The green devil

Atlético de Madrid is located in Madrid, the capital of Spain, and is nicknamed the "Legion of Sheets" and "Son of Poseidon".In Madrid, Atletico Madrid has a large number of fans of the civilian class, so it is the same city as Real Madrid, which represents the wealthy class.

Atlético de Madrid is one of the three traditional giants in La Liga. It has won La Liga 10 times in history, second only to Real Madrid and Barcelona.In addition, Atletico Madrid has also won the Copa del Rey 10 times and the Spanish Super Cup 2 times.

In the intercontinental arena, Atletico Madrid has also achieved good results, winning 2 Europa League titles, 2 European Super Cup titles and 1 European Cup Winners' Cup title.

Atletico Madrid coach Simeone is an Argentine, known for his iron-blooded coaching style. Under his coaching, Atletico Madrid has abundant physical fitness, fierce fighting, and strong tactical execution ability.Simeone's oppressive frontcourt counterattack often makes it difficult for opponents to adapt. Generally, teams with good defense have average attack power, and the same is true for Atletico Madrid. The spear and shield must not be unified on one team.

However, Simeone knows how to make up for the team's shortcomings. Atletico Madrid under his training is very good at taking advantage of set-piece opportunities to score. There are many header masters in the team, which largely makes up for the weakness of weak attacking power.

Atletico Madrid's top star is Griezmann. Last season, Griezmann scored 37 goals in 22 appearances, ranking third in the La Liga scorer list and the top scorer in the Atletico Madrid team.

Griezmann is active in running, flexible in position, and often wanders in the ribs of the opponent's defense. He is the sharpest knife in Simeone's hands.

However, Atletico Madrid's core player is not Griezmann, but the 23-year-old midfielder Koke from the team's youth training. He has a deep knowledge of free kicks. He sent a total of 10 assists last season and is the assist king in the Atletico Madrid team.

Atletico Madrid's staff has changed a lot this summer, and the main winger Turan was poached by Barcelona.In addition, the main center Mandzukic, the main central defender Miranda, and the rotation midfielder Mario Suarez all moved to Serie A.

Although the blood loss was not small, Atletico Madrid invested even more.

With the capital injection of Huaguo real estate giant Wanda, Atletico Madrid's expenditure in the transfer market this summer broke the club's transfer record, reaching 1.26 million.

Among them, Jackson Martinez, Savage, Donto and Ferreira Carrasco are all worth more than 2000 million euros.

The arrival of Golden Boots Jackson Martinez and Petto, who scored 21 goals in the Portuguese Super League last season, has greatly strengthened the team's striker strength.Savage, Felipe, Carrasco and others have supplemented the team's third-tier strength.

In the new season, Atletico Madrid has a strong team and strong horses, and the results are just waiting for one.Atletico Madrid only have Real Madrid and Barcelona in their eyes, and it is common sense to look down on the Spaniard, the dark horse of La Liga.

When the Spaniard played against the middle and lower teams in La Liga, they were full of confidence. Their trident was definitely a nightmare for the middle and lower teams. Zhao Yang also got the title of a big devil.

But facing a giant like Atletico Madrid, Zhao Yang, Asensio and Caicedo are not enough.

Not to mention Griezmann, Vietto, Koke, Godin and other stars, even the golden boy Torres, Martinez, Carrasco and other stars sitting on the bench are far more powerful and famous than Zhao Yanghe, Asensio, Caicedo.

If there is any chance for the Espanyol to win, it is that Atletico Madrid just played a Champions League group match in the middle of the week and defeated the Turkish powerhouse Galatasaray 2-0. It is estimated that the body will be tired.

In addition, the striker Vietto has just recovered from his injury, so I don't know how he is, if Vietto is not in good condition.

If the Spaniard can persist until the second half without conceding a goal, or if the score is tied, there may be a turning point.

This is Zhao Yang's second match against a Western Super League powerhouse after joining the Espanyol.

In fact, the game against Real Madrid can't be counted, because Zhao Yang's playing time in that game was too short, and after Real Madrid took a big lead, they didn't play too seriously.

This is also the second time that Zhao Yang has played against a team with a Chinese background.

The last time they played against a team with a Chinese background was Vallecano.

This is also Zhao Yang's second Huaguo Derby.

The last Huaguo Derby was against Rayo Vallecano's Huaguo player Zhang Dong.This time Zhao Yang will face Atletico Madrid's Chinese player Xu Xin.

Like Zhang Dong, Xu Xin did not get a chance to play in Atletico Madrid.

This time the Espanyol team came to the Calderon Stadium to challenge, which was Xu Xin's best chance to play.

Before the game, Zhang Dong pulled Zhao Yang into a group of European players studying abroad, and introduced Xu Xin to Zhao Yang.

When Xu Xin asked Zhao Yang to give him a business model, Zhao Yang agreed without hesitation.

They are both players from Huaguo, and Xu Xin and Zhao Yang played together in West C. Although they are not in the same competition area, they both came from West C after all. Naturally, there is a feeling of sympathy for each other.

Next, at the press conference before the game, Zhao Yang expressed his views on the match against Atletico Madrid, and Zhao Yang mentioned Xu Xin, expressing his desire to compete with Xu Xin.

Zhao Yang is now a popular player in La Liga. His words were reprinted by the media, spread on Twitter, and soon spread throughout Spain. Xu Xin's name also entered the field of vision of coaches, media and fans.

Xu Xin was naturally not as attractive as Zhao Yang in Spain, and no reporter was willing to interview him.

But there are also domestic journalists.

When Xu Xin was interviewed by domestic reporters in Huaguo, he also praised Zhao Yang fiercely, and then expressed his desire to play in the game, and hoped that the head coach Simeone would give him a chance.

There are hundreds of millions of fans watching the Espanyol play Vallecano, let alone play Atletico Madrid.

At this moment, for this powerful dialogue, the Huaguo media has long been hyping it up.

Posts about the game on Huaguo's Internet forums are like snowflakes every day.

After Zhao Yang experienced the World Cup qualifiers, his fame resounded all over the country, and now he has gone to Europe.

In order to make the game more exciting, Wanda put pressure on Atletico Madrid, hoping to give Xu Xin a chance, even if it was a few minutes off the bench.

The day before the game, both Atletico Madrid and the Spaniard announced their starting lineups.

Atletico Madrid (442):

Goalkeeper: 13-Oblak

Defenders: 20-Juanfran, 2-Godin, 24-Jimenez, 3-Felipe

Midfielder: 6-Koke, 17-Sau, 5-Thiago, 10-Oliver Torres

Spaniards (4231):

Goalkeeper: 13-Paul Lopez

Defender: 16- Harvey Lopez, 22- Alvaro, 6- Andia, 18- Fuentes

Back waist: 12-Diop, 10-Abraham

Midfield: 17-Perez, 25-Asensio, 30-Zhao Yang

Forward: 20-Cicedo

Xu Xin was not on the starting list, not even on the substitute list.