Chapter Seventy-Three: The Big Sausage and Boosting Morale

The thirty-fifth and penultimate round of La Liga kicked off over the weekend. Real Madrid, who still have a title chance to play, were the first to come out and beat Osasuna 4-0 at home to temporarily close the gap on Atletico Madrid to four points.

Atletico Madrid will face Valencia away on Sunday. Valencia are currently mid-table with 45 points and are in the stage of no desire, with their main focus currently on the Europa League, with a Europa League semi-final against Sevilla in midweek and next week, so the league is not very attractive to them.

Although Atletico Madrid, like Valencia, suffered a double game a week, because the Europa League game was delayed by one day compared to the Champions League game, Atletico still had one more day of rest than Valencia, and they are now ranked first in the league and will never give up any three points!

In this game, Diego Costa and Alda Tulan, who had just returned from injury, were given the opportunity to rest, and Villa and Li Qingshan partnered up front.

Atletico are in better fitness than Valencia, and they are a little bit more on the bench when it comes to their bench depth. So in the face of Atletico Madrid, Valencia did not have the intention of fighting hard with Atletico Madrid at home, in the first 30 minutes, Li Qingshan found the opportunity to shoot through frequent running, Raul Garcia's cross was stopped by Li Qingshan in front of him with his chest, and then directly stabbed the shot, breaking the deadlock for Atletico Madrid.

At the beginning of the second half, the veteran Villa successfully scored a single goal against offside, and the score became 2-0, and the score was also maintained until the end, and Atletico Madrid defeated Valencia 2-0 away from home to continue to advance towards the La Liga title.

With three rounds remaining, they only need three points to secure the La Liga title! Their next opponent is away to Levante, and if all goes well, they could claim the 2013/2014 La Liga title at the end of that game at the earliest!

Simeone can now finally breathe a sigh of relief and focus on the Champions League, where the whole Atletico squad will be on a plane to London the day after the Valencia game, where they will face Chelsea in a do-or-die battle – a battle to determine who will qualify for the Champions League final!

Before this game, not much media was optimistic that Atletico would reach the final – you know, under Jose Mourinho, Chelsea had never lost at home in the league, and only lost 2-1 at home to Barcelona in the 2006 Champions League quarter-finals! Chelsea, who are looking to beat Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge, are close to zero in the past.

However, Chelsea are riddled with injuries and due to the Premier League's busy schedule, many Premier League teams are starting to have an injury list in the middle and late stages of the season. On Chelsea's side, midfielders Frank Lampard and Mikel are suspended, Hazard, Samuel Eto'o, and John Terry are injured and don't know if they will be able to return in time.

Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, is well-staffed. No injuries or suspensions. Therefore, Atletico Madrid may not be unable to get a win away from home.

In the Premier League before this game, Mourinho's second-tier squad against Liverpool was enough to show his attitude - to eliminate Atletico Madrid at home and reach the Champions League final!

And Chelsea, who came out of the second team, beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield, which gave them even more confidence.

Atletico Madrid, who have acclimatised to two days of bad weather in England at their training base in London side Fulham, are now at the end of April, and with May approaching, strong winds are blowing in England and Atletico often have trouble training – when the football is in the air, you don't know where it's going.....

It's also quite interesting to say, Chelsea, as the name suggests, should be in the London Chelsea area, but in fact it is not, he is in the London Fulham area, only because there is a team called Fulham in Fulham, so they named the team after the nearby Chelsea area....

The weather in England in May and June is unpredictable, sunny and cloudy, so in the past two days, Li Qingshan has relived the scene when he played in England, the morning was still sunny, and in the afternoon, it rained heavily in London.

Li Qingshan has played in England, so he is still very experienced in the rain battle, but it is difficult for other Atletico Madrid players to adapt to such weather.

"It's damn weather." After training, Diego Costa complained.

"That's okay, Diego, at least there won't be mud at Stamford Bridge...."Li Qingshan took off his shoes that were already covered with mud, took off his training socks together, and picked up a change of clothes to rinse off.

The dressing room at Fulham's training base was interesting, with no flaps between the shower heads, so a group of Atletico players were naked with big sausages.

When Li Qingshan also walked into the bathing room naked, Cork gasped.

"Oh!!!! Big!!! ”

Everyone's eyes were attracted, and then someone covered their critical area with a towel.

"All of a sudden, I lost all my faith..."

"Lee, why are you so cruel..."

"Looks like you're going to have to have a treat to soothe our wounded young hearts."

"Treat! Treat! Treat!! ”

The naked Atletico players waved towels, shouted and jumped in the shower room, so that the equipment administrator was still a little nervous to come over to see if something was wrong, and then saw the current scene, the players were waving towels on their shoulders and jumping ....... It's a crowd of guts.....

Li Qingshan was also one of the people who was jumping with Atletico Madrid, and he shouted: "No problem! As long as we eliminate Chelsea, we can go back to Madrid and pick a place!! ”

"Oh!!!"

"Hooray!!!!!!!

.........

The members of the coaching staff who had just pushed the door in happened to hear the shouts of the players.

Assistant coach Biscaino said to Simeone with some joy: "Oh, it looks like the boys are in good spirits!" ”

Simeone nodded, "It seems that at least we don't have to bother with boosting morale...."

His coaching staff also had a small meeting just now to reconfirm the tactics for this second round. With the league already infinitely close to the title, he will definitely have to put all his energy into the Champions League. They have already reached the semi-finals, who will easily give up the chance to advance to the final?

Now Simeone has not thought of winning the championship is still a bit far away, he only focuses on the present, as long as the game in front of him is played well, after advancing to the final, there will naturally be a final style of play.

In fact, there are not many possible changes in Atletico Madrid in terms of tactics, after all, Atletico Madrid is now a team with a very mature style of play, and Simeone will only fine-tune the tactics and will not make any drastic changes.

The main thing is the resilience of the team, especially the capricious weather conditions in England, which make the Spanish team from a warm and sunny climate very irritated.

Thankfully, as soon as he pushed the door in, he heard the collective cheers of the players. As a manager, he doesn't care about the players' private affairs, but seeing the players unaffected by this annoying weather still makes Simeone breathe a sigh of relief. [.]