The booing in the Astana Arena had disappeared at some point. The home fans behind the Astana goal held their heads in their hands and looked at everything in disbelief.

They really didn't expect that the second half had just started in less than five minutes, and the Astana players showed them the courage and awareness of fighting against the enemy, the gap was even widened...

Also stupid are Astana's players.

Including goalkeeper Eric, they all looked at the football in the goal. I hope this is their illusion. The football is actually behind the ball net, not inside the ball net...

Especially Anisi, who was fouled, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.

No, that shouldn't be the case!

He screamed in his heart.

Shouldn’t we fight back next and let Atletico Madrid, which is proud to underestimate the enemy, taste the bitter fruit?

We acted so tenaciously, why did we concede the ball in the end?

It was the head coach who said we wanted to make us play more aggressively in the second half. Am I not aggressive enough?

But why...

Why……

Why did we do everything but still lose the ball?

The weather, home court, 30,000 of our fans... all of these are added together. Isn't it enough to smooth out the gap in strength between us and Atletico Madrid?

There is an Astana player who puts his hands on his hips and looks up at the sky, as if he wants to find the answer in this night sky, or hear the revelation from the sky.

But there is nothing in the night sky except for the stars.

Stoilov sat in the home team's coaching seat, and at this time he already understood that his team could not make history in Atletico Madrid.

They can tie Galatasaray at the last minute of home court, which does not mean that they can also repeat such games against Atletico Madrid.

He sighed.

There are many miracles in the football world, but those miracles do not belong to Astana.

In other words, it is already considered to be a miracle to be able to Astana to reach the Champions League. It is really a luxury to create miracles...

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After Gao Zheng scored a goal, Astana's fans became much quieter, and their singing had almost been quieter before. What supported them before was the beautiful vision of drawing at home or defeating Atletico Madrid.

But now, Atletico Madrid has allowed them to see a huge gap in strength between the two teams.

And this Atletico Madrid is not in their best form yet.

The wind seemed to be a little smaller than at the beginning, and the corner flag was hanging low and stuck to the flagpole, without moving at all.

Simeone replaced Gao Zheng in the 67th minute. He was really afraid that Gao Zheng would be injured.

Of course, he knew that Astana tied Galatasaray in the last home game in the 89th minute. But compared with the team's results, he was more afraid that Gao Zheng would be injured.

If Astana really has the ability to chase two goals in the last twenty minutes, he will admit it, as long as Gao Zheng is not injured.

Although Gao Zheng's free kick was beautiful, he was still worried about Gao Zheng's calves.

Sure enough, the team doctor wrapped Gao Zheng's left calf in an ice bag.

You should know that today is actually very cold, and many players need to pay attention to keeping heat, but Gao Zheng has to do the opposite. His calves are already slightly swollen.

"Fortunately, it's just a flaw." The team doctor said, comforting Simeone.

"I know, but it still looks a little scary..." Simeone nodded. "I mean the moment you got kicked down."

Gao Zheng smiled at the head coach: "It looks scary, is it because I jumped too high when I was hiding?"

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Gao Zheng's game after the game was calm. Although Astana still wanted to score a goal in the last ten minutes.

But they seemed to have forgotten that Atletico Madrid's defense is also very good, don't think that they are the only ones who can set up the bus.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the score was frozen at 2:0, and Atletico Madrid scored three points away.

This will help them consolidate their group number one position.

Next they will face Galatasaray and Benfica, and as long as they do not make mistakes themselves, their opponents will not be able to catch up with them.

In another game, Benfica, who played ten players, beat Galatasaray 2:1 at home, and his points rose to seven points. However, Atletico Madrid already had ten points and was still three points ahead of them. As long as they beat Galatasaray at home in the next round of the group stage, they will qualify from the group in advance.

In the next round, Benfica will challenge Astana away.

It will be November 25th, and I believe the temperature will be lower than it is now and the game will be more difficult.

If Atletico Madrid had not been for Gao Zheng's outstanding performance, it might have been difficult for him to escape. And Benfica, who lacked the main core Guetan, would have been difficult for Astana to get a bargain...

If Benfica cannot beat Astana, even a draw will make their direct dialogue with Atletico Madrid lose its meaning in the last round, because Atletico Madrid will not only qualify in the group one round in advance, but will also lock in the first place in the group at the same time.

This will make Atletico Madrid's last away game much easier to play Benfica. Maybe Simone can still rotate the lineup significantly, allowing the main players who have been spinning for so long to get a chance to rest and don't have to go away at all.

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Atletico Madrid players returning from Astana have to endure another seven-hour flight across two continents. However, this time their mood is completely different from before.

The return plane was filled with laughter and joy.

Gao Zheng did not continue reading the football novel called "The Hero of the Forbidden Zone". The big bear in the novel was never injured. It seemed that only he was hurting others, and there was no possibility that he was injured by others.

This made Gao Zheng feel unrealistic.

Look at the price of his calves swollen from the swelling of his calves for the victory of this game. I don’t know if he can catch up with the next league against Sporting Gijon.

It's not that easy to win a game...

So he changed his novel, called "Champion Godfather", which tells the story of a Chinese fan traveling from 2007 to Nottingham, England in 2001. A young acting head coach named "Tony Donn" was never favored, and has become a world-renowned champion coach.

This novel is not as yy as the previous one, but Gao Zheng reads it with relish.

In the protagonist Tony Donn in the book, he vaguely saw the shadow of his head coach Diego Simeone.

All are all about victory.

Simeone sometimes tells them how to delay time in the game, how to make small moves when defending to avoid the referee's attention, and how to pretend to be innocent...

To be honest, before joining Atletico Madrid, he really didn't expect that the team's head coach would openly promote such a view within the team.

However, as a player with excellent skills but weak body, Gao Zheng has been kicked since childhood, so he also learned how to protect himself. It has to be said that many of the things Simeone emphasized were habits he developed since childhood. So he felt that the head coach was very fond of his appetite.

Perhaps because of this reason, he felt very immersive, identified and devoted when watching "The Godfather of the Champion".

The seven-hour flight time seemed to have been faster, and before he could see enough, the plane had arrived at the Barajas Airport in Madrid.

Although when they set off, Atletico Madrid players felt that Madrid had started to cool down, after experiencing the weather of minus ten degrees below zero, every Atletico Madrid player who walked out of the cabin felt warmth.
Chapter completed!