At the beginning of this season, the Champions League has cancelled the away goal advantage, this effect has been evident from this game, the visiting Real Madrid is very conservative, they did not want to score a goal at home in Paris, it is to defend, because there is no away goal advantage to speak of, why fight hard, the home team's big Paris volleyball 433, defenders Makinhos, Kimpembe, Hakimi, Nuno Mendes, midfielders Danilo Pereira, Leandro Paredes, Marco Verratti, the front line is ranked di Maria, Messi, Mbappe, Real Madrid also had 433, defenders Alaba, Militone, Carvajal, Ferran Mendy, midfielders Casemiro, Modric and Toni Kroos, and On the front line Benzema, Vinicius Junior and Asensio.
Seriously, this game is Brazil, Argentina, France three teams of the attacking main players are on the field, is quite gorgeous, Mbappe is almost certain that next season will be transferred to Real Madrid, this sixteen round of battle is particularly embarrassing, there are many pre-game rumors, the President of Paris and Mbappe himself have come out to debunk rumors, saying that they will go all out to play against Real Madrid in the sixteenth game.
After the start of the game, it is true that the current lineup of Paris has been adjusted a little, Danilo Pereira in the right midfield position, covering the right side, so that the right-back Hakimi with high assist ability and speed can come forward, don't get to the right side is always lost, which is equivalent to putting two right-backs on the field, and in the front Di Maria constantly has a pullback to help steal, he does not look like he wants to play 90 minutes, as far as possible to use up the physical energy, the Champions League competition can still be replaced by five players, Di Maria's situation of being replaced by Neymar in the second half was clear, and paris's right side took advantage of Danilo Pereira's right-back and Di Maria's retreat to destroy Vinicius Junier and Tony Kroos on the left side of Real Madrid, opening a corridor on the right for Hakimi to face Ferran Mendy directly.
The logic on the left is also close, marco Verratti, although not a defender, but he constantly supports the pass in the rear to get the 19-year-old Portuguese youngster Nuno Mendes to participate in the attack.
The highlight of the first half was Portugal's Nuno Mendez, this is only his first Champions League knockout match, but he did not shy away or perform poorly, but became the sharpest striker in the first half of Paris, the Real Madrid midfielder concentrated on defending Messi, Casemiro and Toni Kroos can not leave the middle, and even give up the attack, is not allowed to let Messi have a pass, which leads to the middle of the road is not clear, even if it seems that both sides are attacking at a fast pace, but in fact the defense of the center must not be lost, As a result, the Paris side had to attack from the side, and Mbappe was also on the left in the first half, and in the 17th minute he received a pass from Messi and shot into the box, which was blocked by Courtois.
And Nuno Mendes showed a ghostly body, constantly cutting in the wing, soon forced Real Madrid right-back Carvajal can not bear, Ancelotti actually expected this situation, so put on Carvajal is already Real Madrid's good defensive right-back, but still by the 19-year-old child Nuno Mendes, although in this European Championship when Nuno Mendez has no chance in the Portuguese national team, but more than half a year later he is now the main left side of Paris, Although mbappe, who moved from the left, did not have much tacit cooperation overall, his breakthrough power and dribbling were already very lethal, and he was almost able to rush to the goal along the bottom line.
On the other hand, Real Madrid is very passive, in terms of age and the overall composition of the players, Real Madrid's age has been on the old side, especially the midfield part, Modric and Toni Kroos's activity is suppressed by Paris, and the Paris left side continues to burst in, Modric and others have to stay in the backcourt to make up for the position not long after the start of the game, even the center-back Militan has to keep clearing the ball, otherwise Paris's shot will be directly attacked by the goalkeeper, which makes Benzema almost unable to receive the ball in the front court, Vinicius Junior is also very isolated, Asensio was forced back into midfield.
Real Madrid were very passive throughout the first half, with only one shot on goal, Paris had already shot many times at the time, Real Madrid could see that they were going to score a goal in the second half with a defensive counterattack, and Ancelotti left Federico Valverde, Lucas Vazquez, Rodrigo Goss and other younger players on the bench, and they were all players who were biased to the right, obviously to attack a wave in the second half.
But in the 60th minute, Mbappe received a pass to force the left side of the penalty area, this time Carvajal was finally passed by him, forced to kick the ball and finally did not kick mbappe down and was awarded a penalty, originally Messi took the ball, but Courtois obviously knew that Messi, who had been right countless times in La Liga in the past and had failed to score in the past seven games against Barcelona, Messi somehow, this penalty kick was too much to be saved by Courtois.
It was quite a crucial moment, Courtois had blocked several dangerous shots from Paris before, but the penalty was too crucial, Paris suddenly leaked a little, the rhythm began to mess up, Ancelotti saw the opportunity and began to make substitutions.
Then in the 72nd minute Real Madrid replaced Carvajal and Asensio, replaced Lucas Vazquez and Rodrigo Goss, then replaced Modric and Vinicius Junior at 82 points, replaced Federico Valverde and Hazard, and it was really effective in the last minute, but the Paris side also replaced the physically expensive Di Maria at the 73rd point, sent Neymar, and then replaced The equally tired Danilo Pereira for Idrisa Gay at 87.
In the second half, both teams were very tired, Paris's conduction has actually dropped a lot, Ancelotti's calculation is actually correct, if you use violence in the last 20 minutes, it is really possible to break through the Paris defense, Neymar came up and the state is really good, but at that time Paris basically can only play according to that situation, the seven people in the midfield in order to prevent Real Madrid from counterattacking mostly retreat, Mbappe has changed to the right side to attack, as effective as when playing on the left side, However, even Neymar and Messi's many shots were blocked by Courtois, during which time Courtois blocked three more deadly attacks.
Unexpectedly, in the overtime before the end of the game, Neymar suddenly used his heel to pass the ball in front of the field, directly sending a beautiful left cross ball, Mbappe suddenly entered the left side of the penalty area, he broke through under the two people, and also made a human ball to rush to the left 7 yards directly through Courtois to break the goal, killing Real Madrid!
In this game, Courtois almost became a hero, he really blocked all the attacks that could be scored in Paris, but unfortunately he was almost defeated, and Mbappe first made a penalty, then killed before the end of the game, became the best player in the game on the spot, he was really in very good shape, it seems that Real Madrid want to bring him to Madrid in the summer.
After the end of this game, Real Madrid fell into an extremely unfavorable situation, because the main defender Casemiro and left-back Felan Mendy both suffered a yellow card cumulative suspension, the next game can not play, but these two positions are real Madrid now have no good replacement player position, the aforementioned Federico Valverde, Lucas Vazquez, Rodrigo Goss are biased to the right, this central and left side defensive positions have fallen, in the second game will be very bad, Paris can reach the quarterfinals the chances have increased significantly.