Chapter 521: Everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high

Messi, who has scored a hat-trick in two consecutive league games, not only temporarily shared the top spot in the scorer list with Feng Quan with 31 goals, but also made Barcelona's loyal fans look forward to the team's shocking comeback at the end of the season to win the championship. As long as Atletico Madrid can't withstand the "pressure of a big win for their rivals" and loses unexpectedly, then Barcelona can take the opportunity to close the gap between the two sides.

However, Barcelona's big win did not have any impact on Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid, who challenged Celta Vigo in this round of the league, although Diego Costa, Alda Turan, and Koke were put on the bench because there was still a Champions League 1/8 final to play in 3 days. However, the three-man strike combination of Feng Quan, Antoine Griezmann and David Villa took only half time to completely lose the suspense of the game.

In the 11th minute of the first half, Feng Quan took the ball on the left side of the front field to attract the attention of the opponent's entire defense, and suddenly transferred the ball to the feet of Griezmann on the right side.

Antoine Griezmann burst into the box with the ball and sent in an inverted triangle pass to help David Villa break the deadlock first.

Fifteen minutes later, Griezmann cut inside from the right flank to the edge of the box and curled a shot straight into the far corner.

Celta goalkeeper Sergio Álvarez blocked Griezmann's long-range shot, but Feng Quan, who had been ambushed near the line of the penalty area, rushed to make up the ball into the unguarded gate before the defenders cleared it, 2-0.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Griezmann cut inside from the right wing to the edge of the box and chose to shoot from distance again.

Just as Griezmann's shot went straight to the far corner of the goal, and he was about to drill into the goal, the central defender Andreu Fontàs, who was standing in the goal area, subconsciously stretched out his right arm to block the football from the bottom line.

The next moment, the referee first rushed to the penalty area and pointed to the penalty spot with his right hand, and then walked in front of Fontas and pulled out a ruby card.

According to the rules of Atletico Madrid, whoever takes the penalty will take the penalty. But Griezmann, who created this penalty, directly handed the football into the hands of Feng Quan, in his opinion, Messi, who scored a hat trick in two consecutive rounds, has caught up with Feng Quan's goals, so of course a scoring opportunity with a high success rate like a penalty must be given to Feng Quan.

Feng Quan, who took over the football from Griezmann, did not give in, but said thank you sincerely.

Immediately afterwards, Feng Quan, who deceived the goalkeeper and sent the penalty into the goal, fixed the score of the first half at 3-0.

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Celta de Vigo, who were three goals behind and had one man to play, completely lost their fighting spirit in the second half of the game, so the second half of the game became show time for Atletico Madrid.

In the 7th minute of the second half, Griezmann, who dribbled into the penalty area, had another chance to score by himself, but after seeing that Feng Quan was unguarded at this time, he immediately chose to pass the ball to help the opponent complete a hat trick, 4-0.

Five minutes later, after breaking away from three defenders on the left flank and bursting into the box, Alvarez chose to return the favor and help Antoine Griezmann near the penalty spot score the first goal of the game.

Just two minutes after the wind set up Griezmann's goal, he was replaced by Diego Costa.

After the wind was full, Diego Simeone pushed Saul, who had been playing as a central midfielder, to the left wing, and Griezmann was fixed on the right wing, thus adjusting the formation on the field to a 4-4-2 parallel position in midfield.

Saul, who moved to the left winger, once again showed his versatility.

Although Saul's speed is not far behind Feng Quan, the more delicate dribbling technique still gives defenders a headache.

In the 27th minute of the second half, Saul managed to get rid of two defenders along the left touchline and sent a well-placed cross from near the corner of the box to set up a header for Diego Costa.

On 16 minutes later, Saul cut inside to the edge of the box and curled a shot that was denied by goalkeeper Alvarez, but his subsequent corner set up a brace for substitute Diego Costa.

In the end, with Feng Quan's hat-trick of goals and Griezmann's "hat trick of assists", Atletico Madrid swept Celta at home with seven goals, and also extended their La Liga winning streak to 18 games.

A day later, Real Madrid, who failed to stop their city-rivals from setting a record last week, finally won 4-0 against Levante in this round.

Ronaldo, spurred on by Messi's successive hat-tricks, not only scored two goals in this game, but also provided an assist for Bale.

Although the top three in the standings won a big victory in this round, fans were addicted, and some fans even thought that the ownership of the La Liga championship might be reborn in suspense, but when they saw the strong performance of Atletico Madrid in the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, they realized that they may have thought too much.

Despite having already scored four away goals in the first leg of the tie, Diego Simeone fielded all the main players he could in the home game on 12 March.

Having already established a huge advantage in away games, Atletico Madrid opted for a solid counter-attack tactic in the opening stages, even on their own turf.

Although AC Milan is a little inferior in terms of strength, the dignity of being an old giant force forces them to give it a go in this game.

However, in the case of Atletico Madrid, which has the advantage of strength, has Feng Quan, a "magic weapon" that is good at counterattacking, AC Milan, which is already in a weak position, chooses to give it a go, and the result is bound to be a failure.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Courtois fired a long-range shot from Balotelli into the left side of the pitch.

Although AC Milan central defender Mexes rushed in the direction of the football landing point when Thibaut Cortois kicked a big shot, because his team's attacking direction happened to meet the sun, Mex's mistake in choosing the starting point and then the situation of rising to the top.

So, after the unguarded Feng Quan got the ball, he easily dribbled all the way to the opponent's penalty area, and then used a pendulum pass to shake Abbiati who abandoned the goal, and then pushed the football into the unguarded goal.

After 20 minutes, Feng Quan, who had switched to the right flank, burst into the box with the ball to attract the attention of several defenders and passed the ball to the unmarked Diego Costa.

Diego Costa pushed the ball into the bottom right corner of the AC Milan goal before centre-back Rami could come over to make it 2-0.

In the 41st minute of the first half, Gabi sent a long pass over the top directly to the middle of the front field after stealing Kaka in his own half.

Alda Turan received a return from Diego Costa in front of the court and made a slight adjustment to send a through ball into the space on the left side of the frontcourt.

Feng Quan, who was cutting forward at high speed, shook off Abate, who was marking him, and after getting the ball, he took the ball directly to the AC Milan penalty area.

Facing Abbiati, who abandoned the goal, Feng Quan directly hit a spoon to rewrite the total score to 8-1.