When Yang Yang sent the ball into the Barcelona goal for the third time with a placed shot near the penalty spot, the entire Camp Nou fell utterly silent. Countless Barcelona fans were so shocked that they were left speechless.
At that moment, time inside the stadium seemed to freeze. Everyone appeared to become part of the background, like figures in a black-and-white photograph. The only moving figure was Real Madrid's number eleven, who clenched his fists and let out a roar before sprinting out of the penalty area, racing all the way to the corner flag, and dropping into a knee slide.
A hat-trick!
Another hat-trick!
At that moment, Yang Yang's figure became dazzlingly radiant, turning him into the focus of everyone in the stadium—and of football fans around the world.
In the decisive final moments of the match, he once again pierced Barcelona's goal with a composed placed shot.
Three-two. Real Madrid had taken the lead again!
The nearly one hundred thousand Barcelona fans at Camp Nou felt as if they were truly about to break down. At the same time, they could not suppress the urge to cheer for him, because they could all see that Yang Yang was practically carrying Real Madrid by himself in its battle against Barcelona's star-studded lineup.
It had been an extremely difficult match, especially for Real Madrid, playing away from home.
They had fallen a goal behind in the first half, but Yang Yang equalized before the interval. Then, in the second half, he unleashed a thunderous long-range strike out of nowhere to break through Barcelona's defense and help Real Madrid complete the comeback. Yet who could have expected Casillas's mistake to wipe out Real Madrid's lead?
But in the final stage of the match, with the team's morale scattered and