Knocked out of the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, the only honour that Atletico Madrid fans can count on this season is the league title.

Although not everyone is an Atletico Madrid fan, like the Atletico Madrid fans in Spain, they are looking forward to Atletico Madrid winning the league championship, so that Gao Zheng will not be empty-handed this season.

There is now a lot of talk about Atletico Madrid defending their league title.

Some are more optimistic, others are more pessimistic, because Barcelona are a very strong opponent.

If the final opponent for the league title with Atletico Madrid is the city rival Real Madrid, I am afraid everyone will be more optimistic.

After all, Atletico Madrid's head-to-head record against Real Madrid has prevailed this season – winning all but the Champions League.

But against Barcelona, Atletico Madrid's performance is not good.

In fact, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona do not have a good record in the historical head-to-head meeting, although it is not as good as the previous against Real Madrid, the last time they beat Real Madrid was in the last century, but it is also an absolute loss of more wins and losses.

In the last five seasons, they have only beaten Barcelona 1-0 at home in the Champions League last season, and the rest of the season has been a draw.

In the league, they last beat Barcelona in the 2009-2010 season, when Atletico Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at home.

With Barcelona's performance this season, it is very difficult for Atletico Madrid to extract teeth.

In the 34th round, Barcelona were the first to play, and they faced Getafe at home. Barcelona were unceremonious against their young brother from Madrid, showing how powerful their attack can be, with the MSN duo netting five goals in total, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez both netting twice, and Xavi also netting a net.

In the end, Barcelona swept Getafe 6-0 at home to continue to lead the standings.

And according to the commentator, after they scored the penalty, they threw the pressure on Atletico Madrid, who played the next day.

And Atletico Madrid is away to challenge the "yellow submarine" Villarreal.

Villarreal are currently sixth in the league and have entered the European zone, and if they maintain that position until the end of the league, they will qualify for next season's Europa League.

Now Villarreal has 53 points, 13 points away from Sevilla, which is fifth in the league, and it can be said that there is basically no hope of competing for the top five in the league, and the hope is very slim, while Málaga, who is seventh in the league, has a six-point advantage, which is not safe.

So to secure qualification for next season's Europa League, Villarreal should be playing Atletico Madrid at home.

After all, to be able to enter next season's Europa League is a lot of money for a club like Villarreal - the most important thing for mid-table teams is not the team glory of playing in Europe, but the economic factor.

Atletico Madrid and Villarreal played a very tough game indeed.

The two sides were deadlocked for 74 minutes without finding a goal.

It wasn't until the 74th minute that substitute Antoine Griezmann's shot was blocked in the penalty area, and Gao Zheng made a clever goalmouth shot to send the football into the door of the yellow submarine.

With this goal, Atletico Madrid picked up a victory, picked up a valuable three points and continued to keep the pressure on Barcelona in the league table.

When the next round of penalties came, the pressure returned to Barcelona's side......

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After 34 rounds, La Liga enters the May schedule and enters its final month.

The last four league games will all be played this month.

Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are currently tied on points in the league standings, but Barcelona are in first place.

Atletico Madrid is second and Real Madrid is third.

This league ranking is not very satisfactory to Real Madrid fans, after all, it has always been a double champion in the Spanish Super League, and now Real Madrid has fallen out as one of them, from a double hero to a third place.

The ranking is only one place away, but the psychological gap is very huge.

Fortunately, they still have the Champions League to make up for it. They are somewhat similar to Atletico Madrid, after failing to win the league and the Copa del Rey, they can only hold the treasure in the Champions League.

In the Champions League semi-finals, their opponents were Juventus from Serie A.

The Serie A giants had a poor run in the Champions League last season, failing to even qualify for the group stage, but this season they have reached the last four in one go.

If Real Madrid can knock out Juventus, then the Champions League final will be a "Spanish national derby", or a "European derby" – the final against Barcelona is the "Spanish national derby", and the final against Bayern Munich is the "European derby".

Of course, either team may not be able to play against the defending champions of the Champions League.

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In the 35th round of the league, this time it was Barcelona who played first, and they kicked off at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on May 2, but Barcelona slaughtered Córdoba, the bottom of the league, 8-0.

The last time Atletico Madrid beat Córdoba, the score was 2:0, and the two sides were in a better position.

In this 8-0 slaughter, Suarez completed a hat-trick, Messi scored twice, and Neymar, Rakitic and Pique also scored.

Immediately after the game, Catalan football journalist Blanco tweeted @高峥, and his tweet read:

"6-0, 8-0, Barcelona is unstoppable! Anything you try to stop will be crushed into powder by the wheels of history! ”

Gao Zheng didn't reply to him, because half an hour later it was Atletico Madrid's home match against Athletic Bilbao, and he was definitely not still scrolling through Twitter with his mobile phone at this time.

But Danielle jumped out to fight for Gao Zheng after seeing it, and replied: "So what? As long as Barcelona loses to us, it doesn't matter if you win by more goals before! ”

Blanco obviously remembers the fan who quarreled with him at the beginning - he is more vindictive, so he firmly remembers this Atletico Madrid fan who brought out Gao Zheng.

So he sneered: "You can say whatever you want, but first your team has to win against Athletic Bilbao, it's not an easy team to play against, I wish you good luck!" You really need good luck, ha! ”

The rhetoric was full of schadenfreude and a tone of good play.

With four rounds of the league remaining, Atletico Madrid's opponents in this round are currently eighth, and they are the same number as Málaga, and they are still theoretically in contention for sixth place in the league.

And Athletic Bilbao has always been known for its tenacious style, and Atletico Madrid may not be easy to play even if it is a home game.

Blanco was just saying what many people were thinking, and he wasn't making it up.

But it's not what everyone expected.

Atletico Madrid, playing at home, won the match 3-1 to the cheers of 50,000 Calderón fans.

It could have been 3-0, but in the last minute, Atletico Madrid's backline was clearly a little lax and was stolen by Athletic Bilbao.

It's not a complete victory, but in the race for the title with Barcelona, the three points are the most important.

Although Gao Zheng did not score in this game, he provided two assists and was also the main contributor to helping the team win the game.

As soon as the game was over, Daniela couldn't wait to run to Blanco's tweet with a message: "GOL! Now the pressure is on Barcelona's side again, good luck to you, you really need good luck! ”

Blanco did not respond to him.