At 9 a.m. local time in Spain on November 1, José Luis Vázquez, press officer of Atletico Madrid, announced that Wonder Group from China had purchased a 25% stake in the club for 65 million euros.

In addition, Atlético Madrid will also carry out deeper cooperation with Wonder Group on the cultivation of youth football talents in China.

A day later, Atletico Madrid's official website announced two winter signings.

1: Spanish teenager Saul, who spent this summer on loan at Rayo Vallecano, will end his loan early in the winter transfer period and return to Atletico Madrid to continue playing in the next La Liga.

2: French striker Antoine Griezmann, who plays for Real Sociedad, will join Atletico Madrid for 30 million euros after the winter transfer window reopens.

At first, neither Griezmann himself nor Real Sociedad showed much interest in the deal.

However, after Real Sociedad suffered an embarrassing three-game losing streak in the Champions League group stage and suffered a five-game winless run in La Liga (four draws, one defeat), the French striker finally made the decision to leave.

Despite Griezmann's resolute intentions, Real Sociedad are reluctant to let him leave during the winter transfer window. But Atletico Madrid offered to loan Brazilian striker Baptistao on loan for free, with a buyout clause attached, that they were "forced" to agree to the deal.

In fact, it took a long time for Griezmann to finally make the decision to join Atletico Madrid during the winter transfer window. After all, Atletico Madrid's strikers have performed well since the beginning of the season, and it is not easy to "grab" the main position from the "rival" after joining the team.

However, Griezmann will not be able to play for Atletico Madrid in the Champions League later this season because he has already played for Real Sociedad in the group stage of this season's Champions League. In this way, in the case of Atletico Madrid facing a two-front battle, Griezmann can still get a lot of opportunities to play in La Liga.

In addition, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone also "hinted" at Griezmann that the club is likely to sell Diego Costa, who has been "crazy" this season, next summer, so even if the French striker cannot get a main position in the early days of his arrival, he will become the team's first choice for strikers by next summer at the latest.

As a result, Griezmann finally agreed to join Atletico Madrid in the winter transfer window.

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Real Madrid, who had just won a big win in the last round of the league, narrowly lost to Rayo Vallecano, who is temporarily fourth from the bottom of the standings, in the 12th round of the league.

Less than three minutes into the game, Real Madrid got off to a fantastic start. At that time, Illia Ramendi quickly passed the ball to Luka Modric near the centre circle after breaking the ball at the back.

Modric sent a through ball straight forward during his run, and after the fast-starting Ronaldo poked the ball past Galves, who had returned to the defense, he hit the goal directly on the left rib of the penalty area and sent the ball into the top right corner of the goal.

After taking the lead, Real Madrid began to control the tempo of the field, relying on continuous mutual transmission to find gaps in the Vallecano team's defense to attack. However, in the face of the opponent's dense defense, they were slightly inferior to Barcelona in passing ability, but they did not get too good scoring opportunities.

Not only that, when the first half of the game was 44 minutes, Pepe, the "time bomb" in Real Madrid's backline, also kicked down the opposing striker Vieira in the penalty area, thus giving the opponent a penalty.

Vieira then scored a penalty of his own to level the first half at 1-1.

After the rematch, the strength was obviously superior, although the Real Madrid team firmly occupied the initiative on the field, but in the case of the Rayo Vallecano team only wanted to defend, it was never able to break through the opponent's goal.

As the game went on, the mood of the Real Madrid players became more and more impatient. From the 10th minute to the 25th minute of the second half, Pepe, Ilya Ramendi, and Sergio Ramos received yellow cards for excessive fouls.

Just when Real Madrid were getting more impatient because they couldn't take the lead, their left wing-back Marcelo made matters worse when he was fouled for handball in the box and gave Rayo Vallecano a penalty again.

Vieira, who had already scored a penalty in the first half, calmly pushed the ball into the bottom left corner of the net to put Rayo Vallecano in the lead.

After Rayo Vallecano took the lead, coach Paco Jemez replaced a striker and an attacking midfielder with a midfielder and a centre-back, creating a 6-4-0 formation that domestic fans often use to ridicule the national team.

In the face of the iron bucket formation laid by the Rayo Vallecano team, the Real Madrid team, which has an overwhelming advantage in terms of possession, is difficult to really threaten the opponent's door, and can only continue to rely on the side of the ball, as well as Ronaldo, Bale and others in the front court to test the opponent's goalkeeper.

Seeing that Real Madrid was about to face their third defeat of the season, Bale, who joined the team for a sky-high price of 91 million euros this summer, stepped forward in time to become the hero who saved the team.

In the 44th minute of the second half, Bale, who had been opting for a cross after breaking through on the wing in the previous game, suddenly chose to cut inside on the edge of the penalty area on the right.

Bale, who cut inside to the middle, first shook off A. González's pounce with a fake shot, and then adjusted slightly to shoot straight from 278 meters from the goal.

Although the reflexive goalkeeper Rubén made the first save, Bale's shot grazed his fingertips and drilled into the top left corner of the goal.

In the end, with Bale's heavy bombardment at the last moment, Real Madrid, who had the advantage, finally took away 1 point "hard" away.

A day later, Le Monde Sport, close to Barcelona, immediately made fun of Marca's comments after the last round.

"Real Madrid, who were thought to be winning this season's La Liga title by some of their peers three days ago, narrowly missed Rayo Vallecano, who were aiming for relegation, when the referee refused to 'lend a hand'."

"It's really hard for us to believe that Real Madrid, who need the help of the referee to win, can take advantage of the top two in the table. What's more, in the previous games that have ended, they have lost two extremely heavy German matches in a row. ”

Just when Real Madrid struggled to get a point from Rayo Vallecano, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, the top two teams in the league standings, also defeated Athletic Bilbao and Espanyol with a score of 3-0.

As a result, even Real Madrid's "royal media" "Marca" did not dare to jump out at this time to help his "master" speak......

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PS: Top 4 in La Liga (first 12 rounds)

(1) Atletico Madrid: 34 points

(2) Barcelona: 34 points

(3) Real Madrid: 26 points

(4) Villarreal: 23 points

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Scorer charts

(1) Diego Costa: 16 goals (2 points)

(2) Cristiano Ronaldo: 13 goals (4 points)

Messi: 13 goals

(3) Wind Full: 11 balls 2k reading net