Super Marshal

Chapter 199: 7 consecutive victories

   On September 19th, the Calderon Stadium was full of people.

   Amid the overwhelming noise of more than 50,000 Fans fans, Atletico Madrid ushered in the first game of the UEFA Cup in the new season. Its opponent is the deputy squad leader of the Danish Super League, Silkeborg.

The last time the    Sheet Corps participated in a European competition was the 1999-zero season. With the fifth place in La Liga, they participated in the UEFA Cup. In the final of the sixteenth knockout, they were eliminated by the French Lance.

   Now, after more than a year away, the team has made a comeback and once again competed in the European arena. Atletico Madrid has high hopes.

   The head coach Gao Han is also doing his part. In the press conference before the game, he rarely shouted in a high-profile manner that the team must end the battle at home, requiring every player to go all out and not take it lightly.

   The team has one mind. From the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid took advantage of the home court to launch an offensive against Silkeborg.

   Silkeborg has not performed satisfactorily in the domestic league this season and has no time to take care of European competitions.

   Only six minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid scored the goal of Silkeborg by Villa and set the first record for the team.

After   , the Sheet Army continued to launch a frenzied attack. Silkeborg retreated, but was still unable to stop it. In the 20th and 25th minutes, they lost two goals in a row. The goalkeepers were Torres and Villa.

   took a three-goal lead in the first half, and Atletico Madrid's offensive is very strong.

   But after the two sides changed sides in the second half, the Sheets Corps did not care about it and continued to launch an offensive against Silkeborg. Every player was resolutely implementing the strategy set by the head coach before the game to determine the outcome.

   In the 52nd minute and the 69th minute, Kaka and substitute Fernando Correa scored two goals, and finally the score was locked at 5-0.

   Five-goal victory, every goal called Calderon fans watched mesmerized, wave after wave of offensive waves, even more so that every Bedsheets Legion fans were addicted.

   After the game, both the fans and the media gave Atlético Madrid a very high evaluation. They believed that although the Alpine team played in European competitions for the first time, their performance was remarkable.

   The 5-0 victory basically announced that Atletico Madrid had advanced from the first round of the knockout round.

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   After playing Silkeborg, Atletico Madrid spent two days off in Mahada Enda and immediately rushed to the away game to challenge Valladolid.

Valladolid lost four to Deportivo in the first round of the league, but quickly adjusted, drew Valencia at home in the second round and defeated 2-1 away in the third round. To Malaga.

Head coach Pepe Morey is a Catalan, but he has been coaching in Valladolid. In the past ten years, he has frequently changed back and forth between the assistant coach, the second team head coach and the first team head coach. It was not until 2000 that it had a firm foothold.

   And his best style of play is the four-five-one defensive tactics.

   This is also the usual style of play for many La Liga teams in recent years, with double midfielders strangling and defensive counterattacks.

   was sitting at home against the leader, Pepe Morey did not dare to be careless, and still put on a defense position, waiting for work, defensive counterattack.

   Gao Han had long expected his opponent to adopt this style of play, but he was not afraid at all.

   Atletico Madrid in the away game still adopts a high position to press, hold the ball in the backcourt, and patiently look for the opponent's loopholes.

In the end, with a zero-to-zero situation in the first half, Atletico Madrid finally seized an opportunity in the 61st minute of the second half. After the attack was frustrated, midfielder Marcos Senna stepped in and kicked the front of the penalty area. The long shot penetrated the goal of Spanish goalkeeper Ricardo.

   This is also Marcos Senna’s first La Liga goal!

   This goal broke the deadlock on the field, but did not rewrite the game situation, Valladolid still defended the goal.

Gao Han quickly made adjustments, replacing Torres with high center Kiko, and replacing Kaka with Roberto. The team’s tactics immediately changed to 4, 2 and 3, with Villa and Da Rio Srner played the two wings, Deco went up to hit the midfielder, Harvey Alonso and

Marcos Senna formed a double defensive midfielder.

   This adjustment quickly worked, and Atletico Madrid once again played a wave of offensive.

In the 78th minute, Srner made a pass from the right and accurately assisted into the penalty area. Under the blessing of Samsung against the card, Kico squeezed the opponent's center back in front of the goal and hit the head. , Two to zero!

   This score has also been maintained until the end of the game, Atletico Madrid won four consecutive victories in La Liga!

   Since Celta Vigo defeated Real Mallorca 2-0 in the fourth round, Atletico Madrid still had a two-point lead.

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   Three days later, Silkeborg, Denmark.

After winning the first round by 5-0 and basically qualifying early, Alpine arranged rotations and substitute players including Kico, Fernando Correa, Gabi, Aguilera, Roberto, etc., but still The away game relied on Kike's final touch, a one-to-zero victory over Silkeborg.

   The total score of the two rounds was six to zero, and Atletico Madrid successfully advanced to the second round.

   After the first round of the knockout round, UEFA immediately organized a draw, and Atletico Madrid won the Warsaw Legia of the Polish League.

   Judging from the strength of the UEFA Cup opponents, the real threat to Atletico Madrid may have to wait until the third round, or even the fourth round of the knockout.

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  Time enters October.

   On October 1st, it is the Chinese National Day. Atletico Madrid is home to the fifth round opponent of Las Palmas in La Liga.

   After the two sides experienced a difficult offensive and defensive battle, the Sheet Army relied on Kaka's key lore to defeat their opponents one to zero.

   A week of consecutive double matches, coupled with the misfire of the Gemini striker who has been in the limelight since the season, has caused many outside media to speculate that Atletico Madrid's state will gradually decline, especially in the next two games.

   Zambrano boldly judged in his own column that Atletico Madrid will lose in the next two rounds of the league.

   What can surprise everyone is that on October 4th, Atletico Madrid challenged Heynckes' Athletic Bilbao away.

The Basque Lions have shined in the last two rounds. First, they defeated Deportivo de La Coruña 2-1 at the away game, and then drew Valencia at home with a 2-1 draw. They met twice to win the championship team. Athletic Bilbao did not Lost and an impressive record.

   This round of home games against the leaders Atletico Madrid, Heynckes is confident and aiming for three points.

The German coach adopts the overall pressing and oppression tactics that Athletic Bilbao is best at at home, hoping to use the advantage of the home court to suppress the sheet army, but it is obvious that the tactics that can work against Deportivo and Valencia, In the face of Atletico Madrid, it suddenly failed.

Although Athletic Bilbao caused considerable trouble to Atletico Madrid in the first thirty-five minutes of the game, and did not give the Sheets any effective offensive opportunities at all, it was difficult for them to maintain this as their physical fitness declined. The oppressive situation.

  Finally, in the 38th and 43rd minutes of the first half, using the opportunity to counterattack after two frontcourt steals, Villa scored two consecutive cities to help Atletico Madrid lead by two goals and enter the second half.

   In the second half, the two sides changed sides to fight again. Athletic Bilbao quickly regrouped and counterattacked frantically in the second half, and quickly used high center Ulses to score an equalizer and chase the score to one to two.

   But Atletico Madrid was also unambiguous. Taking advantage of Athletic Bilbao’s counterattack, Torres and Villa scored one goal each, rewriting the score to four to one.

   Especially Villa, after picking two consecutive players in the penalty area in the 75th minute, he volleyed his left foot and scored his first La Liga hat-trick!

   Four to one, the game ended with this score.

Although from the score point of view, this is a big victory, in fact, in the course of the game, Atletico Madrid did not win easily. The team consumption was also very large, which directly caused the team to sit on the home court and face God after three days. When Weiss, the team's up and down state was not ideal.

   The game was stuck until the 84th minute, and it was Atletico Madrid in the end

With a personal flash at a critical moment of Kaka, he forcibly broke through the opponent's line of defense and assisted Kike to score a lore goal.

   One to zero, Atletico Madrid scored three points again.

   This also relieved all the sheets Legion fans who came to the Calderon Stadium to watch the game.

   But after that, they celebrated wildly!

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   Seven consecutive victories!

   Atletico Madrid shocked the entire Spanish football world!

   In the history of La Liga, the start of seven consecutive victories is second only to Real Madrid's eight consecutive victories from 1961 to 1962.

   It was the most glorious five consecutive Champions League period in Real Madrid history.

   Gao Han was very satisfied with his seven-game winning streak, but he was more satisfied with the team's ranking in the standings.

   Atletico Madrid still firmly occupies the leading position of the league, with 21 points in seven consecutive victories, well-deserved.

  The second place in the league is Barcelona.

Lexach’s team ushered in three consecutive victories after one win and two ties in the first three rounds, but in the seventh round they lost to Deportivo de La Coruña one to two in the seventh round~lightnovelpub.net~ finally in seven rounds With 14 points, he finished second in the league.

   is also four wins, two draws and one loss. Deportivo, with 14 points, ranked third in the league because of a goal difference.

   Then there are three teams with 13 points, namely Celta Vigo, Villarreal and Valencia.

   Four other teams scored 11 points, namely Alaves, Sevilla, Zaragoza and Osasuna.

   The Spaniard is 11th in the league with 10 points, and Athletic Bilbao is 12th in the league with nine points.

   Stars gathered, Real Madrid, known as the top favorite to win the championship before the season, ranked 13th in the league after seven rounds. Although they have successfully escaped from the relegation zone, they are still shocking.

   However, the real surprise is Royal Mallorca.

   Aragones’ team only scored four points in the first seven rounds of the league, with one win, one draw and five losses. Compared with last season’s third place in the league, this transcript is indeed somewhat surprising.

   But the most surprising, even shocking, is the leader Atletico Madrid.

   Originally, all the media felt that for three consecutive weeks of two-line combat, the Sheet Army would definitely fall from the leader's position.

   was unexpected, instead of falling, it further expanded the lead.

   leads by seven points! (To be continued.)