Chapter 388: I'm Enough Alone
With two rounds left in La Liga, with Atletico Madrid leading Barcelona by five points, the suspense of winning the title is basically gone.
The biggest suspense now is who will win the league's Golden Boot.
Suarez is first with 35 goals, followed by Gao Zheng with 34 goals, and Cristiano Ronaldo with 31 goals, which is a bit far behind.
Now everyone thinks that the Golden Boot is most likely to be produced between Gao Zheng and Suarez, so no reporter ran to ask Ronaldo's opinion on the Golden Boot. This is obviously not counting Ronaldo as a Golden Boot contender.
As for Messi, as of the 36th round of the league, he has only scored 25 goals, and it is impossible to hit the Golden Boot. The chances of winning the Golden Boot are even lower than Ronaldo's.
Messi suffered a serious injury at the start of the league season that left him out for a month and a half.
After recovery, the state is also unstable, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
That's why the number of league goals has only been so low so far. You must know that Messi scored 42 league goals last season.
Since the beginning of the 2009-2010 season in La Liga, the league Golden Boot competition has nothing to do with Messi and Ronaldo, and this is the first time.
In the previous six seasons, the league golden boot was either Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.
The two took turns sitting in the bank, completely monopolizing the honor.
The last non-Mero duo to win the honour was Diego Forlan in the 2008-2009 season.
At that time, Cristiano Ronaldo had not yet moved to Real Madrid, and Messi had not yet become Barcelona's top scorer, and his tactical positioning within the team was not that of an attacking finisher.
At that time, Diego Forlan beat Eto'o, who scored 30 goals, with 32 goals, and became the league's golden boot.
Messi scored just 23 goals that season, ranking fourth in the scorers' charts.
One thing happened – Diego Forlan, the last non-Mero player to win the Golden Boot, was playing for Atletico Madrid at the time and was an Atletico Madrid player.
And now Gao Zheng also plays for Atletico Madrid.
Also competing with Diego Forlan for the league golden boot this season is also Barcelona centre-forward Samu Eto'o, just like Suarez now.
This can't help but make people think.
Is this a cycle?
What does that mean?
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After the Champions League semi-finals, the Champions League final will not be completed until May 28, while La Liga will be completed on May 14.
Barcelona's Copa del Rey final is on 22 May.
It can be said that there are two league games left, and there are no other games at all that will disturb them.
Whether it is Atletico Madrid or Barcelona, players can go all out to fight for the league title and the league golden boot.
Although Barcelona did not say it publicly, everyone knows that it is to help Suarez get the top scorer with all their might.
This is indeed the only honour they can compete for in the league – the Copa del Rey is not part of the league.
Atletico Madrid was indifferent to this, except for Gao Zheng who said that he wanted them all, no one else, whether it was Gao Zheng's teammates or the head coach, did not express any opinions.
This made many Catalan media ridicule Gao Zheng for his bad popularity in the Atletico Madrid team and his lack of friends.
However, he was soon scolded back by Gao Zheng himself: "The Golden Boot is a personal honor, I'm embarrassed to trouble my teammates, after all, for the collective, it is more important to win the league." ”
After this sentence has been translated by everyone on the Internet, the meaning is like this: I am enough to beat your whole Barcelona team, and I don't need to find someone to help me.
This attitude is of course arrogant and makes Barcelona supporters feel bad.
So they ridiculed Gao Zheng for being a dead duck with a hard mouth, and it was the first time they saw someone who could say that he was not popular in the team so fresh and refined.
One proof is that no teammates have come out to help Gao Zheng speak.
But in fact, this is what Gao Zheng requested.
How could there be no discussion within Atletico Madrid about his rivalry with Suarez?
After Gao Zheng said "I want it all", everyone discussed this matter. At that time, other players also wanted to help Gao Zheng get the golden boot, and what Gao Zheng said later was actually what he said to his teammates at that time.
It means that I don't want my own affairs to involve everyone's energy.
At that time, Atletico Madrid still had to play the semifinals of the Champions League, and I didn't want others to be dragged into the whirlpool of public opinion by media reporters.
So this matter, Gao Zheng will carry it alone.
He's grateful for everyone's support for him, but he doesn't need the whole team to help him achieve that, because a league golden boot can't do that.
The opponent is just Suarez.
He believes that as long as he does his own thing, the league's top scorer will naturally be his.
Sampdoria had been weaker than Atletico Madrid, and he was the top scorer in Serie A for two consecutive seasons without having all of his team-mates come to his aid.
Now at Atletico Madrid, he can't do that kind of thing.
As for the ridicule from the outside world, Gao Zheng is very calm - after he gets the golden boot, he can slap them as much as he wants.
Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge.
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On May 8, 2016, all 10 matches of the 37th round of the league kicked off at 4 p.m. local time.
Atletico Madrid away to Levante, who are bottom of the table.
Barcelona, on the other hand, host Catalan derby rivals Espanyol.
Because it was kicked off at the same time, this made Chinese fans very distressed - of course they want to watch the battle between Gao Zheng and Suarez for the top scorer, but at the same time they also want to see the duel between Wu Lei and Messi...... After all, it's a game about who is the real "Catalan king......
However, Espanyol coach Galka helped Chinese fans solve this problem - he did not let Wu Lei start at all.
After experiencing a series of excellent performances before, Wu Lei's recent performance has been a little flat, plus the game is away to Barcelona, and more attention should be paid to defense, so Wu Lei, who is not very good at defense, was put on the bench by head coach Garca.
Now Chinese fans don't have to worry about it, just watch the match between Atletico Madrid and Levante.
When will Wu Lei play, and when will he change the channel to watch the Catalan derby on the Fengyun Football Channel.
Although Levante is ranked first from the bottom in this game, if you want to talk about relegation, strictly speaking, it is not yet.
Because Levante is still theoretically in danger of relegation - they are now in the bottom of the table with 29 points.
The bottom three teams in the league are relegated to the second division, which are 18th, 19th and 20th, and the 17th place in the league can be relegated.
There is exactly six points between Levante and 17th-placed Rayo Vallecano.
If Levante can win two in a row in the last two rounds and Rayo Vallecano lose two in a row, it could be a shocking comeback – as Levante had beaten Rayo Vallecano 2-1 at home in the previous league and the final round of the league was also a meeting between the two teams.
If Levante can complete a two-game winning streak, it means that Levante has the advantage in the head-to-head record against Rayo Vallecano.
In the case of the same score, the higher in the rankings will naturally be able to squeeze Rayo Vallecano down.
Of course, in addition to that, we have to hope that Sporting Gijón and Rayo Vallecano, who are ahead of Levante, have both lost in a row.
That's why there is a theoretical hope of relegation?
Because it's really too difficult for these things to happen at the same time, and they can really only exist and theoretically.
But this is the case with relegation, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, even if it is only a theoretical hope, don't you have to go all out?
Barcelona fans will be hoping that Levante, who is wearing the same colour as their shirt, will be able to beat Atletico Madrid at home and Espanyol at the same time.
Narrow the difference between the two sides to two points.
In this way, in the final round of the league, Barcelona also has the hope of winning the championship.
Even if it's still theoretically possible, it's better possible than never.
The more it came to the last minute, the more reluctant everyone was to give up.
After all, it's the result of a whole season's hard work, and who can easily give up their blood and sweat?