super storm

Chapter 1344 The first defeat of the season
Since FIFA issued the transfer ban, which caused panic among Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, and then Real Madrid took the lead in attacking and appealed, asking FIFA to withdraw the transfer ban. Although FIFA did not respond immediately, all the media and fans basically guessed that it is basically impossible to cancel the ban.

In the last few days of the winter break transfer market, European football is full of news about Real Madrid's transfer and signings.

From the recall of Morata to the forced poaching of Kanter and Pogba, the media all over the world are looking forward to the results of Real Madrid's panic signings. Even before the transfer market is closed, the media is full of news about Real Madrid's successful signings.

But what is disappointing is that when the time entered February, the transfer market was officially closed, and Real Madrid did not make any signings.

Not only did the plan to introduce Kanter and Pogba fail, but the recall of Morata failed as well. Real Madrid failed to make any moves during the winter break transfer, which not only disappointed Real Madrid fans, but also disappointed the media and fans all over the world.

Didn't Real Madrid think about taking precautions and taking precautions?
Not to mention the outside media and fans, even many people in the Real Madrid team are quite worried. Only a very few people know that it is not that Real Madrid has never thought of signing, but the signings have been frustrated.

Yang Yang is one of the people most familiar with the inside story.

Real Madrid tried to recall Juventus' Morata and wanted to talk about a transfer, but Juventus rejected Real Madrid's request without hesitation. Although according to the terms of the contract, Real Madrid can redeem Morata, but the winter break is definitely when Juventus is the last to let people go, especially when time is tight.

For Pogba, Real Madrid is not the first choice for signings, because in the midfield area, Real Madrid is full of talents, but Kanter.

More than half a year ago, N’Golo Kante came to Leicester City from Caen in Ligue 800 with a transfer fee of 800 million pounds.

But half a year later, Real Madrid raised the transfer fee to 3000 million pounds in one go, a transfer fee of nearly 4000 million euros, but it still failed to impress the Leicester City team to release them.

The leader of the Premier League standings made it clear after several contacts with Real Madrid that they would not release them during the winter break anyway, but they did not say anything dead, and did not rule out the possibility of selling Kanter next summer.

For a team like Leicester City, N'Golo Kanter is already a Buddha they can't tolerate, and it will be a matter of time before he leaves, so they are also very happy to see Kanter sell for a good price.

The introduction of Morata and Kanter was frustrated, and Real Madrid lost the operating time of the winter break transfer and signings, and finally had to choose to give up.

Zidane is also quite disappointed by this, because he is very worried that if Real Madrid's legal department fails to handle FIFA, once the summer transfer is banned, Real Madrid may miss Kanter and even Pogba.

Everyone knows that Kanter and Pogba are very likely to transfer this summer, and once they transfer, the next stop will basically be a wealthy team.

Even for the rich and powerful Real Madrid, it is not easy to poach corners from wealthy teams.

Fortunately, the legal department is quite strong. After formally filing the appeal, they frequently went to the FIFA headquarters in Zurich to negotiate. So far, FIFA has not given a reply.

If there is no reply, the ban will not be implemented for the time being.

According to Real Madrid's plan, if the transfer ban can be postponed to the summer transfer like Barcelona did, that would undoubtedly be the best result, so the technical team headed by Valdano is still in full contact and operation.

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After a [-]-[-] victory over the Spaniard, Real Madrid's first team also failed to take a breather.

In the middle of the week, we ushered in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final again, playing against Sevilla at home.

After just playing a wonderful offensive feast, Real Madrid once again rotated, but at home against the strong Sevilla, they failed to continue the outstanding performance of the previous two games.

In the No. 20 minute of the first half, Vitolo took advantage of Real Madrid's defensive mistakes and scored a goal for Sevilla.

Fortunately, in the No.301 minute, Yang Yang equalized the score for Real Madrid, and after changing sides to fight again in the second half, it was Yang Yang who created a corner kick in just 3 minutes of the opening. Toni Kroos assisted Ramos with a header and reversed for Real Madrid.

In the end, Real Madrid reversed Sevilla [-]-[-] at home.

The game was won, but the process was very dangerous, especially the overall performance of Real Madrid is still not satisfactory.

Some media accused Real Madrid of excessive rotation and did not continue the lineup of the previous two games against Atletico Madrid and Espanyol, but Zidane believes that there is no static tactic.

More importantly, Real Madrid is currently fighting on two fronts between La Liga and Copa del Rey, and then La Liga and the Champions League. In such a dense schedule, if there is no rotation, no matter how strong Real Madrid's lineup is, it will not last long.

In this regard, Yang Yang deeply agrees.

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In another semi-final almost at the same time as Real Madrid, Barcelona relied on Cristiano Ronaldo's four goals and Messi's hat-trick to beat Valencia [-]-[-] at home.

The Bat Corps was ravaged by Barcelona throughout the game, and they had no power to fight back. Barcelona played the most exciting offensive storm this season, which is admirable.

But what is interesting is that Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi broke out, but Neymar is still in the doldrums.

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On the weekend, La Liga's No.20 three rounds, Real Madrid challenged Granada away.

In the No.30 minute of the game, Isco sent a direct pass, Carvajal made a pass from the right side of the penalty area, and Suarez, who was unguarded in the middle, shot from the front of the small penalty area and opened the scoring for Real Madrid.

But in the No. 60 minute of the second half, Modric was unlucky and almost collided with the referee when he was driving the ball forward.

In the 805th minute, with a pass from David Silva, Modric made up for it, shot a long shot, pierced Granada's goal, and exceeded the score again.

In the end, Real Madrid narrowly beat Granada [-]-[-] thanks to goals from Suarez and Modric.

People who originally thought that the Galacticos had regained stability because of Real Madrid's two consecutive victories began to worry again, because they saw that Real Madrid's performance in the last two rounds was relatively sluggish.

Especially in the face of Granada, with Yang Yang's rotation truce, Real Madrid's offense did not go smoothly.

What's more terrible is that after the game against Granada, Real Madrid officially announced that the main left back Marcelo dislocated his right shoulder when he collided with his opponent during the game, and he will be sidelined for two to three weeks.

This is undoubtedly worse for Real Madrid, which is not doing well recently.

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Three days later, the second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final.

With a [-]-[-] victory in the first round, they went to the Pizjuan Stadium, coupled with the absence of Marcelo and other players due to injuries, and Real Madrid's recent poor situation. In the end, Zidane and Yang Yang jointly decided to adopt a safe tactic.

At the beginning of the game, Sevilla took the lead in attacking, trying to use the home court advantage to score a goal, but Real Madrid responded with a steady counterattack in this battle, and did not lose the initiative. Sevilla's attack did not work.

On the contrary, in No. 305 minutes, Real Madrid made a quick counterattack. Yang Yang dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area. After attracting the attention of the defense, he knocked back decisively. Hazard followed up and made a push and hit, opening the scoring for Real Madrid.

Then the two sides fought very fiercely.

Sevilla trailed by one to three on aggregate and gave Real Madrid an away goal. They had to get back two goals and had to take the initiative, while Real Madrid was more patient and counterattacked.

No. 708 minutes of the second half, it was another quick counterattack by Real Madrid, but they failed to pass the ball well in the penalty area of ​​Sevilla, resulting in the ball being cleared out of the penalty area.

Casemiro plugged in from the back row, and without hesitation, he shot a long shot directly to the ground, which cleanly pierced Sevilla's goal, further consolidating the results for Real Madrid, [-]-[-], and the total score was [-]-[-].

The Brazilian defensive midfielder was overjoyed. He also felt very sudden about his goal, but it was also because of the suddenness that he was very excited. After all, as a defensive midfielder, he doesn't have many chances to score goals.

In the final stage of the game, Yang Yang assisted Jesse, who came off the bench, to score a goal. In the end, Real Madrid defeated Sevilla [-]-[-] away, with a total score of [-]-[-], and successfully advanced to the Copa del Rey final.

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In another stadium, after Barcelona beat Valencia [-]-[-] at home in the first leg, they have basically secured the qualification for the Copa del Rey final. In the away game against Valencia at the Mestagna Stadium, the two sides shook hands [-]-[-]. Barcelona finally advanced with a total score of [-]-[-].

This year's Champions League final was held at Atletico Madrid's Calderon Stadium. The final time was exactly one week after the last round of La Liga and one week before the Champions League final.

This is also the second consecutive season that Real Madrid and Barcelona have met in the King's Cup final.

Unlike Real Madrid's recent downturn, Barcelona's state is very good, frequently creating big scores, it seems that the team's state has been adjusted quite well.

After playing the Copa del Rey semi-finals, Barcelona returned to their home court. With Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring twice, as well as Neymar and Rakitic's goals, they beat Celta Vigo [-]-[-] at home. They once again played a hearty victory, showing an excellent state.

Real Madrid played against Athletic Bilbao at home in the No.20 round of La Liga. Yang Yang scored twice, James Rodriguez and Toni Kroos each scored a goal. They defeated the Basque Lions [-]-[-] at home, and their performance was not bad.

But in the No.15 La Liga make-up match in the middle of the week, Real Madrid regrettably lost to Villarreal [-]-[-] away.

Unfortunately, Real Madrid failed to expand their lead.

At the same time, this is also the first loss of Real Madrid since this season.

(End of this chapter)