If there is anything that is destined, then Real Madrid and Barcelona are destined to be enemies.

These two teams with a century-old feud have always been the banner of La Liga. The showdown between them is called the national derby, and now it is known as the century derby, which has attracted the attention of media and fans around the world.

In the past few years, every century derby has been a focus of hope for by the media and fans around the world. Although the Spanish Football Association is unwilling to admit it, in fact, when arranging the schedule of La Liga, they always prioritize the two games between Real Madrid and Barcelona. In the past, they were arranged in December and April, which happened to be the key stage of the league.

But before, since Real Madrid and Barcelona both reached the Champions League semi-finals, they played four consecutive derby games in a very short period of time, which is inevitably a bit aesthetic fatigue for anyone.

This season, the Spanish Football Association responded to public opinion and made adjustments, and arranged the first showdown between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the seventh round, corresponding to it, and the second showdown was arranged in the 26th round of La Liga.

But interestingly, both teams reached the King's Cup semi-finals this season, so at the end of February and early March, they ushered in two consecutive century derbys. After playing the second leg of the King's Cup semi-finals, they immediately ushered in the second century derby in the league.

After playing the 26th round of the league, the two teams will immediately usher in the second leg of the Champions League knockout match. Real Madrid's opponent is Donetsk Miners. The first leg of the two sides is 2-2. Real Madrid drew with the Ukrainian team away, while Barcelona's opponent is AC Milan. Both sides' first leg of the match is zero-2, and Barcelona loses to AC Milan away.

The two teams, similar devil schedules and different situations, made the next two games full of suspense.

What's even more serious is that Barcelona head coach Bilanova went to New York, USA for treatment and resting due to parotid cancer recurrence, and could only remotely control and command the team through TV video. Currently, assistant coach Lula is temporarily led by the team.

Many people say that the period when Biranova was cured was just the time when Barcelona ushered in turmoil, but Barcelona players did not recognize this. Many Barcelona players, including Messi and Pique, believe that Biranova's condition will only arouse Barcelona's fighting spirit. They will wait for the head coach to return and hope to help Biranova win the heavyweight championship.

As a mortal enemy, Real Madrid maintained a demeanor for Bilanova's condition and sent support and encouragement as soon as possible, but on the court, Real Madrid would definitely not show mercy.

Because this is professional football!

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Real Madrid has been fighting continuously for a while, and they have not left enough time for the team to adjust slowly. Even tactical analysis can only be arranged at night.

The night before the team faced Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid held a tactical analysis meeting in the hotel. Ancelotti asked everyone to watch the video of AC Milan's sniper Barcelona game, hoping that everyone can understand the reason why the Reds and Blacks won.

And when everyone finished watching the video and had a rough impression in their hearts, the head coach gave his own ideas.

"This is a very classic, Italian-style defense. Through the team's neat and orderly defensive formation and a small-scale siege, we are not unfamiliar with this style of play."

Starting from Benitez to Ancelotti, the tactical concepts of these two head coaches have deep traces of Italian football, which is related to Benitez's study tour in Italy. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Real Madrid has been implementing this defensive counterattack concept in the past four years.

"In this game, AC Milan retreated relatively far, mainly focusing on the front of the 30-meter front to the front of the penalty area. They set up heavy troops here and adopted high-intensity pressure on Barcelona's three midfielders to curb the opponent's passing line. Once they grab the ball, they launch a counterattack immediately, forming a threat. This is how both goals come about."

Combined with the game video just now and the clips cut by Ancelotti, everyone will have a deeper impression of his explanation, and it is also easy to draw their own conclusions.

"As I have been repeatedly stressing before, we should not easily fall into positional wars, because over the past few years, breaking intensive defense has been a common problem for all teams around the world. No matter who it is, we, Barcelona, ​​have no good and stable solutions to this problem."

Relying on the personal abilities of the stars to solve the battle is definitely not a reliable solution, and even if it is a sudden transfer from Real Madrid, it may not always work in the face of opponents who are truly determined to be on guard against each other.

"Faced with AC Milan's intensive defense, Barcelona's offense is still concentrated in the ribs. They still hope to control the scene through the midfield pass and control, and pass the ball to the frontcourt, and Neymar, Messi and Sanchez will resolve the battle."

"No doubt, this is a very simple tactic and very difficult to crack, because the three players in the first three have very strong personal abilities. After more than half a season of running-in, they have formed a strong attack power."

"In response to this point, AC Milan used the tactic to cut the three of them apart, so that they could not form an effective connection, and then blocked them through the number of people inside and outside the penalty area, and finally curbed Barcelona's offensive tactics. None of the three superstars in the front showed a decent performance."

When everyone heard this, they basically had a clear impression of why AC Milan could defeat Barcelona.

"We are different from AC Milan. We cannot retreat so far, so we need to play more aggressively. I hope to suppress Barcelona's midfield from the midfield to the 30-meter zone so that they can't easily pass the ball into our 30-meter zone."

"After watching the video, I believe everyone has noticed that the running and coverage ability of Barcelona players has declined. They are not as active as before. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, one is the overly intensive schedule, the other is that they are more obsessed with controlling the ball, the other is that the head coach is not there, and the other is that the aging of players such as Xavi and Puyol."

"We now have to consider not only the mid-week Copa del Rey semi-finals, but also the weekend league, and even the Champions League quarterfinals next week, because for Barcelona, ​​the Copa del Rey is definitely not as important as the league and the Champions League."

Barcelona is three-pointer behind Real Madrid in the league. These three-pointers are just a game, but it is too slim to expect Real Madrid to lose to other teams, and it is quite unreliable, so they definitely hope to defeat Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and recover these three-pointers.

Not to mention the Champions League, Barcelona has not been able to score in the Champions League in the past few years, but now it has lost to AC Milan in the first leg of the quarterfinals by zero to two. This is undoubtedly a very bad result. Force Barcelona to return to the Camp Nou and must win the opponent.

In this case, Barcelona's situation is much more difficult and the pressure will be much greater than Real Madrid.

Ancelotti's overall idea is still to continue to play a steadily counterattack tactic. This is also the most effective way to restrain Barcelona at present, and it is also the most familiar tactical style of play that Real Madrid is most familiar with.

More importantly, there is a problem with Real Madrid in this game, that is, Aveloya cannot go to the game, Marcelo is still in the stage of losing weight and finding the state, so he will not go up rashly. Carvajal on the right plays continuously, and he faces Neymar in this game, which is very deadly.

As for Casillas, it was originally expected to be more than one and a half months, but the team doctor's further diagnosis now shows that it would be good to make a comeback at the end of March, which is also very fatal for Real Madrid.

Diego Lopez is good, but he is still incomparable to Casillas, whether it is from stabilizing the morale of the army, tactical role, or on-the-spot performance.

In his subsequent free speech, Yang Yang raised a possibility, that is, will Barcelona attack desperately at the beginning?

"I think it's unlikely that they will play a protracted battle with us, which is very unfavorable to them, because their lineup is not as thick as ours. It is not difficult to see from AC Milan's battle that Barcelona has only two ways to crack such tactical styles, speed up the offense, especially the rhythm of counterattack, and also to strengthen the investment in counterattacks in the middle and frontcourts."

"Three consecutive fierce battles, and the first two were us. I don't think Barcelona will want to waste time with us. This is not in line with the situation they are facing now."

Yang Yang's analysis reached the unanimous agreement between Ancelotti and Zidane. They also speculated that Barcelona would attack at the beginning, and may even have a strong attack, because Real Madrid's defense this season is also very problematic, especially after Casillas was injured.

Xavi Alonso also believes that Real Madrid should start with stability, and at the same time, they should strengthen their counter-attack on the spot after conceding the ball. They must grab the ball as soon as possible, or disrupt Barcelona's ball-handling rhythm.

"We focus on the defense in the center line. According to Barcelona's habit, the defense line must be pressed up. At that time, there will be gaps behind them. So, as long as we grab the ball, we will pass it in the front as soon as possible."

Hearing Harvey Alonso's words, Yang Yang nodded confidently with a smile: "Don't worry, let me know, let me know!"

Yang Yang's promise with such confidence made everyone in the audience laugh, but no one would question him, because in the past few years, he has been Barcelona's most troublesome nemesis.

Yang Yang had a set of his own experience in how to target Barcelona's defense and how to deal with Barcelona's defenders, and he had a premonition that Barcelona would not arrange Mathieu in this game, but would make Puyol and Pique. The reason is very simple. Mathieu could not ensure Barcelona's smooth pass and control of the ball in the middle and backcourt.

Passing and controlling the ball is the biggest advantage of Barcelona facing Real Madrid, and defensive counterattack is also the biggest advantage of Real Madrid facing Barcelona.

The key to the century derby is that Real Madrid reveals its flaws first and gives Barcelona an opportunity to take advantage of?
Chapter completed!