With the match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla coming to an end, all eyes are on Barcelona hosting Atletico Madrid, a heavyweight conversation that will decide the trend of the title race. As Atletico Madrid was forced to draw by Sevilla away, and Barcelona won Girona 3-0 at home, the gap between the two teams widened to eight points, and Atletico Madrid's title race situation became more dangerous.

La Liga at the end of February is actually a double fixture a week, with a round sandwiched between those two games, with Atletico hosting Leganés and Barcelona taking on Las Palmas away.

However, these two relegation teams were directly ignored, and the gap between the strength of the two teams was obvious, and the media did not mention it in passing, so there was basically no suspense.

But football is always full of surprises.

Atletico Madrid did not have problems, and Simeone rotated the front trident for the decisive battle with Barcelona. The rest of the players didn't give their opponents any chances, with Correa scoring in each half as Atletico beat Leganes 2-0.

However, Barcelona were met with stubborn resistance from Las Palmas on a distant away leg in the Canary Islands, and the final result was a shock.

0:1, the away team in front, the home team in the back!

Barcelona had 25 shots on goal and the home side had just three shots on target, only to be saved with a quick set-piece. Barcelona paid a heavy price for their carelessness.

Barcelona lost, the whole title race became even more intense, Atletico Madrid took advantage of the situation to narrow the gap to five points, Valencia is still in second place, one point ahead of Atletico Madrid, it is worth noting Real Madrid. Zinedine Zidane led the team to seven consecutive wins in the second half, and before he knew it, he was only one point away from Atletico Madrid!

Real Madrid, which was weak in the first half, actually broke out with such a strong stamina, and the championship background was revealed.

After playing the league match against Leganes, the next morning before the legal working time in Spain, the whole team was already on the plane to Barcelona. The two sides have officially entered the decisive time.

The media has been playing up for a long time, and the atmosphere of the decisive battle can be seen in the frantic "greeting" of thousands of Barcelona fans upon arrival at the airport and hotel. While there is security in place to protect the players from being harassed at close range, these fans have their own solutions. Thousands of fans hissed and sang Barcelona's team anthem, El Cant del Bar?a.

We shout in the stadium,

We are Barcelona fans!

We're coming from all directions,

Regardless of age and skin color,

The flag is flying high, and blue and purple are its colors!

The team is fighting bravely,

Let's call its name,

Barcelona! Barcelona! Barcelona!

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This song, composed in the 70s of the last century, has been sung at the Camp Nou for nearly half a century, and has a strong impact and appeal. The precipitation of faith of generations of Barcelona fans has deepened its own strength. Thousands of people sang as hard as they could on the street in front of the hotel, which was definitely intimidating enough, and the slightly timid people were probably frightened.

The hotel's security staff did their best to protect the safety of the entire Atletico team, and the local police obviously had a good security plan for this game, and a large number of police officers arrived in front of the hotel to maintain order not long after. Unlike the police in China, who are mostly equipped with batons and electric batons, the police in Spain are equipped with real guys. It's one thing for these fans to be crazy, but they're not stupid, no one dares to touch that mold, and it won't be long before it disperses.

Thomas asked a little weakly: "Wen, you said that if we really won against Barcelona, would we not be able to get out of the stadium and be beaten directly?" ”

Wen Zhihao smiled, punched him in the chest, and said, "With your physique, are you afraid of being beaten?" You glared and roared, and you guessed that everyone was running faster than a rabbit, and they were clean in a smoke. It's good to be black, and fighting with people is a strong deterrent and murderous. ”

Of course, Wen Zhihao was not burying or making fun of Thomas's skin color, Thomas smiled embarrassedly, his worry did not dissipate, and then asked: "I mean seriously, Wen, in order to get closer to you, I am learning Chinese in private to understand Chinese culture, don't you have a saying, the right eyelid jumps to prove that something bad has happened?" To tell you the truth, my right eyelid has been jumping ...... the past few days," Thomas also deliberately supported his right eyelid with his hand, looking quite happy.

Wen Zhihao couldn't help but laugh and rolled his eyes at the same time. The left eye jumps with wealth and the right eye jumps with disaster, that is the saying that grandparents believe in. Wen Zhihao thought that even my parents didn't believe it, so he lied to you who didn't understand anything.

Wen Zhihao could only comfort: "What are you afraid of, you are the back waist, the possibility of being targeted is small, and if you are unlucky, I and Xiao Diego still have a big grid." But they probably won't. ”

"Why?" Thomas was puzzled.

After a pause of two seconds, Wen Zhihao slowly spoke: "They will lose convincingly!" ”

Thomas was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up. Whether it can be done or not, at least Wen Zhihao's tough expression makes him feel a little bottom.

On the cards, Atletico Madrid is slightly inferior to Barcelona, but the first time the two sides met, Atletico Madrid killed Barcelona instead. Sometimes at this delicate and critical juncture, the preparation of the managers of both sides will be meticulous, and the media and experts dare not easily assert that Barcelona will be able to exit at home.

The famous William Hill bookmaker has very interesting markets and odds for this match. Even Barcelona is not optimistic about the home draw, Atletico Madrid scored in the second half, and the odds of a narrow victory by one goal are the lowest!

With a wave of condemnation from Barcelona's fans, William Hill is acting unintelligently and in opposition to one of the largest fan bases in the world. The day before the start of the game, the CEO of the bookmaker stood up to speak.

The CEO explained the reason for the opening: "Of course we don't want to go against Barcelona fans all over the world. But for the sake of the majority of lottery players, we can only obey the results revealed by big data. Atletico were really good at scoring in the second half and we had no intention of taking sides, the result is already here and there are things Valverde can do to avoid the result. ”

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In the pre-game competition, in addition to the war of words in the media, the most critical thing is the game between the coaching staff.

Compared to Simeone, who was a challenger, Valverde was under more pressure. The away defeat has already made him face criticism from the media and fans, and this crucial "six-point battle" does not allow him to make mistakes.

Valverde admitted in his heart that when he faced Atletico Madrid for the first time, he underestimated the individual strength of individual Atletico players, such as Wen Zhihao, who delivered the stunner. Now he has a chance to make amends.

"Next, let Sergio? Busquets and Paulinho together, must prevent this Chinese from death! Valverde had set it up at the prep meeting the afternoon before.

"So what about Griezmann and Costa, it's all in the care of the defensive line, it's not safe, right?" Assistant coach Aspirazu was a little jealous of the strength of the other two.

Valverde snorted lightly: "Among these three people, Wen Zhihao is the real core, the one who passes the ball to those two." ”

Little did Wen know he was going to face a combined strangulation between his former teammate and world No. 1 midfielder, who knew him best. However, for Wen Zhihao, who only cares about victory, even if he knows in advance, the most he can do is a smile, how to play and how to play.