Lazio, nicknamed the Blue Eagle, is a traditional strong team in Serie A. It was one of the seven sisters of Serie A during the Little World Cup at the end of the last century. It has won 2 Serie A, 5 Italian Cups, 3 Italian Super Cups, 1 European Cup Winners' Cup, and 1 European Cup.
Super Bowl Champion.
So far this season, Lazio ranks third in the Serie A standings, second only to AC Milan and Juventus, and is not weak.
Moreover, in the past 8 home games, Lazio has achieved 6 wins and 2 draws, including a home victory over AC Milan, the top player. The home record is quite strong.
Atletico Madrid has won six consecutive La Liga wins since entering 2012, which is equally daunting.
The duel between these two teams is also one of the most eye-catching strong dialogues in the Europa League 1/16 knockout rounds.
Not only fans of Atletico Madrid and Lazio, but also many neutral media and fans are paying attention to this powerful dialogue.
When the referee blew the opening whistle and the game officially started, Qiao Anchen first received the additional reward of "making his Europa League debut": 400,000 experience points.
Qiao Anchen's total experience has thus increased to level 30, 3.62 million/4 million. As long as he scores one more goal and gets the reward of the first goal in the Europa League, Qiao Anchen can be upgraded.
Therefore, Qiao Anchen behaved very actively after the game started.
But after all, it was an away game, and it was his first time playing abroad. Even if Qiao Anchen had a good rest, he would not be able to fully display his state at home at the Calderon Stadium, let alone his other teammates.
Simeone was already prepared for this. The formation he sent out was also a 532 formation, which strengthened the defensive strength of the back line. On the forward line, there was a double striker partnership of Qiao Anchen and Falcao.
Falcao plays as a center forward and is at the forefront to attract the opponent's defensive attention in the penalty area. Qiao Anchen plays as a shadow forward and waits for opportunities to shoot around Falcao.
Lazio, because they played home first and then away, are at a disadvantage in terms of schedule. They must win this game.
Therefore, after the game started, Lazio immediately took advantage of the home court advantage and launched a fierce attack on Atletico Madrid.
In the 4th minute, Lazio completed its first attack, but full-back Ledesma's shot from outside the penalty area missed the far post and failed to hit the goal frame.
In the 14th minute, Atletico Madrid also completed its first threatening counterattack. Falcao received a pass from Koke from the wing in the penalty area and grabbed the first point to attack the goal. However, the angle was too right.
, was easily confiscated by Lazio goalkeeper Marchetti.
Subsequently, Marchetti threw the ball to the full-back and Lazio continued to attack.
In the 19th minute, Lazio's fierce attack paid off. Midfielder Candreva stepped in from the right, and after two consecutive hits with his teammates, he successfully made a pass and sent the ball into Atletico Madrid's penalty area.
The 33-year-old German aerial tyrant Klose is getting stronger and stronger. Even under the protection of two Atletico Madrid center backs Diego Godin and Mario Suarez in the penalty area, he still jumped up to grab the first point and successfully turned his head towards the goal.
Headed the ball into Atletico Madrid's goal.
The distance was too close, and goalkeeper Courtois failed to save the goal this time. He could only subconsciously jump up and pounce, but he still failed to block the ball. The ball flew past his palm and flew into the goal.
The home team Lazio opened the scoring and led Atletico Madrid 1-0.
While celebrating, Klose performed another somersault stunt, which caused applause and cheers from tens of thousands of Blue Eagles fans at home.
However, leading by only one goal will not satisfy Lazio. Not to mention that the knockout rounds will take two rounds. Even if the outcome is decided in one game now, a one-goal lead in the first half is not safe.
Therefore, after the game restarted, Lazio continued to attack aggressively, while Atletico Madrid still shrank its defense and waited for opportunities to counterattack.
Lazio's state was similar to that at the beginning, but Atletico Madrid, who played away from home, gradually entered the state after these 20 minutes of the game. Threats to counterattack began to increase, and the pressure on the home team's defense began to increase.
Especially Qiao Anchen, he also saw domestic media reports through the Internet and learned that Chinese players had never scored a goal in a European competition.
The only Europa League goal was scored in the qualifying round, and it was more than eight years ago.
Countless domestic fans and netizens are looking forward to it, hoping that he can score the first goal for a Chinese player in the European competition and even the knockout rounds.
Although Qiao Anchen has decided that if he cannot score in the last ten minutes, he will activate the lucky card that must score.
But it would also be good if he could score a goal himself and save a must-goal card. Therefore, Qiao Anchen ran quite actively, hoping to get a chance to shoot.
In the 28th minute, Diego made a wonderful pass into the gap. Falcao received the ball in the middle and drove straight in. He attracted two opponent's center defenders in the frontcourt and then suddenly separated the sides.
Qiao Anchen made a diagonal pass from the right, received the ball near the right corner of the penalty area and faced Lazio left back Zauri's interception.
Qiao Anchen used his 70% dribbling skills to carefully control the ball while looking at Falcao in the middle.
I saw that Falcao, who had completed the side pass, had already gone around the center defender Biaava and entered the far end of the penalty area.
As long as Qiao Anchen can pass the ball, it is possible for Falcao to shoot from the left side of the penalty area.
However, Qiao Anchen's passing route was blocked by Diakite, another central defender of the Blue Eagles. The ball on the ground could not pass, so he had to pick the pass.
Seeing this, Qiao Anchen caught Falcao's movement with his eyes, raised his foot and made a pass to the left, causing the Blue Eagle full-back Zauri who was blocking him to subconsciously move a step inward, preparing to block the ball.
Blocked and intercepted Qiao Anchen's pass.
As a result, Qiao Anchen's dropped foot did not pass the ball, but moved inward, then used the instep of his outside foot to push the ball outside. His body followed suit and broke through from the outside of Zauri into the penalty area.
Zauri was deceived by Qiao Anchen's fake surprise and gave up space for a breakthrough, but Qiao Anchen broke through and entered the penalty area.
Lazio has studied Joan for a long time and knows that he is Atletico Madrid's number one striker with a higher scoring efficiency than Falcao since the new year. Naturally, they cannot be careless.
Therefore, the frightened Zauri immediately turned around, stretched out his hand to grab Qiao Anchen's shoulder, and tried to steal the ball from behind with his foot.
But that was all, Qiao Anchen had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area. Zauri neither dared to pull Qiao Anchen down with too much force, nor did he dare to make a tackle from behind.
Therefore, his interference was barely resisted by Qiao Anchen, whose physique reached 80 and balance reached 70.
Qiao Anchen controlled the ball while resisting Zauri's tug and interference, and observed the position of goalkeeper Marchetti, preparing to take a shot.