Chapter 150 Bad start
"Actually, this game is a bit difficult for Real Madrid. Not only are they fighting away, but there are many players in the team who are missing due to injury Ramos is absent due to injury, Jamele Rodriguez is unable to participate due to fracture, and both Pepe and Modric are also missing due to injury. Marcelo was suspended for accumulating yellow cards... Real Madrid, with wounded soldiers, is very difficult to defeat Atletico Madrid away. If possible, they have to count on the Portuguese performance..."
As the game just started, after Jose Maria quickly introduced the rosters of both sides of the game, she introduced the situation of the two teams in detail.
The situation in Real Madrid is indeed not optimistic. But as long as Cristiano Ronaldo is available, Real Madrid fans can still have hope.
At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid, who played at home, launched a fierce offensive against Real Madrid's goal. After all, this is their home court and its momentum is very important.
In the seventh minute, Gao Zheng received the ball in the penalty area and shot, but the shot was blocked by Varane.
Atletico Madrid won the first corner kick opportunity in the game.
After Gabi took the corner kick, Godin headed the ball back in the penalty area and flew the ball to the middle.
There was a sudden chaos in front of Real Madrid's goal. In this chaos, Arda Turan poked the ball to the toe of Real Madrid!
Fortunately, Real Madrid goalkeeper Casillas reacted quickly and focused, and fell to the ground to block Arda Turan's shot.
"Casillas!! He made a wonderful save and saved Real Madrid's goal!" Jose Maria shouted. "At the beginning of this game, Atletico Madrid launched an aggressive offensive against Real Madrid's goal. Casilla and his defense are facing a huge test! But judging from this save, his condition should be pretty good!"
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Atletico Madrid created a threat in its first corner kick, which made many Atletico Madrid fans excited and look forward to the team being able to perform more excitingly in the next game.
But things went against my expectations.
Just three minutes after Arda Turan threatened Real Madrid goal with a corner kick, in the tenth minute of the game, Atletico Madrid's main midfielder Cork suddenly slowed down and stopped at a start, while covering his thighs and giving up chasing the ball.
Seeing this scene, Jose Maria exclaimed: "It seems that the situation is not good on Cork! Judging from his appearance, maybe his thigh muscle was strained! This is a fatal loss! The player who has thigh muscle strain is basically unable to continue the game... Looking at Cork's expression, he is very painful. We may be able to infer his injury from his expression... We will definitely not be optimistic!"
Diego Simeone had just jumped up excitedly for Arda Turan's shot, and not long after, he now jumped up for Cork's injury.
After the team doctor came on the court to give Cork a simple check, he immediately made a "substitution" gesture for Diego Simone off the court.
"Coker can't hold on to the game! Oh my god! Atletico Madrid is about to use a substitution quota just ten minutes into the game!" said Ray Hudson of goltv. "This is simply bad news!"
Finally, with the help of the team doctor, Cork limped off the field.
"Sorry, boss..." He bowed his head and admitted his mistake when facing Simeone.
Diego Simeone patted his head: "Why do you want to apologize? Have you done anything wrong! Go down and have a good rest and take care of the injury!"
As a head coach, he was of course full of great disappointment about the main player's injury in the first ten minutes of the game. However, when facing the players, he could not show it. On the contrary, he had to be calm, as if this was not a big deal at all.
Only in this way can he bring confidence to the players.
It also made Cork, who was injured so early and caused losses to the team, feels better.
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Cork was helped by the team doctor but did the simplest treatment.
The coach's seat and bench were a little busy.
Because Cork's injury was very sudden, and the game only started ten minutes, no players went to warm up.
So now we need to let the substitute players warm up immediately.
Assistant coach Boggs called Saul and asked him to warm up, and only gave him three minutes.
In these three minutes, Atletico Madrid could only play more with less.
However, Atletico Madrid fans don't have to worry about Real Madrid using this time to threaten their goal.
Because Cork was injured for less than two minutes, Atletico Madrid's central defender Godin collided with Real Madrid German midfielder Khdira while competing for the top. After landing, he did not get up as soon as possible, but fell to the ground in pain.
"This... Godin seems to be injured again. What happened to this game? Before the game, a large number of Real Madrid players were absent due to injuries. As a result, Atletico Madrid suffered injuries one after another after the start of the game..." Jose Maria was speechless.
A highly anticipated city derby, as a neutral fan, naturally hopes to see a wonderful showdown. However, after the game started, the injury played the protagonist. If Atletico Madrid used up two substitutions early due to injury, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the excitement of the game.
Atletico Madrid fans who were singing and cheering in the stands were quiet at this time and staring nervously at the stadium.
I was looking forward to the team being able to slam the Real Madrid goal, but now it seems that this home game is not that easy to win...
Diego Simeone couldn't help but swear: "What a fucking hell!"
He doubted whether God was deliberately against him.
In less than twelve minutes of the game, two players were injured.
He had asked assistant coach Boggs to call Jose Jimenez, the only central defender, to warm up from the bench.
However, good news came from the field at this time. After the team doctor examined Godin, he did not make a substitution gesture.
"It seems that Godin can still stick to the game. Yes, if it's not that he can't hold on, the team doctor wouldn't let him go. After all, there were two more minutes before the game was replaced. How could Atletico Madrid play in this game?" He Ping was also very concerned about Atletico Madrid's results.
Although it is said that he is a Real Madrid fan, after Gao Zheng transferred to Atletico Madrid, he naturally hoped that Atletico Madrid could achieve results, because Atletico Madrid achieved good results, which means that Gao Zheng achieved good results...
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Although Godin was not substituted in the end and continued to stay on the court, his stay also caused Atletico Madrid to have a hidden danger on the defense line, that is, no matter what, Godin was injured. He insisted on staying on the court, but in fact he was fighting with injuries.
If his injury suddenly broke out at a critical moment in a certain defense, wouldn’t it give Real Madrid a chance?
Now no one knows how much impact Godin's injury will have on him.
But what we can know is that Real Madrid will definitely make full use of this to continuously impact Godin.
Chapter completed!