Chapter 365: Atletico Madrid's bench thickness

Atletico Madrid's unexpectedly suffered a draw at the Valencia City Stadium to put an end to their winning streak!

After the game, it was clear that most of the Spanish media looked relieved.

Real Madrid and Barcelona both won this round and closed the gap between them and Atletico Madrid.

Now in the standings, Real Madrid are five points behind Atletico Madrid and Barcelona are six points behind, and the gap doesn't look that big at least.

'Atletico Madrid's winning streak this season looks unstoppable, they have won thirteen games in a row, everyone is waiting for when Atletico Madrid's winning streak will stop, at the City Stadium, Levante was lucky, they took advantage of the chaos after Sergio Aguero's injury to score a goal, equalis, and draw at home to Atletico Madrid! And Atletico Madrid's winning streak this season has also stopped at the level of thirteen. "Marca" said in the report.

'The winning streak was ended and Atletico Madrid can certainly be disappointed. In the post-match press conference, we can clearly see that Gao Bo's face is very unsightly. But on the other hand, thirteen wins in a row! This is already a record for Atletico Madrid's winning streak in La Liga, and this record is only two games short of the longest winning streak in La Liga - the longest winning streak in La Liga was set by Real Madrid in the 1960-1961 season, when Real Madrid won a horrific fifteen consecutive victories, but this is not the longest winning streak in the five major leagues. The longest winning streak in the top five leagues was Inter Milan's seventeen consecutive wins in the 2009-2007 season!! From this point of view, Atletico Madrid's thirteen consecutive wins this season is quite impressive, and they are just a little closer to breaking the record! This is the report of the newspaper As.

Gao Bo was of course upset when his winning streak was ended, but he knew it was something that was bound to happen.

It's impossible for a team to win all the time, winning 38 games in a row? Unless all of Atletico Madrid's players are immortals.

Players are also human beings, and their form will be affected by various factors, and it is normal for the team's form to go up and down.

And the pressure on the players to accumulate on the winning streak is not small, and the advantage of drawing this game is that the pressure of the winning streak on the players is relieved.

And what upset Gao Bo was Aguero's injury.

According to the team doctor's examination, Aguero's ankle injury could take anywhere from three weeks to four weeks to recover.

This deprived Atletico Madrid of a big striker.

The league is gradually entering the middle stage, and I am afraid that various injuries will gradually increase.

This is only a one-line battle for Atletico Madrid, and if it were a multi-front battle, the team's injury list would probably not be limited to Aguero.

So at this time, you can see the importance of bench thickness. The reason why Barcelona and Real Madrid can always win the La Liga championship is because they can make up for any of their substitutes in the long league schedule, and the impact of injuries does not have a big impact on these two teams with super thick benches, and for most La Liga teams, once a main player is injured, there is absolutely no player of his strength on the bench - Most La Liga teams don't have the luxury of having a bunch of players on the bench who aren't too far behind their main team, which puts too much pressure on them financially.

Real Madrid can use Kaka as a substitute, and that alone is not comparable to other teams.

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Atletico Madrid's bench thickness is also good.

Aguero was injured and Diego Costa was able to step up immediately.

December 10th, the fifteenth round of the league! Atletico Madrid host Deportivo La Coruna.

Deportivo La Coruna was a powerhouse in La Liga at the beginning of this century, in the first few years of the new century, Super Laco broke the situation of Barcelona and Real Madrid competing for the league title, with Belleron as the soul and Tristan and Mackay's two goalscorers, Deportivo La Coruna played more stable, and has been among the top three in Spain for five consecutive seasons, and has beaten Manchester United, Arsenal, AC Milan, Juventus, Bayern Munich home and away in Europe, He is known for his skillful technique and gorgeous coordination play.

However, in the 2003/2004 season, Europe's top scorer Mackay left Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga for 18.75 million euros, leaving coach Iruetaton out of stock.

Heading into the 2004/2005 season, miserliness became the theme of A Coruña this summer. How can fans and players have hope for Deportivo without the introduction of players? Not only did there be no strong reinforcements to join the team, but Naibet and others left the Premier League, and in the end, Laco only finished ninth in the league, and coach Irueta also left the team. In the summer of 2005, the theme of "selling" stars continued in the transfer market, with Luke and Pantiani leaving the team one after another, and the era of "Super Laco" came to an end.

Deportivo La Coruna don't have the same glory as they did in the early part of the century, but they are still a force to be reckoned with in La Liga.

And ahead of this round of league games, the media began to hype up Atletico Madrid's injury problems.

In addition to Aguero, Reyes has also been injured in training and is expected to miss this game as well!

The two main players were injured all of a sudden, and many media already have some opinions about Atletico Madrid's next league matches.

In the past, it was not without the same state as Atletico Madrid, which was very crazy at the beginning of the season, but in the middle and late stages of the season, due to the injuries of the players in the team and the thickness of the bench, the follow-up gradually began to be weak, and the final league championship was still the competition between the two giants.

Will the same be true at Atletico Madrid this season?

All the media is paying attention, especially since Deportivo is not a weak team yet.

The depth of Atletico Madrid's bench will be tested in the next league.

It was Sadio Mane and Diego Costa who started in place of Reyes and Aguero.

Deportivo La Coruna did not rush away from home because Atletico Madrid were missing two main strikers, and they still took a solid counter-attacking stance.

In the thirtieth minute of the game, Atletico Madrid scored a goal, and it was Diego Costa, who started in place of Aguero, who scored the goal!

He had a beautiful sideways volley after stopping the ball on his chest in the box!

Soon, Atletico Madrid's goal came again.

Antoine Griezmann flanked the ball near the penalty spot and substitute Sadio Mane fired a shot to give Atletico Madrid a two-goal lead.

The two players on the bench were quite active in this game, and the injuries to the main team gave them an opportunity, and if they took advantage of this period of performance, maybe they would have taken the place of the main team.

In the end, Atletico Madrid won 3-0 at home against Deportivo La Coruna.

In the second half, Griezmann won the ball in the middle and shot into the far corner of the goal on the line of the penalty area to help his team seal the victory!

The victory also allowed Atletico Madrid to stabilize the situation in the league, and at the same time gave people a glimpse of the quality of Atletico Madrid's bench players.

Atletico Madrid's bench can also be up to the bench at crucial moments.