Piao Tian Si     Fall at 20:25 pm on April 1, 2007, Celta, Valaidos Stadium

The game has been going on for 60 minutes, but Real Madrid still trailed 0:1. Although the Galaxy took the initiative on the field, it never failed to break through Celta's goal.

Since many players played the whole game in the national team, Yang Cheng performed an appropriate rotation for this game. Casillas served as the main goalkeeper, with Miguel Torres, Thiago Silva, Elgra and Salgado. The two midfielders were Delarede and Xavi Garcia, Marcelo, Raul and Mata playing the forward, and Aguero broke forward.

Although there are many substitutes in this lineup, it is actually not weak in combat power, but it seems a little loose. After the game, it took the initiative in the game and launched a fierce impact on Celta's position. However, it has been unable to create an effective opportunity to score. Instead, Celta counterattacked by a counterattack, breaking through the defense from the left and taking the lead.

Miguel Torres is regarded as another discovery on Real Madrid's defense line this season. Many people regard him as Aveloa, who has a slightly stronger offense and a slightly faster speed. But in fact, he exposed his biggest problem in this game, and his defense is not stable enough.

When facing the opponent's counterattack on the right, Miguel Torres was teased by Nene once with the ball on his heel, and the latter directly assisted his teammates to score. Then Miguel Torres also suffered the opponent's breakthrough many times in one-on-one situations.

"Now Celta's counterattack is almost unnecessary to consider. Just hit Real Madrid's left side just by hitting. Nene almost teases Miguel Torres as a wooden stake. This young Real Madrid player completely exposed his shortcomings in one-on-one defensive ability."

"Of course, it is undeniable that this is related to Real Madrid's midfielder's failure to provide sufficient protection for the defense line in this game. Drarede is keen on attacking, and is more like a Gerard-like player. Xavi = Garcia has excellent skills, strong organizational skills, good defensive abilities, but has a tall figure, slow speed and lacks mobility, which makes him able to stand in the middle, but it is difficult to rush to the wing in time."

"But Real Madrid's biggest problem is its offense. Although Celta is a popular relegation, this team is not weak. Moreover, once they encounter giant teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​they will always gather heavy troops to encircle and suppress the midfield. In addition, their skills are not bad, and counterattacks are very threatening."

"Vie" Alonso and Beckham's long passes came to solve this problem, but now these two players are not on the court, which makes Real Madrid's offense too obsessed with the middle lane. It seems to have an advantage, but in fact it is difficult to form a threat."

"Yang Cheng should make adjustments as soon as possible. After all, there are excellent passers like Guti sitting on the bench of Real Madrid. They should be replaced as soon as possible to give full play to Guti's passing characteristics and form a threatening attack as soon as possible."

But Yang Cheng seemed to have not understood the analysis of the live commentator at all. He still did not move, which made those Real Madrid fans who followed the team to the away game, as well as all Real Madrid fans sitting in front of the TV, feel anxious.

Time passed quickly, and Yang Cheng finally responded in the 65th minute.

This time he replaced Xavi Garcia with Guti, replaced Mata with Granero, and made two substitutions in one breath.

"Give the ball through the midfield as fast as possible and send it to Guti's feet!"

This is the latest requirement that Yang Cheng made to the team after making adjustments. After the adjustments, Granero, De La Reed and Marcelo played three midfielders. However, Marcelo and Granero can all pull to the wing to participate in the offense at any time according to the situation on the court to play widths for the team, and De La Reed's responsibility is more about defensive protection.

Raul was pushed to the front line and partnered with Aguero. The two players' duty was to find opportunities in the front, and Guti was responsible for delivering shells to them from behind.

The reason why Yang Cheng wanted Guti at this time was that he had to use his opponent to tangle with Real Madrid for 65 minutes, and his physical fitness had been almost exhausted. In this case, anyone's attention would decline and his mind would relax. This was Guti's opportunity.

Yang Cheng had already bet on the victory or defeat of this game in the last half hour, so in order to allow this group of players to have better physical fitness to cope with this game, during his national team game, all the players who did not participate in the national team game had a 6-day holiday in order to give them enough rest time.

When in Penang, there are no training arrangements these 6 days, but players must be self-disciplined and cannot affect their status.

Yang Cheng's bet is the fighting spirit of this group of substitutes and young players, as well as the role of veterans such as Guti and Raul.

I really have to admire Guti. As soon as I got on the court, the Golden Wolf received a cross from Marcelo's left-handed ball and directly faced Celta's defense. When the opponent's back midfielder could not grab it in time, he passed the ball directly to the left side of the penalty area.

After Raul inserted, he shot with his left foot and was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

But just 2 minutes later, Guti made another accurate pass through Celta's defense and sent the ball to Aguero who was counter-offside, forming a single striker, but the lineman raised the flag to signal offside.

In fact, Aguero was indeed offside, and the Argentine boy was too impatient.

Perhaps after seeing Guti on the court, Real Madrid made consecutive threats, and Celta began to consciously defend Guti. They continued to encircle Guti in the midfield, so it was often seen that as soon as Guti got the ball, there would be two or three defensive players chasing him.

However, they still underestimated the intelligence of the Golden Wolf.

It was as if this time, Guti moved to the right side of the midfield and took the ball with his back, and was blocked by Celta's rushing to the court, Illine and Ovinia, and Gustavo Lopez also followed him to guard against Guti.

After getting the ball, the Golden Wolf avoided the physical confrontation that he was not good at, and did not turn around, but knocked the ball back to Granero. When the latter saw Aguero retreating to receive the ball, he sent the ball to Aguero's feet with one kick.

The Argentine boy turned sideways and dribbled the ball to the left. Marcelo quickly pressed up and Aguero took advantage of Celta's defense line that had just leaned right and had too much space on the left to pass directly behind Angel and Contreras. Marcelo used his speed to cross Angel and chase the ball on the left side of the penalty area and made a cross.

Raul, who had been on the right side, moved over as early as Aguero dribbled the ball to the left. When he saw Marcelo's gesture before passing the ball, he had a premonition that he would pass the ball, so he did not stay in the penalty area, but ran forward quickly to meet the ball, jumped high at the front point, and headed to attack.

“goal11111111ll11!!!”

"Raul once shook his head with a beautiful Lions. Real Madrid finally tied the score in the 76th minute. This was a very beautiful transfer. Real Madrid created a loophole in Celta's defense line by pulling and Marcelo inserted it and completed the assist. Raul's header was also very beautiful!"

"At critical moment, Raul showed the key role of a team spirit leader, and he can always show his strength at critical moments and help the team...."

When the commentator was amazed, he saw that Raul landed and was not excited about the goal. Instead, after hearing the effective whistle of the referee's goal, he rushed into the goal immediately and directly carried out the ball that he had just scored.

I saw Raul running towards the midfield with the ball in his arms, waving to the Real Madrid fans in the stands along the way, hoping that they would have more cheers and applause, and at the same time he was also shouting at his teammates.

"Quick! Quick! Quick!!" Raul shouted at his teammates as if he could hear his voice during the live TV broadcast, "What we want is not a draw, what we want is a victory, we want a victory!!!"

I saw the Real Madrid captain coming to the center circle and threw the ball directly to the opponent's forward Bayano, turned around and returned to the outside of the center circle to greet his teammates and come quickly, and at the same time, let the referee start the game again as soon as possible.

As if infected by Raul, Real Madrid then launched a round of bombardment against Celta's goal. Guti's appearance kept creating opportunities for his teammates in front, drilling through Celta's defense line, and even completely revitalizing Real Madrid's midfielder, Granero, Marcelo, and even De La Reid, were completely activated.

Especially under Raul's encouragement, Real Madrid seemed to be full of fighting spirit, and even the players on the defense were actively pressed to participate in the offense, and Celta was forced to shrink the defense across the board.

In the 85th minute, after Granero got the ball on the right, he quickly cooperated with Guti in the middle, tore through Celta's defense line, passed the ball low and shot with a low pass from the front of the penalty area. Raul inserted his right foot and shot. The goalkeeper Pinto saved the ball, but Aguero, who was unguarded, successfully picked up the bargain and pushed the ball in front of the goal and scored 1:2

After completing a reversal, Real Madrid seemed more motivated and frequently created dangers in front of Celta's goal, but in the end they failed to score again and could only end up reversing Celta 21 away games.

“It’s a very tough game!”

At the post-match press conference, Yang Cheng seemed very happy, at least his team completed a reversal.

"I know Barcelona also completed a tough game, and their lead was still at 9 points, but I don't care how they performed, I only care about our own situation, because all of our players know that if we want to complete a big reversal against Barcelona, ​​we have to win all the remaining games."

"Only in this way can we reverse Barcelona!"

Regarding the gap in strength between Celta and La Coruña, Yang Cheng shook his head and denied it.

"It's fake to say how big the gap is. La Coruña's performance has been very bad this season. Although Celta is a relegation team, it is often harder to play because they will give everything to fight you, and they will do everything to stop you from scoring."

In fact, Barcelona's game was also 21. They scored the goal at the beginning, but they were immediately equalized. After that, they couldn't find a way. In the end, Etoo's goal saved Barcelona. But I heard that this guy blew up Rijcard after the game, saying that if he was not a substitute but a starter, the game would not have been so hard.

"Mr. Yang Cheng, Real Madrid's possession rate in this game is as high, but it has lagged behind Celta for more than an hour. Does this mean that there is a problem with Real Madrid's overall offense?" A reporter stood up with malicious intentions and asked.

Yang Cheng shook his head, his slightly smiling expression had become his signature move when facing the media.

"Our ball possession rate is because our opponents gave up ball possession. They are more on defense and pursuing stability in the midfield and backcourt. So they successfully tackled as many as 38 times in the whole game, while we only had 18 times, which was twice ours. However, our pass success rate was as high as 8698 while they were only 75.%, and our shots reached 17 times."

"I don't think there is something wrong with our offense, it's just that the opponent's defense and game strategy are too negative."

"But anyway, I'm glad we won, I feel our players have begun to learn how to win in trouble, which is undoubtedly very important for a team, and I'm glad we played the belief that we must win."

When reporters asked what Real Madrid had to rely on to defeat Celta in Valaidos, Yang Cheng shook his head.

"This is hard to explain, because only as the head coach and as a player as a member of the team can understand the changes in our team, a kind of continuous improvement. I believe we have walked out of the quagmire that the outside world criticized us before and we began to embark on the road of prosperity."

"I hope from now on, all our players should learn and maintain a belief that they have to get 3 points in every game, which is a quality that all top teams must have."

Yang Cheng gave high praise to the team's captain Raul and vice captain Guti, believing that they are the team's treasures.

"There is a kind of player that when you have him, you will feel dispensable, as if you can find someone to replace him anytime and anywhere. But in fact, when you lose him, you will find that what you have lost is not just a player, but more!"

"There is no doubt that for Real Madrid, Raul, Guti, Casillas and others are all such players!"

At the end, Yang Cheng once again appealed to the team. He said that as long as Real Madrid wins all the remaining games, Barcelona will definitely be done and the championship will definitely belong to Real Madrid!

In unison with the head coach, several Real Madrid players, including captain Raul, Guti, Ramos, Villa, etc., were confidently saying in interviews with media close to Real Madrid such as Marca and Ass that Real Madrid would win all the remaining games.

It seems to be to confirm Yang Cheng's confidence, or to give Real Madrid confidence, in the 29th round of the La Liga, Barcelona's away challenge to Zaragoza was held the day before Real Madrid faced Osasuna.

Before the game, Rijkaard repeatedly stated that Barcelona would win the game and return all the pressure to Real Madrid. Cruyff also expressed in the column that he was optimistic about Barcelona's victory and defeating the opponent.

However, Diego Milito's goal in the 57th minute completely blocked the mouths of all Barcelona people. Zaragoza unexpectedly defeated Barcelona at home. Diego Milito's reputation was not famous, but the Argentine striker, who was very efficient in scoring, was also included in the list of recruiting for the new season by Barcelona management after this game.

After losing the 3 points that were originally sure to win, everyone immediately turned their attention to the Bernabeu Stadium the next day.

Villa performed well in the first leg against Osasuna. When he returned to his home court, he still maintained his good competitive state. He first assisted Raul in the 24th minute and won the first goal. Then Beckham and David Silva also scored goals one after another, while Villa was assisted by Gutimi Pass in the 87th minute and won the next goal.

In the end, Real Madrid beat Osasuna 4:0 at the Bernabeu Stadium.

After the game, the entire Bernabeu stadium was applause. Real Madrid, who had been resting for a week, showed an unprecedented good condition. The team exerted great control. Osasuna failed to pose an effective threat to Real Madrid in the whole game.

But more importantly, after this game, the gap between Real Madrid and Barcelona narrowed to 6 points.

From 14 points to 12 points, from 12 points to 9 points, now it has reached 6 points. In just a short while Real Madrid won five consecutive victories, but also shortened the gap between itself and Barcelona by 8.

This made everyone amazed, because with the fact that La Liga was still left to abandon, 6 points was equivalent to regaining the suspense of the league championship. Everyone was asking questions, what happened to Barcelona recently?

In this case, all Real Madrid fans will not care about Real Madrid's draw 1:1 at home in the Champions League quarterfinals knockout match, and then lost 1:2 away to Chelsea's blood, and was eventually eliminated by Chelsea from the Champions League quarterfinals with a total score of 32.

In fact, Real Madrid does have a considerable gap in strength between Chelsea, especially for Real Madrid today, the league is undoubtedly more realistic and important than the Champions League.

Yang Cheng even made a pledge to go all out at the Stamford Bridge press conference after losing to Chelsea in the mid-week, "We have no other way out now. We have been eliminated in the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, and we only have one way to go now."

"Reversal Barcelona, ​​win the La Liga championship, defend our pride and glory of Real Madrid, otherwise, it will be a failure!"

Real Madrid players also generally responded positively to this. Raul said in an interview that Real Madrid will win the La Liga championship.

Cannavaro also said, "Real Madrid this season is the strongest Real Madrid in recent years I have seen. We will definitely be able to beat Barcelona, ​​complete an epic reversal, and win the La Liga championship!"

With such a belief, Real Madrid defeated Santander 41 in a away game one day earlier than Barcelona. Although he was equalized in the game, Real Madrid quickly lost three consecutive games, completely losing suspense to the game.

At the Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona relied on Mallorca's centre-back Navarro narrowly beat Mallorca in the 89th minute and scored 3 points.

But compared with Real Madrid, which swore awesome and vowed to reverse Barcelona, ​​Barcelona is undoubtedly inferior in momentum, while Real Madrid has a rainbow of morale.
Chapter completed!