After 29 rounds of La Liga, because Barcelona defeated Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid temporarily led Barcelona Real Madrid by 5 points.

With nine rounds left in La Liga this season, Atletico Madrid is five points ahead of both teams, which is also a big advantage.

Messi, who scored a hat-trick, finally grabbed the headlines of the sports newspapers again, and this was his second hat-trick in a national derby. Barcelona have scored only two hat-tricks in the national derby, both of which were scored by Messi.

With two consecutive league hat-tricks, Messi is on fire again, and Atletico Madrid is also affected.

Because the quarterfinals of the Champions League are coming soon, Messi is suddenly in hot form, and Atletico Madrid, as Barcelona's opponent, will naturally be mentioned.

Carlo Ancelotti has also been on fire recently, his first season in charge of Real Madrid, he was beaten by Atletico Madrid and Barcelona in the league, and now many media are pointing the finger at Ancelotti, thinking that he failed to make Real Madrid play at the best level.

According to the newspaper As: Real Madrid spent more than 100 million in the summer to buy people, and if Ancelotti can't get a decent title, he will definitely be out of class at the end of the season.

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In the last two days, the hottest team in European football is Ringer's old club Bayern, who have won the title early under Pep Guardiola.

Winning the Bundesliga title seven games ahead of schedule surpasses Bayern's record of six games set last season, and Bayern are now on a 19-game winning streak in the Bundesliga, just one game away from Bayern's 20-game winning streak at the start of the season.

In short, in recent times, Bayern's name as the Cosmos team has resounded throughout Europe, and it is clear that it is heading for the defending treble.

Last week, Atletico got a week off, but from now on, Atletico will have to go back to the days of a double week.

In the middle of the week of March 26, which is also the day of the 30th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid hosts mid-table side Granada.

Now in the second half of the season, Ringer can clearly feel that his teammates seem to be getting tired.

This time, facing a team with no hope of relegation at home, Atletico Madrid actually played quite hard.

In the first half, the two sides exchanged scores, and although Atletico had a slight advantage, they never had a good way to break the goal.

In the 72nd minute of the second half, Turan created a well-placed free-kick in front of the penalty area, which was converted by Ringer, and it was the only goal of the game.

It was Ringer's fourth free-kick of the season, having netted just four of his nearly 40 appearances in all competitions this season.

Free kick is really not efficient, no wonder those who can score about 10 free kicks in a season are free kick masters.

Atletico scored at home from a free-kick by Ringer and finally got three points.

But in other matches in this round, Real Madrid actually dropped the chain.

Probably due to the defeat in the national derby, their morale was taken a hit, and they suffered their first second consecutive league defeat of the season with a 2-1 defeat away to Sevilla in this round of the league.

Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 3-0 at home, so in the current La Liga standings, Atletico Madrid has 77 points, Barcelona 72 points and Real Madrid 69 points.

Real Madrid are eight points adrift of the top of the table with eight rounds of fixtures remaining in La Liga, and according to Daily Sport: "Real Madrid have indeed withdrawn from this season's La Liga title race." ”

In the post-match press conference after Real Madrid's loss, Ancelotti still said stubbornly: "We can still win La Liga, because Atletico Madrid and Barcelona always lose points when they play weak teams." ”

Ancelotti's words are right, Real Madrid is the most stable team to score points on the weak team this season, they were beaten by Barcelona Atletico Madrid in a row, which is to lose 12 points, but before that, Real Madrid was able to keep biting the score, and it was only by losing fewer points on the weak team.

But now that he is getting farther and farther away from the La Liga championship, it is not appropriate for Ancelotti to come out and say this at this time, and he has been ridiculed by the Spanish media for this reason.

"Yes, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid will always drop points against weak teams, and Carlo Ancelotti can make Real Madrid face weak teams without dropping points, but when he faces strong teams, he can't get points at all."

'Carlo Ancelotti spent a season picking points against underdogs and now he's lost in two games.

In Barcelona's home victory, Messi scored another goal, and in the last three rounds of the league, Messi has frantically recovered 7 goals, and is about to attack the La Liga Golden Boot this season.

At present, 30 rounds of La Liga have been played, and Ronaldo ranks first in the scorer list with 27 goals.

Ringer has scored in quick succession of recent times, bringing his tally to 24, second in the rankings.

Costa has seen a noticeable drop in goals recently and is currently in third place with 23 goals.

Messi is in fourth place with 22 goals.

Next up are Alexis Sanchez and Karim Benzema, who have also scored more than 15 goals.

With eight league games remaining, the battle for the league's Golden Boot is still a possibility.

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After beating Granada at home, Simeone gave the team a day off, and he could clearly feel the fatigue of the team.

Of course, more importantly, the next half of Atletico Madrid's most tested month is approaching, and Simeone must get the whole team ready.

Ringer was in his apartment at this time watching a report from the newspaper Marca, titled "The Devil's Race of the Sheets Army."

"The Sheets picked up the three points in midweek thanks to a second-half free-kick from China Lin, but the team was so tired that Atletico Madrid fans might not be happy with the tough home game. But in fact, for the Sheet Army, the real devil's race has not yet begun. ”

"This week's weekend league fixture, Atletico Madrid will host Athletic Bilbao, followed by the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals in midweek, Atletico Madrid will go to Camp Nou to challenge Barcelona, and then return to Madrid, Atletico will host Villarreal, and then the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals."

'With two games against Barcelona, I'm sure everybody knows how difficult it can be, and Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal are tough characters to play against, especially at the end of the season.

"Since the beginning of this season, La Liga is Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid three competing for the league title, and in the European competition with a slightly lower degree of attention, Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal are also a fourth place, for a Champions League qualification, the two teams are also difficult to solve, from the beginning of the season has been competing until now, the two teams still have not been able to distinguish the winner, Athletic Bilbao has a slight advantage and occupies the fourth place for a long time, but Villarreal is also biting the score and has been waiting for the opportunity to overtake."

'Now that we're the end of the season, the Sheets need to play four games in a row against Barcelona and two Champions League qualifiers in two weeks, a schedule that no team wants to face.

"These two weeks will also be the most crucial two weeks of the season for Atletico. In the Champions League, Atletico Madrid are the underdogs and are more likely to be eliminated. ”

"In the league, although Atletico Madrid is 5 points ahead of Barcelona, if you are not careful in the two rounds of matches against Athletic Bilbao and Villarreal, you may be overtaken by Barcelona, and even only need to recover one game, which is very dangerous for Atletico Madrid, because in the last round of the league, Atletico Madrid will go to challenge Barcelona away, as long as Atletico Madrid's lead does not exceed 3 points at that time, Barcelona can beat Atletico Madrid to win the championship."

"In the course of these two weeks, if the Sheets are eliminated by Barcelona in the Champions League and overtaken in the league, Atletico Madrid, who have amazed for most of the season, will likely collapse and finally return to the old ways."

"The only good news for the Sheets is probably that three of these four games have been played in Calderón, and Atletico Madrid's unbeaten home record this season still stands."

I'll watch the finals later, and I'll have two shifts today, and I'll make up for it tomorrow.