Chapter 108 League Villarreal VS Atletico Madrid
"Fans and friends! Welcome to the highlight of the 27th round of La Liga this season!! Villarreal vs Atletico Madrid!! There are a lot of things to see in today's game!! First of all, Villarreal is sitting at home today, although he is now only in the second group of the La Liga standings this season, and compared with the three teams of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the first group, but their home stadium is very strong this season!! Defeated Real Madrid and Barcelona in first and second place in the standings!! ”
"Because in the last round of La Liga, the Spanish national derby was staged again! Real Madrid, the top team and Barcelona who are second in the table, have met and this draw between the two teams will obviously be what Atletico want to see at this moment!! After all, in La Liga, it is really rare for teams to get points from these two teams, and it is likely that there will only be two or three games in a whole season, and they will not get three points in three or four games. So what should you do if you want to surpass such a team in the standings? It is only possible to maintain the winning streak and then wait for an opportunity. And the Spanish national derby is clearly an opportunity that Atletico have been waiting for!! ”
"Since neither Real Madrid nor Barcelona won against each other, they only won one point in that game! So Atletico Madrid narrowed the points gap between him and Real Madrid Barcelona in the last round of the league!! And in yesterday's game, Barcelona once again beat their opponents in the league and scored three points, while Real Madrid drew 2-2 with Rayo Vallecano!! Only one point! In other words, if Atletico can beat Villarreal in this game, he will be able to surpass Real Madrid in the standings! Become the top team in the La Liga standings!! ”
This game is of course of great significance for Atletico Madrid.
As the season draws closer to its end, their chances of overtaking that team at the top of the table will become less and less likely to do so.
Many times, once a valuable opportunity is missed, they will most likely never be able to change the final outcome.
But will the fierce Villarreal make their dreams come true so easily?
Obviously, the submarine is not the fairy of the lake that will fulfill your heart's wish as long as you make a wish.
The whole Atletico squad understands this, and it is for this reason that their manager Alberto will be so cautious in his approach to this game.
Perhaps Villarreal are a dozen points behind them in the league points, and the team struggled in the Spanish second division last season. But this year, they have beaten Real Madrid and Barcelona at home in quick succession. Any fan will be able to understand what this means.
"Atletico sent a 4-3-1-2 lineup today!! Today, Yolandar and Garrincha were placed at the front of the formation, sharing the task of two strikers in the formation! And *, Enzo, Tony, Sergio make up the diamond-shaped midfielders in today's lineup!! Looks like Alberto is pulling out all his money today!! There were also rumours before this game that Sergio might have a foot injury and might not be in the starting line-up for this game. But now it seems that Sergio is slightly injured and cannot get out of the line of fire! I played with an injury today!! ”
Although Ray Wing said of Villarreal's Love Song Stadium that the stadium with a capacity of only 25,000 spectators is small.
But in Spain, the stadiums of those teams have never been as big as the home stadiums of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. From the Rose Garden in Malaga, the Estadio de la Nueva Los Carmens in Granada, the Estadio Sorilla in Valladolid, all the way to the Estadio Mediterneo in Almeria, these stadiums can only accommodate more than 20,000 fans. Not to mention, both Getafe and Rayo Vallecano can only accommodate more than 10,000 spectators at home stadium.
Watching a game in a stadium like this, you may not feel the shaking of the world when 100,000 people carnival or roar together. But you can feel the cordiality and warmth of not very international, with acquaintances in small towns and towns, who make an appointment to come to the same place every week to cheer for their hometown team.
It is a kind of companionship and waiting that has been habitual for decades and has nothing to do with victory or defeat.
It may not be fanatical enough, it won't be irrational, but it's touching enough.
The expectations of the fans for this match were extraordinary, and it certainly lived up to the expectations of any fan. As soon as the game began, the two teams showed off their sharpest weapons. It seems that these two teams did not go through any adaptation period at all after the referee blew the whistle to signal the start of the game, and directly played round after round of beautiful offensive attacks that made people shine.
Today, 2,500 Atletico Madrid fans came to Villarreal's Love Song Stadium, waving Atletico Madrid's flag in red, white and blue. Shouting loudly, and the die-hard Villarreal fans who have the home advantage will certainly not be overwhelmed by the fans who come to the away stadium in terms of momentum.
"Villarreal's defence is still not very solid, but they make up for it with their strong attack!! Against this Atletico Madrid team, which is not in perfect form, their tactical play can be said to be very strategic!! ”
Just nine minutes into the game, both teams had already created chances to shoot.
One of Villarreal's attacking midfielders and one of the wingers had a shot on goal, and those two shots hit one outside the goal and the other on target! It was Atletico's goalkeeper who took the shot.
On Atletico Madrid's side, Yolandal was very brave at the beginning, launching two shots, only to miss one and hit the post with a very regrettable one. That frustrated the Irish striker, but he didn't feel frustrated by those two unsuccessful shots.
On the contrary, it made him more and more courageous.
It's just that as time went by, Yolandal, who had not been able to score that point for a long time, became a little impatient. If it were someone else, it might not be a dangerous thing to be impatient for a few minutes of the game, but this person ...... It's Yolandal. Joining Barcelona's Milan Pique in the red card list of La Liga goalscorers, Yolandal, who is clearly more impatient and frizzy than the latter......
So a tragedy happened.
In the 16th minute, the courageous Yolandal encountered the fierce defenders of the Villarreal family and fought against each other. With his strong breakthrough ability and physical strength as a good center forward, Yolandal was almost on the verge of breaking through Villarreal's last defensive blockade, but at the critical moment! Villarreal's last defender pulled Yolandal! And after pulling to no avail, the man used the thigh-hugging stunt again!!
Even if he was as strong as Yolandal, he was made to lose his center of gravity by his hug, and seeing that the Villarreal defender was about to protect the ball and pass it to the goalkeeper, the Irish striker with rough footwork rushed forward at this moment and used the Villarreal defender's action to treat him and cast it on the central defender!!
But...... Due to the angry Yolandal's carelessness, the Villarreal centre-back, who was hugged by his thigh and dragged backwards violently, wearing a yellow home shirt, was almost lifted into the air by him, which was probably overturned......
As the camera footage on the scene was already highly focused on the fans in front of the TV when the two were competing with each other, the multi-angle contest between the defender and the center forward. So when Yolandal made this move, almost everyone who was following the game saw the Irish striker from Atletico...... How did he put on an innocent and handsome face, and his expression was extremely serious, to lift up a particularly muscular guard.
At that moment, all the people who saw this scene stiffened their bodies and their expressions stiffened.
Subsequently, the referee of the game blew the foul whistle! After Yolandar tripped himself because of stepping on his right foot with his left foot!!
"This ...... The situation on this site is chaotic! I don't know what kind of penalty the referee will give to this clash! ”
Because the football commentator needs to be neutral at all times, and cannot draw conclusions about the problem of fake falls, the commentator of this game can only say this sentence in a hurry, but before this sentence is spoken, I saw the referee of the game, Prieto, appeared in the TV camera, and rushed over with a red card in his hand!!
When the dazzling red card appeared in everyone's sight, the two players who created the conflict still fell to the ground, looking at the red card in a daze, not knowing who it was for.
Yolandar and the Villarreal defender, you look at me, I look at you, and then they looked at the referee very tacitly, and almost at the same moment hurriedly blamed each other, and signaled to the referee that it was the other party who committed the foul! It's the other party! Definitely the other party!!
So the referee Prieto actually smiled at the two players, and said that he had just seen it clearly, he saw it clearly, and there was no need for the two of them to make extra additional explanations.
At that moment, the heartbeats of the two players who had been moving so much just now were as loud as if they were hitting a bell, but they were getting faster and faster, and even their chests were beaten painfully. Any decision made by the referee during the course of the match cannot be changed once it has been presented! Even if the penalty he made was wrong! But you won't be able to change it until at least after the game!!
Not mine!
Not mine!!
This red card is not mine!!
The two players prayed silently at this time!!
Then, Yolandal saw the referee of the game, Prieto, who had given him a red card, just walked up to him and smiled at him.
The picture was too familiar for me to look at......