Chapter 60 Must Win

Atletico Madrid's opponents, Barcelona beat Real Betis 3-1 in the league at the weekend, but with six league games remaining, the six-point gap to Atletico still puts them close to Atletico in the league table. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Due to the obvious decline in Barcelona's dominance this season, for Martino, his Barcelona position has begun to be in jeopardy, but fortunately, they are currently in two fronts to maintain the hope of competing for the title, one is naturally the Champions League, if he can win the Champions League, then he will not be sacked anyway.

There is also the Copa del Rey that have already reached the final, where they will face Real Madrid, which is also their most likely title. In any case, Martino will need to secure his position with a weighty trophy.

The advantage of facing opponents from the same league in the Champions League is that you don't have to travel long distances. If you are going to Germany, England, Italy and other places, the team often needs to leave two or three days in advance, borrow a training base in the local area, and get used to the local weather, venue and diet in advance.

Despite being opponents in the same league, Barcelona is not too far from Madrid, but Barcelona still arrived in Madrid a day early.

Normally, in away games in the Champions League, teams often go back to their rivals' rivals in the same city to borrow the stadium for training. For example, if you go to Manchester, if the opponent is Manchester United, Manchester City will definitely be happy to provide attentive service to Manchester United's opponents.

However, it is clear that Real Madrid will never be able to provide such a service to Barcelona, so Barcelona are only finding a local school stadium as their temporary training base.

At 2:45 a.m. Beijing time on April 10, the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals began. Atletico Madrid hosts Barcelona.

Domestically, the match is rightfully listed as a match broadcast nationwide on CCTV's sports channel.

Due to the excellent performance in recent years, especially after the six crowns of the Pep Guardiola era, the number of Barcelona fans in China has swelled dramatically, and due to the number of young fans, Barcelona fans are still very active on the Internet.

But no matter how active he is, he can't compare to Li Qingshan's supporters at the moment. It is estimated that in addition to the most die-hard Barcelona fans, other Barcelona fans will not make remarks that do not support Li Qingshan and Atletico Madrid in this game.

Li Qingshan managed to score the first goal of the Chinese in the Champions League in the first leg. In the next game, as long as Li Qingshan does not score a goal, he will set a small record - the Chinese's second Champions League goal, the third league goal and so on.

Anyway, Chinese people love this set.

CCTV accessed the live broadcast of the game an hour before the game, which was quite rare in the previous Champions League, which is basically the treatment of the Champions League final.

What can make CCTV sacrifice an hour is because there is a Chinese player in the Champions League 1/4 finals, and a key player has played.

When the players in the bus carrying Atletico Madrid arrived at the Calderón Stadium, it was already crowded outside.

Atletico Madrid fans in red and white jerseys sang cheering songs in unison and shouted slogans from all sides of the pitch.

When the bus door opened, the camera was focused on the door, starting with Simeone, then the coaching staff, and then Gabi, the team's captain.........

Atletico players got out of the car one by one, some gesturing to the camera, some turning their heads to chat with their teammates behind them, and some wearing headphones to immerse themselves in their own world.

Although it was a crucial knockout game in the Champions League, as professionals they were able to cope with the pressure, at least on the surface, they weren't nervous at all.

Once all the players got out of the car, the camera followed them. Aiming at the key players in this game.

Atletico Madrid's goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, for example, was a young Belgian goalkeeper who was impressive in the first leg.

The camera stayed on Li Qingshan for a long time, which also shows his importance in this team. In the absence of Diego Costa, all the attacking burden of Atletico Madrid is on him.

The immaturity on Li Qingshan's face now has faded a lot compared to a year or two ago, but he can still see from his face that he belongs to a twenty-year-old young man.

"It's so young........ Duan Xuan sighed. Twenty-year-old Li Qingshan is already a core player of Atletico Madrid, I don't know which players of the same age group can emerge in our country? ”

The domestic players of the same age group as Li Qingshan are players in the 93-94 age group, but in the league in the past two years, there are no qualified players who can play in the Chinese Super League...........

The post-90s age group just happened to encounter the darkest period of Chinese football, didn't Li Qingshan also have to change to high school because he graduated from football school. As a result, the selection of young players in the country is very narrow. Even at the U18 Asian Youth Championship, there were only 82 players in total for the U18 national youth team to select! How can such a narrow range make good players? Now Chinese football can produce Li Qingshan, which is completely lucky. This group of national football players is already known as the "weakest in history", but after this group of retires, the next post-90s players are far from being able to compare with this batch of national football players..... I really don't know which players around Li Qingshan will cooperate with him at that time.

Of course, Duan Xuan didn't say these words on live TV, he secretly sighed in his heart for a while, and then rejoined the game.

When the players from both sides had warmed up, they returned to their respective dressing rooms.

The two managers will be putting the finishing touches on the game.

'Before this game, a lot of people said that there was no way for us to move on. They say that Barcelona is a team that has reached the semi-finals for seven consecutive years, they say that Barcelona was a six-time champion, they say that Atletico Madrid has no experience in the Champions League......"

Simeone looked around and said slowly. Then, his voice began to sharpen.

"But I say, to hell with these views! This is our home turf! We've played Barcelona four times this season! But they couldn't win us! Not this time!! We've finally come to this stage, are we just here to be a foil to the big clubs? No!! Never!! 'Simeone is throwing his fists, he has a special charisma, and he is agitating the Atletico players in the dressing room. This time, we must win! ”

Simeone opened the locker room and exclaimed, "Now, my warriors! Go out and crush them! ”

The players stood up excitedly and shouted, "Must win!" ”