Chapter 63 The opponents of the quarter-finals
In January, the European football winter transfer window opened, and those negotiated transfers were reached one by one
As usual, big news always revolves around the Premier League.
Liverpool signed Newcastle United striker Carroll for £350,000, which set off the 'first shot' of the winter transfer, but many media believe that it is difficult for the subsequent transfer to surpass this record. After all, it is only a winter transfer, and heavyweight stars will not choose to leave at this time.
Chelsea won David Luis next for 29.25 million euros, which seems to be a big news. There are no major media reports on the transfer of the Brazilian defender, although he followed Benfica to win the Portuguese Super League championship last year and was named Portuguese Super League Player of the Year by UEFA.
Later, news came from Serie A. Inter Milan signed Laziano and Pazini in succession, and signed two geniuses for 390,000 euros, which caused a sensation in the entire Italian and even European football world. In contrast, Juventus's victory over Matthie seems to be nothing.
Two days later, the most important news came - Aston Villa traded Darren Bent from Manchester City, with a transfer price of up to 430,000 pounds!
Since Wan Sheng left, Darren Bent has been playing for Manchester City. Whether it is a change of coaches or many adjustments to the lineup, Darren Bent is the main striker of Manchester City, but the new coach Roberto Mancini prefers to use the players he brings, or he is somewhat rejecting Manchester City's old players, so forwards such as Tevez, Santa Cruz, Bellamy are constantly being reused. So in November, the English media broke the story of Darren Bent having an argument with coach Mancini.
Although Darren Bent played twice for Manchester City in December and scored a goal, it was obvious that Manchester City executives believed that head coach Roberto Mancini was more important, and that Darren Bent could only leave.
The news about Darren Bent's transfer is still very heavyweight, because he has always performed very well and has squeezed out Michael Irving's position and become the main striker of England.
Such an outstanding striker, Manchester City is willing to let him leave?
Is it for £430,000?
Of course it is impossible.
In the past two years, the English have already known how rich the Arabs are. They are adding the team to the team at almost no cost, just to make Manchester City stronger and make Manchester City more hopeful to compete for the championship.
Darren Bent's departure is still very wry.
Many Spanish media have reported that if nothing unexpected happens, Darren Bent will become the bidder for winter transfers. Unless there are bigger stars, £430,000 is not so easy to surpass.
There is another reason why Spanish media reported on transfers to other leagues - compared to the lively scenes of other leagues, there is really nothing to say about the winter transfer of La Liga.
In the first five days of January, there were only two transfer news that could be mentioned slightly in the La Liga. One was that Barcelona bought Dutch midfielder Ibrahim Afelle for 30,000 euros, and the other was that Real Madrid loaned Adebayo.
There is nothing else to say.
Atletico Madrid club also has only one news - Wansheng has promoted a youth team defender to the first team.
The outside world doesn't even know the name of the young player.
After the Christmas holiday, the players returned to the training ground one by one.
Although the holiday is only ten days, the club organized a physical test to test the players' physical condition after the holiday.
Most players are in good health.
The very special one is Isco. It is not that his health has become worse, but that he has become better. When the team doctor gave the test results, he focused on Isco. "He did not become weaker, but became stronger. Wan Sheng. Looking at this data, he has less than 10% of the fat content..."
Wan Sheng listened patiently.
In fact, the club's physical test is meaningless to him. In the football training master system, it can clearly view the physical condition of each player. Although there is no analysis data such as "fat content", it has direct results. It depends on each attribute data of the player, but it cannot be explained to others, so it is necessary to "cover up" it with physical test.
Wan Sheng knew very well about Isco's situation.
This little guy definitely didn't have a day off during the holidays, and he spent most of the time in training. He completed four rounds of personal training tasks alone, four rounds of tasks, and the active use effect of "speed progress", his ability growth is already visible to the naked eye.
Wansheng was originally planning to reuse Isco.
Now seeing Isco train so hard, he has strengthened his determination to be important to Isco.
The first game after the holiday was the 17th round of the league, with Atletico Madrid facing Atletico Santander at home.
Since the beginning of last season, Santander Athletics has been struggling in relegation battles, and in the end the team only scored 3 points higher than the relegation zone.
Last summer, Santander Athletic sold several main players, which made them difficult for the last season, and unfortunately, the same tragedy happened again this summer.
Canales' departure was the biggest loss for Santander Athletics, and Santander lost the most trusted soul figure in the offense.
In the main players and rotation lineup last season, Santander also lost important players such as Tony Moral, Oriol, Luis Garcia, Moradon and Cisco. In terms of personnel introduction, except for Almeria's left-back Cisco, who is considered a well-known player, all other new players are unknown.
Therefore, most media believe that Santander Athletics wants to relegate is even more difficult than last season. They seem to have their strength declined every season, but so far this season, Santander Athletics has played well, and its current ranking of tenth in the league is not bad compared to their lineup.
"They don't seem to have to fight for relegation."
"As" analyzed.
But no matter whether Atletico Santander needs to fight for relegation or not, there is undoubtedly a big gap between them and Atletico Madrid, and there will be many upsets in the La Liga, but this game is definitely not upset.
After 9 minutes, 3-1 said everything, Atletico Madrid won the game without much suspense.
In this game, Wan Sheng was rotated.
Morris did not play, Ozil led the team's offense, and Raul Garcia and Suarez were both midfielders to ensure defense.
So Isco has a place.
In the whole game, Isco performed very poorly, the only thing he did was to assist Fran in the middle with a diagonal cross in the middle in 7 minutes, which made people shine.
But even with an assist, the media still thinks that Isco performed poorly, because Atletico Madrid scored three goals. In comparison, an assist is nothing. Atletico Santander has no strength to fight back away, but Isco performed few times in the whole game.
In the post-match rating, Isco only scored 6.5 points, which is a bad score. However, compared to most other teammates with scores of more than 7 points, 6.5 points seems a bit less.
At the post-match press conference, Wan Sheng did not mention Isco, but just briefly explained the performance of the team, and then emphasized again, "Barcelona is very strong, but our goal is to win the league championship!"
Wan Sheng’s purpose when talking about the championship is not to highlight anything, but to inspire morale.
Despite the team's outstanding performance and easily won the game, rival Barcelona performed so well.
The league has been held for 17 rounds, Atletico Madrid has only tied three rounds and won the remaining 14 rounds, and is still unbeaten. However, Atletico Madrid cannot sit at the top of the league because Barcelona has only lost two games and won 15 games. So far, they have won 14 consecutive league wins, with a goal difference of up to 13 than Atletico Madrid.
If it were normal times, Barcelona's results would despair all opponents!
Fortunately, Atletico Madrid's performance is pretty good, and he still followed Barcelona's pace and did not fall behind.
Despite this, many media also believe that Atletico Madrid has little hope, and even Real Madrid, which is only 3 points behind, has no hope, because Barcelona is too strong, and even with the same points, Barcelona seems much better than Atletico Madrid.
After the 17th round of the league, it was the Copa del Rey, with Atletico Madrid visiting Cornera El Prat to challenge Espanyol.
This is the second round of the two teams.
In the first leg, Atletico Madrid defeated Espanyol 1, but there was a suspense. Espanyol still had a great chance of returning to home court, at least the media that supported Espanyol think so.
So on this day, local fans filled the El Prat Stadium.
But in the end they were all disappointed.
4:.
Espanyol lost much worse than away games!
Atletico Madrid launched an offense from the beginning, scoring two goals in the first and second half. Espanyol played very weakly. In the second half, they tried to organize a counterattack, but gave Atletico Madrid a chance to counterattack.
Aguero became the focus!
In the first and second half, Aguero scored one goal for Atletico Madrid, and the last goal was also Aguero's assist, with two shots and one pass, Aguero performed perfectly.
After the game, almost all the commentators of the live game praised Aguero's performance. The commentator of Madrid Sports Radio praised, "His performance is even worthy of the applause of the visiting fans..."
Espanyol fans definitely don't think so. Before the game ended, many fans left the game first, but they didn't have the intention to applaud the outstanding players of the visiting team.
After this round of Kings Cup, the event has entered the quarterfinals.
The draw of lots will be held in the quarterfinals of the Cup of Rey.
That night, Atletico Madrid received not bad news. They drew their arch rival Real Madrid in the same city. Atletico Madrid's originally loose schedule suddenly became extremely nervous because in January, they would compete with their arch rival Real Madrid to compete for the final four of the Copa 4.
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