Football’s First Defender

After defeating several underdog teams in succession, Real Madrid's sweet schedule for the new season has come to an end.

In the weekend league, after multiple consecutive weeks of double matches, this weekend, Real Madrid finally ushered in the first hard stubble in the league after the start of the new season.

Athletic Bilbao has always been known for its tough style.

As a strong team outside the Real Madrid and Barcelona systems, Athletic Bilbao has been trying its best to maintain its Basque "blood". It has always been in the field of football and represents the toughness of the Basque region.

The good thing is that, compared to Athletic Bilbao's terrifying home court, Real Madrid is sitting at their home court in this game, so before the game, Real Madrid still has a certain amount of confidence.

Athletic Bilbao has always been a mid-upstream team in La Liga.

As a traditional strong team in the Basque Country, Athletic Bilbao has always been able to obtain a better league ranking in La Liga.

In La Liga, apart from Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Athletic Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia and Atletico Madrid before their complete rise are considered to be the top teams in the middle and upper reaches of La Liga. Among them, almost carve up the European places in La Liga except for the two giants, and have always formed the second team to pursue La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

However, as the leader of the Basque region, Athletic Bilbao has never had too outstanding superstar players in the league. Their players are mostly Basque local players. The foundation of the team's team building relies more on overall football to maintain its own competitiveness.

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Their strength is more played at home, because they have a terrifying home game at home, and there are crazy fans who can stimulate the players to show their best in the game. Compared with the excellent record at home, their away game is obvious. Not that competitive.

This is also Real Madrid sitting at home today, and they can feel a little more at ease. If you go to Athletic Bilbao's away game, it will be an easy game for any team, even Real Madrid and Barcelona.

In the UEFA Champions League match in the middle of the week, in fact, when they played against the Warsaw Legion, Real Madrid still kept their strength. Although many of the team's main players played for 90 minutes on the field, the physical consumption of the players was actually not great, especially in the On the defensive end, the "walking defense" of Real Madrid players hardly puts much physical energy into running.

And won the UEFA Champions League match in the middle of the week. This way of reserving physical fitness is to give Athletic Bilbao a certain threat in today's weekend league.

Due to injuries, Zidane's rotation tactics have actually been reduced to a certain extent. In this game, Ramos once again waived his card due to calf injuries. In the central defender position, Real Madrid sent Yang Feng to cooperate with Varane.

Left back Marcelo, right back Carvajal, when facing a strong opponent like Athletic Bilbao, Real Madrid's two full-backs will naturally send a very aggressive main full-back to give the ball Greater support for the team's frontcourt attack

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In midfield, it continues to be Toni Kroos, Kovacic and Isco.

Athletic Bilbao relies on their own iron-blooded defense. Real Madrid knows that Athletic Bilbao, who is a guest, should choose to use iron barrels to limit their offense, so Zidane sent the team who is the best at breaking through. Isco just hopes that Isco can use his breakthrough ability to create greater opportunities for Real Madrid, so that Real Madrid can start the impact on Athletic Bilbao's defense from point to surface in the game.

The frontcourt combination is still the BBC combination. In the absence of injuries, the BBC combination has always been the first choice for Real Madrid's striker in recent years.

After all, the three have formed a tacit understanding, and the two excellent endpoints of Ronaldo and Bell can ensure that when an opportunity arises, the two can convert the opportunity into a goal to the greatest extent.

Athletic Bilbao chose a 451 formation in this game, but Athletic Bilbao's 451 formation did not choose to stick to their own half.

Facing Real Madrid, which has a UEFA Champions League match in the middle of the week, Athletic Bilbao changed their normal routine and chose to put up more defenses in the frontcourt. They used their players' abundant physical fitness to launch a frontcourt press to compete with Real Madrid. competition, to consume more physical reserves of Real Madrid players

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For a long time, when facing top teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Athletic Bilbao has used their own defense, their own running, and their own willpower to compete on the court to put more pressure on their opponents. To interfere with the opponent's ball.

Indeed, Athletic Bilbao is a strong team in La Liga.

Even in the Bernabeu Stadium, their pressing and their overall defense still put enough pressure on Real Madrid.

But this kind of pressure also contains opportunities for Real Madrid.

After all, the siege of up to five Athletic Bilbao players in the frontcourt gave Real Madrid more room to attack the opponent's half.

At the beginning of the whole game, Athletic Bilbao launched a siege against Real Madrid players in the midfield. This siege did put a lot of pressure on Real Madrid, blocking the passer, blocking The pass route has been blocked, and it has caused huge interference to the passer and the ball holder, but sometimes if this kind of encirclement is broken through a little, it will cause irreversible consequences.

Real Madrid does lack an excellent breakthrough point.

Whether it is Ronaldo or Bell, their breakthroughs rely more on their bodies. Such breakthroughs lack sufficient flexibility, especially when facing up to two defensive players double-teaming from two directions. , Neither Ronaldo nor Bell has the ability to get rid of the two consecutively.

However, although Real Madrid lacks a breakthrough point in football, the two breakthrough points the team has have super personal strength. Isco and Marcelo are the kind of players who can disrupt the opponent's defense alone.

And in the backcourt, Marcelo has a big heart, which allows Marcelo to dare to complete offensive moves.

On the left side of his own half, when Marcelo was receiving the ball, facing two Athletic Bilbao siege from the front and the right, Marcelo was very bold and directly dribbled the ball to form a Get rid of, turn around and change directions twice in a row to get rid of the two defenders, break through the encirclement in an instant, and create an offensive opportunity.

Only Marcelo dared to do this. In fact, Marcelo had made mistakes in many games in previous games and was counterattacked by his opponent on the spot.

But the so-called risks and opportunities coexist. When Marcelo dared to take the risk to pick the ball out, there was no one around Marcelo. He could maximize his long pass ability and send precise shots without defensive pressure. Long pass, pass the ball to a teammate.

Moreover, Marcelo's way of forcibly responding to the defensive players did give the Athletic Bilbao players a big surprise, because the Athletic Bilbao players, in this kind of frontcourt pressure, originally thought that Marcelo Will choose to pass back, or continue to pass the ball in the backcourt, which can give other Athletic Bilbao players more time to rush back to the defensive position in their own half, but I did not expect that Marcelo would Directly choose to make a breakthrough by yourself, and when the ball is successfully taken out of the encirclement within two seconds, Athletic Bilbao's defensive players are not fully in place, which gives Real Madrid an excellent counterattack opportunity

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Marcelo chose a long pass and transferred the ball directly from the left to the right side of the opponent's frontcourt, and it was Isco who quickly inserted forward.

Isco has a very high sensitivity in the game. He is moving forward quickly, hoping to control the ball. The outflanking of Benzema and Bell in the middle is already in place. In the case of 3V3, as long as Isco Being able to unload the ball can give the opponent a fatal blow

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Marcelo's long pass is very deep, and it lands on the right side of Bilba's penalty area. It's just that although Isco's ball was already running hard, the opponent's defensive player caught the opportunity after all, and kept confronting Isco, which interfered with Isco's straight-line speed. The two were almost in physical contact. In the confrontation, they came to the landing area at the same time, and the defensive player who occupied a better position unloaded the ball first

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However, Savorit made a fatal mistake in the game. After he unloaded the football, he intended to take the ball for two steps and then form a clearance, but at this time he was in contact with Isco's body. Under the confrontation, Savorit slipped in the penalty area and fell directly to the ground, but the ball stayed in the penalty area.

Isco, who was nearby, took a quick step forward to change the direction of the ball first. Going directly to the small penalty area, Savorit gave Real Madrid a big gift, a three-on-two chance in the frontcourt, the other Athletic Bilbao players were a little confused at this time, and the two defensive players were still doing their best. forward to defend, but Isco chose an inverted triangle pass and passed the ball directly to Benzema, who was empty in front of the goal. Benzema easily pushed the ball to the right of the goal. lower corner.

The visiting goalkeeper was unresponsive to a close-range shot.

1 to 0!

Real Madrid scored at home in just the seventh minute of the game.

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It was the first time that Real Madrid pressed Athletic Bilbao's penalty area in this game, and it was also Real Madrid's first dangerous attack and first shot.

The goal was scored with the first shot. Benzema did not waste the excellent assist from Isco this time, and opened the scoring for Real Madrid in the game

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Athletic Bilbao originally intended to take advantage of the physical gap between Real Madrid's consecutive double matches for a week, and use the frontcourt to press the defense to cause Real Madrid's mistakes and launch a counterattack. Putting the front line forward, on the contrary, helped Real Madrid have a bigger counterattack and a bigger long pass to go straight to Huanglong.

Real Madrid's Marcelo's pass was quite precise this time, Isco's active running, and his active running position all paved the way for this unexpected ball in the frontcourt.

Luck was also on Real Madrid's side. Benzema easily accepted Isco's subsequent pass and used his own kick to score the goal in the game.

Real Madrid took a 1-0 lead at home, which is definitely not good news for Athletic Bilbao.

Of course, this ball has positive factors from Real Madrid, and in fact the main reason is Savorit's very low-level mistake in the game.

Although he is 24 years old, as a defender, this is Savorit's eighth game in La Liga.

This season, he was just bought by Athletic Bilbao and served as the team's starter, but Savorit obviously did not adapt to the rhythm of La Liga in the game.

Among the handling of the ball this time, Savorit may choose to clear the ball and give Real Madrid a corner kick at the first time, which is a better defensive method.

But Savorit chose to stop the ball himself and then tried to stop and kick the ball towards the touchline.

But even in the process of emergency stop, his feet slipped and he completely lost his center of gravity.

Moreover, when Savorit lost his balance, he didn't immediately think of clearing the ball. Instead, because he fell to the ground, he left the ball in place, giving Isco a chance to step forward to steal, and let Isco create a murderous opportunity in the frontcourt.

However, Athletic Bilbao is not a weak team after all. Even if they are behind Real Madrid in the game, they are still at the Bernabeu, Real Madrid's death home, but the Athletic Bilbao players have not given up. Interspersed with continuous breakthroughs to create opportunities.

Especially the attack on the wing, in response to Marcelo's lack of defensive ability, Athletic Bilbao players continued to attack Marcelo's side, oppressing Marcelo to defend and making crosses from the wing Opportunities to give the central players more room to play offensively.

The 15th minute of the game. The visiting team Athletic Bilbao's repeated sieges have achieved results.

In the game, Lai Kui on the right side showed his speed advantage, and even forcibly overtook Marcelo on the right side. He quickly advanced and broke through in the game, creating space for the bottom pass.

Lai Kui is very fast. After he got rid of Marcelo's defense, he kicked the ball low and inverted triangle to the middle.

Even though Marcelo had chosen to shovel at the back, he still did not block Lai Kui's passing route.

Ailasuo, who followed up from the middle, met Lai Kui's pass, directly blocked to the front right, and opened the angle to hit the goal, instantly attracting three Real Madrid defenders, including Yang Feng's defensive attention, hoping to block Ailasuo Hitting the shot from the close corner, but Eraso's flick to the front right is an action that attracts Real Madrid's defense.

At the moment when Real Madrid's defense line was mobilized, Elasso actually chose to hook the ball back with his right foot, and it happened to pass to the feet of Merino in the middle. At this time, there was no one in front of Merino. It is the same as the position where Benzema scored just now.

Facing the pass from his teammates, he immediately chose to push the ball without stopping.

Although the goalkeeper Navas made a save, but because the distance was too close, there was no way to block the football.

1 to 1!

In the 15th minute of the game, Athletic Bilba equalized the score for the away game.

For Real Madrid, today's Athletic Bilbao played quite proactively, and it is definitely a hard stubble.