In this round of games, both Real Madrid and Barcelona achieved victory. Barcelona is still 7 points behind Atletico Madrid, and Atletico Madrid continues to maintain a two-goal margin of error.
After this round of games, it is time to enter the FIFA match day, and all international players have returned to the national team to play national team games.
Qiao Anchen, who had no national team duties, stayed at the club.
The matches in the European zone of the World Cup preliminaries were basically divided between strong and weak. Only Group I had an upset. Spain was equalized 1-1 by Finland after leading by one goal, and it ended in a draw.
Fortunately, in another strong dialogue between France and Spain that followed, Spain defeated France 1-0 and still surpassed the points and ranked first in the group, pushing the French team to second place in the group.
There is also an interesting plot in this intense dialogue between the two teams. In the 77th minute, the French team's 20-year-old Pogba raised his foot too high when fighting for the top and received the first yellow card. Then, just a few minutes later,
For more than 40 seconds, he turned on his spikes and stepped on a Spanish player during the fight, earning a second yellow card.
He received two yellow cards in a row within 1 minute. Two yellow cards turned into one red and he was sent off immediately. This made Pogba very dissatisfied. When he was shown the yellow card, he walked off the field and applauded the referee to show his sarcasm.
As a result, his actions of not being calm and mocking the referee earned him an additional two-game suspension after the game. In addition to the automatic one-game suspension for the red card, the French team only has three remaining World Cup qualifying games in total. Borg
All of them were unable to appear.
His World Cup qualifying group stage journey has ended early.
After the FIFA match day, the international football players returned to the clubs one after another to start club games.
On March 30, the 29th round of La Liga began.
The weather throughout Spain is not good this weekend, with basically heavy rain. Barcelona plays away against Celta Vigo, the second-last team in the standings.
With the need to compete with Atletico Madrid for the league title, everyone thought that Barcelona had a good chance of winning this game and should be able to win easily.
As a result, I don’t know if the national team competition consumed too much energy of the international players. Barcelona performed very poorly in this game. They did not score a goal for more than half an hour in the first half and even conceded in the 38th minute.
One goal and Celta took a 1-0 lead.
Fortunately, before the end of the first half, Barcelona equalized the score with No. 37 Tello's goal.
In the 73rd minute of the second half, Messi scored a goal that reversed the score and gave Barcelona a 2-1 away lead.
Just when everyone thought Barcelona could defeat their opponent in the away game, Barcelona failed to score any more goals to expand their lead. Instead, in the 88th minute, Celta Vigo No. 4 Obinna scored a tying goal.
In the end, Barcelona was held to a tenacious draw by second-to-last Celta Vigo on the road and failed to take all three points.
When the game ended, in addition to the Celta Vigo fans who cheered heartily, there were also Atletico Madrid players and fans watching the live broadcast in front of the TV.
Barcelona made another mistake. If Atletico Madrid can win the game subsequently, the point gap between the two sides will change from 7 points to 9 points. The point difference will be further widened, and Atletico Madrid will be one step closer to the championship.
In another away game, Real Madrid challenged Zaragoza. I wonder if Real Madrid was infected by Barcelona. They also tied with Zaragoza 1-1 in heavy rain and failed to win.
Championship rivals Barcelona and city rival Real Madrid both made mistakes, which made everyone at Atletico Madrid extremely happy.
Fans naturally hope that the team can continue to work hard, win this round of games, and continue to widen the point difference with Barcelona.
Therefore, even if it still rained heavily on the match day, there were still 40,000 fans at the Calderon Stadium wearing raincoats and umbrellas who came to the stadium to cheer for the home team, hoping that the Sheets could win the game.
In the locker room before the game, after Simeone arranged the tactics, he reminded him again:
"It is natural for us to be happy that Barcelona was tied by Celta Vigo, but now our game has not started yet, and the points between Barcelona and us have not increased, but have shrunk by one point. So, I hope everyone understands that we must increase the points with Barcelona.
The points gap can only be realized if you win this game. If you cannot win this game, then all your imaginations at this time will be just a bubble. I hope everyone will guard against arrogance and impetuosity, go all out and win
Today’s game.”
The excited players calmed down a little and nodded, indicating that they had listened to Simeone's words.
We haven't won the league championship in 17 years. Now everyone is full of desire for the championship. Naturally, we have to be careful in everything and don't capsize in the gutter.
However, sometimes things are really out of people's control.
At 21:00 on the evening of March 31, when the 29th round of La Liga Atletico Madrid played against Valencia at home, just 5 minutes after it officially started in heavy rain at the Calderon Stadium, Valencia, who was playing away from home, scored through a long shot.
Forced Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Courtois to save the ball from the bottom line and won a corner kick.
Valencia right back Joao Pereira stepped forward to take a corner kick. The taller center forward, center back, midfielder and others entered the Atletico Madrid penalty area one after another to participate in the fight for the top.
However, Pereira's corner kick did not fly to the penalty area. He took a tactical corner kick and drove the ball outside the top of the penalty area.
When everyone at Atletico Madrid returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense of the top, Valencia's No. 7 wide midfielder Jonas received Pereira's pass without being marked and did not stop the ball.
He shot a volley in the heavy rain.
The ball flew towards the goal like a cannonball. Two Atletico Madrid players flew to block the hole of the ball, but failed and interfered with the sight of goalkeeper Courtois.
In the end, the ball flew past the fingertips of Courtois, who flew to save, and flew into the goal.
Valencia took the lead in scoring a lightning goal at the Calderon Stadium, leading the Shelters 1-0 away from home.
The visiting team players and the few dozen Valencia fans in the stands celebrated wildly, while the more than 40,000 home fans who had been cheering loudly for Atletico Madrid just now suddenly seemed to be strangled by the neck.
Silence.
Qiao Anchen and other Atletico Madrid players looked a little lost as they looked at Jonas and his teammates who were running wildly in celebration in the heavy rain.
This volley went in beautifully and put Atletico Madrid behind. You know, Simeone just said in the locker room before the game not to underestimate the opponent and be careless, which will result in not winning the game in the end and being unable to widen the gap with Barcelona.
Points difference.
Unexpectedly, everyone made a mistake and failed to withstand the opponent outside the penalty area in time. The opponent used this tactical corner kick and directly scored a volley.
This time he became passive.
It was raining heavily, and everyone's performance was greatly affected. In addition, Falcao and other international players were also a little tired due to participating in the national team competition. It was really hard to say whether Atletico Madrid could equalize and reverse the score!