Chapter 276: It's Messi's turn
The international break is coming to an end and Ringer is back in Spain to prepare for the game.
After another day of normal training, Ringer was stopped by several Chinese-faced fans as he drove to the training base.
"Ringer~~ is really Ringer~~"
Ringer got out of the car, and several people quickly gathered around.
"Hello everyone, I'm Ringer, it's nice to meet you." Ringer took the initiative to go up and say hello.
Ringer knew in advance that the five men were shareholders of the Eibar Club from China. In the summer, the impoverished Eibar sent a "hero post" to the world, selling shares to raise funds to participate in La Liga, and hundreds of people in China also bought a small number of shares to become shareholders of Eibar, and now Eibar Club has invited five shareholder representatives from China to come to La Liga to watch Eibar's game, and these are the lucky ones who were invited.
Of course, the so-called lucky ones also have a price, and the cost of a trip back and forth to Spain will cost 20,000 or 30,000 soft sister coins, which you have to bear.
And this kind of thing is naturally a topic of concern by the domestic sports media, and CCTV's "Sports Night" set up a shooting team to follow over to find news, and under their bridging, these five small shareholders will stay in Madrid for a day and meet Ringer, a Chinese star.
"Ringer, sign me."
"Boss Lin, can we go in and watch you train later?"
In fact, these five small shareholders are basically ordinary people, and they are no different from ordinary fans.
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On November 22, in the 12th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid faced Malaga at home.
Atletico Madrid lost 1:2 away to Real Sociedad before the national team game, and has been chased close by Real Madrid Barcelona, so Simeone is asking for this game to be won, and if you lose points this time, Atletico Madrid will lose the top position.
In the first two years of Malaga, there were many second-rate stars, but with the departure of the Middle Eastern tycoons, they were quickly beaten back to their prototypes and became a middle and lower level team. The only star in the current Malaga team is the 34-year-old veteran Paraguayan striker Santa Cruz, who played for Bayern Munich and Manchester City in his early years.
With such a team, it is difficult to cause problems for Atletico in Calderon.
In the 15th minute, Thiago's long-range shot gave Atletico Madrid the lead.
In the 33rd minute, after Ringer and Koke made a one-two, they broke through with the ball from the middle, and broke through the opponent's back Dalde into the penalty area.
In the face of Ringer's attack, the opponent's Brazilian defender Willidon hurried over to tackle, Ringer pulled the ball back with a keen button, and the Brazilian defender who couldn't stop sliding over and brought down another defender Sanchez, who was following up.
"Oh~~ Are Brazilians here to perform acrobatics in Calderón? His performance was just too clumsy. The Spanish commentator did not hesitate to laugh at the other party.
The opponent made Ringer form a single ball, and in the face of the opponent's half-attacking Cameroon goalkeeper Kameni, Ringer made a quick stop and changed direction to pass the opponent again, and then he could slowly push the ball into the net.
"Lin~~ Lin pushed past the opponent's goalkeeper and scored a goal, and the performance of Malaga's back line was quite poor."
Ringer's goal extended the score to 2-0, which was also the score at the end of the first half. Although Santa Cruz pulled a goal back early in the second half, Griezmann burst into the box and scored the ball to seal the win for Atletico Madrid.
In this way, Atletico Madrid defeated Malaga 3-1 at home to avoid two consecutive defeats and recover from the previous unexpected defeat to Real Mafia.
In other matches in this round, Real Madrid beat Eibar 4-0 away and continued to bite Atletico Madrid in the scoreline.
In this game, five "minority shareholders" from China watched the game at Eibar's home stadium and also pulled out some Chinese banners in support of the team, which is also a piece of news in this round of La Liga.
Ringer scored one goal in this round of the game, bringing the league's tally to 16, but Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in this round to reach 20 goals, stretching the gap to four.
However, the most watched in this round of La Liga is Messi, who scored a hat-trick in Barcelona's 5-1 home win over Sevilla, and is the fourth player to score a hat-trick this season after Ronaldo, Ringer and Neymar.
And the biggest topic is that Messi broke the all-time goal record in La Liga with this hat trick.
With 253 goals, this is the latest all-time La Liga goal record, breaking the record of 251 held by Athletic Bilbao legend Sala.
That is to say, from now on, every time Messi scores a goal in the future, it will be a new record in La Liga.
Messi set a new record and became a hot topic in major European media, and all kinds of figures were touting him, and Messi finally grabbed the headlines.
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After the league weekend, the fifth round of the Champions League group stage will soon be played in midweek, with Atletico Madrid hosting Olympiacos.
Olympiacos currently have four points from four group games in the Champions League, two points behind Juventus in front of them, and have every chance of qualifying for a place in the group, but only if they beat Atletico Madrid in this group stage.
For Atletico Madrid, as long as Olympiacos wins this round, you can lock the first place in the group one round in advance, so that you don't have to go away to Juventus to compete for the first place in the group in the last round, which is very good for Atletico Madrid, which has a tight schedule, so Simeone asked to go all out to win the game.
In the first round of the group stage, Atletico Madrid was away from Greece, but it was a thrilling draw to get 1 point, but now Atletico Madrid has been grinding back into shape, but not too afraid of the opponent.
That was exactly the case, and just nine minutes into the game, Ringer headed home from Juanfran from the right in the box to open the scoring.
Then in the 37th minute, Koke stepped forward to play with Griezmann and passed the ball into the box, Ringer stuck his position and turned to hit the goal, expanding the score to 2:0, and he also completed a brace.
'It was Ringer's first brace in the Champions League this season, and he has temporarily increased his tally to five goals in the Champions League this season.
Ringer scored twice to give his team a 2-0 lead, but Raul Garcia scored from distance just before half-time to extend the score to 3-0, and it was almost halftime for the game to be finished.
Soon after the start of the second half, Simeone began to make substitutions, and Ringer was also substituted in the 72nd minute, but Atletico still scored another goal in the second half, Godin headed home from a corner kick to extend the score to 4-0.
In this way, Atletico Madrid defeated Olympiacos 4-0 at home, which can be regarded as revenge for the last leg away.
Juventus didn't get anything to do in the other Champions League Group A fixture, beating Swedish side Malmo 2-0 away. In this way, after five rounds of the Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid locked the first place in the group with 4 wins and 1 draw with 13 points, Juventus locked the second place in the group with 3 wins and 2 losses and 9 points, followed by Olympiacos with 4 points and Malmo with 3 points.
Atletico Madrid and Juventus locked up the top two, and the final round of direct confrontation became a training game, an inconsequential game, but the two eliminated teams of Olympiacos and Malmo still have to fight for a group to finish third in the final round to participate in the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup.
In this round of the Champions League, Messi, who has just been on fire at the weekend, is on fire again, he scored a hat trick in the 4-0 away win over the Cypriot team Atletico Greek, a hat trick in two consecutive games, and this hat trick made Messi's total Champions League goals reach 74, surpassing Raul to become the first scorer in the Champions League history.
Since the beginning of this season, it has been Ringer and Ronaldo who have been constantly fighting, and the two are constantly competing, and it is logical that the two of them have been constantly mentioned by various media and newspapers.
Now two games, two hat-tricks, Messi has set two all-time goal records in La Liga and the Champions League, he has stood up and sworn his sovereignty, and now it is Messi's turn to grab the headlines.