Chapter 67 The International Break

"Atletico Madrid are ferocious at home, pouring six goals into the Serie A champion! Champions League newcomers Napoli suffer Waterloo in Calderon! ”

"Atletico Madrid started the Champions League with a 6:1 victory!"

“6:1! There is a huge gap between the current world's first league and the world's first league in the past! ”

"Hat-trick! China's Qin helped Atletico Madrid temporarily top the group and took the lead in the battle for qualification from the Group of Death! ”

"Simeone: We're going to keep winning!"

"Gabi: This game makes my blood boil, and I can't wait to get back to the field and charge with my teammates!"

"Three goals in a single game! Atletico Madrid Kings say they will make the most powerful impact on the top scorer in the Champions League this season! ”

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The next day, reports of the Champions League group stage flooded all corners of Spain. Atletico Madrid's performance in this game really blinded the eyes of countless people, many people predicted that Atletico Madrid would win before the game, but such a hearty victory comparable to a massacre is incredible.

After all, the defensive ability of the Serie A team can be called a must in world football, even Real Madrid and Barcelona, who are super offensive firepower, do not dare to pack tickets to score so many goals against their opponents, but Atletico Madrid did it, not only did it, but this game was won without dispute, which can be said to be completely effortless.

This has forced many fans and many football experts to take a fresh look at Atletico Madrid.

Even if Atletico Madrid's lineup is not neat now, even if Atletico Madrid is still that civilian team in the hearts of many people, as long as there is Qin Shou, then they are a strong team that can compete with any giant!

After winning their first Champions League group, Atletico Madrid comfortably topped the group, and in the other game, Arsenal drew 1-1 away at Bundesliga Hornets Borussia Dortmund, and the two teams were tied for second place, while Napoli naturally finished bottom of the table after a big defeat.

The first win in the Champions League group stage didn't excite Atletico for long. Although the most important goal of the season is to try to go further in the Champions League, the league cannot be abandoned, so the next day Simeone gave the team only half a day off and regrouped in the afternoon to prepare for the home league game against Valladolid in three days' time.

Three days later, Atletico Madrid welcomed Valladolid, the opponent of the fifth round of the league, in Calderón.

Valladolid has never been a strong team and is also a well-known lift in La Liga, and in general, they are fighting to stay in the top flight.

The opponent is not strong. And because the team has been fighting continuously recently, the main players are a little tired, so Simeone chose to rotate this game, one is to give the main players a chance to rest, and the other is to give young players some experience and opportunity to accumulate experience.

So Costa, Koke, Felipe, Godin, and even goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois didn't start, and Atletico Madrid can be said to have a new look.

Although it was basically a substitute lineup, the game went well. The thirteenth minute of the first half. Atletico Madrid scored a goal from Adrian, who started in place of Costa, and before the end of the first half, Qin Shou picked up a leak in front of the goal and expanded the score to 2:0.

Two goals in hand. Simeone, who was on the verge of victory, had another "major surgery" on the team's lineup at halftime. Garcia was replaced by Gamez, Qin Shou was replaced off the pitch, and he was replaced by veteran Hesma.

Simeone thinks the match is decided. Unexpectedly, the situation changed suddenly in the second half, and less than a minute after the game restarted, Valladolid scored a dribbling balloon. Angolan striker Manucho fired a long-range shot from 28 yards out in the box. It was originally a shot of luck, but it hit the back of central defender Simones, resulting in a change of line, and goalkeeper Asenjo, who originally pounced on the left, could only watch the football fall into the goal from the middle, in vain.

Valladolid had the good fortune to pull a goal back.

Valladolid, who narrowed the score gap, seemed to see the hope of scoring points on the defending champions of the league, and behaved more actively, coupled with the lack of Qin Shou, Costa and other players with strong offensive firepower, the attack was quite unscrupulous.

Don't look at Valladolid as a relegation team, but La Liga teams have two brushes no matter how they say, small skills and small cooperation are good, although their offense is most of the time defused by Atletico Madrid's tough defense, but as the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death, Wang Baquan can also kill the master, this attack is fierce, it is inevitable that no mistakes will be made.

Valladolid scored again in the 79th minute of the match, again by Angolan striker Manucho. In a scuffle in the box, a stab shot sent the ball into the goal of Asenjo for the second time.

2:2。

Arsenal were speechless, originally he was the team's No. 1 goalkeeper, but Courtois was too good last season and lost his main position. In this game, he finally got the opportunity to start, and he wanted to perform well and add more important weight in the head coach's heart, but he didn't expect to lose two goals in this appearance, which doesn't mean that there is a problem with his ability?

To be honest, these two goals conceded have little to do with Asenjo, the first is the line change ball, the mistake made by his teammates, but he has the black pot on his back. And the second goal, there was chaos in the penalty area, and it was impossible to tell who was who, so how could they care about making a save.

But that's the way it is, no matter what, the two goals were rolled in from the goal he guarded, and no matter how much he denied it, it couldn't be erased, and Asenjo could only admit that he was unlucky.

With a two-goal lead and then an equaliser by two goals in a row, Simeone was furious at the result and yelled on the sidelines. It's not so much that he's venting his frustration on the players, it's that he's blaming himself. He had to admit that this was because of his misguided tactical arrangement, if he hadn't replaced Qin Shou and Garcia in advance, he would still be able to suppress the opponent offensively, and the midfield defense would not have been penetrated by the opponent so easily.

This is all my own mistake, and now I have to suffer the consequences.

In the end, Atletico Madrid drew 2-2 at home to Valladolid, and although Atletico fought back in the last minute to regain the three points, they were unable to score again despite the visitors' united defence.

Atletico Madrid's winning streak came to an end as they picked up their first draw of the new season.

In fact, a draw is nothing, after all, no team can win all the time, winning and losing on the football field is a rare thing, and no one can become a winning general.

It's just that when you're two goals ahead, and it's at your home stadium, you can still be overturned by your opponent, which makes people a little blocked.

After the game, Atletico Madrid was criticized by many media outlets, and the head coach Simeone, who made the wrong tactical adjustments, was criticized by media reporters for a while.

Simeone was annoyed by the cynicism and criticism of the reporters, but fortunately he was also a thick-skinned man, and for the next few days he neither appeared in public nor gave any interviews, except for going to the training ground, and hiding in his office to pretend to be an ostrich.

Simeone is also a veteran of the hard struggle with the media for more than ten years, anyway, as long as he carries forward the style of a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, if you want to scold or make trouble, I can't afford to provoke me to hide aside?

But Simeone is also a blessing in disguise, making him understand a truth, football is like this, the more you respect her, the more it will respect you. So in any game, in any opponent, you have to give your full attention, otherwise it is likely that the final result will make you miserable.

Simeone, who was fully enlightened, fielded the strongest squad that could come out of the game against Espanyol a week later. This also gave Atletico Madrid a huge burst of energy in this game.

Although it was an away game, this week, because of the unexpected draw, the team was attacked back and forth by media reporters, and it was also under some pressure, so Atletico Madrid behaved very positively at the beginning of this game, as if venting the accumulated anger, and soon reversed the away team and took the absolute initiative.

As a result, the team took a two-goal lead in the first half, with Antoine Griezmann and Costa scoring one each.

It is worth mentioning that both goals came from Qin Shou's direct assists.

Simeone didn't have the heart to underestimate his opponent and started the second half without any adjustments.

The second half was still one-sided, and Qin Shou also scored in the 62nd minute. He headed Vázquez's cross into the back of the net and the score was 3-0.

At the end of the game, Qin Shou reciprocated by a through ball that tore through the home team's defense, and Vazquez successfully countered offside and rolled over the goal line after retreating to the far corner of the goal.

4:0!

Qin Shou scored a hat trick of assists!

And Vazquez did not celebrate after the goal, but towards Cornela. The stands on all sides of El Prat Stadium bowed slightly, apologizing.

Espanyol is his former club, and he wore Espanyol's blue and white shirt last season, but after just a few months, he was back here and became the "sinner" who scored the goal, so he is apologizing to the fans here.

The Espanyol fans also gave a round of applause of understanding.

Professional football is like that, you can be a player here, maybe one moment you are a player here, the next moment you are a "sinner" here, everything has to be seen.

Conscientious? Seriously, you'll lose!

The final result of the game was 4-0, and Atletico Madrid, who were playing away, got back on the winning track with a big win.

After this match, Atletico Madrid will have a short break of 10 days due to the international break.

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