Chapter 263: Greece Away

After beating Real Madrid in the league at the weekend, Atletico are gearing up for their first Champions League game of the new season.

Atletico are the reigning champions of the Champions League and their opening game in the Champions League is naturally in the spotlight.

Atletico Madrid are going to Greece away to take on the Greek Premier League overlord Olympiacos.

Olympiacos reached the knockout stages of last season's Champions League and caused a lot of trouble for Manchester United in the round of 16, beating Manchester United 2-0 at home in the first leg, which made Manchester United very passive for a while, but was eventually reversed by Manchester United to advance.

So in the face of such an opponent, Atletico Madrid just had a big game with Real Madrid at the weekend, so the Atletico Madrid coaching staff did not dare to be careless at all.

Early in the morning of September 16, the whole Atletico Madrid team boarded a plane to Athens and went to Piraeus, a seaport near Athens, where they challenged the Greek overlord Olympiacos.

Although Olympiacos is the Greek hegemon, they are not competitive enough in the Champions League, if they are placed in a slightly simpler group, they may still fight for a place in the group, but this season they are placed in a group with Atletico Madrid and Juventus, and it will be difficult for Olympiacos to try to qualify from the group again.

However, they are not without opportunities, and last season Turkey's Galatasaray managed to squeeze Juventus out of the same group as Real Madrid and Juventus. Olympiacos probably has the same dream of squeezing Juventus or Atletico Madrid out, so they will certainly try to pick up points on their home turf.

Of course, being able to be in the same group as last season's Champions League winners, this home game against Atletico Madrid is also worth looking forward to for Olympiacos fans, who can meet Europe's top teams and stars at home.

As the evening game was about to begin, Ringer followed the team into the stadium and saw a large banner inside the stadium - the red and white derby.

Olympiacos, like Atletico Madrid, is also a team with a red and white home jersey, so in this match, the Greek fans raised themselves and played the slogan of the red and white derby.

It wasn't until the start of the game that Atletico realized that it was a really derby, and the Greeks fought quite hard.

Just five minutes into the game, Cork was elbowed in the face and his nose was broken and bleeding a lot, which sparked a skirmish between the two sides.

In the 12th minute, Olympiacos relied on a corner kick opportunity, and the opponent's French full-back Masuaku scored in front of the goal and took the lead in Atletico Madrid's goal.

In the 30th minute, the opposing Argentine midfielder Dominguez broke through on the left side and crossed, the center Mitroglou missed, Miranda was caught off guard and made a mistake, stopped the ball directly at the feet of the opponent's Dutch striker, "assisted" the opponent to score a single goal, and Olympiacos expanded the score to 2:0.

In this way, Atletico Madrid fell behind 0:2 in the first half of the away game in Greece.

"As the defending champions, Atletico Madrid suffered a stubborn sniper in Greece away, and currently lost 0:2 to Olympiacos at half-time, and Atletico Madrid's Champions League journey in the new season may be difficult to get off to a good start." Commentators from all over the world are talking about what happened to Atletico Madrid.

In the middle of the away dressing room, Ringer looked at his stats.

User: Unknown

Age: 23

Body Values(83)

Strength: 16

Speed: 16 (*)

Stamina: 20

Flexible: 16

Bounce: 15

Technical Values(84)

Dribbling: 17

Passing: 17

Vision: 18

Archery: 17

Defense: 15

Potential: 79.4%

Current status: 66

Recently, due to a holiday in between, Ringer was basically resting during the vacation, and the data during this period did not increase much, only 1 point of physical data, which he added to the bounce.

On the other hand, technical statistics increased by 2 points, and dribbling and passing increased by 1 point each.

But his form today is only 66, which is not a high number.

On the one hand, he played a city derby at the weekend, which was more physically exertional, and on the other hand, Ringer himself was consciously adjusting himself to make himself better at playing in the league.

To put it simply, Ringer feels that in the first half of the season, the team's Champions League group stage should have no problem, he should focus more on the league, and strive to gain some advantages in the league, as long as the Champions League can qualify, there will be no problem, and in the second half of the season, the Champions League will enter the knockout round, that is the time to put more energy into the Champions League.

In such a situation, Ringer's own form was not very good, and his team-mates were a little tired after the derby at the weekend, so the team suffered a blow in the game in Greece.

At the beginning of the second half, Atletico Madrid immediately made a substitution, replacing Gabi with Raul Garcia, intending to strengthen the attack.

In the 61st minute, Atletico Madrid's attack finally paid off, Koke split the ball in the middle, Argentine Ansaldi inserted an assist on the side to get a cross, Ringer followed up in the middle and turned around, dodged the opponent's defender and hit the goal directly, the ball flew into the lower right corner of the goal, and Atletico Madrid finally pulled one back.

"Lin~~ Lin helped the Sheets pull back a goal, this is the first Champions League goal of Atletico Madrid in the new season, or Lin will complete it."

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and in the 71st minute, the opponent relied on counterattack opportunities, and center forward Mitroglou scored with a header to extend the lead to two again.

'The in-form Sheets suffered another blow and the Greeks extended their advantage to two goals.

"It's okay, we still have enough time, we still have a chance to win the game, don't worry!" Ringer also had to stand up and cheer for the team, if he couldn't stabilize the situation at this time and make some mistakes on his own, then there would really be no chance in this game.

It took a few minutes for Atletico to calm their morale before launching a counter-attack.

After all, the overall strength is much stronger, and as long as Atletico can play its strength, it will be difficult for the opponent to parry.

In the 82nd minute, Cork splayed through the ball and Ringer's shot won a corner for the team. From this corner, Raul Garcia headed home and Atletico pulled one back.

In the 87th minute, Ringer took the ball on the right side, broke through the opponent two in a row and knocked it horizontally, Griezmann received the ball in the penalty area and pushed the goal, and Atletico finally equalized.

Although Ringer wanted to help the team continue to reverse the score, he could not find a chance in the last few minutes under the opponent's strict defense.

"At the end of the game, the Sheets played a goal shootout away from home with the Greek team, and the two sides ended up drawing 3-3 with one point each, which should be an acceptable result for both sides."

For Atletico Madrid, although it is a bit regrettable that they failed to win the first Champions League game of the new season, it is not bad to be able to finally equalize after falling behind by two goals.

As for Olympiacos, they are more than comfortable with a point against the defending champions.

As soon as the full-time whistle blew, there were huge cheers in the stadium, and for Olympiacos fans, it was quite a good result to be able to pick up a point at home to Atletico Madrid.

At the end of this round of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid drew 3:3 with Olympiacos away, which was a small upset. Olympiacos beat Manchester United 2-0 at home last season, so it wasn't too much of an upset to face Atletico away from home.

Atletico Madrid's other group match, Juventus beat Swedish side Malmo 2-0 at home, which was a relatively normal result.

In other matches in this round, Real Madrid beat Basel 5-1 at home and Barcelona beat Atletico Greece 1-0 at home, and Atletico Madrid became the only team in the top three of La Liga to fail to pick up three points.

The other side in La Liga, Athletic Bilbao, drew 0-0 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, and the Basques' Champions League journey has not been smooth.

In the two key battles that attracted more attention in this round, Dortmund defeated Arsenal 2-0 at home, Bayern Munich defeated Manchester City 1-0 at home, and the Bundesliga beat the Premier League in the first round.