When Real Madrid's players appeared in the mixed interview area of the stadium, the first person the reporters wanted to interview was Qin Xiong.

Qin Xiong stood in front of the camera, calmly waiting for the reporter's question.

"After drawing at home to Sevilla, Real Madrid are eight points behind Barcelona, do you think Real Madrid will be successful in defending their title this season?"

"It's a bit of a baffling question, of course Real Madrid still has a chance to defend the title, there are more than 20 rounds in the league, if Real Madrid wins three more games than Barcelona, Real Madrid can surpass Barcelona in points, who can say that Real Madrid has failed to defend the title?"

The reporter laughed twice and continued to ask: "So what do you think is the main reason why Real Madrid went from being invincible last season to stumbling this season?" Is it your absence? ”

'It's going to be complicated, the main thing is of course injuries, but I'm not alone, almost all of our players except the goalkeeper have had injuries, big or small, the team has been incomplete, and if it weren't for the injuries, Real Madrid might have been a point or two ahead of Barcelona.

"In the next game of the national derby at Camp Nou, what are the chances of Real Madrid winning?"

"There's no point in talking about that, football can't be predicted by probability and statistics, otherwise you can look at Real Madrid's win-loss record against Barcelona in the last two seasons and you'll have the answer. Isn't it? ”

Qin Xiong quickly left the Bernabeu after the interview, and when he left, many fans were still cheering him on both sides of the road.

After his comeback, Qin Xiong did not kill all sides, but his contribution to the team is still clear at a glance.

On the contrary, some defenders, including Casillas, were provoked and abused by some extreme fans as they drove away!

That's the case with some Real Madrid fans. Love and hate!

When a player performs well, he loves you to death!

When a player performs poorly, he hates you so much that he grits his teeth!

To survive in Real Madrid, in addition to having a strong ability to resist the pressure of media and public opinion, you must also have the awareness to turn your face at any time in the face of supporters standing behind you!

Marca newspaper commented on the league title race unbiased after the game.

"As of round 14, the 20 teams in La Liga have scored a total of 414 goals in 140 league games. With an average of 2.95 goals per game, this figure is absolutely leading in Europe.

Despite the current economic environment in Spain and the winter season, the football matches are starting to attract more spectators back to the stadium, and the Barcelona clash with Valencia has attracted 82,000 fans, setting a new record for Barcelona's home stadium this season, and there is no doubt that next week's clash with Real Madrid will be packed at the Camp Nou.

If before entering the devil's schedule, there were doubts that the new Barcelona team would only attract attention by slaughtering weak teams. After the 3-0 and 4-0 wins over Sevilla and Valencia, there have been people who have begun to revise their previous view that the so-called devil's schedule is only for other teams, and for Barcelona they are a devil's team in their own right.

Barcelona are having a smooth ride and even luck is on their side, while Pep Guardiola continues his rotation policy against Valencia. He used a hard-soft combination of Xavi, Yaya Toure and Gudjohnsen in midfield. Abidal, who had been on truce for almost a month, was also dispatched, but he did not see any sense of stiffness, on the contrary, he pressed Valencia and could only break up the Catalans' attack by fouls.

Valencia received six yellow cards and committed a full eight more fouls than Barcelona, and without looking at the standings, it is difficult to imagine that the game was a clash between the leaders of La Liga and the third place, both in the field and in the statistics.

What is the reason for all this?

Xavi's words after the game spoke to the essence: 'Talent. Attitude, passion combined with speed are what make Barcelona different. Real madrid? We have to be careful, and of course there is a reason why the fans are optimistic about the result. ’

We also need to mention Pep Guardiola.

After the 4-0 win over Valencia, the young coach continued his calm style. He has been immersed in football for many years, he is used to seeing strong winds and waves, and there are many cases of Barcelona capsizing in the gutter, not to mention, last season's Rijkaard era Barcelona also defeated Valencia 3-0 before welcoming Real Madrid, and ushered in Deco's comeback, but lost the battle of the century.

Why?

Pep Guardiola said: 'The only good news for the win over Valencia was that we opened up a gap to second place. But what I want to say is that the league is still a long one, and everyone else has to be wary of arrogance. It's too early to talk about the match against Real Madrid, but we have to think about the Champions League in midweek first. ’

However, having said that, having already secured the top spot in the Champions League group, he made a decision the next day that Valdés, Puyol, Marcos, Alves, Yaya Toure, Xavi and Messi will not be featured in the Champions League against Shakhtar Donetsk in midweek, and they have only one goal, Real Madrid.

Football is in a sense similar to movies.

A player is an actor, but no matter how good an actor is, once he catches up with a mediocre director or a failed producer, the movie will definitely not be good.

That's the case with Real Madrid now.

In the 90 minutes of the game against Sevilla, the Andalusian performed much better than Real Madrid, the home team only took the initiative in the second half for a period of time, Gago and Robben's goals helped the team equalize, and once saw the hope of a reversal, but in the end it became a small miracle for Real Madrid to draw Sevilla, and it takes luck to complete the big score reversal one after another, unfortunately, this time luck is not on the side of Real Madrid.

The blockbuster starring Real Madrid lacks a good producer.

Ironically, at the annual meeting of shareholders at Real Madrid on Sunday morning, President Calderón escaped impeachment by taking out the radical fans of the North Stand and passed the budget for the next year.

But on the night of the near-defeat to Sevilla, most of the Bernabeu fans began waving white handkerchiefs and chanting, 'Calderón, class!' ’

If fans look wide-eyed at Barcelona's 4-0 win over Valencia 24 hours ago, the atmosphere at the Camp Nou is the polar opposite of that at the Bernabeu.

In six days' time, Real Madrid will travel to Barcelona and may the old adage be true. (To be continued.) )