Chapter 94 Reluctance to let go
Olympiacos once defeated Atletico Madrid 3-2 in the first Champions League group stage of the season. In fact, Atletico Madrid lost a bit unfairly because Atletico Madrid head coach Simeone was still in the suspension period and had no on-the-spot command.
Atletico Madrid players are not very comfortable playing without a head coach.
Of course, if this scene is put to the present, this problem may not exist. Because after adapting this period of time, Atletico Madrid players have become accustomed to playing games without the head coach on the spot.
Diego Simeone sent the strongest lineup for the purpose of this game and told everyone very clearly that this game should be proactive and active from the beginning, and correctly defeating Olympiacos in the fastest and shortest time, without any suspense.
So in the ninth minute, Raul Garcia received a pass from Juan Fran, setting the team's first record.
The next time belongs to Gao Zheng.
In the 38th minute, the team's left back Ansaldi made a cross from the side, and Gao Zheng kept shooting directly in the penalty area, and the football penetrated the goal guarded by Olympiacos goalkeeper Roberto.
"gl!!! High and high!!! Atletico Madrid 2:0! At Atletico Madrid's home court, this score means they can almost win this game!"
Although the first half is not over, no one will think there is anything wrong with Jose Maria saying this.
With Atletico Madrid's recent form, is it difficult to win Olympiacos at home?
It would be normal if there were all kinds of speculations before the game started. Now the first half is almost over, Atletico Madrid leads two goals, so the guesswork before the game is even greater, right?
The two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half. In the 62nd minute, Arda Tulan made a straight pass, Gao Zheng successfully counterattacked and faced the goalkeeper Roberto who was attacking directly. He pretended to shoot the football into the far corner, tricked Roberto into falling to the ground, and then dunked the football to the left, then bypassed the goalkeeper and easily pushed the empty goal.
"Gao Zheng has a good ball! I'm so calm when I pass the goalkeeper and play! It's 3:0! Atletico Madrid leads three goals at home!"
Gao Zheng, who scored twice, has already made Calderon Stadium crazy for him, and Atletico Madrid fans shouted Gao Zheng's name.
However, Gao Zheng's performance was not over yet. After three minutes of his second goal, in the 65th minute of the game, he scored a long shot from the edge of the penalty area to a perfect end to his outstanding performance in the game.
"Hat trick!! Gao! He completed the hat trick! Oh!! Today's high condition is so good that it's explosive! Olympiacos' goal was blown away by him. He can do whatever he wants near Olympiacos' penalty area!!" It was so exaggerated that he knew it was Gltv's Ray Hudson.
"This is his second hat-trick in the Champions League. The first hat-trick was what he scored against his current club when he played for Sampdoria last season..."
In the end, the score of this game was 4:0, and Atletico Madrid defeated his opponent without any suspense at home.
The victory of this game marked their advance qualifying from the group.
Five battles earn twelve points.
At the same time, on the other side, Juventus' away challenge to Malmö ended. It was not until the 88th minute that Tevez decided to score a goal for Juventus to win, rewriting the score to 2:0, which made all Juventus fans feel relieved.
After winning Malmö, Juventus scored nine points in five rounds of group stage, surpassing six points in Olympiacos and became the second in the group.
As long as they do not lose to Atletico Madrid at home in the last round of the group stage, they can qualify with Atletico Madrid. If they can beat Atletico Madrid and have more than one goal difference, they can even surpass Atletico Madrid and qualify as the first in the group.
It doesn't seem difficult to think about it when it's Juventus' home court.
But Gao Zheng used this hat trick to warn all Juventus supporters in advance not to think it was too beautiful.
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Back in the league, Atletico Madrid won both the next two league games and one Cup of REE, namely, defeating La Coruña 2-0 at home, defeating Elche 2-0 away, and the first leg of the fourth round of the Copa REE, Atletico Madrid defeated the Western Conference C team Ospitalet 3-0 away.
Gao Zheng scored goals in these three games one goal in each game.
With his goals in two league games, he scored twelve goals this season.
However, the gap between him and Cristiano Ronaldo was not only not shortened, but was also widened.
In fact, Gao Zheng is in good shape this time, with six consecutive league goals, and Ronaldo's goal was interrupted in the 13th round, but who made him have a hat trick in the just-concluded 14th round of the league?
Now he has left Ronaldo eleven goals...
Of course, Cristiano Ronaldo is a perverted monster this season, and no one in La Liga can compare with him.
In fact, Gao Zheng's condition is so good that Simeone is reluctant to let Gao Zheng go to the Asian Cup early next year.
It is said that it is the beginning of next year, but in fact, Gao Zheng is leaving the team at the end of this year. He will even miss the last league game of Atletico Madrid at the end of this year. In the 16th round on December 21, Atletico Madrid challenged Athletic Bilbao away. Because there was a warm-up match in China that day, the Chinese team played against Palestine at home. That was the last warm-up match before the Chinese team prepared for the Asian Cup. After this game, the Chinese team was going to Australia.
As for whether he will miss the 15th round of Atletico Madrid's home match against Villarreal, it is hard to say now. Atletico Madrid Club is discussing with the Chinese Football Team, hoping to allow Gao Zheng to return to the national team to report after the league.
But the Chinese Football Association hopes that Gao Zheng can come back soon to prepare for the game. After all, because of Gao Zheng, the whole country has paid great attention to this Asian Cup, and the Football Association has also felt the pressure on performance. In order to ensure that they can get good results, they hope that Gao Zheng can meet with the national team as soon as possible and participate more in the preparation training camp.
The warm-up match with Palestine is indeed December 21, but the players cannot come back to play a warm-up match directly, right? They still have to come back early to train with their teammates. If they return home after the 14th game against Villarreal, it is no different from coming back to participate in the game directly. ww.
The Football Association hopes that Gao Zheng can play the Champions League group stage in Atletico Madrid away to challenge Juventus, so he will come back directly to meet with his national teammates, not only to prepare for the match against Palestine, but also to prepare for the Asian Cup in Australia.
The two sides have been negotiating for this reason, but no one knows what they can negotiate in the end.
At the post-match press conference between Atletico Madrid and Elche, Simeone said half-jokingly: "I don't understand why the Asian Cup is also held in winter. I can understand how much the African Cup is held in winter, because more than half of Africa is in the southern hemisphere, and winter in the northern hemisphere is summer for them. Why do Asian football matches also need to be in winter? Are they not afraid of the cold?"
A Chinese reporter reminded him that this Asian Cup was held in Australia, a country in the southern hemisphere, so winter in the northern hemisphere is also summer for Australia.
Simeone was speechless.
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