After Levante finished celebrating and the game restarted, Atletico Madrid became a little anxious and had to press forward sharply and take the initiative to attack.
In the past, Atlético de Madrid was the side that took the initiative, either drawing the score or taking the lead, then shrinking the formation slightly, and then pressing the opponent's counterattack from a high position, hitting each one accurately, and won a brilliant record of 20 consecutive victories in two-line battles.
Unexpectedly, the opponent was in hot form and had great luck in this game. In the first 10 minutes, two of the three attempts were scored, resulting in Atletico Madrid falling behind by two goals. Now they are facing an extremely severe situation and have to take the initiative to move forward.
Pressure attack.
Even if we can't win the league championship, we can't lose the top three spots in the Champions League!
Valencia is still chasing after me!
Therefore, Atletico Madrid, which was two goals behind, could no longer shrink its formation, wait for the opponent to attack, and then steal the ball to counterattack. It could only press forward and take the initiative to attack.
And Levante, with a two-goal lead, decisively chose to retreat with all its players and set up a defensive posture of a big iron barrel formation.
They know that scoring two goals in 10 minutes is a matter of great luck, so there is no need to attack Atletico Madrid when leading by two goals.
As they have the absolute initiative, they can also shrink their formation and defend, attracting Atletico Madrid to press heavily, and then steal the ball to attack Atletico Madrid's counterattack.
In the 12th minute, left winger Alda Turan cut inside and passed the ball in an inverted triangle. Levante went to guard Qiao Anchen and center Adrian, neglecting to defend Diego who came in from the back row.
Diego rushed to the line of the penalty area, received Turan's inverted triangle pass, and shot a high-quality world-wide shot that went straight to the upper left corner of the goal.
However, Levante's goalkeeper Munua chose his position correctly and was standing on the left side of the goal. After seeing Diego's shot, his reaction was very fast, and he made a dangerous dive and successfully saved the ball.
Standing upright, flying out of the baseline.
Diego, who had already raised his hands to celebrate the goal, looked at Munua in disbelief and felt quite incredible.
The players of Atletico Madrid also felt sorry for each other, sighing that Diego's high-quality world wave failed to score a goal.
Levante's home fans in the stands cheered and applauded Munua's wonderful save.
Shocked, he scored two goals in ten minutes, leading Atletico Madrid 2-0, and then the goalkeeper made such a world-class save. You can imagine the morale of the Levante players and fans.
Amid the cheers of more than 20,000 home fans at the City Stadium, Levante's players played aggressively and cooperated with each other tacitly. They used the numerical advantage of intensive defense and teamwork, as well as the fighting attitude of flying all over the field to firmly win the championship.
Guarded their goal and maintained the 2-0 score until the end of the first half.
It was also the first time that Qiao Anchen failed to score even a single goal despite completing 5 shots.
Of the five shots, 4 hit the door frame, but either they were interfered by the opponent and the angle of the kick was not clever enough, so they were saved by the goalkeeper; or the opponent's defender arrived in time and blocked the shot hole.
Also, Qiao Anchen was not very lucky today. One of the balls hit the inside of the right post, bounced to the left post, and was cleared by the opponent's defender on the goal line.
Even Qiao Anchen's shooting skills are not very easy to break through the dense defense.
At halftime, Qiao Anchen was already thinking that if he didn't score in the second half, he might have to activate the lucky card that must score.
You know, now he can get 1 million experience rewards every time he breaks the consecutive scoring record! And he will soon tie or even catch up with Gerd Muller's 16-game world record, and he doesn't want to give up.
Unexpectedly, during the halftime break, Levante took a step further, taking off two offensive players and replacing them with two defensive players. They continued to strengthen their defense and defended to the end.
After the start of the second half, Levante's defense was still the same as in the first half, almost watertight. Atletico Madrid could only rely on crosses from the wing to compete for headers or long shots from outside the penalty area to attack.
Although Adrian, who is a guest center, is slightly taller than Falcao, his ability to move and grab points is not as good as Falcao's. It is difficult to grab the first point, and his bounce and header are not as good as Falcao's.
, almost unable to create a threat in the penalty area.
And long-range shots outside the penalty area are even less effective. Although long-range shots are a great way to break dense defenses, Atletico Madrid does not have a real long-range shot master. The long-range shots are either too weak or impossible to hit.
Door frame range.
Only Qiao Anchen's shooting threat is greater, with a high hit rate on the goal frame. Every shot can cause a wave of fear from the opponent's defender and goalkeeper.
However, his attribute only has a shooting power of 70, and he is not a very strong shot threat from the ground. His power is only greater when he receives a faster pass from his teammate and performs a bounce or volley.
However, such a shot, even if Qiao Anchen's shooting skills are at full strength, still depends on luck, and the hit rate will definitely not be as high as a ground volley.
Even so, Qiao Anchen must stand up and take on the responsibility of taking the last shot. Because if his teammates shoot, the probability of wasting the opportunity is higher.
Fortunately, Qiao Anchen's full-value external shooting skills did not disappoint him after all.
After another shooting opportunity was wasted in the second half, in the 57th minute, full-back Felipe Luis stepped in to assist and passed a good air ball.
Qiao Anchen seized this opportunity in the middle of the penalty area about 26 meters away from the goal. He volleyed without stopping the ball and hit a powerful volley to the world.
The ball changed direction instantly and blasted towards Levante's goal like a cannonball.
Levante midfielder Xavi Torres, who rushed from the side and flew to block the hole of the gun, failed to block the ball. Defender Kabala tried to jump up and header the ball in the penalty area but failed to touch the ball.
The ball continued to fly towards the upper right corner.
Goalkeeper Munua also reacted immediately after Joan Chen completed the volley, moved two steps to the right side of the goal and then jumped in.
However, Qiao Anchen's shot was not a flat kick, but a volley, and his extraordinary performance was due to the power of his shot plus part of the kinetic energy of Felipe Luis's cross from the wing, so the power and speed of the shot were very great.
quick.
Coupled with good luck, the full shooting skills created an almost theoretical blind spot.
Therefore, despite his excellent performance in this game, Munua, who has repeatedly saved Atletico Madrid's threatening balls, failed to save the goal this time and failed to touch the ball by the slightest margin.
The ball passed over his fingertips, touched the junction of the crossbar and the uprights, and flew into the goal from what could be called a theoretical blind spot.