Under the hustle and bustle of the Bernabéu atmosphere, the derby between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid began.
This game was definitely different from the Champions League game against Kyiv Dynamo.
Even if Atlético Madrid was not the owner of the stadium, it could be said that Atlético Madrid did not need much time to adapt. Given their understanding of their opponents, Atlético Madrid knew what they had to do from the beginning. The atmosphere and the meaning of the game always existed in their minds. As soon as the game began, the players' blood boiled. They mobilized enough excitement and directly entered the game state!
But Real Madrid seemed to want to replicate the game where they crushed Kyiv Dynamo. They launched an aggressive offensive from the beginning.
Even if Capello emphasized the importance of defense before the game, the Real Madrid players could not help but enter a hot-blooded state in this battle between rivals under the eyes of thousands of people.
In Bernabéu, our territory, we cannot allow our opponents to behave atrociously!
We cannot allow our rivals from the same city to clamor here!
Therefore, after the game began, Real Madrid's offense was slightly aggressive. Qin Xiong could not control the rhythm because he could not control the ball alone for a long time. Even if he passed the ball to the full-back, Carlos, the other side would rush forward from a long distance and participate in the attack with the momentum to destroy Atlético Madrid in one go.
This was Real Madrid. In a special game, reason would be thrown to the back of the mind. Compared to the emotional environment of the English Super Cup, Real Madrid was confined to their own ground. If it was placed on a person, it would be obsessive-compulsive disorder!
Maniche in Atlético Madrid's formation had played against Qin Xiong. He used to play for Porto and knew the threat of Qin Xiong. He blocked Qin Xiong's activities in the midfield very well with Lucin and saw the initial results in the early part of the game.
Qin Xiong did not send a wonderful pass to his frontline teammates until the fifth minute of the game when he suddenly went to the right flank and made a 45-degree pass.
His pass passed between the full-back, Peña, and the center-back, Perea. Then, with an arc, it circled around to the middle of the goal. Before the pass, Qin Xiong saw van Nistelrooy's movement. He thought that the most important thing for the pass was to go around the back of Perea. As long as it went over, it would most likely be van Nistelrooy's world!
When he saw that Pereira was unable to stop the football when he turned around, Qin Xiong thought his chances of scoring a goal had greatly increased.
But he did not see Ruud van Nistelrooy finish the shot. Ruud van Nistelrooy was half a beat slower in the forward rush and could not touch the football!
Pablo directly kicked the ball out of the sideline.
Qin Xiong looked at Fanny thoughtfully as he ran back to his position.
If van Nistelrooy did not move, it meant that he did not realize it. This was almost impossible because a striker's sense of smell would not suddenly disappear.
And Qin Xiong was sure that he saw van Nistelrooy's movement, so he sent the pass.
The reason was clear at a glance.
Van Nistelrooy had the will but not the strength!
There was a problem with his physical condition!
Carefully recalling the games in the past period, Qin Xiong and van Nistelrooy's appearance time was close to the same.
Raúl was substituted more often, and Reyes was also a player who was rotated. In addition, Raúl had an injury before, which reduced his physical exhaustion.
Among the attacking players, Qin Xiong and van Nistelrooy were in the starting lineup for every game and played nearly all the game time.
If even Qin Xiong felt tired after the midweek Champions League game, what about van Nistelrooy, who was over 30 years old?
How could he not be tired?
In addition, he did not rest at all before the Champions League. He was busy with the company of his wife giving birth.
If van Nistelrooy was extremely excited because of the birth of his daughter during the Champions League game, he could make up for his physical fatigue and hold on.
But after the hearty victory in the Champions League, van Nistelrooy's fatigue after the double joy should be even more intense!
Under such circumstances, could van Nistelrooy recover in just three days?
He might have dragged his exhausted body to play in this Madrid Derby!
After the start of Real Madrid, if van Nistelrooy's state was due to his physical condition, then one player's abnormal play was unexpected.
Emerson!
He was more active in running positions on both ends of the offense and defense than before, but he was a little lost and was not in the rhythm of the game at all. He did not know if it was because of the previous massacre of Kyiv Dynamo that his performance received high praise from the media. He also hoped to replicate the previous crushing victory, but in the actual game, he could not find the right rhythm.
In the eighth minute of the game, Reyes failed to break through Peña on the right side and Atlético Madrid immediately launched a quick counterattack.
Peña passed the ball straight to the front of the flank. Petrov rushed forward after controlling the ball on the left side and pushed forward extremely quickly.
He soon came to the side of Real Madrid's penalty area. Messiah defended against Petrov head-on. The latter pretended to pass the ball to the middle as a pretense and suddenly sped up to pass Messiah cleanly.
Petrov cut into the end line and then passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area.
Spain's new golden boy Torres, who moved like a rabbit, cut diagonally to Cannavaro's side and did not stop the ball. He swept the ball directly to the back of Real Madrid's goal.
Casillas flew to the rescue and stretched his body. He blocked the ball in a thrilling manner, but the ball bounced into the penalty area after his palm deflected the force. It was kicked into the goal by another Atlético Madrid striker who followed up!
Aguero!
Ramos did not keep up with Aguero's pace at all!
"The 18-year-old Argentinian superstar, Aguero, made a contribution! He opened the scoring in the Madrid Derby!
Torres's shot almost penetrated Real Madrid's goal. Casillas could only barely block the football with one palm. Then Aguero shot in front of the goal and sent the ball into the goal. Ramos failed to protect the penalty area in front of the goal.
The root cause of this goal is that Real Madrid's right defensive line was blown up!
Messiah was not in a defensive state at all. He was easily broken through by Petrov, allowing the opponent to easily tear apart the defensive line on this side. "
Aguero ran wildly at the Bernabéu. Although Torres did not score, he was one of the contributors to the goal. He followed behind Aguero. The twin stars of Atlético Madrid's front line allowed the Atlético Madrid people to hold their heads high on Real Madrid's turf!
Capello shook his head slightly. After Cissinho was seriously injured, Real Madrid's right defensive line was a hidden danger at a glance.
Recently, there were rumors that the club was interested in bringing in the Brazilian full back, Alves, but Sevilla obviously would not release him in the winter transfer window.
The only thing they could rely on now was Salgado's recovery and return as soon as possible.
But Capello was still not very optimistic. After all, Salgado was also a veteran.
After losing the goal, Real Madrid seemed to have woken up from a dream. The arrogance of their midweek victory over Kyiv Dynamo was poured with cold water by Atlético Madrid.
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