There is one more important thing about Atletico Madrid's home game against Sevilla, but it is for Atletico Madrid.

That is the first time that their head coach Diego Simeone has been in charge of the league in the dugout this season.

After an eight-match suspension, Simeone is back in the dugout.

It all started with Simeone's slap to the back of the head in the fourth official in the second leg of the Super Cup......

Simeone was given an eight-match ban for multiple infractions after the game, and Atletico Madrid decided that the penalty was too severe and appealed. After some appeal, the referee committee revised the penalty decision.

There are still eight suspensions, but four of them have been moved from the league to the Spanish Super Cup, meaning Simeone only needs to complete a four-game ban to return.

The impact on Atletico Madrid was minimal.

After five league games, Simeone returned from suspension.

"Guys, I want to kill you!" In the locker room, Simeone amused Gao Zheng with a word, and he even wondered if Simone had watched the Chinese New Year Gala......

Fortunately, everyone in the locker room was laughing at that time, and no one would wonder what Gao Zheng was laughing at.

"Some people say that the match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla is a strong conversation, and I would say they are talking a fart! This is our home turf, let's teach those arrogant bastards a lesson and make them understand that – we are the defending champions! ”

Simeone's agitation in the locker room is highly personal, full of swearing, but hardly incendiary.

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While the players from both sides were still standing in the tunnel waiting to play, Diego Simeone had already entered the pitch early.

When he stood in front of the dugout and raised his hands to applaud the Atletico Madrid fans in the stands, the audience resounded with a tsunami of cheers and singing.

"Welcome back to combat duty, our head coach!" The live broadcast was also very sensational.

Gao Zheng didn't see the situation, but he could still clearly hear the fans and the radio in the passageway, and he could have made up a scene in his mind - the king returned to his throne, and under the throne were the black people, who knelt on the ground and raised their hands and shouted long live.

He looked at his teammates around him and found that they were completely different from the previous games, with a smile on their faces when they heard the cheers outside, and the whole person was full of energy, holding his chest up, not at all worried about facing a strong opponent, on the contrary, they were full of confidence.

Gao Zheng knew that all this confidence came from the man outside.

Although Atletico Madrid had four wins and one draw in the previous matches, the process was a bit tortuous.

And now that the manager is back, it seems that the twists and turns will no longer exist.

This state of affairs is somewhat akin to religious worship.

In Gao Zheng's view, Simeone is not the head coach of Atletico Madrid, but the source of the team's strength.

A head coach can do this, which makes Gao Zheng breathtaking.

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After the start of the game, it seemed that Simeone's return to the Atletico Madrid dugout was affected, and Sevilla's performance was a little restrictive, but Atletico Madrid continued to launch a fierce attack on Sevilla's goal amid the cheers of the home team's fans.

“…… Atletico Madrid are unbeaten against Sevilla FC over the past four seasons, which is an advantage for Atletico Madrid, who have won four and drawn five of their last nine matches. He Ping was introducing the comparison of the two teams to the Chinese fans in front of the TV to strengthen their confidence.

Feng Shiyu in front of the TV couldn't help but yawn.

Recently, the recording of the new album has reached the most critical moment, and the daily work is already very busy, and I have to stay up late to watch the football game - about this, neither Feng Shiyu nor Xiao Yingying told their agent Uncle Zhang, because they were worried that Uncle Zhang would object. After all, staying up late hurts your body and nerves.

"I feel like the event is so intensive......" Feng Shiyu yawned and complained. During this time, I often watched the game. ”

"It's all two races a week. The match against Almeria was in the early hours of Thursday morning, just three days later. Xiao Yingying said after taking a big sip of coffee.

Two o'clock in the morning is also awkward, not too early but not too late. If it's late, say three or four o'clock, you can also sleep first and then get up to watch. If it's earlier, such as twelve o'clock or one o'clock, you can watch it without sleeping, and you can go to bed at two or three o'clock after watching it. But two o'clock in the morning belongs to the kind of people who want to sleep early, maybe you will be woken up by the alarm clock not long after you go to bed, and you want to stay up until you finish watching the game......

"We are tired of watching football, aren't we more tired of playing football? After playing this game, three days later, there is still the Champions League group stage with Juventus...... "Xiao Yingying and Feng Shiyu chatted with each other when Gao Zheng did not perform.

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Atletico Madrid didn't keep the fans waiting too long, Simeone standing on the sidelines of the dugout seemed to be able to give the players a steady stream of power.

In the nineteenth minute, when Gao Zheng got the ball on the left side, he first pretended to break through the middle, but he turned the football to the side.

However, after he shook off the first Sevilla defender, he was kicked on the calf by another Sevilla player, Kolozjezak, who rushed up.

Gao Zheng lost his balance and fell to the ground, and the referee's whistle and the boos of the fans at the scene sounded at the same time.

The foul Kolozjezak was shown a yellow card by the referee, and Atletico Madrid was awarded a free-kick on the left side of the field.

The free-kick into the box caused chaos in front of the Sevilla goal. In the confusion, the football was cleared to the side, and Atletico Madrid's left full-back Ansaldi took the ball and used his body to protect the ball to complete the turn, and then passed the ball to the goal before it was almost forced out of the bottom line, and the ball fell to the forward post, only to be jumped by Sevilla's player Mbia and pushed the football out of the penalty area.

But in fact, Mbia's header is very far-fetched, because the football landing point is very low, it stands to reason that he should use his feet to clear the siege, but if he uses his feet, Mbiya can't reach the football, so he can only stand up and complete the clearance with a leap to the top.

However, the football that was pushed out by him did not fly too far, and flew directly to a little outside the penalty area and was picked up by Coke.

Koke then took a long-range shot straight there, and the ball hit the sevilla central defender Niklas Pareja who came up to block and jumped up on the heel of the line, just past the ten fingers of goalkeeper Beto, and after being able to pass Beto's fingertips, he fell and flew into the Sevilla goal!

"Oh! One kick refraction! Cork opens the scoring for Atletico Madrid! Just twenty minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid took the lead! ”

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Before the end of the first half, Atletico Madrid once again doubled their lead with set-pieces.

The pattern was almost identical to the first goal conceded, the same Gao Zheng was fouled by Sevilla in front of the goal, winning a free-kick for Atletico Madrid, which was passed into the box by Gabi, and Sevilla defender Kolozjezak grabbed the head of Alda Turan and pushed the ball out. But also did not go far, this time Miranda who hit the penalty area did not stop the ball, and directly hoisted the football to the back point of the goal.

Gao Zheng was originally at the back post, but there were two Sevilla players next to him who couldn't leave him, so he didn't jump at all in the face of the flying football.

Although he didn't have a header, he managed to cover the striker Antoine Griezmann who was plugged in behind him, and he jumped high to head the flying ball towards the goal!

Sevilla Beto had already sealed the near corner, but he didn't expect Griezmann to push the ball into the back corner of the goal, and he could only watch as the ball flew past him and into the back corner.

"Griezmann! He scored his first league goal since joining Atletico Madrid! Congratulations to the French! Atletico Madrid also led Sevilla by two goals in the first half! Sure enough, when Simeone stood on the sidelines, the team was considered to have completed its full form, and they had never reached their strongest form before, although they had won four games, but in fact, it was more supported by superb individual ability......"

Diego Simeone in front of the coach's bench was desperately waving his fists and "boxing".

"It's really nostalgic to see Diego Simeone celebrating with passion on the sidelines again!" José Maria laughed.