Ringer suffered a strained outer thigh muscle during training, which quickly became a big news story in Spanish football.

In La Liga this season, Ringer is the fastest-rising star, although he is still difficult to threaten Melo's position, but many people admit that he is currently the most famous star in La Liga besides Melo.

For more than half a season, Ringer has been running quite a lot in every race, but he has always been healthy, and the Spanish media have begun to give him the title of Iron Man, and this time Iron Man is finally injured.

"Lin only has a slight thigh strain, and it only takes a week or two to heal, and it won't have much impact." This is a statement made by Atletico Madrid.

Ringer was injured but the game went on.

On January 29, in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, Atletico Madrid went to challenge Athletic Bilbao away.

Thanks to goals from Raul Garcia and Costa, Atletico beat the Basque Country 2-1 away and eliminated their opponents 3-1 on aggregate.

The day after the quarter-finals, the Spanish Football Federation organized the draw for the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.

This year's Copa del Rey semi-finals are, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Real Sociedad.

With Barcelona and Real Madrid both in place, Atletico Madrid has a half chance of drawing a strong team.

The result was very pleasing to see, Atletico Madrid drew Real Madrid, and the schedule was the first away and then the host.

Originally, as Simeone said, Atletico Madrid didn't have any important games lately, but now Real Madrid is drawn, this is the Madrid derby, and it is a very important game, and Ringer will be absent, at least the first leg.

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Two days after the Copa del Rey draw came out, another big event happened in Spanish football, when Luis Aragonés, the former head coach of the Spanish national team and known as the wise man, died in a hospital in Madrid due to a sharp deterioration of blood cancer.

Aragonés is not only an Atletico legend, but also the rise of Spanish football domination, and he led Spain to the European Championship in 08, which began the beginning of Spanish domination.

Aragonés' death immediately dominated the front pages of all the Spanish media, and Ringer's minor injury was of little concern.

On February 2, in the 22nd round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid faced Real Sociedad at home.

Before the start of the match, a tribute ceremony was held at the Calderón Stadium to commemorate Aragonés.

After mourning the famous legend, Atletico Madrid defeated Real Sociedad 4-0 in one fell swoop.

What's more, Barcelona and Real Madrid have made mistakes in this round.

Barcelona lost the game 3-2 at home by Valencia, while Real Madrid was held to a 1-1 draw by Athletic Bilbao away, and Ronaldo also received a red card for clashing with the opponent.

As a result, in the current La Liga standings, Atletico Madrid ranks first with 59 points, Barcelona and Real Madrid both have 54 points, and Barcelona relies on the advantage of winning and losing to overtake Real Madrid in second place.

Atletico Madrid's lead extended to five points, more than a match apart, which is already a big gap, and even the major European media have begun to pay attention to the big changes in the La Liga standings.

And Ronaldo's red card will be banned for several games, which is also a very concerned issue.

In La Liga, a red card can be appealed, and there are many precedents for appealing for the cancellation of suspensions.

But this time, when Ronaldo was sent off, he had a sarcastic action against the referee, which would make it impossible for his red card to be cancelled by appeal, and even be suspended, as for the additional suspension, this is also a matter of great concern to Atletico Madrid fans, because it is about to be the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey.

According to the current rules of the Spanish Football Federation, if a player is suspended for less than three (including three games) in domestic matches, the suspension will only apply to the same type of match. In other words, the suspension of the league is only the suspension of the league, and the suspension of the cup is only the suspension of the cup.

However, if a player is suspended for more than three games, the suspension will roam and all domestic games will be suspended together to achieve the goal of completing the suspension quickly.

So if Ronaldo is suspended for more than three games, then he can't appear in the Madrid derby of the Copa del Rey, and if he doesn't play more than three games, then he is only suspended from the league, and the Copa del Rey can continue to play.

Although he is a mortal enemy with Real Madrid, I believe that all Atletico Madrid fans will know how powerful Ronaldo is, and if he can not appear in the Copa del Rey, it will definitely be good news for Atletico Madrid.

Soon, the Spanish Football Federation announced the news that Ronaldo's red card itself was suspended for one game, and two more games were added because of the sarcastic referee, for a total of three suspensions.

The Spanish Football Federation is very good at playing, and it just happened to be stuck in the point of three games, so that Ronaldo can appear in the Madrid derby of the Copa del Rey that is being watched.

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On February 5, the day of the first leg of the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey in Spain, the whole Atletico Madrid team went to the Bernabeu to challenge Real Madrid.

Ringer has been off for a week and has already started to work on the acclimatisation according to the team doctor, although he was not in the squad for this game.

Although he can't play, he still has to go to the Bernabeu to support the team.

Before the start of the match, the two teams mourned Aragonés again.

However, after the start of the game, Ringer regretted coming to the Bernabeu to watch the game.

Because of Ringer's absence, Simeone switched to a 4231 formation at the Bernabeu, leaving Costa to play as a lone striker. In fact, in the last league game, Simeone used the 4231 formation, and the effect was not bad, beating Real Sociedad 4-0 at home.

But this time at the Bernabeu, Simeone's formation change did not work as well as it should.

Just 15 minutes into the game, Pepe's shot set the full-back Insua into an own goal.

Felipe, the main left-back in the last league game, was also injured, so this game brought Argentine Insua on the field, but I didn't expect him to "score" so quickly.

Own goals are only one aspect, and what is more troublesome is that Real Madrid played quite actively at the Bernabeu, threatening the Atletico goal in a row, while Costa was a little alone, completely lost in front of Real Madrid's tight defense, and could not threaten the Real Madrid defense at all, Casillas was too idle to doze off.

The first half barely held on, and did not allow the score to be extended again.

But at the start of the second half, Di Maria crossed from the left, and Real Madrid's recently popular demon Hesse stabbed the goal in the box.

Then, more than 10 minutes later, it was Di Maria's pass that forced Godin to own the goal.

At 3:0, the number on the scoreboard shows that Atletico Madrid suffered the biggest defeat of the season at the Bernabeu.

In fact, if it weren't for Simeone's thunderous on the sidelines at the last moment, constantly scolding, Atletico Madrid players did not hesitate to increase the number of fouls with yellow cards, and Real Madrid was also satisfied with the 3:0 score, and the score could even continue to be expanded.

Even the 3-0 score is enough for Atletico to lose hope of the Copa del Rey final.

Losing three goals away and not scoring an away goal is a difficult scoreline to turn around.

Ringer went to the pitch after the game to hug and comfort his teammates, and was immediately caught by Spanish reporters asking questions.

"Lin, you lost 0:3 away, do you have anything to say about this score?"

"3-0 is a tough scoreline, but we won't give up and we'll be an unbeatable team again when we come back to Calderón."

Although Ringer also knows that the Copa del Rey is mostly cold, and it is impossible to defend the Copa del Rey, he must not admit defeat.

"Will you play in the second leg of the semi-finals?"

"Of course, I'm actually almost healed from my strain."