It was Asensio's 10th Champions League goal of the season and could well be his most important goal of the season.

The whole Real Madrid team gathered around Asensio, and the 26-year-old Spanish king stood in the corner area, looking at the Real Madrid fans in the audience, raising his arms and chanting.

Cristiano Ronaldo stood outside the bench and applauded Asensio. Asensio was the crown prince of Real Madrid handpicked by Cristiano Ronaldo, and now, the crown prince has finally ushered in the moment of enthronement.

It was also the only goal of the game, as Real Madrid lifted the Champions League trophy with a stunning strike from Asensio. Asensio was named Man of the Match and in his post-match interview, he made it clear: "I'm very grateful to my team-mates, but the person I should be thankful for the most is Cristiano Ronaldo, who has helped me a lot over the years, he taught me how to run and how to score. Without his help, we wouldn't have achieved so much. ”

With Real Madrid's victory, all the Champions League games are over, and the players are beginning to enter the holidays. This year is a World Cup year, but because this year's World Cup is held in Qatar, the summer in Qatar is very hot, with temperatures as high as 40 degrees, so FIFA has put this year's World Cup at the end of the year for the first time, which is also the first time in the history of the World Cup to be held in winter. For this reason, the leagues of various countries have also readjusted their schedules so as not to collide with the World Cup. Even the Ballon d'Or and the selection of the World Footballer of the Year are placed in January next year.

That's fine, at least Zhang Shujie can recuperate well and don't have to worry about missing the World Cup. After he returned to China during the vacation, he didn't go anywhere, and spent all the time recuperating from his injuries. How to say that he is also a 31-year-old man, and he is certainly not as good as a young man in his twenties in terms of resilience. In order to get back to his best as soon as possible, he didn't even pick up an advertisement.

The new season is fast underway, AC Milan are still in the market looking for outstanding young players, hanging a few tickets, and no one knows if they can win the jackpot. Meanwhile, Manchester City's Chinese goalkeeper Ma Junqiang's contract expires next year, and the team has extended his contract for another two years. Two years ago, the veteran Ma Junqiang officially captained the team, and now he will continue to captain Manchester City for two years.

"I'm very happy to continue playing for Manchester City, I've been here for many years and I'm willing to stay if I can, but if one day Manchester City don't feel they need me anymore, I'll just retire," Ma said. ”

Obviously, Ma Junqiang has a deep affection for this team, and Manchester City fans also have a special affection for Chinese players. Sun Jihai was warmly welcomed by the fans here at Manchester City, and now, Ma Junqiang is the same.

Manchester City fans like Ma Junqiang and Liang Xiran, they can even like Li Mu and Zhang Shujie, but they don't like Xu Ziyi, in their opinion, Xu Ziyi left Manchester City for money. Although Xu Ziyi has now won a lot of accolades at AC Milan, which he will not get in the lifetime of Manchester City, it has nothing to do with Manchester City fans. All they know is that when Manchester City was rising rapidly, Xu Ziyi left here, while Ma Junqiang and Liang Xiran stayed.

But professional football, who can say for sure? Players choose to go to a better place for higher salaries and more honors, which is nothing to blame, and fans can only talk about it, not influence it.

AC ushered in a new season in August, and Zhang Shujie finally fully recovered from his injury. Perhaps considering the World Cup half a year later, Zhang Shujie played a little well in the club's game, especially when the team had a two-goal advantage, he would turn on the "walk" mode, even so, he could still score a lot of goals, and the Serie A team still couldn't prevent him.

In the first five rounds of the league, Zhang Shujie scored seven goals and assisted twice, directly creating nine goals for the team. In the Champions League, he opened the scoring for Milan with a hat-trick and converted a penalty to Andre Silva. At the start of the new season, the Milan No.9 was in very hot form.

Other Chinese players are also in excellent form, while Li Mu has scored 10 goals and provided two assists in six Premier League games, creating an average of two goals per game, and he is also the most popular man on the continent at the moment, even surpassing Zhang Shujie. The most surprising person should be Liang Xiran, who scored three goals in the first six rounds of the Premier League, which is equivalent to the statistics of a striker. Even Liang Xiran himself couldn't think of it.

He said: "Even though I've been working headers over the years, I've never scored more than two goals in a single season in the league and no more than three goals in a whole season," he said. Now I've scored three goals in just six games, so maybe I'm lucky. ”

The 29-year-old Liang Xiran is at the peak of his career, and he needs to maintain that form, and An Rong will need him at this winter's World Cup.

Xu Ziyi, Chen Zihua, Yan Tao, Zhao Wenkang, Huang Yu, Tang Ling, the main players of the national team are also open and closed in the new season. It's just that Xu Zhixin hasn't scored for Paris Saint-Germain so far, you must know that Xu Zhixin is the most capable scorer in the Chinese national team except for Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, the 27-year-old winger has been in the Bundesliga for four years and one year in Ligue 1, except for the first Bundesliga season when he was a substitute and scored fewer accidents, the remaining four seasons have at least 22 goals, and the most season has scored 31 goals! He also scored 27 goals last season and has scored in four games since the start of the league campaign, but now he has played seven games in Ligue 1 and one in the Champions League, a total of eight games, and he has not scored a single goal and provided only two assists.

I have to admit a fact, Xu Zhixin's condition is not very good, although he can still guarantee the main position of the national team under An Rong, but he can't help himself. He is the youngest of the main players of the national team, and those big brothers are in better shape than the other, but he himself has been unable to open the goal account for a long time, and he is also a little anxious.

Xu Zhixin said in an interview: "I hope to score as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause me a lot of trouble, although it is a pleasure to help my team-mates score, but as a winger, I want to score so that I can feel that I have given the team practical help." ”

Chinese fans are also watching him to see when he can break the goal drought this season. In this World Cup year, players need to maintain their condition while protecting themselves from injuries and not being too tired, and Xu Zhixin needs to make the right choices and adjustments in order to break the ball drought as soon as possible.

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