Four to five! Three straight defeats! A collapse! Hope!
A North American International Champions Cup friendly had drawn together a host of key words, attracting the attention of media and fans around the world.
Yang Yang himself was one of the most influential players and head coaches in world football. He had also just won the Champions League, and from the very first day he took charge of Real Madrid, every move he made had tugged at the heartbeats of media and fans across the globe.
After two straight defeats in friendlies, everyone had started to worry about Yang Yang. Some had even declared that he would suffer a Waterloo at Real Madrid.
Then, during the first half of the third friendly against Atletico Madrid, when the team collapsed to a five-goal deficit, surely everyone around the world had felt the same thing: Yang Yang's magical aura was gone!
But no one had expected the situation to turn around in the second half. When Yang Yang sent four Ajax players onto the pitch, and Real Madrid swept through Atletico Madrid's defense to score repeatedly, unleashing an attacking storm for more than twenty minutes, everyone cheered wildly and suddenly felt that Real Madrid had been completely reborn.
Those contradictory and opposing emotions had become intertwined in a single match, leaving everyone with a strange feeling.
But that had been the friendly Madrid derby!
After the match, almost all the world's media had focused on two points: Real Madrid's collapse in the first half and its explosion in the second.
Almost every outlet had concluded that Yang Yang had spent the first three friendlies evaluating the team, and that the Real Madrid of the second half was the real Real Madrid. After the turnaround, everyone had become convinced that Yang Yang had