Football’s First Defender

The Guinness International Champions Cup can be said to be a competition organized by many European giants to continue to expand their international influence and increase their commercial value during the offseason.

This kind of strong duel before the start of the season can not only serve the purpose of rehearsing the team's tactics during the game, but also increase the team's overseas reputation by dedicating a game full of superstar performances in overseas regions. market influence.

This season, because Real Madrid still has UEFA Super Cup games before the season, they only arranged three games against giant teams in accordance with the broadcast contract.

Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Bayern, this is the opponent of Real Madrid's warm-up series.

In the warm-up match, for the two participating teams, the feeling of winning or losing is not that big. The most important thing is to play the team's tactical drills and let the players find the competitive feeling of the game.

In the first game, Real Madrid lost 1 to 3 to Paris.

After all, it was a warm-up match, and Real Madrid's defensive strength could not be raised at all. The starting combination of Ramos and Varane did not find the rhythm of the game when facing the attack of Paris' offensive line.

Moreover, Real Madrid also lacks enough star players in the midfield, and in the attack, it is somewhat dwarfed by Paris.

Ronaldo and Bell were both exempted due to injuries. Although they came to the United States with the team, they were mainly on vacation and participating in business activities. It is impossible for them to complete their appearances in the three warm-up matches.

It is still a bit difficult to rely on the striker led by Morata, Jose, and Vazquez to fight against the Parisian lineup.

In fact, it is a friendly match after all, and Paris is not all star players in the midfield.

For the two teams, when the friendly matches are held three times a week, it is a reasonable allocation of the teams to the lineup, which will not cause a greater burden on the players who have not recovered to their best condition .

In the case of both sides playing offensive football, Paris Saint-Germain played best.

Or, it was Real Madrid's defense that made Paris' offense complete.

In the midfield, lacking enough offensive players with one-shot positioning, Ramos began to frequently attack on the offensive end in this game, just to help the team score goals and show his scoring ability.

It's just that Ramos played well on the offensive end alone, but Real Madrid's defense suffered.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Real Madrid was defeated first in the confrontation with Paris. In the game, Paris teenager Ikone seized an opportunity to counterattack and rushed directly to the Real Madrid's defense.

Varane alone, in the game, defended the entire backcourt area, and was naturally forced by Ikone with his speed.

After facing Keylor Navas, Ikone calmly pushed and shot directly to the far corner, scoring the leading goal for Paris.

The result of the friendly match is not too important. Even if a young player breaks through the defense line, it is a bit embarrassing, but after comforting myself, I don't care much about it.

Players of both teams know that the true meaning of friendly matches is to "show", and they must "show" in the game.

Winning or losing doesn't matter to the two teams, in order to save face for each other, even though they played very aggressively on the court.

But the frequency of substitutions between the two teams is also quite large.

It was 0 to 0 at halftime. Afterwards, the two teams made extensive substitutions and adjustments. Half of the teams were replaced to let the fans see that this is a friendly match, not a real match. The outcome will not be too much of a reference value. .

The final score was 3 to 1. Paris won 2 goals in the first game of the National Champions Cup.

In this game, because Yang Feng did not play, Real Madrid was repeatedly pierced by the Paris striker in the attack, so they had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

Although it was a friendly match, being scored 3 goals proved some problems in Real Madrid's defense.

This is what Zidane wants to see, the problems that the team can expose in the game.

In the second game, Zidane obviously corrected his attitude. Not only did he send more main midfielders, but he also sent Yang Feng and Ramos' partner combination on the central defender line.

This is also the ideal central defender combination in Zidane's heart.

Compared with Varane, who is good at positional defense and zone defense, Ramos will play a more comprehensive role after he plays.

Varane's defensive style is actually very similar to Yang Feng, but Yang Feng must be better and more comprehensive than Varane in handling the opponent's counterattack.

The mature and stable Yang Feng and Ramos, who is actively attacking, perfectly complement each other. In the game, both of them have excellent header competition ability, which can make Real Madrid's set-piece threat to a higher level. building.

In the second game against Chelsea, Real Madrid's performance, after Yang Feng came on the field, played much better on the defensive end than in the previous game.

Sometimes the intuitive comparison is the best.

When Ramos continues to play his own offensive style, when Yang Feng stands on the back line, Real Madrid's back line does not seem to be as shaky as in the first game.

In the match against Chelsea, Real Madrid finally had a certain advantage this time.

Marcelo's long-range shot in the 18th minute directly broke through the opponent's goal and helped Real Madrid take the lead.

And 8 minutes later, Marcelo made another contribution.

Marcelo fought aggressively in the frontcourt. After completing the steal, he and Asensio played a wonderful 2-to-1 cooperation in the opponent's half. After receiving the pass from Marcelo, Asensio kept the ball. Push it forward again.

Marcelo succeeded in the penalty area and directly completed a near corner hit to help the team score again.

2 to 0!

Begovic was on the line and there was nothing to do.

Before the end of the first half, Marcelo sent a pass to find Morata, Morata headed back to the top, followed by Real Madrid youth player Mariano volleyed directly to the goal, and the ball flew into the goal again In the net, 3 to 0.

Real Madrid took a 3-goal lead in the first half.

Throughout the first half of the game, Huang Ama relied on Yang Feng's multiple pass interceptions in the second half, as well as the destruction of the opponent's counterattack pass, so that Chelsea had barely achieved the counterattack effect.

In the second half, after Yang Feng took a break, coupled with Real Madrid's own relaxation, Chelsea's offense was effective.

In the end, Hazard continued to show his personal ability in the second half, scoring two goals in the second half of the game, and regained a certain place for Chelsea.

And Real Madrid also won the warm-up match with a score of 3 to 2.

In the last game of the International Champions Cup, Yang Feng started again. As the warm-up match came to an end, the two sides also began to carry out team-specific tactical training after recovering their status during the game.

In the end, Real Madrid relied on the concept of defense to win and beat Bayern 1-0. Bayern's attack line was defended so that no goal was scored, which was inseparable from Yang Feng's excellent performance and excellent cooperation with Ramos.