Chapter 230 The final is approaching
After playing Athletic Bilbao, Atletico Madrid soon ushered in the 26th round of La Liga.
This time it is a away challenge to Alaves.
As the event deepened, especially after the winter break, Alaves, like some other dark horse teams, his league rankings gradually declined, and some successors were weak, but some strong veteran teams gradually reversed.
At present, Alaves has fallen to seventh in the league, with the same score as Athletic Bilbao.
But Alaves has a problem this season, and the home goal is seriously insufficient.
If we look at the efficiency of away points, this team should at least rank in the top four, but the efficiency of home points is too poor.
The main reason is that this team has too poor offensive ability.
La Liga today is very different from the past. Double midfielders are standard. Except for a few teams, they are basically playing defensive counterattacks. After all, the results of teams such as Real Mallorca, Valencia and Vigo Celta in recent years are even more touching.
In a simple sentence, La Liga is more conservative and utilitarian nowadays.
But it is simply unrealistic to want to get a good ranking in La Liga with just excellent defense.
Alaves proves with facts that no matter how good your defense is, you still can't play without an offense.
Therefore, at home, Alaves could only give up three points again and again when facing the group of opponents who were playing against both midfielders.
After seeing this, Atletico Madrid seemed more confident in playing Alaves away. From the beginning of the game, Gao Han took the stance of a strong attack and vowed to score another three-pointer away.
Alaves also hoped that Atletico Madrid would attack, and he also used defensive counterattack tactics at home.
However, their defense ultimately failed to last ten minutes.
In the eighth minute of the game, Kaka dribbled the ball in the middle and forced a breakthrough, and cooperated with Villa at the front of the penalty area, broke into the penalty area and scored calmly, opening the first record for Atletico Madrid.
Afterwards, just three minutes later, Villa seized a chance and scored again, 2-0.
After consecutive goals, Atletico Madrid made an amazing start and has been steadily controlling the situation since then.
In the second half, Alaves obviously became more and more impatient as he played, while Atletico Madrid was patiently controlling the ball and waiting for a good opportunity.
Finally, in the 56th minute of the game, Atletico Madrid seized another opportunity. Kaka received a wonderful pass from Deco and turned around and got rid of the start, blocking the defense line directly behind.
Alaves' Argentine central defender Kolocini was unable to react and turned back to chase Torres.
This time, the referee awarded a red card without hesitation and sent Kolocini out of the field.
Atletico Madrid, which has the advantage, has become more obvious after one more player. In the 67th and 86th minutes, Kaka and Dario Serner scored two goals in a row, and finally changed the score to four to zero.
With four goals, Atletico Madrid scored an exciting victory!
At the same time, Athletic Bilbao, who had just returned from Calderon Stadium, defeated Real Madrid 2-1 at home under the adjustment of Heinx, and successfully avenged a revenge for the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey.
But unlike in the past, both goals from Athletic Bilbao occurred in the first half.
However, Gao Han saw more in this game.
When they were drinking with Heinx, the two focused on discussing Real Madrid and exchanged their opinions and opinions.
Both of them have surprisingly unified views, that is, the most important player in Real Madrid is not Zidane, not Figo, nor Raul, but someone else.
In this game, Heinx was able to successfully sink the Galaxy battleship, which basically reflected the results of the two's previous discussions, and also made Gao Han more confident in the upcoming Cup of Kings final.
As the highlight of the twenty-six rounds, Barcelona faces La Coruna at the Camp Nou Stadium.
Lexac's team showed a rare bloodiness. When they were behind twice, they equalized the score twice. Finally, with Cruyvit's key final victory in the 87th minute, they defeated La Coruña 3-2.
As the score shows, Barcelona's battle did perform quite well.
After this round of battle, Atletico Madrid is still ahead of the crowd and is far ahead, but the second-ranked team has quietly replaced people.
So far this season, Valencia, who has been silently distorted and has quietly reversed Real Madrid and climbed to the second place in the standings.
Barcelona also returned to the top four in the league with their outstanding performance in recent times.
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After playing the 26th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid ushered in the first leg of the League Cup quarterfinals and headed to Germany without stopping to challenge Hertha Berlin away.
The competition in the Bundesliga has been fierce in recent years, and the team's playing styles are also rich and diverse.
There are both four defenders from Bayern Munich and Dortmund, as well as Hertha Berlin and other teams who still believe in the traditional three defenders.
Like Gao Han, head coach Falk Gerz also came from Hertha Berlin's second team. He was promoted to the first team this season as head coach. He is used to the three, four, and three formations, and the midfield is a diamond-shaped position.
This style of play certainly makes Hertha Berlin's attacking power better when facing an opponent whose strength is not as strong as his own, but once facing a strong enemy, Hertha Berlin's defense will become the deadliest weakness, especially the defense of both ribs.
This season in the Bundesliga, Hertha Berlin was successively beaten by teams such as Dortmund, Kaiserslautern and Hamburg, which is a proof.
When playing against Hertha Berlin away, Gao Han naturally focused on the opponent's ribs.
In the 17th minute of the game, Atletico Madrid took the lead in creating murderous intent. Kaka's exquisite cooperation with Villa on the left rib created a foul by the opponent's central defender in the penalty area.
With a red card and penalty kick, Villa took the penalty and scored one to zero.
After that, Atletico Madrid also slowed down its offensive appropriately, but at the beginning of the second half, the bed sheet army launched another attack. Torres won another goal for Atletico Madrid in just four minutes, expanding the score to 2-0.
In the 70th minute, Deco added icing on the cake and scored the third goal for Atletico Madrid.
Three to zero, Atletico Madrid returned home with a big away victory.
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After defeating Hertha Berlin, Atletico Madrid returned to Calderon Stadium and welcomed his 27th round of La Liga opponent, Vigo Celta.
Perhaps it was hoped to take advantage of the continuous multi-line battle at Atletico Madrid to take advantage of the troubled waters, or perhaps because of other reasons, Victor Fernandez's team actually played the attacking tactic at Calderon Stadium.
Although the attack after the opening really disrupted Atletico Madrid's position and caused a lot of trouble to the bed sheet army. It even made Vigo Celta seize the opportunity, and Edou scored a goal in the 20th minute.
But this goal also made Atletico Madrid completely awake.
Just five minutes later, Atletico Madrid got a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt, and Dario Serner made a direct penalty and equalized the score for Atletico Madrid.
Ten minutes later, Torres won another goal and overtakes the score.
Afterwards, Atletico Madrid was unstoppable and launched a fierce attack. Before the first half was over, Vigo Celta's midfielder Alexander Mostovoi was sent off for two yellow cards.
In the second half, Atletico Madrid made a big move. Although the referee gave some preferential treatment to the away team for balance and also presented yellow cards to several Atletico Madrid players, the Bedding Legion finally locked the score at 4-1 with the goals of Baptista and Marchena.
In the other games of the twenty-seven rounds, Real Madrid defeated Alaves 3-1 at home, La Coruña defeated Zaragoza 1-0 at home, and Valencia defeated Barcelona 2-0 at home.
The unlucky Lexacci finally made some progress, but unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Benitez's team directly returned to the prototype in the middle of a strong dialogue.
What's even more tragic is that Barcelona seemed to have possessed the ball throughout the game, but in fact there was no threat at all, which also caused Rexac to be bombarded by all the Catalan media after the game.
After this round of battle, Barcelona's ranking also fell again, falling to fifth in the league.
However, the top three rankings in the league remain unchanged.
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After playing the 27th round of the league, Atletico Madrid took the home court and welcomed Hertha Berlin.
For the Madrid derby on the weekend and the first leg was already sure to win, Gao Han rotated the team's lineup, including Sedo Keita, Baptista, Roberto, Aguilera and Pablo Ibanes, all qualified to start.
However, this group of substitutes still performed quite tenaciously on the court, trying hard to grasp the hard-earned starting qualification, causing great trouble for Hertha Berlin on the court, especially on both sides.
This time, Gao Han tried to arrange the Christmas tree formation of 4321, allowing Correa and Baptista to serve as the second, and Kiko started on the front line.
At first, the players seemed a little uncomfortable, the scene was a bit messy, but the defense was very stable.
But as the game deepened, it gradually improved, especially in the second half, Hertha's ribs in Berlin were exposed again.
In the end, Baptista and Correa scored one goal each, helping Atletico Madrid defeat Hertha Berlin 2-0.
It is worth mentioning that both goals come from Kiko's assists.
The total score was 5 to zero, and Atletico Madrid successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.
On the same day as Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid went to the away game to challenge Porto.
This is the fourth round of the second stage of the Champions League group stage. Real Madrid, which has won three consecutive games, is unstoppable and won Porto 2-1 away, but the two sides played hard to distinguish within the 90-minute game.
With four consecutive victories, Real Madrid advanced to the top from the group in advance.
After playing the European mid-week event, March has also entered.
The 28th round of the league's Madrid derby in the blink of an eye and the upcoming Cup of Kings final have all filled the entire Madrid with a strong sense of murderous aura.
Chapter completed!