Luka Modric is also a star who gets better and better as he gets older. In World Cup four years ago, although Croatia lost to France National Team in the end and failed to create a miracle, Croatia National Team still won everyone's respect.
Luka Modric not only won the Ballon d'Or of that World Cup, but also broke the Best FIFA Men's Player award that Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo had monopolized for ten years in the FIFA award that year for the first time, becoming the Best FIFA Men's Player of 2018.
That year, the 32-year-old Luka Modric achieved the pinnacle of his life.
Although Luka Modric is now nearly 36 years old, and his physical strength is definitely not as good as before, his experienced experience and strong overall perspective allow him to still play an important position in Real Madrid's midfield.
This season Real Madrid has been able to advance on all fronts, and Luka Modric's outstanding performance plays a big role.
Haaland's super offensive ability was fully displayed under the guidance of Luka Modric.
Now, in the league, Haaland has scored 32 goals in 26 rounds. Although there is still a big gap compared to Li Mingyu's 40 goals, it is enough to prove his strong offensive power.
In Champions League, although Real Madrid lost to Bayern Munich in the first round of the quarter-finals, Haaland scored a golden away goal in that game, helping Real Madrid gain hope of a comeback.
In this season's Champions League scorer list, Haaland ranked second with 12 goals, and became the youngest player with 30 goals in the history of Champions League.
The top scorer among Champions League is naturally Li Mingyu, who has scored 18 goals in 9 games, averaging 2 goals per game. It is very likely that in the next game, Haaland's youngest record of 20 goals will be broken.
The emergence of Haaland last season has surprised the world of football.
With the emergence of such a powerful successor, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, the pair of peerless twins who have grown old, can retire from the stage of history with peace of mind.
Mbappe and Haaland were called the absolute pride of the new generation at that time.
However, at the end of last season, when La Liga and Barcelona were on the verge of life and death, a young Chinese man made a splash and almost single-handedly pulled Barcelona from a disadvantageous situation of being two points behind in two games, and finally completed an incredible 13th consecutive victory, miraculously winning the league championship last season.
The appearance of Li Mingyu made Royal Spanish Football Federation, who had been caught up by Premier League due to Cristiano Ronaldo's departure and Messi's involvement in various news, overjoyed.
This season, Real Madrid brought Haaland to Spain from Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga at an irresistible price.
In this way, the two most popular rising stars in the entire football world gathered at Spain, and suddenly all the attention of world football was focused here.
Spain once again became the most attractive place.
In the past ten years, Spain El Clasico is also known as Century Derby because it has two of the world's top stars, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.
Every time the two teams clash, it attracts the attention of fans all over the world.
However, due to the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, the attention of El Clasico has dropped greatly.
But this season, the first game El Clasico has already created unprecedented ratings. More than 1 billion people in 182 countries around the world watched the live broadcast of this game.
The number of viewers of China accounted for 30% of the total number of viewers. Almost 300 million people watched the live broadcast of this game.
Such a terrifying number of spectators made people secretly stunned.
After all, at the peak of Cristiano Ronaldo Messi, the number of global viewers of El Clasico was only 650 million.
As for this El Clasico, I believe the ratings will not be worse than the first game. After all, this game is related to the ownership of the La Liga championship this season.
Moreover, for this game, Royal Spanish Football Federation specially adjusted the time of the game. Usually, Royal Spanish Football Federation usually arranges the highlight of El Clasico to be held on the weekend evening of Spain local time.
At that time, it was a good time for everyone to finish their meal and go out to watch the game.
However, today's game was held at 2 pm local time on Spain.
For fans of Spain, this is an unfriendly time, and for the players, it is an unaccustomed time.
But in order to take care of Asia, who has hundreds of millions of fans, especially the fans of China, Royal Spanish Football Federation made this arrangement very thoughtfully.
Because this time is 8 o'clock in the evening on China, which is a good time to watch football.
At this time, on the street of China, because it was the weekend, there were actually not many people on the street that should have been crowded, especially not many men.
Today, the TV sets in thousands of households are occupied by men. I don't know what kind of unequal treaty they agreed to to their wives or mothers before they obtained the right to watch TV.
Looking at the Li Mingyu, China fans with yellow skin, black eyes and yellow hair in the camera, they couldn't help but feel proud.
Although he cannot play for China, it is a different kind of pride for a Chinese player to appear in the world's top competition.
Suddenly, passionate cheers from men came from every community in China, followed by waves of condemnation.
The Chinese young man on TV, Li Mingyu, excitedly faced the camera and made a kissing gesture.
Barcelona scored a goal?
Through slow-motion replay, we can see the entire goal happening.
Luka Modric made a through ball. After Haaland got the ball, he tried to break through Lenglet's defense.
But Lenglet, which has now recovered, is no longer the big colander riddled with holes.
He leaned heavily on Haaland with his own body, preventing Haaland from starting at all. Cooperating with Eric Garcia on the other side, the two of them snatched the ball from Haaland's feet.
Lenglet poked the football out with his toe before falling to the ground.
Busquets caught the poked football and gave it to De Jong next to him.
De Jong dribbles the ball forward, and Barcelona's offensive and defensive transition comes.
Real Madrid's players also returned to defense very quickly.
After De Jong took the ball two steps forward, he suddenly made a long pass and passed the football to the right side of the court.
There, Messi, who had already pulled away, used his chest to remove the flying football, without the slightest hint of fireworks.
Before the ball even hit the ground, Messi gently picked it up with his toes, and then quickly turned his back, causing Marcelo to stagger as he rushed to steal the ball.
After passing through, Messi quickly cut inside and rushed towards Real Madrid's penalty area.
This pass immediately disrupted Real Madrid's backcourt defense.
Ramos and Nacho all rushed over, trying to stop Messi from moving forward.
But their movement caused the goal to open wide in the middle of the court.
Messi made a fake move to dribble the ball towards the baseline, which made Ramos dare not neglect and quickly move his center of gravity.
But Messi did not continue to dribble. Instead, he used his right foot to sweep the football toward the arc of the penalty area in the middle.
Ramos was startled and looked over quickly.
I saw a red and blue figure appear at that position, facing the incoming ball, and fired an earth-shattering shot. The football was like a cannonball, so Real Madrid's goalkeeper Courtois had no choice but to make a desperate pounce.
The football stirred up a white wave in the net.
Only ten minutes into the game, Barcelona took the lead.
The person who broke in at high speed from the back row and scored the goal was none other than No. 11 Barcelona, the core midfielder Li Mingyu.
The strongest duo of Barcelona showed off their power again, Messi passed the ball and Li Mingyu shot.
Griezmann looked at the two people hugging each other with a lemony face, as if they were forming a threesome with them!
Camp Nou suddenly fell into a sea of cheers.
However, in a sea of red and blue, a touch of white is so dazzling that people cannot ignore it.
The fans wearing white Real Madrid jerseys were not intimidated by this goal. Their faces were as enthusiastic as ever. They used their singing and cheering voices to tell the Real Madrid players in the field that you are not the only ones, there is us behind you, come on!
The Real Madrid players seemed to hear the support from the fans.
After the restart, even though they were one goal behind, Real Madrid's players did not lose any morale. Instead, they created several dangerous situations in front of Barcelona's goal through several exquisite cooperations.
If Ter Stegen hadn't been in good form today, Barcelona might have lost the ball.
Real Madrid's offensive came one after another, and Barcelona was actually suppressed by the opponent.
In terms of real-time ball control ratio, Barcelona actually lags behind, 48%-52%. Although it is not far behind, it is already a big disadvantage for Barcelona, who values passing and control as king!
The midfielder partnership of Luka Modric and Isco is definitely as good as the partnership of Li Mingyu and Messi in terms of passing and control.
Isco suddenly picked up speed, and a beautiful pass passed by De Jong, directly facing Barcelona's defense.
Isco's breakthrough caught Barcelona's defense somewhat off guard.
After Isco passed De Jong, when it was still about 30 meters away from the goal, it did not choose to pass the ball. Instead, it gently flicked the ball and shot the football towards the goal with a powerful long-range shot.
This is a semi-high ball, the ball speed is very fast, but the angle does not look very tricky, and it hits the center of the goal to the left.
Ter Stegen quickly moved over and stood on the football line, ready to hold the ball in his arms.
But something shocking happened. In the crowd, two feet suddenly stretched out and kicked the football almost at the same time, causing the football's trajectory to change.
Ter Stegen's expression changed. He was already moving to his left, and could only watch helplessly as the football bounced to the other side of the goal.
"Don't go in!" Ter Stegen almost shouted these words.
However, to his disappointment, the ball bounced directly into the goal behind him.
Isco roared loudly and excitedly.
In the penalty area, a player wearing a white jersey separated the crowd and rushed to the sidelines excitedly, celebrating crazily.
Look at the number on this man's back, No. 7.
Haaland.
Isco's shot just now was in the penalty area. It was Haaland who stretched out his kick and caused the football to change course, which allowed the ball to bounce into the goal.
Seeing Haaland celebrating passionately, Isco's face flashed with a hint of gloom.
Isco has not scored a goal in 10 games. He finally scored a goal and was snatched away by Haaland. You can imagine how depressed he feels.
However, what is surprising is that after this goal, some attentive fans watching TV at home saw the official data, 1:1.
However, the player who scored the goal is Li Mingyu on the Barcelona side, but on the Real Madrid side, it is Eric Garcia's own goal.
In other words, Spain's officials treated the ball as Eric Garcia's own goal.
Through slow-motion playback, we can indeed see that Isco's shot did hit Haaland's toes and then Eric Garcia's calf in the penalty area before it was refracted and bounced into the goal.
Therefore, if this ball is ruled an own goal by Eric Garcia, there will be no problem.
However, the Real Madrid players on the field did not know this, especially Haaland. He made a very exaggerated celebration on the sidelines, which attracted huge boos from all Barcelona fans.
Zidane on the sidelines couldn't help but put his hands on his forehead. Why did this kid provoke the fans again? I really don't know what to say!
The first El Clasico this season was due to this kid's impulsiveness. Not only did he compete with Karim Benzema for the right to take a penalty kick, but he also elbowed the opponent's defender at the last moment of the game, and the referee on duty sent him thousands of miles away with a Red Gem Promotion Card.
As a result, at the last moment of that game, Li Mingyu made a false goal and defeated Real Madrid.
After the game, Haaland also became the target of verbal criticism from the media.
Fortunately, Zidane stood up and supported Haaland, and the farce quickly subsided.
However, what Zidane did made Karim Benzema very unhappy.
We are all fellow France fellows. If you don't turn to me, forget it, but you still turn to Haaland.
There are many factions in Real Madrid's locker room. As the leader of the French department, Karim Benzema will definitely fight.
However, Haaland's performance in the team is getting better and better, scoring more and more goals.
And Karim Benzema has fallen into a goal drought of six consecutive games without scoring.
Facing the extremely powerful Haaland, Karim Benzema also knew that he had lost.
Now Real Madrid and Haaland have become the well-deserved top spot.
What's more, he has the head coach Zidane as his backer.