Although Gabi's football skills and physical fitness are not among the best in the team, as the captain and the spiritual leader in the dressing room, Gabi has a strong influence among his teammates.

As a defensive midfielder, although Gabi does not have a strong body, nor does he have the "mad dog" attribute of rushing all over the court, he has almost no shortcomings in both offense and defense, and the leadership temperament that often inspires the morale of the whole team with his strong personality charm at critical moments, which is easy for the people around him to involuntarily respect him.

Because of this, after Gabi's advice, the forward duo of Feng Quan and Diego Costa finally realized the trouble that their "selfish" behavior has caused to the team.

"If I can make the most correct choice based on the actual situation on the field as I have done in previous games, instead of blindly trying to score goals, maybe the team will not fall into the embarrassing situation of winning and not scoring, right?"

Although there are less than 10 minutes left for Feng Quan to complete the "Football Professional Side Mission (3)", he believes that as long as he returns to his usual style of playing "in the best interests of the team as a whole", Atletico Madrid still has a good chance of equalising before the end of the first half.

Sure enough, the return to the old style of play and Diego Costa soon made Villarreal's defenders feel like "pressure has increased dramatically".

In the 39th minute of the first half, Feng Quan broke through to the edge of the penalty area along the left flank and then successfully cut inside to the edge of the penalty area again.

Just when Villarreal's Bruno thought that Feng Quan would get up and attack again, so as to put his hands behind his back and ready to block the shooting line, Feng Quan suddenly sent a penetrating through ball towards the middle of the penalty area.

In the next moment, Diego Costa, who had already been ambushed on the right side of the penalty area, quickly completed the start, and directly picked up his left foot in the direction of the incoming ball to complete a powerful volley.

Although Diego Costa's volley was very powerful, because his main foot was not his left foot, this shot from a not very tricky angle was still blocked by Sergio Assenjo, who was already in "bursting" form.

Immediately afterwards, when Gabi, who was in charge of the penalty corner, placed the ball and got the referee's signal to prepare for kick-off, Feng Quan, who should have been ambushed on the edge of the penalty area according to Diego Simeone's instructions, suddenly ran to Gabi's corner kick area, and made a gesture to Gabi to ask for the ball during the run.

And Gabi, who was about to send the ball to the back point, immediately changed his mind and passed the ball to Fengquan, who ran towards him.

As soon as Feng Quan received the ball and turned his body in the direction of the penalty area, Villarreal's left wing-back Bojan Jokič quickly posted up.

In the face of Bojan Jokic's pressing, Feng Quan first made a breakthrough in the direction of the baseline, and then took advantage of the opponent's center of gravity to suddenly dunk back with his right foot, and then flicked the ball sideways with his left foot and made a cross to the goal.

Then, just as Bojan Jokic forced his body to twist his body in an attempt to reach out to block Feng Quan's cross, Feng Quan sent an inverted triangle pass to Alda Turan, who was ambushed near the edge of the penalty area.

Alda Turan, who was facing the goal, first made a direct winning volley, but when the opposing central defender Musacchio braved the wind of being hit by the football to pounce on him, the Turkish star's right ankle suddenly shook and moved the rolling football to about half a meter in front of his body.

After dodging Musacchio's pounce, Alda Turan once again made a long-range stance, but just as Musacchio, who reacted quickly, forced his body to turn his body to block the shooting lane, Alda Turan suddenly sent a through ball with his left foot towards the penalty spot.

The moment Alda Turan flicked the ball to the left of his body, Diego Costa, who had been lying in ambush on the left side of the penalty area, first moved to the left wing to open up space for his teammates. Then, just as José Antonio Dorado, the centre-back who was marking him, moved towards the touchline, Diego Costa made a sudden stop and ran back into the middle.

Then, when Alda Turan sent a through ball into the box, the quick-moving Diego Costa got ahead of Sergio Asenjo and slotted the ball into the bottom right corner of the net with his right foot.

In the 40th minute of the first half, Atletico Madrid, who had been scoreless, finally penetrated Villarreal with a brilliant corner kick, thus bringing the two teams back to the same running line.

Previously, because Villarreal continued to be passive in the game, the home team fans who had been in a state of worry even let out a burst of sighs in the stands. In stark contrast to them were the more than 2,000 Atletico Madrid fans who came to watch the match with the visitors.

Originally, when Atletico Madrid was behind, more than 2,000 fans who came with the team invariably used their "relatively weak" voices to constantly shout and cheer for their favorite team.

When Diego Costa equalized, more than 2,000 Atletico Madrid fans in attendance, as if someone had pulled the "eject" button on their seats, jumped up in unison, or raised their arms to cheer, or hugged each other with relatives and friends who came with them, in order to celebrate the hard-won goal.

With less than five minutes left before the end of the first half when the Atletico Madrid players celebrated their goals, both Villarreal's players and the vast majority of the fans in attendance, as well as most of the Atletico Madrid starters, thought that the first half would end in a 1-1 draw.

However, due to the failure to complete the "additional conditions" of the "Football Professional Side Mission (3)", even though Diego Simeone was willing to accept the result of the first half of the draw, and thus ordered his players to "give up" the previous high pressing, in order to better accumulate energy for the second half of the game, Feng Quan himself continued to press the players in the front court.

Although the consequences of this will greatly consume his physical strength, in order to improve his strength as much as possible, so as to lead the weak Chinese team out of Asia to the world stage in the future, Feng Quan still made such a decision without hesitation.

If it is a domestic game, Feng Quan's behavior will inevitably be labeled as "disobeying the coach's arrangement", and even isolated by some players who are willing to please the coach.

However, when Diego Costa, Alda Turan and other teammates saw that Feng Quan was still pressing for Villarreal players in the front court, they immediately joined him......