Chapter 80 Wang Po sells melons
The game was indeed full of controversy in media reports and online discussions after the game.
Regarding whether those two handballs should be awarded a penalty, fans who support Atletico Madrid and Juventus have a quarrel. The Italian and Spanish media also said that the official is right, and the mother is right. The Italian media believe that the referee did not award a penalty because both handballs were unintentional handballs and should not have been judged.
Spanish media said that even if it is an unintentional handball, as long as the arm is opened, it should be judged as a foul and a penalty kick should be given.
Both media quote from classics to prove their views.
However, this kind of quarrel is actually meaningless except for venting emotions. Because even without these two penalty kicks, Atletico Madrid still won the game.
The argument between fans on both sides has nothing to do with who is right and who is wrong, it is purely to disgust the other party.
Gao Zheng did not drag himself into this quagmire.
In an interview after the game, a reporter also asked him what he thought of the two handballs without a judgement.
Gao Zheng said he didn't want to talk about this issue: "...We have won the ball, we are the winners, for me, those two penalty is not worth mentioning..."
The reporter asked: "What if Atletico Madrid failed to win because of this?"
Obviously, the reporter still wants Gao Zheng to talk about this matter. If they want to hear Gao Zheng accuse the referee, it will be topical.
But Gao Zheng's answer was beyond their expectations: "How is that possible?"
How is that possible?
What is possible?
A group of reporters looked at Gao Zheng in confusion and waited for him to explain.
"How could we not win this game?" Gao Zheng spread his hands, "How could we not win after two situations happened? In our China, there is a saying that "things can only happen three things". What does it mean? It means that a thing can happen once, twice, but not three times. In this game, it is to block my goal with your hands. It can only happen twice at most, and it will never happen third time."
When a group of reporters heard Gao Zheng say this, they resisted the urge to roll their eyes - it turns out that what you kid said cannot mean! Isn’t this a disguised praising yourself!
However, when he thought that Gao Zheng did scored the only goal in the game and helped Atletico Madrid win, it made people feel that he had the capital to praise himself.
But are the Chinese people who have agreed to be very modest?
Why can’t Gao Zheng see the traditional virtue of the Chinese at all?
Perhaps those who say that Chinese people are humble are misleading rumors?
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With the victory of this game, Atletico Madrid won points in the Champions League group stage.
However, in another Champions League group stage at the same time, Malmo, who was in the same group, unexpectedly defeated Olympiacos 2-0 at home, which really made many people fall into their glasses.
As a traditional strong team of Swedish team, Malmo was outstanding in Sweden, but his performance in Europe was quite average. They had reached the Champions League final in history, but that was only that time. It was in the distant 1978-1979 season, when their opponent in the final was Nottingham Forest.
In the final, Malmö lost 0-1 to Nottingham Forest, creating the legendary story of this English team - Nottingham Forest became the first team in Champions League history to win the league championship as a newly promoted team, and won the Champions League title in their first Champions League journey.
When everyone remembered Nottingham Forest, Malmo probably didn't know much.
Later, Malmo became well-known because of the club's emergence of a world-class star - Ibrahimovic.
But Ibrahimovic did not actually play in Malmö for very long, and did not bring Malmö any brilliant achievements.
In the Champions League group stage this season, they are regarded as the weakest team in this group and are the targets of the other three teams scrambling to score points and goal difference.
Especially after Olympiacos defeated Atletico Madrid at home in the first round, everyone felt that the situation was very good for this Greek giant. In the second round of the group stage, Atletico Madrid and Juventus met and suffered both losses and both sides were injured. As long as Olympiacos could defeat Malmö, the weakest in the group, away, he could have an advantage. If Atletico Madrid lost to Juventus at home, Olympiacos could widen the gap between the two sides to six points; if Juventus lost to Atletico Madrid, then Olympiacos would take the lead, leading both teams with three points; if Juventus tied with Atletico Madrid, it would be really good, and the real loss-making loss would be.
But man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations.
No one expected that Olympiacos would lose to Malmo on the road, and was beaten so hard that he had no power to fight back. He lost two goals, but failed to score.
Such performance also makes Atletico Madrid fans even more strange - how did we lose to such a weak team at the time?
If Atletico Madrid could defeat Olympiacos and now beat Juventus at home, it would be no problem to qualify in the group, and even the first in the group would have a great advantage.
Now, Atletico Madrid beat Juventus at home and scored three points, while Malmo beat Olympiacos and scored three points.
After two rounds of group stages, Group A showed a very unique phenomenon - all four teams won one game, each lost one game, and together they scored three points.
Juventus has a goal difference, and is temporarily ranked first with this advantage. Atletico Madrid and Malmö have the same goal difference, with zero. Olympiacos has a goal difference and lost one, and instead becomes the bottom of the group.
This makes the qualifying situation of this group a little messed up.
Of course, it just looks a little messy now.
Everyone believes that as the schedule progresses, the foundation of the giant team will still be reflected.
No one doubts that Olympiacos or Malmö can really steal a qualifying spot from the two teams of Atletico Madrid and Juventus.
Just like last season, Juventus finally won the third place in the group and missed the Champions League knockout stage. The scene of Juventus missing the Champions League knockout stage should not be repeated.
After all, in the group where Juventus was in last season, in addition to themselves and Real Madrid, there was Galatasaray. This is a giant in the Turkish Super League, often participating in the Champions League and truly having the ability to enter the Champions League knockout stage, which is different from Olympiacos and Malmö.
Chapter completed!