On the evening of January 28, the Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid.

Just two minutes into the opening game, the Bernabeu burst into thunderous cheers, but not because of the goal, but because Real Madrid has not conceded goals in the official game for the past period of time, setting the best record in the club's history in 112 years.

This is a surprising transcript!

Especially for Real Madrid, which advocates offensive football, defense has always been the weak point of the team, and even the goalkeeper problem has always troubled Real Madrid. However, under such an unfavorable situation, Real Madrid has set the best defensive record in history.

Casillas' performance this season is not satisfactory, but his condition has been relatively stable recently. In addition, Ancelotti has begun to withdraw Xavi Martinez to the central defender more and often play as a three-back, which makes Real Madrid's defense stronger.

This set the club's best record in a century history.

But this is just a record. Neither the players nor the fans took it too much. Only after two minutes, crazy cheers broke out again on the scene.

This time it was a goal.

In the fourth minute, Yang Yang took a 28-meter-long free kick from the left side of the penalty area and directly scored a powerful free kick, piercing the Espanyol goal, opening the first record for Real Madrid.

Then, the Spaniards began to counterattack because they had to score three goals to turn the tables.

In the seventh minute, after Real Madrid intercepted the ball, Xavi Alonso dribbled the ball and crossed the center line with a long pass, accurately crossing the Spaniard's defense line. Young player Hesse quickly inserted it, stopped the ball in his chest, broke into the penalty area, and pushed the ball into the goal.

Two to zero!

Yang Yang was also sprinting at high speed just now. Although Hesse did not pass the ball to him, Yang Yang was very happy for him when he saw the boy hit the goal himself, so he ran over to celebrate with him first.

Nowadays, more and more people have begun to believe that Hesse is not only Yang Yang's apprentice, but will also fight side by side with Yang Yang in the near future and even take over Yang Yang's squad.

Although, Yang Yang is only twenty-seven years old.

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After defeating Levante four-one away, Barcelona returned to Camp Nou and defeated Levante five-one again, with a total score of nine to two to advance to the semi-finals of the Copa RE.

This is undoubtedly a pretty amazing record, because Barcelona played surprising attack power in both rounds of games.

But interestingly, both games were reversed.

At the Camp Nou Stadium, former Barcelona youth training player Sergi Roberto took the lead in scoring a goal for Levante. Then Adriano and Puyol scored one after another, reversed the score. Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice, and finally Portuguese assisted Fabregas to score a goal.

Messi sat on the bench in this game and did not play for a minute.

After the game, the media and fans both made mixed praises and complaints about Barcelona in both rounds.

It is worthy of affirmation that Barcelona's offense is indeed very good, but they concede the ball first and then reverse it in both games, which is a puzzling problem, because it is definitely not a coincidence.

There is also Messi's absence.

Martino's explanation was to give Messi a rest, but one thing that cannot be denied is that after Messi was absent, Barcelona's frontcourt offense was very lively, which actually made people suspense.

Is Messi still an indispensable player for this Barcelona team?

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The other two teams entering the final four of the Copa REE are Atletico Madrid, which beat Athletico Bilbao, and Real Sociedad, which eliminated Athletico Santander.

According to the previous draw, Real Madrid met Atletico Madrid and staged a city derby.

Barcelona has better luck and is meeting Real Sociedad.

Therefore, many people are looking forward to the Century Derby being staged again in the Cup del Rey final.

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Since the city derby of the first leg of the King's Cup REE semi-finals will be held in midweek, Ancelotti performed a strong rotation in the weekend's La Liga, and Yang Yang sat on the bench.

Before Real Madrid, Barcelona had just lost 2-3 to Valencia at the Camp Nou.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal for Barcelona in the seventh minute, but then Banegas and Piatti scored goals and reversed one after another.

Messi scored a penalty in the 54th minute of the second half, breaking the recent goal drought, but just five minutes later, Paco won another goal for Valencia.

In the 79th minute, Alba accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off by red cards. Barcelona was forced to fight one less person. In the end, he had to hate the loss to Valencia at home, winning the third defeat of the season.

After the game, the Catalan media was in a state of grief, and Martino's position as coach was seriously questioned.

Although Messi scored a goal in this game, it was a penalty kick. Apart from this penalty kick, Messi basically did not perform well in the rest of the time. Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar also performed poorly, which made everyone wonder whether Martino has the ability to stimulate the strength of the three superstars in the frontcourt?

Barcelona godfather Cruyff even said in a column that Barcelona should start thinking about next season.

The implication is that Barcelona this season has no chance to face Real Madrid, which has maintained an unbeaten record so far!

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Atletico Madrid beat Real Sociedad four-zero at home.

The two top four teams that also reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey ended with a big score, and Atletico Madrid's performance and condition were eye-catching.

Real Madrid drew 1-1 against Athletic Bilbao away, and young player Hesse scored a goal.

Although it was a draw, Real Madrid won the 22nd round of unbeaten this season. This is also the only team among the top five European leagues to maintain an unbeaten record so far.

Even many Catalan media believe that although Ancelotti's team has been stumbling this season, it is actually very stable and never loses points easily. It has been leading Barcelona by as many as nine points and by as many as eight points, leading Atletico Madrid, which currently ranks second, is as many as eight points. It is a high probability that it will win the championship.

What makes Barcelona fans even more annoyed is that in the latest issue of the world-renowned sports magazine [World Football], a detailed player annual salary ranking was made. Yang Yang was far ahead with an annual salary after tax of 25 million euros. This is a fact that everyone knows, so it is not surprising.

What really surprised Barcelona fans was that in this list, there were five Barcelona players among the top ten players, namely Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo tied for second place, and finally XVII, Iniesta and Neymar.

Once this result was announced, it immediately shocked the world football world.

There is only one Real Madrid player among the top ten, that is Yang Yang. It can be seen that Real Madrid has done a good job in salary control, but Barcelona has five players selected, which has to be said to be quite terrifying.

Although the German authoritative agency announced that Barcelona's fiscal revenue last season reached 500 million, it is more because they won the Champions League title, and they are far behind Real Madrid. The Galaxy's fiscal revenue last year was close to 700 million euros, a significant increase in several consecutive years.

With the financial income far less than Real Madrid, Barcelona's players' salary expenditure is so huge, which also made the outside world say that they can't understand it. Barcelona fans are deeply annoyed, especially now that they have invested so much money, but the team's competitiveness has not improved.

After introducing Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar, Messi fell into a trough, which made the media and fans angry. Martino's position as coach is in danger, and acting chairman Bartomeu is also in a crisis of trust.

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Halfway through the schedule, Real Madrid ranked first, Atletico Madrid ranked second, and Madrid's two top two in the La Liga standings. This situation has never happened in the past few decades, which also made the first game of the King's Cup of Rey more intense.

Atletico Madrid is currently 8 points behind Real Madrid and there is little possibility of a reversal, so they are also aiming for the cup, while Real Madrid also wants to make a difference in the cup due to the team's excellent bench thickness.

Never give up any championship, this is Real Madrid's creed.

Especially this season, the growth and progress of young players such as Hesse, Morata and Ilia La Mendi have given Real Madrid the confidence to fight on multiple fronts. In this game, Hesse replaced Hazard and appeared at the left winger position in the face of Atletico Madrid.

The Real Madrid youth training young player who just scored a goal against Athletic Bilbao was not nervous when he appeared in the derby game, but instead performed very bravely.

The main entanglement between the two sides still occurs in the midfield.

Atletico Madrid's movements are as rough as ever. Simeone has already made it clear that they have to try every means to limit Real Madrid's pass and control, and thus curb Real Madrid's offense.

Just as the game began, Diego Costa hit Fermall directly while pressing in the frontcourt, and was rushed up by Ramos and knocked to the ground. Fortunately, the referee did not give a penalty.

But then, Diego Costa brought down Mascherano when he was fighting for the top, but the Argentinians were also unambiguous. Before he fell to the ground, he also took the opportunity to bring down Diego Costa, and the two fell into a ball.

This time, the referee warned the players on both sides.

In addition to Real Madrid's halftime, Atletico Madrid also frequently used fouls to interrupt the game. Based on the principle of being outsmart, they made full use of the softer whistle style of the referee in this game, and made full use of the rules to disrupt Real Madrid's rhythm and deployment.

This is obviously tactical features with Atletico Madrid and Simeone styles.

In the past twenty minutes, both sides only had a shot, Real Madrid had a corner kick, Fermall headed by Courtois, and Atletico Madrid was a fast counterattack on the side. Tulan was saved by Casillas when the header was strong, and neither side could create a threat.

This made the situation on the field very stalemate, and no one could get the advantage of the opponent.

Real Madrid has long understood Atletico Madrid's defense tenacity and has made sufficient preparations, but when it comes to the field, they are still powerless to face such an opponent.

"It can only be seen how the players perform!" Ancelotti sighed on the sidelines.

At least, anyone will have a headache when facing Atletico Madrid like this.
Chapter completed!