Surprisingly, Simeone did not criticize his players during halftime for their performance in which they only scored one goal in the first half.
According to him, what he requires is that the team should first not concede a goal, first be in an invincible position, and then score goals depending on luck.
Although Simeone has achieved many big-scoring victories since taking over Atletico Madrid. But in fact, it was due to Qiao Anchen's superb performance. Simeone himself is a bit inclined to the 1-0 doctrine.
It doesn't matter how many goals you score, as long as you can win the game. But you must try your best not to concede a goal.
Atletico Madrid did this in the first half, at least they did not concede a goal, and then scored with Qiao Anchen's lob in the first 3 minutes, leading the score. Simeone was quite satisfied with this, and did not do it because of his strength.
Being stronger than the opponent requires the players to lead the opponent by a large score to be satisfied.
This current state of conceding zero goals is what he values most.
Simeone also made the idea of putting defense first into the minds of the players through his speech at halftime.
After a 15-minute break, after the second half restarted, Granada unexpectedly attacked hard for a while, trying to catch Atletico Madrid off guard and equalize the score.
As a result, when encountering Atletico Madrid's midfield defense, which was focused on the game from the beginning, Granada's surprise attack failed to succeed, and they did not even create a threatening shot opportunity.
In the 54th minute, the Granada midfielder originally made a wonderful pass into the penalty area, which created a wonderful passing opportunity.
However, the forward who received the ball was pulled from behind by the Atletico Madrid defender when he was rushing to shoot. As a result, he kicked the ball and the ball easily missed the baseline and did not even hit the goal frame.
The two sides also discussed the matter. Granada believed that the Atletico defender committed a foul in the penalty area and should be given a penalty kick, but the referee ignored it.
Apart from this missed opportunity, Granada had no more threatening opportunities.
Simeone's defense-first philosophy has been implemented by the players.
At the same time, when Granada launched an offensive, there were many gaps in their backcourt that could be exploited, giving Joan Chen and Falcao the opportunity to counterattack.
In the 62nd minute, Atletico Madrid stole the ball and launched a quick counterattack. Finally, Adrian made a pass from the left, and Falcao fought for the top in the middle to attract the attention of the opponent's center back. As a result, both of them went up.
Qiao Anchen stepped in from the right and received Adrian's cross on the right rib of the penalty area. Without stopping the ball, he volleyed the ball into the near corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper Zulio Schsa was severely shaken by Falcao's challenge in the middle, and it was too late to attack Qiao Anchen's volley from a tricky angle.
Qiao Anchen scored twice, helping Atletico Madrid take a 2-0 lead, basically sealing the victory.
In a football game, if you lead by two goals in the second half, your winning rate is still very high. What's more, Atletico Madrid under Simeone is good at defense and has conceded zero goals.
With a two-goal lead, victory is basically guaranteed.
Considering that the next game is an away game against Besiktas in the second leg of the Europa League 1/8 finals, and they have to go to Turkey to fight, even if the total score is 4-1 and they are three goals ahead, they should not be careless.
Therefore, when the game reached the 70th minute and Granada could not score a goal to regain even a point, Simeone made a substitution adjustment and replaced Qiao Anchen to rest.
In the 76th minute, Falcao was also replaced.
Until the end of the game, Granada did not score a single goal.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. With Joan Chen's brace, Atletico Madrid defeated Granada 2-0 at home and won the 13th consecutive two-front game since 2012.
The victory was also the tenth consecutive victory in La Liga.
When the final whistle sounded, Qiao Anchen also received 100,000 starting points, 2 goals, 200,000 winning prizes, 100,000 for best on the spot, 200,000 = 600,000 game experience rewards, and the total experience increased to level 32, 3.98 million/6 million.
After the game, media from various countries reported the news that Qiao Anchen tied Ronaldo's record of scoring consecutive goals in 10 La Liga games.
If it were just to tie the record, it might not be so sensational, because La Liga's record of consecutive scoring games is the shortest among the five major leagues.
The record for the longest consecutive scoring games in the five major leagues comes from the Bundesliga, held by Gerd Muller for 16 games. It is also the longest consecutive scoring record in the world's top leagues.
Followed by Masnagetti's 13 Ligue 1 games, Batistuta's 11 Serie A games, Ruud van Nistelrooy's 10 Premier League games and Martin/Ronaldo's 10 La Liga games.
Therefore, Qiao Anchen only scored in 10 consecutive games, tying the record of the lowest number of consecutive goals in the five major leagues jointly held by Martin and Ronaldo, and was not very sensational.
But the problem is that the player Qiao Anchen is too newsy.
He has not yet turned 16, but he has caused a sensation all over the world since he scored a hat-trick on his debut in the first game of La Liga.
From then on, Qiao Anchen was out of control, scoring every game in La Liga or the Europa League. This has continued to this day, and he and Messi, who has won three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards, are neck and neck in the 2012 goalscoring list. You are chasing each other.
, attracted the attention of the world.
Therefore, when he tied the record this time, he naturally received a lot of media coverage.
"Atletico Madrid defeated Granada 2-0, Qiao Anchen scored twice to tie the alien Ronaldo's record!"
"Qiao Anchen scored twice to help Atletico Madrid win 13 consecutive victories in the New Year, scoring in 10 consecutive games and tying Ronaldo's La Liga record!"
Fans from all over the world also discussed:
"It's so awesome. Before he turned 16, he already tied the La Liga record of consecutive goals scored by the alien Ronaldo. Ronaldo is an alien, I think Qiao Anchen is already a god."
"Yes, Qiao Anchen is the god of football. Since entering the first team, he has scored in 13 consecutive games, with a total of 24 goals. I can't believe that this is a 15-year-old player."
"I have never seen such an awesome newcomer. The European Golden Boy Award can no longer accommodate him. When I see it, I will directly enter the Golden Globe Award selection list."
"yes!"
"In the next game, we will witness Qiao Anchen setting a new record in La Liga."
"That's not necessarily true. This kind of record depends on luck, and it might end abruptly in one game."
"The next opponent is Mallorca. It is impossible to stop Atletico Madrid and Qiao Anchen. I bet 50 cents that Qiao Anchen will definitely break the record."
"Yes, Mallorca will definitely not be able to stop it."
"Waiting for Qiao Anchen to break the record. Not only the La Liga record, but also Gerd Muller's record of 16 games was broken by him."