The Ball at Your Feet

This is Zhao Yaning's first visit to Madrid.

Although he knew the significance of this game and knew that Madrid’s football atmosphere was very good, Zhao Yaning was still a little surprised when he saw the crowds outside the Bernabéu Stadium.

"There are so many fans!" Zhao Yaning turned his head and asked Morientes next to him. "And the game will only start tomorrow. What are they doing here today?"

"Parade. On days when there are important competitions, of course someone will parade." Morientes smiled.

Zhao Yaning was a little curious. Monaco did not have such an atmosphere. It won the championship last year. The victory parade only lasted from morning to dark. The parade started a day earlier, just for a game? This is crazy.

"Don't be so surprised. In Spain, this is normal." Jiuli said, "Among the European football powers, France has the worst football atmosphere. In other countries, parades are common for several days. Things, and we in France, there will be a parade only when there is a strike."

Zhao Yaning really didn't know his complaint. He has only been to Deportivo in Spain, but the city is too small, and the game is not an important game, but there is no such atmosphere. The football atmosphere here is so amazing, no wonder people say that the Bernabéu is a sacred place of football.

What Jiuri said was somewhat irritable. His injury is not healed. Although he came to Spain, it is impossible to play. In contrast, Real Madrid had better luck. Both Raul and Ronaldo returned from injury in time to catch up with the game.

"I strongly suspect that they are playing this game to accumulate energy. Moreau, Raul must have told you, is he really hurt?"

To this question, Morientes just smiled and did not answer. But for other issues, he is quite interested.

Until the next day of the game, he kept pointing at the stands, telling everyone the meaning of the different banners, what group the fans sitting together belonged to, and every corner of the Bernabéu Stadium. Anecdote.

"It really feels like returning home." Morientes said with a smile, "I know everything here. I've been everywhere except..."

Morientes paused, "Except where we are going today-the visiting team locker room."

This sentence left the players silent for a while.

"We won them! No matter what, we have to win." After a long time, Roten said a word.

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Monaco and Real Madrid in this round of competition, although people are unanimously optimistic about Real Madrid, but specific to this game, the outcome of the two sides will be more controversial.

Real Madrid just missed one of their most likely championships this season: In the Copa del Rey final, although Real Madrid persisted to overtime, they still lost 2-3 to Zaragoza. And then, in the game against Bilbao, they lost 2-4 again, and for the first time this season there was a two-game losing streak. Although Raul and Ronaldo returned from injury in time, Carlos still suffered a suspension in the Champions League and the team's state is not very good.

Monaco was tied for two consecutive league matches, and Lyon took advantage of the situation to catch the points to only three points. It's hard to say good about Jiuli's injury, plus Roundup and Squelach soon recovered from their injuries. Both teams are defending champions, but now they are both in bad shape.

As for the battle results of the two teams, Real Madrid dominated. In fact, if you don't count the 2-1 victory over PSV in the group stage this year, Monaco's last away win in the Champions League can already be counted as the era of Wenger's coaching. In Spain, Monaco has never won.

But since it is football, everything is possible.

Real Madrid’s left-back position used Bravo to replace Carlos, who was suspended, while Mejia and El Guerra partnered with the central defender. The right-back was the main striker Salgado, and the goalkeeper was Casillas. People in this position are the strongest combination Real Madrid can get. Although Bravo is a midfielder from Real Madrid's youth training and changed to a defender soon, Real Madrid has no better choice. As for Mejia's central defender position, there is still a Pavin, but this time, Mejia is still starting.

In the frontcourt, Zidane, Raul, Ronaldo and Figo are naturally indispensable. Zidane is on the left, Figo is on the right, Raul is playing the front midfielder, and Ronaldo is at the forefront. There is no surprise, but what really shines is that Real Madrid’s double midfielders turned out to be Beckham and Guti.

So handsome midfielder.

This was Zhao Yaning's first reaction. Zhao Yaning really felt a little surprised when he saw the black midfielders who were used to watching French Ligue 1. When he saw such two floating blond midfielders, Zhao Yaning was really surprised.

Of course he would not be unhappy with this combination. At least playing with them is definitely easier than playing with Essien and Diarra.

After the game began, the situation was as expected, and Real Madrid quickly grasped the initiative. After all, they have the home court advantage. The Bernabéu stadium is much larger than the average stadium, which makes the Monaco players who are used to playing small stadiums with 18,000 people very uncomfortable. They are not a team that likes long passes, and it is difficult to grasp the small-scale cooperation and fast-moving style of play in such a large venue. This has affected Monaco's advancement for a while.

Real Madrid is accustomed to this stadium, home advantage, they quickly played out. Although there is no Carlos on the left, their offense is slightly worse, but on the right, Salgado and Figo have been attacking. In less than five minutes, Salgado launched a very threatening offensive. After swaying Evra and Squelach, he successfully made the bottom, knocked the ball back to Zidane at the edge of the penalty area, and Zidane shot and missed the left post.

After a while, Zidane also launched an attack. He made a left pass and sent the ball into the penalty area. Raul's header went above the crossbar and failed to form a goal.

In the twelve minutes to the ground, Figo made a long diagonal pass from the right, and Ronaldo's header in front of the goal hit Geve. Then, in the 16th minute, Salgado's long pass came to the penalty area again, Raul was interfered by Squelach and the header went wide. But immediately, in the 17th minute, Ronaldo scored again with a header.

What kind of game is Real Madrid playing? Zhao Yaning was slightly surprised. There are five world-class superstars on the field, but they played but they made nonsense side passes. If you want to see crosses from the side, you can find a low-level team in England to watch. The heads of Raul and Ronaldo are not necessarily better.

But there must be a reason for them playing this way.

With a ball handler like Zidane, Guti and Beckham two keen passers, their penetration in the middle of the play is obviously more advantageous and more attractive. But if they don't do this, they choose to stick to the wing and there must be something wrong.

This is not an arrangement for weakness. Monaco can be a weakness everywhere, but the two full-backs have always been the team's strongest point. Real Madrid can't be arranged for this, so what are they aimed at?

Avoid the interception of the third midfielder? possible. But even if Monaco is a third midfielder, it does not necessarily have an advantage. If Zidane attacked from the center, they might not be able to stop Zidane.

Then, the problem lies on the sidelines. Zhao Yaning suddenly understood. They wanted to quickly press on the two sideways, so that Monaco's sideways could not fight. Monaco's advantage is the attack power of the two wings. If Real Madrid's fierce wing consensus cannot shrink and dare not go out, then Monaco will lose half.

This is to contain Monaco's offensive tactics-obviously, Queiroz sitting on the opposite coach, although not a famous coach, but indeed a very brainy coach. Without Giuly, the side-center combination can no longer be played. If Monaco no longer has the only advantage of the side, then the game will just surrender.

But this kind of kicking must be suppressed by you.

After a backcourt steals the ball to Zhao Yaning's feet, Zhao Yaning immediately started the impact with the ball.

After cutting one step inward, Zhao Yaning accelerated by two steps and saw...Guti who was ahead to intercept him.

With a flick of his upper body, Zhao Yaning passed Guti almost without any effort. I'm used to playing with those black midfielders in France. Facing such a midfielder, there is really no pressure... I really don't know what purpose Real Madrid has for ~www.ltnovel.com~ to form such a lineup.

After Guti was dropped, he didn't immediately turn around to chase him, but Beckham immediately rushed over to try to make up. Zhao Yaning didn't want to entangle him more, so he took a step to the right and went directly to face Bravo. Although Beckham chased for two steps, but seeing Zhao Yaning back to the wing, he was afraid that the midfielder would lose his position, so he retreated.

Shall I be one-on-one with Bravo? Zhao Yaning turned his thoughts: It is not difficult to pass him directly in one step, but the following offense is still not well organized. And what I should do now is to control the field. If I can teach him a lesson so that he does not dare to overpress, then Monaco's right side will be able to attack.

Thinking of this, he didn't break through immediately, but stopped in front of Bravo, and then slowly moved forward with the ball. Bravo was in front of him, afraid to stare at him carelessly.

Pull the ball, to the left! Zhao Yaning lightly tapped the ball with his toes and pulled the ball to the left with his right foot. When Bravo moved, he suddenly pulled the ball to the right. Bravo hurriedly went to block again, but Zhao Yaning gently pulled the ball back, his right foot pulled the ball behind him, and then he bent his left leg to pass the ball to Morientes with a flower arrangement.

Bravo had lost his balance and could only stretch out his foot to try to block it, but Zhao Yaning buckled the ball again and ran past Bravo who fell on the ground.

Did not catch up? Zhao Yaning looked back and found that Bravo was lying on the ground, clutching his ankle and moaning in pain.

Was injured? Zhao Yaning kicked the ball out of the field and walked over.

"Zhao Yaning of the Monaco team seems to have done something incredible. He actually relied on technology to shake Bravo to the point of injury." The Spanish commentator shook his head repeatedly at this kind of thing. "This is not for Real Madrid. Good omen..."