793 Win at the Bernabeu
793 Decisive victory in Bernabeu
Returning to Spain from France, Real Madrid still seems to be sure to win, and their outstanding competitive state shows no sign of relaxation at all.
In the Bernabeu vs. Villarreal, Real Madrid completely controlled the situation after the opening game. First, Ronaldo scored a goal for Real Madrid in the 18th minute, helping the team lead 1:0.
But just 2 minutes later, Kaka won another goal for Real Madrid, 2:0.
After all, it was the child who came out of Real Madrid. Xavi Garcia did not hold back at all when facing Real Madrid. His assist helped Nilma score a goal for Villarreal, 2:1.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Aguero scored in the 54th minute and once again expanded the score to 3:1.
Pellegrini is indeed a lunatic. Even though Real Madrid's offensive is so strong, the Yellow Submarine is not timid at all. He replaced defender Macano with midfielder Pire and continued to strengthen his offensive against Real Madrid.
This kind of offensive battle is undoubtedly Real Madrid's favorite. In the 66th minute, Aguero's goal once again expanded the score to 4:1!
Although Xavi Garcia's long shot later scored another goal for Villarreal, Real Madrid defeated Villarreal 6:2 with goals from Kaka and Parejo in the 79th and 82nd minutes.
A wonderful and wonderful offensive battle made the fans of the entire Bernabeu stadium enjoy. Although Real Madrid lost 2 goals, they scored 6 goals, and the game was full of excitement.
But Barcelona is not to be outdone.
Recently, Barcelona, who always appears in a forced manner, turned grief and anger into strength in this game, killed the visiting Athletic Santander 4-0 at the Camp Nou Stadium, and continued to maintain a 6-point gap against Real Madrid.
According to Guardiola, you must bite Real Madrid and never relax at all times!
After a week of rest, in the 24th round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Tenerife away.
Aguero, who replaced Villa, performed well at the starter. In the first half, he scored twice, helped Real Madrid to lock the score at 2:0 into the halftime break. In the second half, Kaka and Ronaldo's goal gave Real Madrid a big lead, and Raul, who came on the bench at the last moment, added icing on the cake, allowing Real Madrid to bring back a 5:0 victory from the Canary Islands.
Compared with Real Madrid's morale, Barcelona's situation is worse.
Guardiola played a very stalemate and thrilling game against Malaga at home. In the end, he defeated Malaga 2:1 with Messi's goal at a critical moment, and almost saved a victory.
But a week later, Guardiola's team fell behind Almeria twice in the away game against Almeria, especially the second goal, which made Puyol, who had always been stable, scored an own goal, and Ibrahimovic got a red card in the 61st minute at a critical moment and was sent off.
Fortunately, Messi scored in the 66th minute and helped Barcelona take away a draw from the away game.
Real Madrid welcomed Sevilla at the Bernabeu Stadium. Real Madrid fell Sevilla 3-1 at home this time, thus widening the gap between itself and Barcelona to 8 points. Negredo scored the only goal for Sevilla.
There are 13 rounds left in the league, but they are already 8 points behind. This is undoubtedly a painful blow to Barcelona, who is staunched along the way. Guardiola has to admit after the game that Barcelona can no longer keep up with Real Madrid's pace and pace in the La Liga championship competition.
However, the media in the Catalonian region also said that Guardiola had adjusted the team's strategy and tactics long ago, believing that Barcelona's current player lineup and configuration are not suitable to stick to the strategy of confronting Real Madrid's multiple lines, but to specifically attack a certain front.
Cruyff also said before that with Barcelona's current state and lineup, it is not suitable for multi-line combat, and it should hit all forces to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, so he highly recognized Guardiola's strategy and relaxed a little in the league, but did not give in to the Champions League.
There is no doubt that the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 draw against Stuttgart gave Guardiola a warning, making him clearly realize that the team's lineup cannot handle multi-line battles, so he kept some strength against Almeria, and even Ibrahimovic had played. However, the Swedish forward was really not very powerful, not to mention not scoring a goal, he also got a red card.
Barcelona also defeated Stuttgart 4:0 in the second leg of the home game against Stuttgart in mid-week, and then successfully advanced to the quarterfinals with a total score of 5:1.
Compared with Barcelona's nervousness, Real Madrid was relatively relaxed. They also defeated Lyon 4-0 at the Bernabeu Stadium, and then eliminated the Ligue 1 team from the Champions League with a total score of 7-0, and successfully entered the Champions League quarterfinals. Even Yang Cheng arranged for Sarabia, Munyain and Canales to appear in the second half of this game, and the young players played for 30 minutes each.
The Champions League quarterfinals of 16 knockout rounds have all ended, and the facts seem to confirm Yang Cheng’s previous speculation.
AC Milan was completely defeated by Manchester United. First, it lost 2:3 to Manchester United at San Siro Stadium, and then lost 0:4 at Old Trafford Stadium, which shows how strong Manchester United is.
In another focus match, Inter Milan lost 0:1 to Chelsea at home. Due to a 1:2 loss at Stamford Bridge in the first leg, he finally lost 1:3 to Mourinho's Chelsea.
This Chelsea team is very strong. Mourinho also wanted to try the 4231 tactic before, but after walking around, he turned around and found that he was still good at grasping 433, and 433 is also Chelsea’s usual tactics over the years.
Bergomi's Inter Milan's strength is very different from that of Yang Cheng back then. He did not do well in the updates. Moreover, Dad Mo's recent interference with the team has begun to increase, and the internal locker room is also relatively chaotic, which has led to the lack of competition in the European arena. However, in Serie A, the team that Yang Cheng left behind back then was enough to make Inter Milan rampant.
Yang Cheng certainly can't say much about Inter Milan. First of all, he is not the head coach of Inter Milan now. Secondly, his status in the minds of Inter Milan fans is too high. No matter what he says, it is easy to interpret as pressure on Bergomi. This is something that Yang Cheng is unwilling to do, so he never comments on his old club.
Many people say that Yang Cheng’s approach is very wise. At least he has maintained good relationships and friendships with all his old clubs and old acquaintances in the past, which is undoubtedly rare in football today.
According to UEFA's plan, after the knockout round, the draw for the quarterfinals began.
The teams entering the quarterfinals are: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Bordeaux and CSKA Moscow. This Russian team actually defeated Sevilla, which is indeed a bit of strength.
These 8 teams will disrupt the reorganization, without evasion from the same country and group, and will all disrupt the lottery and divide into upper and lower half areas to compete until they reach the finals.
But just when Yang Cheng arrived in Nyon, Switzerland, what awaited him was the frowning Beckenbauer.
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"What's going on?" Yang Cheng smiled and looked at the old man in front of him, almost frowned into a Mount Everest, and asked with a smile.
Beckenbauer looked at Yang Cheng, "Do you ask me as a friend? Or do you ask me as the UEFA president as the Real Madrid head coach?" This old guy really had a serious attitude.
Yang Cheng thought about it and laughed, "Is there any difference?" Didn't this guy pass menopause early?
"Some words should be avoided as UEFA president, but some words can be said to friends!" He was very serious.
Yang Cheng nodded, "Let me tell me, my friend!" He deliberately aggravated the last title.
"I'm worried that our efforts back then would be tormented by a group of... incompetent politicians!" Beckenbauer said with a serious look. He was willing to say that otherwise, as he was the president of UEFA today, he would have said this.
Since Yang Cheng, Beckenbauer and others created the youth training system in Germany and established the youth training direction, over the years, talents have emerged in German football, and many outstanding stars have emerged, such as Ozil, Thomas Muller, Tony Klos and others, all of whom are among the best talents.
As Yang Cheng said, the success of youth training ensures that Germany is full of competitiveness in the 2006 and 2008 competitions. Germany is also a popular team in the South African World Cup. But the problem is that the turmoil in the management and internal intrigues have cast a shadow on the future of the German team.
At that time, Yang Cheng was invited by the German Football Association Chairman Braun to join the German Football Association. Even now he still has the title of technical consultant. However, in 2001, after the youth training entered the harvest period, Braun underwent surgery due to heart disease, and was already 76 years old, which directly led to Braun leaving the German Football Association.
Since then, the German Football Association has entered the Warfield era, and Zwanziger has entered the German Football Association Executive Committee. Until 2004, Vwanziger, who had a poor record, fell into doubts from the outside world. Coupled with the pressure of the 2006 World Cup, the German Football Association actually caused a ridiculous situation, which was to let Zwanziger, who was in charge of finance, serve as the chairman of the Football Association at the same time.
All this is not well known, because everything was focused on the German World Cup at that time. In order to stabilize the overall situation, everyone temporarily endured it. However, after the German World Cup, Beckenbauer took the lead in bombarding the policy of double chairmanships, and then held an election. Zwanziger defeated Warfield and was elected as the chairman of the German Football Association.
After Zwanziger was elected chairman, Klinsman left. Löw, who was originally an assistant to Klinsman, came to power. Löw and Klinsman are in line with each other. In fact, the techniques and tactics that Löww after taking office were also adopted in the Klinsman period. The two jointly drafted them, but they only continued to make progress.
But the problem is that now Zwanziger is more like a politician who hopes to use football to accumulate political capital. He is never very familiar with football, but he is better at playing with power. He hopes that he can change the German football world, but he doesn't like someone to give him opinions. Even he is taking over the position of head coach with the team, which should have been the head coach.
Yang Cheng, Beckenbauer and others have previously promoted the reform of the German youth training system, and now they are regarded as their achievements by Zwanziger and show off everywhere. Only some fans with some qualifications know that he actually entered the German Football Association in 2001.
"It's not just these problems!" Beckenbauer shook his head, "Sumer and Lov are not in line with each other. The former is responsible for the youth team. This time, Lov recruited multiple youth team internationals in one go. Summer is very dissatisfied. In addition, the national team leader Bierhoff and your proud disciple Barak are not in line with each other, and the latter is the national team captain!"
Beckenbauer shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Now the entire German Football Association is in chaos, no one knows what to do!"
Some of the Kaiserslautern represented by Barack, Bayern Munich, were very close because they were all former disciples of Yang Cheng and later Bayern Munich’s teammates. They complained about the management of the team after Loew came to power.
For example, they feel that the national team's restrictions on players' speeches are too dogmatic. Anyone who accepts an interview must be reviewed, and even after media interviews, the press release must be reviewed by the press officer before it can be published. There are also many players who cannot play in the club but can play in the national team.
In addition, they are also dissatisfied with some new policies of the German Football Association. For example, the arrangement of some celebrations with media participation in each game is more like a show. The fact that the players' families can explore the camp was not allowed by the German national team in the past. Football Association officials, including the chairman of the Football Association, were not allowed to go with the team, but have now been changed.
After the European Cup in 2008, Barack once revealed to Yang Cheng that he felt that the German team is more under the focus and attention of the media, and the pressure is very high. Moreover, the chairman of the Football Association always goes out with the team, which makes many young players in the team feel the pressure. Coupled with the slack management, the national team looks more like a summer camp.
After all, Löw's ability to control the national team is too weak!
As Yang Cheng said before, don't expect a gentle sheep to lead a group of lions. No matter what the conflict is, including the conflict between Bielhof and Barak, or the conflict between the head coach and the Football Association, all of this is due to the lack of control ability of the head coach and lack of sufficient toughness and confidence.
This is the world. The more you dare not challenge him, the easier it is for him to gain a lot of effort.
As the head coach of a team, you are not strong enough and have strong skills. You neither dare to confront the Football Association nor control the locker room. The players will not listen to you at all. Then, no matter how good your team plays football, it is always just a castle in the air and a mirage. You may be able to win the scene, but you will definitely not win the result!
Why has Yang Cheng been able to succeed over the years? Because he knows very clearly that if he wants to succeed, he must not only control the team at the football level, but also at the spiritual level, which is something that this German team does not currently have.
"Let it go!" Yang Cheng smiled and comforted Beckenbauer.
He is now in a high position in German football. No matter who is in charge of the Football Association or who is the head coach of the national team, he must respect him. In addition, he has achieved such achievements in European and world football, and his every word and deed have attracted attention, so he doesn't have to say much.
Seeing him like this, Beckenbauer had a lot of things to say, but in the end he ended up holding on.
With Yang Cheng's current status, there is indeed no need to drift into this muddy water. No matter what he says or supports, he will offend the other side. It is better to just say nothing, protect yourself and enjoy a transcendent position.
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The draws in the Champions League quarterfinals matchup are all a bit conspiracy theories, because they are really too targeted at the Premier League, but this has almost become a consensus among everyone.
Arsenal draws the top 8 opponent Barcelona, and the showdown between these two teams has also attracted attention. Although Arsenal has poor record in the league, he has always performed well in the Champions League, entering the semi-finals in a row. If he can defeat Barcelona this season, he can also reach the semi-finals again, but is this possible?
Real Madrid draws an opponent from Ferguson's Manchester United. The showdown between Yang Cheng and Ferguson has become a suspenseful landscape in the Champions League. Real Madrid's top 16 knockout season is very fierce, but its opponent Lyon is not strong enough, and Manchester United is also not inferior, and its opponent is a traditional giant like AC Milan.
It can be said that this is an early contest between two favorites in the Champions League championship, and it is undoubtedly the most influential and appealing duel in the quarterfinals of 8 this season.
Chelsea faces CSKA Moscow, Bayern Munich meets Bordeaux, and the remaining two matches are quite different.
Among them, Real Madrid and Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Bordeaux are all in the first half, while Chelsea plays against CSKA Moscow and Barcelona plays against Arsenal are all in the second half, which creates a suspense, that is, will the final become a derby battle and a showdown between a mortal enemy?
Very likely!
Whether Real Madrid and Manchester United qualify, against Chelsea and Barcelona, it is a suspenseful game.
According to the interpretation of the external media, UEFA has taken a guard against the situation where Premier League teams have monopolized three seats in the Champions League semi-finals for three consecutive seasons, separated the three teams and met the strongest Real Madrid and Barcelona again, which is likely to cause only one Premier League team to enter the semi-finals.
Therefore, after the lottery results came out, the debate about UEFA's decision to eliminate the Premier League spread all over the world again, and public opinion has adopted a conspiracy theory to interpret this lottery, and at the same time, the showdown between Real Madrid and Manchester United, two favorites in winning the championship, was regarded as a preview of the final.
On the contrary, the party involved, Yang Cheng, said in an interview with reporters after the lottery draw, that he was very satisfied with such a lottery draw.
"Compet with strong teams will be easier to stimulate the team's condition and morale!" Yang Cheng said boldly, "There is no doubt that we will enter the finals. As for whether the opponent is Barcelona or Chelsea, we don't care!"
But Ferguson also said in an interview, "We will eliminate Real Madrid and enter the finals, no matter who the opponent is, we will definitely win the championship in the end!"
There are other people who also made their statements. Obviously, no one is willing to hit the morale of the team at this time. Everyone has only one goal to win the Bernabeu!
Chapter completed!