Chapter 212: Six Consecutive Victories
On March 30, in the 31st round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid faced Athletic Bilbao at home.
This game is the start of Atletico Madrid's four consecutive devilish fixtures and, according to Simeone, we have to get off to a good start.
However, Simeone soon got off to a bad start.
Just five minutes into the game, the Basque side relied on a counter-attack to score Atletico Madrid through their striker Muniain.
"Just five minutes into the game, Athletic Bilbao scored against Atletico Madrid in Calderón. The Sheets have won five in a row in the league since beating Real Madrid at home, but they have been playing harder and tougher lately, conceding in the opening kick-off, and I think they are likely to drop points in this one. So says the Spanish commentator.
The opening situation made Simeone on the sidelines brow knotted and muttered unknown curses in his mouth, while Athletic Bilbao's manager Valverde, on the contrary, cheered loudly on the sidelines, unaffected by the boos of the Atletico fans in the stands.
Faced with such an opening, Atletico will undoubtedly start to organize a counter-attack.
In the 9th minute, Turan's through ball gave Costa a half-on-one chance in the box, but he was tackled by the opposition's new talented defender Laporte before he could hit the goal.
Amid Calderón's renewed boos, the referee insisted that the tackle had been made first, and there was no penalty.
'There was no problem with the referee's decision, it was a clean tackle and the Sheets couldn't get the penalty, but what's worse for them was that Costa seemed to be injured and now the doctor was in the game. The Spanish commentator was talking about the situation on the field.
Costa has been lying on the ground since he fell to the ground, and Atletico's team doctor soon came in. This time, Calderon was even more booed, did not get a penalty, and the star of the team was also tackled, and of course the Atletico fans did not do it.
In the first leg of this season's league game, when Atletico Madrid went to challenge Athletic Bilbao away, Turan was tackled away from home, and now there are players who are more tackles than the opponent, Simeone spat directly at Valverde on the sidelines: "Your players are a bunch of villains~~ bastards!! ”
Soon, Costa was taken to the sidelines for a check-up.
Ringer reckoned that it should not be a big problem, because the team doctor did not let Simeone make an immediate substitution, but the game will continue, and Costa can only be taken to the sideline for a check-up first.
Athletic Bilbao scored at the beginning, and Atletico Madrid's main striker was temporarily absent, and now they were completely on the ground and began to press Atletico Madrid in Calderón to launch continuous attacks.
Even after a few minutes, Costa was back on the pitch, but Athletic Bilbao was on the initiative.
In this way, Athletic Bilbao continued to dominate the offensive and seemed to have the meaning of being anti-guest in Calderón.
Costa was still active at the start of the game, but when he returned to the pitch after a tackle, he also became silent, which made the Basque even more proud.
The opponent is getting more and more aggressive, and Atletico Madrid is looking for opportunities with counter-attacks.
In the 27th minute, Gabi broke the ball in front of the penalty area and immediately pushed the pass, and Ringer received the ball on the left side of the half.
"Gabby breaks the ball, this is a chance for the Sheets to counterattack!!"
Ringer received the ball sideways and turned around with a wave of the momentum, immediately shook off the opponent's back Iturraspe, and quickly advanced along the left side, although the opponent still has two defenders in a parallel position with Ringer, but they are far away from the middle, and it is difficult to interfere with Ringer's advance for the time being.
After a quick forward of more than 50 metres into the opposition penalty area, Ringer was finally blocked, and their chasing defender Mikel San Jose finally chased back to get close to Ringer.
The opponent ran in the same direction as Ringer, and immediately put down his feet to put the tackle when he approached, but Ringer slid the ball hard, and then jumped up and down to avoid the opponent's tackle lightly.
"Lin~~~ beautiful dodge, enter the forbidden area!!"
After dodging the opponent, he immediately chased after the ball and faced the goalkeeper, Ringer did not hesitate to volley.
The ball headed towards the near post, flew past the thigh of the attacking goalkeeper, grazed the post and crashed into the net.
“Gooooool~~~~”
"Lin~~ It's Lingoal again!!"
"A beautiful long-distance counter-attack, he dribbled from his own half and crossed the pitch to help the Sheets equalise!!"
"Lingoal~~~Lingoal~~~" shouted neatly from inside the Calderón stadium, and Atletico Madrid continued to lead the standings thanks to Ringer's goal when Costa was no longer in form recently.
If it weren't for Ringer's successive goals to help pick up points, Atletico Madrid would probably have been caught up by Barcelona in the standings.
Ringer's goal also calmed down Athletic Bilbao a lot, and they began to slow down the tempo and battle with Atletico.
But in the 39th minute, Atletico still overtook the score.
Felipe dribbled up on the left and Ringer was on the left in front of the opposition box.
Felipe wanted to pass the ball to Ringer, but an opposing defender intercepted the pass, so he chose a lob for Ringer.
The ball was not fast when it was hoisted, and it landed on the side of Ringer's side near the middle of the court, and Ringer had an idea in his mind when facing the incoming ball, and when no defender arrived around him, he immediately turned around and swung his leg and hit the ball with his right foot.
"Lin ~~ received Felipe's pass ~~ turned and volleyed ??!"
The sudden turn hit the goal, and the ball went straight towards the far end of the goal, and the opponent's old goalkeeper Ilesos couldn't react at all, so he could only turn his head and watch the ball fly into his goal again.
“Goooooool~~~”
"World Wave ~~ Lin's Long Shot World Wave!!"
"Scored two goals~~ Lin scored two goals in the first half to help the Sheets Legion reverse the score!!"
Ringer just tried to meet the ball and turn to hit the goal, but he didn't expect to really hit a world wave, and he was quite excited, and immediately raised his hands in the stadium to greet the cheers of the fans and the celebration of his teammates.
"Such a turn to the ball with his back to the goal, this requires a pretty good sense of the ball, otherwise you can't even find the position of the goal. It can also be seen that Lin has been in pretty good form lately, which is certainly good news for the Sheets Army, who are on the Devil's schedule. ”
In this way, relying on Ringer's brace, Atletico Madrid temporarily reversed the score 2:1 in the first half.
At half-time, Simeone was happy with the scoreline, conceding the opening goal but reversing it in the first half.
It started to rain heavily in the stadium before the start of the second half, which was not good for both sides, but Atletico were the leading side and did not need to worry too much.
So Atletico took the initiative to slow down the tempo and control the ball, while Athletic Bilbao began to make substitutions after 70 minutes, trying to fight, but in the heavy rain in Madrid, they couldn't play a decent attack at all.
"At the end of the game, although the Sheets conceded a goal in the opening game, they relied on Lin's brace to turn the game around, get three points at Calderón, and at the same time make it six consecutive league wins."
At the end of the game, the whole Atletico team cheered in the heavy rain, and every game of Atletico has been really difficult lately, and it is quite a joy to win every one.
And Athletic Bilbao, who lost, didn't seem so sad.
It turned out to be a simultaneous match when their rivals Villarreal were held to a 1-1 draw at home by relegation-relegated Elche. Originally, Athletic Bilbao was 2 points ahead of the Yellow Submarine, but this Athletic Bilbao lost, but the opponent only got a draw, so the Basque team can still maintain the fourth place in the league, but the lead has become 1 point.
The rest of the round ended with Barcelona beating Espanyol 1-0 in a local derby, with Lionel Messi scoring the only goal of the game.
Real Madrid also thrashed Rayo Vallecano 5-0 at home, with Cristiano Ronaldo also scoring a goal.
The gap in the standings is still unchanged, but in the La Liga scorer list, Ringer is chasing a one-goal gap.
At present, Ronaldo has 28 goals, Ringer has 26 goals, and Messi and Costa have both 23 goals.