On the early morning of April 11, Yang Yang woke up on the soft bed in his bedroom as usual.

Every morning, his first thing he did was to turn his head and look at him, and found that his wife Su Ye, who was sleeping beside him, had already gotten up, but the bed was still warm, so he should have prepared breakfast for him.

Today is match day, and Real Madrid will face Juventus at the Bernabeu Stadium tonight.

Since Yang Yang and Zidane coached the first team, Real Madrid has canceled the tradition of staying in hotels the day before the home game, but instead allowed players to stay at home and live with their relatives, so as to avoid the players' tension before the game to the greatest extent.

Of course, this also requires players to have sufficient self-discipline.

Judging from the past three years, Real Madrid players have done well, at least there is no trouble.

Yang Yang was still the same as usual. After waking up, he got up and went directly to the bathroom.

When he finished brushing his teeth and washing his face, he took the cell phone from the bedside table and walked out of the room to prepare to go downstairs to have dinner.

While walking, lit up the screen of the phone. The news pushed by the phone shocked Yang Yang.

"Wow, this is crazy, right?"

Yang Yang looked shocked. When he walked down the stairs, he happened to see his wife Su Ye walking out wearing an apron. Seeing his expression when he went downstairs, he said in a complicated way: "Barcelona fell into a pit away."

"Well, I just saw it." Yang Yang shook his phone.

Without going directly to the dining room and kitchen, Yang Yang went down the stairs and walked directly to the living room, making a phone call as he walked.

"Did you watch last night's game?"

After the phone call, Yang Yang asked.

"Didn't you look?" Zidane, opposite the phone, asked without answering a question.

"I thought I was sure to win, so I went to bed early." As he spoke the phone, Yang Yang walked to the front of the living room door and looked out the garden through the glass wall, vaguely hazy, "Barcelona has really fallen into a big pit this time."

"It's been three consecutive seasons," Zidane reminded.

Yang Yang was reminded and immediately remembered.

Barcelona suffered two crushing defeats last season, first losing to Paris Saint-Germain in the quarterfinals 0-4 away in the knockout round, and then returned to the home court with a 6-1 turnover and reversed. However, in the subsequent quarterfinals knockout round, they lost to Juventus again away from home, with a 0-3 away game.

Another season before, Barcelona first defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 at home in the quarterfinals, but lost 0-2 at the Calderon Stadium in the second leg, and was reversed and turned around by Atletico Madrid.

And this season has come again.

A week ago, Barcelona and Roma defeated Roma four-one at home.

Although Barcelona was criticized after this game, because the victory was established by Roma's two own goals, and Barcelona did not show a steady level of winning the opponent in the whole game, but they won, and it was a four-to-one victory.

The reason why Yang Yang didn't even watch the game last night and went to bed early was because he felt that there was basically no suspense whether it was Barcelona or Liverpool. The former was four-to-one at home, and Liverpool beat Manchester City three-to-zero at home. There should be no suspense in the second leg.

But unexpectedly, Liverpool was indeed in danger, but Barcelona was defeated by Rome’s 3-0 perfect reversal.

This is not accidental!

It's definitely not accidental!

No team will be reversed by their opponents in the Champions League knockout season for three consecutive seasons, or lost to a big score, but only Barcelona has been like this for three consecutive seasons.

Through the phone, many things cannot be explained clearly.

Yang Yang and Zidane chatted for a while and then hung up. They went to the restaurant to have breakfast. They said goodbye to Su Ye and his newly-wake baby son Yang Guang, and told them to be careful when they went to watch the football on site tonight. Then they drove to Valdebebas.

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"Valverde made the mistake Emery made last season!"

In Real Madrid's coach's office, analyst David Betoni analyzed the game and came to his own conclusion.

"In fact, from the first leg game, Barcelona had no effective way to face Roma's defensive formation in the first thirty minutes. At that time, Roma was placing a 451 formation, and Dzeko was still ahead, and midfielder Nayinggolan was absent, so he arranged five midfielders."

"The turning point in that game was De Rossi's own goal, which greatly disrupted Roma's deployment, and then the defense lost stability. In the more than 30 minutes before the own goal, Roma's performance was perfect and did not leave any good opportunities for Barcelona, ​​but the two own goals changed everything and confused Valverde."

"In the two games, Valverde has not changed even a player, he still firmly believes that the four midfielders of Iniesta, Rakitic, Busquets and Roberto can continue to suppress Roma and control the game again, but he forgot that Nayinggolan made a comeback."

"Nainggolan's comeback has qualitative improvements in Rome's midfield pressing and oppression and running coverage, especially the pressing and oppression of Barcelona's midfield, but Barcelona is not mentally prepared for this. Not only that, Rome also changed its formation and adopted a three- or five-two formation. But in fact, Kolarov and Florentzi on both sides often retreated and recruited."

"Six minutes into the game, De Rossi made a long pass in the middle circle. Dzeko stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area and scored with his left foot. This basically laid the foundation for the trend of the game. Roma then got a lot of good opportunities in a row, but unfortunately the player's strength was limited and he was not sure. Not long after the start of the second half, Pique's foul against Dzeko caused a penalty, which sentenced Barcelona to death."

After talking about his analysis of the game in one breath, David Betoni smiled a little gloatingly, "Don't stare at the three-to-zero score. In fact, if the Roma's ability to seize opportunities is a little higher, and not to mention anything else, as long as it is an excellent opportunity, then this game will be at least five-to-zero, or even six-to-zero."

Everyone in the coach's office fell into deep thought.

Barcelona's away defeat sounded a wake-up call to Real Madrid, because Roma was almost playing with Barcelona's weakness.

As David Betoni said, if Rome had a little stronger ability to seize opportunities, Barcelona would lose even worse.

Real Madrid will face Juventus tonight, and their strength is obviously above Roma.

More importantly, Barcelona remained unchanged, resulting in a disastrous away defeat, while Real Madrid's main central defender Ramos was absent in this round.

"This game is indeed worthy of our attention and it also sounded a wake-up call for us." Zidane's face also became solemn.

No matter who it is, before a decisive battle, I will never help but worry when I see my mortal enemy losing like this.

"I think the lesson we should learn from this game is that we cannot give our opponents any chance." Yang Yang said very seriously, "Juventus' home court was 0-4, and it was indeed a big drop in morale at that time, but now Roma has reversed. What do you guess Juventus will think?"

Roma's big reversal is equivalent to cheering Juventus and letting the Zebras see that even Roma can reverse Barcelona, ​​so how could Juventus not have a chance to reverse Real Madrid?

"Ramos' absence has a great impact on our backcourt. After all, he is the captain of the team." Zidane agreed with Yang Yang's statement.

Yang Yang kept nodding, "So, we can't take risks and can't give Juventus a chance."

After pausing, Yang Yang said: "Roma's frontcourt offense relies on Dzeko. In Juventus' first leg, Higuain performed poorly. Allegri knew that we are not afraid of Higuain, so I think that Mandzukizi will be the same as last season's Champions League final."

"It's very likely." Zidane agreed very much, "Then let Xavi Martinez come to the right, cooperate with Azpilicueta, and stare at Mandzukizi to death."

"I think the other central defender should be Fermall. He is fast and flexible, and has more experience in defending Higuain."

"That's right, this is OK, but it still requires a midfielder. Casemiro must be there. Tony Kroos and Modric will still play as a three-middle midfielder?" Zidane looked at Yang Yang inquiring.

"Don't go to Hazard and Isco, let Kant go," Yang Yang suggested.

"Kante?" Zidane and everyone were a little surprised.

This is not the first time that Casemiro and Kante's combination is, but it is also extremely rare, because at the same time, Real Madrid's midfield control will become very weak, which is obviously telling the opponent that we must defend and counterattack.

"We beat Juventus' midfield in the first leg to beat him. Allegri will definitely change. Nayinggolan's effect should stimulate him. Don't forget that there is also a Matuidi in Juventus."

Yang Yang paused for a moment and continued: "Hedila must be, if Matuidi is on, the only one left is Pjanic. If we let Kante go, we will grab Pjanic and break the ball and fight back!"

Zidane, David Betoni and others looked at each other in a little, and then they all smiled bitterly.

Is this a bit too vulgar?

However, it’s true that in a Champions League knockout match, advancing is always more important than playing better.

Especially now, Juventus must be fighting with Real Madrid. Will Real Madrid be willing to fight with Juventus?

Neither Yang Yang nor Zidane were so sure, because the first round was four to zero, the players were definitely not as good as Juventus in fighting spirit.

Sometimes it is like this. If you are an opponent who is fighting for life with you but you don’t have the courage to fight for life, then you will be in trouble.

"Suarez is not here. If Mbappe comes on, his speed will be more threatening. Suarez will keep his energy and play the second half."

"It makes sense." Zidane nodded, "But if this happens, will the home court be too ugly?"

After saying that, everyone in the coach's office burst into laughter, and even Yang Yang couldn't help but smile.

In this way, Real Madrid played a little too conservatively.

But there is nothing we can do. Who made Juventus come in full force?

With Real Madrid's current strength, if its morale and fighting spirit are slightly inferior to its opponent, when Juventus came to the Bernabeu with a determination to go all out, Real Madrid really doesn't have enough confidence to fight head-on with their opponents.

Then it would be very normal to go to Kanter.
Chapter completed!