Chapter 155: The Ambition of the Golden Boot

The Champions League has finally come to an end after this round of league games, but that doesn't mean Atletico Madrid won't have any games left in midweek.

After the thirteenth round of matches, La Liga officially entered the competition for December, and as the league schedule progressed, Sevilla and Valencia, who had impressive performances in the early part of the season, were left behind. At the moment, the only thing left to compete for the top of the standings is Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

This means that the long-distance run of La Liga has begun to enter a new stage, and the teams in the first group have begun to take the lead in an all-round way, widening the gap with the teams behind them.

With the Copa del Rey just around the corner, many La Liga teams are also facing a two-line situation, so it will be difficult for teams with insufficient squad depth to maintain the momentum of catching up with Group 1 in the long-distance league run, and they are destined to gradually fall behind.

Atletico Madrid also have a Copa del Rey taught, and on December 4, they will travel to Ospitale, a small team in the Spanish third division.

Against such a team, Simeone did not use his main line-up, and all the players who played in the thirteenth round of the league were not included in the squad for the game, and the substitutes and some reserve players formed a squad for the first Copa del Rey game of the season.

Li Qingshan watched the game on TV, not only him, but most of the main players of Atletico Madrid did not go to the away stadium.

Ospitale, who played at home, still caused a little trouble for such an Atletico Madrid team, due to the lack of tacit understanding between such a set of lineups, in the first half of the game, Ospitale actually withstood the offensive of Atletico Madrid, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 0-0.

In the second half, Atletico Madrid's attack became more direct, and although the Copa del Rey was a two-legged affair, Simeone was reluctant to spend too much experience on a team like Ospitale, preferably able to kill the suspense of the game in the first leg.

One can imagine what Atletico Madrid's reserve squad and some substitutes endured at half-time.

Less than three minutes into the second half, Atletico Madrid finally opened up the game.

Mandzukic scored in the penalty area in this game, and Atletico Madrid led 1-0.

After the first goal was scored, once this layer of window paper was pierced, Ospitale's heart was suddenly removed.

In the 60th minute, Mandzukic scored from distance to give Atletico Madrid a 2-0 lead.

In the 78th minute, Atletico Madrid scored again, 3-0.

Towards the end of the game, Atletico Madrid scored again from a corner kick to make it 4-0.

Atletico Madrid, who came out of the second-tier lineup, managed to kill the suspense of this round of the Copa del Rey in the first leg. It is estimated that in the next round, Simeone could even consider sending players from the youth team to play......

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The Copa del Rey is only a small embellishment in the league process, and the current stage of the Copa del Rey competition is not enough to contain Atletico Madrid's investment in the league.

Atletico Madrid will face Elche away in the league two days later, which is why Simeone will field a second-tier squad in the first leg of the Copa del Rey – in fact, Simeone has been angry with La Liga many times about this schedule.

However, in terms of results, Simeone is quite satisfied. Any three points in the league must be won with all your might. Barcelona and Real Madrid don't lose many games in a season, and it will be quite difficult to catch up with any three points.

Atletico Madrid now has 35 points, one point behind Real Madrid. When the league is gradually entering the middle stage, this point gap must be bitten even if it cannot be overtaken.

Even if Real Madrid never makes a mistake in the rest of the game, Atletico Madrid still has a chance to challenge their opponents at home.

Atletico's main players, who were well rested during the week, were all on the pitch in this game.

Elche had a terrible defensive performance, conceding 30 goals in 13 league games, which also put them in last place in the league. Although they are joined by four other teams with the same ten points, who have conceded too many goals, with Elche having a -17 goal difference compared to Cordoba who are second from bottom of the league at -10.

Li Qingshan was certainly unceremonious when facing such a team, and he showed a strong desire to score from the beginning of the game.

Li Qingshan's personal goal this season is to win the Golden Boot in La Liga and the Champions League. But for him, because he has to miss a month to play in the Asian Cup, he has to get the Golden Boot without so many games, of course, he has to brush up on these weak teams.

In fact, a month-long absence refers to the situation where the Chinese team finally reaches the final. Generally speaking, the mental prediction of the Chinese media is that reaching the semi-finals will be considered overfulfilled.

But Li Qingshan doesn't think so, his only goal to participate in the Asian Cup is to win the championship!

Therefore, he has long since not counted this month's league.

Now Ronaldo has the same number of goals as him, which makes Li Qingshan have a strong sense of crisis in his heart. Competing for the Golden Boot with terrifying goalscorers like Ronaldo and Messi, how can you do it without working hard.

So poor Elche's game was completely ruined.

Their defense line is already unstable, and the worst thing is that their offense is even worse, so far in the league, they have only ten goals, which is less than the number of goals scored by Li Qingshan in the league alone, and among these ten goals, there are two penalty goals, three free kicks with goals, one free kick direct goal, and only four real sports goals........

Elche have no idea at home to Atletico Madrid, and their only hope is to sustain themselves for 90 minutes by piling up defenders at the back, and if they are lucky enough, they may be able to curl up a point from Atletico Madrid.

But Elche's wish was shredded in the eleventh minute of the match.

The scorer is Li Qingshan again!

Griezmann pulled to the side and swept a low ball into the box, and Li Qingshan fell to the ground to shovel the ball into the goal.

Elche scored a goal.

The ensuing match was even more tormenting for Elche's players.

Just six minutes after that goal, Koke found another hole in Elche's defence with a long-range shot from outside the box.

Within twenty minutes, Elche was two goals behind.

In the following game, Elche gave up on resistance completely, and their goal was pierced again and again.

The final score of the match was 6-0!

Li Qingshan scored two goals in each half, which was his most goal of the season.

Happy seniors!

In one game, he pulled his tally to sixteen, and before the match between Real Madrid and Barcelona began, Atletico Madrid temporarily surpassed Real Madrid in the standings. And on the scorer list, Li Qingshan is four goals ahead of Ronaldo, who has one less game!