After the game against Mallorca, Pellegrini praised Li Chuanqi at the post-match press conference, believing that his playing like this would be more helpful to the team.
Back at the hotel, Pellegrini called Li Chuanqi to his room again, and the two talked for an hour before ending.
As for what the two talked about, no one knows.
But the result was even more obvious. In the next two La Liga games, Li Chuanqi seemed to have changed into a different person, preferring to deliver cannonballs to his teammates.
After this game, the Spanish media will of course compare Li Chuanqi's performance with Messi and Ronaldo.
World Sports News mocked Li Chuanqi: "After knowing that he could not catch up with Messi's goals, Li changed his strategy to attract people's attention.
So he kept assisting his teammates!
Do you think he took the initiative to make changes? No, it was because he was desperate.
Messi is like a mountain, he can only look up!"
The media in Madrid compared Li Chuanqi's performance with Ronaldo, believing that he has now reached a technical bottleneck. After La Liga defenders became more and more familiar with him, his number of goals was plummeting, and finally he lost with Mallorca.
There was no success in the competition.
Ronaldo is returning to his peak form, and the Portuguese superstar has led Real Madrid to two consecutive victories.
"As the knockout rounds of the Champions League are approaching, the Portuguese superstar has returned to his peak form. For Real Madrid, this is the greatest joy!"
Marca commented: "And Lee lost his shooting sight, Malaga's road to promotion will become bumpy. Although Pellegrini praised Lee after the game, we believe that Lee's condition has indeed improved.
problem.
If he can overcome the technical bottleneck, he can catch up with the Portuguese and Argentinian superstars.
If he can't survive, he will be an ordinary star!"
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On February 2nd, the 22nd round of La Liga began, and Malaga met Zaragoza's challenge at home.
In the fifth minute of the game, Li Chuanqi tore open the opponent's defense and passed a comfortable cross to Isco who was following up in the middle.
Isco made a slight adjustment in the penalty area, raised his right foot and fired a powerful shot!
The football flies into the net from the right side of the goal!
One to zero!
Malaga opened the door to victory early!
In the following game, Li Chuanqi continued to deliver shells to his teammates.
In the 13th minute of the first half, after completing the steal in the midfield, he passed two opposing defenders along the wing and made a diagonal pass in the hinterland!
Saviola, who had returned from injury, got the ball in the penalty area with lightning speed. Facing the opponent's attacking goalkeeper, he calmly pushed the ball!
However, his luck was not good, and the football magically hit the goalkeeper's leg!
In the 24th minute of the first half, Li Chuanqi made a cross pass with Isco in the middle and crossed for a one-two. With his super explosive power, he surpassed the opponent's center back and made a cross pass to the back post!
Joaquin followed up with a shovel shot!
The football was miraculously blocked by the opponent's goalkeeper!
In the 37th minute of the first half, Li Chuanqi seemed to be in a no-man's land, creating a bloody storm on the left, breaking out from the siege of four people and entering the opponent's penalty area!
The Zaragoza goalkeeper thought he was going to shoot, but who knew he would pass the ball in an inverted triangle!
Isco curved his bow and shot an arrow in the penalty area, and the football flew into the goal from the right side of the goal!
Isco scores twice!
Two to zero!
Malaga entered the second half with a two-goal lead.
In the 13th minute of the second half, Malaga got a chance to counterattack quickly. Isco got the ball in the backcourt, got rid of the opponent's midfielder's press, and suddenly made a long pass over the top.
The football drew a wonderful arc in the air and flew towards the left side of the frontcourt.
Li Chuanqi ran quickly towards the first landing point while looking up to observe the trajectory of the football.
Leaning hard to the right, he squeezed the left side of Zaragoza next to him, then jumped up and unloaded the football steadily.
"plum!"
"plum!"
"plum!"
The Rose Garden stadium erupted in enthusiastic cheers.
"One in!"
I don't know who roared, but a loud voice sounded from the Rose Garden Stadium: "Go in!"
"One in!"
"One in!"
Li Chuanqi originally wanted to hand the football to Saviola who was following up in the middle.
As soon as I heard the shouts of the fans, I was ready to go it alone.
He led the football towards the Zaragoza penalty area!
Zaragoza right center back Sapunalu stepped forward to defend. Li Chuanqi feinted three times in a row, dunking with his right foot and pushing with his left foot!
The football rolls into the penalty area!
Immediately afterwards, Li Chuanqi took two steps forward like an arrow from the string and regained control of the football at his feet.
Li Chuanqi raised his left leg!
Sapunalu lowered his center of gravity and stretched out his right leg. He wanted to block Li Chuanqi's shot!
Li Chuanqi's raised left leg suddenly slowed down, and he lightly dunked the left side of the football to the right. Then he took two steps forward and raised his right leg!
At this time, there was only one person between him and the goal, and that was the Zaragoza goalkeeper.
"Pa!..."
Li Chuanqi cums with one kick!
The football blasted away Zaragoza's goal like a cannonball!
Three to zero!
The Malaga TV commentator shouted excitedly: "Who said Li can't shoot? He just doesn't want to shoot!
At the end of the last game, the Catalan media ridiculed Li, believing that he could not compare with Messi. Messi scored four goals while he received no results.
The Madrid media believes that he has reached a technical bottleneck.
Now Li is telling them with goals that I just don’t want to shoot, it’s not that I can’t score!”
Shortly after Li Chuanqi scored, Pellegrini saw that the victory was in hand and replaced him in advance, leaving him to enjoy the applause of Malaga fans alone.
Although Li Chuanqi was slightly unhappy in his heart, the unhappiness disappeared amid the thunderous applause of the fans.
In the following games, Pellegrini continued to make substitutions, replacing Joaquin and other main players to rest.
The game remained on the field until the end of the game, and Malaga beat Zaragoza 3-0 without any blood at home.
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The next day, La Liga continued, with Real Madrid and Barcelona taking the stage.
The process and results of these two games severely slapped the media in Madrid and Catalonia in the face.
In this round of competition, Real Madrid challenged Granada away from home. Although Real Madrid had the upper hand on the field, they were unable to break the opponent's goal.
In the 22nd minute of the first half, Granada got a corner kick opportunity. Nolito took the corner kick. Cristiano Ronaldo nodded in front of the ball to clear the ball and accidentally scored an own goal!
In the next game, Granada withstood Real Madrid's bombardment and maintained the score of 1-0 until the end of the game!
Revealing the biggest upset of this round!
Barcelona then came on the scene, facing Valencia away from home.
Valencia broke the deadlock in the 33rd minute of the first half. Soldado passed Alba and then passed in from the right!
Pique reluctantly headed the ball to clear the ball, and Banega succeeded with a powerful shot from the right side of the penalty area!
One to zero!
In the 39th minute of the first half, Messi made a direct pass and Joao Pereira knocked down Pedro from the edge of the penalty area.
The referee awarded a penalty kick.
Messi scores a penalty kick!
One to one!
In the next game, Barcelona bombarded Valencia's goal, but their luxurious attacking group seemed to leave their shooting boots at home.
In the end, the two sides shook hands and made a draw!
Malaga once widened the points gap to seven points!
Messi did not score any sports goals in this game, and only scored one goal through penalty kick opportunities.