Chapter 440: Champions League Defending and Six Champions in a Single Season
Ahead of the Champions League final, Atletico Madrid's final match of the 2013/2014 La Liga season was away to Barcelona on 17 May.
So far, Atletico Madrid have an unbeaten record of 33 wins and 4 draws in 37 rounds. If Barcelona fail to beat Atletico Madrid in the final round, Atletico will end the 2013/2014 season unbeaten.
Therefore, although Barcelona cannot threaten Atletico Madrid's league title in this game, they do want to beat Atletico Madrid and break Atletico's unbeaten golden body this season.
However, in the end, they fell short.
Barcelona scored 3 goals in this game, 2 of which were scored by Messi, and the performance was not outstanding.
However, on Atletico Madrid's side, Zhang Huasong scored a hat-trick to help Atletico Madrid draw 3-3 with Barcelona at the Camp Nou.
In the end, Atletico Madrid won the 2013/2014 La Liga championship with an unbeaten record of 33 wins and 5 draws, and it was also the first team to win La Liga unbeaten in the season after 38 rounds of matches in the 1987/1988 season, which expanded to 20 teams and created a new history in La Liga.
It can be said that in La Liga, Atletico Madrid has deservedly grown into the third largest giant, and has also created a dynasty belonging to the Sheet Army.
After the final round of the league, Atletico Madrid has won the Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, World Club Cup, Spanish Copa del Rey and La Liga in the 2013/2014 season.
Now, there is only one final Champions League final against Real Madrid.
As long as Atletico Madrid wins, they will make history by going to be the first six champions of the season to make their own history, rather than sharing the glory of the annual six crowns with Barcelona.
The Champions League final is on May 24, and after the match against Barcelona, Simeone gave the team a day off before returning to Atletico Madrid's training base to prepare for the Champions League final.
On May 21, the entire Atletico Madrid squad flew to Lisbon, Portugal, to prepare for the 2013/2014 Champions League final at the Stade de Luz.
At 20 o'clock in the evening of May 24, local time in Portugal, the 2013/2014 UEFA Champions League final officially started, with Atletico Madrid VS Real Madrid, the first city derby in the history of the Champions League final.
Real Madrid's current coach Carlo Ancelotti is an Italian coach himself and is good at tuning his defence. This, coupled with Chelsea's performance against Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the semi-finals, set the tone for Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid to defend and counter-attack in this final.
He didn't stick to the plate like Jose Mourinho, but he didn't put too much energy into attacking like he did in the league, but focused most of his energy on defence.
Ancelotti's calculation is to defend 0-0 until the end of the game and play a penalty shootout. If you can score a goal with an occasional counterattack, it will be very good.
After the start of the game, the whole Real Madrid team basically contracted its defense.
And Atletico Madrid, itself is a defensive counterattack.
In the first 10 minutes of the game, both sides were cautiously probing and did not even have a shot on goal, disappointing many fans who were expecting a Mars to hit the Earth.
However, when ten minutes later, Simeone spotted that Carlo Ancelotti was also playing a counter-attack and tried to drag the game into a penalty shoot-out, Simeone signaled his team to step up their attack.
Strengthening the attack may give Real Madrid a chance to counterattack, but as soon as Real Madrid counterattacks, the defense will be loosened, and in turn, Atletico Madrid can still play Real Madrid's counterattack.
In terms of individual ability and goal efficiency, Simeone believes that Zhang Huasong can blow anyone!
This is also the reason why Atletico Madrid can win by a large margin against many teams, even if the opponent is holding on to the idea of holding on to the death.
It was the first time that Atletico Madrid, like the first leg of the semi-final, had been kept clean by Chelsea.
Sure enough, when Atletico Madrid pressed the attack, Real Madrid couldn't help but fight back when they had the chance, rather than holding on like Chelsea in the first leg of the semi-finals.
In the 12th minute, Zhang Huasong came to a long shot from the edge of the big forbidden area, which was saved by Casillas.
In the 18th minute, Falcao's pass to Costa was broken and Real Madrid launched a counter-attack, with Ronaldo's shot wide of the goal.
After the shot was missed, Ronaldo and the other Real Madrid players quickly retreated, not giving Atletico Madrid a chance to counter-attack.
In the 22nd minute, Atletico Madrid won a free kick in front, and Zhang Huasong's shot hit the wall and caused a refraction.
Seeing that he was about to fly into the net, he was stabbed out by the brave Cassie with his fingertips.
In the next corner kick, Zhang Huasong headed the ball wide under the sandwich of the opponent's two central defenders.
In the 30th minute, Zhang Huasong's dribbling was intercepted by a vicious tackle by Pepe, and before there was a foul, Real Madrid took the opportunity to counterattack.
As a result, Ronaldo's shot was held directly in De Gea's arms.
At this time, Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Bale, Alonso and others all entered Atletico Madrid's half because of counterattacks, and the backfield personnel were much sparser than just now.
De Gea stood up and saw that he immediately kicked the ball forward with a big kick, just near Zhang Huasong.
Zhang Huasong used sharper judgment to put Pepeca behind him, and a header headed the ball towards Griezmann, and then Zhang Huasong turned and rushed towards Real Madrid's forbidden zone.
Real Madrid was shocked, Ramos, Marcelo and others fought and retreated, and Bale, Alonso and others also quickly returned to defense.
However, how could Atletico Madrid, who saw the opportunity, give up the flaws that were finally leaked because of the opponent's counterattack?
Griezmann didn't dribble the ball at all, and after receiving Zhang Huasong's header, he only adjusted one step and passed the ball to Costa, who retreated to receive it.
Costa had Ramos in front of him and it was difficult to turn and shoot.
At this moment, he had a flash of inspiration: he slammed the ball into the forbidden zone with his heel.
Zhang Huasong, who rushed into the forbidden area at high speed, didn't need to adjust, rushed directly to the side of the ball, stood with his left foot, and shot with his right foot, and the ball stuck to the turf like a cannonball and drilled into Real Madrid's goal.
Atletico Madrid finally broke the deadlock by taking advantage of the flaws left by Real Madrid's counter-attack.
After Atletico scored and Real Madrid went down 1-0, everything was simple. Atletico retracted defensively a bit, while Real Madrid had to step up their attack, leaving more space at the back.
In the 45th minute, before the break, Zhang Huasong once again took advantage of a counter-attack opportunity and assisted Costa to score Atletico's second goal.
After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides in the second half, and Real Madrid still lacked the back of the net, while Atletico Madrid repeatedly took advantage of the gap left by Real Madrid's pressing attack.
In the 57th minute, Antoine Griezmann scored a goal. In the 73rd minute, Zhang Huasong scored a free kick again. In the 88th minute, Zhang Huasong scored a header from a corner kick and scored a hat-trick in the Champions League final.
Real Madrid only scored one face-saving goal, but lost 5-1 to Atletico Madrid.
On May 24, 2014, Atletico Madrid defeated arch-rival Real Madrid 5-1 in 90 minutes to win the 2013/2014 Champions League, becoming the first team to defend the title after the Champions League was restructured.
At the same time, Atletico Madrid also became the first team in the history of world football to win six crowns in a single season, which will forever go down in history.
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