Chapter 127: What's the Big Deal?

A week later, on 25 April, the 33rd round of the league kicked off, and Atletico Madrid returned to the Calderón Stadium to host Levante. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Levante is a promotion horse in La Liga, ranking third in the second division last season and barely completing promotion. ”

Three years ago, Levante almost disappeared from the Spanish football map due to a financial crisis, but they surprisingly made it back to La Liga.

Over the summer, Levante bought some quality players, but few expected them to do well.

But in reality, Levante is the best of the three promoted teams.

Real Sociedad, who completed the promotion as the first in the second division, is the most expected by the media, but their excellent performance is only a flash in the pan, currently ranked 15th in the league, still struggling in the relegation circle, with Real Sociedad points, it is almost impossible to determine the completion of relegation in advance, they must fight until the last round.

Second place in the second division is Hekus.

The small team from Alicante returned to La Liga after 14 years, and what is even more surprising is that only five years ago, they were still playing in the third division, but Herkus clearly lacks experience in the first division, and is currently 19th in the league, and 8 points away from 18th Deportivo La Coruna, which also makes them almost 'lock up the relegation place early'.

Levante is currently 13th in the table, two more points than Real Sociedad in 15th.

In terms of points, Levante is also in danger of relegation, with a four-point advantage over the 17th place, which is not enough for them to be certain of relegation.

The media is concerned about the championship competition, or the top four in the league and the Champions League qualification competition, but in fact, the relegation battle in La Liga is even more tragic.

Because Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid are too strong, they basically win matches with small clubs, which also makes the polarization of La Liga extremely serious, and the current league table, Espanyol in 8th place, is only 6 points more than Deportivo La Coruna in 18th, in other words, 13 teams are in danger of relegation.

In addition to Hekus and Almeria, who are sure of relegation, the other 11 teams will 'compete' for the last relegation spot.

This kind of brutal battle also makes every team try their best to fight for points.

The same is true of Levante led by Prasa, even when they played away against Atletico Madrid, they did not give up the game, but worked hard for the whole game, which also led to Atletico Madrid's very difficult game.

At the end of the 90 minutes, the Atletico Madrid fans let out a long breath.

2 to 1.

Maurice and Mesut Ozil scored a goal each to help the team beat Calderón at home, and at the end of the game, the Atletico Madrid players had no heart to cheer, they no longer had the strength to cheer for the victory.

After the game, Wan Sheng appeared at the press conference with a grim face, and sincerely praised Levante's performance at the beginning, "I thought the game would be easy, but I found out that I was wrong. Levante showed a positive attitude in the game, every player played hard, and we were a little bit worse in comparison. ”

'I should criticize my players because they don't value their opponents.

"The game is over, 2-1, but the result is not all, we are at home and it is difficult to win, if I have the right, I will definitely give Levante one point and reward them for the sportsmanship they showed in the game......"

Regardless of the course of the game, Atletico Madrid managed to win.

After winning this one, there was no suspense about winning the championship, and by this time, many media were surprised to find that Atletico Madrid had been unbeaten for 33 rounds.

Atletico Madrid's supporting media, led by the newspaper "As", immediately began to hype up a concept, "Atletico Madrid has a good chance to win the Spanish First Division championship with an undefeated season!" ”

So far, Atletico Madrid's league record is 29 wins, 4 draws, 0 defeats, and with 5 rounds of the league remaining, Atletico Madrid really hopes to win the title unbeaten this season.

"If we can win the championship undefeated in the season, it will definitely be a very remarkable achievement, and it will become a special mention in the history of Atletico Madrid!"

"Atletico Madrid is unbeaten in 33 rounds, what's so strange about 5 more rounds!?"

"Wan Sheng led Manchester City to the longest unbeaten run in the history of the five major leagues - 64 games, and now he leads Atletico Madrid to fight for an unbeaten league run that is easy to achieve."

"It's not that hard for Wansheng!"

"Atletico Madrid are not far from being unbeaten in the season, they can finish with just five games. And right now, they can already start breaking records......"

Led by the support of Atletico Madrid's media, the whole of Spain began to discuss the topic.

Atletico Madrid fans also began to pay attention, and they expected Atletico Madrid to create brilliance, and after that, the players of Atletico Madrid continued to have internal discussions.

Up and down the club, there is a talk of undefeated.

Cerezo, president of Atletico Madrid, also talked about this issue when interviewed by media reporters, "Unbeaten in the season? I hope Wansheng can do it, Atletico Madrid can do it. In my tenure, Atletico Madrid can go unbeaten for the season, and it must be the best moment of my life! ”

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In the hype of Atletico Madrid's pro-media media, other media have different opinions, such as the pro-Real Madrid and Catalan media, which certainly do not want to see Atletico Madrid achieve any good results.

They dig into history and make various analyses to show that Atletico Madrid cannot remain unbeaten.

"In the history of Spanish football, only two teams have won the league unbeaten, but that was 80 or 90 years ago. In the 1931-1932 season, Real Madrid won the title with 10 wins and 8 draws, which is the closest, but it has been 80 years since then, when there were only 18 league games, and now it is 38! ”

"An unbeaten season is impossible in itself, La Liga is not the Premier League!"

"The Spanish league is the most technical league in Europe, every team has great technical and attacking ability, and it is almost impossible to win every game, even Barcelona can lose by a big score. So far, Atletico Madrid have done well, but they still have five games to play, and it is only theoretically possible for them to go unbeaten for five games. ”

"Maybe they can equal the 34-game unbeaten run created by Real Madrid, which is already quite remarkable......

Marca is expressing that 'La Liga is more difficult to be unbeaten in a season than in the Premier League', to refute the argument that 'Wan Sheng once led Manchester City to a 64-game unbeaten run'.

But in fact, the media of other countries will definitely find it funny when they see it.

The competition in the Premier League is undoubtedly more fierce than La Liga, and the UEFA points ranking can be seen that the Premier League has surpassed Serie A to become the world's number one league.

The first league is not as competitive as the third league?

What is the rationale for this?

La Liga is seriously divided into two levels, it is already recognized, Atletico Madrid's two most important opponents, Barcelona and Real Madrid, both lost home and away to Atletico Madrid in the league, and in the last five rounds of the league, Atletico Madrid's strongest opponent is only Malaga, which is ranked 11th in the league.

Whatever you think about it, Atletico Madrid have hope of going unbeaten for the season.

As a result, the media supporting Atletico Madrid immediately began to refute the "Marca" newspaper with various arguments, and for a time the two sides had a direct exchange of words over whether Atletico Madrid could be undefeated in the league.

In the midst of public opinion, La Liga ushered in the 34th round.

Atletico Madrid's away challenge to Deportivo La Coruna, 18th in the league, was definitely not a big deal, but it attracted the attention of countless media.

Wan Sheng sent a semi-bench lineup.

Atletico Madrid doesn't seem to pay attention to the game, but in fact, Wan Sheng kept telling the team to be serious before the game, "I don't want to say much about the last round, why it will be so difficult, you all know it in your hearts." Now we have Deportivo La Coruna, 18th in the league, worse than Levante, and I don't want the game to look even harder than the last one......"

"Do you get it?"

Wan Sheng's slamming made many players tremble.

No one dared to be lazy in the game, and every player who started the game put in the effort in the first minute.

As a result, the competition went well.

In the 14th, 28th and 43rd minutes, Atletico Madrid scored a goal each to give them a 3-0 lead at half-time.

Seeing the game, those media who don't want Atletico Madrid to break the record are very depressed, they talk about the impossibility of Atletico Madrid to be unbeaten in the league from all angles, but a series of statements are not as good as a direct game.

There is no doubt about Atletico Madrid's victory, in other words, they are unbeaten in the league for 34 games.

34 rounds, 38 rounds, only four games missing!

In terms of the performance of Atletico Madrid in this game, it is not difficult to achieve four unbeaten games, and it can even be said that it is ...... It should be easy.

On the contrary, Atletico Madrid's supporting media were quite excited, and they were ready to praise Atletico Madrid.

In the end, Atletico Madrid won the match 5-0 away.

At the post-match press conference, Wan Sheng had just walked into the venue and was immediately asked about the topic of 'unbeaten season'.

The reporters in the audience are looking forward to Wansheng to boost their morale.

This is also his usual style.

But Wan Sheng's reaction was unexpected, and he said with a stunned face, "Undefeated in the season? I seem to have heard it too, but ...... Is that something remarkable? ”

'When I was in charge of Manchester City, we were unbeaten in 64 games and we lost to Everton. I don't think that's a big deal, it's not as exciting as a Copa del Rey title. ”

"I don't know why, you're always hyping up these meaningless things, what about going unbeaten for the season? The Spanish Football Federation will not give us an extra penny in prize money! ”

Wan Sheng shrugged his shoulders after saying it and left directly.

Only a group of reporters with blank faces remained at the scene, looking left and right at each other. (To be continued.) )