Chapter 63: The Opponent of the Quarterfinals

In January, the winter transfer window for European football opened, and the negotiated transfers were made one by one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As always, the big news always revolves around the Premier League.

Liverpool's £35 million signing of Newcastle United striker Carroll kicked off the 'first shot' of winter transfers, but many media believe that it is difficult to surpass this record in subsequent transfers, after all, it is only a winter transfer, and heavyweight stars will not choose to leave at this time.

The next €29.25 million win for Chelsea to win David Luiz doesn't seem to be big news, with little media coverage of the Brazilian defender's transfer, despite his Portuguese Premier League title with Benfica last year and was named the Portuguese Premier League Player of the Year by UEFA.

After the news came from Serie A, Inter Milan signed Laziano and Pazzini in a row, and signed two talents for 39 million euros, which caused a sensation in the entire Italian and even European football, in comparison, Juventus to get Matri seems to be nothing.

Two days later, the biggest news came - Aston Villa traded Darren Bent from Manchester City for a whopping £43 million!

Since Wan Sheng left, Darren Bent has been playing for Manchester City, whether it is a change of coach or many changes to the lineup, Darren Bent is Manchester City's main striker, but the new coach Roberto Mancini prefers to use the players he brought, or in other words, he rejects Manchester City's old players, so Tevez, Santa Cruz, Bellamy and other forwards continue to be reused, so in November, the English media broke the news that Darren Bent and coach Mancini had a quarrel.

Although Darren Bent made two appearances for Manchester City in December and scored a goal, it is clear that the City hierarchy believes that manager Roberto Mancini is more important and that it is only Darren Bent who can leave.

The news of Darren Bent's transfer is still very heavyweight, as he has been performing very well and has also squeezed out Michael Owen to become the main striker of the England team.

With such a good striker, Manchester City is willing to let him go?

Is it for £43 million?

Of course not.

In the past two years, the English have known how rich the Arabs are, and they are almost at all costs to supplement the squad to make Manchester City stronger and make Manchester City more hopeful of competing for the title.

Darren Bent's departure is still bitterly funny.

A number of Spanish media outlets have reported that it is no surprise that Darren Bent will be the target of the winter transfer, and unless there are bigger stars, £43 million is not so easy to beat.

There is another reason why the Spanish media are reporting on the transfer of other leagues - compared to the lively scenes of other leagues, there is really not much to say about the winter transfer of La Liga.

In the first five days of January, there were only two transfers in La Liga that could be mentioned slightly, one was Barcelona's €3 million purchase of Dutch midfielder Ibrahim Afelai, and the other was Real Madrid's loan signing of Bam Adebayo.

There's not much else to say.

Atletico Madrid also has only one piece of news - Wan Sheng has promoted a youth team defender to the first team.

The name of the youngster is not even known to the outside world.

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After the Christmas holidays, the players returned to the training ground one by one.

Although the holiday is only ten days, the club organizes a physical test to check the physical condition of the players after the holiday.

Most of the players are in good physical condition.

One of the very special is Isco, not that his health has deteriorated, but that he has gotten better, when the team doctor gave the test results, he focused on Isco, "He has not become weaker, but has become stronger, Wan Sheng, look at this data, the fat content, he is only less than ...... percent"

Wan Sheng listened patiently.

In fact, the club's physical test is meaningless to him, the football training master system, can clearly view the physical condition of each player, although there is no analysis data such as 'fat content', but there are direct results, specific to each attribute data of the player, but there is no way to explain it to others, so it is necessary to use the physical test to 'cover up'.

Wan Sheng was well aware of Isco's situation.

This little guy definitely didn't have a day off during the holidays, most of the time was spent in training, just for personal training tasks, he completed four rounds, four rounds of tasks 4 attribute growth, coupled with the active use effect of 'rapid progress', his ability growth is already visible to the naked eye.

Wansheng was ready to reuse Isco.

Now seeing Isco training so hard, he has strengthened the determination of important Isco.

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The first match after the holiday is the round of 17 of the league, when Atletico Madrid hosts Racing Santander.

Racing Santander have struggled with relegation since the start of last season, finishing just three points above the relegation zone.

Last summer, Racing Santander sold a number of key players, which made them struggle last season, and sadly, the same tragedy happened again this summer.

The departure of Canales is the biggest loss for Racing Santander, who has lost the most reliable soul in the attack.

In last season's main and rotational squad, Santander also lost key players such as Toni Moral, Oriol, Luis Garcia, Moraton and Sisco. In terms of personnel introduction, except for Almeria left-back Sisco, who is a well-known player, the other newcomers are all unknown.

Therefore, most of the media believe that Racing Santander wants to be relegated and become more difficult than last season, and they seem to have declined in strength every season, but so far this season, Racing Santander has played well, and the current tenth place in the league is not bad compared to their squad.

'They don't seem to need to fight for relegation.'

"As" newspaper analyzed.

But regardless of whether Racing Santander needs to fight for relegation or not, there is undoubtedly a big gap between them and Atletico Madrid, and there will be many upsets in La Liga, but this game is definitely not an upset.

After 90 minutes, the 3-1 score was telling, and Atletico Madrid won the game without much suspense.

In this game, Wansheng rotated.

Morris did not play, with Mesut Ozil leading the attack, with Raul Garcia and Luis Suarez as the back two to ensure defence.

So Isco had a place.

Throughout the game, Isco performed very averagely, the only thing was a diagonal cross from the middle of the 70th minute to assist Forlan's goal, which was eye-catching.

But even with one assist, the media still thinks Isco is performing poorly, because Atletico Madrid scored three goals, compared to one assist, one assist is nothing, Racing Santander has not fought back much away from home, and Isco has performed very little in the whole game.

In the post-match rating, Isco only scored 6.5 points, which is considered a bad score, but compared to the ratings of most of his other teammates with more than 7 points, 6.5 points is a bit less.

In the post-match press conference, Wan Sheng did not mention Isco, but only briefly talked about the team's performance, and then stressed again, "Barcelona are strong, but our goal is still to fight for the league title!" ”

Wan Sheng said that the purpose of the championship is not to highlight anything, but to boost morale.

Although the team performed well and won the game easily, rivals Barcelona were just too good.

In 17 league rounds, Atletico Madrid has drawn only three rounds and won the remaining 14 rounds, and is still unbeaten so far, while Atletico Madrid cannot sit at the top of the league table, because Barcelona have only lost two games and won 15 games, and they have won 14 consecutive league games so far, with a goal difference of 13 more than Atletico Madrid.

In normal times, Barcelona's results would have made all opponents desperate!

Fortunately, Atletico Madrid's results are not bad, and they are still closely following the pace of Barcelona and not falling behind.

Despite this, many media also think that Atletico Madrid has little hope, and even Real Madrid, which is only 3 points behind, has no hope, because Barcelona is too strong, even with the same points, Barcelona seems to be much better than Atletico Madrid.

After 17 rounds of the league, it is the Copa del Rey that comes with Atletico Madrid taking on Espanyol at the Estadio Cornera El Prat.

This is the second leg between the two teams.

In the first leg, Atletico Madrid beat Espanyol 1-0, but the suspense was retained, and the Spaniards still have a good chance of returning to their home stadium, at least according to the media supporting Espanyol.

So on this day, local fans filled El Prat Stadium.

But in the end, they were all disappointed.

4:0。

Espanyol lost much worse than away!

Atletico Madrid attacked from the start, scoring two goals in each half, and the Spaniards were weak throughout the game, and in the second half they tried to organize a counter-attack, but gave Atletico Madrid a chance to counter-attack.

Sergio Aguero is in the spotlight!

In the first and second halves, Sergio Aguero scored one goal each for Atletico Madrid, and the last goal was also assisted by Aguero, two shots and one pass, and Aguero performed perfectly.

After the game, the commentators who broadcast the game almost all praised Aguero's performance, and the Madrid Sports Radio commentator praised him, "His performance even deserves applause from the visiting fans......

Espanyol fans certainly didn't see it that way, and many of them left the stadium before the game was over, and they didn't have the heart to applaud the visitors' outstanding players.

After this round of the Copa del Rey, the tournament has reached the quarterfinals.

The quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey are drawn.

Atletico Madrid received bad news that night, they drew their rivals Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid's sparse schedule suddenly became extremely tense, because in January, they had to play a home and away match against their rivals Real Madrid to compete for a ticket to the last four of the Copa del Rey.

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