After the league with Las Palmas, Atletico Madrid will challenge Vigo Celta away in the middle of the week.

They just returned from Vigo Celta's home court.

Because considering that the arena is too dense, Simeone rotated in this King's Cup.

Neither Gao Zheng nor Griezmann appeared in the lineup.

In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Vigo Celta 1-0 away and won the first leg.

The second leg will be held on January 27th, which is in the middle of next week.

Next, Atletico Madrid will face Sevilla at home and Barcelona away, and both games are difficult to play.

In the twenty-eight days of January, Atletico Madrid has to play a total of nine games, an average of three days per game.

Such a intensive schedule requires very high physical fitness for the players.

This season, La Liga has not had a winter break, and players who have been fighting for half a season cannot get even a day of vacation.

Under such circumstances, Atletico Madrid was tied 0:0 by Sevilla at home, which is not surprising.

After such intensive games, the players' physical fitness has indeed encountered great problems.

Gao Zheng and Griezmann appeared in this game, but they were in no way. The two who were in good shape recently were in a bad mood at the same time.

Let the team accept this result helplessly at home.

Wu Lei, who is in Espanyol, still did not get a chance to enter the roster. However, he did not watch the game in front of the TV this time, but sat in the home box and witnessed with his own eyes how his team once again conceded the ball at the last moment while leading the half, and was equalized by Villarreal.

In the two games against Chinese players, neither Chinese players performed much, one did not score a goal, and the other did not play at all.

At that time, even domestic Chinese media posted the title: "The darkest moment for overseas players."

Gao Zheng, who has always been very good at scoring goals, was silent, while Wu Lei, who was highly anticipated, failed to make the roster in three consecutive games after joining Espanyol.

Originally, everyone hoped that Wu Lei would be able to perform well under the stimulation of Gao Zheng, and the two of them would complement each other in the top two big cities in Spain.

Unexpectedly, I fell into silence at the same time...

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At that time, everyone thought this was the worst time for Chinese overseas players.

Unexpectedly, the bad ones are still behind.

In the second leg of the Copa REE quarter-finals, Atletico Madrid faced Vigo Celta at home. Gao Zheng came on as a substitute in the second half and scored a goal for the team, but it still failed to change Atletico Madrid's fate of losing to Vigo Celta 2-3 at home.

Although they defeated their opponents 1:0 away in the first leg, the total score was 3:3, and they only scored one away goal, while Vigo Celta scored three away goals. So Atletico Madrid was eliminated due to his disadvantage in away goals.

He fell to the quarterfinals of the Cup REE for two consecutive seasons.

It is understandable that Gao Zheng participated in the Asian Cup last season and was eliminated by Barcelona.

This season, under Gao Zheng's condition, he lost to Vigo Celta due to rotation.

The media believe that Simeone and Atletico Madrid are preparing for the next key game against Barcelona, ​​so they give up the Copa del Rey for this.

But the problem is that such rotation may not necessarily bring the results everyone wants.

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In the 22nd round of the league on January 30, Atletico Madrid ushered in a key game, and they challenged Barcelona away.

In this game, Atletico Madrid sent the strongest lineup.

The same goes for Barcelona.

This is a match between Mars and Earth.

The 93,000 fans who flocked in from the Camp Nou Stadium can also see how popular the game is.

Gao Zheng scored the first record for Atletico Madrid in the tenth minute, helping the team temporarily lead Barcelona with a score of 1:0.

This is not the first time he has scored a goal at the Camp Nou Stadium, but it is the first time he scored a goal here in an Atletico Madrid jersey when Atletico Madrid was visiting Camp Nou last season, when he was playing in the Asian Cup.

However, Atletico Madrid's leading edge did not last long.

In the 30th minute, Messi equalized the score for Barcelona.

Eight minutes later, Barcelona struck while the iron was hot, and Suarez scored another goal to help Barcelona overtake the score.

Barcelona then controlled the situation on the court, and Atletico Madrid could only shrink and fight a defensive counterattack.

The score remained until the end of the game. Atletico Madrid failed to rewrite the score anymore. They lost the key game away.

Losing this game has a very far-reaching impact on Atletico Madrid.

Because of the previous match against Sevilla, Atletico Madrid tied the score, so now it has only 50 points, while Barcelona's points have caught up and become 48 points, only two points away. The key is that Barcelona still plays one less game.

When Barcelona plays the make-up game, it is very likely that they will surpass Atletico Madrid in points.

The original seven-point lead was gone, and it was only two games.

The King's Cup was eliminated by Vigo Celta, who was easily defeated in the league, and was chased by Barcelona in the league by only two points.

In the Espanyol game the next day, Wu Lei still did not appear in the roster. Espanyol lost to Real Madrid with a score of 0:6 without any suspense.

Previously, Atletico Madrid was tied by Sevilla, and what is the darkest moment for Espanyol to tie by Villarreal?

Now this is the real darkest moment!

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After the game, Barcelona media became proud and claimed that Barcelona had successfully taken revenge.

Especially the Catalan reporter named Manuel Blanco, who was excited to post five consecutive tweets, each of which @ Gao Zheng, seemed to vent his anger from being slapped by Gao Zheng last season.

“The feeling of success in revenge is wonderful!”

"I want to celebrate with my friends today! Share this joy!"

"I have always believed that Barcelona can avenge Atletico Madrid, even when we lost the league championship last season, I firmly believed it. Now Barcelona has repaid my trust in them with victory, and I am very happy!"

"Gao scored the goal in this game? So what, we are the ones who won the final victory! And not only did they lose the game, he will also lose the best scorer Suarez has caught up. They are now also scoring nineteen league goals!"
Chapter completed!