Chapter 280: Barcelona falls behind
On December 12, in the 15th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid faced the yellow submarine at home.
In order to facilitate Atletico Madrid to go to Morocco to participate in the Club World Cup next, this round of La Liga matches, Atletico Madrid was arranged to be played at the earliest.
2014 should be the happiest year for Sheets fans, the team has won the Champions League, La Liga, UEFA Super Cup and Spanish Super Cup so far, a total of four trophies, if they continue to win the Club World Cup, Atletico Madrid will achieve the annual five crowns, which is definitely the best season in the history of Atletico Madrid.
This round of La Liga will be Atletico Madrid's last home game in 2014, and the opponent is not very easy to deal with with the yellow submarines, so this game, the Calderón stadium was completely filled, and the fans of the Bed Army flocked to the stadium to support the team, and also saw off the team to go to the Club World Cup immediately.
"We must win this game, continue to put pressure on our competitors, win this game, and we will continue to lead the standings at least in this round~~~" Simeone was doing pre-match mobilization.
As Atletico Madrid is about to participate in the Club World Cup, the next round of the league will be absent, and Real Madrid, which is only one point behind Atletico Madrid, has a high probability of temporarily surpassing Atletico Madrid to the top of the standings. But that's also the next round, and Atletico Madrid will definitely try their best to win the game in this round and not give Real Madrid a chance to overtake.
Villarreal are not an easy opponent to play against, sitting sixth in the table, just three points off the Champions League zone and, like Atletico Madrid, are on their way with three consecutive league wins, and they certainly won't be disarmed easily at the Stade Calderón.
"Welcome to our Super 8~~~Lingoal~~~"
"Roar~~~"
As Ringer came out of the tunnel, led by the stadium DJ, Calderón erupted in a shocking shout.
The stadium first shouted Ringer's name, but after shouting for a while, I don't know if it was premeditated, and the slogan actually began to change.
"Ronaldo stupid~~Ronaldo is mentally handicapped~~"
"CTM's Real Madrid~~~"
Somehow, the slogan became this attack on Ronaldo Real Madrid.
The Villarreal players who were standing in the stadium preparing were all confused, could it be that we had crossed over, we had become Real Madrid players and were participating in the Madrid derby?
Ringer was also a little speechless.
Recently, Ringer is competing with Ronaldo for the Ballon d'Or, according to the opinion of Atletico Madrid fans, Ringer's performance this year should have won the award without a doubt, but Ronaldo is backed by the big tree of Real Madrid and is constantly doing things.
Atletico Madrid has never had Mr. Ballon d'Or in its history, and now Ringer is expected to be the first, and Atletico Madrid fans are overwhelmingly supportive of Ringer, which is why there is this kind of scolding of Real Madrid and Ronaldo.
However, scolding the other party like this, I am afraid that after the game, I will not be punished.
Although there were some minor accidents, the game still had to go on normally.
After the start of the game, Villarreal did a good job in Calderón's defense, and did not give Atletico any chance in the entire first half, which also quieted down the Atletico Madrid fans who had danced and sang in the stands and scolded Real Madrid Ronaldo.
However, at the start of the second half, Atletico quickly found a chance.
"Griezmann's missed ball ~~~ Lin's good chance!!"
In the 49th minute, Juanfran took the ball and inserted a diagonal pass, Griezmann consciously and cleverly leaked the ball at the front point, Ringer killed from the back point, received the ball in the penalty area, changed direction to the left, and then pulled the ball back, successfully dodged the opponent's two defenders, and immediately kicked the ball to the right half a step and immediately kicked the goal.
The ball flew towards the goal on the turf, not too awkward, and goalkeeper Asenjo made a save, but before he could hit the ground, the ball flew into the net.
“Gooooooal~~~~”
"Lin~~ Lin's goal!! The Yellow Submarine managed to hold on for half of the game, but it was Lin who stepped up to help the Sheets take the lead! ”
Ringer's goal finally got Calderón's cheers high, and the voices of those who scolded Real Madrid began to appear.
Atletico Madrid took the lead, but Villarreal weren't going to give in and they made quick substitutions.
In the 64th minute, their new midfielder Moy Gomez sent in a second-second pass to assist their Argentine striker Vietto, who equalised for Villarreal.
"The Sheets were just 15 minutes ahead to equalise and the yellow submarine didn't mean to make it easy for Atletico Madrid."
After the equaliser, the Yellow Submarine was clearly more defensive-oriented, and they probably felt that it would be acceptable to pick up a point away from Atletico. And they did a really good job defensively this time, limiting Atletico's attack most of the time.
"The game has entered the 80th minute, the Bed Legion still can't find a chance to score, if this score is maintained until the end, then Real Madrid may rise to the top of the table in this round, because their opponent in this round is Almeria, who are not very strong, and it should not be a problem to win the game." The Spanish commentators are also starting to set the stage for a draw.
But as soon as they finished speaking, Atletico found an opportunity.
In the 84th minute, Gabi passed the ball forward in the midfield, Ringer ran forward to the opponent's penalty area, although he had a chance to receive the ball, but he was also followed by the opponent's Russian midfielder Cheryshev, and there were defenders not far away who were ready to come and intercept him.
In this case, Ringer went up to the path of the ball, but did not receive it, but pretended to catch the ball, but actually raised his foot to step on the ball, let the ball stop in place, and continued to run towards the opponent's penalty area.
Ringer's surprise success made the opponent turn their attention to him, he took the defenders away, but the ball remained in place, and Koke, who followed in time, took the ball and took a step forward, and distributed the ball to the left side of Griezmann at the edge of the penalty area, Griezmann then dribbled the ball to the bottom, you use the width of the pitch to tear the opponent's defense wider apart, and then reversed the triangle pass.
This series of passing cooperation directly made the Villarreal players dizzy, and for a while many people didn't even know where the ball was transferred. Taking advantage of the opponent's defensive trance, Ringer inserted in the middle of the penalty area, and in the face of Griezmann's inverted triangle pass, Ringer volleyed the ball with full strength and directly pumped the ball into the top left corner of the opponent's goal.
“Gooooool~~~~”
"Beautiful passing cooperation~~~ The Sheets Army played a very beautiful tactical coordination, Lin and Coke and Griezmann had a tacit understanding, and they tore through the defense of the yellow submarine, which was a very wonderful tactical goal!!"
"Lin scored a brace and he helped the Sheets take the lead again!!"
Not only was it beautiful, but it was also a goal that helped Atletico Madrid exceed the score, and it was likely to be a stunning goal, and the Calderón Stadium was boiling in an instant, and the whole stadium was cheering.
In the following time, Atletico Madrid contracted the defense and managed to hold on to a 2-1 scoreline.
Ringer scored twice as Atletico Madrid struggled to win the Yellow Submarine at home to continue to lead the La Liga standings.
With the win over Villarreal, Atletico Madrid moved into Club World Cup preparation mode faster and began to prepare for the semi-finals of the Club World Cup four days later.
During this period, other matches in the 15th round of La Liga have also been completed.
Real Madrid beat Almeria 4-1 away to continue to bite Atletico Madrid in the standings. And Ronaldo also scored twice in this game, which is simply compared to Ringer's performance.
Barcelona came out of the basket this time, they were forced to draw 0-0 by Getafe on the outskirts of Madrid, and accidentally dropped points.
Barcelona not only dropped points, but also had a lot of controversial decisions in the game.
Getafe relied on a stubborn defense at home to keep Barcelona at bay, with the score still 0-0 at the end of the 90 minutes, and the referee gave four minutes of stoppage time. Then Barcelona pressed the attack frantically in stoppage time, trying to find a chance to kill, but he didn't expect his own defense in the back, but gave Getafe a chance to counterattack, and the Getafe striker had an excellent one-on-one chance in the counterattack, and even shook down the Barcelona goalkeeper Bravo, and at this time the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
This kind of punishment is simply inexplicable.
The referee also explained righteously, saying that it was just four minutes of stoppage time, so he needed to end the game immediately.
Perhaps the only plausible explanation is that the referee thinks a 0-0 game is the score he wants.
In any case, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid both won their own games in this round, but Barcelona unexpectedly dropped points, so the gap was pulled away in the standings.
At present, after 15 rounds of La Liga, Atletico Madrid ranks first with 40 points with 13 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, followed by Real Madrid with 13 wins and 2 losses with 39 points, while Barcelona still has only 35 points, 5 points behind Atletico Madrid at the top of the table, and 4 points behind Real Madrid in second place.
Overall, Barcelona are a bit of a laggard.
At the same time, in the La Liga scorer list, Ringer and Ronaldo both scored two goals in this round, Ronaldo's goals reached 25, Ringer's goals reached 21, still 4 behind the opponent, and Messi continued to rank third with 13 goals.
Ringer scored 21 goals in 15 rounds, which is already the best stat of his career, but he is still pressed by Cristiano Ronaldo.