On the second day of Atletico Madrid's six-game winning streak in the "Madrid Derby", Barcelona, which also won consecutive games in the first two rounds of the league, defeated its rival Athletic Bilbao on its home stadium with two goals from its core Messi in the second half.

After three rounds of La Liga, last season's champions and runners-up Atletico Madrid and Barcelona unsurprisingly occupy the top two spots in the standings, while Real Madrid, who invested heavily in the summer transfer period to regain La Liga titles, have fallen to 14th place in the standings after swallowing the bitter fruit of successive defeats.

After leading the team to defeat at the feet of Atletico Madrid in six consecutive games, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti immediately became the number one target of criticism from major media and supporters of the team. In their opinion, with the strength of the Real Madrid team, even if they can't defeat the sworn rivals of the same city who have the "nuclear weapons of the stadium", they can't lose so badly.

In desperation, the Real Madrid club hierarchy had to issue an ultimatum to Ancelotti, if the team could not achieve a beautiful victory in the first round of the Champions League group stage, then the Italian coach could roll up and leave.

Although Real Madrid's hierarchy may seem demanding, it is not too much to consider the team's opponents in the first round of the Champions League group stage, as they are against Swiss champions Basel.

You must know that the combined value of all the players in this team is less than half of Ronaldo's. If even such an opponent can't be easily won, I'm afraid Ancelotti himself won't be embarrassed to continue to rely on it.

In addition to the team's coach Carlo Ancelotti, Ronaldo, who has not scored in two consecutive games, is also under great pressure. Although Ronaldo has won all the honors at club level since joining Real Madrid, and has won the top scorer in La Liga and the Champions League many times, there are still many hostile fans who accuse him of being a "icing on the cake" goalscorer, and rarely can take on the role of "Mr. Key" in the game.

In fact, the accusations of hostile fans are not entirely unreasonable, after all, Ronaldo, who has scored more than 50 goals in consecutive seasons, has scored very limited key goals, and more often than not, it is some icing on the cake. For example, in Real Madrid's previous two consecutive defeats, the Portuguese king not only failed to score, but even shot within the frame of the goal very few times.

Therefore, instead of having to lead the team to a good start in the Champions League and win a beautiful coach Carlo Ancelotti, Cristiano Ronaldo, as the absolute core of the team, said before the game that he not only wants to break the goal drought against Basel, but also to give wonderful goals for his supporters.

Although the Portuguese king's statement before the game seems rampant, as a superstar who has won the Ballon d'Or many times, Ronaldo does have such capital. And this time, Ronaldo did not break his promise.

Just seven minutes into Real Madrid's home game against Basel on the evening of 16 September, James Rodriguez was brought down in the middle of the pitch to win a free-kick that went slightly to the left of the edge of the box.

Immediately afterwards, Ronaldo, who spoke before the game to give wonderful goals to the fans, broke through the opponent's door with his best elevator ball.

Fifteen minutes later, Cristiano Ronaldo broke into the penalty area after getting rid of the full-back's marking on the left side of the field, and then pretended to hit the goal to deceive the opposing central defender to stretch his leg to block it, but then passed the ball sideways to the penalty spot.

James Rodriguez, who had been ambushed near the top of the penalty arc, stepped forward quickly and calmly swept the ball into the bottom right corner of the net with his left foot.

In the 39th minute of the first half, Bale relied on his speed advantage on the right flank to get rid of two defenders in a row, and then sent an inverted triangle cross into the box near the baseline.

Benzema, who was outflanked in the middle, was blocked by the goalkeeper under the interference of the opposing defender, but Ronaldo, who was ambushed in the penalty area, completed the supplementary goal before the defender cleared the goal, 3-0.

After the change of sides, Real Madrid, who had a three-goal lead, slowed down their attack, but still scored two more goals in the 59th and 68th minutes through Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo.

When Cristiano Ronaldo received a clever trick from Toni Kroos in the penalty area to complete the hat-trick of the game, the fans in the Bernabeu stadium all jumped up and chanted Ronaldo's name together, and the momentum was like a volcanic eruption.

Just five minutes after Ronaldo's hat-trick, coach Carlo Ancelotti replaced him with Alvaro Morata in order for him to receive the full welcome from the fans.

In the end, with Ronaldo's three shots and one pass, the Real Madrid team finally achieved the most hearty victory so far this season.

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At the same time, defending champion Atletico Madrid's away match against Greek giants Olympiacos also officially began.

Although Olympiacos were nowhere near as strong as the defending champions on the road, they were surprisingly attacking in the opening stages of the game and knocking on the opposition goal in the 13th minute of the game.

At that time, Afelai and his teammates team-mates did not cross into the box after sending a tactical corner, but passed the ball to the edge of the box.

Masuaku, who was ambushed near the penalty area, finished a powerful left-footed slash from around 21 meters from goal.

Goalkeeper Oblak made the first save, but he couldn't stop the ball flying against the turf from grazing the post and into the net.

Although Olympiacos' goal had a certain element of luck, Atletico Madrid, which had not undergone much testing since the beginning of the new season, was a little dazed by the opponent's wonderful goal.

Not only did they fail to quickly get out of the shadow of conceding the first goal, but in the 19th minute, the opponent seized the opportunity of a mistake in the midfield return pass to extend the score to 2-0.

Although there are still more than 70 minutes left for Atletico Madrid to equalize or even overtake the score, if they can't quickly get rid of the psychological shadow of falling behind by two goals, let alone overtaking the score, I am afraid it will be difficult to avoid being further widened by the opponent.

At this moment, Feng Quan, who has played the key Mr. of Atletico Madrid countless times, once again stepped forward.

Just three minutes after Olympiacos scored their second goal, Feng Quan pulled one back with a brilliant solo strike.

At that time, Feng Quan, who received a direct pass from Cork near the center circle, first relied on his speed advantage to lie down on the left side of Afella, and then brushed past the opponent's right side after pedaling twice in a row in the face of Domingos' marking.

When Feng Quan burst into the opponent's 30-meter area with the ball to face Maniadis's supplementary defense, he first pretended to break through the opponent's right side, and then swept the ball from the opponent's left side with the outside of his right foot.

Although Manyatis had made up his mind before being broken by Feng Quan, even if he fouled, he would block his way, but when he barely twisted the center of gravity of his body and was about to reach out and pull Feng Quan, all he caught was a cloud of air, and at this moment, Feng Quan had already dribbled the ball to the top of the arc of the penalty area.

In the face of the menacing Abidal, Feng Quan first pretended to hit the goal with his right foot, and when the opponent stretched out his foot to block the shooting line, he flicked the ball horizontally with his right foot, dodged a little shot angle, and then blasted a powerful shot with his right foot, sending the football into the upper left corner of the opponent's goal.