Diego Simeone's remarks about Messi and belittling Ronaldo's national team results at the press conference quickly reached the ears of the top brass of two clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid. Soon, the two clubs also held their own small press conferences to fight back against Diego Simeone's remarks.

Because Diego Simeone's sarcasm about Messi is a bit subtle, and Barcelona has a big gap with Atletico Madrid in the La Liga standings, and Messi's personal data is indeed below the wind, so the "opening statement" of FC Barcelona press officer Rudy Moreno is relatively peaceful.

"Atletico Madrid have been really good this season, but they haven't been invincible, as evidenced by the 3-1 defeat at our feet in the 18th round of La Liga and our knockout of the Copa del Rey." Officer Rudy Moreno said with a serious face.

"Therefore, Mr. Simeone's remarks at the previous press conference appeared a bit overconfident and biased."

However, a pro-Atletico Madrid statement made Rudy Moreno angry.

"Mr. Moreno, Barcelona have won three times against Atletico Madrid, but those three victories have been won in the absence of all winds. In other words, Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid, who were missing the full wind. If I'm not mistaken, in last season's meeting between the two sides, Atletico Madrid, who had the best of the best, won by a landslide. ”

Hearing this, Rudy Moreno suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Yes, our direct record against Atletico Madrid last season was indeed not ideal, but through the recruitment of reinforcements in the summer transfer period, the strength of the team has already far exceeded that of last season. In particular, the addition of Suarez has further improved our already strong forward line. ”

As Rudy Moreno has said, Barcelona's Barcelona front line with Lionel Messi and Neymar is enough to chill any opponent's defence, and the addition of Suarez has made them a near-perfect combination.

After an early adaptation phase, Suarez began his highlights, with the Uruguayan scoring 10 goals and providing nine assists for his team-mates in 17 league appearances.

After a pause, Rudy Moreno continued: "Therefore, even with the wind on the field, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Atletico Madrid to beat us. ”

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Almost at the same moment, Real Madrid also fought back against Diego Simeone's inappropriate comments.

However, due to the defeat in the previous direct meetings of this season, and the huge gap of 13 points in the league standings by the city rivals, Real Madrid's counterattack is not as strong as that of Barcelona FC.

In addition to refuting Simeone's belittling of Ronaldo's national team results, as well as his absolute support for his top star, he also unexpectedly expressed the hope that the two Madrid teams can go all the way in the knockout round of the Champions League and meet at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.

The reason why Real Madrid's "counterattack" is so dull is also helpless, after all, the team's results and the personal data of the star have been suppressed by the city's rivals, and the previous direct confrontation this season has been "all killed" by the opponent.

Therefore, only Madrid can triumph all the way in the knockout rounds of the Champions League at the same time, until the two teams meet, and Real Madrid will have a chance to take revenge.

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Although the verbal cannon battle of the "three heroes of the Western Super League" is very eye-catching, due to the huge advantage of Atletico Madrid in the La Liga standings, coupled with the strong performance in the Champions League knockout round, even the "absolute black fans" of Atletico Madrid such as "World Sports" only faithfully reported the whole incident, and did not lash out at Diego Simeone.

After all, Atletico Madrid's brilliant record lies there, and even Diego Simeone's rhetoric is understandably "arrogant".

In the absence of obvious "black spots", Le Monde Sports hopes that Espanyol, which is also in Catalonia, will be able to take advantage of the absence of many of Atletico Madrid's main players (Juanfran and Godin are suspended for accumulating yellow cards; Antoine Griezmann and Mandzukic suffered minor injuries in training on 12 March, and in order to better prepare for next week's Champions League knockout tie, Diego Simeone did not include them in the 18-man squad for the win against Espanyol.

Unfortunately, even Atletico Madrid, which lacks four main players, is not something that Espanyol, who have been in a fluctuating form lately (2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats in the previous six league games), can compete with.

The substitutions of Juanfran and Godin, Xu Xin and Jose Jimenez may not be old enough, but the desire to play makes them more positive. And Torres, who is difficult to get a starting opportunity after Feng Quan's return, is even more motivated on the field than many fledgling young players.

From the moment the match started, it was easy to see Torres in whatever form Atletico Madrid was in.

When Atletico Madrid has the ball, Torres will continue to run in and out of front, looking for attacking opportunities for himself and helping his teammates open up more space; When the team is on the defensive, Torres, who plays as a central striker, will not hesitate to retreat to the main half of the court and fight with his teammates in the midfield.

Soon, the three-legged Atletico Madrid established their lead.

In the 13th minute of the first half, Torres and Alda Turan double-for-two near the halfway point forced Sergio Garcia's pass to be mistaken and intercepted by Saul, who was waiting for an opportunity.

Immediately afterwards, the wind that had been at the front quickly cut into the gap on the left side of the field, Torres and Alda Turan quickly crossed the halfway line, and then cut into the opponent's center and right respectively, while Saul, who intercepted the ball, drove straight forward with the ball.

Because the speed of the attack and defense changed hands too quickly, so the Espanyol team, excluding the goalkeeper, only 5 players returned to their own half in the first time, and in the case of the defenders could not form an absolute advantage in numbers, the next attack of Atletico Madrid was as simple as training.

After attracting the attention of the three defenders with their off-ball running, the Espanyol midfielders did not dare to rush up to Saul, and could only cautiously block his path and retreat.

After Saul advanced to the opponent's 30-meter area with the ball, he first pretended to break through to the left side of the field, and when Gang Sares, who was marking him, subconsciously moved his center of gravity to block, Saul suddenly passed the ball to Alda Turan near the corner of the penalty area on the right.

After receiving the ball, Alda Turan first pretended to break through in the direction of the baseline, dodged a little angle, and then sent a low arc in front of the goal (below the chest and above the abdomen).

This kind of cross ball defender is very troublesome to deal with, choose a big foot to clear if the part is not good, it will form an own goal, and if you choose to clear the header, it is easy to clear not far from the opponent to find the second point to launch an attack again.

In desperation, the Espanyol goalkeeper had to shout for his opponent to get out of the way, and then attacked himself to confiscate the ball.

It's a pity that just when the Espanyol goalkeeper rushed out of the small penalty area and was about to pick up the ball with both hands, Feng Quan, who had been ambushed in the penalty area, was like lightning, grabbed the ball with his right foot before the goalkeeper picked up the ball, and then quickly detoured behind the opponent and swept the ball directly into the unguarded goal without waiting for the ball to land.

Once the deadlock was broken, the game became a goal show time for Atletico Madrid.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Feng Quan tore apart the opponent's defense along the left flank and assisted Torres to score a goal.

Twelve minutes later, Torres scored a brace after a cross from the right side of the pitch.

As stoppage time drew on, Arda Turan fired a shot from 26 yards out to make it 4-0 for Atletico Madrid.

In order to better prepare for next week's Champions League knockout game, Diego Simeone replaced Feng Quan with Raul Jimenez at half-time and slowed down the pace of the game significantly.

In the end, thanks to first-half goals from Feng Quan, Fernando Torres and Alda Turan, Atletico Madrid comfortably defeated Espanyol away from home and continued to lead the La Liga standings.