Chapter 388: Half-way Champion

Of course, Gao Bo didn't have time to engage in any public opinion war with Mourinho.

Gao Bo himself is still very clear about his advantages and disadvantages.

Fighting with Mourinho in words, isn't this attacking the opponent's strengths with his own shortcomings? Gao Bo wouldn't do such a thing, and he didn't have time to do it.

After the end of the eighteen rounds of the league, in fact, Atletico Madrid has locked the half-way championship in advance, but because the nineteenth round of the league has not yet started, the system has not yet cashed out the rewards of the half-way championship series tasks.

And after the 18th round of the league, the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarterfinals will also begin.

On the third day after the match against Hercus, at home, Atletico Madrid faced the visiting Real Betis!

Before the game, many media believed that Real Betis may give up this game, because Real Betis has great hope of promotion this season, in the league, their points advantage over the second place has been weakened to two points, winning the second division championship and then promoting La Liga is Real Betis' biggest goal, distracting the Copa del Rey does not make any sense for Real Betis, unless they can have the hope of winning the championship in this competition.

But it's simply not possible!

Real Betis will not put their hopes on such an illusory matter, for them, upgrading is the most tangible thing.

Therefore, Atletico Madrid is still half of the main force and half of the substitutes in this game, while Real Betis is completely all substitutes!

Real Betis is completely in a position to give up the Copa del Rey!

In the end, their substitute line-up failed to get any advantage at Calderón Stadium, and the substitutes of Real Betis wanted to make a difference in this game, seize this rare starting opportunity, impress the manager with their performances, and hope to get a starting spot!

But after all, the strength is too poor Atletico Madrid, and Real Betis's efforts were crushed in the twentieth minute of the game!

A clever shot from inside the box by Sergio Aguero, the ball went down the crotch of the defender, and the line was completely out of sight of the goalkeeper, so the Real Betis goalkeeper was helpless.

After taking the lead, Atletico Madrid played more calmly, they controlled the tempo on the field, and constantly tore apart Real Betis' defense with passes, while Real Betis could only run for their lives after falling behind, and was mobilized by Atletico Madrid's continuous passes in the front court. In the 38th minute of the game, the second goal came naturally. Thiago Cardoso, who started the game, shoots a low shot through the net from the penalty line! Atletico Madrid leads 2-0!

Atletico Madrid, who led by two goals, played even more unhurriedly. In the second half, Mario Suarez headed past the net and substitute Immobile scored a scramble in the box to give Atletico Madrid a 4-0 lead at home to Real Betis!

In the two-legged Copa del Rey match, Atletico Madrid had already sealed the win in the first leg!

Of course, the media after the game will not think that Atletico Madrid will have any surprises in the second leg, and Atletico Madrid's semi-final in the Copa del Rey is already a certainty, as for whether they can reach the final? That also depends on the status of their lottery.

The 4-0 win over Real Betis was not surprising to Gobo, after all, the opponent is just a second-tier team in the second division, and if such a team can't win big, then Atletico Madrid should extinguish the ambition of winning the league as soon as possible.....

After the Copa del Rey match, Atletico Madrid will have a league game in three days!

January 18th, the nineteenth round of the league! The last game of the first half of the league! Atletico Madrid will host Mallorca!

Mallorca have had a good season, currently sitting seventh in the league and still have to climb the ladder and even have the potential to qualify for the Europa League.

In this game, the two sides are naturally the main force, for Mallorca, they only have the league left to fight, and naturally there is no possibility of giving up in a certain game. So it's impossible for Atletico Madrid to win as easily as they did in the Copa del Rey.

Atletico Madrid is indeed not easy to win at home, and Atletico Madrid, who is the main force, is facing Mallorca's iron wall!

In the twenty-first minute of the game, Mallorca even scored a goal through a counterattack! After scoring the goal, Mallorca was even more relieved and bold to put a bus in the backfield, they began to enter the negative game mode from the first half, piling up ten defenders in the penalty area, and clearing the ball as soon as possible, and dragging it out for a little time!

Most teams in La Liga now see Atletico Madrid as a team on the same level as Barcelona and Real Madrid.....

In the face of such an extreme defensive style of the opponent, Atletico Madrid's attack was not smooth, and it was not until the last moment of the first half that after the football was cleared out of the penalty area through a corner kick, left-back Sandro rushed up and kicked it and hit a world wave! Atletico Madrid opened up the game with a long-range shot!

But no matter how the goal is scored, Atletico Madrid has finally broken Mallorca's turtle shell!

In the second half, the goal came very early!

Antoine Griezmann made his way into the box after a successful pass on the flank, and crossed vigorously into the middle from close to the baseline, only for the Mallorca defender in the middle to make a mistake in a panic and touch the ball into his own goal....

Own goal!

With such an own goal, Atletico Madrid overtook the score!

Atletico continued to attack, creating some chances, but they didn't find the back of the net in the end.

In the end, the score of the match was 2-1, and Atletico Madrid won the last game of the first half of the league with a hard-fought victory at home!

"The game is over!! The game is over!! ”

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Aduris on the commentary bench was very excited!

"Congratulations to Atletico Madrid, they won the 2010-2011 halfway title, although that doesn't mean they can get any glory right now, but there is one statistic worth paying attention to - the teams that have won the halfway title in the last decade have won the final league title! This statistic may be very encouraging for Atletico Madrid fans, but will Gao Bo's team be able to maintain their current form in the second half of the game? We'll see! ”

Gao Bo didn't seem too excited.

After the whistle blew at the end of the game, Gao Bo walked towards Mallorca's head coach Laudrup, and in the face of the other party's compliment, Gao Bo was also unfazed.

Aduris is right about one thing, a halfway championship doesn't mean anything.

The final league title will not look at the points you have at the halfway point of the league, now it can only show that Atletico Madrid performed well in the first half, as for the second half, can Atletico Madrid maintain the form of the first half? Gao Bo himself didn't dare to pack the ticket, the only thing he could do was to maintain the intensity in training and maintain the fitness of the players through reasonable rotation.

We're still halfway to the season.