Football’s First Defender

In the recent period of competition, for the Real Madrid team, they will encounter many strong teams on the schedule.

In the La Liga schedule, the team encountered two strong teams, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and achieved one win and one tie.

Especially in the away game against Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid showed its own offensive strength. In the game, in the confrontation with Barcelona, ​​even in Barcelona's Camp Nou, they did not lose at all.

After the draw with Barcelona, ​​​​Real Madrid will host Dortmund at home in the next Champions League.

This game can also be regarded as the battle for the first place in the group.

If Dortmund can win the away game, they will counterattack Real Madrid and become the first in this group.

As long as Real Madrid remain unbeaten, they will be the first in the group.

The increase in Atletico Madrid's strength, coupled with the long-standing smell of gunpowder in the Madrid Derby, also makes the Madrid Derby more beautiful and more special.

In this same city derby, the two sides have always shown the most positive attitude towards the game, trying to defeat their opponents and win the game.

In terms of actual performance, for Real Madrid players, in this Madrid city derby, they will try their best to show the most active performance in the game to pose enough threats to their opponents.

Although at the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid, who was at the Calderon Stadium at home, showed a very good competitive state in the game, and played the offensive three axes they wanted in the opening stage.

But as the game progressed, the rhythm of the game returned to Real Madrid's feet.

Real Madrid's players are actually slightly better than Atletico Madrid. After all, although Atletico Madrid is a top team, it may only be the world's top players in certain positions.

You can say that Atlético de Madrid has the strength to be based in the Western Super League, surpassing other La Liga teams except Real Madrid and Barcelona in terms of strength, but when it really wants to compete with Barcelona and Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid still has obvious weaknesses. short board

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After all, Atlético de Madrid does not have a real superstar on the pitch, and the players in each position, although they all have world-class strength, are absolutely at the top of the world with Real Madrid and Barcelona. Compared with players, in fact, there may still be a certain gap in the personal abilities of Atletico Madrid players, and these gaps converge into the whole. The remaining advantage of Atletico Madrid may be more holistic and tactical.

However, sometimes in football, the so-called integrity and tactics may not necessarily be comparable to the players' personal strength.

After Atletico Madrid's opening attack.

Real Madrid successfully relied on their team's defense to defend Atletico Madrid's first two attacks.

Real Madrid in the away game showed a very strong desire to win at the beginning of the game, or the players have enough enthusiasm and fighting desire to want to win the away game

, Real Madrid, with the desire to win, also played a rare positive performance.

This can be seen from the defensive performance at the beginning of the game.

We must know that Real Madrid's defense in the past was more likely to rely on the defensive ability of the team's midfielders.

However, when the defensive core of Real Madrid's midfielder, defensive midfielder Casemiro has to rest for a period of time due to injury, Real Madrid's defense relies more on the defense line Yang Feng to command and dispatch the team's defense line to complete. Defensive performance.

In terms of midfield, because Real Madrid lacks a full-time defensive player, in fact, the interception ability of the midfield has not been as strong or as good as before in these few games.

But today is different.

In the previous defense, the Real Madrid players really retreated with all members and did not give Atletico Madrid too many offensive opportunities.

Although the defensive ability of Real Madrid's frontcourt players may not be so good and professional, as long as people return to the defensive position and lock a certain defensive space, it is the greatest support for the back line.

Not to mention that Vazquez already has excellent defensive ability, and the central defensive combination formed by Modric and Kovacic can actually cause a lot of defensive interference to opponents when they are willing to show their physical strength

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Although Atletico Madrid played two offensive opportunities at the beginning, it was precisely because of the restrictions on the formation of Atletico Madrid's offense that Real Madrid's full dedication to defense reduced Atletico Madrid's offensive threat to a minimum.

Real Madrid's frontcourt players actively run on the defensive end, which gives the backline players the opportunity to further narrow the defensive area, and also allows them to judge the opponent's attack direction more clearly.

It gave players including Yang Feng the possibility to judge the supplementary defense.

Today's Real Madrid players are definitely showing rare enthusiasm. This can be easily seen from their running distance.

Real Madrid's running distance is no less than that of Atletico Madrid players in terms of real-time data. This is a very surprising situation.

You must know that in most of the Real Madrid games in the past, the running distance of Real Madrid players is that they can show the best enthusiasm in games like the national derby and run more distances.

In other games, Real Madrid's overall running distance is not as impressive as it is today. It is more about the Real Madrid players using the offensive pressure to try to control the ball with the least amount of running. Move, complete defense and offense.

Today, when facing Atletico Madrid, who are good at running, defending, and relying on collectiveness and enthusiasm to create opportunities, Real Madrid can actually run almost the same distance as their opponents in real time. It proves that the Real Madrid players really put out their full strength today, running, running, and no matter their physical fitness, they have to be on the road to find a chance to beat Atletico Madrid

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The most active Real Madrid, of course, are the two full-back players Marcelo and Carvajal.

As the initiators of Real Madrid's offense, Marcelo and Carvajal are definitely the two players who consume the most energy in the game.

Although Real Madrid has enough world-class players in the midfield to complete the offensive performance, everyone knows that Real Madrid's real offensive initiator actually relies on the two full-back players to attack.

The two players, Marcelo and Carvajal, are the biggest enrichment for Real Madrid's offensive system, and it is also the point that makes Real Madrid impossible to defend against.

Especially Marcelo, you have to know Marcelo, but as recognized as the world's number one left back, in the game, what is stronger is his ability to attack and advance quickly in the game .

Marcelo is the biggest starting point of Real Madrid's offensive end. This single point player can revitalize the entire left side of Real Madrid, which will greatly benefit the entire Real Madrid's offense.

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It is Marcelo's offensive ability. Marcelo can use his breakthrough in the game to show a very strong breakthrough strength to compress the opponent's defense. Marcelo's comprehensiveness in the final processing of the offensive end also Let Marcelo play the desired personal offense to complete the cooperation with his teammates

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After all, whether Marcelo chose to break through the bottom for the last pass, or choose to cut in and further come to the middle to cause trouble, the defensive players have no way of judging. Marcelo's ability to accelerate and stop in the process of breaking through is too strong. After the emergency stop, which point to choose as the attack direction may only be known by Marcelo himself.

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When Marcelo's side can be active, it is a nightmare for any team.

In the past, Real Madrid sometimes lacked offensive initiative in the game, or a large part of the reason why the offense stagnated, either because the forward players had a bad foot feel and could not form effective shots, or it might be because Marcelo His own state is not good, or Marcelo has not mobilized his enthusiasm and cannot exert his full strength.

Correspondingly, when Marcelo really started to exert his full strength in the game, Marcelo used his great physical sacrifice in exchange for great help to the team on the offensive end.

With Zidane emphasizing the team's defense, Marcelo actually has to assume the responsibility of wing defense. While doing his own wing defense, Marcelo also needs to come to the opponent's 30 on the offensive end. meters, even within the horizontal line of the opponent's penalty area, which requires Marcelo to consume a lot of physical energy to run on both ends of the offense and defense.

But today Marcelo doesn't care so much about this kind of physical consumption. Instead, he wants to use his best performance to prove his strength.

On the defensive end, Marcelo's performance today is actually very good.

Before that, Atletico Madrid took a free kick directly into Real Madrid's penalty area in the sixth minute. In the remote position at the back, it was Marcelo who rushed to the position first and kicked the ball first to complete the clearance.

In today's focus on the defensive end, Marcelo did not reduce his defensive ability because he had to bear heavy responsibilities on the offensive end, and maintained a very high defensive vigilance.

On the offensive end, Marcelo also exerted his full strength to help the team's overall offense.

In the 11th minute of the game, the two sides launched an active fight in the midfield.

Atletico Madrid wants to send a through pass, looking for Torres before the penalty area.

But this pass was directly completed by Yang Feng, who kicked the ball towards the midfielder after a high grab.

Above the scramble for the midfield position. It was Isco, who was very active in running, who grabbed the football.

Facing Yang Feng's clearance ball in the backcourt, after the ball landed on the top of the midfield arc and rebounded from the midfielder, Isco headed the ball a little bit first, allowing the Atletico Madrid player who was robbing to miss it, and then the Atletico Madrid player's first goal The second reaction, when he wanted to clear the ball, Isco picked the ball again and brought the ball under his control again

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Isco's small technical ability is really outstanding. In terms of personal technical ability, Isco is definitely one of the best players in the world.

This is why Real Madrid has always kept Isco in their hands.

Real Madrid actually lacks this kind of players with extremely strong small skills, because this kind of extremely strong small skills can use personal ability to break the opponent's defense in the offensive position.

It's just that compared to top breakthrough players, Isco's passing ability or passing ability in the presence of defensive pressure may not be so good

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If Isco's passing ability can be further improved, or if Isco's offensive efficiency can be improved, then he will definitely be the next David Silva, or Hazard.

But this time Isco used his header and a pick to control the ball directly within his own range, instantly putting huge pressure on Atletico Madrid's defense

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With two consecutive moves, Isco simply completed the pass, directly dribbling the ball forward, and after passing his first defensive player, the Atletico Madrid defensive player attracted by Isco's breakthrough had to shrink to the middle. To interfere with Isco's offense.

At this time, Isco did not stick to the ball this time. After successfully attracting three Atletico Madrid players to siege him from all directions, Isco immediately passed a ball to the left front As soon as it was delivered, it was directly plugged into the left road

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And the fast forward on the left is Marcelo who rushed from the rear. Marcelo showed his absolute speed ability in the unguarded situation, and quickly inserted in the left rear. When Isco When the pass was completed, I watched Marcelo move forward quickly from the bottom of the live screen.

And came to the upper part of the live screen before the ball went out of bounds, received the football

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This time Marcelo spared no expense in his physical fitness, and broke out with all his strength, accelerating on the left side, and completing a quick advance from the backcourt to the frontcourt.

And when Atletico Madrid's defensive players approached Isco in the middle, no one in the defense of the entire wing interfered with Marcelo in the first place.

Godin is the player closest to Marcelo laterally at this time, and at this time he can only move desperately to the side, trying to interfere with Marcelo's breakthrough.

But after Marcelo received the ball, he went straight to the bottom quickly, completely opening up the offensive space, and then sent a cross during the fast march, directly looking for his teammate who followed up in the middle.

A connection between Marcelo and Ronaldo is also the most common connection between the two in Real Madrid's small-scale cooperation.

The tacit understanding between Ronaldo and Marcelo is really good. Ronaldo jumped high in the small penalty area at the back point.

And Marcelo's pass came just in time. Facing Marcelo's wonderful cross this time, Ronaldo directly rushed to the goal in the air.

Ronaldo's header was very tricky this time. He didn't choose to hit the high ball, but used his waist and abdomen strength to keep the header down while he was in the air.

Such a header is definitely not a good ball for the goalkeeper

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However, Oblak played his worth, between

Oblak quickly fell to the ground and blocked the ball with a side throw.

Then the Atletico Madrid player slid the tackle at the first time, completed the clearance of the ball, and the clearance went out of the bottom line.

But Ronaldo is raising his hand to signal that the ball should have crossed the goal line

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Ronaldo was appealing to the referee, but after communicating with the assistant referee through the headset, the referee indicated that there was no goal this time.

Real Madrid created a dangerous attacking chance, only to be cleared by Oblak on the line