Chapter 163: Fierce competition for the Golden Boot

Atletico Madrid beat Liverpool away with a second-tier line-up, while the other game in this group was a thrilling one.

At the end of the first half, Roma led Dortmund 1-0 away, and in the second half, shortly after the break, Roma scored again.

The morale of Roma, who were leading 2-0, was five different from Dortmund's goal difference before the game, and now they are 2-0 ahead of Dortmund, they have two more goal difference, and Dortmund has two less goal difference.

As long as Roma score one more goal and hold on to a 3-0 lead, they can leapfrog Borussia Dortmund on goal difference and finish second in the group.

Seeing the hope of Roma's morale boosted, they kept attacking the Dortmund defence through two wings, and finally in the 60th minute, their third goal arrived, Gervinho was tripped in the box, and the referee awarded a penalty!

Totti takes the penalty!

Three to zero.

If it ends with this scoreline, Roma will squeeze out Dortmund and occupy the second place in the group by virtue of goal difference!

However, Roma didn't have long to rejoice before they were beaten back to 3-1 by a goal from Borussia Dort.

The ensuing game turned into a goal shootout, and after Dortmund scored, they scored two more goals in five minutes to level the score at 3-3!

In stoppage time, the goal continued to end, as Roma scored a goal from a corner to put the lead in the lead.

In the final moments of the game, Dortmund counter-attacked and made the score 4-4.

After a hearty goal battle, the qualification situation for Group A was clear, with Atletico Madrid and Dojemund appearing together, while Roma took the third place in the group by one point over Liverpool with a draw away from home and went to play in the Europa League.

When Atletico Madrid returned to Spain, the other group matches were also over.

In Real Madrid's group, Real Madrid won five and drew one, and won the group with an unbeaten record, and the second team in the group was Greek team Olympiacos.

Barcelona, on the other hand, won the final round of the group and won the group, joining hands with Paris Saint-Germain to qualify.

Athletic Bilbao, another team in La Liga, suffered consecutive defeats in the Champions League group stage, and finally only finished third in the group, and also went to play in the Europa League.

At this point, the round of 16 of the Champions League has been born, and the draw for the round of 16 will take place in two weeks' time.

Back in Spain, Atletico Madrid can stop worrying about the Champions League for the time being.

Atletico Madrid's opponent in the league this weekend is the yellow submarine Villarreal.

Both teams were involved in European competition in midweek, with the difference that Atletico Madrid, who are in the Champions League, rotated most of their key players, while Villarreal went all-out in Thursday's Europa League and won to secure a place in the group and reach the last 32 of the Europa League.

Therefore, in terms of physical fitness, Atletico Madrid is undoubtedly the more dominant side.

The same was true for the presentation in the game, and Atletico Madrid, who were playing at home, quickly took the initiative.

Antoine Griezmann, who ended up on a week's rest, burst out in the game, scoring a first-half brace and scoring a hat-trick from the flank shortly after the start of the second half.

At 3-0, which was the scoreline at the end of the game, Antoine Griezmann had his best performance since joining the club.

Four days later, on December 19, Atletico Madrid will host Ospitale in a Copa del Rey match, a match in which Simeone will boldly continue to rotate his squad due to the advantage he has built up in the first leg.

Ospital was tenacious on the road, falling behind twice and equalising twice to make it 2-2, but were still knocked out of the Copa del Rey by Atletico Madrid and Atletico Madrid progressed.

After this match, on December 22, the last round of the league before the winter break, in the sixteenth round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid played Bilbao away.

Bilbao have been out of the Champions League group stage but have been doing quite well in the league since November.

Athletic Bilbao manager Ernesto Valverde has just been awarded the Coach of the Month award by La Liga officials as they are unbeaten in four La Liga matches in November, winning three and drawing one.

The day before this match, the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League was also completed, with Atletico Madrid drawing German side Bayer Leverkusen.

This result can only be said to be neither good nor bad, Bayer Leverkusen can only be considered in the middle of the group among the teams that finished second in the group, although they did not draw relatively weak opponents such as Olympiacos and Shakhtar Donetsk, but compared to other potential opponents of Atletico Madrid, such as Manchester City, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus, it looks better to draw Bayer Leverkusen.

But what worries Atletico Madrid fans is that Atletico Madrid and the German team do not have a very dominant record, especially when it comes to away games in Germany, where Atletico Madrid have not won for a long time.

However, in any case, the Champions League round of 16 will not officially start until a month and a half away, and until then, Atletico Madrid will still focus on the league.

Due to the fact that Real Madrid and Barcelona have been in very good form in recent times, they have won consecutive league games, and Atletico Madrid does not dare to relax.

Atletico Madrid are still just one point away from Real Madrid at the top of the table, so they have to bite into the gap, and if they lose a game because they drop the chain, they could be four points away from Real Madrid.

Such a gap, with Real Madrid's current state, it will be difficult to catch up.

This season's league has entered the middle stage, because Barcelona and Real Madrid are ahead of Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 3-1 at home, Ronaldo scored a hat trick, because Li Qingshan did not score in the last round of the league, Li Qingshan opened up the gap in the scorer list after the big win over Elche, and now they both scored eighteen goals!

And Messi also scored a hat-trick in this round, Barcelona beat Cordoba 5-0 at home, and now Messi's goal tally has reached seventeen.

Sixteen rounds of the league have been played, and now the competition for the top three strikers in the scorer list has become more and more fierce!

Atletico Madrid's away game against Bilbao was a late La Liga fixture, but the whole Atletico Madrid team didn't look able to get into shape in the first half, and when they walked into the dressing room, they were down 0-1.

However, after the break, the whole Atletico Madrid team seemed to wake up, first in the 47th minute, Griezmann scored directly from a free kick to equalize the score.

In the 56th minute, Li Qingshan scored with a header in the penalty area, and Bilbao defender Gil spread his arm and fouled the handball. Atletico Madrid won a penalty.

Raul Garcia wanted to give the penalty to Li Qingshan to take the penalty, after all, the competition in the scorer list is so fierce now, and his teammates also want to help him. But Li Qingshan waved his hand and refused, he wanted to get the Golden Boot, but he didn't want to go through this way.

In the end, Raul Garcia took the penalty kick to overtake the score.

At the end of the game, in the eighty-seventh minute, Li Qingshan finally scored.

He turned and hit the back of the net on the edge of the penalty area to seal the win for Atletico Madrid!

Nineteenth goal in the league!

After this match, La Liga will enter the winter break.

And Li Qingshan will also temporarily leave the team for at least a month to participate in the Asian Cup!