In the 36th round of the league, Atletico Madrid faced Vallecano at home. As the bookmakers analyzed, Simeone took into account that in this game, considering that he had just finished the Champions League semi-final with Bayern Munich and had to challenge Bayern Munich away, he then had to rotate the team significantly.

Even Gao Zheng, who was always on the court to ensure victory, sat on the bench in this game.

Looking at this posture, I really think that Simeone doesn't even want the league championship...

Of course, Simeone couldn't want a league championship, but he was indeed ready to lose anyway, his team is now five points ahead of Barcelona. Even if he loses one game and Barcelona wins one game, the gap between the two sides narrows to two points, and Atletico Madrid is still the first place.

And they can get a chance to breathe. After the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals is over, if Atletico Madrid can reach the final, the final will be May 28, and the La Liga will end on May 14, which will not affect the league at all.

He can naturally do his best in the remaining two league rounds and keep his spare time to compete with Barcelona for the league championship, ensuring that he can finally win the championship with the advantage of these two league points.

This is Simeone's wishful thinking.

Atletico Madrid, which played in the full sub-route, did play hard at the beginning.

Until the 60th minute, the score was still 0:0.

In fact, even if there is a final draw, Simeone is completely acceptable, because at least there is still a point in the draw.

However, in order to keep the main players in a certain form of the game, he still replaced Gao Zheng, Griezmann and Cork in the 65th minute.

After these three players came on the court, Atletico Madrid's offensive became threatening.

Vallecano's persistence did not last long. In the 75th minute, their goal was finally broken by Atletico Madrid.

And the person who scored the goal was Gao Zheng who "wanted everything"!

"Gao!!! The 34th goal this season! He temporarily tied Suarez, who has not played in this round of the league, in the league scorer list!" Jose Maria doesn't care about Atletico Madrid's points now, but is more concerned about Gao Zheng's personal goals.

Since the Catalan media have begun to hype the Golden Boot battle and have clearly supported Suarez, as a media person in Madrid, of course, we must support our Madrid players.

So he did not hide his position in the commentary.

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In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Vallecano 1-0 at home with this goal.

The main players got a rest, and the team also successfully scored three points. Before Barcelona could play in the game, they were leading Barcelona by as many as eight points, and the league championship was getting closer and closer.

This was the best result for Simeone.

Even if Gao Zheng only scored one goal, there are still hidden dangers...

Sure enough, in the next game of Barcelona's away challenge to Real Betis, Suarez also scored a goal, helping the team win 2:0.

In the league standings, Atletico Madrid continued to lead Barcelona by five points, while in the league scorer list, Suarez continued to lead Gao Zheng by one goal.

There are two rounds left in the league, and the competition between the two sides has reached a point of intense heat.

Although after the game, whether it was Gao Zheng, Suarez, whether it was Simeone or Enrique, they talked about other things in the interview. Simeone and Gao Zheng were talking about the next second leg of the Champions League semi-finals with Bayern Munich. Enrique and Suarez were talking about the league championship, and they have not given up on the competition for this honor on the surface.

Although everyone tacitly did not mention the Golden Boots dispute, everyone still smelled the scent of the coming of the storm. This was the depressing tranquility before the storm!

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"The game ends! Bayern Munich was tied 1:1 by Borussia Mönchengladbach at home! Although Thomas Muller scored a goal in the six minutes of the game, they were slowly tied in the 72nd minute. On the other side, Dortmund defeated Wolfsburg 5:1. Bayern Munich, who did not win this game, had to postpone their league championship by another round... But there is no problem, after all, Bayern Munich is now leading Dortmund by five points, and it is only a matter of time before winning the championship..." said German commentator Marcel Lef.

"The reason why this game was not won was related to Bayern Munich's whole minds were not in the game. They were all considering the next Champions League semi-finals. The players were obviously absent-minded. After Muller scored early, Bayern Munich actually had many opportunities to expand the score, but they didn't catch it once. It can be said that this game can still win a draw, not a failure. God is already very tolerant of Bayern Munich..."

Marcel Leif said it well.

Bayern Munich is not in shape in this game, and it is a good result to not lose.

Moreover, after the game, media and public opinion were quite tolerant of Bayern Munich and did not criticize Bayern Munich's performance in this game. Instead, they recognized Guardiola's personnel adjustments in this game for the Champions League semi-final next week, and no one criticized Bayern Munich's players' performance on the court.

In the face of the Champions League, everything else is trivial and not worth mentioning.

However, the media's failure to criticize does not mean that Bayern Munich players are no longer under pressure.

On the contrary, this tolerance means greater pressure.

After all, everyone creates such a tolerant environment for them to allow Bayern Munich to break through the curse of falling in the semi-finals and La Liga teams for two consecutive years.

As long as you can reach the Champions League final, nothing can be said.

But if they fail, then everything they did before would become evidence of failure in advance. Today, the extremely tolerant media will immediately start to reveal the performance of the players who were tied by Mönchengladbach in this game, and use these as evidence of the team's inability to advance to the Champions League final.

In other words, today's media and public opinion tolerance is actually an ultimatum. Bayern Munich has no way out, and if he loses, he will face criticism from countless people.

Media reporters may have even thought of the title of the second plan:

"Shocked! The team's defeat was revealed early! The performance against Mönchengladbach is a sign of everything!"

At the post-match press conference, everyone asked about the Champions League.

Asked Guardiola if she was ready for the second leg against Atletico Madrid.

Asked him if he lost only one goal in the first leg and was confident of a reversal at home.

Asked if he had carefully studied the video of Atletico Madrid's 4-0 home defeat of his old club and got inspiration from it.

Ask him how to keep a guard against Gao Zheng.

Asked him how to solve the attack after Atletico Madrid's opening. After all, Bayern Munich and Barcelona lost the ball shortly after the game, which led to a passive move...
Chapter completed!