Twenty-nine, the octopus and the bear's paw cannot be both

With a home win, Madrid managed to overtake Barcelona in the standings and occupy the top spot in the standings. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Real Madrid's away game against Athletic Bilbao was two hours later than this game, and the Basques drew at home to Galaxy, leaving Barcelona and Real Madrid both with 54 points, three points behind Atletico Madrid.

Successfully distancing himself from his competitors is certainly something to be happy about, but Simeone is not happy either.

Since January, La Liga has been on a pretty tight schedule, basically coming through a rhythm of one game in three days. In such a tight schedule, the biggest concern is the team's injury problems.

However, injuries were inevitable in the middle of the season, and near the end of the match against Real Sociedad, Felipe sat on the grass without getting up after completing a tackle, and was subsequently suggested by the team doctor to have a back thigh muscle strain.

And in the post-match examination, Cork also suffered injuries. In this way, despite the big win over the opponent in the league to reach the top of the table, the cost of two main injuries at once still cast a shadow on the team's ability to cope with the upcoming fixtures. Back-to-back doubles have stretched Atletico Madrid's bench depth.

Fortunately, the team's forward line is quite adequate, and the three capable strikers make Simeone's lineup relatively generous. Especially with the existence of Li Qingshan, a center forward who doesn't seem to be tired, it has deepened the thickness of Atletico Madrid's forward line a lot.

Anyway, now Simeone is 100 satisfied with the team's successful introduction of Li Qingshan in the winter transfer window. With such a striker, Diego Costa and Villa can rotate each other, thus ensuring that the team's strength in the attacking line is not weakened.

Simeone, who was overseeing the team's training on the sidelines, wasn't happy for long, and he soon saw something that made his eyelids jump.

Villa collapsed to the ground during a confrontation and was later carried to the sidelines on a stretcher.

Sure enough, Simeone cursed in his heart. Villa suffered a muscle strain, and his team experienced another attrition. Villa's injury has left Atletico Madrid with a gap in the striker position.

The sudden reduction of three awards made Simeone feel a lot gloomy. In particular, Atletico Madrid faced their city rivals Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey semi-finals.

It stands to reason that the Copa del Rey has reached the semi-finals, and it only takes three more games to defend this important domestic title.

But in Simeone's mind, the most important thing this season is the league, especially now that the league situation is very favorable to Atletico Madrid, Simeone is not too willing to invest more resources in the Copa del Rey, the championship that Atletico Madrid won last season.

This is perhaps where a team like Atletico Madrid struggles, and they can't afford to be as valuable as a big team like Real Madrid, even with a bench that is bright enough.

If the Copa del Rey semi-final opponent were another team, Simeone would not struggle as he does now, and he would not hesitate to field his second team. However, when the opponent is Real Madrid, it is not easy to make such a decision.

Simeone, in particular, has played for Atletico Madrid as a player, helping the Sheets win La Liga and the Copa del Rey in the 1995/1996 season, and he certainly knows what the Madrid derby means.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that Atletico Madrid was founded to play Real Madrid.

In April 1903, Real Madrid initiated the Spanish National Championship and met Athletic Bilbao in the final, and although there were only a few Basque students in the stadium, Bilbao beat Real Madrid 3-2. Subsequently, the Basque people on the scene were not addicted to it and decided to continue torturing Real Madrid in Madrid. In their captain De. Under the leadership of Acha, Bilbao's Madrid branch "Bilbao II Team" was born.

Until 1907, because the second team had to play against the first team in the national championship. The second team could only be independent and renamed Atletico Madrid. Since then, the team has taken root in Madrid and has become a target for the working class, while Real Madrid has chosen to combine with the rich, famous, aristocratic and royal members of the upper class. The estrangement between the two sides began to be mixed with class sentiments, and as the confrontation between the two sides became more and more intense, the hostility between the two sides deepened.

More than 100 years have passed, and if the fan class of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid is still as clear as it was more than 100 years ago, then it is obviously one-sided. If your father is a steelworker who has lived and worked in the south of Madrid all his life, a faithful believer in Atletico Madrid, and you are the son of a worker, even if you become a lawyer, a doctor, and squeeze into the circle of high society, most of these children will probably continue their father's faith and support Atletico Madrid. Today, the way of life of fans of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid is no longer as distinct as it was more than a hundred years ago. However, the century-old grudge between them is an eternal topic of media rendering and fans talking. This has made the Madrid derby even more interesting.

People always like to generalize, but sometimes this one-sidedness is not unreasonable, the first line of the Real Madrid team song is "Come on Real Madrid", and Atletico Madrid is "Let's go to the Manzanares River"; The Real Madrid anthem is sung by Domingo, the king of world opera, and the Atletico Madrid anthem is celebrated by the communist singer Joaquín Sabina - Atletico Madrid represents the belief of "subversion and resistance", and Real Madrid is a symbol of "royalty and protection". The confrontation between two teams with very different styles in Madrid has plunged the city into an atmosphere of confrontation.

As the manager of Atletico Madrid, Simeone certainly knows the attitude of Atletico Madrid fans towards the match against Real Madrid. But at times like these, as the head coach of the team, he has to make certain trade-offs.

Whether to send all the main players to fight Real Madrid away from home, or to strategically choose to abandon the Copa del Rey and concentrate on the league.

Now the two options are in front of Simeone. Emotionally, Simeone, of course, hopes that both fronts can go hand in hand. However, the team's successive injuries have been a wake-up call, and if he is not able to make a decisive decision as a manager, perhaps in the end, both titles will not be won by Atletico.

Simeone waited for the team doctor to come and report on Villa's injury, and then let out a long breath to hide the anger in his chest.

Villa has a muscle strain in his calf and needs to be out for at least two weeks. With a busy schedule, injuries are inevitable.

Simeone put away his emotions and quickly made a decision.