In the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarterfinals on Thursday night, Barcelona narrowly beat city rivals Real Madrid by a score of 1-0, thanks to an accidental oolong goal on the road. Although the two sides in this "national derby" game only exchanged one attack in the dragon, but the smell of gunpowder on the field is very strong exceptionally, Yunis Oszulia and Frankie Dijon's intense "wrestling" drama even overshadowed the game itself, and became the focus of the game.
Real Madrid showed a more aggressive attack on home soil, but Pensima's goal shortly after the break was disallowed for offside. The underdogs were the first to break through on 26 minutes through a fortuitous chance, with Kissel's shot being parried by Thibaut Gauthier, and then the deadlock was broken when Ada Miredao's quick rebound found the net. Although the two teams battled it out thereafter, there wasn't much in the way of real offense, with only one CCL chance in the entire match, and Barcelona ended up with a narrow 1-0 win, with the second leg to be played on April 6 at the Camp Lu Stadium.
The war reached its peak, the Barcelona coach Sha Wei and Real Madrid's Daniel Kahuaji had a verbal altercation, and Gavi also once provoked Yunis Oszulia by bursting into foul language. One of the scene Frankie Dijon and Yunis Oszulia intense collision was netizens jokingly called "wrestling match", the two scramble in the wonderful action was described by netizens as Frankie Dijon "monkey stealing peaches", and Yunis Oszulia with the "over the shoulder" to put the opponent down, but ultimately only received a yellow card.
