Wenger is just a good vision, and if the people he likes don't come, there is no way to do it. Speaking of which, many people at Arsenal choose to take a step back, and it is really not the same thing as Real Madrid, a team with deep pockets and anyone can buy it.

And in this game, Real Madrid also quickly told Arsenal that they were reluctant to make money, and they had always been operating on a small budget, so how much of a problem they had.

After a few passes from Real Madrid's midfielder, the ball found its way to Yaya Toure at the back. Toure glanced at Cesc Fabregas in Arsenal's midfield and rushed up with the ball himself - for him, Arsenal's midfield defense was simply not enough, and such an opportunity was a good time for him to show his ability.

Cesc Fabregas rushed up, but Yaya Toure turned away and blocked him, although Fabregas kept trying to find an opportunity to grab the ball, but his body was too different from Yaya Toure to have a chance to snatch the ball at all.

This also made Yaya Toure drive straight in, and immediately rushed up. At this time, Ibrahimovic had also retreated to the outside of the penalty area, and at the same time, the three attacking players had already plugged in together.

Yaya Toure gave the ball to Ibrahimovic, and behind Ibrahimovic, Juru had come over to defend. At this time, there were already holes in Arsenal's backline, but Ibrahimovic did not choose to pass the ball with one kick. He squeezed Zhu Lu behind him, adjusted his physical state, and suddenly turned around and squeezed Zhu Lu behind him.

Then, Ibrahimovic, who got the opportunity, shot directly at the goal and blasted the ball towards the goal!

Chloe Toure pounced and struggled to reach out and keep the ball out of the line. Ibrahimovic's attack was unsuccessful, but it still drew a chorus of amazement from the stadium.

"The physical gap is too obvious." Lineker sighed, "The lack of tactical awareness, Wenger can rely on tactics to make up, but the gap in physical condition, this is not at all something that tactics can make up." Yaya Toure and Ibrahimovic are not playing with skill at all, but completely crushing Arsenal with their bodies, how can Arsenal win if they continue to play like this? ”

Arsenal's biggest problem is with youth. Being young makes them physically unable to compete with better players. If they play against a normal team, they may be able to resist a bit, but with players like Ibrahimovic and Yaya Toure, who are known for their physical strength, it will be difficult for them to play.

This is Real Madrid's greatest strength: by being physically strong, they can make Arsenal suffer very well.

Moreover, Real Madrid's advantage is not limited to this. When Zhao Yaning stood on the corner kick point, the chaos in the penalty area also showed how big Real Madrid's advantage was at this time.

'Hopefully Arsenal don't drop points from set-pieces...... But it doesn't seem easy! ”

Zhao Yaning's corner kick came out, but fortunately, Arsenal defended this time and pushed his ball out without being breached.

And at this time, Bale, who had won the football, was already carrying the ball and quickly impacted. His speed immediately made the Arsenal fans cheer - maybe, Arsenal still have some hope?

'Obviously, Arsenal still have the ability to counter-attack, they saw what they had to do and they found a good way to counter-attack. Bale's speed can guarantee his counter-attacking ability, and now, let's see, how exactly do Real Madrid plan to deal with other people's counter-attacks? ”——

PS: A pass completion rate of 75%, which is the true level of Arsenal in the 0809 season. The aforementioned 80% success rate, is 0405 Chelsea. The 85% success rate given to Real Madrid is based on the pass success rate played by An Fat in his first season at Chelsea, and Barcelona's 88% is the peak data. Generally speaking, the possession advantage of more than 55% of football is obvious, and when it comes to 65% possession, it is basically completely suppressed. 73% possession, which is Barcelona's peak statistic, is indeed very high. However, Barcelona's statistic is actually a bit watery, and when they meet strong teams, their possession rate is around 60%.

In addition, the speculation in the book that An Fat used an attacking style of play, looked at the national derby, and the second half of the game was about the same as I estimated, but it is not excluded that Barcelona has now changed the influence of the coach who defended the counter, so Real Madrid attacked more. But the first half ...... How soft is An Fat, FP said a few words and threw his own lineup that had been running in for ten games on Bell...... Cat flutter Chinese