Chapter 161: Champions League starters
It was small news that Diego Costa announced his play for the Spanish national team during the national team break. The Spanish media praised Costa for his wise choice, with Spain strengthened and Brazil missing a good striker, and Spain are expected to defend their World Cup title next year.
Brazil, for its part, criticized Costa for betraying Brazil.
Returning from the national team game, Atletico Madrid did not have any injuries during the national team game, which is something Simeone is happy about. In fact, there are not many national team players in the Atletico team at the moment.
On September 14, in the fourth round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid will face promoted Almeria at home.
Almeria has nothing to say about this team, it is absolutely new, it has only been established for 24 years, and it is the youngest team in La Liga.
Such a new team, or a promoted horse, is simply difficult to resist Atletico Madrid in Calderon.
In the 13th minute, Ringer received a pass from Cork on the right flank, and in front of the 45-diagonal cross, Raul Garcia followed up with a header.
In the 32nd minute, Ringer received the ball in the box and turned and was pulled down, the referee awarded a penalty, and Costa easily scored the ball.
Although Almeria relied on a corner kick to cause a scuffle and score a goal before the end of the first half, Thiago and Koke scored twice in the first 15 minutes of the second half to kill the game.
In such circumstances, Ringer was substituted in the 67th minute to save time for the upcoming Champions League game.
Almeria scored another goal at the end of the game, making it 4-2 and Ringer received an assist.
While Atletico Madrid won at home, Barcelona also beat Sevilla 3-2 at home, but Real Madrid drew 2-2 with the Yellow Submarine away, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona started with 4 consecutive wins and 12 points, followed by Real Madrid with 10 points from 3 wins and 1 draw.
The two sides of the Galaxy Battleship, one was bought back for 101 million yuan, and the other was bought back for 96 million, and it really flew together with 200 million.
This time, Real Madrid's 200 million Qi Fei formation made its official debut, but unfortunately the first game was not perfect, although 200 million scored one goal each, but it was forced to draw by the opponent.
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On September 18, at 8:45 p.m. local time in Spain, the first round of the 13/14 Champions League group stage arrived, and Atletico Madrid hosted the Russian Premier League team Zenit St. Petersburg.
Ringer came out of the tunnel with the whole team, and saw the muscular Poseidon on the opposite side of the huge Tifo banner, holding his weapon Poseidon Trident and stabbing a brown bear downward.
The Estadio Calderón resounded with the rousing Atletico Madrid anthem "Atletico Madrid Forever", which was accompanied by this huge Tifo banner, which really made people's blood pump.
'The game is about to start and this is Ringer's first Champions League start, although he played seven Champions League games for Bayern Munich last season and scored six goals, but he has never started in the Champions League before, and this game is Ringer's first start in the Champions League. In the Champions League game, Yang Ma has the copyright, and there is no doubt that this will be broadcast.
"Atletico Madrid have won two UEFA Cups and two UEFA Super Cups in the last four seasons, but their last Champions League was in the 09/10 season, and the last time Atletico Madrid won in the main leg of the Champions League was back in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage in 08/09, when they beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1 at home.
"Hopefully Ringer can lead Atletico Madrid to another Champions League victory today, but due to Diego Costa's ban, this game may not be easy to play."
Just looking at the Champions League results in recent years, Atletico Madrid really has no decent results, so Atletico Madrid's Champions League is not very optimistic.
When Ringer transferred to Atletico Madrid, many domestic fans didn't quite understand his approach, Bayern didn't wait for a universe team, and wanted to go to a second-rate team like Atletico Madrid, and the annual Champions League was afraid that if he reached the knockout round, he would have achieved his goal.
Fortunately, as soon as he came to Atletico Madrid, he beat Barcelona and won a Spanish Super Cup, and Ringer himself performed well, so this voice is much quieter.
Atletico Madrid's starting line is still a 442 formation,
Goalkeeper: Courtois,
Defenders: Juanfrán, Miranda, Diego Godin, Felipe;
Midfielders: Koke, Mario Suarez, Gabi, Alda Turan;
Forwards: Adrian, Ringer.
Adrian was a substitute in the team's forward line, having rotated with Diego Costa last season, but this season Costa has risen so quickly that he has been completely reduced to a substitute.
Zenit's side is a 433 formation,
Goalkeepers: Lodykin;
Defenders: Smolnikov, Lombeyec, Hubkan, Ansaldi;
Midfielders: Neto, Witsel, Hulk;
Forwards: Korzhakov, Danny, Ziyanov.
Witsel and Hulk are the most expensive in their team, Witsel originally transferred to Zenit for 40 million euros, and Hulk transferred for 50 million euros, which is more expensive than Ringer.
In two years, these two guys will have to go to the Super League to make money.
At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid kicked off first, the ball came to the front several times with its feet backwards, and Ringer took the ball on the left side to accelerate the lateral inward cut, and immediately took a long shot.
The ball was powerful and flew towards the goal at high speed, but he didn't hit the angle, and the opposing goalkeeper Lodykin didn't move much and got stuck in the ball's flight path, and then reached directly to get the ball, the ball smashed into his hand and fell out, but he quickly stepped forward to hold the ball again.
"Lin, he opened with a long-range shot that cut in, causing the opponent's goalkeeper to get out of his hands, but unfortunately Adrian didn't follow up in time, if Diego Costa and Lin were partnered, maybe he would have made up for it."
Zenit's current head coach is Italian Spalletti, who has led the Russian team to a big attacking football, even on the road, which means that the defense is not solid.
In the 17th minute, Atletico Madrid's quick counterattack, Ringer received Gabi's pass on the right side and inserted it from the ribs, and the opponent's Neto and Hubukan came to join forces to attack, but Ringer turned around in the gap, and a Marseille spin back.
"Beautiful~~ Lin's Marseille maneuver dodged the opponent's pinch!"
Ringer immediately pushed the ball to the left, Adrian received the ball and shot it wide.
"Oh~~Adrian~~ His shot choice was too bad, he was a little hasty in receiving the ball, and then that push shot was even more inaccurate."
"He doesn't seem to be able to find a tacit understanding with Lin, who created a chance with a beautiful Marseille maneuver, and then he wasted it!"
Although there was no tacit understanding between the two up front, Atletico quickly took the lead.
In the 35th minute, Turan broke through on the left side and passed to the feet of Ringer in front of the penalty area, who stopped receiving the ball and immediately got up and shot. Because he has already seen that the opposing goalkeeper seems to be standing a little off, this is an opportunity.
The ball went straight to the left side of the goal, but the opposing goalkeeper Lodykin was on the right, and it was too late for him to see Ringer hit the goal, Lodi King Kong stepped forward to make a save, and the ball had already gone in close to the left post.
"Lin~gooooool~~~ Lin, beautiful shooting, playing a tricky angle, their goalkeeper has no way at all!!"
Ringer jumped up and waved his fist excitedly to celebrate, but he didn't expect this kick to hit the goal at such a good angle, even if the opponent didn't make a mistake in positioning, it would greatly threaten his goal, let alone stand off like this.
'Ringer, this is his first Champions League goal for Atletico Madrid, he has only been with Atletico for two months, played seven games for the team, and has already scored in the league, the Super Cup and the Champions League.
Simeone also celebrated with his hands raised on the sidelines as he finally took the lead in his first Champions League game.
Today can only be four shifts for the time being, and I can't be busy. I'll make a note first, and I'll definitely make it up, otherwise there won't be a little JJ.