Chapter 271: Top of the list

After a comfortable 5-0 win at home in the Champions League, Atletico Madrid is about to prepare for the league.

"The next round is very important for us, it is a good chance for us to get to the top of the table~~~" Simeone showed his ambition for this game in training.

Atletico Madrid's next game is away to Getafe, which can be regarded as a Madrid derby, but the most important thing is that there will be a key battle in the next round of La Liga, Real Madrid hosts Barcelona in another Spanish national derby.

Atletico Madrid has been entangled with Barcelona in the standings for several rounds, but it is Barcelona who have the advantage of goal difference and are at the top of the table, and in this round of games, if Barcelona concedes points at the Bernabeu and Atletico Madrid succeeds in winning the game, they can overtake Barcelona and climb to the top of the standings.

Real Madrid have won eight of their three Champions League games and five league games since two consecutive league defeats, so it can be said that when the national derby arrives, Real Madrid will definitely go all out to win the game at home.

And Real Madrid did not dare to lose this game, now Real Madrid is 4 points behind Atletico Madrid Barcelona, if the country loses the derby, it will be 7 points behind Atletico Madrid Barcelona. According to the Spanish media, if Real Madrid loses to Barcelona at the Bernabeu in this game, Ancelotti may not survive the winter break.

Therefore, in all aspects, the probability of Barcelona losing points at the Bernabeu is still relatively large, and Atletico Madrid only needs to win their own games, and there is a high possibility of reaching the top of the table. And even if Barcelona succeeds in winning Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid can't reach the top of the table if it wins, it can continue to bite the score, and wait for the opportunity to overtake in the future, and at the same time open the gap with Real Madrid.

Of course, this national derby also has a special significance for Messi, who has scored 250 career La Liga goals after scoring in the last round of the league, just one goal away from the most goals in La Liga history.

Athletic Bilbao legend Sarah, who scored a total of 251 La Liga goals in his 15 seasons with the Basque team, is the most in La Liga. This record has been held for 64 years, and now Messi is close to it, and it is only a matter of time before it is broken.

So in this national derby, Messi only needs to score one goal to tie the record, and two or more goals, which can set a new record.

And Suarez, the target of the European transfer market this season, has finally ended his ban and will make his La Liga debut in this national derby. Su Ya should also have a long memory, where are you biting people, you have to bite in the World Cup, a competition that attracts the attention of the world?

In the past, he was banned for more than three or five games, but this World Cup became famous and was directly banned from the world for several months.

Combining these factors, the Spanish media have been hyping the national derby recently, whether Real Madrid will continue to win in a row, Barcelona will beat Real Madrid again, or even Messi will create a new historical record.

Of course, Real Madrid is certainly not willing to let Messi break the record on his head, according to the newspaper "As", Florentino has offered a high winning bonus for this game, and at the same time issued a death order, not only to win the game at home, but also to keep a clean sheet Messi.

In short, no one can stop Messi from breaking the record, but Florentino will never allow him to break the record on the head of Real Madrid.

And the Catalan media is also deliberately hyped: "If Messi breaks the record in the national derby, the Spanish Football Federation should immediately suspend the game and give Messi an award~~~"

Football is about continuity, and no matter how good a record you are, you can't say that you have stopped the game to give awards to the players, and the Catalan media knows that, but they just want to humiliate Real Madrid.

Now the whole of Spain is hyping up the national derby, and what Atletico Madrid has to do is to win their own games and make a fortune.

October 26, the 9th round of La Liga.

The national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona starts at noon, so even if they go to the suburban town of Getafe, the whole Atletico team is watching the game at the Bernabeu.

The result was not too much beyond everyone's expectations, although Barcelona opened the scoring at the Bernabeu with Su Ya's assist for Neymar's goal, but before the end of the first half, Marcelo made a low pass, Pique flew to the ground like a goalkeeper to hold the ball, and gave Real Madrid a penalty in a creative and funny way. Pi saw through it probably because he was not at ease with his goalkeeper Bravo, and deliberately made a demonstration of saving the ball.

Real Madrid relied on Cristiano Ronaldo to equalize from the penalty spot, and in the second half, Pepe and Benzema scored back-to-back goals to seal the win.

Real Madrid not only managed to beat Barcelona at home, but also managed to keep a clean sheet against Messi, not allowing Messi to break the record at the Bernabeu.

"Well, now that we know the results of the game over there, it's time for us to make a difference. Although Barcelona lost and we only needed one point to get to the top of the table, our goal was to win, and anything other than three points would be a failure for us! "Before the start of the game, Simeone was doing the pre-match mobilization.

Getafe were clearly not going to allow Atletico to take points on their own turf and they played well at home, and after an opening tug-of-war, they hit the Atletico crossbar with a long-range shot in the 15th minute before forcing a flying save from Moya.

And with the bonus of the home atmosphere, Getafe's defense has also done well, and Atletico have not been able to create too many chances for a long time.

In the 40th minute, Ringer received a pass from Turan in front of the penalty area on the left, continuously dribbled horizontally, dodged the opponent's backs and defenders, and then volleyed with his right foot, and the ball flew into the opponent's goal from the bottom right corner of the goal.

Thanks to Ringer's goal, Atletico returned to the dressing room with a score of 1-0, and Simeone was quite happy with the result.

In the 51st minute of the second half, Ringer broke through with the ball, making the opponent's central defender Alexis foul, because this guy had a yellow card on Griezmann in the first half, and the next two yellows turned into one red and was sent off, and Atletico Madrid won the game more steadily.

Ringer wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the opponent to play one less player to continue to score two goals, but the opposing coach reacted quickly and immediately made substitution adjustments, making plans to win less losses.

In this case, in the 77th minute, Ringer received a cross from Griezmann in the penalty area and volleyed directly to the ball. The opposition goalkeeper Guaita reacted quickly and knocked the ball out with both hands sideways, but he was unlucky enough to save the ball right in front of Ringer, who then went up and stabbed the ball with his left foot to complete the brace.

In the following time, Ringer could not find any more opportunities to score, and the score was fixed at 2:0.

At the end of the game, the Sheets relied on Lin's brace to beat Getafe 2-0 at the Estadio Alfonso Pereira to make it eight league wins in a row. With this victory, Atletico Madrid also overtook Barcelona in the standings and occupied the top of the La Liga standings with 25 points. ”

Except for Atletico's first unexpected draw by Rayo Vallecano in the first game of the season, Atletico have won eight consecutive league games, not far from the longest ten-game winning streak in the team's history.

After nine rounds of La Liga, Atletico Madrid won 8 and drew 1 with 25 points, occupying the top spot in the standings for the first time after one round, followed by Barcelona with 22 points and Real Madrid with 21 points.

On the scorer list, Ringer scored twice in this round, but Ronaldo also had a goal, and Ringer only recovered a goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer with 16 goals, Ringer is second with 14 goals, Neymar with 9 goals and Messi with 7 goals in fourth.