Chapter 513: Forty-Nine Undefeated! (2nd Update)
Chapter 513: Forty-nine undefeated!
Atletico Madrid came out early after four rounds of the Champions League group stage, and the Spanish media was full of praise.
Although Atletico Madrid has little influence in the Spanish media circle, this does not affect the media from promoting Atletico Madrid. After all, the Champions League is outward, and everyone can fight behind closed doors, but the results of the Champions League are still related to the face of Spanish football, even if it is not face, European points are real.
Now La Liga and the Premier League are very tight on European points, and in addition to affecting the European places, foreign points will also play a very key role in the competition for the first European league.
Who is the best football league, always have to talk about the results.
Serie A is now slowly declining, and the Bundesliga has not risen in this era, Bayern Munich's European results are very strong, but in addition to Bayern, it is difficult for other Bundesliga teams to have an advantage in European competition.
The current era is basically a competition between La Liga and the Premier League. However, the trend in the past two years has also been that the Premier League has gradually lost its strength in European competition, and in the past few seasons, Premier League teams have often occupied the second or even third of the top four.
For example, in the 2009-2009 season, the Premier League was three English games against Lu Bu, and the semi-finals occupied three places, although they were eventually won by Barcelona, but that also proved the strength of Premier League teams in Europe.
However, Gao Bo knows very well that with the continuous commercial prosperity of the Premier League, the Premier League has serious internal friction, plus several strong teams, including Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea, have entered a low ebb period one after another, and Manchester City has not yet fully risen. On the side of La Liga, Real Madrid's strong recovery, Barcelona continues to prosper, and Atletico Madrid rises, which makes La Liga an absolutely strong position in the competition in the Champions League in the coming seasons.
In fact, this season's La Liga has already begun to show this trend.
After four rounds of group stage matches, the four teams participating in the Champions League in La Liga, Real Madrid won all four games and has locked the first place in the group in advance, while Barcelona has three wins and one draw, and has also locked in a qualifying place, and there is basically no problem with the first place in the group. The same is true for Atletico Madrid. Valencia is in third place with five points after one win, two draws and one loss after four rounds of group play, but Valencia's group is the group of death, they are in a group with Chelsea and Bayer Leverkusen, and they are only two points away from Chelsea at the top of the table, so for Valencia, they have played Genk in the last two rounds and played Bayer Leverkusen at home, and there is still hope of qualifying.
The three teams in La Liga have already confirmed their qualification for the Champions League group, and the remaining teams still have the possibility of qualifying. During this time, the football media atmosphere in Spain was naturally jubilant and joyful.
On the England side, there was a hail of mockery against Manchester City.
Atletico Madrid is also a traditional Spanish giant, and although they don't have much media influence now, the media are still willing to sing praises to them after their results.
However, Manchester City became rich overnight, and whether they won or lost, they were inevitably ridiculed.
The old aristocracy always looks down on the nouveau riche, which is understandable, Chelsea came over like this, and Manchester City may have to endure such treatment for a season or two.
Of course, in addition to ridiculing Manchester City, there is one thing that the media in England are also focusing on, which is also related to Atletico Madrid.
Atletico Madrid have played 10 games so far this season, extending their unbeaten run in the league to 48.
And this record is one game away from Arsenal's record of 49 games unbeaten!
As long as Atletico Madrid can go unbeaten away to Getafe in their next league game, they will equal Arsenal's record.
In addition to the Spanish media paying attention to this matter, the English media is also paying special attention.
Before the start of this round of Premier League fixtures, Arsene Wenger was already asked by reporters at Arsenal's press conference.
'To be unbeaten in 48 games is really remarkable. Especially since they were unbeaten all season last season and I wouldn't be angry if they could equal our record and I would applaud Coach Gobo, it's incredible that he's able to do that at such a young age. β
At the press conference, Wenger still behaved very gentlemanly.
And in Spain, there is a lot of talk about Atletico Madrid's unbeaten record.
Gao Bo was also asked this question, in the press conference before the match with Getafe.
"Unbeaten record? Of course I want my team to win all the time, every game we play is about winning. If we can break the record, it will certainly be a good thing. But that's not the point, the point is that we got the win, as for the unbeaten record? That's not the point! β
Gao Bo doesn't want this topic to be hyped, and the unbeaten streak is actually an invisible burden for the team.
The longer the unbeaten streak, the greater the burden.
Because no team can never lose.
Football is a sport where the weak beat the strong, the ups and downs of form, injuries and even luck can affect the outcome of a match.
On November 6, three days after the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, at the Alfonso PΓ©rez Stadium, Atletico Madrid took on his younger brother Getafe in the Madrid region away from home.
Perhaps it was the pre-match discussion about the record that made this match particularly interesting.
However, Gao Bo did not send all his main forces because of his undefeated record, and he still made appropriate rotations.
Reyes, who returned from injury, started the game, and Gao Bo asked him to find his form on the pitch. After all, the eighteen-year-old Mane is still a little more immature in terms of experience and ability than Reyes.
Getafe, of course, don't want Atletico Madrid to have a 49-game unbeaten streak on them. So they behaved very tenaciously.
Getafe at home has adopted a counter-attacking strategy, with a 433 formation, with three defenders in midfield, and two wide attackers also have to return to the midfield to participate in the defense, but when there is an opportunity to counterattack, the wing can also ensure enough speed to attack.
There is no doubt that Getafe have an idea, and if they want to win this game, if it is just a draw, Atletico Madrid will also be considered to have equaled Arsenal's record.
However, when the weak team faces the strong team, they are afraid of having too many ideas.
The strong team is not afraid that the weak team has ideas, but they are afraid that they have no ideas, and they only stand in the penalty area to defend, facing the turtle shell composed of eleven professional players, and any team will have a headache.
So when Getafe has an idea, they don't have to focus all their energy on defense.
So in the thirtieth minute of the game, Atletico Madrid was when Getafe was about to counterattack, Gabi broke the ball successfully, and then Atletico Madrid played a counterattack against the opponent, and Reyes cut close to the inside to give Diego Costa a one-handed goal!
Diego Costa scored a solo goal to give Atletico Madrid a 1-0 lead!
With Atletico Madrid taking the lead, this game is much better.
They controlled the football and attracted the players of Getafe to press out.
Atletico Madrid is not afraid that Getafe will not press it out - it is better if they don't press it out, and Atletico Madrid can boil frogs in warm water and drag the game time through with the rhythm of warm water.
There are two consequences of pressing out: conceding the ball, or scoring a goal.
If you don't press it out, you will only lose.
The Getafe players knew that, so very quickly, they were pressed up and they had to fight at home no matter what.
And when Getafe's formation presses down, the space behind them becomes something that Atletico Madrid can exploit.
In the 39th minute of the game, the second goal of the game also came quickly.
Koke played a long diagonal pass from the wing to find Reyes who cut forward at high speed, and then Reyes sprinted along the ball all the way, and on the line of the penalty area, he got up and shot, and the ball flew into the goal!
Atletico Madrid leads Getafe 2-0 away!
"Reyes again!! In the first game after returning from injury, he performed quite well, and so far in this game, he has been an assist, a goal! Both of Atletico Madrid's goals are related to him! β
After taking a two-goal lead, Getafe also knew that they were on the wrong side.
In the second half, Modric scored through a direct free kick, and Atletico Madrid led by three goals and completely sealed the win!
The final score of this game was fixed at 0-3.
Getafe lost by three goals at home, while Atletico Madrid won three points and also won their 49th unbeaten run in the league, equalling Arsenal's record!!
"Forty-nine games undefeated!! Atletico Madrid did it!! They have equalled Arsenal's record of 49 league games unbeaten and now AC Milan are left with a record of 58 league games unbeaten in front of them! β
From the commentary seat, Aduris shouted.