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Chapter 1011 Fighting in the same room

In this game held at the Madrid Glory Stadium, the Bedding Legion finally defeated Barcelona 2-0 with two goals from Griezmann and Cork. Isco was elected the best player in the game with his outstanding performance.

This not only excited the entire Glory Stadium and fans all over the world, but also surprised the Spanish media because they were surprised to find that, without knowing it, Atletico Madrid already had the ability to challenge Barcelona and Real Madrid head-on.

Even this season, the Bedsheets team won both games against Real Madrid and Barcelona.

With the victory of this game, Atletico Madrid finally reversed Barcelona and successfully topped the La Liga standings.

Head coach Simeone praised the team's performance at the post-match press conference, especially Isco, who believed that the player's performance was the top in La Liga.

But at the same time, Simeone has repeatedly stated that Atletico Madrid should not be satisfied with this, and the team still has great potential to explore and should not stop moving forward.

"Yes, we are the defending champions and returning to the top of the league is a very wonderful thing for us."

"But I hope the players can also know clearly that when we rank second in the standings and occupy the leading position, that is two different situations."

"When we defeated Real Madrid and Barcelona and took the league leaders, all teams will target us as their targets, but this is not terrible. What is terrible is that we have lost the opponents we are chasing ahead and the goal of catching up. We can only use our limits and peaks as benchmarks, constantly surpassing and breaking through ourselves."

“When you are satisfied with being the leader, that is, when you are surpassed by your competitors.”

"I will do my best to make all the players forget this game and play every game well!"

Simeone's words at the post-match press conference were very calm and rational, and were unanimously recognized and affirmed by La Liga professionals.

Because for Atletico Madrid, the league is not yet halfway through, and it is far from the time to celebrate.

On the other hand, after losing this battle at Tianwangshan, Enrique was disappointed with the team's performance. Enrique expressed understanding of Neymar, who was unable to fight after losing Messi, and admitted that losing Messi was a big loss, but he did not think that the team would lose the La Liga championship.

Barcelona's management also quickly made a decision to stabilize the morale of the army, that is, the team will further strengthen the team during the winter break.

This is also understood by the outside world as a signal that Barcelona will spend a lot of money into the winter break transfer market.

As the La Liga battle for the leader came to an end, the UEFA Champions League once again ignited the war.

Atletico Madrid challenged Bundesliga's Bundesliga away.

In this death group, Simeone's bedsheets legion performed no less than La Liga.

In the first game of the group, he pushed Borussia Mönchengladbach into the abyss of despair with 3-0, and then defeated Roma 2-0 away. In the third and fourth rounds, Manchester City fell from the away and home courts with a score of 2-1 and 3-1.

After winning all four games, Simeone's team ranked first in the group and qualified with high rank.

Relatively speaking, Manchester City won all the first two games, but lost to Atletico Madrid in both rounds, resulting in the Blue Moon taking the second place in the group with six points, Roma ranked third, and Borussia Mönchengladbach ranked fourth.

In the fifth round of the group stage, Atletico Madrid had already advanced to qualify in the group, Simeone arranged half of the main lineup to play, but in the away game, he fell behind with one goal in the first half.

But in the second half, Simeone adjusted his tactics and the team regrouped. He quickly reversed Borussia Mönchengladbach with goals from Diego Costa and Tevez, and assisted the two players, namely Alex Teixeira and Rafinia.

Manchester City defeated Roma 1-0 with Abu Bakar's goal away.

In this way, Borussia Mönchengladbach ranked last and lost the right to qualify in the group. It was difficult for even the third in the group to get it, and it was difficult for Roma to shake Manchester City's second place in the group.

Back in La Liga, Atletico Madrid took advantage of the morale of defeating Barcelona and once again took over the Glory Stadium. With Griezmann's double score and Isco and William's goals, they beat Espanyol four-zero home.

Not only that, a week later, he challenged Granada away, and the Bedding Army defeated Granada 2-0 with goals from Jose Jimenez and Griezmann.

The two victories firmly defended the position of Atletico Madrid's leading league.

In contrast, although Barcelona won with Neymar's goal in the 13th round, they unexpectedly tied Valencia with one-to-one away game in the 14th round.

In this way, the gap in points between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona has expanded from the original three-pointer to five-pointer.

With this five-point gap, the leader of the Bedding Legion can be considered firm.

As for Real Madrid, although they also won two consecutive games, the points gap was a bit big before, and it is still difficult to catch up now.

Not only in La Liga, but also in the Champions League, Atletico Madrid played in the last round, but he still beat Roma 1-0 at home, and young player Correa assisted Munier to score.

Manchester City scored four to two at home, and joined hands with the Beds League to qualify from the group.

In another group, Southampton established the top spot in the group early. Although Ancelotti sent all substitutes to play in the next two rounds, no one expected that the Saints' performance would be better.

First, he defeated Juventus four-two away in the fifth round, and then in the sixth round, he defeated Wolfsburg 8-0 at home.

In these two crazy goal games, Harry Kane shone with three goals in total. Sturridge, Martial, Ravel Morrison and other players showed excellent strength.

This also surprised fans all over the world to see that even the saints' bench lineup was so strong that the whole Europe was amazed by it and was impressed by the saints' outstanding strength.

In the end, in this group, Southampton and Paris Saint-Germain advanced first and second in the group respectively, Juventus ranked third, and Wolfsburg could only regretfully be eliminated.

If Southampton and Paris Saint-Germain in Group A were in danger, then the results of Group B were surprising, especially Manchester United's performance.

In the first round of the group stage, Manchester United unexpectedly lost to Ajax. Brazilian striker Luis Adriano performed quite well, but in the second round, Manchester United took Tuchel's Hamburg safely.

The score between the two sides was 2-1, Manchester United narrowly won, and Hamburg lost a little depressed.

Tuchel's team suppressed Manchester United on the field, but was behind the score.

But after learning from the mistakes, Tuchel's team quickly defeated Ajax 2-0 in the third round of civil war.

But in the fourth round, after returning to home, Debor's team turned around and killed Hamburg 2-0.

The two civil wars made Yang Huan feel distressed. Why are they really fighting each other?

In contrast, Manchester United, in the third and fourth rounds, won and tied with CSKA Moscow, performed very stably.

But in the fifth round, Hamburg team challenged Moscow CSKA away, and the result was no surprise and 2-0, knocking the Russian giants down, laying a foundation for their group qualifying.

However, Manchester United was in the Old Trafford Stadium and was forced to zero to zero by Ajax.

The fifth round ended, Hamburg temporarily ranked first in the group with nine points, Manchester United ranked second in the group with eight points, Ajax ranked third in the group with seven points, and CSKA Moscow scored four points, ranking fourth in the group.

In other words, in the last round, Manchester United faced Hamburg in the Guest Park Stadium. Without an advantage in goal difference, Giggs's team could only give it a try and have a chance of winning.

As it turned out, Manchester United's strong attack did indeed achieve miraculous results, scoring the first goal in just seven minutes of the game.

But three minutes later, when Manchester United had not recovered from the excitement of scoring, Dzeko's goal equalized the score for Hamburg and brought the score back to 1-1.

In the 34th minute, Goze's goal exceeded the score for Hamburg.

This made Manchester United almost go crazy in the second half, and Hamburg was forced to retreat.

But in the 72nd minute, Hamburg's young central defender Taher improperly handled the cross from the side, resulting in an own goal, giving Manchester United a chance to equalize the score.

But just when Manchester United was in full swing and was about to swallow Hamburg, Douglas Costa forced a breakthrough on the wing and knocked back in front of the baseline. After Dzeko inserted a calm shot and scored again, scoring 3-2.

In the end, Hamburg won Manchester United 3-2 at home and kicked the Red Devils to the Europa League.

In another game, Ajax conceded one goal first, with two goals from Luis Adriano and Bernard, he reversed the CSKA Moscow 2-1.

In this way, Hamburg and Ajax joined hands to qualify from the group.

This surprised Yang Huan.

Because he originally thought that Manchester United would definitely occupy one of the qualifying places, but he didn't expect that neither Hamburg nor Ajax would be at all when facing the Red Devils.

As for the CSKA Moscow, it was completely suppressed by the three strongmen and unable to move.

In Group C, Benfica has firmly followed Real Madrid and qualified as the second in the group.

Group D, Barcelona qualifies with St. Petersburg Zenit.

Group E, Bayern Munich and Tottenham qualify from the group.

Group F is Atletico Madrid and Manchester City, while Group G is Monaco and Eindhoven.

But what is surprising is Group H.

If it is not surprising that Klopp's Inter Milan has advanced from Group H to the first place in the group, then Anderlecht has advanced as the second place in the group when facing Valencia and Lyon, which surprised everyone.

But if we consider that Belgium has produced many talents in recent years, Anderlecht's qualifying is not worth making a fuss.

After the Champions League group stage, Yang Huan calculated that his team, except for those who were eliminated in the qualifiers in advance, all of them qualify from the group stage without exception, which surprised him.

Inter Milan, Anderlecht, Southampton, Hamburg, Ajax, Benfica, Atletico Madrid and Monaco, among the sixteen knockout teams, Yang Huan's team actually occupied half of the 16 knockout teams.

Is this too unbelievable?

However, this soon brought another problem, which was the knockout grouping.

With the first group and the second group, and the principle of evasion between the same country, there is no doubt that there will definitely be a situation of fighting between the same house in the knockout round.

Although this is a bit cruel, at least in Yang Huan's opinion, this is also a good thing.
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