Chapter 173: Aragonés

The 10th round of La Liga is coming, and the Spanish media has the object of hype again, and the Spanish national derby is here again.

Real Madrid will travel to Barcelona for another year of the national derby, a match that the whole world is watching.

However, for Atletico Madrid, this is a good opportunity to climb to the top of the table, with Barcelona currently in first place only one point ahead of Atletico Madrid, and their slight miss in the national derby against Real Madrid is a good chance for Atletico to reach the top.

"Now is a good opportunity for us to gain an advantage, no matter who they win or lose, we can open up a gap to one of them, so we have to win this game!" These were Simeone's words in the dressing room before the game.

"Welcome to our new generation of super strikers ~~~Lin~gol~~~"

"Oh~~!"

As Ringer entered Calderón with the whole team, there was a loud cheer from the audience.

The hat-trick in the Champions League is the second in the team's history, and he has become the player with the most goals in a single season in the team's history. It was Ringer's first home game since scoring a Champions League hat-trick and many Sheets fans came to Calderon to cheer him on.

Ringer first went to the sidelines to meet Atletico Madrid's legend - Aragonés.

Aragonés was the first player in Atletico's history to score a hat-trick in the Champions League, leading Atletico Madrid to a Champions League final and the only player to have scored for Atletico in a Champions League final.

Although he is not a very efficient striker, scoring only four goals in a single season in the Champions League, he is a true Atletico Madrid man who has spent most of his playing career with Atletico Madrid.

Atletico Madrid was upset and relegated in the 99/00 season, and then relegated to La Liga in the first year after not being promoted back, so Aragonés, who was coaching the then La Liga powerhouse Real Mallorca, voluntarily resigned and recommended himself to lead Atletico Madrid to promotion.

There are many teams in Europe with a glorious history, all of which were unable to be promoted back quickly after an unexpected relegation, and their ambitions were worn out after three or two years in the lower league, and since then they have become a real low-level team, and their fans can only recall the glorious history of those years while looking at old photos.

Aragonés, who was already a Spanish coach at the time, knew this and returned to coach Atletico, who could not accept his favourite team continuing to spend time in the lower leagues, and he did it, bringing Atletico back to La Liga in his first year.

Now 75 years old, long retired at home and battling cancer, Aragonés is emaciated, with only a few sparse gray hairs left on his head. Atletico Madrid invited Aragonés to watch the game because of Ringer's Champions League hat-trick, which was also a tribute to Ringer.

"Kid, keep up the good work, you can lead this team to more brilliant achievements!" Aragonés said as he touched Ringer's head with his trembling hand.

Atletico Madrid's opponent in this round is Real Betis, who finished 7th in La Liga last season, but since the beginning of this season, Betis has a poor record, with only 2 wins and 2 draws in 9 league games, and is currently on the verge of the relegation zone.

Facing such a team at home, Atletico opened the game with a pressure on the attack.

Gabi kicked the ball off, and Thiago kicked it twice and then passed to the feet of Ringer, who took the ball and accelerated to shake off the opponent's midfielder Matila, and dribbled the ball from the middle to force a force into the penalty area.

'Lin, he dribbled the ball in the middle and got past two defenders, and the rest of Betis was completely drawn in and they had to come with three people to cover Lin.

Ringer burst through the middle to draw a defender and split the defence, so he distributed the ball to Koke on the right, who crossed into the box and Oliver Torres, who followed on the left, easily pushed the empty net.

“Gooooool~~~~”

"In just half a minute of the opening game, the Sheets broke through the opponent's goal, Lin broke through with the ball in the middle to create a chance, and finally the young player who rotated Turan Torres completed the goal!"

This opening assault did catch the opponent off guard, and then Atletico completely took the initiative.

In the fifth minute, Ringer received a ball from Thiago and fired a long-range shot from the right into the side-netting.

In the 11th minute, Juanfran assisted a wide cross and Diego Costa headed wide.

In the 14th minute, in the counterattack, Costa broke through with the ball in the penalty area and got the opportunity to face the goalkeeper, but the final shot was missed, and he complained to the referee that the opponent's goalkeeper touched the ball, but the referee didn't think so.

At that time, Ringer thought that Costa was not in control of the ball, and he missed the ball and wanted a corner.

But 5 minutes later, Ringer also got a chance, Gabi and Koke cooperated in front of the penalty area and stuffed into the penalty area, Ringer took the ball and turned to get rid of the defender who followed the defense and pushed it, the opponent's Argentine goalkeeper Sala reacted quickly, rushed out to hold the ball, and didn't even give a corner kick to Atletico Madrid.

Ringer thought that it was enough to deal with a goalkeeper of the other party's level who was not known at the same level, but he didn't expect that the opponent seemed to be able to resolve this shot easily.

It seems that he is a goalkeeper who is suddenly in full form, but Atletico Madrid has already scored a goal in the opening game, and there is no need to rush at all.

In this way, the opposing goalkeeper made several saves that he resisted, and really continued to keep the goal without conceding a goal.

The game quickly reached the 42nd minute, and the first half was almost over, the score was still 1:0, and Atletico Madrid had been unable to extend the score despite dominance.

This time, Ringer won the ball on the left side of the field and took a step sideways from the edge of the penalty area to shoot from a distance.

This time Ringer was a long-range shot in pursuit of angle, and the ball flew towards the center of the goal with a lot of power on the inside of the instep, and then suddenly deflected sharply halfway through and flew quickly towards the top corner of the goal on the left.

This time, the Argentine goalkeeper did hit the trick, and he did not make the first save according to the goal route, but waited until the ball arc began to deflect to the left.

Even so, the opponent almost saved the ball, and Ringer's shot grazed the top left corner of the opponent's fingertips.

“Gooooool~~~”

"Lin~~Lingoal~~ He hit a beautiful long-range shot world wave! The angle was quite good, and finally broke through the opponent's goal, and the Argentine goalkeeper could no longer save this shot! ”

Just before half-time, Ringer hit a beautiful long-range shot to extend Atletico's lead.

But at the beginning of the second half, the opponent actually changed the goalkeeper, and the Argentine who was in excellent form in the first half was gone, but replaced by the substitute goalkeeper, Danish Anderson.

Ringer thought to himself that the guy might have been injured. In this kind of sudden state, some players can't control their emotions and keep performing desperately, and then accidentally injure themselves as soon as they use too much force in a certain action.

The new Dane, who was clearly not in as good form as the Argentine, scored on the first attempt.

In the 52nd minute, Gabi won the ball in the middle of the field and made a long pass to the left side of the field, after Koke and Felipe combined with one-two, Felipe crossed with his feet, and Ringer grabbed in front of the opposing defender Pax in the middle and rubbed the header.

The ball flew past the new goalkeeper Anderson, and the opponent pounced to block it, and the ball had already passed in front of him, and flew into the back of the goal after a small bounce.

“Gooooool~~~”

"Lingoal~~ It's him again!! A light header, it was an easy goal! ”

"It's a typical counter-attacking goal for the Sheets, taking advantage of the lack of defence in the counter-attack, creating good one-on-one opportunities for the strikers, and in one-on-one encounters, the strikers always have an advantage over the defenders."

"Lin has scored twice now after scoring a Champions League hat-trick in midweek and he's been in really good form lately!"

The score of 3-0 was enough to seal the victory, but it was soon up for Costa to extend the score.

In the 65th minute, Betis was still in the final struggle, or wanted to score a face goal, Godin broke the ball at the back, Ringer took the ball and advanced quickly, to the front of the field and distributed it to Felipe on the left, Felipe crossed in front of the goal, Diego Costa's follow-up volley into the net, and the score became 4:0.

This time, Atletico Madrid slowed down the pace with peace of mind, and the opponent did not have too many thoughts of counterattacking.

However, in stoppage time, Adrian, who had replaced Costa, had a long-range shot saved, the ball bounced back into the penalty area, and the follow-up Gabi fired another shot to send the ball into the Betis goal for the fifth time.

"5:0, the Sheets played a big score, scoring 9 goals in the last two games against their opponents without conceding a goal, and their Chinese striker Lin scored 5 of them."