Chapter 63 The Opponents of the Quarter-Finals

In January, the European football winter transfer window opened, and those negotiated deals were made one by one.

As always, the big news revolves around the Premier League.

Liverpool signed Newcastle United striker Carroll for 35 million pounds, which was the 'first shot' of the winter transfer, but many media believe that it will be difficult for subsequent transfers to surpass this record. After all, it is only a winter transfer. Will choose to leave at this time.

Next, Chelsea won 29.25 million euros and won David Luiz. It seems that it is not a big news. There are few media reports on the transfer of the Brazilian defender, although he followed Benfica to the Portuguese Super League last year. Champion, and was named the best player of the year in the Portuguese Super League by UEFA.

Afterwards, news came from Serie A that Inter Milan signed Laziano and Pazzini in a row, and signed two geniuses for 39 million euros, which caused a sensation in the entire Italian and even European football. In contrast, it seems that Juventus won Matri. It's nothing.

Two days later, the most important news came - Aston Villa traded Darren Bent from Manchester City for a transfer value of up to 43 million pounds!

Since Wansheng left, Darren Bent has been playing for Manchester City. Whether it is a coaching change or many adjustments to the lineup, Darren Bent is Manchester City's main striker, but new coach Roberto Mancini prefers to use The players he brought, or in other words, he rejected some of Manchester City's old players, so forwards such as Tevez, Santa Cruz, Bellamy, etc. were constantly reused, so in November, the English media broke out Darren Ben. Special and coach Mancini had an altercation.

Although Darren Bent played twice for Manchester City in December and scored a goal, it is clear that Manchester City executives believe that coach Roberto Mancini is more important, and only Darren Bent can leave. Bent.

The news of Darren Bent's transfer is still very heavyweight, because he has been performing very well, and has also squeezed Michael Owen's position to become England's main striker.

Such an excellent striker, Manchester City is willing to let him leave?

Is it for £43 million?

Of course not.

In the past two years, the English people have been aware of how rich the Arabs are. They are supplementing the team's lineup at almost any cost, just to make Manchester City stronger and more hopeful for Manchester City to compete for the championship.

Darren Bent's departure is still a wry smile.

Many Spanish media have made reports. Not surprisingly, Darren Bent will become the standard king of winter transfers. Unless there are bigger stars, 43 million pounds is not so easy to surpass.

There is another reason for the Spanish media to report transfers in other leagues-compared to the lively scenes of other leagues, the winter transfer of La Liga is really nothing to say.

In the first five days of January, there were only two transfer news in La Liga that could be mentioned. One was Barcelona's 3 million euro purchase of Dutch midfielder Ibrahim Afele, and the other was Real Madrid's loan. Adebayo.

Nothing else to say.

Atlético de Madrid also has only one news - Wansheng has promoted a youth team defender to the first team.

The outside world does not even know the name of the young teenager.

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After the Christmas break, the players returned to the training ground one by one.

Although the vacation is only ten days, the club still organized a physical test to check the physical condition of the players after the vacation.

Most of the players are in good physical condition.

Among them, Isco is very special. It is not that his body is getting worse, but he is getting better. When the team doctor gave the test results, he focused on Isco, "He has not become weaker, but has become stronger. , Wan Sheng, look at this data, the fat content, he is only less than %..."

Wan Sheng listened patiently.

In fact, the club's physical examination is meaningless to him. In the football training master system, the physical condition of each player can be clearly checked. Although there is no analysis data such as 'fat content', there are direct results. It is specific to each attribute data of the player, but there is no way to explain it to others, so it is necessary to 'cover up' the physical test.

Wansheng is well aware of Isco's situation.

This little guy definitely didn't take a day off during the vacation. He spent most of the time in training. He completed four rounds of personal training tasks alone. The four attributes of the four-round task increased, plus the initiative of 'rapid progress' Using the effect, his ability growth is already visible to the naked eye.

Wansheng had planned to reuse Isco.

Seeing Isco training so hard now, he is even more determined to be an important Isco.

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The first game after the holiday is the 17th round of the league, Atletico Madrid vs. Atletico Santander.

Santander have struggled to stay out of relegation since the start of last season and ended up just three points above the relegation zone.

Last summer, Santander sold a number of key players, which left them struggling last season, and unfortunately, the same tragedy happened again this summer.

The departure of Canales is the biggest loss for Sporting Santander. Santander has lost the most reliable soul in the attack.

In the main and rotation lineup last season, Santander also lost important players such as Tony Moral, Auriol, Luis Garcia, Moraton and Sisko. In terms of personnel introduction, except for Almeria left-back Sisko, who is a well-known player, all other newcomers are unknown.

Therefore, most of the media believe that it is more difficult for Santander to avoid relegation than last season. It seems that their strength has declined every season, but this season so far, Santander has played well. Ranking, compared to their lineup, is not bad at all.

"They don't seem to need to fight to stay out of relegation."

"Aspen" analysis said.

But whether Santander needs to fight for relegation or not, there is undoubtedly a big gap between them and Atletico Madrid. There will also be many upsets in La Liga, but this game is definitely not an upset.

After 90 minutes, 3-1 said everything, Atletico Madrid won the game without much suspense.

In this game, Wansheng made a rotation.

Morris did not play, Ozil led the team's offense, and Raul Garcia and Suarez acted as double midfielders to ensure defense.

So Isco has a place.

In the whole game, Isco's performance was average, the only thing was the diagonal pass in the middle of the 70th minute to assist Forlan to score, which made people look bright.

But even if there is an assist, the media still thinks Isco's performance is poor, because Atletico Madrid scored three goals. In contrast, an assist is nothing, and Santander Athletic did not have much to fight back on the road. Isco had few performances in the audience.

In the post-match rating, Isco only got 6.5 points, which is not bad or bad, but 6.5 points is a little less than most of the other teammates who scored more than 7 points.

At the post-match press conference, Wansheng did not mention Isco, but only briefly talked about the team's performance, and then emphasized again, "Barcelona is very strong, but our goal is still to win the league championship!"

Wan Sheng said that the purpose of the championship is not to highlight anything, but to boost morale.

Although the team played well and won the game with ease, rivals Barcelona did too well.

In the 17 rounds of the league, Atletico Madrid only drew three rounds and won the remaining 14 rounds. It is still unbeaten so far, but Atletico Madrid cannot sit at the top of the league table because Barcelona only lost two games and won. In the next 15 games, they have won 14 consecutive league victories, with a goal difference of 13 more than Atletico Madrid.

In normal times, Barcelona's results will make all opponents despair!

Fortunately, Atletico Madrid's results are not bad, still closely followed the pace of Barcelona 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. Even with the same points, Barcelona seems to be much stronger than Atletico Madrid. .

After the 17th round of the league, it is the Copa del Rey game. Atlético de Madrid is a guest at Cornela El Prat Stadium to challenge Espanyol.

This is the second round between the two teams.

In the first round, Atlético de Madrid defeated Espanyol 1-0, but kept the suspense, and the Espanyol has a great chance to return to the home court, at least the media supporting the Espanyol think so.

So on this day, local fans filled the El Prat Stadium.

But in the end they were all disappointed.

4:0.

The Spaniards lost much more than the away game!

Atlético de Madrid attacked from the start, scoring two goals in the first and second half. The Spaniards played very weak in the whole game. In the second half, they tried to organize a counterattack, but they gave Atlético de Madrid a chance to counterattack.

Aguero is in the spotlight!

In the first and second half, Aguero scored a goal for Atletico Madrid, and the last goal was also an assist by Aguero. Two shots and one pass, Aguero performed perfectly.

After the game, the commentators of the live broadcast were almost all praising Aguero's performance. The Madrid Sports Radio commentator praised, "His performance is even worthy of applause from the fans of the away team..."

Espanyol fans definitely don't see it that way. Before the game was over, many fans left the field first. They didn't have the heart to applaud the excellent players of the away team.

After this round of the King's Cup, the tournament has entered the quarter-finals stage.

The quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey will be drawn.

Atlético de Madrid received bad news that night. They drew their rivals Real Madrid. Atlético de Madrid's sparse schedule suddenly became very nervous, because in January, they were going to compete with their arch-rival Real Madrid in a home and away double game to compete for the king. Tickets to the Cup Final Four.

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