Atletico Madrid led Galatasaray with Gao Zheng's goal in the first half.

During the halftime break, neither team made any personnel adjustments. After the change of sides, Atletico Madrid completely suppressed Galatasaray on the scene.

After all, this is Atletico Madrid's home court, and their advantages are obvious.

In the 65th minute, Gao Zheng received Gaby's assist again and scored with a low left foot shot.

"High!! Scoring twice! wow!awesome!!!" goltv's commentator Ray Hudson exclaimed. "He completely dominated this game! The two goals in this game have made him the sixth in the Champions League this season! Now he is second only to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored seven goals!"

"Gao Zheng's goal means that Atletico Madrid has basically secured the victory. In this way, Atletico Madrid will win the first place in the group one round ahead of schedule and advance to the top 16! This is also the match for Gao Zheng himself to enter the Champions League knockout stage for three consecutive seasons! It's awesome and awesome and awesome!"

After He Ping finished speaking, his partner Xu Yang, who was beside him, sighed: "I hope Gao Zheng can go further in the Champions League this time. He entered the quarterfinals for the first time in the Champions League, and entered the quarterfinals for the second time. I wonder if he can enter the quarterfinals this time..."

"If I could enter the semi-finals, it would be really amazing. It is the second Asian player since Park Ji-sung to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League?" He Ping was surprised and had some longing. If there was a day...

But now I feel very happy when I think about it. If there really is such a day, I don’t know what a grand occasion it will be!

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In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Galatasaray 2-0 at home with Gao Zheng's double score.

After this game, the last round of the group stage basically lost its meaning. Benfica's home match against Atletico Madrid will not affect the qualifying and ranking of the two teams.

Atletico Madrid currently has thirteen points and ranks first.

Benfica scored eight points, ranking second.

Galatasaray scored four points, ranking third.

Astana has two points, the last place, but they also have theoretically possible to participate in the UEFA Cup as long as they defeat Galatasaray away in the last round, they can surpass the Turkish giants and participate in the UEFA Cup as the third in the group, and continue their magical European tour of the season.

But this possibility is too tiny, and no one dares to think that Astana can beat Galatasaray away. Even if Galatasaray's performance in the Champions League this season is unbearable, it will be stronger than Astana.

Atletico Madrid qualifies in advance, which is a good thing for the team as a whole. In the last round of the group stage, Atletico Madrid will not have to let the main players play away. Although Spain and Portugal are next to each other, such away games will still consume the players' energy in any case.

Moreover, near the end of the year, various competitions are already intensive. Being able to play less unnecessary games will also make Simeone much more calm when preparing for other games.

After all, Barcelona is in a strong momentum in the league, and they are following closely by three points. It is conceivable how difficult it will be to play in the next league.

Last season, Barcelona was overtaken by Atletico Madrid in the penultimate round and snatched the league championship. They must have been holding on to the top and bottom and wanted to get the championship back.

Simeone doesn't know whether his team can win the league championship for three consecutive seasons. Maybe he has to make a choice between the league and the Champions League.

But that is also a matter of the future. Now, if possible, try to expand the team's leading advantage in the league in case of emergencies.

Just like squirrels will try their best to store food for the winter, they will stuff nuts everywhere, so many that they may have forgotten that there are somewhere they have hidden nuts.

For Simeone, he now wants to transform into a "squirrel" and collect the more league points like nuts.

Simeone felt insecure when she had a giant like Barcelona chasing her from behind...

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In the 13th round of the league, Atletico Madrid faces Espanyol at home.

The Espanyol Club has just recently experienced a major event in club history.

This football club, which was established in 1900, was composed of Spanish fans. The original intention of its establishment was to build a team composed of local Spanish players to fight against the Barcelona club, which is composed of almost all foreign players.

It can be said that just from this name, you can know the strong Spanish local color of this club.

But this club, whose name is even localism, has now become a club that is actually controlled by a Chinese company. In other words, although it is called "Espanyol Club", it has become a football club for the Chinese.

A listed Chinese company specializing in car model toys invested more than 60 million euros and acquired 50.1% of the shares of the Espanyol Club. This share number means that the Chinese company has absolute control over the club.

The encounter between Atletico Madrid and Espanyol also became different because of this acquisition.

For example, when the newspaper Marca reported this game, it deliberately wrote: Atletico Madrid vs Royal Chinese.

They replaced the "Spanish" with "Chinese".

This is a "Chinese derby" in a special sense.

This game naturally attracted the attention of the Chinese media.

Because Espanyol is the first club that a Chinese company actually controls in the five major leagues.

Chinese fans are very concerned about the fact that Chinese people become the owners of football clubs in the five major European leagues.

Everyone even fantasizes whether the Chinese become the helmsman of the Espanyol club, will the Chinese players' path to overseas study become easier?

Although I don’t expect everyone to be like Gao Zheng, this is a genius that has appeared once in a century, but at least there can be a large number of players who are active in the European arena like South Korea and Japan.

When enough Chinese players can gain a foothold in Europe, the level of the Chinese national team will definitely be guaranteed. At that time, reaching the World Cup finals may not be a goal that everyone will fight to the death. This goal may be replaced by how to reach the World Cup finals knockout round...

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During the game, the TV broadcast also gave close-up shots of the new Spanish boss on the rostrum many times. He was indeed a completely pure Chinese man with yellow skin, dark hair, dark eyes, a little fat, looking very gentle.

From time to time, I stood up to shake hands with the other guests on the rostrum and greeted him.

I often have a smile on my face, and the first impression makes people feel good.

Not like the kind of cunning businessman.
Chapter completed!