Chapter Twenty-Eight: Goal Shortage? Inexistent!

When the Iberian Peninsula sun shone into Li Qingshan's room, Li Qingshan withdrew from the world of football training camp. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The skill of shooting machine is really suitable for the current Li Qingshan. He woke up and sat on the edge of his bed to reflect on the mistakes he had made in his last game against Sevilla.

What are your goals? Scoring goals, of course.

In this case, you should be more flexible in your position, rather than rushing towards the landing area without disguise, so that the opponent's defense can quickly catch up.

If you are more flexible in your position, it will be difficult for the opponent to guess your intentions, so you may not be in a hand-to-hand fight with the opponent's stronger central defender in the last game.

That's what he came to last night's training on the shooting machine, and he should play smarter. In professional football, it is not uncommon for a centre-back to be taller and stronger than himself, and the defender is more dominant when it comes to jumping headers, after all, the defender only needs to destroy.

After careful reflection, Li Qingshan got up and began to decorate his residence in Madrid.

Today is January 20, 2014, which is an ordinary day in Spain, but in China it has a special meaning - the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival.

After each game, Simeone mostly gives the team a day off to allow the players to adjust.

Li Qingshan can also take advantage of this holiday to have a good New Year.

As he cleaned up the house, the doorbell rang.

Li Qingshan opened the door with an apron, and sure enough, standing at the door was the only Chinese he knew in Spain - Tian Shaohua.

"Happy New Year, Mr. Tian, please come in!"

He hurriedly moved the door out of the way.

At this time, another figure flashed behind Tian Shaohua.

"Hai, Lee!"

Aimar jumped out from the side and winked at Li Qingshan.

"Aimar?!"

Li Qingshan was taken aback.

"Why are you in Madrid?!"

"Well, it's a surprise." Aimar still wears jeans with a white death T-shirt and a ponytail, and there is no change from more than a year ago.

"Haha, I was so surprised. Come in, please. ”

On this day, Li Qingshan spent the Spring Festival with the two girls, pasted Spring Festival couplets on the door, and hung red lanterns, in fact, these things should have been completed yesterday, but because there was a competition yesterday, it could only be moved to the first day of the New Year.

When Li Qingshan saw off two of his few friends in Madrid, he sighed slightly.

Thinking about it carefully, Li Qingshan has not gone back to celebrate the New Year with his parents for two years.

As a professional footballer, the Spring Festival also happens to be a busy time for the season, and it is rare for me to have the opportunity to return to China to celebrate the Chinese New Year with my parents before I retire.

That's probably one of the prices you have to pay as a professional.

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After the league game against Sevilla, Atletico are on the verge of facing the Copa del Rey in four days' time.

After knocking out Valencia, Atletico Madrid's next leg opponent is Athletic Bilbao.

Athletic Bilbao is located in the north of Spain, and the most impressive thing about this team is that it has cultivated a large number of Basque teenagers in the Basque Country, and then gradually developed into a team composed entirely of Basque people. They have pursued a policy of "pureblood" for more than 100 years, and although this policy has been relaxed in recent years, Basques still occupy an absolute numerical position in the Athletic Bilbao team, and non-Basques are only a small minority.

Their team's style is also the same as that of the Basques, brave and attacking. Their nickname, "The Lion", may also come from this.

And it's also interesting to talk about the relationship between Atletico Madrid and Bilbao. In 1903, Atlético de Madrid was a branch club of Athletic Bilbao, that is, Atletico Madrid was the second team of Athletic Bilbao. It was not until 1921 that Atletico Madrid officially became independent from Athletic Bilbao.

In this game, Simeone still sent Li Qingshan to start, and his partner was replaced by Villa.

Although some outside media have recently asserted that Li Qingshan will be thoroughly studied by the coach of La Liga, Simeone still seems to have a lot of trust in Li Qingshan, and he appeared as a starting striker again.

The young Chinese striker's failure to score in the last game prevented him from continuing his streak of four consecutive goals, but Simeone still started this game. Now there are three strikers in the Atletico Madrid team, Li Qingshan is actually the main force that cannot be beaten, and Diego Costa and Villa began to rotate at that time. Although there are also reasons for the dense schedule, it also fully shows Simeone's trust in Li Qingshan, who has rotated in almost every position during this time, except for goalkeeper Courtois and center Li Qingshan. Said the Madrid commentator.

It's just that he must not know that Li Qingshan's physical condition shocked Simeone, since Li Qingshan showed no signs of fatigue at all, of course let him play and let the other two strikers rotate.

"Maybe Li Qingshan's game will be tested again, Bilbao's style has always been fierce, maybe a striker like Li Qingshan who relies on his body and header is difficult to get benefits from this team."

However, as soon as the commentator's words fell, Atletico Madrid began to celebrate the goal.

It was Li Qingshan who had just mentioned him who scored the goal.

In the first minute of the game, Alda Turan crossed on the left side, Li Qingshan first made a gesture to grab the front point, and the central defender San Jose of Athletic Bilbao hurriedly followed, but Li Qingshan, who was running, suddenly stopped, San Jose couldn't react and hit Li Qingshan's back, and Li Qingshan took advantage of this change in rhythm to start again and easily put the ball into the gate at the front point.

Such a quick goal made the commentator who had just made a long speech a little embarrassed.

Simeone stood up from the dugout and applauded the goal. Although it was just a simple header, he still saw his progress from Li Qingshan's running, and it seems that the last game made Li Qingshan grow to a certain extent. He's smarter in his movement and knows how to use simple tempo changes to get out of the mark.

A player who knows how to reflect on the game and improve at the same time has a lot to offer.

Simeone is now more and more satisfied with Li Qingshan, and he is even thinking about the possibility of establishing Li Qingshan as the offensive core of Atletico Madrid's frontcourt.

When a goal was scored, the game was much easier for Atletico Madrid, who were comfortable on the counter-attack.

Eventually, towards the end of the first half, Villa had a solo chance to score. Rewrite the score to 2-0.

In the 60th minute of the second half, Li Qingshan had another chance, Cork passed a low ball on the right side, Li Qingshan followed up in the middle and knocked the ball into the goal with his foot. This is a relatively rare close-range goal for Li Qingshan.

In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the first leg.

Li Qingshan used a brace to announce all the riposte against his doubts.

Three days later, on 27 January, Atletico Madrid won 4-2 away at Vallecano, in which Li Qingshan scored a goal, but it was not him who was the most showy in the game, but midfielder Arda Tulan, who scored twice.

La Liga's schedule is very tight in January, with the second leg of the Copa del Rey on 30 January. Fortunately, he had enough advantage in the first leg away, which also made Simeone rotate easily, he sent most of the substitutes, and even Li Qingshan was given the opportunity to rotate and rest in this game, and he was replaced by Rodriguez, who had rarely had a chance to play during this time.

In the end, Atletico Madrid and Bilbao, who played at home with a substitute lineup, drew 1-1 and advanced to the next round of the Copa del Rey with an aggregate score of 4-1.

Four days later, Atletico Madrid hosted Real Sociedad in the league. The day before the game, Barcelona lost at home to Valencia, a result that made Atletico Madrid particularly excited, and if they can win at home to Real Sociedad, then Atletico Madrid will be three points away from Barcelona and monopolize the top of the table!

There is no room for mistakes in the league, and Atletico Madrid is facing it with all the main forces. In this game, Li Qingshan broke out again. He scored his first hat-trick in La Liga.

He scored in the 38th, 74th and 87th minutes of the game, scoring a header, a penalty in the box and a long-range shot. As his understanding of interspersed positions deepened, his scoring skills became more and more abundant.

Some time ago, the doubts about him also disappeared.

Goal drought? Inexistent!