Chapter 33: I Renewed a Second for Atletico (2)
Chapter 33: I Extend a Second for Atletico (2)
At the start of the second half, Cork and Turan replaced Adrian and Diego, who had been very poor in the first half. It's just that the arrival of Koke and www.biquge.infoTuran has not improved Atletico's situation.
The situation of poor form is like a plague, it is contagious, and in the second half, Atletico Madrid's midfield was still frequently tackled.
In the 52nd minute, Osasuna successfully counter-attacked with another midfield steal, but the final shot was cleared by Courtois.
Simeone is also shaking his head off the field, and now his players seem to be replaced as if they have been replaced as a whole, and there is no way to play the form at all.
Courtois, who had pounced on the ball and was lying on the grass under him, had not had time to lie on the ground for a moment to catch his breath when he heard someone in front of him shouting his name.
He didn't have to look up to know who the accent sounded strange to him was. Of course, his Chinese teammate Li Qingshan, who, as a Chinese, often makes his jokes joke in the locker room with his broken Spanish accent. The big man had a good temper and was a pleasure with the Atletico players, and although he didn't speak any Spanish when he first arrived, in less than two months, he could be heard in the dressing room panting and talking in a rough voice.
Atletico Madrid's dressing room is still relatively simple, and there is not much clique among the players. Everyone welcomes Li Qingshan, a player who has a good temper, a very gregarious personality, and is quite powerful.
Courtois was going to hold the ball in his arms a little to stabilize the situation, but he immediately heard Li Qingshan's shout.
Now Li Qingshan has a certain status in the Atletico Madrid team, Courtois changed his original mind and decided to hand over the ball to Li Qingshan.
He quickly got up and soon saw Li Qingshan's raised right hand standing in Osasuna's midfield. He drove the ball straight through with a big kick.
Li Qingshan pressed the defender behind him and stuck his position, and he was already familiar with this kind of physical confrontation.
At this point he was still far from Osasuna's goal, so he was going to stop the ball.
That's when he spotted Diego Costa's run from the flank to the middle. In the past two months, Li Qingshan still knows his partner on the front line very well.
This is a very cunning and capable striker.
Li Qingshan immediately understood Diego Costa's thoughts. He rubbed the ball lightly on his forehead and ferried it to the route where Costa was running, and Diego Costa was overjoyed to see that Li Qingshan had really noticed his running.
The pass sent by Li Qingshan's header was quite comfortable, and the ball speed after the football landed was not fast, so Costa had enough room to adjust, and he had already adjusted his pace during the run.
By the time the ball hit the ground and rolled forward and crossed his running path, Diego Costa had already drawn his bow and shot a shot in the penalty area!
With such a shot, the goalkeeper has nothing to do!
"Diego Costa!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!” Madrid's commentary lasted for more than ten seconds, and then he continued after breathing: "In the 55th minute of the game, Courtois launched a counterattack, Li Qingshan's header was ferried, and Diego Costa burst into the goal! Three to two!!! Now Atletico Madrid is only one goal behind! ”
After the goal, Diego Costa rushed straight into the net, scooped the ball up and ran towards the middle circle.
The other Atletico Madrid players did not celebrate too much, Li Qingshan, who completed the assist, waved loudly and Suarez Jr., who was about to come up to celebrate the goal, hurried back to his own half.
"Look at Li Qingshan's posture on the field, I really don't know that he has only joined the team for less than two months." Duan Xuan, who saw this scene on the broadcast camera, said jokingly.
"We look at Li Qingshan on the surface as if he is a very shy person, but you see that his personality on the field is actually quite extroverted, very willing to communicate with his teammates, and he has a good language talent, I read the newspaper that now Li Qingshan has begun to communicate with his teammates in Spanish in the Atletico dressing room." Xu Yang, who used to be a professional player, admires Li Qingshan.
In the past, when domestic players went to play in Europe, the biggest obstacle was communication, due to the language barrier, introverted personality, and not liking communication became the label of Chinese players.
The reason why many Chinese players can't stay in foreign teams is not the main reason. The big reason why Sun Jihai has been able to stay in Manchester City for so many years is that Sun Jihai is outgoing, has good English, and has no communication barriers.
Simeone watched the process of the goal.
He pondered in his heart: It seems that Li Qingshan's role has not been fully played.
In the case of the team's poor physical condition, Atletico Madrid is still entangled with the opponent in the midfield as usual, and Atletico Madrid, who has no physical support, naturally has no way to control the midfield.
At this time, simple and crude is the most effective!
Simeone walked to the sidelines, grabbed Gabi, the captain on the field, and gave him a good opportunity.
"Tell the players to put Lee and Diego at the front! After the ball was broken in the backcourt, it was directly passed to the top of Lee's head! ”
Gabi nodded, and after coming on the pitch, he communicated the manager's latest tactical arrangements to the players.
"After the ball is broken, a long pass is found on top of Lee's head!"
The phrase quickly spread among Atletico Madrid's players. Then they immediately made adjustments.
It didn't take long for Osasuna to spot a change in Atletico Madrid.
In the 59th minute, Atletico Madrid snatched the ball back. Turan broke the ball and passed it to Godin behind him. Godin sent a long ball straight into the front.
Li Qingshan chose to stop the ball at his feet this time and collided with Diego Costa once.
Passed the ball to Costa in front of him, then turned and ran into the box. Costa receives the ball and picks up a pass into the box. Li Qingshan twisted himself in the penalty area to complete a header hanging goal, and the ball was held up by Osasuna's goalkeeper Fernandes with one hand.
Corner kick!
The effect of the change at Atletico Madrid is obvious. Simeone clapped vigorously from the sidelines, boosting the morale of the players on the field.
Atletico Madrid's set-piece attacking power Osasuna clearly knew very well that they had piled up all their players in the box to defend the corners this time.
Godin and Miranda, two central defenders, also came up to participate in the attack of corner kicks.
Li Qingshan is naturally the focus of Osasuna's target, and there are two defenders next to him.
Li Qingshan shuttled back and forth in the penalty area, and the two players pulled his jersey and followed closely, not daring to slack off at all.
Central defender Dalmia put his hand on Li Qingshan's waist and pulled Li Qingshan's clothes.
Li Qingshan was also unceremoniously, and slapped the hand on him with one hand, and Damiya persevered to put his hand on it again, and later he even hugged Li Qingshan's waist completely.
Li Qingshan stiffened up, and at the same time reached out and slapped the two hands on his waist fiercely, and got out of his body.
The referee naturally noticed their entanglement in the box, walked into the box to warn the two players, and then signaled that Gabi could take the corner.
Gabi glanced at Li Qingshan's position and raised his hands up. Each team will have a number of fixed corners in the game, and then the player who takes the corner will decide which one to use, and then pass it on to the player involved in the corner attack through gestures.
Gabi raised his hands and the Atletico players in the box quickly went their way to their plan.
This ball will be sent to the back point! Then Li Qingshan completed the header and attacked, and the other players played the role of feints.
Of course, Li Qingshan will not directly expose the team's goal, at the moment of Gabi's serve, he made a gesture to the middle, deceived the defensive players, and then directly turned halfway and killed back!
When the defenders reacted, this short time difference was taken advantage of by Li Qingshan.
He jumped one step ahead of the defenders and took advantage of the position.
When he leaped high, Dalmia could only throw his body out and make a final defensive effort. However, before their bodies collided in the air, Li Qingshan had already completed the action of shaking his head and attacking the goal.
The ball jumped over the goalkeeper's fingers and flew into the goal!
Three to three! Atletico Madrid equalised!
When the football jumped over the goal line, Li Qingshan also collided head-on with Daliya, but the result of the collision was that Damia was knocked away, while Li Qingshan landed easily, and then rushed into the goal to pick up the football and ran backwards.
Simeone raised his arms and shouted on the sidelines, and then he waved his hand to signal the Atletico players who remained in the front field to hurry back to their own half and hurry up to let the opponent kick off quickly!
Now that the game has reached sixty-five minutes, there is less than half an hour left before the end of the game, and Atletico Madrid still has a chance to overtake the score!
The morale of Atletico Madrid who equalized was so high that the fatigue on their bodies seemed to disappear in an instant, and when Osasuna restarted, the Atletico players quickly snatched back the ball through frantic pressing and launched the attack again.
Now the most frustrating is the Osasuna fans at the scene, who also watched the team score three goals for Atletico Madrid in the first half, and it is very likely to win at home, only to be equalized by two goals in a row when they came back in the second half.
And after the equalizer, Osasuna's penalty area began to rumble, and it seemed that they could be overtaken at any time.
In the 71st minute, Li Qingshan fired a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, forcing Fernandes to make a wonderful save.
In the 74th minute, Diego Costa cut horizontally inside the box and hit the post!
In the 80th minute, Li Qingshan's header was ferried to the vicinity of the arc of the penalty area, and the follow-up Koke hit the defender's body with a shot out of the bottom line.
Osasuna's head coach Gracia shouted from the sidelines for Osasuna's players to return to the penalty area. For Osasuna, a draw against Atletico Madrid is also an acceptable result.
However, for Atletico Madrid, a draw means that they will be overtaken by Real Madrid by two points after this round! This is unacceptable to them!
In the last ten minutes of the game, Atletico Madrid launched an onslaught, and Osasuna completely gave up attacking, Gracia began to make a series of substitutions, replacing three defenders for three attacking players in the front, and the intention to hold on to the draw was obvious. By the time they made their substitutions, it was already eighty-five minutes into the game.
At this time, Simeone also made the last substitution, Villa up, Insua down!
Replace a defender, replace a striker, this is the last stand!
A draw means little to Atletico, who will only have to get three points to keep their rivals in the table.
The game was running out and although Osasuna's defence looked shaky, Atletico Madrid still failed to score.
In the ninetieth minute, the fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines for three minutes of stoppage time.
In the ninety-second minute, Villa's long-range shot from outside the penalty area was saved by the goalkeeper!
Another corner!
This could be Atletico Madrid's last chance to attack.
Almost all of the Atletico players rushed into the box, with the exception of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who stayed at the back, and Koke, who dragged behind.
The small penalty area was densely packed with nineteen players from both sides.
In this case, there is almost no room to run.
Li Qingshan now has no time to entangle with the defenders around him, he stands in the penalty area, squatting slightly, accumulating strength for the jump.
Gabby's corner kicks out again!
Li Qingshan took a step forward directly, ignoring the few hands that were pulling on him.
Dalmia and even the whole person hung on him, but at this time, Li Qingshan only had football in his eyes.
He had a bruise on his neck and jumped with a defender on his shoulder.
This scene even shocked Simeone on the sidelines.
This kid.......... this strength is really terrifying........ it's terrifying!
Damia, who was hanging on Li Qingshan's body, was already panicking at the moment, and anyone had to panic at this time. This is a professional player of more than 70 kilograms, and he jumps like he is carrying a child!
Li Qingshan completed the action of shaking his head and attacking the goal.
At such a close distance, the ball flew into the goal without any suspense.
Four to three!!!!!