Football’s First Defender

After defeating Atletico Madrid, it was an extremely important victory for Real Madrid.

In particular, this was an away victory over their rivals in the same city, Atletico Madrid, which also allowed Real Madrid to lay a very good foundation for this season's championship situation.

For Real Madrid, after winning the hard bone of Atletico Madrid, it will be quite easy to face other teams in the subsequent schedule.

Real Madrid sharpened their knives sharper by taking advantage of Atletico Madrid, the "ghost under the knife".

And the next one to be stabbed is naturally Real Madrid's opponent in the Champions League, Sporting Lisbon.

For this game, for Real Madrid, they showed enough attitude before the game.

For Real Madrid, they narrowly beat Sporting Lisbon at home before. In the last UEFA Champions League match, Real Madrid was still in the game and was unexpectedly tied by the Warsaw Legion. This made Real Madrid want to continue to maintain the initiative to compete for the first place in the group stage Right, this game must be won.

In this away game against Sporting Lisbon, Zidane continued to send the team's 442 lineup in the previous victory over Atletico Madrid.

After all, it is an away game, and Sporting Lisbon's home strength is quite good.

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To be on the safe side, it is understandable to choose a 442 lineup with both offense and defense.

On the defensive line, Zidane made an adjustment in this game, which is to let Ramos, who has returned from injury, replace Varane and re-partner Yang Feng.

In the midfield, Modric, Kovacic, and Isco are still starting the field. Together with Vazquez, who has been in excellent form recently, the team's four midfielders make up the team's midfield defense. fault tolerance.

The double forwards are Bell and Ronaldo, two top attackers in today's football, who can bring enough offensive threats to Real Madrid.

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On the bench, Real Madrid also has teenagers Asensio, Benzema, Ronaldo and other players with excellent offensive capabilities, who can help the team complete a better offense in the game.

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Luo returned to Portugal, back to the familiar Lisbon.

Although it was an away game for Real Madrid players, Ronaldo also won huge cheers from the fans before the game.

For the fans, they also know that for the two teams, there is actually not much direct competition.

In the situation where everyone understands that this group should be Real Madrid and Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon has no difficulty in keeping the third place in the group. So for Sporting Lisbon, it is more about showing themselves and proving themselves in the game, showing the style of Portuguese football and the strength of their team in front of fans all over the world.

And Real Madrid occupied the initiative on the field from the very beginning of the game. Real Madrid's first attack in the opening stage was the danger created by Ronaldo's position on the right in front of the penalty area.

Vazquez's breakthrough attracted the defense of the Sporting Lisbon players, and then passed a short pass to Ronaldo. After receiving the ball, Ronaldo quickly completed a turn around to get the angle of the goal, and immediately hit the goal with a long shot.

Ronaldo's kick hit the door vigorously, and the angle was not bad, hitting within the range of the door frame.

It was only successfully blocked by Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Patricio who was concentrated in front of the goal.

Then in the 12th minute of the game, Ronaldo's queen left back Marcelo made a forced breakthrough on the left, and suddenly chose to cut inside to further cause confusion for Sporting Lisbon's defensive players. Marcelo completed another pass. , I just found Ronaldo who ordered later.

Ronaldo took off from the back position, jumped sideways, got rid of the interference of the defensive players, and jumped directly to the top. However, Ronaldo's header control of this ball was too pursuit of the angle of the goal when the jump was out of balance. , missed the ball.

Real Madrid's successive attacks finally paid off in the 17th minute of the game

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It was Vazquez, who was the most active in the game, who created the offensive threat.

He used his excellent breakthrough ability to continuously create defensive pressure on opponent players on the field, and when facing Vazquez's breakthrough, Sporting Lisbon players sometimes had to choose to use fouls to complete blocking

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This time, it was Vazquez's quick breakthrough on the right, which was about to break through Sporting Lisbon's side defense, creating a huge offensive threat, forcing the Sporting Lisbon players to take foul tactics and give Real Madrid a free kick on the right. Opportunity, but also to stop Vazquez's attack.

In this free kick tactic, Real Madrid gathered many players in the penalty area.

The two sides huddled together in the penalty area. The Sporting Lisbon players stood in a straight line in front of the small penalty area, while the Real Madrid players stood in the middle. When Modric's pass went to the penalty spot, Sporting Lisbon's overall defense was all pressed up.

To form enough pressure on the Real Madrid offensive group in the penalty area, but the Portuguese football players who are inclined to the technical type will inevitably be a little bit overwhelmed when facing a team with excellent physical conditions like Real Madrid.

At least in terms of Ronaldo's defense, the Sporting Lisbon players did not do very well.

Even through constant physical contact and physical confrontation, Ronaldo was unable to complete a comfortable goal in the game, but Ronaldo still successfully used his physical advantage to rely on the defender to grab the ball.

Cristiano Ronaldo knows this, and is definitely the defensive focus of the Sporting Lisbon players, so at the first moment of grabbing the first point, Ronaldo did not handle the ball by himself, but before the opponent's full encirclement started, the first One step and passed the ball.

Cristiano Ronaldo poked the ball directly out of his control range, so that the encirclement formed by the surrounding three Sporting Lisbon players had no effect, and the ball was stabbed forward by Ronaldo, and in the small penalty area there was another It was chaos, and the Sporting Lisbon players quickly retreated to the goal, but the first to touch the ball with their feet was Yang Feng, who stepped in during this attack.

Facing Ronaldo's pass, Yang Feng reacted very quickly.

Yang Feng also knows that if he wants to fully adjust in the penalty area with his own movement speed, and then complete the goal, it is basically impossible.

So what Yang Feng chose in the game was to directly use the fastest method to complete the kick.

Since it was necessary to hook the football back sideways, it might as well just fall to the ground, and choose a strafing shot while falling to the ground, and the ball was just swept towards the goal by Yang Feng's fall.

The ball was directly swept down the lower right corner of the goal by Yang Feng, but Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Patricio wanted to save it sideways, but he missed the ball.

Yang Feng hit the goal very fast and was too close to the goal, so the home team goalkeeper had no time to react.

Yang Feng directly took advantage of this set kick and scored the first goal for Real Madrid in the game.

A sweeping kick scored the ball. Yang Feng's excellent flexibility and ability to seize opportunities on the offensive end added another goal to his Champions League goals.

However, for Sporting Lisbon, who are playing at home, there are not too many worries after all. For them, although they still have the possibility of qualifying, they also have self-knowledge, so the Sporting Lisbon players played quite relaxed in the game. more relaxed.

In fact, sometimes the more relaxed, the more beneficial it is for the players to perform.

The Sporting Lisbon players played very easily, and they could play the most smooth offensive effect on the court. In the 33rd minute of the game, Sporting Lisbon almost scored a goal.

Gerson Martins on the right made a quick bottom, and then chose to pass back to Adrian Silva with an inverted triangle.

Silva, who had a chance to hit the goal, suddenly missed the entire Real Madrid defense, and Bruno Cesar, who followed him again, followed up with a strong shot. A ball happened to be blocked by Yang Feng, who was standing on the line of the small penalty area, stretching his legs at close range, so that the opponent did not threaten Navas' gate.

In the last ten minutes of the first half, the two teams tried more long-range shots in the game. Real Madrid began to consciously strengthen the team's defense. After all, for Real Madrid, promotion is not the most important thing. Yes, they want to use a victory to ensure that they continue to have the initiative to compete for the first place in the group.

No one wants to be the second in the group to meet the first in the group of other groups. The probability of drawing a strong team is too great. For a team like Real Madrid that is committed to defending the Champions League, it can try its best in the game. It is also very important for Real Madrid to avoid strong teams and retain the team's physical strength and tactical reserves.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again, but Real Madrid suffered heavy losses one after another while leading.

In the 54th minute of the game, Bell was stepped on his ankle by a Sporting Lisbon player during the counterattack. He was injured and had to rest. Zidane could only use one substitution. Impact on the wing.

However, although Real Madrid was plagued by injuries, they were in the 61st minute of the game. During the conflict between the players of the two teams, the home team player Pereira was obviously on top.

During the quarrel with Kovacic, he suddenly reached out and knocked Kovacic down with his elbow, but was caught by the referee and sentenced to a red card.

Real Madrid 11 to 10 in the away game is even more dominant.

It's just that maybe the recent continuous schedule is a bit tiring, Marcelo also took the initiative to apply for exit in the 71st minute of the game.

Judging from the walking situation, Marcelo may have some problems with his thigh muscles. To be on the safe side, he chose to rest, and Coentrao, who returned from injury, replaced Marcelo in a matchup.

In the second half of the game, although Real Madrid obviously wanted to play counterattack speed, they did not have a good chance to win when facing Sporting Lisbon, which is also good at fast offensive and defensive rhythm.

On the contrary, the Sporting Lisbon players, although they played one less player, saw the team falling behind by one goal, and began to try to complete a better offense, hoping to draw with Real Madrid at home.

In the 71st minute of the match, Sporting Lisbon's cross from the left was cleared out of the penalty area by Yang Feng's direct header. However, in the control of the second point, the Real Madrid players had a defensive gap and were followed by Willemka who was outside the penalty area. Valloo shot angrily at the ball.

The ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal. Thanks to Navas this time, he concentrated, swooped sideways, and directly blocked the ball.

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Although it is a ten-man battle, Sporting Lisbon has been using simple and efficient offensive methods to try to achieve offensive effects on the offensive end.

Not to mention, Sporting Lisbon's offense really achieved an offensive effect in the game.

In the 76th minute of the game, Sporting Lisbon created a chance.

Forward Campbell stopped the ball with a suspected handball action before the penalty area, but he picked the ball with his heel, picked the ball directly into the penalty area, and rushed to the arm of Coentraan who came to help defend.

This time, Coentraang's arm was indeed not completely close, and it was hit by Campbell's sudden hook.

After consulting the line referee, the referee directly awarded a penalty kick. Real Madrid suffered heavy losses in the last few paragraphs of the game.

In the end, Silva hit a penalty kick this time, and this penalty kick tied the score of the two sides at 1:1.

The sudden change in the situation on the court also forced Zidane to quickly make another substitution adjustment. For the last substitution adjustment, Zidane chose to replace Isco with Benzema.

Such a substitution adjustment is to continue to strengthen the team's offensive threat in the midfield and in the frontcourt.

And Zidane deserves to be Qi Xuanzong, this substitution directly brought victory to Real Madrid.

In the 83rd minute of the game, Benzema, who came off the bench, made great contributions to Real Madrid.

Real Madrid's oppressive attack directly achieved a good offensive effect, especially when there was one man in the lead, Ramos was also used as a striker and placed behind the penalty area. Real Madrid continued to use the ball from the side to create offensive opportunity.

Carvajal made a 45-degree pass from the right, and the ball went directly to his teammates in the penalty area.

Ramos, Benzema, and Ronaldo rushed to the goal, and in the end, Benzema, who was in the front position, shook his head and took the lead in receiving a pass from his teammates to complete the goal.

Faced with Li Benzema's head-shaking attack this time, Patricio had no choice but to bounce the ball off the ground. Although he made a save, he did not stop the ball.

2:1!

Real Madrid regained the lead thanks to a goal from substitute Benzema.

In the following games, Sporting Lisbon had no good way to pose a threat to Real Madrid. Real Madrid kept the score of 2:1 until the end of the game.

Of course, whether it is the identity of the group's first or the group's second status depends on the result of the direct match with Dortmund.

After being tied by the Warsaw Legion, Real Madrid once again achieved consecutive victories in various competitions. After defeating Leganes, Atletico Madrid and Sporting Lisbon in succession, Real Madrid returned to the league and won 2:1. The visiting Sporting Gijon beat Leonas again 6-1 in the Copa del Rey in midweek, and the Real Madrid team, which mainly sent substitute players, still did not leave much for Leonas at the Bernabéu Stadium. For face, a big victory at home will allow Real Madrid to win five consecutive victories.

Real Madrid's consecutive victories and his unbeaten record give Real Madrid enough confidence to face the focus of the weekend.