Iron Man on the pitch

After several attempts at the beginning but failed, Real Madrid decisively contracted their formation and began to defend and counterattack.

At the press conference before the game, Mourinho said arrogantly that he just wanted to squat and defend, and there were enough reasons.

"Press up like the last game? You know Kaka was injured, right? Kaka is the most critical part of our roster. He was injured and was reimbursed for the season, and we can never play such a game again."

"And we are already leading by 4 goals, as long as we don't lose 4, we will win."

"Many players were carrying yellow cards, but in order to ensure that they were qualifying, we had to send them, so we had to minimize fouls, and the scene would inevitably fall into a passive situation."

"Why don't you need a substitute? Which team dares to send a substitute when facing Barcelona? Unless you are ready to give your opponent a big reversal."

Barcelona has started the pass-and-control tactics as always, but the players' mentality is different from before, because they have to chase at least 4 goals before they can play overtime with Real Madrid. At the same time, we must avoid letting Real Madrid score a goal. Once Real Madrid scores 1, because of the away goal rules, Barcelona needs to score 2 more to take the lead in the total score before they can qualify.

When Real Madrid calmed down and didn't want to attack, Barcelona really couldn't break through Real Madrid's defense line quickly. After all, Real Madrid, who made up their minds to set up a bus, even Ronaldo returned to the front of the penalty area to assist in the defense, leaving only one Benzema in front, which made Barcelona's attack very difficult.

What's more, Barcelona is not good at attacking tough things. Headers and long shots are not conventional weapons for Barcelona. As for breakthroughs, facing a penalty area that is full of people, breakthroughs are the most irrational behavior, unless you can confirm that you can break through, you will cause a foul on the opponent.

However, Real Madrid players understand that they should pay attention to their position when defending this game. After all, there are many players participating in the defense and there is no need to rush to grab it.

So although Villa, Messi, Di Maria, and even Xavi and Iniesta fell in Real Madrid's penalty area in turn, the referee never found a good opportunity to call a penalty.

After all, almost Real Madrid players defend with their hands behind their backs, and only intercept and shoot with their legs. They will never easily grab it. The referee can't give a penalty even if he wants to give a penalty.

Although this defensive strategy makes Casillas very busy, on the one hand, he has four goals to support his bottom, so his mentality is very relaxed for this game; on the other hand, he is eager to wash up the previous one through excellent performances The shame brought by low-level mistakes in the league.

So Casillas used a high and low block to block all Barcelona's shots.

Moreover, after getting the football, Real Madrid players pretended to launch a quick counterattack, in fact, just to repeatedly mobilize Barcelona players, let them run back, lead forward for a few moves and quickly pass back to the defender to reverse the foot.

Barcelona players have put in a lot of energy to grab the football, but they don’t get the ball back many times.

After all, Real Madrid is a team of the same level. If you want to play exquisite forward-passing cooperation like Barcelona, ​​it may be difficult to get Barcelona's pressing, but you just fall down in the backcourt, and there is no problem.

What's more, this Real Madrid team has Li Ling who can handle some difficult situations and can transfer football to the other side safely. And Xavi Alonso, like Li Ling, can send out accurate long passes. Barcelona is not easy for everyone to press forward. Ronaldo's speed and explosive power are enough for them to pay attention to.

Nearly 30 minutes passed in the first half.

Barcelona players who have been unable to open the situation for a long time are becoming more and more impatient.

Li Ling took the ball in the midfield, tweaked the ball forward, and leaned forward, but this time it was not a pretending, but a sudden burst of speed and began to dribble the ball forward.

Harvey and Busquets beside Li Ling did not react, but Li Ling rushed through the gap between the two with the football.

Ronaldo, who was originally on the left, retreated to the middle to meet and brought Barcelona's right back Alves;

Benzema also moved and moved to the right, trying to bring Mascherano to the right, leaving only one Pique in front of Li Ling. However, Mascherano abandoned Benzema and came directly to defend Li Ling. He only needed to delay a little time, and Xavi and Busquets could return to defense.

Because Puyol took over the task of defending Benzema.

However, Real Madrid's left defender Marcelo took this opportunity and suddenly accelerated forward and rushed straight into the gap in Barcelona's right side; the right defender Sandton was the same, and wanted to draw the edge and bottom like Marcelo. But Di Maria followed Thornton tightly and cut off his catch route.

CanLi Ling's choice was not to cooperate with Ronaldo or pass the football to Marcelo. He chose to use his pass intention to make fake moves and break through Mascherano head-on.

This is Li Ling's little willfulness. After all, as one of Real Madrid's "KCL" Big Three combinations, Li Ling has the same autonomy as Ronaldo in football.

However, Li Ling usually plays too reasonably and can pass it all, which makes him seem to have no such willful qualification.

Mascherano also fell into this kind of thinking inertia. When Li Ling passed him with a silky fried croquette action, Mascherano was still thinking in his mind why Li Ling dared not to extend his hand. Ronaldo passed the ball.

Mascherano's obstruction finally played a role, and Xavi and Busquets had already caught up with Li Ling.

Facing the two of them pulling and pulling each other, Li Ling suddenly stopped suddenly, stepped on the football with his left foot, then pulled the football backward, knocked it on his right foot, and moved forward again.

This stop made Harvey and Busquetts subconsciously follow him, but their explosive power was far less than that of Li Ling, so the two people who were originally following Li Ling were left behind by Li Ling for a while and chased after him again. It's too late.

So Puyol gave up Benzema and came to intercept Li Ling.

Li Ling did not choose to break through Puyor, but directly passed the football into Barcelona's penalty area. Because not only Puyol came to make up for defense, Pique's body subconsciously moved here, which gave Ronaldo the space to penetrate directly into the penalty area.

Moreover, Benzema's position is too right, and Ronaldo is closer to the goal than Benzema's position, so Li Ling chose to pass it to Ronaldo.

However, after Ronaldo leaned on Alves, he did not greedy for the goal, but chose to pass the football to Benzema, who was unguarded.

Valdes has made an attack to block Ronaldo's shooting angle, while Benzema on the other side is completely empty.

Although Benzema often takes the blame that does not belong to him, he doesn't want to take it if he doesn't get into the blame.

Benzema scored the football steadily.