Atletico Madrid and Valencia are after the match in Barcelona.

As this match was about to prepare for the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals next week, Simeone performed a moderate rotation - without a large player replacement, but fine-tuned in several positions.

Of course, in order to ensure victory, Gao Zheng and Griezmann appeared in the starting lineup at the same time.

In the end, the two men successfully connected once in the game, helping Atletico Madrid defeat Valencia 1-0 at home.

Two consecutive games won a small goal, and the process was not easy, but it didn't matter.

What’s important is that Atletico Madrid’s victory in this game has risen to second place in the league!

Of course, this is also the reason why Real Madrid lost the game itself.

But no matter what, they trampled their archenemy Real Madrid under their feet and separated from Barcelona.

If this point situation continues, the match between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid may determine the final league championship.

Of course, although Real Madrid fell to third place, there is still hope of a comeback.

After all, they are only one point behind Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. Real Madrid still has the opportunity to have a direct dialogue with Barcelona. In that national derby, if Real Madrid can beat Barcelona, ​​they can still regain their first throne in the league.

The competition for the league championship became more and more intense at the last moment.

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After playing against Valencia, Atletico Madrid moved to prepare for Leverkusen.

This game is very important to Atletico Madrid.

Because of the first leg, they lost 0:1 away to Leverkusen.

Not only that, central defender Diego Godin was suspended for getting yellow cards for tackled opponent Ras Bend in the game and accumulated yellow cards. Thiago directly accumulated two yellow cards in the game and was sent out with a red card, and will miss this life-and-death battle.

Saul, who was injured in the match against Real Madrid, did not recover and would not be able to participate in the game.

This game has also attracted much attention from the media in China and South Korea.

Because this is the second confrontation between Gao Zheng and Son Heung-min after the Asian Cup - Gao Zheng appeared in the first round of the two sides, but Son Heung-min did not play.

So the second leg was the first time the two sides met at the club.

This time, many Korean media rushed to Madrid to report on the game.

They surrounded Son Heung-min at the airport and wanted to hear what Son Heung-min thinks about this fight.

"Sun Jun, do you think this is the best opportunity to avenge a revenge for the Asian Cup?"

"After the Asian Cup, facing Gao Zheng again, are you confident of defeating him?"

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The issues that reporters throw at Son Heung-min are basically related to Gao Zheng and revenge.

Although it has been almost two months since the Asian Cup, the Koreans who were eliminated by the Chinese team in the quarter-finals have been resentful of this.

After that failure, the Korean players returned to China and even received boo and protests from some fans at the airport. Although the Korean team actually performed well in that game and they were only one line away from the semi-finals, as long as they lost to China, it would be an unacceptable result.

Korean football has maintained an absolute advantage over Chinese football for a long time, which makes many Korean fans feel that as long as they meet the Chinese team, victory will be booked in advance, and there will be no other possibility of the game result.

As a result, they lost to the Chinese team. Son Heung-min, the biggest star in their team, lost to Gao Zheng.

How can Koreans swallow this?

However, after the Asian Cup, China and South Korea didn’t know when it was time to meet again.

I don’t know if the World Cup Asian qualifiers can be assigned to a group.

If we cannot meet again and find revenge on the Chinese team, this tone will have to be kept in the hearts of the Koreans and torture them day and night.

As a result, when no one expected, Gao Zheng and Son Heung-min actually met in the Champions League!

This probability is much smaller than the chance of meeting in the national team!

Before the first round between Atletico Madrid and Leverkusen, the Korean media frantically hyped Son Heung-min's fight of revenge and South Korea's fight of revenge.

As a result, Son Heung-min did not appear in the starting lineup.

This made Korean fans very embarrassed.

However, this time, the Korean media has received very reliable news from various channels - Son Heung-min will definitely start in the second round.

After all, Leverkusen, who is leading one goal, does not require a large-scale attack away, they need a defensive counterattack.

Son Heung-min is fast and has strong individual combat capabilities, so he is very suitable for defensive counterattacks. At this time, as long as Leverkusen plays a defensive counterattack, he will definitely choose Son Heung-min to start.

The battle of revenge that Koreans have been waiting for for a long time can finally be staged!

Faced with these problems of Korean journalists, Son Heung-min was very calm: "This is not revenge, it is a game between clubs. One goal in the first round cannot mean anything, and this is Atletico Madrid's home court, we have to be very careful... Gao Zheng and I? He is a very good player, and we must do our best to defeat him."

This disappointed the Korean journalists. Someone said to him in Korean: "Sun Jun, please rest assured, this is a news report for domestic Korean fans!"

The implication is to let Son Heung-min not have any concerns or reservations, say whatever he wants, and is there anything else to hide from his compatriots?

Son Heung-min smiled and nodded: "I know."

It seems that this is what he wants to express without reservation.

South Korean journalists finally found his true thoughts from Son Heung-min, and the Korean journalists firmly believed that what Son Heung-min said was definitely not the truth, but they had no choice but to use what Son Heung-min told them to do news reports.

They guessed well, and Son Heung-min did not tell the truth to them.

How could the pain that the Asian Cup brought him was so easily smoothed out?

He told his country's reporters that this was not a revenge.

But on the contrary, deep down in Son Heung-min's heart, he thought this was a revenge.

In fact, the showdown between Leverkusen and Atletico Madrid came out as early as the Champions League quarterfinals at the end of last year.

At that time, Son Heung-min knew that he was going to face off against Gao Zheng. He was quite looking forward to it at that time. After all, he and Gao Zheng were among the best players in Asian football, and he wanted to compete with Gao Zheng.

This game is just a simple battle with the masters.

Unexpectedly, his contest with Gao Zheng was advanced to the Asian Cup.

And despite his outstanding performance in that game, he still failed to stop the Chinese team from winning.

Especially Gao Zheng's last barb ball, the scene when he jumped up and flew into the air to make an inverted golden hook movement, remained in Son Heung-min's mind for a long time.

He couldn't forget that scene.

The lights on the court were shot down from a high place, and were blocked by Gao Zheng's body. The light squeezed out at the edge of Gao Zheng's body, completely outlining the outline of his movement.

At that moment, time seemed to have stopped.

He witnessed a wonderful barb ball. Later, some media said that Gao Zheng's barb ball can be recorded in the history of the Asian Cup forever and may become the most exciting ball in the history of the Asian Cup.

And Son Heung-min had this idea when he saw this scene.

At that moment, Gao Zheng was in the sky and on the earth, and he was ashamed of himself.

However, after the game, the shame made Son Heung-min full of fighting spirit and vowed to fight with Gao Zheng again. This time he would never be as unbearable as he did in the Asian Cup.

He has been looking forward to this Champions League quarterfinal with Atletico Madrid.

But in the first leg, he had some minor injuries, even though he repeatedly insisted that he was fine and could play. Head coach Schmidt did not accept his words, but instead put Son Heung-min on the bench on the safe side, depending on the situation, whether he would be allowed to play.

As a result, Leverkusen scored a goal in the second half and took the lead, and then withstood Atletico Madrid's offensive, so Son Heung-min has been on the bench until the end of the game.

Although he tried hard to suppress his expression and emotions in front of the camera, it was still obvious that he was a little unhappy.

However, at that time, everyone thought that he was unhappy because he was injured and failed to catch up with the game.

Only he himself knows the real reason.

Now, in the second leg of the quarterfinals, he has completely recovered from injury and has performed well in the league, and his condition is not a problem.

Head coach Schmidt has no reason to put him on the bench again.

He knew that Atletico Madrid would be difficult to play at home, and he also knew that Atletico Madrid, who lost the first leg, would do his best to attack, which was just in line with his characteristics. He would use his speed and sharp counterattack to find Gao Zheng to get back to the field.

But he kept his mouth shut in the face of reporters and did not express his true thoughts, because he did not turn the private showdown between himself and Gao Zheng into a hype known to everyone.

This is the grudge between him and Gao Zheng, and it has nothing to do with the country.
Chapter completed!