Unable to break through the opponent's goal, the Atletico Madrid players, who had a clear advantage, gradually became impatient, and the number of passing and receiving errors began to increase on the court.

Although Real Sociedad was unable to capitalize on Atletico Madrid's mistakes to form a threatening attack because of the small number of troops invested in the attack, the impatience of the players on the field and the increasing number of passing and receiving errors made Diego Simeone standing on the sidelines feel a little worried.

"We can't continue like this, even if we can't take the three points from the Arnotta Stadium today, we must not let the opponent take the opportunity to fight back and lose the good game."

Once he had made up his mind, Diego Simeone was ready to ask the Atletico Madrid players to slow down the tempo of the attack a little, while at the same time asking the defenders to strengthen their marking of Antoine Griezmann. After all, as long as the attack of the French striker can be effectively contained, then the counter-attacking power of Real Sociedad will be greatly weakened.

However, before Diego Simeone could make his latest set-up, there was a scene on the pitch that the Argentine coach least wanted to see.

With 29 minutes of the first half, David Villa received an overhead pass from Raul Garcia in the open space on the right side of the pitch.

Then, when David Villa tried to break into the box, he was hit directly on the pitch by the opposing left wing-back, Alberto De La Bella, who used his physical strength advantage.

Just when David Villa, who fell on the lawn, looked at the referee not far away with an "aggrieved" look and hoped that the opponent could award a free kick to his team, the referee on duty unexpectedly made a "game continues" gesture.

In fact, even De la Bella, who knocked David Villa to the ground, thought he had committed a foul and was even ready to receive a yellow card.

However, instead of showing him a yellow card, the referee did not even award a foul, so much so that even De la Bella himself hesitated briefly.

However, as soon as the referee made the gesture of "continue playing", De la Bella also came to his senses, immediately rushed to the position of the football, and then sent a long ball over the top to the open space on the left side of the field.

Originally, when David Villa got the ball in front, except for the two central defenders and Courtois, who was guarding the goal, the rest of the Atletico Madrid players were all pressed into the opponent's half. Therefore, when De la Bella sent a long ball over the top to the front, the right side of the Atletico Madrid defence was basically unguarded.

As a result, Griezmann, who was cut in from the middle of the front field to the left side, easily won the ball without any interference.

Just as Griezmann was about to burst into the penalty area with the ball, Juanfran who was running back to the defense at high speed grabbed the French striker's shirt behind the side and blocked his progress.

The next moment, the referee, who was also in a state of high-speed running, blew the whistle in his hand, and then hurried to Juan Fran and showed him a "topaz" card.

Although there was nothing wrong with the referee's decision, even the "topaz" card "given" to Juanfran was allowed by the rules. However, the referee on duty made a completely different decision on the "foul" of the two sides in less than a minute, which still caused strong dissatisfaction among the players of Atletico Madrid.

Therefore, the next moment when the referee showed Juan Fran a yellow card, the referee was surrounded by six or seven Atletico Madrid players who protested against his standard of decision.

Originally, Feng Quan was also going to ask the referee for an explanation, but when he thought that the total amount of Spanish he had learned was less than ten sentences, he finally chose to give up.

However, the protests of the Atletico Madrid players did not get the referee to change his decision, let alone force the referee to withdraw the yellow card warning for Juanfran.

In fact, several Atletico Madrid players who protested to the referee also knew very well that no matter how much they protested, they could not change the referee's decision at all. The reason why they did this is nothing more than to put pressure on the referee in this way to make him try to be as "fair" as possible when making decisions in the later games.

Although the other Atletico Madrid players barely suppressed their dissatisfaction under the persuasion of captain Gabi, the emotional fluctuations still affected their performance in the game.

Esteban Granero drove Griezmann's free-kick straight to the back post of the goal area.

Although Atletico Madrid's centre-back Miranda grabbed the first spot and headed the ball out of the box, it was Xabi Prieto, the heart of Real Sociedad midfielder who was ambushed near the top of the box, to get the second.

Harvey Prieto first unloaded the ball with his chest, and then picked up his right leg and completed a volley about 20 meters from the goal.

Although many of Atletico Madrid's defenders swooped down the moment Xavi Prieto finished shooting, the football "dodged" all the defenders as if it had its own eyes, and went straight into the top left corner of the goal.

With 31 minutes of the first half, Real Sociedad's Harvey Prieto finally broke the deadlock with a brilliant volley.

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At the moment when the football drilled into the team's goal, Diego Simeone, who was standing in the coach's command area, immediately kicked away a mineral water bottle placed on the sidelines with an angry face.

Although Diego Simeone's kick was more to vent his frustration with the referee, the impatience shown by the Atletico Madrid players in the previous games also made the Argentine feel dissatisfied.

That's right, as the manager of the team, Diego Simeone failed to make the most reasonable arrangement according to the situation on the field in the first place, and he did have to bear part of the responsibility for the goal conceded. But in fact, long before the start of this game, Diego Simeone had already warned the players not to underestimate Real Sociedad as an opponent, after all, the opponent is also a team that has qualified for the Champions League.

However, due to the fact that Atletico Madrid's victory in the first two rounds of the league came easily, coupled with the good situation of temporarily topping the table, the current Atletico Madrid players have a self-defeating idea in their hearts that "no one is our opponent except for the top two in the Spanish Super League".

Because of this, Atletico Madrid players will "boldly" press into the opponent's half of the court in this game to press the attack. Even though Diego Simeone repeatedly walked to the sidelines to signal the players not to press too high, it didn't have much effect.

When Atletico Madrid's goal was lost, their players finally realized how ridiculous their "arrogance" was......