Chapter 142 The 9th goal of La Liga surpasses Yang Chen
Courtois's godlike performance not only kept the goal scoreless, but also severely damaged Osasuna's morale.
In fact, Osasuna has been relying on a sense of mourning since the beginning of the game to win this game, and they did perform well and created many good shooting opportunities.
However, Courtois blocked the ball like a goalkeeper, allowing Osasuna to fail again and again. There were so many threatening shots, but none of them scored.
At the beginning, I could still hold on with just a breath of energy, but as time went by and my physical energy was exhausted, I became more and more discouraged and desperate.
Atletico Madrid has also slowly stabilized from the initial panic.
After all, with a door god at the door, everyone felt much more at ease and began to slowly wait for opportunities to counterattack.
In the 38th minute, Osasuna's frontcourt attack made a passing error and the ball was intercepted by defender Mario Suarez. Atletico Madrid immediately launched a counterattack.
After the ball reached the feet of Qiao Anchen in the midfield, Qiao Anchen looked at Osasuna goalkeeper Andres Fernandez, who was standing a little forward, and took a super long-range lob about 45 meters away from the goal.
Unfortunately, this time he was not as lucky as he was in his La Liga debut. After knowing about Qiao Anchen's amazing shooting skills and his history of super long-range lobs, the opponent's goalkeeper had already paid great attention to preventing this.
Therefore, when he saw that Qiao Anchen was trying to take a long shot, goalkeeper Andres Fernandez immediately retreated without hesitation. Finally, he successfully jumped in the small penalty area and lifted the ball over the crossbar, preventing Qiao Anchen from successfully attacking.
Before the end of the first half, in the 43rd minute, Atletico Madrid seized the opportunity to launch a counterattack.
This time, Qiao Anchen's running position attracted two defenders of the opponent. No. 19 attacking midfielder Koke passed the ball through the ball. Falcao succeeded in countering offside and successfully formed a single goal. Unfortunately, when he received the ball, he was already in the penalty area and was too close to the goalkeeper.
Falcao's non-stop volley into the far corner was blocked by goalkeeper Andres Fernandez with his foot.
Then neither side created any more threats, and the referee blew the whistle to end the first half after 1 minute of stoppage time.
Throughout the first half, neither side scored a single goal, not even Qiao Anchen, who had performed superbly in the previous three games.
Including the lob shot in the 38th minute, Qiao Anchen had only two shots in the first half, but failed to score.
In addition to the fact that Atletico Madrid was being suppressed, Qiao Anchen was also tasked with returning to defense and counterattacking, and there were not many offensive and shooting opportunities. There was also the reason why the opponent's goalkeeper performed well.
The best performance in the first half was actually the two goalkeepers.
However, Courtois has a higher number and quality of saves, and his performance is more outstanding.
During the halftime break, Osasuna's head coach encouraged his players in the locker room, saying that although they did not score a goal, they did not concede a goal either? Compared with Atletico Madrid's opponents in the previous games,
Say, aren't they considered to have performed very well?
If Atletico Madrid can continue to keep a clean sheet in the second half, even if it ends with 0-0, compared to Atletico Madrid's forward line led by Joan Chen and Falcao, being able to not concede a goal is actually a very good performance.
Therefore, he ordered his disciples to keep up their efforts and continue to attack Atletico Madrid in the second half as they did in the first half, using offense instead of defense to suppress Atletico Madrid's counterattack and ensure the safety of the backcourt.
After some guidance and encouragement from the head coach, Osasuna's players regained their morale.
After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half. After the game restarted, Osasuna pressed forward aggressively like they did in the first half, hoping to suppress Atletico Madrid with offense like they did in the first half and fight for the ball.
Try your luck.
They hope that they can perform as well as they did in the first half, and if Courtois doesn't have to be as amazing as he did in the first half, then he might be able to score.
If they can suppress Atletico Madrid's offense like they did in the first half and prevent Atletico Madrid from scoring, then they can win this game and get the first victory of the new year.
To be able to still rank sixth in the standings after three games without a win, ahead of Atletico Madrid, Osasuna's strength this season is actually very good.
This game was at home again, and the state and energy that exploded after three rounds of defeat should not be underestimated. Osasuna's offensive in the second half was almost the same as that in the first half, suppressing Atletico Madrid, which was missing two main midfielders.
There is almost no power to fight back.
But compared to the first half, what Osasuna prayed for not only did not happen, but actually happened in the opposite direction.
They were in good shape, but Courtois did not collapse. He was still like the first half, blocking Atletico Madrid's goal like a wall, leaving them helpless.
In terms of offense, after being ravaged and adapted in the first half, Atletico Madrid's condition was much stronger in the second half, and their counterattack speed and efficiency after getting the ball were also higher than in the first half.
Finally, when the time came to the 63rd minute, Osasuna's offense failed to score a goal due to Courtois' high pass. However, Atletico Madrid's quick counterattack this time was led by Falcao.
He dribbled the ball into the penalty area from the center and attracted the opponent's defender. The goalkeeper's attention then divided the ball.
Qiao Anchen, who was following behind, reached the right wing of the penalty area, got ahead of Osasuna center back Miguel Franho who was trying to make up for the interception, volleyed the ball without stopping, and steadily kicked the ball in.
the upper right corner.
Although goalkeeper Andres Fernandez had already moved over the moment Falcao passed the ball, he dived and basically blocked the space in the middle and lower part of the near-end goal.
However, Qiao Anchen's shot went towards the upper blind corner, and Fernandez was unable to do anything.
Qiao Anchen opened the scoring, breaking the deadlock for Atletico Madrid and taking a 1-0 lead in the away game. This is Qiao Anchen's fourth consecutive La Liga game in which he has scored, with the total number of goals reaching 9.
Atletico Madrid fans at the scene and in front of the TV cheered wildly. This game looked so thrilling.
If it weren't for Courtois's superb performance, Atletico Madrid might have fallen behind by two or three goals.
As a result, not only did they not concede a goal, but Atletico Madrid scored first. And the scorer was Qiao Anchen, a youth training treasure they had high hopes for. No wonder everyone was so excited and crazy.
Having arrived in Spain, TV-5 commentator Guan Jianwen even shouted excitedly:
"The ball went in!!!"
"Qiao Anchen scored again!"
"On the 9th goal, Qiao Anchen scored his 9th goal in La Liga."
"Qiao Anchen officially surpassed Yang Chen and became the Chinese player with the most goals in a single season in the five major leagues."
"The key is that Qiao Anchen has only played 4 games, and he has scored goals in 4 consecutive games."
"so amazing."
"When Atletico Madrid renewed the contract and gave Qiao Anchen an annual salary of 1 million euros, many people were still talking about Atletico Madrid being too courageous and gambling."
"Looking at the results now, it turns out that he really had the vision and dared to place the bet. This time he made a lot of money."