The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and this is on full display with Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, Real Madrid and Espanyol.

In La Liga, as Real Madrid's sworn rival, Atletico Madrid has always been close to Barcelona, while the Spaniards on the other side are closer to Real Madrid.

But to put it bluntly, Atletico Madrid and Espanyol are just goods that are being used, Barcelona uses Atletico Madrid to block Real Madrid, and Real Madrid uses Espanyol to make Barcelona uncomfortable.

In the past, the two teams actually did not do well enough, and at most they were disgusting and disgusting to each other, but this season Atletico Madrid has changed a lot, although this change has nothing to do with Barcelona.

Even with Barcelona disgusted, Lin Dong's transfer also disrupted Barcelona's plan, and the plan to send Villa away failed to happen, Barcelona had to pay more than 10 million euros for this, and it is estimated that they will not even be able to get the transfer fee next season.

And then there is Lin Dong himself, last season had too much impact on Barcelona, and even to some extent it was not just an impression, almost a shame, last season, Barcelona faced Real Madrid experienced a fiasco that has never been seen in recent years, and the maker of the fiasco is Lin Dong.

Barcelona was arguably the biggest contributor to Lin Dong's rise last season, and of course, Barcelona would certainly not be willing to be this contributor if they could.

In fact, throughout the entire rise of Lin Dong, almost all of the giants have become the stepping stone of Lin Dong's rise, starting from Lazio, Lin Dong has stepped on Rome, Juventus, and Milan to let him finally enter Mourinho's vision.

After coming to Real Madrid, Lin Dong went one step further in Barcelona and completely became the sweetheart of world football, and this season, Real Madrid has also become a stepping stone for Lin Dong, not only helping Lin Dong completely conquer the new club Atletico Madrid, but also making Lin Dong's name more resounding.

With Atletico having the quality to threaten Barcelona, the relationship between the two teams will certainly not be as close as before, but that won't affect this game.

In the eyes of the Spaniards, the two teams still belong to different camps, so for the upcoming ninth round of the league, the Spaniards have already been gearing up.

On the other hand, Real Madrid fans are not idle, they have started to cheer on Espanyol and Osasuna, hoping that these two teams can stop Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

Like Atletico Madrid, Barcelona have won all eight league games and ushered in their best start in La Liga history.

And Barcelona's opponent is even weaker, it is Osasuna, who is currently out of the relegation zone, after eight rounds of league games, Osasuna only won two games, and the remaining six games all ended in defeat, ranking third from the bottom of the league.

Real Madrid is also quite sad now, after losing to Atletico Madrid, they have begun to fall behind in the league, and now they have to cheer for two underdogs with little hope in order to keep the best start in La Liga history.

It is true that in terms of team strength, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona both have the absolute upper hand, but football is round, and in football, anything can happen.

No matter what happened on Barcelona's side, but on Atletico Madrid's side, Lin Dong obviously felt the change in his teammates, which was the pressure brought about by the imminent equalization of nine consecutive wins, so this change was not good for Atletico Madrid.

On the second day of training when the team assembled, the Atletico players were obviously a little absent-minded, and there were so many mistakes that the entire coaching staff frowned.

"Diego~~~" Assistant coach Boggs had the worry on his face, I didn't know if I thought Atletico Madrid had experienced eight consecutive defeats.

'If we want to go further, we have to go through the transformation, it's a process, but we're not unlucky, the Spaniard isn't a tough opponent,' said Simeone, staring at the pitch.

Even if the winning streak is a pressure, especially at this moment, it is a metamorphosis, a sublimation, as for Atletico Madrid, it is nothing, the current Atletico Madrid is still young, and youth is Atletico Madrid's biggest capital.

Simeone is not unconcerned about the next games, it's not that he doesn't value nine consecutive wins, and seriously, Simeone also wants Atletico Madrid to set the best start in La Liga, or even surpass this best start in La Liga.

Slowly, Simeone's gaze shifted to the front, and in Europe, where the dominant white and black races were the yellow race, it was so conspicuous, even eye-catching.

It is true that most of the main players of Atletico Madrid are abnormal, but on the front line of Atletico Madrid, the figure that he has high hopes for has not changed, and even from his eyes and actions, Simeone found that he was a little impatient.

In this regard, Simeone had to sigh, this guy was born for the big scene, and he didn't know what nervousness was, throughout Lin Dong's short three-year career, every time his team faced a strong team, he always had a wonderful performance and was always able to help the team.

This is also the source of Simeone's confidence in the next game, and he believes that Lin Dong can lead Atletico Madrid forward with his own ability and can help his teammates complete the transformation.

And as training continues, the Atletico players themselves have discovered problems, but sometimes even if they know, it doesn't help, and even Atletico Madrid's players are pinning their hopes on manager Simeone.

Over the past few years, Atletico players have become accustomed to relying on Simeone, and Simeone has always told them what to do correctly, but unfortunately, Simeone didn't seem to see anything wrong with them this time.

For this reason, the captain Gabby went to Simeone personally, and as for the result, it was naturally Gabby who was persuaded by Simeone, although Gabby was not in the ranks of the young.

These two years can be said to be the golden period of Gabi's career, which can be seen from his performance at Atletico Madrid, and next year is the World Cup year, it must be false to say that Gabi has no ideas.

However, Gabi has no idea and it doesn't really work, the Spanish midfielder is not enough to express with talent, it should be said that it is too crowded, Xavi, Iniesta, Fabregas, Alonso, Busquets, and now Isco, Ilia Ramendi, even if Atletico Madrid has a Koke here is rising rapidly.

In fact, Gabi is also very clear that in the case of no way to serve the country, Gabi can only place his hopes on the club, so in the next training, the captain of Atletico Madrid has become more serious and tries to encourage his teammates in this way.

Time will never stop for anyone, not to mention that in just a few days, the fire of La Liga has been rekindled in the blink of an eye, and Atletico Madrid has also been led by Simeone to Barcelona.