Chapter 877: The streak ends
Atletico Madrid has once again halted their winning streak, but this time not only in the league, but also in the Champions League.
In the final round of the Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid visited Juventus Arena, and at Juventus's home stadium, Atletico Madrid finally stopped its winning streak.
Prior to this, Atletico Madrid had won an incredible seventeen consecutive Champions League victories, and Atletico Madrid had won since Atletico returned to the Champions League last season.
Last season, Atletico started a crazy winning streak from the group stage to the end, and set a new record for Barcelona to set a Champions League winning streak, which was finally fixed at 18 games.
Last season, there were 13 matches from the group stage to the final, and Atletico Madrid won the first five games of the group stage this season, so it adds up to an unprecedented level.
For Atletico, they are not satisfied with 18 consecutive wins, Atletico want 20 consecutive wins, or even all the time, of course, this is more of a fantasy for Atletico, after all, no one can win forever.
In the final round of the match with Juventus, in fact, neither side needs to estimate the outcome of this game, because the outcome of this game will not affect the entire group qualification.
Therefore, neither side played the main game, but Lin Dong was an outsider, but unfortunately, Simeone still only gave Lin Dong 45 minutes, and Lin Dong did not score any goals in these 45 minutes this time.
Gianluigi Buffon's excellent performance held Lin Dong at bay, and in the end neither side could make any gains before the end of the game, and the score of 0:0 was maintained until the end of the game, and Atletico Madrid topped the group with a record of six games, five wins and one draw.
Atletico Madrid were unable to extend their winning streak, but at the other end of Madrid, Real Madrid had a perfect ending, and Real Madrid completed the group stage with a complete victory.
With the end of the sixth round of matches, the Champions League round of 16 was also successfully born, although the A process was a bit bumpy, but Juventus still joined hands with Atletico Madrid to qualify, Group B was more miserable, Liverpool was third in the group, and could only go to the Europa League Cup.
Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen in Group C, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal in Group D, Bayern Munich and Manchester City in Group E, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain in Group F, with the last direct match, Barcelona won back the top spot in the group, the two Blues in Group G Chelsea joined Schalke 04, the last group was Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk, Athletic Bilbao ranked third and could only go to the Europa League Cup with Liverpool.
As the dust settles on the group stage, clubs can finally turn their attention back to the domestic league for the time being, but in this case, Atletico Madrid have not been able to continue their winning streak in the league.
Atletico Madrid's winning streak came to an end of a seven-game winning streak, and after the victory over Deportivo La Coruna, Atletico first welcomed Copa del Rey opponent Ospitalette, who has been in the third division.
There were no surprises in the first leg, with substitutes and youngsters coming on to win Atletico Madrid with a clean 3-0 win to get off to a good start in their Copa del Rey campaign.
In the subsequent league, Atletico Madrid also won the opponent bloodlessly, and Lin Dong scored twice again to help Atletico Madrid defeat Elche 4-0.
The other two goals, Mandzukic and Gimenez, were also Gimenez's first goal for Atletico Madrid, at the age of 19.
Gimenez is currently the youngest player in the Atletico team, born in 95, he is five years younger than Lin Dong, and from his performances in these games, as long as there are no surprises, the future is sure to be bright.
And with this victory, Atletico Madrid won seven in a row after six consecutive wins in the opening game, but no one expected that seven consecutive wins would be an end point.
In the subsequent Copa del Rey, Atletico Madrid also failed to win, and it was still at home, and Atletico Madrid, who were all substitutes and youngsters, finally drew with their opponents.
Of course, the Copa del Rey draw actually doesn't care about Atletico Madrid, what really makes Atletico Madrid care is that in the fifteenth round of the league, Atletico Madrid welcomes the yellow submarine Villarreal at home.
In this game, Atletico Madrid did its best, and even Miranda, who had recovered from injury, returned to the start, but it was a game where the main force was exhausted, but Atletico Madrid failed to win.
It was even close to capsizing in the gutter, and in the 84th minute of the game, Villarreal scored the first goal since the start of the game.
Yes, the game lasted for 80 minutes, and neither side was able to break the deadlock on the pitch, and Ajosen, who officially left Atletico Madrid this season, became the biggest obstacle to Atletico's goal.
From the fourth minute of the game, when Atletico had their first shot of the game, Ajosen made four world-class saves to keep out almost all of Atletico's inevitable shots.
Another time it was a single knife, although this time it was not Lin Dong but Griezmann, but the single knife was still enough to make people crazy, and Martinez could only use God possession to express his appreciation for Ahosen's performance in this game.
Of course, Ahosen's performance is also the best response to Atletico Madrid, after all, Atletico could have kept Ahosen this summer, but Atletico finally brought in two goalkeepers, one old and one young, which undoubtedly told Ahosen that Atletico had given up on him.
Ahosen is also a talented goalkeeper who became famous at a young age, after Ahosen became famous, there were many teams pursuing Ahosen at that time, but Ahosen finally chose Atletico Madrid, and it was this choice that made his career begin to stagnate, and the young talent was finally destroyed by injuries and slowly moved towards mediocrity.
However, Ahosen obviously will not be reconciled, he does not think that he will fall like this, after recovering from the injury, Ahosen chose to go out on loan, and step by step to find his form, and this game is undoubtedly the best proof.
However, compared to the defensive players, the attacking players are always on the favorable side, and Ahosen's performance can be called against the sky, but unfortunately, Ahosen did not go against the sky to the end of the game.
In stoppage time of the game, and even before the end of the countdown, Atletico Madrid completed a stunner, Atletico Madrid's No. 9, the dazzling black hair.
Outside the big penalty area, a super world wave, 33 meters away from the goal, the ball was like a cannonball, straight forward into the penalty area, rushing to the goal.
It's not that Ahosen didn't make a save, but his reaction was still a step slower, no, Ahosen's reaction was fast enough, but Lin Dong's heavy artillery was even faster.
1:1~~~ Then the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and Atletico Madrid went to Morocco with three draws, after this game, Atletico Madrid will leave La Liga for the time being and go to Morocco to participate in the Club World Cup.