The Champions League is in the middle of the week and the league is in the weekend, so after the Champions League match against Barcelona, in fact, it doesn't take a few days for the league to come.

The whole Atletico Madrid team has just arrived in Barcelona and is back in Barcelona this time.

Some netizens joked that Atletico Madrid should simply not leave after playing Barcelona, just stay in the hotel, and wait for the league to arrive, so as not to run back and forth, and the time on the road may be longer than the training time.

This is not entirely unreasonable.

But Atletico Madrid didn't do that.

After playing Barcelona on Tuesday night, they rushed back to Madrid overnight, rested for half a day on Wednesday morning, resumed training on Wednesday afternoon, trained for one day on Thursday, trained for half a day on Friday, and left for Barcelona in the afternoon to train for acclimatization in Barcelona that evening.

The team then went back to the hotel to rest and prepare for tomorrow's match against Espanyol.

Judging from the news from both sides before the game, the Spaniards should be at full play - not necessarily because of Barcelona conspiracy theories.

Considering the needs of the Spaniards themselves, they also have this need.

At the moment they will be hoping to challenge for European qualification, and with seven rounds of the league remaining, they will of course try to get as many points as possible. And the three points in the home game must be obtained.

Even against the mighty Atletico Madrid, they won't give in.

So in fact, some Barcelona media said that they would deliberately lose to Atletico Madrid in order to disgust their rivals in the same city, which is simply an insult to the Spaniards.

As for Atletico Madrid, it's more ambiguous.

With a big game to come, will Simeone play his best in this game?

At least judging from the eighteen-man roster, both Gao Zheng and Griezmann have come to Barcelona.

It's just that whether they will start the game or not, it's not easy to say.

It wasn't until two hours before the start of the game that Atletico Madrid announced their starting lineup.

Gao Zheng and Griezmann didn't enter!

Now everyone knows that Atletico Madrid still has to stay for the next Champions League quarterfinals.

Manuel Blanco, who saw this starting lineup online, couldn't help but laugh.

That's what he wants.

Simeone certainly doesn't want to give up on the Champions League, but it will inevitably affect the league.

The current starting lineup and squad fully illustrate Simeone's inner ambivalence.

He wants both the Champions League and the league.

But the result of such greed is likely to be that the bamboo basket is empty, whether it is the league or the Champions League.

In Manuel Blanco's view, no matter how struggling Simeone is in the Champions League, it is definitely impossible to qualify.

If Simeone had been smarter, he should have decisively abandoned the Champions League at this time, focused on the league, and fought for the league title in his hands.

At the very least, Atletico Madrid will have a title at the end of the season.

As a result, I didn't expect Simeone to make a mistake at this critical time.

Gave Barcelona a chance to complete the treble – in the Copa del Rey, Barcelona had already eliminated Valencia in the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 8-1 to reach the final.

Their opponents in the final are Sevilla. Barcelona have great hopes of winning the Copa del Rey.

When the time comes, after regaining the initiative in the league, the league championship is also in the bag.

After knocking out Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the Champions League title is naturally also Barcelona's goal.

In this way, won't we be able to achieve another treble after Guardiola?

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Espanyol's home match against Atletico Madrid attracted a lot of attention because of its complex background and peculiarities.

CCTV naturally also broadcast the game live.

The match kicks off at 5:15 p.m. local time in Spain and 0:15 a.m. Beijing time the next day.

Of course, this time is not as good as the prime time of ** o'clock, but it is also much more suitable than other La Liga games that usually kick off at two or three o'clock.

As a result, many Chinese fans watched the game in front of the TV.

Gao Zheng did not start, which made them feel a little regretful, after all, Wu Lei started this game, and the "Chinese Derby" was not completed.

But thinking of the Champions League game in the middle of next week, everyone still expects a miracle in their hearts, so Gao Zheng didn't play if he didn't play......

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The Spaniards were really desperate in this game, and from the very beginning of the game, they continued to attack the Atletico Madrid goal with the cheers of the home fans.

And in the 29th minute, their midfielder Diop scored with a header from a corner!

"Diop!! Oh——!! He helped the Spaniards take the lead! The Catalan narrator whistled excitedly. Attaboy! They are one step closer to European qualification! ”

And Madrid's commentator Jose Maria was a little depressed: "It can be seen that the minds of the Atletico Madrid players in this game are indeed not on the opponent in front of them, although people have come to Barcelona, but their hearts are probably staying in Madrid, waiting for the second leg of the match with Barcelona......"

He was right, in the first 30 minutes, although Atletico Madrid was strong, it was basically at a disadvantage. This can only be explained by the fact that the players' minds are not on this game, otherwise how could this be the case if Atletico Madrid were playing normally?

Then he sighed outside the microphone range.

Originally, Real Madrid helped Atletico Madrid and brought them back to the top of the league, but they didn't expect to encounter a heavy defeat in the Champions League.

It is estimated that Simeone and his players did not expect to lose so badly away - they did not expect to lose to Barcelona on the road, but it was still too surprising to lose a clean 3-0.

The impact of this fiasco on the players is far from over.

It was Espanyol's goal that was reflected in this league game.

When Diop jumped up to head the goal, there was not a single Atletico Madrid player around him who jumped up with him to fight for the top, resulting in him scoring with ease.

Chinese fans had mixed feelings about the ball.

Naturally, this corner kick was created by Wu Lei - he shot a dangerous shot in the penalty area, allowing Oblak to shoot the football out of the bottom line, and this is the corner. So the Spaniard's goal also has a share of Wu Lei's credit. Judging from the first 30 minutes of the game, Wu Lei was very active and performed very well. If he can continue to perform like this, it will be considered that the Spaniard has completely established himself.

The natural concern is that Atletico Madrid could lose the league title as a result. As the league battle between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid heats up, few people hope that Barcelona can win the championship amid the constant disgust of Chinese fans in the Catalan media. In that case, they will suffer the same ridicule and contempt from Barcelona as Gao Zheng - although this is actually for Gao Zheng, as Gao Zheng's fans, they are naturally one with their idols, one with glory and one loss.

The TV broadcast cut to the bench of Atletico Madrid when the Espanyol players celebrated their goals, and Gao Zheng was sitting in it, covering his mouth and not knowing what to say to Griezmann next to him.

Maybe it's an exchange of views on the situation of the game......

Seeing this, He Ping said: "I don't know if Simeone will send Gao Zheng on the field, and if so, I don't know when he will wait until he will play......

With Wu Lei's physical fitness, it is impossible to play the whole game, if Gao Zheng plays too late and Wu Lei has been replaced, then this "Chinese Derby" will be completely suspended.

He still has a glimmer of hope, even if he can let Gao Zheng and Wu Lei take a picture on the field...... The main thing in this is that the symbolism is more important than the practical meaning.

This is the first time in the history of Chinese players to meet in La Liga!