On December 15, in the 16th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid faced Valencia at home.

Valencia is a city that worships bats, and the Valencia Club has a bat on its crest, so the Valencia Club is also known as the Bat Legion.

In fact, Valencia's rival Levante, they also have a bat on their emblem, and they also call themselves the Bat Army, but Levante is not famous, and Valencia is a famous La Liga powerhouse, so people call Valencia more of the Bat Army.

Valencia is a well-known La Liga powerhouse, and under the leadership of Argentine Cooper, they reached the Champions League final two years in a row, but unfortunately they did not win the title. Later, under the leadership of tactician Benitez, he won two La Liga titles and a League Cup. It was because of his success in Valencia that Benitez was able to transfer to coach Premier League giants Liverpool, completing hellish tasks such as the Istanbul Miracle in his first year in the Premier League.

Now Master Bei is coaching upstart Napoli in Serie A, and this year's Champions League group stage scored 12 points and was eliminated, which is quite sad.

The Bat Army at the beginning of the century was indeed very strong, but in recent years, Valencia has not won any honours for many years, and last season even failed to qualify for the Champions League.

This season, the schedule has been played in a small half, Valencia is currently in 9th place in the standings, and most of this year it will not qualify for the Champions League.

Facing a not-so-strong bat army, Atletico Madrid played more aggressively at home.

Just one minute into the opening game, Koke crossed from the right side, and the opponent's defender Romeu cleared not far away, and Ringer came to an upside-down golden hook from the outside of the penalty area, but unfortunately he couldn't hang up the power and knocked the ball away.

5 minutes later, it was Gabi who sent a through ball in the middle, Ringer inserted the ball and started a step slowly, and after stepping forward, the opponent's Brazilian goalkeeper Alves had already come out, and Ringer had no time to take the ball to adjust, so he could only hurry up and shoot, but he was still blocked by the Brazilian with his foot out of the bottom line.

"Atletico Madrid are attacking strongly at home, and it will be difficult for the Bats to get out of Calderón." That's what the Spanish commentator set the tone for this match.

However, Valencia also had their share of counter-attacks, and in the 13th minute, they fired a long-range shot from outside the box that went just over the crossbar for the first time for the Bats.

However, between the two sides, the scene was actually deadlocked.

Atletico Madrid dominated the pitch and threatened every few minutes but were never able to find the back of the net. Valencia's defence was solid, they didn't make any mistakes and didn't give Atletico Madrid a good chance to score.

The Bat Legion was a well-known defensive team in Europe during the Cooper and Benitez periods, and now it has been many years since the coach has changed, but the defensive genes are still there, and they actually withstood the offensive of Atletico Madrid.

So at the end of the first half, although the number of shots on goal was 8:2, the score remained 0:0, and neither side could help anyone.

'In the second half we needed to be more efficient in attack, we needed to score goals and it was a chance to open up the scoreline. At halftime it was Simeone who said.

In the first match of this round of the league, Real Madrid drew 2-2 away to Osasuna, and only got one point. Yes, Real Madrid did draw away from home, they were two goals down in the first half, and Ramos was sent off with a red card, and they chased two goals in the second half to steal a point.

Therefore, as long as Atletico can win the game, the points gap with Real Madrid can be widened to 5 points. Real Madrid and Barcelona are the real rivals for the title at Atletico Madrid, and it would be good to be able to get rid of either one.

Although Barcelona's game has not yet started, their opponent in this round is the Yellow Submarine, and it is certainly not an easy game to pass.

What Atletico have to do now is to win their own game first.

At the start of the second half, Valencia's defence was solid and they seemed determined to cause problems for Atletico Madrid with their defence.

In the 49th minute, Ringer tucked the ball into the box after a one-two with Cork in front of the penalty area, and opposition defender Mathieu cleared the ball before Costa arrived.

In the 53rd minute, Ringer received the ball in the penalty area and turned to hit the goal, but was blocked again.

In this case, Ringer is also a little anxious, and this kind of long-term game is the most irritating. In the past, Atletico used this method to deal with others, but now it has become such a treatment by the other party.

In the 59th minute, Ringer received Gabi's ball on the right side of the front field and immediately accelerated to the opponent's penalty area.

The opposing full-back Barragan immediately came to the defense, and Ringer was forced to go to the bottom line step by step, and when he was about to be forced to near the baseline, Ringer couldn't help but return the ball with a strong kick and tried to sweep the ball towards the goal.

Barragan was also on the lookout for Ringer's pass, and as soon as Ringer raised his foot, he immediately raised his foot to block the pass. However, Ringer's pass was very powerful in an anxious situation, and after Barragan raised his foot, the ball rubbed against the lower edge of his calf, but it still rolled to the goal, and after being blocked by Barragán, the ball dropped just right, and Costa followed up in the middle just touched the ball, and the ball rolled into the opponent's goal.

"Costa~~ Costa's goal!!"

"The Sheets attacked for most of the pitch and finally went to score, and a strong break from the wing of Lin created a chance for Costa to score!!"

In fact, the goal was created by mistake, but it can help the team break through the opponent's defense and take the lead, and Ringer is a little more relieved.

After Atletico took the lead, Valencia's defence finally began to loosen a bit.

In the 63rd minute, Ringer received a pass from Cork in front of the penalty area, but no one came to force him. Valencia would not have given Ringer such a chance before, which shows that the opponent's mentality has changed after conceding the goal, and the defensive line is no longer so organized.

Such a good opportunity, Ringer will not let go.

Adjusting the step point under his feet, Ringer's thigh muscles tensed and swung his leg widely, and his right leg hit the ball like an iron whip, and he made a comfortable long shot.

"Lin ~~~ long shot from outside the penalty area !!"

Valencia's defender Parejo arrived too late to block and the ball flew past him and headed straight for the top right corner of the goal. The goalkeeper of the Bat Army, Alves, struggled to stretch but still couldn't reach the ball.

Bang~~!

The ball slammed into the underside of the crossbar and bounced into the back of the net.

“Gooooooool~~~~”

"Lin~~~ Lin's long-range shot broke the goal, and only 4 minutes later, Lin seized the opportunity again and helped the team expand the score with a powerful long-range shot!!"

"This is Lin's 46th goal, his 46th goal of the year in 2013, he has surpassed Messi in the number of goals scored this year, and is the second most goalscorer of the year, behind Ronaldo!!"

"Oh~~"

Ringer rushed to the edge of the pitch and yelled, he has been chasing goals in every game lately, but this one is the most aggrieved, and there is always a feeling that he can't use it, which makes him very upset. Now a comfortable strong long-range shot is finally vented.

2:0 lead, the next game was much better.

In the 72nd minute, Ringer received Gabi's cross in front of the penalty area, and the ball was stuffed directly into the penalty area without stopping, Costa received the ball in the penalty area and was brought down, and the referee gave a penalty.

Costa converted the penalty to complete his brace.

Ringer was substituted in the 78th minute, by which time the score was already 3-0, and there was no suspense in this game.

Simeone also sat back in the dugout, then called Ringer over and sat next to him.

"Lin, are you a little anxious?" Simeone said to Ringer: "I know you've been competing with the Swedes lately, but you have to keep your emotions in check, a moderate amount of excitement can help you stay in better shape, but being too excited can easily make you mentally unbalanced, out of shape, and easy to get injured. ”

"I'll take notice, Cholo!" Ringer replied earnestly.

Recently, he was competing with the Swedish high-swigs, and Ringer felt that he was indeed a little anxious.

He has experienced this situation of not being able to attack for a long time against a team with a tight defense, and he can be very calm every time.

But this time, in the face of a long-term situation, he was the first person in the team who couldn't hold his breath.

In other words, I am now more like a professional player, and I will have emotions in pursuit of goals and honors. In the past, Ringer felt that he was just playing happily, and any championship honors he won were all incidental.

While Ringer was cranky off the field, there was also a change on the field.

In the 86th minute, in the counterattack, Turan burst into the penalty area with the ball and was tripped down, and the referee gave a penalty again.

Costa came in and if it had been scored he would have completed his hat-trick, his first hat-trick of the season.

At the beginning of the season, Costa was the hottest performance of Atletico, but as he entered the middle of the season, Costa's form declined, and Ringer had already scored three hat-tricks, and he did not have one.

That sentiment may have affected Costa, who was so weak and weak that he was easily saved by the goalkeeper and then he was stunned and didn't get up to the end in time to make up the shot.

In this way, Costa missed a penalty, but it did not have much impact on the game, except for Costa himself who lost his first hat-trick of the season.

Ringer scored from distance and Costa scored twice as Atletico Madrid secured three points in a 3-0 home win over Valencia.

In other games in this round of La Liga, although Barcelona was stubbornly resisted by the yellow submarine at home, it still relied on Neymar's brace to win the score 2:1 with difficulty, and Atletico Madrid failed to get the opportunity to overtake Barcelona in points, but climbed to the top with a goal difference, which is the first time that Atletico Madrid has topped the table this season.

At present, in the standings, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid both have 43 points, and Real Madrid has only 38 points due to the loss of 2 points in this round, 5 points behind Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.