马塔周记，每周一期。有了马塔蜀黍，麻麻再也不用担心我的英语了。

A POINT THAT DOES LITTLE

无法解渴的一分

Hi everyone,

嗨，大家好，

Before anything else, I want to thank you all for your birthday messages. Waking up in the team hotel and receiving them all is something that’s incredible. I feel very fortunate for all of the care that you have shown me and I wanted to thank you all for that.

在写其他东西之前，我想对你们的生日祝福表示感谢。在球队入驻的酒店，一醒来就收到所有这些信息真的是一件不可思议的事情。能够得到你们的关心我感到非常幸运，谢谢大家。

It was a different birthday for me because it was a match day, and on top of that we were playing a very important game that was also special because it was against Chelsea. A dream for anyone who loves this sport. The match was, as we expected, very hard fought and exciting. We started very well, dominating the game and I had the chance to put the team in front. Scoring a goal at Old Trafford is always amazing, it is a feeling that is difficult to put into words.

对我来说，今年的生日与众不同，因为这是比赛日，而且是一场非常重要的比赛，对手也很特殊，是切尔西。这是所有热爱体育的人的梦想。比赛和我们预期中的一样，很困难，也令人激动。我们的开局不错，控制住了局势，我也把握住了机会让球队取得领先。在老特拉福德进球永远是令人惊喜的，这是一种难以用语言表达的感觉。

Sadly, they equalised and a point does little for us given the state of the league table. We felt as though we could have won, but right now the only thing that we can do is to look ahead and be optimistic.

遗憾的是，对手扳平了比分，而在积分榜中取得一分对我们来说一点都不解渴。我们感觉自己本可以赢下比赛，不过现在唯一能做的就是抱着积极的态度，向前看。

There is no time to feel sorry for ourselves, we have to focus on winning on Sunday against Huddersfield and also our final game of the season against Cardiff to see where that leaves us in the league table. It is far from ideal but we can only do what is within our control, we can’t do anything else about the rest. The end of the campaign is the time to analyse everything and reflect back on what has happened, not now.

我们也没时间自责，还得专注于如何赢下周日和哈德斯菲尔德的比赛，也包括最后一场联赛，对阵卡迪夫城，这将决定我们在积分榜中的最终排名。现状和理想差得很远，我们只能将力所能及的事情做到最好。只有到联赛结束，我们才能回看这一整个赛季发生的所有事情，而不是现在。

In other countries their leagues are also drawing to an end. I want to congratulate Barça, Juventus, PSG and other champions who have won their divisions. All of them are deserved. Congratulations to their fans.

其他国家的联赛也进入了尾声。我要恭喜巴萨、尤文、大巴黎和其他已经取得联赛冠军的球队。他们都配得上夺冠，祝贺他们的球迷。

Hugs, and thank you again for all of your messages, I hope you all have a good week.

抱抱，再次感谢你们发来的信息，希望大家都能度过愉快的一周。

马塔落款时的签名

Juan

娟儿