Chapter 478: The First Time
Elche's temporary position in the middle of the La Liga table is based entirely on tight defense, so once the opponent scores first, it will be difficult for them to turn the tide with an effective attack. What's more, their opponent in this game is still Atletico Madrid, who are good at defensive counter-attacking tactics.
Just five minutes after Feng Quan's opening score, Elche team, unwilling to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat at home, was seized by Atletico Madrid to extend its lead again by the empty opportunity at the back.
At that time, Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke successfully intercepted in his own half and sent a long pass directly to the unguarded area on the right side of the front.
Feng Quan, who had been lying in ambush near the middle circle of the opposition half, not only attracted the attention of Elche's two defenders in the process of rushing to the football landing point, but also forced the opponent's overall formation to move closer to the right side of the front field.
Feng Quan, who was firmly stopped at his feet, advanced seven or eight meters along the right sideline with the ball, but suddenly stopped moving forward.
Immediately afterwards, just when the two defenders who had been chasing closely before were about to form a circle around him, Feng Quan suddenly dunked the ball behind him with his right foot, and then turned around with a big foot and transferred the ball to the relatively empty area of the defense on the right side of the front court.
After unloading the ball at high speed, Javi Manquillo first broke through to the baseline, and then took advantage of the reflexive shift of the opponent's fullback to the baseline to move the center of gravity, and suddenly closed the ball sideways with his left foot to easily complete the inward cut to the middle.
After cutting inside, Xavi Manquillo made a slight adjustment and made a long-range shot, but when the opposition's centre-back tried to block the line, Xavi Manquillo crossed the ball sideways towards Alda Turan who was ambushed near the top of the box.
Looking at the ball rolling towards him, the Turkish star immediately picked up his right foot to make a long-range shot, but his right foot did not hit the ball hard, but unloaded the ball to his right front in the direction of the incoming ball.
At the same time, David Loban, who had been guarding the middle of the penalty area, happened to slide right in front of Alda Turan.
At the next moment when David Loban "disappeared" from front of him, Alda Turan finally completed a powerful heavy bombardment at a distance of about 22 meters from the goal.
The next moment, before goalkeeper Diego Rivas could react, the ball struck the inside of the left post like a cannonball and bounced into the goal.
If there was still a glimmer of hope of an equaliser in the hearts of Elche's players when they were one goal down, when Alda Turan extended the gap to two goals, they basically lost hope of an equaliser.
Due to the obvious gap between the overall strength of the two teams, Atletico Madrid, which played three consecutive games in a week, played possession tactics in order to avoid more physical exertion in the case of Elche players "disarming and surrendering" in advance.
Although compared to Barcelona, Atletico Madrid's passing skills are slightly inferior. But even so, the Elche team, which conceded two goals in a row less than 10 minutes before the game started, did not have a good way to break the game in the face of Atletico Madrid's passing and control tactics.
In the subsequent game, Feng Quanxian took advantage of an opponent's passing error in the 29th minute of the first half to complete a wonderful long-range shot; Then, in the 11th minute of the second half, he scored a header from a cross from Juanfran in the middle of the box.
It is worth mentioning that Feng Quan not only completed his first hat-trick in La Liga in this game, but also his third goal was the first time he used a header to score the opponent's goal since switching to football. At the same time, Feng Quan, who has scored 16 goals in total, also temporarily occupies the top spot in the scorer list with Messi, Ronaldo, and Diego Costa.
Just five minutes after Feng Quan completed his hat-trick, Diego Simeone saw that the big picture was decided, so he replaced him with Adrian López.
In the end, thanks to a hat-trick by Feng Quan and a brilliant long-range strike from Alda Turan, Atletico Madrid took three points away from Elche's home stadium with a score of 4-0.
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Just one day after Atletico Madrid's four-goal win over Elche, Real Madrid, who are temporarily third in the standings, also beat the visiting Valladolid by four goals at their home stadium.
Wales star Gareth Bale, who has been getting better in recent league games, not only broke the deadlock for Real Madrid with a heavy shot from 25 meters away, but also scored two goals with an overhead kick in the opening 15 minutes of the second half to complete his first hat-trick in La Liga.
Despite Real Madrid's big win at home stadium, Cristiano Ronaldo, who had squandered many chances to shoot in the game (only two of his 10 shots on goal in the game), walked off the pitch with a gloomy face.
Not only that, but in the 26th minute of the second half, Ronaldo also had some unhappiness with his teammate Benzema.
At that time, after Benzema received Di Maria's cross at the edge of the penalty area, he did not choose to pass the ball to Ronaldo in a better position, but forced the shot himself.
Although Benzema's shot broke through the opponent's goal, while the French striker was celebrating the goal, Ronaldo unexpectedly walked up to him with a stinky face and asked: "Why didn't you pass the ball to me just now?" ”
Hearing this, Benzema was stunned for a moment, and then said lightly: "If I pass the ball to you, how can I score?" ”
"But I was in a better position than you and your best bet was to pass the ball to me instead of forcing it yourself." Ronaldo said unrelentingly.
"Humph! Why didn't you think about passing the ball when someone else was in a better position? With that, Benzema ran in the direction of his own half without looking back.
Although this incident was only a small episode in the game, it happened to be filmed by a cameraman on the sidelines.
And on the same night, some Spanish media, which are "not very good" with Real Madrid Club, specially recruited lip experts to interpret the dialogue between Ronaldo and Benzema.
Although the interpretation of lip language experts cannot be completely accurate, if you only rely on the general meaning and then link the expressions of the two people, it still basically restores the general situation at that time.
Soon, many of Real Madrid's rival fan groups played up the friction between Ronaldo and Benzema through various channels.
In their opinion, even though the two were just a verbal altercation, there was no physical confrontation. However, if there is still such a scene when the team celebrates a goal, then it shows that there is a disharmony within the team.