Chapter 932: Advance to the next round
The only change in the Atletico squad from the previous game was the suspended Thiago with a red card, Siqueira and Koke who had already played in the league and continued to start this game, replacing Thiago with Suarez.
There is one change at Atletico Madrid, as is one change at Bayer Leverkusen, and that is that Greek centre-back Papadopoulos has been replaced by Toprak, who has a better header than Papadopoulos.
The substitution header can't stop Atletico Madrid, not to mention Lin Dong's perversion, even Mandzukic is also phenomenal, and the Croatian striker has galloped in the Bundesliga.
The start of this game was completely opposite to the previous one, with Atletico Madrid attacking at the beginning of the game, showing the momentum of the home game, while Atletico's opening two waves of attacks were headers.
Lin Dong took the lead with the ball just over the crossbar, and two minutes later Mandzukic blasted another but it still couldn't fly into the Leverkusen goal.
The last time he was oppressed, this time he was counter-pressed, Simeone's pre-game arrangement was very clear, that is, to show the relative momentum of the former and fight at home.
In fact, Atletico also showed that in the ninth minute of the game, Atletico broke the situation, a pass from Koke, perhaps because of the injury in the last game, this Koke played quite actively.
Lin Dong's previous header came from Koke's pass, no, soon, Atletico's third goal came, and the person who sent the pass was still Koke.
Koke held the ball on the right side, Juanfran cut in at high speed, and then Koke passed, Leverkusen's defensive attention was attracted by Juanfran sucked, and then Juanfran passed the ball to Koke, and the Atletico midfielder took the ball and sent it into the penalty area.
Header, Lin Dong jumped high, although Toprak was very desperate, but in front of Lin Dong, Leverkusen's desperate efforts were just doing useless work.
"1:0~~~ Atletico Madrid showed the momentum that the home team should have, the first to complete the goal, Juanfran attracted the defense and passed back, Koke crossed at a 45-degree angle, Lin Dong jumped high in the penalty area, and the header dived."
"It's Lin Dong again~~ It's Lin Dong again~~~ This is Lin Dong's third goal in this round of knockouts, and all three goals in Atletico Madrid were scored by Lin Dong."
But Lin Dong's goal did not bring good luck to Atletico, because then Atletico Madrid had another player injured, but fortunately, there are still people available in Atletico's position.
After breaking the deadlock, Atletico Madrid was ready to take advantage of the victory and prepare to end the round in one fell swoop, but in the fourteenth minute, Bayer Leverkusen took advantage of Atletico's rush to play a wave of rapid counterattacks.
This is a typical Atletico counterattack, but unfortunately, Atletico Madrid became the target of the counterattack this time, although the final goal was not scored, but Atletico Madrid lost the main goalkeeper Moya.
Leverkusen's counterattack finally rushed into Atletico Madrid's penalty area, but unfortunately, Son Heungmin lived up to the trust of everyone in Leverkusen, and his shot was finally blocked by Moya, but Moya also strained his left leg.
"Oh oh oh~~~ How similar this is to the last game, Atletico Madrid scored a goal and some players were injured, but this time it was the goalkeeper" Oblak came off the bench.
Seriously, not only Martinez, but also Atletico Madrid have a sense of foreboding when Moya is injured, and they are afraid that the disaster of the last game will come again.
You know, this game is different from the last one, this is Atletico Madrid's home stadium, if it is really like the last game, then the final result is difficult to say, away goals are an extremely terrible existence in the Champions League knockout round.
But soon, Oblak showed everyone with a wonderful performance that with him, Atletico don't need to worry about Moya's injury and the safety of their goal.
Or Dermic, because Dermic was introduced by Schmidt's main force this season, so in some aspects, he has a natural advantage, such as starting.
However, in this game, Dermic still had a good chance, a push from inside the box, and the goal scorer of the previous game, Calhanoglu, sent a delicate through ball through the crowd to the feet of Delmić, and pushed it into the bottom right corner of the goal.
Oblak moved as soon as Dermic shot, and with this astonishing reaction, Oblak took a step to the left and then leaped forward, his fingertips touching the ball just before it crossed the line, prompting the ball to change direction.
The subsequent corner kick Oblak did not give Bayer Leverkusen any chance, directly abandoned the goal, and blasted the ball away with a punch, but unfortunately the ball did not fall at the feet of Atletico Madrid, so that Atletico Madrid could not play a quick counterattack.
However, even if Atletico failed to play a quick counter-attack, they still scored, and when the game came in the 25th minute, Atletico Madrid ushered in the second goal of the game.
In fact, this goal has a lot of similarities with the first goal, it was still Koke's cross from a 45-degree angle on the side, but this time Lin Dong failed to head the goal.
This was mainly due to the fact that Koke's pass was not good, because Koke's pass was interfered with by a Bayer Leverkusen defender, but even so, Lin Dong still won the header.
The header knocked back, the ball came to the top of the arc of the big penalty area, Suarez inserted it from behind at high speed, and in the face of Lin Dong's knockback, the ball directly did not wait for the ball to land and jerked it violently.
"The goal was scored ~~~ The ball was scored ~~~ The goal was scored ~~~ Suarez, it was the first goal in two seasons for the Atletico midfielder, the first Champions League goal."
Although Suarez is not a main player in Atletico's lineup, he is an important rotation player in Atletico's squad, and even if Raul Garcia retreats to midfield this season, Simeone still does not let Suarez go.
Atletico Madrid's several midfielders last season basically went away, and the loan was out, and the only Suarez staying in the team can show the importance that Simeone attaches to him.
And Suarez is indeed worthy of Simeone's attention, sitting quietly off the field when he is not starting, and he is not stage frightened when he is needed, hard work, and his performance is as stable as ever.
"This is Atletico Madrid's Suarez, although he is not as dazzling as Barcelona's, but he is an important member of Atletico Madrid" Speaking of which, Suarez is still a youth product of Atletico Madrid, entering the first team in 05, then moving to Valladolid, Celta and Mallorca, until 10 years before returning to Atletico Madrid.
"Miracles, only miracles happen Leverkusen is possible" Miracles are not lacking in football games, but it is not easy to create miracles, especially for Leverkusen now.