After taking a three-goal lead, Atletico Madrid immediately slowed down the pace of the game, and except for the one player who left Fengquan in the front, the remaining ten players all retreated to their own half and played their best defensive counter-attacking tactics.

Although Atletico Madrid's active retreat has sharply reduced the defensive pressure of the Valencia team, their overall formation does not dare to press too high because the "stinger" of Feng Quan is still rooted in the hinterland of their side. After all, even if they don't let Feng Quan receive the ball comfortably, they will need to pay at least two defenders, and they may not be able to limit it.

Objectively speaking, Valencia's choice is still very correct. Even if you don't consider the terrifying power of Feng Quan's perverted speed advantage in counterattacks, Atletico Madrid's most solid steel defense in La Liga is not something they can easily break.

So, knowing that your own attack will hardly be able to really tear through the opponent's steely defense, and that once the opponent launches a counterattack, it can directly form a lethal threat, so why risk conceding more balls and risk pressing the attack?

As a result, when Atletico Madrid has taken the initiative to retreat, Valencia only left Jonas and Sergio Canales in the front field to harass the opponent's defense, while the rest of the players are still hoarding "patient" passes in the midfield.

Originally, Diego Simeone thought that his own active retreat could "lure" the opponent to press the attack, so that the Atletico Madrid team, which has the "super killer" of Feng Quan, is bound to get a lot of scoring opportunities in the counterattack.

But who would have thought that the head coach of the Valencia team, even when he was 3 goals behind, still chose to forbear very calmly, rather than pressing the attack desperately.

However, since the opponent has "surrendered" in advance, and there will be a direct confrontation with the second-ranked Barcelona team next week, Diego Simeone also immediately issued an order to the players on the field to "increase the inversion of the midfield and waste time if there is no opportunity".

After changing sides, the next round of the league will face the Valencia team of Real Madrid, a strong opponent of Real Madrid, and even directly replaced the two main players in the attacking line, Jonas and Canares.

Seeing that the opponent withdrew his attacking spearhead, Diego Simeone also replaced Feng Quan, Alda Turan, and Koke, the three main players in the midfield.

In the end, neither of the two teams, who had "no intention of fighting", was able to break through the opponent's goal in the second half of the game.

After 16 rounds of La Liga, Atletico Madrid, who have not tasted defeat, still occupy the top spot in the standings with a three-point advantage, and also open a huge gap of 10 points with the city-rival Real Madrid, which is temporarily in third place in the standings.

In terms of the scorer list, due to Diego Costa's absence due to injury, and Ronaldo still has no results in this round, Messi and Fengquan, who also scored a goal in this round of the league, temporarily "shared" the top spot in the scorer list with 17 goals.

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If you change to other seasons of La Liga, the record of 16 games, 14 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss is even enough to lock the halfway championship of the league in advance. However, the Barcelona team, which has achieved such an impressive record this season, can only reluctantly settle for the second place in the standings, and they have always been known for their strong attacking power, but they were even opened up by the opponent by 15 goal difference.

And all this is due to the strong rise of Atletico Madrid. Not only did they beat an equally strong Barcelona side to top the table with their unbeaten record, but they also scored a crazy 60 goals in 16 games.

However, in Barcelona's view, although the overall strength of Atletico Madrid has improved a lot compared to last season, the reason why they can beat themselves to dominate is not that their strength is really strong to the point of being invincible.

Moreover, the addition of Feng Quan, the "king of speed", also made Atletico Madrid more determined in his counterattack tactics when facing strong opponents.

On top of that, Atletico Madrid didn't touch themselves in the previous matches.

In fact, Barcelona's conceit still has a certain amount of capital. After all, Atletico Madrid are indeed slightly inferior in terms of overall strength and squad depth, and Barcelona's pass-and-possession football can also restrain their high pressing up front to a certain extent.

It is true that in most soccer matches, it is the stronger side that wins.

However, if the referee blows the whistle at the start of the game and the spectators can accurately predict the final outcome, then football will not be able to develop into the world's "number one sport".

In addition, in the history of world football, some teams with top stars, even against opponents who are clearly stronger than themselves, have often been able to turn the tide of the game with the superior individual ability of the top stars.

It is precisely because of the brilliant performances of top stars in the game again and again that they add a touch of color to the football game full of physical confrontation and brutal fouls. It is precisely because of their existence that those pseudo-fans who don't know "what offside is" have joined the fans, the "largest organization in the world".

And Atletico Madrid's twin strikers, Diego Costa and Feng Quan, have officially become among the world's top stars with their strong performances this season.

Although World Sport, which is the mouthpiece of Barcelona, believes that the superior Barcelona team will win the eventual victory.

At the same time, they will also be hoping that Barcelona will pay enough attention to the attacking combination of Feng Quan and Diego Costa. After all, the pair have combined to score a horrific 33 goals in previous league matches. You must know that many weaker teams do not have the total number of goals scored by the whole team to reach 30.

However, in Barcelona's view, Feng Quan and Diego Costa are good individually, but as long as they can cut off the link between them and the rest of their team-mates, they can minimize their attacking power.

Moreover, for Barcelona, who have the strongest passing ability, Atletico Madrid's high pressing tactics can play a very limited pressing role. As long as Barcelona can pass the ball smoothly into the opponent's half, then the Atletico Madrid defence, which has excellent frontal defense ability but slightly less physical flexibility, will struggle against the intelligent attack of the trio of Messi, Neymar and A. Sanchez.

Therefore, as long as they can keep Atletico Madrid under half court and cut off the link between their midfielders and Feng Quan and Diego Costa, Barcelona have at least a 60% chance of winning.