Football’s First Defender

Alaves continued to show their recent excellent competitive state in the home game. As soon as the game started, Alaves as the home team scored a goal, which also strengthened Alaves' determination to defend.

Alaves' team is very tough defensively. They use their tight defense line more in the game to hinder all opponents' attacks.

And when the Real Madrid players really created certain offensive opportunities in the frontcourt attack, the Alaves players were not stingy with using fouls to disrupt Real Madrid's offensive rhythm.

It's just that facing Real Madrid, a super-strong team, although Alaves' sometimes fouls can stop Real Madrid's offense for a while, it can't limit all of Real Madrid's offensive methods.

Because we must know that among Real Madrid's offensive tactics, set-piece tactics are also the best way for this Real Madrid team to score goals.

On the one hand, players have extremely hard feet. Whether it is Ronaldo, Bell, or Toni Kroos and others, they all have an excellent ability to hit the goal with a free kick.

On the other hand, the Real Madrid players' ability to fight for points in the penalty area is also very good. The BBC combination plus the starting central defender combination Yang Feng and Varane, all five of them have a strong ability to grab points in the game. Giving any team's backline a huge threat in set-piece tactics.

Just in the 15th minute of the game, Real Madrid used Isco's breakthrough in the frontcourt to get an excellent free kick opportunity, which caused an offensive threat.

The purpose of Zidane's deployment of Isco is to deal with the opponent's iron barrel formation. When the opponent is in the iron barrel formation, Isco's personal ability is used to form a tear in the opponent's defense line in the frontcourt. complete the offense.

This time Isco's dexterity was extraordinary, causing the opponent to foul before the penalty area.

About five meters away from the restricted area line, slightly to the right, is just within range of left-footed Bell.

In the European Cup this summer, Bell scored a direct free kick in the same position, leading the Welsh team to continue to advance in the European Cup.

However, the omnipotent Bell in the European Cup returned to La Liga, but he did not continue such a good performance, and his performance has been a bit flat recently.

Of course, this may also have something to do with Real Madrid's too many free kickers, and Bell can't be the main attacker for every goal.

However, this ball happened to be very conducive to the left-footed performance, so Ronaldo, Cross and others did not have the opportunity to grab Bell's direct free kick this time.

Bell adjusted his position, ran up, and completed a signature free kick to hit the goal.

It's just a pity that Bell's kick was directly blocked by Alaves' wall and bounced out of the penalty area.

But an accident happened, and the referee immediately blew his whistle and pointed to the penalty spot with both hands.

"Referee, a penalty kick was awarded this time!"

"What did the Alaves players do? Did someone handball just now? The referee directly awarded a penalty kick, very decisive!"

Judging from the slow-motion playback, Dewison, who had just scored for Alaves before, made a big mistake in the penalty area this time in the wall defending Bell's direct hit.

De Weisen, who was in the wall of people, stretched out his arm vigorously after jumping up, and Bell's line of hitting the goal this time happened to hit De Weisen's outstretched arm.

The referee was sharp-eyed for this ball and did not make any mistakes in the penalty. The ball was indeed a handball from De Weisen's penalty area. Bell's direct free kick created a penalty for Real Madrid.

Standing in front of the penalty spot is of course Cristiano Ronaldo. While running up, Ronaldo watched the opponent's goalkeeper, playing a psychological game with the goalkeeper.

Then there was a pause to hit the goal. At the moment the goalkeeper chose to jump to the right, Ronaldo changed his foot shape and hit to the left. The ball rolled into the lower left corner of the goal and scored easily.

1 to 1!

With less than ten minutes of game time, the game went on to the 15th minute. Ronaldo took advantage of the penalty kick created by Bell this time to equalize the score for Real Madrid.

Since Ronaldo returned from injury, although he has played in the game from time to time, he has been lacking the explosive performance of last season.

In the recent performance, Ronaldo did not meet people's expectations, but in this game, Ronaldo showed his excellent competitive state.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Real Madrid once again launched an excellent attack in the frontcourt.

Benzema asked for the ball just past the midfield position on the left, and was pressed by three Alaves defenders.

The purpose of Alaves' defensive players is actually very simple. They intercepted Benzema's ball with an instant siege formed by the three, and this time the defense was successful.

It's just that they underestimated Benzema's ability at his feet.

Benzema is definitely the most comprehensive striker in world football today, not even one of them.

His ability to hold the ball may not be as fancy as some players, but relying on his own weight, his own strength to fight, combined with his own ball ability, Benzema has the capital to move around in a small area.

Although this time the ball at Benzema's feet was poked out by a player from the side and rear, Benzema reacted extremely quickly. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity of the poked ball to form a turn, and instantly opened a certain distance from the defensive player. Then immediately knocked the ball directly to Ronaldo in front left.

After receiving a pass from Benzema, Ronaldo directly inserted diagonally into the opponent's penalty area.

In defending Ronaldo, only one defensive player was supported by Ronaldo's arms, and it was impossible to implement effective defense at all.

Cristiano Ronaldo's physical confrontation ability is so good that he doesn't give any chance to the defensive players who follow him

to form an upper grab,

Ronaldo completely crushed the opponent's defensive player and completed a volley from outside the penalty area to hit the goal.

This kick was powerful and the ball was extremely fast. Although Alaves' goalkeeper made a save, there was still nothing he could do about Ronaldo's long shot to the upper right corner.

2:1!

Relying on his strong personal strength, Ronaldo overtook the score for Real Madrid in the game.

Throughout the first half of the game, Real Madrid showed a super-excellent competitive state when the team fell behind. The team continued to use counterattacks on the offensive end, using the players' personal abilities to create offensive opportunities, giving Alaves great offensive pressure.

Some Alaves players have actually done quite well in defense today, except for a handball foul in the penalty area, a three-man defense against Benzema and Benzema passed the ball, and two defensive errors. Used by Real Madrid to play an excellent offensive effect.

Alaves' defense did not show the defensive effect he wanted in the first half of the game. Instead, Real Madrid regained the initiative of the game and gained an absolute advantage in the first half of the game.

In the end, the two teams did not make much achievements on the offensive end in the last ten minutes of the first half.

Real Madrid was able to take the lead in the first half with a score of 2:1.