After Lu Wenbin scored his first La Liga goal and equalized the score for Real Madrid, Real Madrid's superstars played more easily.
Lu Wenbin, Di Maria, Ronaldo and Benzema began to constantly use their speed, dribbling, body, passing and cutting to attack Athletic Bilbao's defense.
In the 24th minute, Athletic Bilbao's attack was interrupted by Pepe and Real Madrid counterattacked.
However, Lu Wenbin's dribbling breakthrough was disrupted by two Bilbao players' combined defense, and his quick counterattack failed.
A few minutes later, in the 30th minute, Ronaldo broke through the wing and cut inside, shooting himself on the edge of the penalty area.
However, the ball was at a bad angle and was saved by goalkeeper Iraizos, giving Real Madrid a corner kick.
Alonso went to take a corner kick. Ronaldo, Di Maria, Benzema, Ramos, Khedira and others rushed into the penalty area to compete for headers. Only Lu Wenbin stood outside the corner of the penalty area, as if he was going to take a tactical corner kick with Alonso.
However, none of Bilbao's players dared to ignore Lu Wenbin outside the penalty area.
Lu Wenbin's physique, speed, jumping ability, heading skills, etc. are all superior.
Bilbao's players had to be on guard for Alonso's corner kick, as Lu Wenbin suddenly rushed in to attack the goal.
Therefore, even if Lu Wenbin stood outside the restricted area, there were still two people standing near Lu Wenbin, blocking his route to sprint into the restricted area.
As a result, there were not enough players in the Bilbao penalty area to defend Ronaldo, Ramos and others. Although there were two people double-teaming Ronaldo, there was only one person defending Ramos.
Seeing this situation, Xabi Alonso, who is very skilled in footwork, decisively found Ramos's point.
Although Ramos is a defender, he is one of the top header players in Real Madrid, and may even be better than Ronaldo. However, he is a defender, and apart from corner kicks, he rarely has the opportunity to show his header.
But if given the chance, Ramos can score quite a few goals with headers.
Alonso passed the ball to the middle, and Ramos did get the first point.
He squeezed past Bilbao defender Martinez who was defending him on the small penalty area line and jumped up to head the ball.
After the ball was kicked out, everyone in the stadium stared with their eyes wide open, looking at the header in the penalty area and Ramos heading the ball into the goal.
The two Bilbao players who were supposed to defend Lu Wenbin ignored him after seeing that the ball did not fly forward and Lu Wenbin did not rush into the penalty area. Instead, they watched Ramos compete for the header and headed for the goal.
Moreover, Ramos headed a rebounding ball on the ground.
However, everyone saw that Bilbao goalkeeper Iraizos actually made a god-level save at this moment.
He reflexively blocked Ramos's rebound ball that was close at hand.
Of course, the direction of the block was out of control. The ball flew over the heads of Ramos and Martinez who had landed, and fell near the penalty spot in the restricted area.
Seeing that Ramos' close header was blocked by Iraizos, some Real Madrid fans who raised their hands to celebrate could only put their heads in their hands and sigh, while Bilbao fans applauded and cheered for Iraizos's wonderful save.
However, the crisis is not over.
The ball that Iraisos saved did not go out of bounds, but fell into a crowded restricted area.
Just as the players from both teams in the penalty area were rushing towards the penalty spot where the ball landed, preparing to shoot or clear the ball, a foot appeared behind the ball, volleyed it into the air, and the ball flew back into the goal like a cannonball.
Iraisos, who had just dived for the ball, didn't even have time to get up before he saw a black shadow flash past his eyes and fly into the goal.
When I looked again, I saw there was an extra ball in the goal.
The person who completed this steal and shot was Lu Wenbin, who was outside the penalty area and had been ignored by everyone when Ramos headed the ball in the penalty area.
When Ramos headed the ball and two Bilbao defenders looked at Ramos, he suddenly started and moved a few steps towards the middle.
After seeing the ball flying out, he adjusted his direction and ran into the penalty area, rushed to where the ball landed, and volleyed the ball before anyone else, successfully scoring the goal.
This is the result of Lu Wenbin's full off-ball running and shooting skills.
Seeing Ramos' header was saved, the commentator at the Bernabeu sighed.
Then, when he saw the ball being volleyed back into the goal by Lu Wenbin, he suddenly roared and shouted in ecstasy:
“Goooooooooooooooooal…”
"The ball goes in, the ball goes in, Lu's follow-up shot, he scored again. Lu completed a brace and helped Real Madrid overtake the score. Real Madrid is now leading Athletic Bilbao 2-1!"
"Ramos' header was blocked by Iraizos, but Lu's reaction was better than anyone else. He was the first to reach the target and volleyed the ball into the goal before anyone else could kick it."
After scoring the goal, Lu Wenbin rushed to the sidelines and waved his fist to the fans in the stands. All the Real Madrid fans in the stands applauded and cheered excitedly.
No matter how harsh Real Madrid fans are, they still have to give their applause and cheers to players like Lu Wenbin who scored twice.
Logically speaking, after Lu Wenbin scored two goals in a row to reverse the score for Real Madrid and the performance of other Real Madrid players was much better than at the beginning of the game, Athletic Bilbao should first stabilize its defense, avoid the opponent's sharp edge, and then slowly think of ways.
However, in the following game, Athletic Bilbao did not shrink its defense, but instead launched a frantic attack.
On the contrary, Real Madrid played a defensive counterattack under Mourinho's tactical system.
This Real Madrid team is atypical. The way Athletic Bilbao plays is the norm in Spanish football.
Even if we lose, we must attack. Even if a weak team faces a strong team, we must attack.
Even an unknown La Liga player can perform some wonderful individual dribbling performances against the superstars of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The overall style of La Liga is attack, attack, attack, and continuous attack!
Even defenders are constantly providing assists, such as Marcelo and Ramos.
The result of Athletic Bilbao's continuous attack is that the backcourt gave Real Madrid more space.
In the 43rd minute, before the end of the first half, Real Madrid scored another goal.
However, this time it was not Lu Wenbin who scored the goal, but Alonso who assisted Ronaldo to score. Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo scored a total of 3 goals in the first half, helping Real Madrid lead Athletic Bilbao 3-1.
This score and situation are finally worthy of Real Madrid's identity and home advantage.
In the second half, Athletic Bilbao still did not shrink its defense and continued to attack Real Madrid's half.
However, Mourinho's team did not have so many gaps for Bilbao players to attack.
On the contrary, their defense continued to be riddled with problems by Real Madrid's counterattack in the second half.
In the second half, Lu Wenbin scored another goal to complete his hat-trick and was replaced by Ozil. Benzema scored a counterattack goal and Ramos scored Real Madrid's sixth goal from a corner kick.
Finally, Real Madrid won a 6-1 home victory over Athletic Bilbao in the first round of the 2011/2012 La Liga season, making a good start for Real Madrid this season.
Lu Wenbin completed a hat trick in his La Liga debut, once again amazed everyone!