Yang Yang Arrives to Save the Day!
The day after Real Madrid lifted the Spanish Super Cup at the Bernabéu Stadium, Marca used this as its front-page headline. The cover photo showed Yang Yang dribbling at full speed, charging straight into Atletico Madrid's penalty area and facing Courtois alone from behind.
The headline explained Yang Yang's role, while the photograph conveyed a trace of the tragic grandeur of a lone hero.
As Real Madrid's mouthpiece, Marca lavished praise on Yang Yang's long-range charge, believing that his top speed while dribbling had reached thirty-nine kilometers per hour, approaching Bolt's human-limit speed. Although it lasted only for an instant, it was enough to prove Yang Yang's lightning speed and superb dribbling ability.
As for this match—or even the two-leg tie—Marca believed that throughout the 180 minutes, Yang Yang had constantly battled Atletico Madrid's impregnable defense. Almost every moment, he had been up against opponents such as Godín, Miranda, and Mario Suarez, all of whom surpassed him by far in physical ability and defensive prowess.
Not only that, Marca had also specifically counted Atletico Madrid's fouls against Yang Yang over the two legs. It believed that Yang Yang had been the most frequently and severely fouled player in the Spanish Super Cup. In the match at the Bernabéu Stadium alone, he had been elbowed twice and stepped on once.
"There is no doubt that Yang Yang was Real Madrid's chief hero in winning the match and lifting the trophy, but everyone outside still underestimated what he had endured. With a spectacular long-range charge, he made Atletico Madrid pay the most painful price for abusing violent play, turning the Mattress Makers into victims of the trap they had dug for themselves."
"But if you watched both legs, you would find that the rough play