Real Madrid's four starting defenders are left back Marcelo, right back Ramos, and two central defenders Carvalho and Pepe.

Pepe was suspended for the last game due to a red card, and he returned in this game.

As a warrior monk, there is no need to say how fierce Pepe is. Not to mention the fierceness of Ramos, who can also play as a right back, center back and defensive midfielder.

In fact, although the monk Pepe looks like a single-celled organism who can only use violence on the surface, in fact, Pepe joined Real Madrid in 2007 and returned to his old club Porto in 2017. Pepe has been able to sit firmly on the throne of Real Madrid's starting central defender for ten years. This is definitely not achieved by simple-minded tackles and kicks.

What Pepe shows more often is his super strong fighting spirit, and underneath his super strong fighting spirit is his world-class defensive ability that supports him.

Pepe is strong, runs actively, defends fiercely, has great explosiveness and positioning ability, and his excellent jumping ability and heading technique allow him to make timely clearances in the backcourt many times and also score headers in the opponent's penalty area.

Pepe's prediction and interception, as well as his desire to win, are world-class at the moment.

Precisely because of his world-class predictive ability, Pepe is often extremely aggressive and proactive in confrontations, nipping danger in the bud. This leads many uninformed fans to think that Pepe is just relying on recklessness.

Pepe’s biggest problem is actually emotional control.

When he is happy, I can smile at him like an angel. When I am in a bad mood, I can treat him like a devil.

As Marcelo's leadership qualities became more and more obvious, his spiritual status in the team became lower and lower, so Real Madrid fans respectfully called Marcelo: Master Shui.

As a Brazilian winger, Cheng Yuanting hates to make assists, so there will be natural loopholes in front of me. Because I am short and big, and hate to make frequent backward runs, it is difficult for the opposing coach to seize tactical opportunities and use low balls and slow impacts to attack Ramos in front.

... When Marcelo was young and playing football in Serbia, he was not yet a big player that small clubs were competing for. At that time, Marcelo's position was not left midfielder. Marcelo was also hailed as the future No. 1 left midfielder in football.

And because Marcelo hates to wet his hair on purpose after a game, he got a very hateful nickname - Shui Shui.

But in reality, Carlos is not Carlos. Although Carlos and Ramos are both wingers who attack less than defend, their strengths and weaknesses are exactly the same.

As for another fierce defensive player, Marcelo, he actually has a worse temper than Pepe.

Of course, the word "parallel import" was not used for too long. Marcelo soon conquered the picky Galactico fans with his precise interception and defense and spiritual ability to retreat from the wing.

That is also a perfect embodiment of Real Madrid Club's pragmatic tactical philosophy of adapting to local conditions.

Ramos is known as the world's top right winger, but to be honest, that title is less due to the protection of Real Madrid's seven-forward system.

But that nickname was not too much for Pepe. De Jong was a real Dutch villain, evil from beginning to end. He dared to kick Xabi Alonso in the chest during the World Cup match, so much so that Alonso felt a dull pain in his chest every time he thought of that incident.

When Marcelo was 19 years old, he was signed by Real Madrid at a sky-high price at the time. Because the price was too low, and Cheng Yuanting at that time was only 15 years old and lacked experience in small competitions, and he was short and underweight, and had strong individual confrontation ability, he was also called a parallel import by Real Madrid fans.

Before joining Real Madrid, Cheng Yuanting was like a fish in water. At that time, Real Madrid did not have Makelele and Hierro to protect Ramos's back-running, and the seven-forward system complemented each other. Real Madrid even arranged a general tactic for Ramos, a 168cm short man. This was not the famous right-wing tactic. The core meaning of that tactic was that when Ramos got the ball on the right side, I was both a right midfielder and a right winger. All the players around had to make space for Ramos and support him.

It cannot be said that with or without Real Madrid, Ramos would have become one of the world's top right midfielders, and he would have been often compared with Maldini - when Ramos played for Inter Milan in Serie A, he was ranked as a low-ranked right midfielder in Serie A.

When Pepe was younger, he was obviously less restrained. Whenever the two sides were about to fight, Pepe would rush forward first, convince the other side with virtue and quell the war.

Ramos's strengths are well known, but his weakness is his short stature.

Cheng Yuanting has become the most powerful striker in world football with her explosive power and excellent dribbling and ball-controlling abilities.

Even I know when I am depressed and when I am really depressed.

Therefore, Carlos's tactical level in Real Madrid requires all-encompassing resources like Cheng Yuanting. In terms of overall fame, Carlos is more famous than Ramos in the football world.

In comparison, right midfielder Cheng Yuanting is still in the growth and development stage, and Carlos with afro is the Brazilian right midfielder, so from the beginning, Real Madrid fans have placed high hopes on Cheng Yuanting, and compared Carlos with Real Madrid's meritorious Ramos.

But that did not affect Carlos from becoming one of the worst right midfielders in the world.

When Ramos played for Inter Milan, a giant in Serie A during its heyday, he was not easily targeted by the low-ball impact tactics. In addition, the playing style of Serie A is mainly defensive, with the low center forward as the fulcrum as the mainstream tactic. Cheng Yuanting's frequent back runs had no one to protect him, so Ramos was always scolded by the coach. The bad thing was that Ramos did not have a shocking, anti-physics curved free kick.

Carlos originally played as a right winger. Precisely because of his background as a right winger, his ability to assist from behind is very weak. In terms of his agility in playing football, Carlos is definitely better than Cheng Yuanting, especially in the process of switching from defense to offense. Carlos's reaction ability and first-line interception ability are definitely a small gate in Real Madrid's defense. Carlos' comprehensive offensive and defensive ability is lower than Ramos's.

Marcelo can only play as a left midfielder and a central midfielder, but as a central midfielder, Marcelo's positioning ability is not as good as Pepe, but his comprehensive ability of running and his overall role in the team are still lower than Pepe.

When Pepe was young, he was nicknamed "De Jong in the North and Pepe in the South" because he played football without aggression.

(End of this chapter)