The day after the match between Barcelona and Córdoba, Diego Simeone's first words on the training ground were: "Messi scored two more goals yesterday, so you don't worry about him overtaking you in the scorer charts?" ”

"What's there to worry about, as long as I want to score in any game, not to mention that he is still six goals less than me, even if I miss all the next three rounds of the league, he may not be able to surpass me." After a pause, Feng Quan continued, "So, I have nothing to worry about at all. ”

Hearing this, Simeone was silent for a long time and said: "Even if Messi can't surpass you, but you are likely to fail to achieve the amazing feat of 60 goals in a single season, will you feel a little pity?" ”

In fact, if you simply consider the average goals per game, Feng Quan, who scored 52 goals in 28 league appearances this season, could even reach a terrifying 70 goals if he can play 38 league games.

What exactly is the concept of 70 goals?

At the end of last season's La Liga, only Madrid and Barcelona surpassed the 70 mark, with Sevilla scoring the most goals at 69. Even if you look at the top five leagues, only 12 teams have scored more than 70 goals.

Although 70 goals is only an ideal hypothesis, with the terrifying efficiency of the wind this season, it is very promising to score 60 goals in 38 league games.

However, due to the relationship between participating in the Asian Cup and conserving energy for the Champions League, Feng Quan, who missed seven league games, must score at least eight goals in the last three rounds if he wants to complete the feat of 60 goals in a single season.

Although scoring 8 goals in 3 rounds of the league is not completely impossible for Feng Quan, if the opponent is bent on Feng Quan regardless of winning or losing, it is really an "impossible task" to complete the goal of 8 goals in 3 rounds.

"It's not a shame because I set a record of 50 league goals in a single season last season, and even if I scored 60 goals this season, it's just a new record, and it doesn't really mean much to me."

After a pause, Feng Quan smiled and said: "If one day, anyone can surpass the La Liga goal record I set, I will be motivated enough to set a record of 60 goals in a single season." ”

Hearing this, Diego Simeone finally understands why Feng Quan has the idea of leaving Atletico Madrid at the end of the season, I am afraid that in addition to the slander of the hostile media, the most important reason is that other opponents have not put enough pressure on him.

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Although the large-scale rotation of the last round of the league prevented Atletico Madrid from securing the league title in advance, the competitive state of many main players also took this opportunity to improve to a certain extent.

As a result, in the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona, there was hardly any tiredness on the faces of the Atletico Madrid starters.

Although Diego Simeone believes that as long as Feng Quan can play his part normally, it will be difficult for any team to prevent Atletico Madrid from reaching the final of the Champions League for the second year in a row. But. The Argentine has taken the only opponent who has beaten him this season.

Considering the superior control of Barcelona's midfielders, as well as the super one-man combat ability of Messi and Neymar, even at his home turf, Simeone still chooses to rely on a solid defense and then give full play to the speed advantage of the strikers.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the competition for midfield, Simeone specially lined up a 4-4-2 formation in order to use the advantage of the number of midfielders to weaken the opponent's control as much as possible.

In addition, French striker Antoine Griezmann will also drop back into midfield if necessary to further strengthen the numerical advantage of the midfield.

Sure enough, as Diego Simeone expected, Barcelona quickly dominated the field with their passing advantage as soon as they came up.

However, with the passage of time, Barcelona, which once enjoyed the reputation of "the strongest midfielder in the world", has also reduced its control of the midfield.

Especially at the age of 35, Xavi's physical deterioration has led to a significant decline in his running and defensive ability.

In fact, even in his prime, Xavi's ability to break through with the ball is not outstanding, and he relies more on flexible movement to cooperate with teammates to get rid of the entanglement of defenders, and then use his exquisite passing to deliver cannonballs to teammates in the front court.

Today's Xavi may be able to play a high-quality game if he is playing a single game for a week, but only if he needs more runs from his teammates to cover for him, so as to minimize the distance Xavi can run.

Facing Atletico Madrid, which is as fierce as a tiger, the Barcelona midfielder led by Xavi can still dominate the field with their passing advantage, but when their attack advances to the front 30-meter area, it is difficult to penetrate the ball into the dangerous area in the middle.

As a result, Barcelona have the advantage on the pitch, but they are limited in the attacking force that can pose a substantial threat. The few attacks that can be converted into shots are also completed by Messi and Neymar using their super individual ability.

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Although Barcelona is only theoretically possible in the race for the league title, Luis Enrique believes that his team is slightly better than Atletico Madrid due to his previous two victories over Atletico Madrid.

In Luis Enrique's view, the reason why Barcelona fell early in the race for the league title this season is not because of the team's lack of strength, but because of the lack of luck goddess.

Enrique's opinion is not unreasonable in terms of match statistics alone, with Barcelona hitting the post or crossbar a total of 11 times in the four league games they have lost this season, and with a little luck, Barcelona could at least pick up between six and nine points in those four games. Moreover, in terms of the total number of "hits on the goal", it is also far ahead of the other 19 La Liga teams.

In this way, as long as they win the "Tianwang Mountain Showdown" with Atletico Madrid, Barcelona can reverse and win the league title. Unfortunately, competitive sports don't believe in "ifs", and in a sense luck is part of strength.

Of course, judging from the statistics of the first 20 minutes of the game, Barcelona, who had close to 60% possession and 2 shots on target from 4 shots (Atletico Madrid had 2 shots on goal and 1 shot on target), did look better than Atletico Madrid.

However, Luis Enrique was not happy about the statistical advantage, but frowned because of it.

Three of Barcelona's four shots came from outside the box, and two shots from range were comfortably denied by Oblak. Atletico Madrid had only two shots on goal, but they were all from inside the box, and Barcelona would have fallen behind by one goal had it not been for Ter Stegen's magic.

Moreover, Atletico Madrid's two shots came from Feng Quan, you must know that in order to guard against Feng Quan's quick counterattack, Luis Enrique sacrificed the assist of the full-back.

Just as Luis Enrique was considering whether he should continue to strengthen his defence against Feng Quan, Barcelona midfield brainchild Xavi made a mistake in passing under the ferocious attack of Koke and Raul Garcia and was cut off by Griezmann.

Griezmann broke the ball and advanced more than 10 meters away, but after being blocked by Alba, he immediately passed the ball to Feng Quan in the middle of the field.

After seeing Griezmann's pass, Mascherano, who was at the back, immediately ran straight in front of Feng Quan, and was ready to fall to the ground and make a sliding tackle to stop Feng Quan's breakthrough.

Just when Griezmann loudly reminded Feng Quan to pay attention to Mascherano, Feng Quan, who was running diagonally, did not choose to stop the ball, but passed the ball back to Griezmann and quickly stepped forward, and Griezmann, who understood it, pushed the ball in front of Feng Quan.

In the next moment, the high-speed Feng Quan first led the ball into the penalty area, and then slotted the ball into the bottom right corner of the Barcelona goal with a close slash before Mascherano fell to the ground.

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