Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Li Ang's header in the 73rd minute destroyed the confidence of most Atletico Madrid players.

The psychological advantage that Atletico Madrid fans established in the first thirteen rounds of the league also disappeared at this moment!

The familiar feeling of powerlessness once again struck the hearts of all Atletico Madrid fans.

This feeling of powerlessness against Real Madrid still makes them very painful, but correspondingly, they still accepted this defeat status in advance.

After all, Atletico Madrid has lost too many games to Real Madrid in recent years and has rarely drawn.

No matter how uncomfortable and painful it is for Atletico Madrid fans, after losing too many times, they are not used to it but they are slowly getting used to it.

Simeone was still unwilling. After being sulky for three or four minutes, he once again stood on the sidelines and roared to encourage his disciples.

Let alone equalizing the score, Simeone just hopes that his players will not lose their ambition, let alone give up the game easily.

If Atletico Madrid, which he trained and rebuilt with his own hands, has this kind of mental toughness, then he will only feel that his work has failed!

Fortunately, he got the scene he wanted to see.

From Costa in the frontcourt, to Gabi, Koke, and Garcia in the midfield, to Godin and Juanfran in the backcourt.

His players did not just fall to Real Madrid's mercy.

They are still running hard looking for opportunities to counterattack, even though their physical condition is obviously not as good as Real Madrid.

But they didn't give up.

The Real Madrid generals, who had already begun to retreat at halftime to stabilize the score, also restrained their unnecessary relaxation.

This was the second time they had seen such a scene this season.

The last time was on the Champions League group stage stage, they faced Dortmund who fought until the last moment.

And this time, they once again saw such a mental outlook in their city rival Atletico Madrid.

Let’s leave aside whether there are any problems with the tactics or whether the players’ abilities are up to standard. At least this kind of mental outlook is indeed rare in the current football world.

Real Madrid's players obviously didn't expect that Atletico Madrid would be so resilient now.

Simeone's transformation took less than a year.

Just imagine, one and a half or two years later, with this spirit, tactics and lineup further improved, what kind of strength will Atletico Madrid have by then?

In terms of predicting Atletico Madrid's future strength, Li Ang should be the one with the most say in Real Madrid's current lineup.

Therefore, facing the current tenacity shown by Atletico Madrid, he also reacted calmly.

Not to mention two years later, one year later, Atletico Madrid basically has the hard power to reach the top of Europe.

If Simeone strengthens the lineup and improves the team's offensive style like he did in the original historical line.

After all, Atletico Madrid is already doing a very good job on the defensive end.

After this season's run-in, their defensive ability will be improved to a higher level. By then, in terms of defense alone, Atletico Madrid may directly rank first in La Liga!

At present, Atletico Madrid is still groping on the road of perfecting tactics, and has not reached its peak level. Facing the peak Mourinho Real Madrid, they only lost two goals. In fact, their performance was not bad at all.

Completely worthy of their current status as third in La Liga.

Mourinho's eyes also looked more solemn.

"This may be the last time we win an easy derby, Aito."

The moment the full-time whistle sounded, Mourinho suddenly said something to Karanka.

Before Karanka could respond, Mourinho strode towards the Atletico Madrid coaching bench next door.

"This is a great showdown!"

Before Simeone could even speak with a smile, Mourinho took his arm first and gave his approval without hesitation.

"You are doing a great job, Diego. I see a completely different Atletico Madrid from last season or even at the beginning of this season. You are completing a great career that belongs to you. I must first congratulate you."

Mourinho's praise made Simeone's tense expression slowly relax.

"Congratulations on your victory, Jose, your performance today was impeccable."

"I'm really looking forward to meeting you again in the second half of the league."

"Me too!"

The two coaches, who both have straightforward personalities, looked at each other and smiled on the sidelines of the Bernabeu, and then they both said goodbye simply and walked towards their players.

This is not the beginning of the two of them competing on the same stage, but it is indeed the beginning of a new era of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid competing on the same stage.

The winning Real Madrid players did not have too much joy, and the losing Atletico Madrid players did not feel too disappointed.

They all knew that it was time to turn the page on the historical showdown between the two teams.

Perhaps, the next time they play against each other, the match scene will be beyond the expectations of all fans.

Of course, Real Madrid's players still believe that they will win the final victory in the derby.

No matter how difficult the next derby is.

It doesn't matter what level of strength Atletico Madrid has evolved to by then.

This Madrid can't change the world!

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Real Madrid's final victory was expected by the media.

No matter how many tactical improvements Atletico Madrid showed in the game that were worthy of analysis by the media, all the major Western media sports newspapers and periodicals the next day were headlined by news about Real Madrid's victory.

There are newspapers and periodicals that do serious tactical analysis, but most of them are tabloids.

Big newspapers want traffic and sales, so they are not willing to publish some professional tactical analysis on the front page that few readers will take a closer look at.

And "Marca" and "AS" also began to praise Mourinho's leadership achievements as if they had no previous conflicts with Mourinho.

This is so thick-skinned that Li Ang and many Real Madrid players want to complain.

But Mourinho didn't care at all at this moment.

After all, he has now made it clear that he will no longer accept interviews from these two newspapers, so he naturally feels very comfortable.

And after this round of league games, the final group stage of the Champions League, the fifteenth round of the league, and the most important recent Club World Cup games will follow.

Mourinho's work schedule is tight, so he has no time to mock the media.

On the evening of December 4th, Real Madrid ushered in the final match of this season’s Champions League Group D with Ajax at home.

Real Madrid's main players just finished the match against Atletico Madrid three days ago, and the most important meaning of this game for Real Madrid is to try to maintain an unbeaten home game.

Therefore, Mourinho still arranged a pure rotation lineup to save face.

This time Real Madrid rotated even more "thoroughly" than when they played Manchester City.

Because Li Ang, Ronaldo and Casillas did not start.

The starting Real Madrid players are all non-main players:

Goalkeeper Adan.

The defense from left to right is Marcelo, Albiol, Varane and Carvajal.

The double defensive midfielder is Matuidi partnering with Nacho and attacking midfielder Jese.

The front three are Vazquez, Morata and Callejon.

The Ajax fans were completely speechless. They went to Real Madrid's official Twitter to leave messages of thanks, and at the same time visited Manchester City's official Twitter to leave messages to cheer for Manchester City.

After all, in their view, although Manchester City has no hope of qualifying for the Champions League group, in the last round, they still have to compete with Ajax for third place in the group in theory.

But at least there is a glimmer of hope to play in the Europa League, and there will be no shortage of motivation to win Dortmund. After all, I have to give it a try, right?

However, they underestimated the psychological damage that Real Madrid would do to the entire Manchester City team after arranging this starting lineup.

After all, a conservative estimate shows that Ajax will have five points even if they tie with Real Madrid in this round, while Manchester City must beat Dortmund in this round to get five points.

The difficulty is completely unequal, and Real Madrid's obvious "letting go" behavior became the last straw that crushed the mentality of Manchester City players at this moment.

So after the last two group matches of Group D started, Ajax was still playing back and forth with Real Madrid's "B Team", trying to fight for the last hope of qualifying.

But Manchester City was held back at Westfalen and lost 0-2 in the first half!

So when the news reached the Bernabeu, the mentality of the Ajax players also cracked!

This mentality of lying like a dragon and a phoenix really made countless fans laugh.

In the end, Manchester City paused for a while at Dortmund's home court in the second half, wanting to fight for their own honor.

But it was of no use. After losing 1-3, Manchester City ended their Champions League journey with two draws and four losses.

This is worse than Dortmund last season. Although Dortmund also lost four games, they still won one round. It is difficult for Manchester City to win.

Ajax ended up drawing 1-1 with Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, accumulating five points from six games and exiting third in the group for the third consecutive season.

But in the end, the thought of having the Europa League to play in made Ajax fans not so uncomfortable.

Dortmund fans celebrated the night happily.

After so many years, they entered the knockout rounds of the Champions League, even if they only qualified second in the group, they were obviously very satisfied.

No matter what, it is better than being eliminated at the bottom of the group last season!

With the UEFA Champions League group stage ending in the past two days, the top 16 of the UEFA Champions League for the 2012-2013 season has also been released.

Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04, Malaga, Real Madrid, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United qualify as the group leader.

Porto, Arsenal, AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Shakhtar Donetsk, Valencia, Celtic, and Galatasaray were the second in the group to successfully break through.

Generally speaking, the strength and weakness between the first and second players in the group are relatively clear.

However, the first team in the group basically does not want to directly touch Dortmund in the first round of the knockout round.

This Hornet has obviously adapted to the rhythm of the Champions League. The 3-4 loss to Real Madrid really scared all the powerful players.

For the team that breaks out second in the group, if they can draw Schalke 04 and Malaga in the quarter-finals, they will think they have earned it.

However, these lottery matters are still trivial matters to Huang Saren.

The three teams can't meet each other in the front anyway, so it doesn't matter who they are fighting against.

After Real Madrid finished the Champions League group stage, they skipped the next round of the league.

Valladolid, the opponent in the fifteenth round of La Liga, has failed to attract the attention of Real Madrid players and fans.

Their thoughts have already flown to distant East Asia.

After playing in the European Super Cup, they are looking forward to December.

On the 13th of this month, Real Madrid will compete for the Club World Cup in Japan.

The supreme honor of six crowns is already waving to all the stars of Real Madrid!

Damn it, why is it missing a few hundred words?

Let’s add these two days together to calculate the difference of 2,000 words, just calculate it as a whole!

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