Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 435

c424 Atletico Madrid, the first to fall behind

Dortmund finally collapsed under the huge pressure of losing the ball.

After Li Ang scored Real Madrid’s third goal, the resistance of the entire Dortmund team became weak.

This has little to do with whether Reus still wants to fight.

Even if he grits his teeth and persists, and encourages his teammates to fight hard, his efforts alone are in vain.

Isco, who came on as a substitute at the last moment, successfully created a penalty in the Dortmund penalty area, which completely killed the game and the suspense of the second round!

Ronaldo stood on the penalty spot and scored in one fell swoop. The joyful celebration of the Real Madrid players on the field and the lost expressions of the Hornets fans in the background stands formed a sharp contrast.

After the game, Li Ang also went directly to Reus, who was still leaning on his knees and unwilling to breathe.

The two of them are also serious old acquaintances on the field.

At that time, the two who were also newcomers and made their mark in the football world had already met and competed against each other in the Champions League.

At that time, it was really hard to say who had better future development prospects between Li Ang and Reus.

Li Ang was favored by Mourinho and played as a potential midfielder in the first team of the football world at a young age.

Reus has been killing it in the Bundesliga and has become a new first-class winger in the football world with super data of 20+10 in a single season in Monchengladbach.

Now four and a half years have passed, and the two have met again, but their respective football status and circumstances are completely different.

Li Ang has been crowned the Ballon d’Or twice, and has defeated Messi and Ronaldo head-on in the narrow encounter in the Champions League. He only needs to use more championship titles and victories to impact the throne of the first person in football.

In addition to the honors of the national team, Li Ang has achieved the result of representing two different teams in the four major leagues at the club level to win the Grand Slam honor.

On the other hand, Reus still chose to stick to Dortmund after Klopp left.

But the only honors he got worth mentioning were the German Footballer of the Year and the Bundesliga MVP, which he won with his own excellent personal performance.

What about the club level?

Two German Super Cup titles, and then nothing.

This is also an important reason why whenever a well-known sports media selects the ranking of wingers of the season, Reus has a hard time making it into the top five.

He doesn’t have enough heavyweight honors, and it’s far from enough!

Speaking of ability alone, Reus, despite his vulnerable physique, once defeated Ribery and Robben in the Bundesliga, and his luxurious data of 20+10 in a single season also made him the focus of attention of all European giants.

After transferring to Dortmund, he handed in a perfect answer sheet of 45 goals + 29 assists in the two seasons.

Even after a serious injury in the 14-15 season, he still staged a king’s return last season, scoring 20 goals in a single season and creating 30 goals alone!

Such performance, but repeatedly ranked among the top five wingers of the season in the media rankings!

Is Reus wronged?

Very wronged!

If he wanted, he could have transferred to Bayern or Real Madrid two seasons ago, partnered with more stars, and won more heavyweight championship trophies.

But he rejected the best of everything, just to try to hold on to Dortmund, which seemed to be sinking!

He and Gerrard have the same precious qualities. Li Ang understands Reus’s approach and respects him more.

The two hugged and exchanged jerseys on the court again.

Li Ang did not say any words of encouragement to Reus.

Because the Rocket’s persistence in Dortmund does not need encouragement, he is just doing what he thinks is the most correct and worthwhile thing.

Li Ang finally patted Reus on the shoulder, and then watched the back of the other party encouraging his teammates to cheer up go away.

He vaguely saw many people in this back, and maybe in the future, there will be himself.

But who can say for sure what will happen in the future?

Li Ang smiled and no longer considered the future that seemed far away, but seemed to be close at hand.

The shouts to his teammates rang out again. Li Ang turned his head and laughed as he joined the team’s post-match celebration.

He had to seize the moment!

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After the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals with Dortmund, Real Madrid faced the challenge of the tight schedule in the second half of the La Liga.

The other four major leagues have also entered the sprint stage at this time point, and the division between the top, middle and bottom teams in the league is becoming more and more obvious.

The competition between the top teams in other mainstream leagues may still be quite fierce, and the gap is not very large.

But in today’s La Liga, the points ranking is somewhat strange.

The three “La Liga” teams, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, ​​naturally have a huge gap with the rest of the La Liga teams.

But within the “La Liga”, Real Madrid has a huge gap with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

Currently, Real Madrid dominates the La Liga standings with an unbeaten record of 21 wins and 1 draw and 64 points.

Barcelona ranks second with 16 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses and 52 points.

Atletico Madrid ranked third with 51 points from 16 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses.

The difference between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid is negligible, but they are now four wins behind Real Madrid!

This advantage of almost crushing the opponent in the standings gave the Melcos a great psychological advantage.

The entire Spanish sports media also exclaimed that Real Madrid has returned to the “super era”!

Six or seven years ago, Real Madrid and Barcelona started a terrifying “arms race.”

A large number of world-class superstars have either been cultivated or introduced from the transfer market by the two teams at a large cost.

At that time, if the two teams wanted to win the La Liga championship, their points would have to be raised to more than 95 points to be considered stable!

At that time, the two teams even lost only one or two terrible games in the entire league.

Not to mention losing, even if you draw one more game, you will basically be overturned by your opponent!

This tmd pressure is so intense that if you put it in other leagues, fans of so-called championship teams would simply not dare to even think about it!

Later, Real Madrid broke 100 points to win the championship, which directly opened the ceiling of La Liga championship…

In this era of La Liga duo, the two teams can only be described by the term “super strong team”.

As for Atletico Madrid, although many fans now label them as the “La Liga”, they have never become a “super team” in the hearts of La Liga fans.

In the 13-14 season when they won the championship, they only had 90 points.

At that time, the Spanish sports media, in addition to praising Atletico Madrid’s comeback and winning the championship, lamented the premature dissolution of Mourinho’s Real Madrid.

Otherwise, the achievement of three consecutive games in La Liga was just a task that was easily completed for the then-Muslim Real Madrid.

Since then, neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona have been able to return to the 100-percent peak they had reached in previous years.

After Bayern Munich also disbanded early, only Chelsea, the “super strong team” of Mourinho’s second period, was left in European football.

The master-disciple pair of Li Ang and Mourinho also successfully established another blue dynasty.

Until now, Mourinho’s new Chelsea are still standing at the top of European football, looking down on all challengers.

And now it seems that only Real Madrid, which has the fastest climb and is most likely to become a super team again, can have the strongest battle with Chelsea this season!

Of course, before reaching the final battle with Chelsea in the Champions League, Real Madrid still needs to complete the task of reviving in the league.

Although Real Madrid now has a huge advantage in the league, it is also 12 points ahead of second-placed Barcelona.

But the senior players in the Real Madrid team are still not satisfied. They also want to widen the lead difference to a more “safe” point.

Therefore, in the 23rd round of La Liga, the main players of Real Madrid’s first team were invited to play, even though they only had three days of rest after playing in the Champions League.

Ancelotti originally wanted to continue to rotate the main players to maintain the physical condition of the team’s main players.

But seeing that all the stars were high in fighting spirit and eager to compete, he agreed to the players’ request after weighing it for a while.

On the afternoon of February 18, Real Madrid, which was at home, started with all its main players and faced the challenge of the Spaniard.

Facing a team of partners with good relations, although all the superstars in the Real Madrid team wanted to create another massacre, after much consideration, they still suppressed the urge in their hearts.

Li Ang only played half of this game, but the BBC team played together for the full 90 minutes.

In the end, Bell, Benzema and Ronaldo scored goals one after another, and Vazquez added the icing on the cake.

However, the performance of the defense guarded by Varane and Nacho today can only be said to be average, and the goal guarded by Casilla also failed twice.

Real Madrid scored four goals, but in the end they only narrowly defeated the Spaniards by two goals, and everyone was happy with the result.

At least the Espanyol veterans are very satisfied with the result that they were able to score two goals against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

After taking a full eight days of rest, the Real Madrid generals who went to challenge Valencia away from home were not so friendly.

Real Madrid’s superstars, who are full of physical fitness and energy, have nothing to lose when facing Valencia, which is conceding nearly two goals per game!

In the first half alone, Real Madrid was in a hot state and stabbed Valencia four times!

Li Ang and Cristiano Ronaldo each scored twice and were in great condition. Bale, Benzema and Modric received assists respectively!

In the second half, Real Madrid continued their hot scoring momentum, basically scoring a goal every ten minutes.

Benzema and Bale once again scored one after another.

Asensio, who came on as a substitute, made the final cut!

Ancelotti also chose to call it quits at this time, not wanting the main players to continue to vent their desire to score goals in this already ruined game.

In the end, Real Madrid slaughtered Valencia 7-0 in the away game, which also improved the team’s league record this season to 23 wins and 1 draw!

Barcelona has gritted its teeth in the past two rounds of the league and also won two consecutive victories without allowing Real Madrid to further widen the point difference.

But Atletico Madrid has suffered two consecutive draws, and the current point difference with Real Madrid has reached a desperate 17 points!

Atletico Madrid’s dream of winning the league this season is completely shattered!

And it seems that Barcelona’s fall behind in the league is not far away.