"Hello everyone, everyone, welcome to watch the CCTV broadcast. I am Duan Xuan, I will broadcast this game live for you." Brother Duan Xuan's face appeared in the broadcast screen again.

The Tianchao Wu Channel also broadcasted the game live, which is also because this game is defined as a city derby, which is Madrid against Barcelona. Although Atletico Madrid and Espanyol do not see this way, it is also a gimmick after all, and domestic fans really want to watch Mark's performance on the stadium.

"Who is that bald player?" Mark asked Van der Fate next to him after the opening.

"You don't know him, De La Pena, who played for Barcelona before." Van der Fate was a little surprised by Mark's ignorance. As a supporter of Barcelona, ​​Van der Fate still has a good understanding of some of Barcelona's stars.

"Oh, it turns out it's him, no wonder he looks so familiar." Mark also rang out suddenly. De La Pena is a representative player of Barcelona, ​​and he once occupied the main force for several years.

On May 6, 1975, De La Pena was born in Santander, Cantabria. In early 1989, he joined the famous Barcelona youth training camp. With his extraordinary talent, he quickly gained a foothold in the Barcelona youth team. However, rebellion seems to be a lingering label for De La Pena. He made his Barcelona adult team debut in 1995. In 1997, De La Pena and Ronnie joined hands to win three European Cups, European Super Cup and Spanish Cup del Rey, but he was abandoned by the famous coach Van Gaal. In the summer of 1998, he went to Lazio, and the little Foo lived a four-year displaced life.

During his four seasons in Lazio, De La Pena took the initiative to ask for loans to Marseille and Barcelona, ​​but he could not get back to his former peak form no matter what. The bald genius playing Romantic football was no longer seen on the court. In the summer of 2002, he returned to Spain to join the Espanyol.

De La Pena appeared on the stadium as a star who was comparable to Spain and Raul. At that time, the new Spanish star among the La Liga twos, Real Madrid was Raul and Barcelona was De La Pena.

De La Pena was trained as Guardiola's natural successor, but because later head coach Van Gaal prefers Davis-style midfielder, De La Pena's professional trajectory is simply incomparable to Raul.

Raul continues the heavy responsibility of captaining Real Madrid, with an annual salary of 6 million euros. De La Pena earned 1 million euros in the Espanyol club to try to narrow the distance with Real Madrid. But De La Pena knows that the level he can reach in his career with Raul has long been irreparable. Although Aragonese does not think so, he needs De La Pena's passes worth "half goals". He always believes that in the glory of Ronaldo's truly famous Barcelona, ​​there are countless generosity and too many classics to do the ball, which is what Spanish striker Torres needs most today.

Since joining Espanyol, De La Pena has quickly found a feeling that he has become an indispensable brain in the midfield, and the No. 9 jersey he wore also proves his contribution to attack.

Aragones also recruited De La Pena to the national team again, and De La Pena's career has another brilliant period.

The most familiar midfielder No. 9 player before was the Italian metronome of the 1998 World Cup, Albertini, and de la Pena is completely like Albertini of Espanyol.

The Espanyol team in this game also adopted a relatively stable formation. Coincidentally, they are the same as Atletico Madrid, and they are also a four-two-three-one formation.

"The two teams are in a formation of 4231. It seems that the competition between the midfield should be a highlight of this game. Whether the defensive players of Atletico Madrid can defend the Spaniard's right midfield core De La Pena will also be a key." Duan Xuan Ge continued to comment: "Del Pena is jokingly called Little Buddha by Chinese fans because of his bald head and short body."

After the game started, De La Pena showed his super offensive ability in the midfield. His passing ability was very superb, making it difficult for Atletico Madrid players to recruit.

Lusin and Corsa, two midfielders, had to jointly defend De La Pena to barely resist De La Pena's offensive momentum.

Mark also faces Espanyol players. Espanyol has three attacking midfielders, and on the left is their No. 10 player Maxi Rodriguez.

Maxi Rodriguez was born on January 2, 1981. Rodriguez had already made his mark at the 2001 World Under-21 Youth Championship. Rodriguez had excellent skills and outstanding consciousness and could play multiple positions on the court. In the second half of the game against Mexico, he took on the role of right-back and used his excellent defense to ensure that Argentina did not concede goals. Rodriguez started his career at the Old Football Club in Newells, Argentina. After becoming famous in the domestic league, he transferred to the Spanish team in La Liga. There he performed well and had several key goals.

However, although Maxi's position is an attacking frontcourt, his position is closer to the front line when attacking, and often switches with Raúltamudo (raúltamudomontero). Such Maxi often appears at the center position. His running position makes Mark unable to defend him better.

Although Tamudo is only 1.78 meters tall, he is definitely a penalty area killer. Espanyol's style of playing is defensive counterattack, and the player who completes the final blow is often the penalty area striker Tamudo. His excellent shooting ability also makes Tamudo stand on the Espanyol's forward for many years.

Moreover, since Tamudo became the main player, he has been able to contribute more than ten goals to the Espanyol every season, which is also very important for the Spanish team that survives by counterattack, because the Espanyol often has very few scores, and maybe one to zero can win the game.

This also reflects Tamurdo's stability and the trust of the team's head coach Miguel in Tamurdo. This season is Miguel's first time as the head coach of Espanyol, and the team's momentum is good, which also reflects Miguel's personal ability and level.

Moreover, Miguel basically achieved such a result without introducing any decent players. You should know that the Espanyol last season ranked 17th and was almost relegated.

Mark was also hesitating whether to keep a guard against Maxi, because Maxi's frequent running made Mark hesitate. If Mark followed Maxi to the middle, the defense on the wing would become very stressful.

De La Pena's passing skills are very good. Even if you give De La Pena a little space, it will put Atletico Madrid in danger. De La Pena can easily pass that incredible penetration ball.

Midfielder De La Pena's pass and Tamudo's counterattack alone were also the most important tactical cooperation of Espanyol, which was a bit like Udinese in the last game.

Udinese, who played against Atletico Madrid in the last game, was Pizarro's midfield pass, and then their striker Yaqunta shot. However, Udinese's offense invested more troops, not only one Yaqunta.

"Mark, keep an eye on him and don't give him a chance to shoot." Cooper also saw that the format on the court was not very good, so he shouted and told Mark.

Mark was relieved after receiving Cooper's instructions, because Mark was not worried that he could not defend Maxi, but worried about how to do that position after he went to defend Maxi.

Since Cooper is not worried about this issue, Mark can only execute the head coach's orders. Mark likes to defend players. Mark believes that defending a player can only destroy his confidence, and then prevent him from exerting his strength better.

In the 20th minute of the game, Tamudo scored the side and passed the ball to Maxi. After Maxi got the ball, he passed it to Dela Pena, and then Maxi ran into the penalty area.

Mark also followed him and ran towards the penalty area. Although Maxi was trying to run, Mark was also keeping a step away from him. It was difficult for Maxi to get rid of Mark, and there were two central defenders in Atletico Madrid's penalty area staring at him.

If Maxi can get rid of Mark, these two central defenders will definitely make up for Maxi in time to give Maxi a taste of the amazing ones.

However, although Mark stared at Maxi, Atletico Madrid had fewer defenders on the right. After Tamudo faced Velasco alone, he easily passed Velasco and then broke into the penalty area.

After seeing Velasco being broken through, Pereia hurried over to make up for the position, but Tamudo's skills were indeed very flexible. He dunked the football with one foot, then passed Pereia and prepared to shoot.

Naturally, Pereya couldn't give him such a easy shot. After seeing Tamudo's shot, Pereya shoveled directly to the football from behind. However, although Pereya shoveled the football, he also shoveled Tamudo at the same time.

The referee awarded a penalty kick and also gave Perea a yellow card warning.

"Espanyol won a penalty kick, it seems that this time is not easy," Duan Xuan said regretfully.

"It seems we should have won." Maxi was very depressed by Mark's guarding, so he said something exciting to Mark.

This is also a strategy for Maxi, because if you can interfere with Mark, you will definitely have a chance to score. Although Maxi is a midfielder, he still likes to score with many Argentine players.

This is also a tradition for Argentine players. Often, there are not many Argentines with strong defensive capabilities, but there are many players with strong offensive capabilities. Some Argentine defenders can score goals frequently, but they are also a bomb when doing their jobs, and often make bizarre mistakes.

The most famous one is Demichelis of Argentina. He often makes those bizarre mistakes, but because of his strong offensive ability, he can still get into the main position.

In fact, the strength of Argentina's defensive players is also very strong. For example, Passarella, Chamot, Sansini, and Argentina players in that area are all very hard-working defensive players. They are looking at how to defend the opponent's players. Although they can score goals occasionally, their colleagues who score goals do not forget to defend their jobs.

However, in today's highly developed consulting, it is very difficult to see such players, because everyone knows that offensive players can make more money.

Even if a central defender loses more goals, as long as he can score one or two goals in a key game, his salary will not be small, so more players like to attack.

The penalty kick of Espanyol was taken by Tamudo. Tamudo's fake move deceived the goalkeeper and scored into the net. Espanyol took a 1-0 lead at home.

After scoring the goal, Tamudo ran to the stands to celebrate with his fans, and the entire Olympic stadium became a sea of ​​joy.

The players at Atletico Madrid seemed very depressed. They were originally playing away games and were even behind with one goal, which made these players feel a little discouraged.

Moreover, these Atletico Madrid players also know that Espanyol is a team known for its defense. If they fall behind with one goal away, the next game will obviously not be easy.

Sure enough, after the re-telection, the Spanish team's defense line was even more recycled. They were more determined to have the opportunity to counterattack, and Maxi also returned to the left forward position.

Only one player in Tamudo was left to counterattack, and all the remaining players retreated to the half to defend.

"It seems that Espanyol is going to play a defensive counterattack, and Atletico Madrid's offensive ability has to stand the test," Duan Xuan said worriedly.

"It's okay, our team's offense is the best, and we will definitely tie the score immediately." Mark looked at his teammates' morale downturn and shouted at them.

However, it didn't seem to have much effect. The teammates didn't respond much to Mark's shouting. Mark knew that these players didn't seem to have much hope for winning this game.

Originally, Atletico Madrid's goal before the start of this game was to take away a point, which was the so-called winning goal, so the players were not in a hurry to attack, and this relatively lazy style also prevented the players from recovering after falling behind in the score.

Mark knew that someone should stand to show it. As long as someone could conquer the players by performing on the court, these players would definitely be able to restore confidence under his leadership.

Mark is just to be this person, the one who can lead the players forward. Although the team captain is Torres, Torres' position is the striker, and he cannot effectively command the players.

In fact, in Mark's opinion, the best player in the captain should be the back midfielder, because only the back midfielder is the team's offensive and defensive hub, because only the performance of the back midfielder on the court determines the team's condition, and the forward player is just the team's offensive finisher.

However, Mark did not expect anything about the captain. Mark did not think he was a good candidate for the captain because Mark was still young and Mark did not think he could drive the morale of the team well.

What Mark has to do is to assist Torres as a member of the team, and this is what Mark does next.

Atletico Madrid's offense in the 30th minute, but because it was Atletico Madrid's positional offense, Espanyol was already on the verge of the team, and Atletico Madrid's players did not find a better opportunity.

The football quickly passed to Mark's feet. After Mark got the ball, Maxi came up to defend Mark. Mark looked up and saw that the Espanyol's defensive formation had been set. Although Mark could pass Maxi at this time, David Garcia, the full-back behind Maxi, would definitely destroy Mark's attack.

Mark felt that there was no good chance and passed the football to Van der Fate. At the same time, Mark ran towards David Garcia. Van der Fate passed a overhead ball to Mark after seeing Mark run.

After seeing Van der Fate's pass, Mark directly leaned against David Garcia with his body, and then received the ball with his chest. Soon Maxi also ran to Mark. If both of them formed a double-team against Mark, then Mark's chance of attack this time would definitely be gone.

After Mark stopped the ball in his chest, he turned around and then removed the football with his feet and wanted to make a cross from the bottom. However, Garcia also saw Mark's intention and directly kicked Mark down. Atletico Madrid got a free kick close to the sideline.

"Good pass, Raphael" Mark shouted at Van der Fate and he also shouted to the players around him: "Brothers, we want to attack, we need to score goals, let them see how strong we are at the offense."

The players of Atletico Madrid around also saw Mark's personal ability just now. Because no one from Mark's just received Mark, Mark got a chance to have a free kick. In fact, if someone picks up Mark this time, it might be possible to pass the ball. Atletico Madrid players gradually developed a little confidence in the offense, but this confidence is also relatively weak. If the situation is not opened up for a long time, or if they are scored by Espanyol again, the Atletico Madrid players will completely lose confidence.
Chapter completed!