Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 430

c421 Sevilla, who is paralyzed

The 16th round of La Liga is the last round of the La Liga season before the Christmas holiday.

Compared with the Christmas battles that the Premier League carefully arranges and promotes every year, the La Liga games before Christmas seem to be much friendlier to the players.

There are basically no strong dialogues, and there are not too many derbies in the same city. It seems that the top leaders of the La Liga League are more eager for the holiday than the players.

This “humanistic” schedule and winter break arrangement simply made the current La Liga players who had played in the Premier League before feel moved to tears.

Even a physical monster like Li Ang was actually a little overwhelmed by the intensive winter devil schedule of the Premier League.

Not to mention that the games are arranged one after another, the key is that the winter in England is wet and cold!

Every year at the beginning of the Premier League winter devil schedule, countless Premier League players lie in bed, and Li Ang can only survive if he is strong enough.

Now, being able to get a winter break of more than a week in winter, or in the slightly warmer Spanish winter, is simply happiness in comparison~

The happy vacation time is coming, and the players of various La Liga teams have begun to plan where to go with their families or partners during the holidays.

Even the 16th round of La Liga seems to be less explosive.

The match between Real Madrid and Valencia in this round of the league was even more dominated by Li Ang, who just won the Golden Ball Award.

Because Real Madrid is playing away in this round of the league, Li Ang will naturally not make a Golden Ball display on other people’s territory.

But it can’t resist the enthusiasm of fans and tourists near the Valencia region!

Valencia’s own fans didn’t get many home tickets this time. Seeing the business opportunity, the scalpers quickly raised the price after hoarding tickets and sold them to many tourists and neutral fans.

These people basically came to watch today’s game for Li Ang.

The CEO of Valencia Club even joked in an interview before the game that they should negotiate with Real Madrid in advance and hold a pre-match ceremony for Li Ang to present the Golden Ball at the Mestalla Stadium today.

However, this was just a joke. Li Ang finally played with his teammates. He just waved his hands a few more times to express his gratitude when facing the enthusiastic cheers of the fans on the scene.

There were not many waves in this game. After all, after letting go of many main players for two consecutive seasons, Valencia’s strength has plummeted.

Valencia, which was able to break into the top four of La Liga in the 14-15 season, is now just stuck in the middle of La Liga.

There is no need to worry about relegation, but it is difficult to enter the European war zone.

Financial problems forced Valencia to start selling main players every year like other small clubs.

This sale not only sold Valencia’s reputation and development prospects in the La Liga, but also sold the spirit of the remaining main players in the Valencia team.

Li Ang didn’t exert much effort in this game. He even played for only 60 minutes and was replaced by Ancelotti after contributing one assist.

Real Madrid did not score a big score at the Mestalla Stadium in the end, but only defeated Valencia 3-1, successfully ending the La Liga schedule before the Christmas holiday with a luxurious record of 16 consecutive wins.

The only drawback is that Navas failed to get the zero-block bonus in this game.

The one who scored against Real Madrid on behalf of Valencia happened to be Parejo, who also came from the Castilla Youth Training Camp and was an excellent “senior” of Li Ang’s group of youth training players.

This powerful midfielder who has not played much for Real Madrid’s first team has repeatedly scored against Real Madrid in recent years, and he is also a well-known “Real Madrid killer” in the La Liga arena.

Li Ang and Parejo are not familiar with each other. After the game, he simply greeted his slightly unfamiliar “senior”.

In contrast, several other players in the Valencia team, such as Garay, Mangala and Nani, are Li Ang’s real old acquaintances.

After chatting with several old acquaintances after the game, Li Ang found Cancelo, a young full-back who played well on the field today, and encouraged him.

But he didn’t know that his enthusiastic encouragement made Cancelo, who had just emerged, both excited and “scared”.

Needless to say, excitement is naturally a privilege for any young player in the football world to be praised and favored by Mr. Ballon d’Or.

And fear is naturally because of the legend that “Li Ang likes to educate young players who are optimistic about him” that is widely circulated in the football world~

Of course, Li Ang has never cared about the many rumors about himself in the football world.

After this round of the league, Li Ang did not choose to stay in Madrid to continue training during the ten-day vacation.

He accepted Ronaldo’s invitation, packed his luggage simply, and went to a small city in the Mediterranean region of Spain with Ronaldo to enjoy the winter sunbathing.

At first, it was fine. The frequent updates of the two on their social media made their respective fans very satisfied.

But when Ronaldo took Li Ang to sunbathe all day, the comments on their social media began to change drastically.

Ten days later, seeing that Li Ang and Ronaldo were tanned and their white teeth were more prominent when they smiled, the female fans of the two were simply upset and wanted to cry without tears!

Li Ang did not have the fanaticism of Ronaldo’s obsession with bronze skin.

He felt more novel and fun, and tried it a little after Ronaldo’s repeated persuasion.

However, after returning to his home in Madrid, Li Ang was teased and “disdained” by his girlfriend who had just come from China to meet him. Li Ang could only helplessly tweet that he would try to reduce the number of tanning in the future.

After finishing the skin color, Li Ang and C Ronaldo did not let go of their hairstyles.

I don’t know how the two discussed it, but they completed perming and dyeing together, and the long hair on their heads looked like instant noodles.

With their shiny and dark faces now, they look really terrible!

The top two handsome men in Real Madrid now look like African refugees, which makes countless die-hard fans of the American Lingge unable to praise them anymore, and they just feel that it hurts their eyes.

In the window period when the La Liga has not yet rekindled the war, various Spanish media even lived very comfortably because of reporting the news of Li Ang and C Ronaldo’s appearance.

Until the King’s Cup approached, this public opinion feast gradually subsided, and the fans’ attention shifted from Li Ang and C Ronaldo’s skin color and hairstyle to the field again.

Real Madrid drew Sevilla in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals, which was really a bad draw.

Sevilla’s league rankings in recent seasons have basically been stable in the La Liga European war zone. It is actually difficult for them to play in the Champions League just by looking at the rankings, but they have played in the Champions League in the past two years.

Because they won the Europa League three times in a row!

If Real Madrid is the current Champions League king, then Sevilla is the well-deserved current Europa League king.

It is not easy to achieve such results. Sevilla is also a hard bone in La Liga. Real Madrid has no interest in fighting them to the death.

However, with the main players fully rested and there is no reason to give up the Copa del Rey, Ancelotti still dares not send a group of youth training players to the Copa del Rey like Mourinho did back then.

On the evening of January 4, Real Madrid, which had completed its preparations, welcomed the challenge of Sevilla at home.

Compared with Real Madrid’s caution of playing with all the main players, Sevilla unexpectedly chose to rotate some of its main players.

At first glance, many fans will find it incomprehensible that Sevilla’s coaching staff made the choice.

But considering that Sevilla finally broke through the siege and entered the top 16 in the Champions League group stage this year, and had played a postponed King’s Cup match before, the team’s rest time was reduced by a few days.

Looking at the choice of the Sevilla team not wanting to fight Real Madrid to the King’s Cup, it can actually be considered reasonable.

It is remarkable that Sevilla has won the Europa League three times in the past three seasons.

But to be honest, the pressure brought to the Sevilla team by the Europa League is far less than that of the Champions League.

The difficulty of the Europa League knockout stage is far worse than that of the Champions League knockout stage.

Sevilla’s bench depth is actually only average. If they want to continue to break through and get better results in the Champions League this season, they can only give up the domestic cup to reduce the burden on the team.

And between the Champions League knockout stage, where they can get a lot more money with each round, and the King’s Cup, which does not make enough money, the Sevilla executives really know what to choose with their eyes closed.

So Real Madrid, who had been fully prepared for a big battle, finally got a big bargain.

Sevilla, who had no intention of fighting, performed mediocrely at Real Madrid’s home stadium. At the end of the first half, Sevilla was already 1-3 behind.

At the end of the game, the score of the first round of the King’s Cup 1/8 knockout match between Sevilla and Real Madrid had reached 1-4, which basically made the second round of the game lose suspense.

Li Ang scored again in this game, and Ronaldo scored his first hat trick in the main game of this season.

Although the brothers’ looks look funny, their performance is impeccable, so much so that Meilingge had to pinch their noses and praise them for looking very energetic in their dark appearance~

Three days later, in the 17th round of La Liga, the brothers continued to start, but they only played half of the game and were replaced by Ancelotti like a baby.

This time Ronaldo was not unhappy at all when he was replaced, because he had scored a goal before leaving the court, continuing his recent good scoring feeling.

Li Ang made a lob pass to assist Bale in the opening stage of the game, helping him to score the first goal.

At the end of the first half, Real Madrid was already leading Granada 3-0 at home, so the two brothers could be considered to have successfully clocked out.

In the end, Real Madrid defeated Granada 5-0 at the Bernabeu, successfully extending their winning streak in the league this season to 17 games, and continued to put pressure on Barcelona and Atletico Madrid who were chasing behind them!

Five days later, Real Madrid faced Sevilla in the second round of the King’s Cup quarter-finals.

Although Sevilla played at home in this round of knockouts, the pit they dug for themselves in the first round was too big.

In the absence of any hope of a comeback, Sevilla’s coaching staff was very single and directly sent out a starting lineup of rotation and youth training players to face Real Madrid.

So the Real Madrid B team, which started in this round of knockouts, defeated Sevilla 2-0 again, helping the team to advance to the quarterfinals of this season’s King’s Cup!

In the subsequent King’s Cup quarter-final draw ceremony, Real Madrid was also lucky to avoid many strong opponents and drew Celta.

Atletico Madrid drew Eibar, and Barcelona drew Real Sociedad, another tough team in the quarterfinals.

Such a draw result is very favorable for Real Madrid, and Real Madrid supporters are already looking forward to the subsequent King’s Cup semi-final opponents.

This makes the coaching staff of Real Madrid both happy and worried.

It is certainly worth being happy to be able to easily enter the semi-finals of this season’s Copa del Rey, but can Real Madrid really cope with the three-line battle perfectly if it is “dragged down” by the Copa del Rey events?

This is really a big problem for Ancelotti, but it has come to this point, and looking back will only disrupt the team’s championship atmosphere.

In the end, Ancelotti simply didn’t think much about it. Anyway, the previous rotation work was done well, and now the main players’ physical fitness and game status are also good, so let’s continue like this.

If this season really collapses in the championship stage like in the previous few years, then Ancelotti will just admit that he is unlucky.

However, Ancelotti may not have expected that his “calm” temperament makes all the players in the Real Madrid team feel at ease.

The players are more willing to believe that their head coach is very confident in the three-line battle and has made sufficient tactical plans.

Anyway, as long as there is no problem with the coaching staff and they think they can go all-in to compete for the championship on three fronts, then they will fight hard for victory and that’s it!

Anpanman, who accidentally completed a morale boost for the team, soon led the team to the Pizjuan Stadium in Seville again.

After playing two Copa del Rey matches with Sevilla in a short period of time, Real Madrid ushered in the 18th round of La Liga with Sevilla.

This wonderful schedule made Li Ang recall the fate of playing games with Athletic Bilbao in a short period of time.

At that time, let alone the players who played against Athletic Bilbao, the fans who watched the game felt very tired.

The main players of Sevilla did not want to continue to lose to Real Madrid in this round of league competition.

They had reasons to excuse the losses in the first two rounds of the Copa del Rey, after all, the team basically sent out rotation players at that time.

They thought that if all the main players played, plus the home advantage, they would have the ability to fight Real Madrid.

So in this round of the league, the whole Sevilla team held their breath and wanted to find the ground where they lost in the previous two rounds against Real Madrid!

But they just happened to run into a Real Madrid main team that had no worries about physical fitness and whose morale was greatly boosted.

Sevilla wanted a head-on confrontation?

Real Madrid was more than happy to have it!

The two teams started to attack each other from the beginning of the game. In the first 30 minutes of the game when both players were in good physical condition, Sevilla relied on the explosive state of the home court to play a tie with Real Madrid!

Both teams scored one goal each, and before the halftime break, Sevilla almost took the lead.

Ben Yedder’s shot from the penalty area hit the goal post of Real Madrid’s goal, which also made the home Sevilla fans excited after regret.

But after the second half of the game started, Sevilla was only strong for less than fifteen minutes, and then was pushed back to the half by Real Madrid, who was still in good physical condition!

Real Madrid’s real killer began to show after the 65th minute of the second half.

That is to force speed up, and force the game rhythm to speed up when Sevilla was already a little overwhelmed!

After 70 minutes, Real Madrid’s strong attack directly broke through Sevilla’s defense system.

If Sevilla chose to retreat at this time and rely on the advantage of numbers, they might not lose too badly.

But they thought too much, and some players even wanted to fight against Real Madrid, so their nightmare came in the last 20 minutes of the game!

Li Ang took the lead, and after a two-on-one cooperation with Marcelo, he held the ball and directly tore through Sevilla’s backcourt defense!

When Sevilla’s right back Mariano had no choice but to attack, Li Ang passed the ball to Ronaldo who was on the side.

Ronaldo then accelerated to shake off Sevilla’s central defender Pareja and sent a low cross!

Benzema’s run in the middle took away Sevilla’s other central defender Rami, and Bale volleyed directly at the back point without stopping the ball, easily breaking the balance of the game on the field!

After that, the more Sevilla wanted to equalize the score, the more anxious they played.

Real Madrid calmly retreated and played a defensive counterattack.

In the 83rd minute of the second half, Ronaldo received a pass from Modric with the outside of his foot and shot the ball in a counterattack.

Six minutes later, Iscola, who replaced Benzema, sent a counterattack cross and assisted Li Ang to score a goal!

Real Madrid finally won another away game against Sevilla 4-1!

The mentality of the Sevilla players, who were defeated three times by Real Madrid in a short period of time, was somewhat broken.

They were really confused!