Although Real Madrid, who are already 17 points behind in the La Liga standings, have basically missed out on the La Liga title this season, they do not want to be a stepping stone for their rivals to set a La Liga winning streak.

Although Real Madrid just experienced the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 final with Schalke 04 three days ago, because the first half of the game had already sealed the victory, except for Ronaldo, who strongly requested to play the whole game, the rest of the absolute main force of the attacking line were replaced and rested soon after the start of the second half.

Therefore, in the away game against Atletico Madrid on March 2, except for the core of the team, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was slightly tired, the physical condition of most of the remaining starters was very good.

However, even Real Madrid, who were aiming for a draw, focused more on defending and were able to defend in less than 20 minutes before their opponents opened the scoring.

At that time, Griezmann played a delicate combination with Koke and Alda Turan in the opponent's 30-metre area to get to the top of the box arc and sent a through ball into the open space on the left side of the box.

Feng Quan, who was inserted into the penalty area at high speed, first used his left foot to smash Sergio Ramos, who came from the defense, and then swept the ball sideways with his right foot to dodge a little shot angle, and then pumped the football into the near corner of the goal, 1-0.

After the deadlock on the pitch was broken, the game was completely under the control of Atletico Madrid, who are good at counter-attacking tactics.

Faced with Atletico Madrid's tight defensive formation, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was in a dilemma. Even if your own team is pressed on all fronts, it will not be easy to tear apart the opponent's steel defence, and the huge space in the back will be an excellent stage for the two speedy strikers of Feng Quan and Antoine Griezmann to gallop to their heart's content.

In desperation, Ancelotti only ordered his team to abandon the contraction defense, but did not make the overall formation of the team a big premise.

But even so, Atletico Madrid extended the score to 2-0 thanks to a goalmouth grab by Diego Costa just before half-time.

Although the Real Madrid players after the change of sides did not choose to give up, the "negative emotions" caused by the situation of falling behind the score invisibly accelerated their physical exertion.

Especially Ronaldo, the core of the striker who played the whole game three days ago, and the Portuguese king who was still running hard in the front court in the first half of the game, had to give up the idea of pressing because of the consumption of physical energy in the second half of the game.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who has always worked hard, is still like this, and the desire of other Real Madrid players to survive has gradually faded as the game time fades.

As a result, Atletico Madrid, which already had a certain physical advantage, was almost completely in control of the game. However, considering that the depth of the team's squad is still far from the real top giants, and the next two-front battle (only one final left in the Copa del Rey is not considered) will inevitably consume a lot of physical energy of the players.

Therefore, even though he was firmly in control of the game, Diego Simeone strictly ordered his players to keep the tempo of the game as low as possible in order to reduce physical exertion.

When the game entered 70 minutes, seeing that his team was already difficult to stop his rivals from setting a new La Liga winning streak, Ancelotti simply replaced Ronaldo, Benzema and Bale, the three core players in the forward line. After all, instead of wasting their physical energy on doomed defeat, it would be better for them to play a bigger role in other, more crucial games.

After seeing that Ancelotti had "hung up the white flag" in advance, Diego Simeone's face couldn't help but show a smile, and then he also had a "tacit understanding" to replace Diego Costa and Feng Quan, the most ferocious offensive firepower combination in Europe.

In the end, with two goals from Feng Quan and Diego Costa, Atletico Madrid, who played at home, not only continued to maintain the record of winning all the "Madrid derby" this season, but also broke the La Liga winning streak held by Barcelona with 17 consecutive wins.

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Perhaps because the winning streak they held was broken, Barcelona's players were deeply stimulated, and just one day after the end of the "Madrid Derby", Barcelona, who was playing at home, defeated Celta with a score of 6-1.

The Argentine king Lionel Messi not only scored a hat-trick in the game, but also helped Neymar and A. Sanchez each score a goal.

Although Barcelona is still 14 points behind the opponent in the standings due to the same victory of Atletico Madrid, Messi, who was not in good form in the previous games, suddenly broke out in this game, which has "rekindled the flame of hope" for the media and fans who have not been optimistic about Atletico Madrid.

In the eyes of these people, as long as Messi can maintain a good form and lead the Barcelona team to continue to win, then the Atletico Madrid team, which feels the "pressure", is likely to make mistakes and tacitly agree in the league to give Barcelona an opportunity.

On March 8, Lionel Messi's Barcelona team not only continued the good form of a week ago, but even the gods of luck seemed to be on their side in this game.

Less than three minutes into the game, A. Sanchez's long-range shot from 25 yards out hit the opposition defender and went straight into the top left corner of the Osasuna goal.

The unexpected goal did not immediately destroy the confidence of the Osasuna players, but it was a huge blow to their morale when they hit the Barcelona post twice in succession in the following 10 minutes.

As the saying goes, if you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing.

Barcelona, who were twice helped by the post, immediately changed the score to 2-0 in the 16th minute through a solo goal by Messi.

Seven minutes later, just when the Osasuna players thought that Messi, who had escaped the defense of three players in a row, would continue to play a good game of riding alone, the Argentine king sent a through ball to the space on the right side of the penalty area near the top of the arc of the penalty area, helping A. Sanchez complete the brace, 3-0.

After taking a three-goal lead, Barcelona slowly slowed down the pace of the game, and instead began to use the constant passing between players to suffocate the opponent's will, and then inadvertently suddenly accelerated to give the opponent a fatal blow.

In the 38th minute of the first half, after 11 consecutive passes in the midfield, Xavi, the brainchild of the Barcelona team, suddenly sent a through ball like a precision-guided bomb near the center circle, which directly penetrated the entire defense of the Osasuna team and helped Messi get a good chance to score directly against the opposing goalkeeper.

In the face of the goalkeeper who abandoned the goal, Messi kicked a spoon very easily to shoot and set the score at 4-0 in the first half.

After the change of sides, Messi was substituted early after scoring a hat-trick in the 11th minute of the second half to the cheers of more than 70,000 spectators at the Camp Nou.

Fifteen minutes after Messi went off, Brazilian star Neymar scored the icing on the cake with an assist from A. Sanchez in front of goal.

In the end, with Messi's hat-trick and A. Sanchez's brace, Barcelona defeated the visiting Getafe by six goals.