The away game against Sevilla in the 17th round is the last league game of the season anyway, and there is no pressure in the next game, the second round of the King's Cup at home against Bonfradena.
Therefore, Mourinho brought all the main players who were not injured to the away game.
Sevilla is one of the strong teams in La Liga and has long been ranked at the top of the La Liga standings. It is one of the second group of strong teams after Real Madrid and Barcelona. It has won the La Liga championship, the King's Cup championship, the Spanish Super Cup championship, the UEFA Cup championship, the European Super Cup championship, etc.
Although Sevilla is weaker than Real Madrid in the overall record of historical confrontations, Sevilla has the upper hand in home matches with 33 wins, 16 draws and 22 losses.
Therefore, Sevilla is not afraid of Real Madrid at their home ground.
However, Sevilla has lost all five recent encounters with Real Madrid, both at home and away.
Therefore, Sevilla is eager to use its home advantage to beat Real Madrid once and then welcome the winter break.
Even though the heat of Real Madrid's 6-0 bloodbath of Barcelona has not yet died down, Sevilla has not backed down.
Of course, there is no point in backing down.
The style of La Liga teams is that very few of them play defensive counterattacks like Mourinho does, and even if they want to, they don't have the defensive ability and player configuration.
Not every team has speed players like Lu Wenbin, Ronaldo and Di Maria.
Therefore, in the 17th round of the match between Sevilla and Real Madrid at home on December 17, Sevilla chose to attack against Real Madrid.
In their own home stadium, with the cheers of the home fans, Sevilla actually got into the game faster than Real Madrid.
In the 9th minute, Sevilla played a wonderful combination in the frontcourt, and midfielder Trochowski broke into the penalty area and almost had a one-on-one chance.
There was no choice, Pepe took a risky tackle from the side, but he missed the ball and instead tackled Trochowski.
The referee awarded a penalty without hesitation and Pepe was also shown a yellow card.
Trochowski took the penalty himself.
Although Casillas is one of the world's top goalkeepers, he still has few options when facing penalties.
He didn't even judge the direction correctly and rushed to the right, while Trochowski hit the left.
The ball went into the net without any suspense, and Sevilla took a 1-0 lead at home in the 9th minute. The Sevilla fans in the stands burst into warm applause and cheers.
Sevilla, who were leading in the score, were in higher spirits and fought a fierce offensive battle with Real Madrid.
For a moment, Real Madrid, playing away from home, was compressed into its own half and was passively beaten. This is relatively rare in Real Madrid's games this season.
However, in the eyes of professionals, Sevilla's offensive is not unstoppable, and the empty backcourt poses a greater crisis.
After all, Real Madrid has two fast players, Lu Wenbin and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Although Di Maria was injured and did not play in this game, even if there were only Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo, it would be enough for the counterattack.
What's more, although Kaka, who played as a right winger in this game, is not as fast as he was in the past, he is still faster than the average player.
Sevilla's aggressive attack would be very dangerous if Real Madrid intercepted the ball and counterattacked.
Sure enough, not long after Sevilla scored, Real Madrid got a great counterattack opportunity.
In the 14th minute, Sevilla's attack was seized by Carvalho who successfully tackled the ball in the penalty area and put the ball at the feet of the full-back Arbeloa.
Arbeloa dribbled the ball past a Sevilla frontcourt player and passed it to Alonso in time.
Alonso looked up and made a long pass in the air to the left without going through the attacking midfielder Lu Wenbin.
With no one guarding him, Ronaldo received the pass at high speed and cut inside, finally breaking into the penalty area and making a high-quality shot.
Unfortunately, the ball was blocked by the goal post and the rebounding ball was caught by the Sevilla goalkeeper.
This counterattack only required passes from Arbeloa, Alonso and Ronaldo to result in a shot. Most of Sevilla's players were still in Real Madrid's half and did not even have time to return to defense.
If Ronaldo hadn't been unlucky at the end, the ball would have gone in.
Nevertheless, if the game continues like this, with Real Madrid's counterattack ability, scoring a goal is a matter of time.
But for Sevilla, letting them retreat to defend is not something they are good at.
It would be better to continue the offensive. Even if they are defeated by Real Madrid's counterattack in the end, it would be a glorious death.
It would be even better if we could score a few more goals so that Real Madrid couldn't catch up.
However, thinking this way is difficult to achieve.
Not to mention the offensive counterattack capabilities of Real Madrid's frontcourt players, even the backcourt players such as Casillas, Arbeloa, Carvalho, Pepe, Marcelo, Khedira, Alonso are all defensive stars with extraordinary strength.
Under the coaching of Mourinho, the defensive master, it is quite difficult for any team to break through Real Madrid's defense.
Therefore, although Sevilla had the upper hand in momentum and seemed to be suppressing Real Madrid, there were actually not many threatening attacks and very few shots within the goal frame.
In the 18th minute, Sevilla had a chance to expand the score, but striker Negredo's shot, like Ronaldo's, hit the post and bounced back into the penalty area and was cleared, missing the opportunity to expand the score.
As for Real Madrid, after more than ten minutes of play, they gradually got into the game and started to exert their strength.
In the 22nd minute, when Sevilla's weak shot was directly caught in Casillas' arms and he threw the ball to Marcelo to launch an attack, Real Madrid's counterattack finally showed the power they should have.
Marcelo made a long pass to the unguarded Kaka, who then passed the ball to Lu Wenbin in the middle. Lu Wenbin made a straight pass that penetrated Sevilla's last line of defense. Benzema received Lu Wenbin's through pass on the penalty area line and shot. The ball flew into the goal without any suspense.
Real Madrid finally equalized the score in the 22nd minute with Lu Wenbin assisting Benzema. The few visiting Real Madrid fans cheered happily in a corner of the stands.
Afterwards, Real Madrid played better and better.
Just 5 minutes after the last goal, Real Madrid scored again in the 28th minute.
This time, it was Lu Wenbin who sprinted past two players during the counterattack, and finally, with the help of an opponent's defender, he successfully shot the ball outside the penalty area.
The ball went straight into the dead corner, and goalkeeper Balas was unable to reach it and could only watch the ball go into the net.
Lu Wenbin reversed the score for Real Madrid, and Real Madrid led 2-1 away from home.
After that, Real Madrid got into the good form and their counterattacks became more and more sharp, efficient and deadly, but Sevilla did not score a single goal in the following period.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-6. Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 6-1 away from home and continued to top the La Liga standings with an unbeaten record.