Chapter 154: A Coruña is taken lightly

At the end of the game, despite not being able to win at home to Dortmund, the Calderón Stadium was still a sea of joy. Atletico Madrid fans threw streamers onto the pitch, almost all of which were covered in coloured pieces of paper around the pitch.

The live broadcast was yelling: "One round ahead, the group first!" Rejoice!! ”

The fans at the scene responded with wave after wave of cheers.

The players also seemed very excited, and it was indeed a joy to be able to win the group without much consumption in a super death group.

The players walked hand in hand to the stadium stands and walked around the stadium to thank the fans.

Simeone breathed a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to think too much about the next round of the Champions League. After a week of double matches, let alone the players, even Simeone, as the head coach, felt a little unbearable.

Then, as the owner of the court, Simeone straightened his bow tie, walked up to Klopp and stretched out his right hand.

"Mr. Klopp, you have a strong team!"

"So do you, Diego." Klopp had already suppressed the frustration in his heart, stretched out his hand and smiled in response to Simeone.

"Hopefully you'll make it to the end."

"Thank you, we will."

The hands of the two personality coaches were clasped together

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"Atletico Madrid like this is astounding!"

The next day, the front page of the newspaper "As" used such a headline.

Indeed, the four teams that have come out of the Champions League this season, Athletic Bilbao's fate hangs by a thread, Barcelona still has suspense in the sixth round, if they can't win Ajax away, they may not even be able to get second in the group, and Real Madrid has already won the first place in the group after this round, but their opponents in this group are too weak, and no team can pose a threat to Real Madrid, Real Madrid won all five games and got 15 points.

And Atletico Madrid, in a hellish group of difficulty, was able to lock the first place in the group in one round, which really surprised many people.

In five games, in addition to being held to a draw by Dortmund twice, Atletico Madrid faced Roma twice and Liverpool at home, Atletico Madrid successfully got three points, and judging from Atletico Madrid's results, it may not be obvious that this is a group of death. However, the bottom three teams, Borussia Dortmund, Roma and Liverpool, are only within three points, and in the final round, each team has a theoretical chance of qualifying second in the group.

"Atletico Madrid easily broke through in the group of death, maybe when looking at the results of the group stage, it doesn't say much, but when Atletico Madrid faces such big teams as Liverpool, Roma and Borussia Dortmund, it shows that it is completely one level higher than their opponents."

"There have been many moments in the history of Atletico Madrid. But I can guarantee that ten years from now, when we look back at Atletico Madrid's miraculous rise over the years, we can conclude that Simeone is creating one of the most glorious eras in the history of Atletico Madrid. ”

Eventually, so writes the newspaper As.

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The media was excited, but Atletico Madrid was relatively calm.

With one league game left at the weekend, Simeone just gave the team a half-day off.

When they regrouped, the manager simply said, "Alright, boys, now we're going to start preparing for the next league game." ”

It's like this in a season, the league, the Champions League, the Copa del Rey, the competition is dense and heavy, and one game after another. The media and fans can immerse themselves in a game and give him all sorts of meanings, but for the players and coaches, it's just an ordinary game for a long season. It's good to be happy to be out of the group, but there's no need to be happy for days.

After all, even the Champions League has been won, and the small cast of qualifying from the group has long been unable to make the players worthy of celebration.

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On November 30, Atletico Madrid hosts Deportivo La Coruna.

Although the era of Super Laco is long gone, a team that was once brilliant will always be impossible to ignore.

Although the team played a round of Champions League in midweek, considering that Deportivo La Coruna is also a team with a certain amount of fighting power when playing at home, Simeone did not make too many rotations.

With just one point off the top of the table, Atletico Madrid are full of fighting spirit in the league and they will not give up a league game easily.

Most of the players who started in the Champions League still started this one.

With the exception of Siqueira's return from injury, the rest of the mix is the same as in the last round of the Champions League.

In this game, Deportivo chose to shrink the defense and played a defensive counterattack.

This is not surprising at all, and the difference in quality between Deportivo La Coruna and Atletico Madrid is still very obvious. This game is a game of resistance for them.

In this game, Li Qingshan was very tightly defended.

The current Li Qingshan is no longer a nobody, and he is the one who is taken care of in almost every game.

This season is even more so, in the La Liga scorer list, Li Qingshan scored 12 goals in 11 league games, and Real Madrid's number one star Cristiano Ronaldo is tied for the top scorer list. And Ronaldo relied on the advantage of the alphabet ranking to beat Li Qingshan in front.

In addition to scoring goals, Li Qingshan has contributed eight assists to his teammates this season. This also means that Li Qingshan has directly participated in the number of goals in the league has reached as many as 20! Such a threatening figure, you can't ignore him anyway.

In the Champions League, Li Qingshan scored eight goals in the first five rounds of the group stage, overtaking Messi and Ronaldo's six goals, and leading the Champions League scorers alone.

Thus, in front of such a striker, Deportivo resisted for only twenty-five minutes.

After Li Qingshan took the ball with his back, he leaned on the defender and forcibly turned around and shot!

Once Atletico Madrid took the lead, the game was completely in the hands of the home team.

In the second half, substitute Mandzukic scored another goal to seal the win for Atletico Madrid.

Two to zero!

A resounding victory with the tempo completely in their own hands, Atletico Madrid had little to show in this game and Deportivo La Coruna failed to cause any problems for their opponents.

Unfortunately, their rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona have both won back-to-back games, and their momentum at the top of the table has not changed much.