Chapter 141, half-way champion, Champions League knockout round

Sidelines.

Simeone, the Argentine young marshal with his hands on his chest, frowned.

Atletico Madrid's performances have had some ups and downs this season.

However, their tactical style has already begun to take shape.

They are good at compressing space in the midfield and backfield, pressing, and relying on iron-blooded defense to win counter-attacking opportunities.

As a matter of fact.

Before Yelo's goal, Atletico Madrid had done well.

Their tactics are very mental, and maybe in the final moments of the game they can rely on the opponent's mood swings to seize one or two counter-attack opportunities to take the game away - this season's Atletico Madrid striker is Tiger Falcao and Shengshi Meiyan Diego. Costa's partner.

Both of these strikers have good goalscoring ability.

In the goalkeeper position.

Atletico Madrid have signed a new talented goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois on loan from Chelsea after David De Gea moved to Manchester United.

This led to Asenjo, who thought he would be able to play as a main player after returning to Atletico Madrid from Malaga, to sit on the bench and become a second goalkeeper.

Two young talented goalkeepers competed, with Falcao and Costa in front of them.

This Atletico Madrid is world-class before and after.

In particular, Colombian striker Falcao, who spent 40 million euros on the team's acquisition from the black shop Porto, has been amazingly efficient in scoring goals this season.

So far, 13 league goals have been scored in 19 league games.

In the group stage of the Europa League, he also helped the team score 8 goals and successfully reached the knockout stage.

Count in the Copa del Rey.

Striker Falcao has already helped Atletico Madrid to 26 goals.

This is quite a rumor.

Of course.

The premise is not to compare it to these three monsters in La Liga.

This season, Yelo has scored twenty-five in the league, thirteen in the Champions League and five goals in the Copa del Rey despite being eliminated.

The total number of goals reached 42, which is the highest overall scorer list.

Messi and Ronaldo also scored 36 and 33 goals respectively.

Excluding these three people, Falcao is the first.

However, in this game, Falcao also failed to perform much, mainly because Yelo put too much pressure on the Atletico Madrid backline and midfield to get the support of the midfield, and the Atletico Madrid striker was isolated in the front.

However, Atletico Madrid's style is like this, so Simeone felt that the situation was not bad until Yelo scored.

But in the seventy-eighth minute of the game.

Ye Luo just forced an inside cut and forced a shot.

Hit a world wave.

The ball soared into the air like a cannonball, without spinning at all, and after reaching its highest point, it fell rapidly, smashing under the crossbar and bouncing into the goal.

Such a shot, such a line.

Even if Courtois is close to two meters tall, has an amazing arm span and reacts quickly, it is completely unstoppable.

Simeone is back in the dugout.

The game has come to this stage.

It's too hard for Atletico Madrid to come back.

With a one-goal lead, Malaga can play more calmly.

And Atletico Madrid wanted to pursue the attack, and the result was.

Hit back!

Eighty-sixth minute of the game.

Malaga played a quick counter-attack, Yelo broke through all the way to the baseline with the ball and passed back, and Joaquin met the ball near the penalty spot.

Two to zero!

Malaga scored the second goal to seal the win.

After seeing another goal conceded, Simeone smiled wryly in the dugout.

It's almost a foregone conclusion.

Malaga leads, Atletico Madrid must press hard if they want to equalize, and the result is that they are counterattacked by Malaga, and Yelo's super individual ability is the biggest surge in the success rate of Malaga's counterattack.

"He just couldn't stop him."

Simeone sat down and complained to his assistant.

"There's no way around it, we've almost finished freezing him, but alas"

The assistant also shook his head slightly.

The goal was also a complete extinguishment of Atletico Madrid's hopes of a comeback.

In the stands of Calderón, there are already fans who have begun to leave, anyway, the ending is already doomed, if you don't leave early, you won't be able to catch up with the second-way car for a while.

"Málaga scored their second goal of the game and it almost made it a guarantee for the halfway way through the season! Congratulations to Malaga, congratulations to Pellegrini, congratulations to Yelo! At the start of the season, when Yelo announced that they were aiming for the league title, it was almost a mockery, and it was a big joke that Malaga wanted to win La Liga, but their current performance has silenced all doubts! In 19 games, they have an amazing result of 16 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss and 50 league points!! How convincing is this performance? In 2010-2011, Barcelona scored 52 points after 19 league games, the same as the 50 points in 2008-2009, and in those two seasons, Barcelona won the championship smoothly, and Malaga is on its way to the league title! ”

On the commentary bench, Andres, the commentator of Radio Corbe, was amazed by Malaga's performance.

After the halfway point, 50 points were scored.

If you don't look at the name of the team in Málaga, there will only be three words that come to mind: champion!

However, it was Malaga that got this result, and it was Malaga who basically belonged to the small team of the elevator level in La Liga in the past!!

Can Malaga really create a miracle, can it really continue the amazing performance of the first half of the league in the second half and miraculously win the La Liga title?

Whoever it is, I'm afraid it will put a big question mark in my mind.

La Liga champions, Malaga.

These two words are incompatible no matter how you look at them.

But they are really halfway champions now, and they are the only two La Liga halfway champions with more than 50 points after the halfway in the past two decades!

The interweaving of the identity of the small team with the contradiction between the championship and Malaga made many media people in the media table look a little strange.

Who would have thought that Malaga could really threaten Barcelona and Real Madrid?

These mouthpiece reporters of Barcelona and Real Madrid are all a little difficult to accept the current scene.

On the contrary, there was another big force in the media table, and the reporters from the dragon country were chanting, cheering, and celebrating Malaga.

Rolitus, the editor-in-chief of the "As" newspaper, pursed his lips and looked at the noisy dragon people with an unhappy face.

"Damn, what does it have to do with you even if Malaga wins the championship?"

Rolitez, who failed to witness Malaga's upset by Atletico Madrid, took his anger out on the cheering Dragon Nation reporters.

As Ye Luo's performance becomes more and more stable, there are now more and more Dragon Country reporters coming to Spain, basically, as long as there are conditions to send reporters in Spain, the media will send reporters to come, just to get first-hand information about Ye Luo.

Dragon Nation fans love to see everything about Yelo.

Even if it's just a video of him walking in and out of the door of the training base and smiling and waving at the fans, it can be hotly searched by the fanatical fans.

In addition, Ye Luo's appearance is here, and now in the neck, the number of Ye Luo's pure face powder is also huge, even more than some "little fresh meat" who specialize in eating with their faces.

And his appearance is not the same as those feminine little fresh meats.

The handsome appearance, facial contours and lines are full of masculine strength.

This has made many marketers for several years, hoping to regard the character and aesthetic orientation of the men of the Dragon Kingdom as a thorn in the side of the sissy.

But helplessly.

Now there are almost no black spots in Yelo.

The sharp contradiction between him and the Dragon National FA has even become a major factor in his more fans-no way, who let the FA's reputation be here.

So, it's not just sports journalists who can be seen in the media table right now. And entertainment journalists.

No way.

There is no separation between style and style.

The final game was also uneventful.

Malaga ended up winning 2-0 away at Atletico Madrid.

When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the camera's lens was firmly locked on Ye Luo.

At the end of the game, Malaga beat Atletico Madrid to win five consecutive league games and win the halfway title with 50 points! Congratulations Malaga! Now that they are the favourites to win the La Liga title, I'm afraid no one will object to it anymore! ”

Duan Xuan, the commentator of Longguo National Television, said excitedly.

on the web.

The fans of the Dragon Kingdom also brushed up on the expressions of the championship trophy.

"Guys, don't be too happy, there are no trophies for the half-way champion."

Reasonable fans remind.

"What's wrong? It's been a round, can you be happy? Then the music, the dance! ”

This is the type of timely fun.

"You say, if Yelo leads Málaga to the league title, will he have a chance of winning the Ballon d'Or in 2012?"

"Hanging! If you add the Champions League, it will be stable! ”

"Not necessarily, don't forget the 2012 European Championships."

"Yes, in the year of the competition, the results of the national team are also the key."

"But at least it can be in the top three"

Speaking of the top three Golden Globe Awards.

Dragon country fans are very angry.

The 2011 Ballon d'Or selection has come out, and Messi has no suspense single selection.

But Dragon Kingdom fans regret it.

Ye Luo's final voting ranking was fourth!

Just three points behind third-placed Andres Iniesta.

The top three in the final rating are Messi, Ronaldo, and Iniesta.

Ye Luo finished fourth and was unable to attend this year's awards ceremony to accompany him - but then again, even if Ye Luo ended up in the top three, he may not want to run with him without any hope of winning the Golden Globe.

At the post-match press conference.

Simeone praised the performance of Yelo and Malaga.

"Yes, we lost to Malaga, we lost to Yelo, I want to congratulate my colleague Manuel Pellegrini, he has built a very good team and I wouldn't be surprised that this team won La Liga. Ye Luo? He was so good that in my opinion he was the best player in La Liga, yes he was the best player, I don't usually praise the opponent's players in that tone, but I must admit that if it wasn't for Yelo, my team would have at least got a draw or even a win in this game! ”

Simeone's statement made the Dragon Country reporters present very happy, and they quickly translated Simeone's words and sent them back to China, so that domestic fans could also follow suit.

After the game, I got such a high evaluation from the opponent's manager.

That's the average player's treatment.

It was Pellegrini's turn to come to the press conference.

The reporters on the scene congratulated Manuel Pellegrini and Malaga.

Manuel Pellegrini was busy cooling down: "The halfway title is not really a title, we know that very well, and being top of the table after the 19th round of the league is a huge achievement for Malaga, but it is not enough to lift the trophy. ”

Pellegrini's cooling down is justified.

After this round of the league.

Both the Madrid and Catalan media are praising Malaga and touting its performance.

"It's a killing."

Pellegrini told his players.

"We weren't actually much ahead, we were just one point ahead of Real Madrid and two points ahead of Barcelona!"

Manuel Pellegrini spoke to his players after the squad regrouped.

Most of the players in Malaga have little experience in competing for the title.

In the long league, even if you maintain the points lead for most of the time, but if you don't maintain the lead after the 38th round of the league, it is useless.

So it was imperative to cool down in time and calm down the players who had just won the halfway game.

This time the cooling came at a good time.

A week later, in the 20th round of the league, Malaga took on the yellow submarine Villarreal away.

Villarreal have been sluggish this season, mainly because after their excellent performance last season, the team's main players have basically been bought by other clubs.

This is the survival logic of the average mid-table team.

Hoard a group of young talents, make achievements, and sell them at a high price.

Champion?

Of course, it would be better if it could be obtained.

But teams in general, especially in La Liga, will not have the illusion of breaking Real Madrid's Barcelona monopoly on the title.

In this away game, Malaga played relatively easily, because the Yellow Submarines reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey and had to prepare for the semi-final against Athletic Bilbao - if the semi-final opponent was Real Madrid Barcelona or something, maybe Villarreal would not be so concerned, but the opponent was Biba, then Villarreal must have to fight.

Won and advanced to the finals.

When it comes to the final, no matter who the opponent is, it's worth fighting hard – the temptation to win the trophy is great for any team.

So Malaga are facing a rotating line-up from Villarreal away from home.

In the end, Yelo scored a goal and provided an assist to beat Villarreal 2-0 away to make it six wins in a row.

A week later, in the 21st round of the league, the team successfully took revenge on Real Underworld away from home, winning seven consecutive wins, and in the 22nd round of the league, Malaga defeated Osasuna 1-0 at home, winning eight consecutive league wins!

A wave of consecutive wins has made the whole of Spain exclaim that Malaga is in good form.

Malaga is in amazing shape! After losing at home to Real Sociedad in the 14th round of the league, when everyone thought Malaga would go through a period of low form, their form bucked the trend and directly regained the top spot in the league table with eight consecutive wins!! ”

Malaga has been a whirlwind in La Liga, but their results have benefited from the steady performance of the number one star Yelo, Málaga has also suffered from injuries from time to time this season, and important players such as Ruud van Nistelrooy, Cazorla, and Demichelis have also missed a period of time, but fortunately, Yelo has not missed a minute of the game due to injury so far, he is simply an iron man!"

If Yelo continues to be in this form, he will lead Malaga to the La Liga title, just around the corner!"

The media marveled at Malaga's performance.

Who can stop Malaga's winning streak?

Is it the next game, Malaga's Champions League last-16 opponent Leon?

After the 22nd round of La Liga, the players of Malaga boarded a plane to Lyon, France, after a day off.

Almost two months after the end of the group stage, the knockout round of the Champions League has finally begun!

(End of chapter)