Yang Yang won the Golden Globe Award for the seventh consecutive year!

Barcelona once again got a draw, and Real Madrid's lead expanded to eight points!

These two good news came one after another, making Real Madrid all the joyful.

It is not difficult to see from the lively atmosphere in Real Madrid's locker room early the next morning, before training that everyone in the team felt a strong sense of self-confidence and was full of hope for the team's prospects this season.

Currently, Barcelona is even one point behind Atletico Madrid and ranks third.

Today, almost all media, big and small, are asking questions, what's wrong with Messi?

This is a difficult question to find.

I believe that even Barcelona coach Martino may not know the answer, otherwise Barcelona would not have come to this day.

It was obvious that everything looked good in the early stage of the season, and the cooperation between the Trident was getting better and better, and Barcelona was even more powerful, but why did it suddenly become what it looks like now?

Yang Yang is a player who is very keen on thinking and is also a good at thinking and analysis. When everyone in the locker room was celebrating happily that Barcelona was falling behind, he was thinking about one question, that is, what crisis did Barcelona encounter? And how did Ancelotti lead the team to this season?

This is a very interesting tactical question, because the two teams started significantly differently, and Barcelona's start was much better than Real Madrid, especially the seven-to-zero game in the first round, which could be said to have a storm of offensiveness.

In contrast, Real Madrid's start was accompanied by ups and downs. First, Xavi Alonso was injured, but the new aid Isco showed great power. Even David Silva was forced to sit on the bench, and Robben's position this season was gradually replaced by Di Maria...

It can be said that Real Madrid faced much greater problems and difficulties after the start of the game than Barcelona.

However, after several months of adjustment, Real Madrid gradually found a stable tactical style, and the team re-worked and formed, and then played attack power in the next few months, even with many games that beat Sevilla and Real Betis.

On the other hand, Barcelona's problems are exposed more and more, especially after losing to Real Madrid.

From the perspective of the players, Yang Yang and other Real Madrid players did not feel what Ancelotti did, and their training was still the same, but the main lineup of this season was not very stable.

But Yang Yang knew that sometimes, he did nothing on the surface, but actually did a lot.

If you pay careful attention to all Real Madrid games this season, it is not difficult to find a phenomenon. Isco gradually came out of a stunning period, gradually returning to normal from the eye-catching beginning of the season, and David Silva has also returned to the lineup.

Even to a certain extent, after Xavi Alonso's comeback, it is difficult to get back his main position because his competitors have become Mascherano or Ilia La Mendi.

Real Madrid's midfield configuration is basically a partner of David Silva and Modric, and a drag-back midfielder, with the main player Mascherano, and Xavi Martinez is now more often on the back line.

The team's stable performance is inseparable from the midfield configuration.

Both David Silva and Modric are very interesting. They are both just over 1.7 meters tall, not tall, have a fine foot, have strong dribbling and passing ability, and have a very broad vision...

In short, if we use the statements of the outside media and fans, they are all the top midfielders in the world, with good offense and defense. Among them, David Silva's defensive data this season is also very eye-catching, and he scored four steals against Real Betis.

Obviously, under the stimulation of Isco, David Silva is also transforming and improving.

Of course, this is a general statement.

When everyone describes Xavi Alonso, Modric, David Silva, Iniesta, and Xavi's type midfielder, the adjectives are generally those, but as their teammates on the court, Yang Yang feels it deeper.

David Silva was born as a winger and first played as a front midfielder, which was a bit similar to Zidane, but interestingly, he is very short, has a flexible body, and has weak ability to fight.

Many people say that David Silva looks like Iniesta, and at first glance it does, but Yang Yang doesn't think it looks like him. Instead, he thinks David Silva looks like Messi, because both of them are very good at dragging the ball in small steps, and they dare to dribble the ball in front of two or three defensive players on the side to create opportunities.

Of course, David Silva is definitely a little worse than Messi.

For example, both of them like to bring the ball out of the crowd, which requires a lot of change. Messi does a good job in this regard, and David Silva is a little weak, mainly because he is not as flexible as Messi in this regard.

Don't underestimate flexibility, as this affects the number of touches and thus affects the control of the ball.

For example, the Super Training Field analyzed Messi's dribbling. He could run ten steps in just 2.5 seconds when facing multiple defensive players at one time. During these ten steps, his touches reached four times and three times in a change of direction, all of which were carried out in intensive defense. This is a very terrible ability.

David Silva ran fourteen steps in three to five seconds, touching the ball five times and changing direction three times.

This is the difference between David Silva and Messi.

But that's the case. Messi is no less than other top midfielders in the world.

If you put these boring numbers on the court, you will see that Messi can easily bring the ball out in the defense of three people, but David Silva cannot do it. He can only see the opportunity to pass the ball in the double-team.

This season, David Silva grew very quickly under the pressure of Isco and had a stronger willingness to invest in defense, which further magnified the role of individuals in the team.

If David Silva is stronger than defense, then Modric is both offensive and defense.

He seems to be able to do anything, can transmit, control, belt and shoot, but he picks it alone and doesn't seem to have any advantages.

For example, his dribbling is not as good as David Silva and Iniesta, not to mention Messi; his threatening ability is not as good as those of Xavi, Ozil and Fabregas; his back shot is not as much as those of Xavi Alonso can press him to the ground, let alone those of Fabregas, Lampard and Gerrard.

But such a player who seems to know everything but seems to be top-notch has become the player Ancelotti relies on the most in the midfield this season. Basically, he firmly locked in a position in the midfield, and no one else can compete for it.

The reason is very simple, he is very, very comprehensive.

Yang Yang felt that if the division of labor and cooperation in the past was very clear, and everyone was like a component in a machine and each performed their own duties, then in recent years, the development trend of football has become increasingly obvious, that is, everyone is developing in the direction of omnipotence.

Because on the court, the position is often blurred.

You do whatever you go.

Modric is like this. He can attack forward, he can defend when he goes in, he can sort out and pass the ball in the midfield, he can defend when he retreats, and he is very stable and runs a lot. He is the most capable and willing to run in Real Madrid.

Sometimes Yang Yang feels that after two years of debugging, Ancelotti finally found Modric's position in the team.

That is balance.

The Croatian midfielder is the balance between Real Madrid's offense and defense!

In two years, it took Ancelotti two years to figure out Modric, David Silva, and others. It is estimated that he still can't figure out Isco and Ilia Lamendi.

So, on the surface, Ancelotti did nothing, but everything on the team is slowly and unconsciously changing, and even has been playing big scores in recent times.

This is the coaching ability of the world's top tactical masters!

It is completely different from the van Gaal, Benitez and others that Yang Yang had contacted before, Ancelotti always looks like a good man, but he is subtly transforming the team and creating the strongest team.

After realizing this, Yang Yang suddenly felt that his understanding of football was still too superficial.

Even though he has learned a lot of technical and tactical theoretical books and has a lot of insights into playing football, the gap is still too far from world-renowned coaches like Ancelotti and Benitez.

No wonder Zidane still had to learn from Benitez and Ancelotti after retiring.

At the same time, he also realized that judging from the current situation, Real Madrid has great potential this year!

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On the evening of January 21, Barcelona Eplat Stadium.

Once again, he came to Espanyol's home court. The last time Real Madrid played very hard, and this time, all the main players played.

At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid made a wave of bombings, almost pressing the Spaniards to play. Yang Yang shot on the post in the 21st minute and rebounded back.

In the 25th minute, Carvajal made a quick pass on the right. Suarez grabbed the front point and headed the ball. Yang Yang, who followed behind, easily headed the ball, broke the goal of Espanyol and opened the first record for Real Madrid.

Real Madrid then continued to put pressure. In the 31st minute, Yang Yang and Suarez made a two-pass and one-slammed wall-to-wall cooperation, but Suarez's shot was saved by goalkeeper Casilla.

In the 40th minute, Modric made a pass over the top, and Yang Yang hooked the side of the penalty area, breaking the goal of Espanyol again and winning another goal for Real Madrid.

After the second half of the game, neither side was able to score another goal.

In the end, Real Madrid defeated Espanyol 2-0 away with Yang Yang's double score and won the first leg of the quarterfinals of the King's Cup REE.

In the other three games played at the same time as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad defeated Atletico Santander 3-1 at home, Atletico Madrid defeated Atletico Bilbao 1-0 at home, and Barcelona defeated Levante 4-1 away.

Among them, Barcelona had just been tied by Levante in the league. This time, the four-to-one victory was awesome, but among the four goals, one was an own goal and the three were hat tricks played by the young player Troy.
Chapter completed!