Before Real Madrid's match against Manchester City, it was generally believed that if Manchester City really wanted to defend the championship, then they had to overcome the hurdle of Real Madrid.

Just one season ago, Real Madrid was a team that was ridiculed in the Champions League. Although they have nine UEFA Champions League championship trophys, that was eight years ago.

After that, it became difficult for them to even enter the quarterfinals.

He was once pinned to death by Manchester City in the group stage.

But Real Madrid is different now. Even the most picky media have to admit that Mourinho has transformed Real Madrid.

His first season in coaching was still a little ups and downs.

However, Real Madrid was terrible in this second season.

The league was held for thirty rounds, with Real Madrid leading second place Barcelona by as many as six points. In the just-concluded league 30th, they swept Real Sociedad 5:1 at home.

This season, Real Madrid fans and Madrid media are very confident that Mourinho helped Real Madrid successfully win the tenth Champions League championship.

Because Mourinho's team coaching has always been better than the first year in the second year. When he coached at Inter Milan, his Champions League results were only average in the first year, but in the second year, he led Inter Milan to win the first triple-champion in Italy!

With such past achievements as reference, everyone will naturally have confidence in Mourinho.

Moreover, since Mourinho took over, Real Madrid has bid farewell to the embarrassing situation of the "Floor 16 Years" that made them.

Last season, he entered the quarterfinals and was eliminated by Manchester City.

This season, Real Madrid, which is in better shape and more stable, has hope of revenge.

Those optimistic Real Madrid fans even think that God has drawn them with Manchester City as a revelation, providing them with a great opportunity to take revenge in person.

Manchester City is very powerful, but Real Madrid is just as powerful today.

The encounter between these two teams is the real "strong dialogue"!

This time they must let Glory lower his head to them!

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Before the game started, Rongguang was not as provocative as when the lottery result came out.

Of course, this is not because he is timid, but because the closer he is to the game, the more Rong Guang focuses on the game itself, and instead doesn't play much verbal battle.

In addition, Kaka is the topic of everyone during this period, so no one has trouble with Rongguang.

He only accepted an interview with reporters as Manchester City captain the day before the game, in which he expressed his confidence.

"We will definitely win."

A reporter questioned his confidence: "But now Real Madrid is different from the Real Madrid you met before. They have become stronger and they are in La Liga this season..."

Rongguang did not let the reporter continue to talk, but interrupted him firmly: "No matter how strong the opponent is, we will win."

He did not explain why, and this did not require explanation, or in the opinion of Glory, the explanation in language is far less powerful than the proof of action.

If anyone else objected to his words, let them watch the game, anyway, the game will begin soon.

Before this game, Glory was not the most popular player, Kaka was.

All media want to hear how he views the game.

Kaka still strictly follows his rules for the media and never says a word that may affect his image.

In the interview with Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo expressed his gratitude that Kaka was able to recover: "He and I are good friends. I am happy that my friends are living well. But I have to declare first that when I met him in the game, I will not show mercy just because I am a friend!"

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In the midst of the crowd, the game finally started at Manchester City Stadium.

Manchester City played home first in the first round of the game.

This schedule is not very beneficial to Manchester City. Of course, Manchester City itself doesn't care about this.

But some people care, for example, Manchester City fans care a lot. They think that this arena arrangement is not good for Manchester City, which is a stutter that UEFA deliberately does not want Manchester City to defend their title successfully.

Rongguang is the least concerned. He doesn't think that the final result of the game can be affected by the home or away game in the schedule.

There is only one factor that affects the final result of the game, that is, the performance of the players.

Even if it is away, there will be some unfavorable conditions, but as long as you perform well enough, these unfavorable conditions can still turn them into clouds.

He is not afraid to play away at the Bernabeu.

Last season at the Bernabeu, Manchester City opened a few minutes after Ibrahimovic was sent off for a retaliatory foul.

Manchester City was still behind with one goal at that time, and everyone thought Manchester City was over.

But then Rongguang was like a cheat. He won three goals alone, completed a hat-trick, turned the tide, and defeated Real Madrid 3-1 away, laying a solid foundation for the final elimination of Real Madrid.

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Mourinho's Real Madrid plays a defensive counterattack tactic, which was shaky last season because Real Madrid supporters think how can such a noble club like Real Madrid play such a defensive counterattack such a wretched tactic? Capello came to coach at Real Madrid in the most difficult time, helping Real Madrid win the La Liga championship, breaking Barcelona's monopoly against the championship. It relies on defensive counterattack tactics. That season, Real Madrid played very badly, but it was very bloody.

But after winning the championship, Capello was still swept out by Real Madrid.

This has nothing to do with which chairman Real Madrid is in charge. This is the tradition of Real Madrid club and has nothing to do with who the chairman is.

The then chairman of Real Madrid Club was Calderon.

Because no one from the media to the fans can stand Capello's extremely ugly football.

When Barcelona won the championship with the amazing "art football", Real Madrid people thought they could not be worse than Barcelona. Since Barcelona can play well and win honors, why can Real Madrid not win honors if they play well?

So they hope Mourinho can also make Real Madrid such a team.

But although Mourinho's coaching team scored a lot of goals, he pays more attention to victory and the result. Defensive counterattack is a set of tactics he has continued from Chelsea to Inter Milan. This set of tactics is the most efficient and the results are naturally the best.

Mourinho will not give up his ideas easily.

This kind of thinking confrontation was fully reflected in the first national derby last season.

Before the game, Spanish media argued endlessly about whether Real Madrid would rank three back midfielders in this game, whether double back midfielders or single back midfielders. Today they said they were three back midfielders, tomorrow they said they were two back midfielders, but the day after tomorrow they changed their words to a possible single back midfielder.

What is hidden behind such a debate is actually the debate about which kind of football Real Madrid should play.

In the end, Mourinho seemed to succumb to the pressure of Florentino and public opinion and chose the single midfielder tactic.

As a result, everyone saw that Real Madrid was exposed by Barcelona at the Camp Nou, 0:5, Real Madrid suffered a crushing defeat. Barcelona's central defender Pique even slapped a slap in the face while celebrating the game to show off his power to Real Madrid.

It was like a slap on the face of all Real Madrid people, making their cheeks burnt.

After that game, the media debate about what football Real Madrid played gradually became less and less. Mourinho also convinced the most stubborn Florentino with a crushing defeat, allowing the team to form and train according to his idea.

The style of Real Madrid gradually became fixed.

However, last season, the entire season was actually used to train Mourinho.

This season, Real Madrid's "Mr.'s counterattack" was considered solid.

Real Madrid has had many classic and exciting quick counterattack goals this season.

For example, when they played against Ajax at home in the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid took advantage of the opponent's chance to make a corner kick from the backcourt and made a wonderful pass and counterattack. All the players involved in the offense made a single kick and then ran. From the attacking in the backcourt to the final frontcourt goal, Real Madrid's team had five players participating, and five consecutive passes were passed, which took only thirteen seconds. Then the football entered.

Ajax didn't react at all!

It can be regarded as a quick counterattack of textbook cases.

And just so happens, Manchester City is also such a team that is good at counterattacking quickly.

These two teams are playing defensive counterattacks together, so who is fighting back?

This is really a...problem.

After the game started, everyone found that Mourinho's Real Madrid took the initiative to counterattack. Because it was Manchester City who kicked off, Manchester City had to attack first after getting the ball.

Real Madrid quickly contracted, waiting for Manchester City to press forward.

Manchester City players often play defensive counterattacks. You can tell what Real Madrid gourd sells when you see this posture.

Are they going to fight our defensive counterattack?

So Manchester City immediately launched their plan B, which is to be unhurried and uneasy... to deal with Real Madrid.

Mourinho's Real Madrid counterattack is very powerful. Several players in the frontcourt have speed and cooperate very well. They specialize in practicing this fast attack routine in training. As long as they are given a chance, they will seize it.

In view of this characteristic of the opponent, Benitez designed a B plan for Manchester City.

That is to use the control ball to deal with Real Madrid.
Chapter completed!