While Qiao Anchen and others were celebrating New Year's Eve and having New Year's Eve dinner, the 23rd round of La Liga games started one after another. Deportivo lost to Granada 0-3 at home, which was considered an upset.
Although Deportivo is ranked last, Granada is also ranked last, and this round was Depor's home court, so they lost by such a big score.
It's not surprising that Deportivo lost, but losing by such a huge margin and not scoring a single goal was quite unexpected.
In another game, Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 4-1 at home. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick, which also allowed the media and fans to see his status and strength.
The next day, February 10th, the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Barcelona may have vented their anger from being tied 1-1 by Valencia in the previous round and being widened by Atletico Madrid in the points gap into this round.
As for the opponent, they bloodbathed Getafe 6-1 at Camp Nou.
Barcelona's 6 goals came from 6 people, including Messi, and many of them blossomed. Everyone had a strong desire to attack, which ultimately caused a tragedy for Getafe.
Unfortunately, no matter how many goals they win, they only count for 3 points. As long as Atletico Madrid makes no mistakes and continues to win this round, Barcelona will not be able to recover the points gap that was widened by their own mistakes in the previous round.
In the subsequent game, Athletic Bilbao lost 0-4 at home to Espanyol, which was also a tragedy.
Next up is the Atletico Madrid game.
At 22:00 on the evening of February 10, with the referee's whistle, the 23rd round of La Liga Atletico Madrid's away game against Rayo Vallecano officially began.
There were thousands of overseas Chinese fans in the stands, watching the game with slogans supporting Qiao Anchen and wishing Qiao Anchen a happy Spring Festival.
Although this is an away game, today is the Spring Festival, which has a different meaning. Therefore, many Chinese and overseas Chinese came to the away game. While watching Qiao Anchen play on the spot, they also sent Qiao Anchen New Year blessings, which moved Qiao Anchen quite a lot.
Rayo Vallecano is currently ranked 7th in the standings and is in very good shape, but even so, they did not dare to attack Atletico Madrid at home, but rather decisively chose a defensive counterattack.
There are not many teams that still dare to compete with Atletico Madrid.
But no one expected that sometimes accidents would come so quickly.
Only 3 minutes into the game, Rayo Vallecano's first threatening counterattack was a pass from No. 10 right midfielder Pitti. After center Baptisto attracted the attention of Atletico Madrid's two center defenders, everyone
But they all jumped up and no one hit the ball.
Even goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was shaken by the struggle for the top of the penalty area in the middle of the penalty area by Baptistan and others, and was unable to retreat to the back point in time.
As a result, the ball passed through the crowd in the middle and landed at the back point on the left side of the penalty area. Vallecano's No. 19 left midfielder Bangura rushed into the penalty area and faced the falling ball with a diving dive and headed the ball in.
Left side of goal.
Courtois's hasty save was beyond his reach and he could only watch the ball go into the net.
Everyone thought that Atletico Madrid would win easily, and that Qiao Anchen could score another goal to continue breaking the consecutive scoring record and break Messi's La Liga record of 50 goals!
Unexpectedly, the first thing I saw was Rayo Vallecano scoring a lightning goal after threatening a counterattack in the first three minutes.
The home fans in the stands of the Vallecas Stadium burst into huge and warm applause and cheers. Even they themselves couldn't believe it. They actually took the lead in breaking through the goal of the Shelters.
You must know that they originally planned to defend, but unexpectedly they scored first.
Atletico Madrid is naturally quite depressed.
Simeone, in particular, was furious on the sidelines, yelling at right back Juan Fran who failed to guard Bangura and allowed Bangura to dive and score without interference:
"Fran, what are you doing? Are you still thinking about the Chinese food at Qiao Anchen's house yesterday?"
"This is a game now, not a dinner party. If you don't want to play, get out of here!"
Hearing the coach's scolding, Qiao Anchen still felt a little ashamed, even though he knew Simeone was not scolding him.
Could it be that the teammates were playing at home yesterday, eating too much and not getting enough rest, which led to problems with their condition today?
The next game really verified Qiao Anchen's idea.
In fact it is correct.
Although the Chinese food was delicious, some people boldly tried chili peppers. Even though Qiao Anchen's family had already noticed this and put very little chili peppers, some teammates still had diarrhea when they got home.
In addition to mahjong, poker, movies, setting off fireworks, burning ghost coins, etc., there are all kinds of novel and new things in China that I have never experienced before, and I still can't sleep well after returning home.
They are not like Qiao Anchen, who has a system and can fall asleep in bed, instantly enter dream training, and enter deep sleep.
Although not everyone in the team was affected, at least more than half of them were affected, and the overall condition was indeed greatly affected.
After the game restarted, the morale-boosted Rayo Vallecano defended more fiercely and unitedly, fighting for every inch of ground. Let alone inside the penalty area, Qiao Anchen didn't even have a few opportunities to take long-range shots outside the penalty area.
Rayo Vallecano's defense against Joan Chen has been done to the extreme.
In addition, everyone was in poor condition. Even if Qiao Anchen used his speed and reaction to get into the gap, it would be difficult for him to receive the right pass from his teammates, so he was never able to equalize the score.
Instead, Rayo Vallecano made another quick counterattack in the 32nd minute. Bangura, who had previously opened the scoring, made a pass from the left. Center forward Baptisto grabbed the first point this time and beat Milan.
Da successfully headed the ball into the goal from close range.
The distance was too close, no matter how quick Courtois reacted, it was in vain, and he could only watch the ball go into the net.
In the 32nd minute of the first half, Atletico Madrid, which needed to compete for the championship, had not equalized the score. Rayo Vallecano scored again, extending the score to 2-0. Bangura shined with every pass and shot.
The Vallecano fans in the stands stood up, applauded and cheered wildly, clenched their fists and shouted, feeling excited and proud of Vallecano's feat of scoring two goals in a row, leading Atletico Madrid by two goals.
The commentators commented:
"What a surprise."
"Although Rayo Vallecano is playing at home, they put on a defensive counterattack posture from the beginning."
"Unexpectedly, it was Rayo Vallecano who scored first, and he scored two goals in a row. Now we are leading Atletico Madrid 2-0."
"In the last round of the league, Barcelona was tied 1-1 by Valencia, allowing Atletico Madrid to seize the opportunity and lead Barcelona by 4 points."
"Don't capsize in the gutter this round and be upset by Rayo Vallecano. Then the advantage established by Barcelona's mistakes in the last round will be gone again."
Of course, this kind of commentator is more supportive of Atletico Madrid.
Naturally, Barcelona's commentator was cheering for Rayo Vallecano, hoping that Rayo Vallecano would continue to score goals, completely killing the suspense of the game and narrowing the points gap between them and Atletico Madrid.
But no matter which side, they all felt that it was quite unexpected that Atletico Madrid scored two goals in a row and fell behind 0-2.
As for Atletico Madrid's own players, coaches, and fans, they were naturally even more surprised.
This season, except for losing to Barcelona due to Joan Chen's suspension, Atletico Madrid has not lost any game in the league!
Unexpectedly, this game was not only blitzed by Rayo Vallecano in the first 3 minutes, but also conceded a second goal, resulting in a two-goal deficit.
If you don't pay attention, you might really lose to Rayo Vallecano.
Therefore, when Vallecano celebrated the goal crazily, captain Gabi shouted to his teammates:
"Cheer up!"
"Today is the Chinese Spring Festival, and it is the first day of Qiao Anchen's traditional New Year celebration."
"We can't let Qiao Anchen encounter a bad start on the first day of the new year."
"I know that everyone may not have had a good rest yesterday, but I hope everyone can cheer up. This game must be won today, and it should be regarded as a New Year's gift to Qiao Anchen."
Second captain Diego Godin and third captain Felipe Luis also took the lead in applauding and told everyone to cheer up and not be overwhelmed by Rayo Vallecano scoring two goals in a row.
With Atletico Madrid's offensive ability, two goals is not the end of the world, it is entirely possible to tie or even overtake.
Qiao Anchen also smiled and said: "Yesterday was a coincidence. It happened to be New Year's Eve and there was a competition today, so our dinner was a bit hasty and affected the state of today's competition. I apologize to everyone. However, it will not happen next time. Next time
I will look at the situation again and find a good time. Even if you have diarrhea after eating chili peppers, you can rest for a few days."
The teammates immediately laughed and looked much more relaxed.
Qiao Anchen continued: "There is really no room for error in today's game. Not because today is the first day of the Chinese New Year, but because Atletico Madrid has not won a league title in 17 years."
"Now we are only 4 points ahead of Barcelona. This is not safe because we will be fighting on three fronts and competing for the championship."
"Therefore, if you can try your best to win the game in the league, you must try your best to win it, so that you can continue to maintain the points advantage over Barcelona and make more room for error for the following three-tier championship competition."
"Therefore, I hope you will go all out and let us give you a shocking comeback after conceding two goals in a row!"
The teammates clapped their hands in unison and replied: "Okay!!!"
At this time, Vallecano also finished celebrating and returned to his own half.
Atletico Madrid took the ball from the center circle and the game restarted.