Yang Yang Is Back Again!

That invincible Yang Yang was back!

After Real Madrid suffered a humiliating 4–0 defeat to Liverpool at home, Marca published its match commentary at the earliest opportunity. The next day, it featured Yang Yang on the front page, highlighting its recognition of his performance in the match.

Liverpool scored four goals, while Yang Yang provided three assists and scored once, completing an assist hat-trick and being named Man of the Match.

Marca believed that Yang Yang had fully deserved the award.

"After losing Crouch and Gerrard, everyone believed Liverpool's overall strength had taken a huge hit. This also caused an optimistic mood to spread throughout Real Madrid before the match. Many people felt that after overwhelming their opponents in the first two rounds, Real Madrid had more than enough strength to defeat Liverpool at home."

"But once the match actually began, they discovered that this assumption had been disastrously wrong."

Marca believed that although Juande Ramos had emphatically stated before the match that he would not specifically assign anyone to mark Yang Yang, he had in fact devoted tremendous effort to defending him once the game began.

The problem was that Benitez's surprise tactics had caused Juande Ramos's targeted strategy to completely miss its mark.

"Sergio Ramos was the key player tasked with defending Yang Yang for Real Madrid. Juande Ramos entrusted Ramos with the entire responsibility of marking Yang Yang, but once the game began, everyone discovered that Yang Yang had not appeared on the left wing. Instead, Gareth Bale was active in that position."

"After losing Crouch, Benitez moved Yang Yang into the center of the front line. This put Real Madrid's defense in an awkward position. All the targeted arrangements made before the match became ineffective, and some even fell through completely."

At the post-match press conference,