Chapter 930: Carrying Atletico forward
Atletico Madrid returned to the winning track, but someone fell off the chain, in the last round it was Barcelona who dropped the chain, and after the defeat in the previous round, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid pulled back 12 points.
After the end of the 25th round, Atletico Madrid widened the points gap with Real Madrid, the original gap between the two teams was only 5 points, but after the 26th round, the difference between the two teams expanded to 7 points.
Real Madrid drawn, the home was forced to draw by Villarreal, it is said that in this round of the league Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid have met the second echelon, Real Madrid against Villarreal, Atletico Madrid against Sevilla.
What's even more interesting is that Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are both the same in the standings, with both teams sharing 45 points and sitting fifth and sixth in the table.
At the moment, above Villarreal and Sevilla is Valencia, with the Bats doing very well this season, i.e. 48 points in fourth place.
These three teams make up the second legion of La Liga, followed by the likes of Athletic Bilbao, which has been dragged down by the Champions League, and Malaga, which has picked up this season.
1:1, this is the result of the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal, although Ronaldo opened the scoring, but Ronaldo scored a goal in the whole game, and ten minutes after Ronaldo scored, Villarreal equalized, and then the two teams never scored again.
Atletico Madrid did not score many goals in the match against Sevilla, and the score was 1:1 after 90 minutes, which was also the fewest goals scored in a game in which Atletico Madrid scored this season.
Although the football game is a whole sport, there is never a lack of individual heroism, and even to a certain extent, individual heroism is more exciting.
After more than 80 minutes of hard fighting, the score between the two sides is still 0:0, in addition to Atletico Madrid's own form and luck, Sevilla is also impeccable, you know, it was a home game recently, Sevilla achieved an astonishing 9 wins and 1 draw.
However, no matter how good Sevilla was, Lin Dong still did not block Lin Dong, and in the 88th minute of the game, Lin Dong received a cross from Ursar outside the penalty area.
Stopping the ball on his chest, forcibly turning around, and shooting from a distance, Rico failed to stop Atletico Madrid's shot, Lin Dong's heavy artillery, and even after Lin Dong's shot, Rico stood without any reaction.
Kill, Lin Dong staged another stunner, trying to protect Atletico Madrid's three points, helping Atletico Madrid to go further on the road to defending the title, and also added another goal to his league goal, after this game, Lin Dong's league goals have reached 54.
It's a desperate and terrifying quality, given that the league has only gone 25 rounds, La Liga has 38 rounds, and with 13 rounds remaining, the possibilities for Lin Dong's goals this season are endless.
With the second consecutive win in the league, Atletico Madrid ushered in the second leg of the Copa del Rey, and Atletico Madrid, who returned to the home field, is still a semi-main lineup, and unlike the away game, Atletico Madrid showed the style of the home team in this game, and won the degree cleanly.
A 3-0, unavailable Mandzukic in the league can only vent all his energy into the cup competition, and two of the three goals in this game have been scored by Mandzukic.
After winning Espanyol, Atletico Madrid's next opponent is still from Barcelona, well, it is the Barcelona team, and before you know it, Atletico Madrid has once again entered the final of the Copa del Rey, which is also the third consecutive year that Atletico Madrid has entered the Copa del Rey final.
And unlike the previous two times, this time Atletico Madrid's opponent is not Real Madrid, or after the victory over Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid welcomes another opponent Barcelona who needs to be defeated in the final.
Although Atletico Madrid have won against Barcelona in the last two seasons, the meaning of the final is completely different from ordinary games, especially for Lin Dong, who is determined to trample Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi under him.
However, there is still a long time before the Copa del Rey, which is only in March, and this Copa del Rey final is scheduled for the last day of May.
Because of the World Cup, the competition will be postponed this year, after the Copa del Rey in the league, and the Champions League will be postponed until June.
Of course, the Champions League is still too far away for Atletico Madrid or any team that is still in the knockout rounds, and the game has to be played one game at a time, and it is not good for the team itself to be ambitious.
After the Copa del Rey, after three days of adjustment, Atletico Madrid ushered in the 26th round of the league, and the league went on until March, in fact, everyone entered a period of weakness.
This can be seen from the records of several big teams, Barcelona lost, Real Madrid also lost, and yes, after the draw in the last round, Real Madrid lost the game directly in this round of the league.
This time, Real Madrid played away at the new San Mamés stadium of Athletic Bilbao, and after a game, all the superstars of Real Madrid were dumbfounded, even if Zidane was angry on the sidelines, it still could not change the final result of the game.
1:0, with the home team in front and the away team behind, Real Madrid ushered in their fifth defeat of the season, and with this defeat, Real Madrid and Barcelona only have 2 points left.
The point difference with Barcelona is only 2 points, but the point gap with Atletico Madrid has widened to double digits, just 10 points.
In other words, Atletico Madrid actually played a bad game, but Atletico Madrid's opponent in this round of matches is Valencia, the leader of the second echelon this season.
In the first meeting between the two teams this season, Valencia ended Atletico's six-game winning streak, and in this game, Valencia almost ended Atletico's league game again, although it was only a two-game winning streak.
But it's a pity that Valencia didn't do it in the end, or because of Lin Dong, although the whole world knows the importance of Lin Dong to Atletico Madrid, but these two games seem more intuitive.
Because in these two games, Atletico Madrid relied on Lin Dong's stunner at the last moment of the game to finally win the game, and finally opened up the points gap with Real Madrid.
Atletico's first goal of the game came from a return from injury, an indirect free-kick, Raul Garcia knocked the ball back to Koke, and Koke scored with a long-range shot from the penalty area.
Valencia then levelled the score with German centre-back Mustafi and relied on a corner kick opportunity for the German centre-back to cross the crowd in the Atletico penalty area and head the ball into the goal of Moya.
In the eighty-sixth minute, the last game of the game was two minutes earlier, but Lin Dong's stunner was completely different from the last time, a grab in the penalty area, a stab shot in the small penalty area, and the score became 2:1, which was also the final score of the game.