34 Relegation dungeon on Hell difficulty
After the match between Atletico Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna, all the matches of the 33rd round of La Liga were played.
Due to the frequent upsets in this round, the situation in the entire La Liga has become more chaotic.
Real Madrid beat Zaragoza 1-0 away with Raul's penalty kick in this round to tie Barcelona in the standings, with both teams on 56 points.
According to the rules, the points are the same, and the ranking first depends on the results of the two sides, Real Madrid is 2-2 away and 3-0 at home, so it counterattacked Barcelona in the standings and became the second place in the La Liga standings.
However, it is still five points behind Deportivo La Coruna.
Iruetta's team is not competitive enough this round either.
Compared to Real Madrid and Barcelona who are distracted by the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, Deportivo La Coruna is a one-line battle in one league, but after a week's rest, it failed to win away at Rayo Vallecano, which dashed the hope of establishing an early victory advantage.
In a way, Deportivo La Coruna's performance was really not very convincing.
On the contrary, Real Madrid, after Bosque took over halfway, although the team's tactical style is very conservative and has been criticized by many fans, but on the field, Real Madrid's performance is very stable and the efficiency of scoring points is very high.
Zaragoza, the opponents in this round, are currently fourth in La Liga, just one point behind Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Being able to beat Zaragoza 1-0 away from home, Real Madrid did a good job.
There was also a surprise upset in this round, that is, Aragonés's Real Orviedo defeated Barcelona 3-0 at home, which definitely surprised everyone.
Oviedo also relied on the three points of this game to reverse Real Betis and climb out of the relegation zone and rank 17th in La Liga.
Moving down from Orvieto, Hiddink's Real Betis are 18th with 36 points, one point behind Orvieto.
Atletico Madrid gnawed on the tough bone of Malaga at home, with 35 points, still in 19th place, but only one point away from Real Betis, only two points away from Real Orvieto, and four points less than Racing Santander in 16th place.
Sevilla lost 2-1 at home to Valencia in this round and are currently at the bottom of La Liga with 27 points.
Judging by the current situation, Sevilla's relegation is a foregone conclusion.
Atletico Madrid, Real Betis and Real Oviedo are the favourites for relegation, but they are all tight on each other's points.
Even further back, Racing Santander, Numancia, Athletic Bilbao, and even Real Sociedad and Málaga, who lost this round, have not yet fully shaken off the threat of relegation.
It can be seen that the relegation situation in La Liga this season is really quite grim.
After 33 rounds of La Liga, the Spanish media focused on analyzing the current situation in La Liga.
Major bookmakers have also adjusted their odds, but Atletico is still the second favorite to be relegated after Sevilla.
The reason for this is actually related to the schedule.
After a week's break, Atletico will face Valencia in midweek for the second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final and La Liga round 35 at home to Barcelona at the weekend.
In other words, in the next week, there will be three games, all of which will be strong teams.
It will be a huge test for Atletico, and every game will be the difference between life and death.
Even if it barely passes Valencia and Barcelona, the 36th round is Real Oviedo, a direct rival for relegation.
At present, the two sides are already a life-and-death situation, and if you want to be relegated, you must trample on the opponent.
But Atletico are away.
Marca News believes that the relegation copy in Yang Hao's hands is absolutely hell-level.
This schedule, this difficulty, is enough to make countless managers feel desperate.
What's more, with Atletico's current situation, they really can't give up any game, including the Copa del Rey.
With a very low margin for error, a strong opponent, and a devilish schedule, the difficulty of relegation is unprecedented.
What's more, there is very, very little time left for Yang Hao.
After taking over to play Barcelona in 3 days, Malaga on the weekend, and then the devil's schedule, the pressure was piled up all of a sudden.
Marca newspaper believes that judging from the two games in which Yang Hao took over Atletico Madrid, the team has indeed shown a very obvious change, and there have been amazing changes at the technical and tactical level, especially in the mental outlook of the players, which can be described as reborn.
But the schedule is too difficult, the opponent is too strong, and the test is too great, and Yang Hao wants to lead Atletico Madrid to relegation, and the possibility is very small.
Moreover, he faced the likes of Louis van Gaal, Guus Hiddink, Cooper and Aragonés.
"Although it has only been two games, Yang Hao has indeed shown a unique coaching ability and technical and tactical literacy."
'But he should regret taking over at Atletico because he could have had a more relaxed coaching environment, and at Atletico he doesn't have any room to make mistakes, which is the most desperate.'
Marca believes that two wins in a row is just a good start, and that Atletico's real challenge will be in the next Devil's schedule and this match against Real Orviedo.
"Atletico Madrid must win all four games before the whole relegation situation can be reversed."
"But it's very difficult."
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Compared with the more objective analysis of the Marca newspaper, several other media in Spain, on the one hand, affirmed the recovery of Atletico Madrid's form in the last two games, but they were very pessimistic about the team's relegation situation.
The main thing is that the situation of the team is too grim and the schedule is too miserable.
El País even believes that when world coaches such as Ranieri and Antich are unable to lead Atletico out of the relegation zone, and when Aragonés, Joaquin Perrault and other famous coaches are shunning Atletico, the relegation of the Sheets is already a certainty.
"What Yang Hao is doing now is more to appease Atletico Madrid's fans, so that they will not be so painful when the team is relegated, and at the same time accumulate chips for his future coaching."
Ace newspaper is more blunt, believing that Atletico Madrid have missed the best opportunity to redeem themselves.
This season, both Madrid giants are in crisis at the same time, and both have changed managers in the middle of the season, but Atletico's change of manager is far less bold than Real Madrid's, who used Bosque long before the winter break.
Facts have also proved that after Bosque took office, Real Madrid's results have changed dramatically.
But what about Atletico? Claudio Ranieri stayed until the winter break, and then Antich, who took over after that, had no way to deal with the current situation of the team, and was more pulled over to make up the numbers.
In this case, Atletico's performance can only sink repeatedly.
"Hasselbaink's agent is actively helping him get back into the Premier League; Bellerón had an early on-the-dark affair with Iruetta's Deportivo La Coruna; Solari, Beypur, Molina, Gaspar, and Venturin, among others, all centrifuge early. ”
"Now Atletico Madrid has long fallen apart, what will you take out to relegate?"
Asbao asserted that although Yang Hao has won two consecutive games in the last two games, and his coaching performance is indeed impressive, he still can't change the trend of Atletico Madrid's relegation.
"He is the unlucky guy who was launched by Atletico Madrid and took the blame for relegation!"
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The relegation situation is still very bad, and the media is still very unoptimistic about Atletico.
Yang Hao had expected all of this for a long time, and even he didn't expect the media to say more about Atletico Madrid.
This also has something to do with Old Hill.
Who made the image of the old Hill so bad, he had already ruined all the popularity of passers-by, and the media could say good things about Atletico out of thin air?
But it doesn't matter, as long as the situation improves further and the relegation trend reverses, this group of media will naturally change their tunes.
No matter how they scold now, how they sneer, how they will have to swallow it back in the future.
After the 33rd round of La Liga, the team returned to Mahada Hongda and was disbanded.
Tomorrow morning recovery training, afternoon holidays.
The team won, and Yang Hao decided to give the players a day off to adjust their physical and mental state.
It's been a lot of pressure on the players and it's been a succession of devilish fixtures, so it's a good time to relax and that's certainly not a bad thing.
A week of preparation, quite generous.
That's true for the players, but not for the coaching staff.
Recently, Yang Hao has been living in the training base.
Even, if he could, he really considered returning the rented apartment, saving himself from running around every day, wasting his fare, and spending an extra amount of rent.
How good it is in Mahada Hongda, you can be reimbursed for everything and food.
But in the eyes of others, Yang Hao is really bitter.
In order to help Atletico Madrid relegation, he really fought hard!
Therefore, on the night of playing Malaga, Yang Hao decided to stay, watch the video of Valencia's match against Sevilla, and study the opponent for the next game, Juanma Lillo also took the initiative to stay.
Don't have a bed to sleep in?
It's okay, I can sleep on the couch.
The head coach and assistant coach have stayed, and Mendiodo has also decided to stay.
Squeeze?
Non-existent, my home is very close and I have a car.
There are also goalkeeper coach Pedro Harrow, physiotherapist Parales and others, who have also decided to stay.
In the end, Yang Hao did not look in his own office, and went directly to the more spacious coach's office.
Many people think that Sevilla is a soft persimmon, so far behind, relegation is a certainty, I am afraid that it has already given up, but in fact, if you see Sevilla's battle against Valencia, it is easy to find that Sevilla is still persisting and fighting fiercely.
Today's Sevilla is far from being the king of the Europa League in the future, and the overall strength is far inferior, but this hard work for relegation is also impressive.
Valencia won the battle by a narrow margin.
'Cooper's side are still saving up for the Champions League in midweek.' Yang Hao analyzed.
The current Champions League is still two rounds of group stage, the first round is 8 groups of 32 teams, the top two in the group enter the second round, divided into 4 groups of 16 teams, the second round of the group stage of the top two directly advance to the quarterfinals of the knockout round, catch each other.
Valencia beat Lazio 5-2 in the first leg, but the second leg is still not enough to travel away.
Because Lazio is really, really strong.
La Liga this season has been a mess, but interestingly, the teams have performed well in the Champions League.
As of now, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia have all reached the quarter-finals.
In Yang Hao's previous life, these three teams gathered in the semifinals, and the heyday of La Liga can be seen.
On one side is the most chaotic La Liga league in history, and on the other side is the semi-finals of the top three, in the end, the competition in La Liga is too fierce.
And this season is the beginning of a legend for Valencia.