In the 36th round of the league, Atletico Madrid hosted Rayo Vallecano, as the bookmakers analyzed, this game Simeone took into account that he had just finished the Champions League semi-finals with Bayern Munich, and at the same time he would challenge Bayern Munich away, so he made a large rotation of the lineup.

Even Gao Zheng, who has always been on the field in order to ensure victory, sat on the bench in this game.

Looking at this posture, it really makes people think that Simeone doesn't even want the league title......

Simeone, of course, couldn't have avoided the league title, but he was certainly prepared to lose – his side were now five points ahead of Barcelona anyway, and even if they lost one game and Barcelona won, the gap between the two sides would be reduced to two points, and Atletico Madrid would still be in first place.

And they can get a respite, and when the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals is played, if Atletico Madrid can reach the final, then the final will also be on May 28, and La Liga will end on May 14, which will not affect the league at all.

He can naturally go all out in the remaining two league games and spare no effort to fight Barcelona for the league title, ensuring that he can finally win the championship by virtue of the two league points.

This is Simeone's wishful thinking.

Atletico Madrid, who played with an all-bench lineup, did have a tough start to the game.

Until the 60th minute, the score was still 0:0.

In fact, even if there is a draw in the last game, Simeone is completely acceptable, because a draw has at least one point.

However, in order to keep the main players in a certain state of play, he still replaced Gao Zheng, Griezmann and Koke on the field one after another in the 65th minute.

With these three players on the pitch, Atletico Madrid's attack became threatening.

Rayo Vallecano's hold didn't last long, as their goal was finally breached by Atletico Madrid in the 75th minute.

And the person who scored the goal was Gao Zheng, who ...... "want it all"!

"High !! Thirty-fourth goal of the season! He temporarily equaled Suarez, who has not yet played in this round of the league, in the league scorer list! "José Maria doesn't care about Atletico Madrid's points now, but more about Gao Zheng's individual goals.

Since the Catalan media has begun to hype up the Golden Boot competition and clearly support Suarez, as a media person in Madrid, of course, we must support our players on Madrid's side.

So he made no secret of his position in the commentary.

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In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Rayo Vallecano 1:0 at home with Gao Zheng's goal.

The main players were rested and the team managed to secure the three points, leading them by as many as eight points before the Barcelona game was played, and the league title was getting closer and closer.

It couldn't have been a better result for Simeone.

It's just that Gao Zheng only scored one goal, and there are still hidden dangers......

Sure enough, in the next Barcelona away game against Real Betis, Suarez also scored a goal to help the team win 2-0.

In the league standings, Atletico Madrid continues to lead Barcelona by five points, while Suarez continues to lead Gao Zheng by one goal in the league scorers' charts.

With two rounds left in the league, the competition between the two sides has reached a fever pitch.

Although after the game, whether it was Gao Zheng or Suarez, whether it was Simeone or Enrique, they talked about other things in an interview - Simeone and Gao Zheng were talking about the second leg of the Champions League semi-final with Bayern Munich, and Enrique and Suarez were talking about the league title, and they had not given up on fighting for this honor on the surface.

Although everyone tacitly did not mention the Golden Boot battle, everyone still smelled the coming storm - it was the oppressive tranquility before the storm!

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"It's over! Bayern Munich were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Borussia Mönchengladbach! Although they scored a goal in the opening six minutes through Thomas Muller, they were slowly levelled in the 72nd minute. Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, beat Wolfsburg 5-1, and Bayern Munich, who did not win this game, had to postpone their league title for another round...... But that's no problem, after all, Bayern Munich are now five points ahead of Borussia Dortmund and it's only a matter of time before they win the title......" said German commentator Marcel Leif.

"And the reason why this game was not won is related to the fact that Bayern Munich is not thinking about the game. They're all thinking about the Champions League semi-finals. The players were clearly distracted, and Bayern Munich actually had a lot of chances to extend the score after Muller's early goal, but they didn't take it once. It can be said that this game can still get a draw at the end, not a defeat, God has been very lenient with Bayern Munich......"

Marcel Leif was right.

Bayern Munich's whole team is out of shape in this game, and it is really a good result that they can not lose.

Moreover, after the game, the media was also quite tolerant of Bayern Munich, not criticizing Bayern Munich's performance in this game, but recognizing the personnel changes made by Guardiola in this game for the Champions League semifinals in the middle of next week, and no one criticized the on-field performance of Bayern Munich players.

In the face of the righteousness of the Champions League, everything else is trivial and not worth mentioning.

However, the fact that the media does not criticize does not mean that the Bayern Munich players are free of pressure.

On the contrary, this tolerance means more pressure.

After all, everyone created such a tolerant environment for them so that Bayern Munich could break the curse of the Champions League falling to the semi-finals and La Liga teams for two consecutive years.

As long as you can reach the Champions League final, you can say anything.

But if they don't succeed, then everything they have done before will be evidence of a failure to qualify, and today's incomparably tolerant media will soon start turning up the performances of the players who were held to a draw by Borussia Mönchengladbach as evidence that the team could not qualify for the Champions League final.

In other words, the tolerance of today's media public opinion is actually an ultimatum, Bayern Munich has no way out, and if it loses, it will face countless people's verbal and written criticism.

The media reporters may have even thought of the title of the second plan:

"Shocked! The team's defeat is revealed early! The performance against Borussia Mönchengladbach speaks for itself! ”

At the post-match press conference, everyone asked about the Champions League.

Ask Guardiola if he is ready for the second leg against Atletico Madrid.

Ask him if he was confident of coming back from home after losing just one goal in the first leg.

He was asked if he had studied the footage of Atletico Madrid's 4-0 home win over his former club for inspiration.

Asked him how to keep an eye on Gao Zheng.

Ask him how to deal with Atletico Madrid's onslaught after the opening, after all, Bayern Munich and Barcelona both conceded goals in the last leg of the game, which led to a passive ......

This gave those watching the post-match press conference even a false impression - was this the post-match press conference between Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach, or the pre-match press conference between Bayern Munich and the second leg of the Champions League semi-final between Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid.