prince's green

Chapter 185 Bat Legion
On December 12th, in the 15th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid played against Valencia at home.

Valencia is a city that admires bats. There is a bat on the team emblem of the Valencia club, so the Valencia club is also called the Bat Legion.

In fact, Levante, Valencia's rival in the same city, also has a bat on their team logo. They also call themselves the Bat Legion, but Levante is not well-known, while Valencia is a famous La Liga team, so people More call Valencia the Bat Legion.

Valencia is a well-known La Liga powerhouse. Under the leadership of the Argentine Cooper, Valencia has reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, but it is a pity that they missed the championship.Later, under the leadership of the tactical master Benitez, he won two La Liga titles and one UEFA Cup title.It was precisely because of his successful coaching in Valencia that Benitez was able to transfer to coach the Premier League giants Liverpool. In the first year of the Premier League, he completed the hell-level task of the Miracle of Istanbul.

Now Master Bei is coaching the upstart Naples in Serie A. This year's Champions League group stage scored 12 points and was eliminated, which is quite sad.

The Bat Corps at the beginning of the century was indeed very strong, but in recent years, Valencia has not won any honors for many years, and even failed to qualify for the Champions League last season.

And this season, the schedule has played a small part, Valencia is currently in the 9th place in the standings, and this year, it is likely that they will not qualify for the Champions League again.

Facing a bat team that is not strong, Atletico Madrid played more proactively at home.

Only 1 minute into the game, Cork made a pass from the right, and Romeu, the opponent's midfielder, made a clearance. Ringer made an upside-down golden hook from outside the penalty area, but unfortunately he failed to hang on. , hit the ball flying.

Five minutes later, it was Gabi who sent a through ball in the middle. Ringer stepped in to get the ball and started a step slower. After stepping forward, the opponent's Brazilian goalkeeper Alves had already come out. Ringer had no time to adjust with the ball. He was able to seize the time to grab a shot, but the Brazilian raised his foot and blocked the ball out of the baseline.

"Atlético Madrid has a strong offensive at home, and it may be difficult for the Bat Corps to retreat from Calderon." This is the tone set by the Spanish commentary for this game.

However, Valencia also had its own counterattack. In the 13th minute, they shot a cold arrow from outside the penalty area in the counterattack and shot slightly above the crossbar. This was the first time that the Bat Corps threatened Atletico Madrid's goal.

However, between the two parties coming and going, the scene unexpectedly stalemate.

Atlético Madrid had the advantage of the scene and created threats every few minutes, but they never scored.Valencia's defense is very solid, they haven't made any mistakes, and they haven't given Atletico Madrid a good chance to score.

During the time of Cooper and Benitez, the Bats were both well-known defensive teams in Europe. Now it has been many years since the coach has changed many times, but the defensive genes are still there, and they actually withstood Atletico Madrid's offensive.

So at the end of the first half, although the comparison of the number of shots between the two sides was 8:2, the score remained at 0:0, and neither side could do anything to the other.

"In the second half we need to improve our offensive efficiency and we need to score goals. This is an opportunity to widen the gap." Simeone said at halftime.

In the first game of this round of the league, Real Madrid drew with Osasuna 2:2 away and only scored 1 point.Yes, Real Madrid did draw with their opponents in the away game. They fell behind by two goals in the first half, and when Ramos was sent off by a red card, they chased two goals in the second half to grab 1 point.

So as long as Atletico Madrid can win the game, the points gap with Real Madrid can be widened to 5 points.Real Madrid and Barcelona are Atletico Madrid's real title rivals, and it would be nice to get rid of any of them.

Although the Barcelona game has not yet started, their opponent in this round is the yellow submarine, and it is certainly not a game that can be easily passed.

What Atletico Madrid has to do now is to win their own game first.

At the beginning of the second half, Valencia's defense was still very solid. They seemed determined to use their defense to cause trouble for Atletico Madrid.

In the 49th minute, Ringer made a two-for-one cooperation with Cork before the penalty area and stuffed the ball into the penalty area. The opposing defender Mathieu rushed to clear the ball before Costa arrived.

In the 53rd minute, Ringer caught the ball in the penalty area and turned around to hit the goal, which was blocked again.

Under such circumstances, Ringer also became a little anxious. This kind of game that can't be attacked for a long time is the most annoying.In the past, Atletico Madrid used this method to deal with others, but now it has become treated like this by the opponent.

In the 59th minute, Ringer received a goal from Gabi on the right side of the front court, and immediately accelerated to the opponent's penalty area.

The opponent's full-back Barragan immediately defended him. Ringer was forced to walk towards the baseline step by step. Seeing that he was about to be pushed near the baseline, Ringer kicked back vigorously, trying to sweep the ball towards the goal.

Barragan was also guarding against Ringer's pass. As soon as Ringer raised his foot, he immediately raised his foot to block the pass.However, Ringer's pass was very powerful in an anxious situation. After Barragan lifted his foot, the ball rubbed against the lower edge of his calf, but it still rolled to the goal, and after being blocked by Barragan, It was just right for the ball to drop down quickly. Costa followed up in the middle and just touched the ball, and the ball rolled into the opponent's goal.

"Costa~~Costa's goal!!"

"The Sheets attacked for most of the time, and finally went to score. Lin's side burst created a chance, and Costa completed the goal!!"

In fact, this ball was made by mistake, but it could help the team break through the opponent's defense and take the lead. Ringer felt a little relieved.

After Atletico Madrid took the lead, Valencia's defense finally began to loosen.

In the 63rd minute, Ringer received a pass from Cork in front of the penalty area, but no one came to press him.Valencia would not have given Ringer such an opportunity before. It can be seen that the opponent's mentality has changed after losing the ball, and the defense organization is no longer so orderly.

Linger will not let go of such a good opportunity.

Adjusting the step point under his feet, Ringer's thigh muscles tensed and swung his legs sharply. His right leg hit the ball heavily like an iron whip, and he made a comfortable and powerful long-range shot.

"Lin~~~ Long shot from outside the restricted area!!!"

It was too late for Valencia's midfielder Parejo to come over to block, the ball flew past him and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.Bat Corps goalkeeper Alves struggled to stretch his body, but still couldn't reach the ball.

Bang~~!

The ball hit the lower edge of the crossbar with great force and bounced into the goal.

"Gooooooool~~~~"

"Lin~~~ Lin's long-range shot scored, and after only 4 minutes, Lin seized the opportunity again and used a strong long-range shot to help the team expand the score!!"

"This is Lin's 46th goal, his 2013th goal in 46, he has scored more goals this year than Messi and is the second highest scorer of the year, after Ronaldo!! "

"Oh~~"

Ringer, who scored the goal, rushed to the edge of the court and yelled. He has been chasing goals in every game recently, but this game was the most aggrieved. There is always a feeling that he cannot use his strength, which makes him Very upset.Now, with a comfortable and strong long-range shot, he finally vented his anger.

With a 2:0 lead, the next game will be much easier to play.

In the 72nd minute, Ringer received a cross from Gabi in front of the penalty area and stuffed the ball directly into the penalty area without stopping. Costa received the ball in the penalty area and was brought down. The referee awarded a penalty.

Costa scored a penalty kick and scored twice.

Ringer was replaced in the 78th minute. At this time, the score was already 3:0, and there was no suspense in this game.

Simeone also sat back on the coach's bench, and then called Ringer to sit next to him.

"Lin, are you a little anxious?" Simeone said to Ringer: "I know you are competing with the Swedes recently, but you have to pay attention to controlling your emotions. Moderate excitement can help you maintain a better state , but being too excited can easily make you unbalanced, poor state, and easily lead to injury.”

"I'll pay attention, Cholo!" Ringo replied seriously.

Recently competing with the Swedish Gao Guy, Linge felt that he was really anxious.

He has experienced this kind of situation of being unable to attack a tight defensive team for a long time before, and he can be very calm every time.

But this time, in the face of a situation where he couldn't attack for a long time, he was actually the first person in the team who couldn't calm down.

In other words, now I am more like a professional player, and I will have emotions in pursuit of goals and honor.In the past, Linger felt that he just played happily, and any championship honors were incidental.

When Ringer was thinking wildly off the court, there were also changes on the court.

In the 86th minute, Turan dribbled the ball into the penalty area during the counterattack and was tripped. The referee gave another penalty.

Costa came to take the penalty. If the goal is scored, he can complete a hat-trick, his first hat-trick of the season.

At the beginning of the season, Costa was the most popular performer of Atletico Madrid, but as the season entered the middle of the season, Costa's state declined. Ringer has already scored three hat tricks, and he has not had one.

This emotion may have affected Costa. His penalty kick was soft and weak, and he was out of standard. The ball was easily saved by the opponent's goalkeeper. shoot.

In this way, Costa missed a penalty kick, but it had little impact on the game, except that Costa himself lost his first hat-trick of the season.

Ringer scored from a long shot, Costa scored twice, and Atletico Madrid defeated Valencia 3-0 at home and successfully scored three points.

In the other games of this round of La Liga, although Barcelona was stubbornly resisted by the yellow submarine at home, they still relied on Neymar's brace to score twice, and scored a difficult 2:1. Atletico Madrid failed to gain points. Barcelona's chance, but relying on a goal difference advantage to climb to the top of the list, this is the first time Atletico Madrid has reached the top of the list this season.

At present, in the standings, both Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have 43 points. Real Madrid lost 2 points in this round and currently only has 38 points, 5 points behind Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

(End of this chapter)