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After the league game with Las Palmas, Atletico Madrid will challenge Celta Vigo away in midweek.

They have just returned from their home game at Celta Vigo.

Considering that the field is too dense, Simeone made a rotation in this Copa del Rey game.

Neither Gao Zheng nor Griezmann appeared in the starting lineup.

In the end, Atletico Madrid beat Celta Vigo 1-0 in the away game and won the first round of the game.

The second round will be played on January 27, that is, in the middle of next week.

And then Atletico Madrid will play against Sevilla at home and Barcelona away. These two games are very difficult to play.

In the 28 days of January, Atletico Madrid will play a total of nine games, with an average of one game every three days.

Such an intensive schedule places very high physical demands on the players.

And this season La Liga has no winter break, and players who have been fighting for half a season cannot get even a day off.

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

After experiencing such an intensive game, the physical fitness of the players did have a big problem.

Gao Zheng and Griezmann started this game, but they failed. The two who have been in good form recently misfired at the same time.

The team can only accept this result helplessly at home.

Wu Lei, who was in the Spaniard, still didn't get the chance to enter the squad, but this time he didn't watch the game in front of the TV, but sat in the box at home and witnessed with his own eyes how his team was halfway ahead. In the case of the field, once again conceded the ball at the last moment and was equalized by Villarreal.

In the two games against Chinese players, neither of the two Chinese players showed much performance, one did not score, and the other did not play at all.

At that time, there was even a headline in the Chinese domestic media: "The darkest moment of overseas players".

Gao Zheng, who has always been good at scoring goals, misfired, while Wu Lei, who was expected to be high, failed to enter the squad for three consecutive games after joining the Spaniard.

Everyone expected that after Wu Lei joined the Spaniard,

Being able to perform well under the stimulation of Gao Zheng, the two complement each other in the top two big cities in Spain.

Who would have thought that they would fall into silence at the same time...

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

I didn't expect the worst to come.

In the second round of the Copa del Rey quarter-final, Atletico Madrid played against Celta Vigo at home. Gao Zheng came off the bench in the second half and scored a goal for the team, but it still failed to change Atletico Madrid's 2:3 home loss. Destiny for Celta Vigo.

Although they beat their opponents 1:0 away in the first round, the total score was 3:3. They only scored one away goal, while Celta Vigo scored three away goals. So Atletico Madrid was eliminated because of the disadvantage of away goals.

Fall in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey for two consecutive seasons.

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

And this season, with Gao Zheng, he lost to Vigo Celta because of the rotation.

The media believed that Simeone and the Atletico Madrid team were preparing for the next key game against Barcelona, ​​so they did not hesitate to give up the Copa del Rey for this.

But the problem is that such a rotation may not necessarily bring about the desired results.

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

Atletico Madrid sent the strongest lineup in this game.

The same goes for Barcelona.

It's a Mars-to-Earth race.

The 93,000 fans who poured in from the Nou Camp could also see how hot the game was.

Gao Zheng opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid in the tenth minute, helping the team temporarily lead Barcelona 1:0.

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

However, Atletico Madrid's lead 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.

Then Barcelona took control of the situation on the field, and Atletico Madrid could only shrink up and play a defensive counterattack.

This score has been maintained until the end, Atletico Madrid failed to rewrite the score, they lost a key game away.

The impact of losing this game on Atletico Madrid is very far-reaching.

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

When Barcelona kicks off the make-up match, 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 Copa del Rey was eliminated by Celta Vigo, who were easily beaten in the league, and they were only two points away from being chased by Barcelona in the league.

On the second day of the Spaniard's game, Wu Lei still did not appear in the squad. The Spaniard lost to Real Madrid with a score of 0:6 in the away game without any suspense.

Before Atletico Madrid was tied by Sevilla, what is the darkest moment for the Spaniard to be tied by Villarreal?

Now this is the real darkest hour!

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After the game, the Barcelona media elated and claimed that Barcelona had successfully revenged.

In particular, the Catalan reporter named Manuel Blanco excitedly posted five tweets in a row, each of which was @高郑, as if he was about to be slapped by Gao Zheng last season Out of breath.

"It's a wonderful feeling to succeed in revenge!"

"I'm going to celebrate with my friends today! Share the joy!"

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

"Gao scored in this game? So what, we won in the end! And they not only lost the game, he will lose the top scorer - Suarez has caught up, they are now the same Nineteen league goals!"

"Some people say it's just a win, what's there to be happy about? But what they don't know is that this game was actually Barcelona's counterattack. Now we are only two points behind in the standings. What about waiting until the end of the season? Maybe we are not just two points ahead! Revenge starts now!"