Football’s First Defender

After winning three consecutive victories in the league, for Real Madrid, they still hope that the fiery state in the league can be brought to the Champions League.

Real Madrid ushered in the first game of this season's Champions League in the middle of the week.

In the first group match, Real Madrid sat at their home stadium, the Bernabéu, against the visiting Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon, which is also Ronaldo's home team.

As one of the top three in the Portuguese League, although the strength and reputation of Sporting Lisbon over the years are not as stable as Porto and Benfica in the European arena, occasional outbreaks can still allow Sporting Lisbon to qualify for the Champions League.

Last season, Sporting Lisbon showed super strength in the Portuguese Super League, ranked second in the Portuguese Super League, and obtained the qualification to represent the Portuguese Super League in the UEFA Champions League.

And this time Sporting Lisbon and Real Madrid are divided into a group, which also allows Ronaldo to return to Portugal and enjoy the warm celebration and welcome of the Portuguese fans. Of course, that is in the subsequent away game. Real Madrid is sitting at home against Sporting Lisbon in this game.

In this season's Champions League group stage, Real Madrid, the first team, drew a fairly good group.

Among the opponents in the group, the Warsaw Legion from Poland has the lowest combat effectiveness. Apart from the fact that their cold home court may pose a threat to Real Madrid, in fact, the Warsaw Legion may not be able to compare with Real Madrid, which is several grades behind.

In the process of competing for promotion places, although Sporting Lisbon is regarded as a Portuguese super giant, the competitiveness of the Portuguese team is actually far from the top level of Real Madrid. For Real Madrid, there is still a big difference. There shouldn't be too many problems with this game.

The most likely one in the entire group is actually one of Real Madrid's old enemies, the Bundesliga giant Dortmund, who poses a threat to Real Madrid.

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This season, Real Madrid and the Hornets are divided together again. The direct dialogue between the two teams has always been Dortmund in the past few years, occupying a certain advantage. Dortmund's youthful appearance once brought Real Madrid a great threat, but It was then, and now is now, can Dortmund, who has been bleeding heavily, pose a threat to Real Madrid again? The two Champions League group matches this season can be seen.

For Real Madrid, of course, the most important thing is to win the first opponent in the UEFA Champions League, Sporting Lisbon, first take all three points in the group, and then consider other things.

For Zidane, Real Madrid has such a luxurious team lineup this season in order to be able to defend their title in the Champions League. Compete for victory in every game.

Zidane hopes that the team can continue this winning spirit until the team successfully defends the Champions League, becoming the first team to successfully defend the Champions League after the restructuring of the Champions League in 1992.

Zidane sent what he considers the strongest starting lineup in this game.

Almost the same lineup as last season's championship ceremony, with minor changes.

Yang Feng was used to replace Varane, so that the team's offensive and defensive ends have been further improved compared to last season.

Then because the goalkeeper Navas was injured, Casilla continued to replace Navas in the starting game. All other positions were Real Madrid's most used and most trusted team lineup by Zidane last season.

The BBC combination in the frontcourt is the super offensive line that Real Madrid has been relying on since the Ancelotti era, and it is also the world's top striker level, and in the midfield. Modric and Toni Kroos are mainly responsible for the team's offensive organization and scheduling, while Casemiro is responsible for the team's defense and the ability to provide the team with a long shot.

On the back line, both Marcelo and Carvajal are back on fire. After finishing a game in the league, they will use their best to express themselves in the Champions League and play effective offenses.

On the back line, Zidane, of course, continued to use his defensive ability. The super strong Yang Feng played against team captain Ramos.

Simultaneous appearance

Although Yang Feng and Ramos do not have a deep personal friendship, for Zidane, as long as the two can show corresponding personal strength in the game to complete better offensive and defensive tasks, then there is no too much difference between the players. It doesn't matter if they have a big personal relationship, as long as they can put the interests of the team first and complete their game tasks well.

In the game, Zidane ranked the strongest lineup in his mind and on the team's paper, but judging from the performance on the court, Real Madrid's performance today is not outstanding.

The BBC combination did not meet the game expectations Zidane wanted.

The team's smooth offense that Zidane expected, in the face of Sporting Lisbon's excellent defense, did not achieve the desired offensive effect at all. Especially as the connection point of the BBC combination, Benzema, who plays a tandem role, may be because he has just come out of injury. Although Benzema started this game, his game state has not reached optimal.

Benzema's handling of the ball several times in the game, whether it is passing or stopping the ball, obviously has some gaps compared with his poaching on the field, and such a gap, in a game of this level in the Champions League , the defensive player will seize the opportunity and complete the defense in an instant, without giving Benzema too many offensive opportunities.

As for Real Madrid, because Benzema lost his previous containment ability, pulling ability, and passing ability in the middle, although the BBC team actually has enough reputation on the scene to suppress, but the offensive effect achieved

It's actually not that great.

From the beginning of the game, Sporting Lisbon used its own iron barrel formation to give priority to defending its position. After all, Sporting Lisbon will not attack Real Madrid as a guest at the Bernabéu Stadium.

They want to see if they have the capital to create upsets, whether they can create a greater counterattack threat to Real Madrid after completing the defense, and even win an away game.

Real Madrid barely played once until the 13th minute of the game, which can be regarded as a threatening offensive cooperation. Ronaldo was suddenly in the game and chose to pull to the right, with Bell who was originally on the right.

"Two Hundred Million" launched an attack on the right side at the same time.

Instantly posed a huge threat to Sporting Lisbon's side defense. When Ronaldo chose to break through and dribble from the outside, he kicked a through ball directly behind the opponent's defense, while Bell accelerated with all his strength. In the 1V1 confrontation, It directly formed a unilateral crush on the Sporting Lisbon players.

The ball is divided!

Later, Bell, who was faster, took advantage of his position and used the advantage of physical confrontation to firmly put the opponent behind him, so that Bell could get the ball in the penalty area and bring it out directly.

It's just that for Bell, this time, because he went directly to the bottom on the right side, when completing the pass, Bell could only choose his right foot to pass the ball. Since the right foot is not sharp, the lack of strength caused, although Bell broke through It reached the threat area, but the attack did not have a good effect. The ball was not passed in place, but passed into the small penalty area, and the goalkeeper rushed out quickly, hugged it, and barely caught it. up.

Real Madrid's extremely threatening attack this time did not pose a threat of hitting the goal.

There is a problem with Bell's passing power, but it is actually related to the running speed of the receiving players too slow, or the lack of penetration.

Benzema, who followed up in the middle, is actually a bit slow. If Benzema can move forward quickly for this ball, stretch out his legs to complete a kick and even just touch the ball, the ball may be scored directly. It's a pity Benzema

This time the follow-up in the middle, running, did not use all its strength...