Chapter 156 The Top 16 of the Champions League Are Freshly Announced, and Real Madrid Is Aiming for Its Sixth Title of the Year! [Subscribe! ]

The header scored by Li Ang in the 73rd minute destroyed the confidence of most Atletico Madrid players.

The psychological advantage that Atletico Madrid fans had built up in the first 13 rounds of the league also disappeared at this moment!

The familiar feeling of powerlessness once again hit all Atletico Madrid fans.

This feeling of powerlessness against Real Madrid still made them very painful, but correspondingly, they still accepted this defeat in advance.

After all, Atletico Madrid has lost too many games to Real Madrid in recent years, and there are few draws.

No matter how uncomfortable and painful Atletico Madrid fans are, after losing too many times, they gradually get used to it.

Simeone was still very unwilling. After being angry for three or four minutes, he once again stood on the sidelines and roared to cheer up his disciples.

Let alone equalizing the score at this time, Simeone only hopes that his players will not lose their ambitions, let alone give up the game easily.

If this Atletico Madrid, which he has trained and rebuilt, has only this mental tenacity, then he will only feel that his work is a failure!

Fortunately, he got the scene he wanted to see.

From Costa in the front court, to Gabi, Koke, Garcia in the midfield, and then to Godin and Juanfran in the back court.

His players did not fall down and let Real Madrid slaughter them.

They were still running hard to find opportunities to counterattack, even though their physical condition was visibly worse than Real Madrid.

But they did not give up.

The Real Madrid players who had already begun to retreat to the half court to stabilize the score also restrained their extra relaxation.

This kind of scene, they have seen it for the second time this season.

The last time was in the Champions League group stage, they faced Dortmund who fought to the last minute.

And this time, they once again saw this kind of mental outlook in their city rivals Atletico Madrid.

Let’s not talk about whether there are any problems with the tactics and whether the players’ abilities are up to standard. At least this mental outlook is indeed rare in the current football world.

Real Madrid’s players obviously did not expect that Atletico Madrid is so tenacious now.

Simeone's transformation has not been completed for a year.

Imagine, after one and a half years, two years, with this spirit, tactics and lineup further improved and strengthened, what kind of strength will Atletico have?

In predicting Atletico's future strength, Li Ang should be the most influential person in Real Madrid.

So facing the tenacity shown by Atletico, he is also the calmest.

Let alone two years later, in one year, Atletico will basically have the hard power to top Europe.

If Simeone strengthens the lineup and improves the team's offensive play like in the original historical line.

After all, Atletico is already doing quite well on the defensive end.

After this season's running-in, their defensive ability will be further improved. At that time, Atletico may directly become the first in La Liga in terms of defense alone!

Atletico is still exploring the road of tactical perfection, and has not even reached the peak level. Facing the peak Mourinho Real Madrid, they only lost two goals, which is actually not bad at all.

They are totally worthy of their current third place in La Liga.

Mourinho's eyes also showed some solemnity.

"This may be the last time we win the derby easily, Aitor."

At the moment when the full-time whistle sounded, Mourinho suddenly said to Karanka.

Without waiting for Karanka's response, Mourinho strode towards the Atletico Madrid coaching seat next door.

"This is a wonderful match!"

Before Simeone, who barely managed to smile, spoke, Mourinho took his arm first and gave his approval without hesitation.

"Your work is excellent, Diego. I have seen an Atletico Madrid that is completely different from last season or even the beginning of this season. You are completing a great cause that belongs to you. I must congratulate you first."

Mourinho's praise slowly eased Simeone's tense expression.

"Congratulations on your victory, Jose, your performance today was impeccable."

"I look forward to seeing you again in the second half of the league."

"Me too!"

The two coaches, both of whom are straightforward, smiled at each other on the sidelines of the Bernabeu, and then said goodbye and walked towards their players.

This is not the beginning of the two of them competing on the same stage, but it is indeed the beginning of a new era of competition between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

The winning Real Madrid players did not have too much joy, and the losing Atletico Madrid players did not feel too disappointed.

They all knew that it was time to turn over the historical record of the two teams.

Perhaps, the next time they play again, the game scene will be beyond the expectations of all fans.

Of course, Real Madrid's players still firmly believe that they will win the final victory in the derby.

No matter how difficult the next derby is.

No matter what level of strength Atletico Madrid has evolved to by then.

This Madrid, it can't turn the world upside down!

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Real Madrid's final victory was expected by the media.

No matter how much tactical progress Atletico Madrid showed in the game that was worth analyzing by the media, the major Spanish media and sports newspapers on the second day were all headed by the news of Real Madrid's victory.

There are newspapers that do tactical analysis seriously, but most of them are tabloids.

Big newspapers want traffic and sales, so they are reluctant to publish professional tactical analysis that few audiences read carefully on the front page.

And "Marca" and "AS" also began to praise Mourinho's team performance as if there was no conflict with Mourinho before.

This is so thick-skinned that Li Ang and many Real Madrid players want to complain.

But Mourinho didn't care at all at this time.

After all, he has now made it clear that he will not accept interviews from these two newspapers again, so he is naturally in a good mood.

And after this round of the league, the last round of the Champions League group stage, the 15th round of the league, and the most important Club World Cup in the near future will follow one after another.

Mourinho is working on a tight schedule, so he has no time to mock the media.

On the evening of December 4, Real Madrid played the final match of Group D of the Champions League this season against Ajax at home.

Real Madrid's main players just finished the match against Atletico three days ago, and the most important meaning of this match for Real Madrid is to try to maintain their unbeaten home field.

So Mourinho still arranged a pure rotation lineup to show his face.

This time Real Madrid's rotation was even more "thorough" than when they played against Manchester City.

Because Li Ang, C Ronaldo and Casillas did not start.

The starting Real Madrid players were all non-main players:

Goalkeeper Adan.

The back line from left to right are Marcelo, Albiol, Varane and Carvajal.

The double defensive midfielders are Matuidi and Nacho, and the attacking midfielder is Jesse.

The forward trio is Vazquez, Morata and Callejon.

Ajax fans were completely speechless. They left messages of thanks on the official Twitter account of Real Madrid, and also left messages of encouragement on the official Twitter account of Manchester City.

After all, in their opinion, although Manchester City has no hope of qualifying for the Champions League group stage, they still have to compete with Ajax for the third place in the group in theory in the last round.

But at least there is a glimmer of hope to play in the Europa League, and there will be no lack of motivation to beat Dortmund. At least they have to fight once, right?

However, they underestimated the psychological damage that Real Madrid's starting lineup would have on the entire Manchester City team.

After all, according to conservative estimates, even if Ajax draws with Real Madrid in this round, they will have five points, while Manchester City must beat Dortmund in this round to get five points.

The difficulty is completely unequal, and Real Madrid's obvious "letting the water" behavior has become the last straw that crushes the mentality of Manchester City players at this moment.

So after the last two group matches of Group D started, Ajax was still fighting back and forth with Real Madrid's "Team B", trying to get the last glimmer of hope to qualify.

But Manchester City was held back in the Westfalenhal round and simply lost 0-2 in the first half!

So when the news reached the Bernabeu, the mentality of Ajax players also broke!

This mentality of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix really made countless fans laugh.

In the end, Manchester City only stood up for a while in the second half at Dortmund's home court, wanting to fight for their own honor.

But it was useless. After losing 1-3, Manchester City ended their Champions League journey this season with two draws and four losses.

This is worse than Dortmund last season. Although Dortmund also lost four games, they still won one round. Manchester City is hard to win.

Ajax finally tied with Real Madrid 1-1 at the Bernabeu, with five points in six rounds, and was eliminated as the third in the group for the third consecutive season.

But in the end, thinking of the Europa League, Ajax fans were not so upset.

Dortmund fans celebrated happily all night.

After many years, they entered the Champions League knockout stage again, even if they only qualified as the second in the group, but they were obviously very satisfied.

After all, it is better than being eliminated at the bottom of the group last season!

With the end of the Champions League group stage in the past two days, the top 16 of the Champions League in the 2012-2013 season have also been released.

Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04, Malaga, Real Madrid, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United qualified as the top of the group.

Porto, Arsenal, AC Milan, Dortmund, Shakhtar Donetsk, Valencia, Celtic, and Galatasaray successfully broke through as the second in the group.

In general, the strength of the first and second place teams in the group is still quite clear.

However, the first place team in the group basically does not want to face Dortmund directly in the first round of the knockout stage.

This Hornet has obviously adapted to the rhythm of the Champions League. The 3-4 loss to Real Madrid really scared a group of strong teams.

For the team that broke through the second place in the group, if they can draw Schalke 04 and Malaga in the quarter-finals, they will think they have made a profit.

However, these draws are still trivial matters for Real Madrid and Sampdoria.

The three teams will not meet each other in the future anyway, so it doesn't matter who they play.

After the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid also skipped the next round of the league.

Valladolid, the opponent in the 15th round of La Liga, can no longer attract the attention of Real Madrid players and fans.

Their minds have already flown to distant East Asia.

After playing the European Super Cup, they are looking forward to the arrival of December.

On the 13th of this month, Real Madrid will participate in the competition for the Club World Cup in Japan.

The supreme honor of the six-time champion is already beckoning to all the stars of Real Madrid!

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