After finishing the Champions League, he returned to the domestic league.
On April 8, in the 32nd round of La Liga, Real Madrid played against Valencia at home.
Valencia has performed well this season and is currently ranked third, only behind Real Madrid and Barcelona.
However, facing Real Madrid led by Lu Wenbin at the Bernabeu Stadium, although Valencia played a defensive counterattack, they still conceded 4 goals in the end, and Valencia only scored a face-saving goal in the second half.
Lu Wenbin scored twice as Real Madrid beat Valencia 4-1 at home. They have achieved an unbeaten record of 36 games across the season and have accumulated 90 points.
With six league games left this season, Real Madrid will almost certainly reach 100 points, which would be a new record in La Liga.
On April 11, in the 33rd round of La Liga, Real Madrid visited Calderon and faced Atletico Madrid in the Madrid derby.
This city derby was full of tension.
Seeing Real Madrid so successful, Atletico Madrid is naturally very unhappy. Atletico Madrid is naturally very excited when there is a chance for direct confrontation.
Even if we can't win the league title, it would be nice to interrupt Real Madrid's unbeaten streak.
There were two red cards, five yellow cards and one player from each team was injured in this game.
In the end, Real Madrid struggled to bring back a 3-3 draw from Calderon. All three goals were scored by Lu Wenbin, two of which were direct free kicks.
If it weren't for Lu Wenbin, Real Madrid might have really lost this game.
Although the winning streak in all competitions was ended, Real Madrid's unbeaten streak across seasons reached 37 games after this Madrid derby, just one game away from Real Sociedad's record of 38 unbeaten games across seasons in the 1979/1980 season.
Three days later, on April 14, in the 34th round of La Liga, Mourinho did not go all out to catch up with the so-called 38-game unbeaten record, but chose to rotate.
The city derby against Atletico Madrid away from home consumed too much energy of the entire Real Madrid team, and three days later there was the Champions League semi-final against Chelsea, also away from home.
Therefore, in this game that could have tied Real Sociedad's 38-game unbeaten streak in La Liga, Mourinho was forced to choose rotation, and even the most reassuring Lu Wenbin was not included in the roster.
Fortunately, Real Madrid's rotation lineup is much stronger than that of Sporting Gijon, which is ranked last, not to mention that they are at home at the Bernabeu.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 3-1. Real Madrid still won the game at home thanks to their defensive counterattack.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the entire Bernabeu stands burst into applause. Countless Real Madrid fans clapped, cheered and screamed excitedly, celebrating for their record of tying 38 La Liga unbeaten games.
After the game, global media reported that Real Madrid tied Real Sociedad's 38-game unbeaten record.
The British media, in particular, are quite positive because Chelsea's next opponent in the Champions League semi-finals is Real Madrid.
Real Madrid has Mourinho, the former coach of Chelsea, Lu Wenbin, the world's number one player today, and Cristiano Ronaldo, the former Premier League Golden Boot winner, and has achieved a terrifying record of 38 unbeaten games in the La Liga.
With such a formidable Real Madrid, does the newly appointed assistant coach Di Matteo have a chance to lead the team to defeat the opponent and advance to the Champions League final
Since the beginning of this season, Chelsea coach Villas-Boas has been performing mediocrely without any outstanding results.
After losing 1-3 to Napoli in the Champions League quarter-finals, Chelsea's top management finally lost their patience and announced on March 4, 2012 that Villas-Boas was sacked and assistant coach Di Matteo took over the team.
Di Matteo's first test after taking office was the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Napoli.
As a result, Chelsea staged a reversal under the leadership of Di Matteo, winning 4-1 at home and successfully advancing to the quarterfinals.
Then they relied on steadfast defensive counterattacks to beat Benfica in two rounds to advance to the semi-finals, where they now face Real Madrid.
This is a more serious test for Di Matteo than Napoli.
On April 16, Real Madrid arrived in London a day in advance. The players participated in adaptive training and Mourinho attended the pre-match press conference.
Facing the British media reporters and his old club, Mourinho did not give any face at all and claimed that his belief was victory.
What's more, Chelsea changed coaches in the middle of the season and their tactical lineup is unstable, so Real Madrid will definitely take away a victory from Stamford Bridge.
The implication is that he disdains Chelsea's new coach Di Matteo.
Mourinho's remarks naturally angered the entire Chelsea team.
Captain Terry claimed in an interview that although he had great respect for Mourinho, he would lead the team to beat Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge and give Mourinho a crushing defeat to "welcome" him back to London.
When it comes to the semi-finals of the Champions League, it's naturally a life-and-death fight. Everyone wants to reach the final and win the championship. As for the mentor-disciple friendship that once existed, no one cares about it now.
Di Matteo even claimed that he would let Real Madrid see what a real defensive counterattack is.
Mourinho did not refute.
Di Matteo is the assistant coach of Villas-Boas, who was once the assistant coach of Mourinho.
It can be said that Di Matteo's defensive counterattacks all reveal a hint of Mourinho.
The apprentice of the apprentice wants to defeat the master, or when the players are not as strong as him
Mourinho was dismissive.
However, when the time came to 20:45 on the evening of April 17, when Chelsea faced Real Madrid in the first leg of the 2011/2012 Champions League semi-final at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho saw how powerful Di Matteo was.
Chelsea's starting lineup was goalkeeper Cech, defenders Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Ashley Cole, midfielders Essien, Mikel, midfielders Bosingwa, Lampard, Mata, and forward Drogba.
Although their value is not as high as that of Real Madrid, the central axis, from striker Drogba, to attacking midfielder Lampard, to defensive midfielder Essien, to central defender Terry, to goalkeeper Cech, are all world-class stars with extraordinary strength.
After the game started, Chelsea retreated across the board. As expected, Essien was responsible for closely guarding Lu Wenbin, but those who assisted in defense included Terry, Lampard, Mikel, Cahill and others.
Essien and Terry's defensive abilities are universally recognized, and Lampard is also a good midfield interceptor. If any two of them join forces, it will be difficult for Lu Wenbin to get past them.
A 20/20 dribbling ability does not mean that you can definitely dominate and break through smoothly when facing an opponent with a defense of 18 or 19, let alone when the opponent has several players working together, making the breakthrough even more difficult.
Moreover, Chelsea's formation remained relatively intact and was not disrupted by Lu Wenbin's breakthrough.
Even if Lu Wenbin passed the ball and assisted, it would be difficult to get a chance as Chelsea's defense tightened.
What's more, in front of Chelsea's goal stands the world-class goalkeeper Cech.