After the Chinese team and Qatar match, Gao Zheng was interviewed by the media. In the interview, he defended his teammates' performance: "The venue was too cold, which was indeed what we didn't expect. Everyone was a little stiff at the beginning and didn't get into the state. But then it got better, especially in the second half, we played very hard..."

He pointed out the air conditioner in a tactful way, but in fact he was accusing the Chinese Football Association of not doing enough preparations for the game, and he didn't even know that the opponent had installed air conditioners at home.

If we had known that there was air conditioning and everyone would have brought clothes thick enough, how could they be caught off guard?

However, I'm afraid that only Gao Zheng can say this in the whole team, and others dare not express their dissatisfaction with the Football Association publicly.

On the one hand, they all play football in China, and often they still need to deal with the Chinese Football Association. What if they complain about the Football Association and get worn with small shoes? On the other hand, they are not as skilled as others. If they talk about the air conditioning problem, they are easily considered by the public to make excuses for their failures. Even though they don’t play well, they blame the venue.

Didn’t there be jokes before that Chinese players are particularly good at finding faults and making excuses?

If you lose the game, you will be blamed for the weather, turf, jet lag, and diet... You can blame anything, but you don't blame yourself for being inferior to others.

So some words cannot be said by domestic players, their identities are original sin.

But Gao Zheng is different. First of all, he plays football in Spain. He doesn't care about the attitude of the Football Association towards him. Can the Football Association be in charge of the Atletico Madrid Club? Last year, in order to see whether Gao Zheng can come back early to prepare for the Asian Cup, the Football Association was even severely criticized by Atletico Madrid Club. Isn't it possible to deal with others?

For domestic clubs, they can punish disobedient clubs through administrative means, while for foreign clubs, they have no choice.

Secondly, Gao Zheng said that he saved the team with two balls in this game, and then came out to complain about the venue and complained that the preparations were not meticulous. No one would think that he was disgusting, but would only think that he was right.

This world is so cruel. If you have a big fist, what you say makes sense. If you are handsome, someone will listen to your words.

Gao Zheng has big fists and is handsome, so he naturally listens to his words, and some people think what he says makes sense.

The preparations of the Chinese Football Association are indeed like shit. They play Hong Kong at home and arrange their home court in Shenzhen, which is separated from Hong Kong. It really makes people wonder if the Chinese Football Association has been involved in the undercover agent of the Hong Kong Football Association. Whose home court is this?

The venue arrangement for the subsequent play against Mardifu was also nonsense. Although the venue was so convenient, the Chinese team still needed long-distance flights in their own country and worked hard to expedition. Why can't you just choose to wait for your work in Shenzhen?

Originally, during the Asian Cup, media reports praised the Chinese team's logistics work, but the World Cup qualifiers were revealed again. Many Chinese fans didn't know what to say, so they could only curse "the Football Association idiot".

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After playing the game against Qatar, Gao Zheng flew back to Madrid from Doha.

It was supposed to be two international games, but because the Asian Cup qualifiers have five teams in each group, there will definitely be a team bye. This time it will be the Chinese team's turn to take the bye.

They only had to play this game against Qatar.

The Chinese team will not need to participate in the game on October 13. Their next World Cup qualifier will be November 12, when the Chinese team will face Bhutan at home, which is a good opportunity for the Chinese team to score a goal difference.

Although Gao Zheng only had to participate in one game, which made Atletico Madrid fans very happy. But this has become one of the reasons why Chinese fans criticized the Football Association for preparing for the game. Although bye round the qualifiers, this does not mean that the Chinese team can disband directly after playing Qatar. There is still a chance to play, so why not arrange a meaningful warm-up match?

It would be better to let the Chinese team practice soldiers and go their separate ways than just doing their own things like this?

Isn’t this a waste of a national team game day now?

When preparing for the Asian Cup last year, it was obviously not an international match day, and the Chinese Football Association insisted that Gao Zheng come back long in advance to participate in the warm-up match, which caused a lot of controversy.

As a result, there is an international match day recognized by FIFA in front of the Chinese team, but the Chinese Football Association did not know how to cherish it and gave up in vain. Isn’t this a brainless person?

Therefore, although the Chinese team defeated Qatar 2:1 away, the focus in domestic public opinion has become a criticism of the logistics work of the Chinese Football Association.

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Gao Zheng, who returned to Madrid, was like returning to another world. No voice or remarks in China could enter his ears, and he didn't care about how it was now in China.

As for whether Chinese football will hold a grudge against him because of his roundabout criticism, Gao Zheng is not worried.

He still gave face to the Football Association, and if the Football Association wants to achieve the political achievements of entering the World Cup in Russia, it is impossible not to recruit him.

In other words, Gao Zheng is now confident.

Simeone is very happy that Gao Zheng can come back early. As the current core of the team, it is a good thing to have a day off even if you can rest for more than one day, let alone rest for half a week.

Next, Atletico Madrid will challenge Real Sociedad away in the league, followed by the third round of the Champions League group stage.

Atletico Madrid will face Ascana at home, the weakest opponent in the group. If Simeone wants to rotate, this is a good opportunity.

On the other side, on October 18th, another round of the Forty matches was played.

Hong Kong challenged Bhutan away, but the result was only a 1-0 victory over the opponent. It can be seen how terrible the Bhutanese plateau home court is.

After losing to the Chinese team 1:2 at home, Qatar defeated the Maldives 4:0 at home, and finally tied the Chinese team's points with one more game.

In this way, as long as they can defeat the Chinese team away in the last round of the top 40s, they can surpass the Chinese team by virtue of their goal difference, get first in the group, and directly advance to the top 12.

Now Qatar is currently ranked first in the standings because of his goal difference, while the Chinese team ranks second with 12 points. Hong Kong ranks third with three points, Maldives ranks fifth with three points, and Bhutan, who lost all five games, has zero points, and is the last place.

After this international match day, international players also bid farewell to their national teams and returned to their respective clubs.

Atletico Madrid finally ushered in a time of full staff.
Chapter completed!