This was supposed to be Costa's chance, although Costa had failed badly in challenging Lin Dong before, and as time went by, Lin Dong's excellence has been proved more and more.

But even so, Costa still didn't give up, and even in his heart, he always regarded Lin Dong as a competitor, even though Lin Dong often took the initiative to make balls for him on the court.

Last season, Real Madrid's smoky miasma, the messy locker room was still of great help to Lin Dong, especially let Lin Dong know the importance of unity in the locker room.

After coming to Atletico Madrid, Lin Dong has always been very friendly and positive, which has also allowed Lin Dong to integrate into Atletico Madrid as a whole faster, and even most of his teammates can now be called friends.

For Costa, Lin Dong naturally feels something, but as long as it helps the team, Lin Dong can bear it, of course, provided that Costa can't go too far.

Unfortunately, some things, the more anxious you are, the more you want to prove yourself, the more it will often backfire, and Costa has all kinds of examples in this game.

From the beginning of the game, Costa was very active, even a little eager, such a result disrupted the rhythm of Atletico Madrid, after all, he was not Lin Dong, Lin Dong held up a sky for Atletico Madrid in the front court, but Costa couldn't do it.

Moreover, Lin Dong's grasp of timing, sense of attack, and when to do things are very clear, and the anxious Costa can't be so calm at all.

So Atletico Madrid wants to concede the goal, and if it loses Lin Dong, Atletico Madrid will immediately change to the Atletico team that was last season, if it follows Atletico's original rhythm, it may not concede the goal, but Costa disrupts Atletico Madrid's rhythm.

The goal was scored by Brazilian center forward Hulk, taking advantage of Atletico Madrid's offensive defeat St. Petersburg Zenit played a quick counterattack, Hulk and Korzhakov made a perfect combination, and Hulk formed a single knife after two to break the deadlock.

On the sidelines, Simeone's face turned blue and he called Costa directly, and in Atletico Madrid, Simeone's prestige almost reached the point of being indispensable.

After teaching Costa a lesson, Simeone called Gabi over again, and then Atletico's rhythm on the pitch returned to normal, and Atletico, who were back on track, began to give up the attacking power.

In this regard, Zenit St. Petersburg head coach Spalletti smelled the smell of conspiracy, but on the field, the first goal gave the St. Petersburg Zenit players great confidence, and the players had already won the right to attack.

Atletico Madrid proved to be more suitable for defensive counterattacks without Lin Dong, and in the 38th minute of the game, Atletico equalized the score, and it was Miranda who scored.

A quick counter-attack, and although the shot was saved, Atletico were awarded a corner from which Atletico's goal came.

As soon as Koke played the ball into the penalty area, Miranda jumped high, looked back at the moon and threw a header to help Atletico chase the score to 1:1.

It was also Atletico's first Champions League goal in five years, Miranda himself became the first centre-back in Atletico's history to score in the Champions League, and he was the second time since 1977 that Atletico had a Brazilian player help Atletico score in the Champions League.

The score of 1:1 remained until the end of the first half, but at the beginning of the second half, Atletico Madrid overtook the score, and it was still a counterattack, and Zenit St. Petersburg chose to foul this time and gave Atletico a free kick.

It was still Cork and Miranda, but this time Miranda's luck was not so good, the header hit the crossbar, then bounced off the box and landed at the feet of Turan.

The latter broke through a defender with the ball and burst into the box, then slotted home with a powerful shot to make it 2-1.

Unwilling to lose, Zenit St. Petersburg could only launch a stronger attack, but this result led to them conceding another goal.

Youngster Leao ushered in the highest moment of joining Atletico Madrid, Leao, who had just come on as a substitute, completed the goal, Atletico Madrid's counterattack, Turan sent a delicate second pass over the top, Leao headed the ball, rushed into the penalty area, and pushed the far corner to score the third goal.

3:1, this is the score of the first game of Atletico Madrid's return to the Champions League after 5 years, although the start was not smooth, but the result was perfect, Atletico Madrid started this season's Champions League journey with a victory.

However, the media did not want Atletico to be in a good mood, especially those close to Barcelona and Real Madrid, such as "World Sport" and "As".

In their mouths, Atletico's victory was only due to good luck, plus Atletico Madrid has been away from the Champions League for so long that the opponent is not familiar with Atletico.

Of course, they haven't forgotten that Lin Dong was suspended to make a fuss, in their mouths, Atletico Madrid has been replaced by Lin Dong dependence, and Lin Dong and Lin Dong are completely two teams.

In this regard, Simeone naturally has to refute that there are some things that cannot be admitted even if they are facts, which will not be conducive to the development and unity of the team.

Besides, the so-called dependence Barcelona and Real Madrid also have, Barcelona relies on Messi, Real Madrid relies on Ronaldo, with these two and without these two Real Madrid and Barcelona are also two teams.

After rebuttal, Atletico ignored these outside matters and began to concentrate on preparing for the league, starting with the fifth round and ending the international break in October, Atletico played two matches in a week.

The schedule was tight, but it was still very good against the opponents, and the two opponents before the national derby were not strong, Valladolid in the fifth round and Osasuna in the sixth round.

Both teams are relegation teams, Valladolid is not bad with four points from four games, and Osasuna is a bit miserable, and the only team in La Liga that has no points at the end.

However, in the face of Atletico Madrid, it was really worse than losing Valladolid, because of the suspension of the Champions League in midweek, Lin Dong could only vent all his unhappiness and energy on Valladolid.

So Valladolid was tragic, just three minutes into the opening game, Atletico Madrid scored, the scorer was naturally Lin Dong, a strong header scored, Lin Dong also extended the team's opening goal to the fifth game.

Two minutes later, that is, the first wave of Atletico Madrid's attack after the game restarted, the score on the field changed again, or Lin Dong, this time with his feet, a super violent shot in the penalty area, the Valladolid goalkeeper didn't say to save, it was too late to see.

Lin Dong's third hat-trick of the season came as scheduled, and it was a hat-trick in ten minutes, which was even more exaggerated than the first round of the league.

In the ninth minute of the game, the beaten Valladolid lost his third goal since the opening, this time it turned into a tackle, a cross from Felipe's wing, Lin Dong in the box shook off the defender and shoveled the ball into the opponent's goal before the goalkeeper.

The massacre, it can be expected, will be a massacre of red fruits.