Football’s First Defender

After a big victory away in the Spanish Cup, Real Madrid travel to Alaves in the league at the weekend.

As the champion of La Liga last season and the newly promoted team this season, Alaves has shown strong competitiveness in the new season of La Liga.

Although the team did not win many games and only won two games after nine rounds of the league, relying on excellent defense, the team also achieved four draws, two wins and four draws. The middle and lower reaches, but judging from the current performance of the team, as long as the team's defense can maintain the current defensive strength, it should not be a big problem to complete relegation after the season.

You know, the schedule of the first nine rounds of Alaves is not so easy, but in addition to four home games with one win and three draws to remain unbeaten, they also showed super competitiveness in away games.

Beating Barcelona 2:1 this season has done Real Madrid a big favor.

After that, they drew Atletico Madrid 1:1 in an away game. They played two consecutive games against the "Western Super League" teams, and they all showed outstanding performances that can be called giant killers.

With such a strong defensive ability and counterattack ability, Alaves has already made two upsets in La Liga this season. Now that they are facing the challenge of Real Madrid at home, Alaves has a chance and has three major upsets in the league. , Killing the three major "Western Super League" giants in a row, setting an example for all La Liga teams.

In this game, facing Alaves, who has performed well this season, Zidane did not dare to be too big, and sent the current full main lineup to play in the away game.

The back line is still due to Ramos' injury, and it is still the four players from the previous game. Yang Feng Varane is paired with a central defender, left back Marcelo and right back Carvajal.

In midfield, Toni Kroos, Isco and Kovacic serve as the team's three midfielders.

The frontcourt striker combination is the full-fledged BBC combination. The BBC team took a full rotation in the Copa del Rey in the middle of the week. This game also has sufficient physical fitness to ensure that they can face Alaves and form a strong enough offense. shock.

And Alaves' super strength at home this season was shown at the beginning of the game. Real Madrid faced their opponents in the Alaves game. Show your own characteristics.

Come to grasp the initiative in the game, to control the offensive rhythm of the game by yourself, but facing Alaves' very tight defense and very active midfield press, Real Madrid's midfielders lack sufficient organization The weaknesses of small players are exposed.

In previous games, Zidane prefers to use Toni Kroos, Modric and Casemiro in the midfield of Real Madrid. Firstly, Casemiro has super defensive interception ability and can handle quite a lot. Second, Toni Kroos and Modric, as two excellent shooters and organizers, can thoroughly observe the situation on the field and make decisions when holding the ball. The most reasonable pass response to guide the team's overall offense.

However, due to injuries, both Casemiro and Modric will be exempt from the game for a long time, which makes Real Madrid's midfield control has dropped to the lowest point at present.

Although Kovacic was bought by Real Madrid from Inter Milan, he was called Modric's successor.

But Kovacic is still young after all, and there is a certain gap with Modric's style.

Although he has his own characteristics in the game, he cannot completely replace Modric's role.

And Isco, as the breakthrough player of Real Madrid's midfielder, is more about displaying his breakthrough ability in the game. Isco's passing ability is not outstanding, and more is about displaying his single player. offensive ability. However, while a single attack can create opportunities, it is also very likely to fall into the opponent's defensive double-team and cause the ball to be lost.

In the sixth minute of the game, when Isco was trying to break through in the middle, he was interfered by the opponent's physical confrontation, and Isco was knocked down after a physical confrontation from the side and rear, but the referee did not say anything about the ball. Called a foul, thinking this time was a reasonable physical confrontation.

The Alaves players immediately launched a defensive counterattack in the midfield area after stealing the ball.

In response to the vacancy instantly exposed by Real Madrid's defense, Alaves launched a counterattack very quickly without any delay.

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Facing Yang Feng who was guarding the middle road.

The Alaves player chose to send a long-distance through ball directly from the midfielder who intercepted the ball to find the deep space on the left instead of attacking directly from the center.

With the development of the La Liga season, everyone knows that facing Real Madrid's defense and Yang Feng's defense, try not to trouble Yang Feng on the counter-attack end, most of them are wasting the team's counter-attack opportunities .

This time, Garcia, who stole the ball in the middle, sent a long-distance through ball directly to D Torres on the left while Yang Feng was not in position.

D Torres quickly broke through the bottom on the left.

It was Varane who rushed to help defend, but although Varane has a good running speed in the field of defenders, facing a player with winger attributes, he still has no chance to catch up with his opponent.

D Torres quickly bottomed out on the left and directly completed a quick pass. This time it was a horizontal ball, which was quickly passed to the middle area by D Torres in a way similar to an inverted triangle.

In the instant defensive decision, Navas chose to take the initiative to attack to form an interception, but Navas underestimated the speed of Torres' pass.

In the game, Navas's attack speed was obviously a step slower. Although Navas was already throwing forward with all his strength, he tried his best to stretch out his palm to stop the ball, but he did not expect that D Torres' foot was close to the bottom line The cross can be passed directly and quickly to the vicinity of the penalty spot, just as Navas' outstretched arm did not block the passing route and missed the ball.

Navas made a huge defensive error, and it was Alaves forward Deveson who received the ball in the penalty area. Facing the missed pass, he directly pushed the empty goal and succeeded. Goal first.

"The ball is in! The ball is in!"

"Devesen, Alaves scored the first goal in the game." "Real Madrid made many mistakes in the sixth minute of the game. Isco made a breakthrough with the ball in the midfield and was intercepted by the opponent. It became a counterattack."

"And at the last moment, there was a huge hole in Real Madrid's defense. When the goalkeeper Navas chose to attack, he made a huge mistake again. He didn't pounce on the opponent's pass and gave the opponent a chance to hit an empty goal."

Navas's attack this time was obviously a bit reckless. He did not intercept the football, but instead allowed Dewison to catch the opportunity to hit an empty goal in the penalty area.

Yang Feng, although the block from the side, rear and side of this foot blocked half of the goal, but due to Navas's attack error, the entire goal was empty. De Weisen succeeded in hitting the left empty goal and was still taken by the home team. Goal scored.

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