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Chapter 280 The UEFA Champions League Group Stage Ends

On December 12, the Copa del Rey match day, Atletico Madrid played against the Spanish third team Ospinalet at home.

Since Atletico Madrid's first round match had already been played ahead of schedule at the end of October, and they won a 10:3 away game, so this time at home, Simeone arranged for all substitutes to play.

Since it was a passing game, everyone played more relaxed. They were actually scored two goals by a West C team at home, but Mexican high center Raul Jimenez also scored twice. Let Atletico Madrid not lose the game at home.

In the end, Atletico Madrid drew with Ospinalet 2:2 at home and eliminated the opponent with a total score of 5:2 to advance to the last sixteen of the Copa del Rey.

The King's Cup competition is temporarily over, and the top sixteen competition will not start until January next year.

Atletico Madrid still has three games to play in Europe this year, two La Liga games and one Champions League game. After these three games, they will go to Africa to participate in the Club World Cup.

On December 12, in the 6th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid went to Valencia to challenge Elche, a small local team.

Elche's current performance is not bad, ranking 11th in the La Liga standings, and there should be no danger of relegation, but the recent situation of this small town team is not very good. Amidst the financial difficulties, no solution has been found so far. If their finances cannot be improved by the end of the season, even if they are not relegated in the standings, they will have a high probability of being forced to relegate.

In La Liga, apart from Barcelona and Real Madrid, there are really few financially rich teams.

In the Barreiro team in the small town, Atletico Madrid did not suffer too much trouble.

In the first half, Griezmann created a free kick from the wing. In this tactical free kick, the starting Uruguay central defender Jose Jimenez scored with a header to help Atletico Madrid open the scoring.

Atlético de Madrid's schedule is a bit tense. In the middle of the season, they began to have injuries. During the training a few days ago, Brazilian defender Miranda strained his thigh and will be absent for five or six weeks. So now we can only let Jose · Jimenez and Godin partnered at centre-back.

Fortunately, the two of them are teammates of the Uruguayan national team and have cooperated closely in the national team. Except that Jimenez is under 20 years old, there should be no major problems.

Jimenez, who made his first La Liga start, seized the opportunity to give Atletico Madrid a first-half lead.

In the 54th minute of the second half, Ringer received a pass from Siqueira on the left and broke into the penalty area. He cut inside and hit a close corner successfully, extending the score to 2:0.

2:0 is also the final score of the game. After losing to Real Sociedad unexpectedly in the 11th round, Atlético Madrid quickly regained their form and are currently winning three consecutive victories in the league.

In other games of this round of La Liga, Real Madrid defeated Celta Vigo 3:0 at home and continued their strong performance. Barcelona beat the Spaniard 5:1 in the Barcelona derby and did not fall behind.

Therefore, the La Liga standings remain unchanged. Atletico Madrid continues to overwhelm Real Madrid by 1 point, while Barcelona is 2 points behind Real Madrid.

What's more, both Messi and Ronaldo scored hat-tricks in this round, while Linger only scored one goal.

In the current La Liga scorer list, Ronaldo's goals have reached 23, Ringer's is 19, and Messi has also caught up with his recent consecutive hat-tricks, ranking third in the scorer list with 13 goals .

Both Messi and Ronaldo had hat-tricks in this round, but Ronaldo's hat-trick was more controversial.

Ronaldo's first goal was a point shot, and he was cheated by his flopping, and the flopping action was a bit amateurish, which was a bit too obvious.

The Catalan media seized on this issue and made a lot of hype, turning Ronaldo into a diving athlete in various newspapers, with various diving movements changing endlessly.

This also involves Ringer. According to the Catalan media, it is precisely because he wants to compete with Ringer for the Golden Globe Award that Ronaldo has to play such a fake flop.

Of course, the media supporting Real Madrid are also fighting back. They said that Ronaldo just fell accidentally, and the referee of this game is notoriously fond of awarding penalties, so he gave Real Madrid a penalty.

They also took advantage of the opportunity to satirize Barcelona and said: If it is true that Ronaldo is a flop, then his acting skills are really too bad. If he can enter the La Masia Film and Television Academy for a period of time, he may not be so Fake flopped.

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On December 12th, the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, many teams need to fight for a qualifying spot in this final round.For example, Manchester City and Liverpool in the Premier League, they both need to compete for a qualifying place in this final round, and Barcelona also need to compete with Paris for the first place in the group in this final round.

However, for Atletico Madrid and Juventus, the last round is already an irrelevant game. Whoever wins or loses will not affect their ranking. Atletico Madrid has already secured the first place in the group, and Juventus is also fixed in There will be no further changes in the second position of the group.

Simeone arranged for all substitutes to play. Although Ringer also went to the away game in Italy with the team, he did not play the game.

Juventus arranged a half-main and half-substitute. Key players such as Buffon, Pogba, and Tevez all played. They may still have some ideas. They probably want to beat Atletico Madrid at home and report their debut. The bout lost to Atletico Madrid in Calderon.

However, they didn't seem to have the determination to win. In addition, Atletico Madrid also had a solid defense and did not give them a chance. At the end of 90 minutes, the scoreboard was still 0:0, and no one could score.

The six rounds of the group stage are all over. Atletico Madrid has 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 points. Group A is the first unbeaten team to qualify. Juventus has 3 wins, 1 draw and 10 points. 4 defeated Malmö and got a third place in the group to participate in the UEFA Cup.Last season, Atletico Madrid won the UEFA Champions League with 2 wins and 9 draws. In addition to the unbeaten 4 games in the group stage this season, Atletico Madrid's unbeaten performance in the Champions League has continued to 6 games.

Of course, this result is still some distance away from the European record. Manchester United once created 25 consecutive unbeaten games in the Champions League, that is, won the championship unbeaten last season, and then reached the final with an unbeaten record in the second season. Just lost the ball.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, the strongest performance is undoubtedly Real Madrid. They have won 6 consecutive victories in the group stage. This is the second time they have won 6 consecutive victories in the UEFA Champions League group stage.However, there have been 6 consecutive victories in the group stage in the history of the Champions League, so far, 6 times, but each time the team with six consecutive victories in the group stage cannot win the Champions League that year.

In the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, in a game that attracted more attention, Manchester City defeated Roma 2-0 in the away game, and Bayern, who had already secured the first place in the group in the same group, became a good guy again and defeated CSKA Moscow 3-0 at home. , This allowed the local tycoon Manchester City, who only scored 2 points in the first four rounds of the group stage, to successfully qualify for the two consecutive victories in the last two rounds, barely saving the face of the Premier League champions.

The Premier League champions Manchester City needed their own away win in the last round and their competitors to lose at the same time. In the end, they drew 1:1 with the Swiss team Basel at home and watched the opponent enter the knockout round.

The Swiss team has now become famous and has been given the title of Premier League nemesis.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 11/12 season, Manchester United, the runner-up of the UEFA Champions League in the previous season, only needed to go to an away game to qualify for the final round. They lost to Basel 1:2 and were eliminated. Basel was eliminated. After scoring 3 points, they beat Manchester United to advance to the knockout round.

In the 12/13 season, Basel failed to play in the Champions League group stage and went to participate in the UEFA Cup. They also eliminated the Premier League powerhouse Tottenham in a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup.

In the 13/14 season, that is, last season, although Basel failed to qualify from the Champions League group stage, they managed to double-kill Chelsea in the Champions League group stage.

And this season, it was Liverpool who died in the hands of this Swiss team.

Every year, a strong Premier League team is eliminated. Basel is probably the kind of weird team that eats, sleeps and plays the Premier League. The name of the Premier League killer is also worthy of the name.

On the Spanish side, Barcelona defeated Greater Paris 3:1 at home in the final round, overpowering the opponent to win the first place in the group.

So far, this season's UEFA Champions League group stage matches have all come to an end, and 16 teams have successfully advanced to the knockout stage.

All four Bundesliga teams have advanced. This is the second consecutive year that all four Bundesliga teams have entered the knockout round. The Bundesliga has indeed been slightly stronger overall in the past two years.

Both La Liga and the Premier League are promoted by three teams. In La Liga, Athletic Bilbao is out early, and the Premier League is Liverpool.

In the top 10 of the UEFA Champions League, the Bundesliga, La Liga and Premier League together occupy 6 places, the remaining [-] places, Ligue [-] occupies two, Serie A, Portuguese Super League, Swiss Super League and Ukrainian Super League each occupy one.

Serie A has indeed fallen badly. It has been a long time since three Italian teams entered the knockout round of the Champions League.

After the group stage, in the current Champions League scorer list, the Brazilian Luis Adriano occupies the top spot with 9 goals.This guy scored 8 goals on Borisov, but only 9 goals in total, and Shakhtar Donetsk led by him was easily crushed by Porto in an easy group The second place in the group, all these make him not too highly rated, and his goals are too watery.Of course, if he can continue to score goals in the knockout rounds and help the team advance consecutively, then his evaluation will rise steadily.

Messi has made continuous efforts in the last two rounds of the group stage, and currently ranks second in the Champions League scorer list with 8 goals.

In addition to the two of them, the third place on the scorer list is all a group of players with 5 goals, including Atletico Madrid's Ringer, Real Madrid's Ronaldo and Benzema, Manchester City's Aguero, the Cavani in Paris, Jackson Martinez in Porto, etc., six of them have scored 6 goals in the Champions League and are tied for third in the Champions League scorer list.

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