Chapter 1044: Finally Defeated!
Climb to the top of the list!
When the two-week international break was over and the ninth round of La Liga was over, the entire Spanish football world was in unison.
Chinatown, playing at home, beat Villarreal 2-0 thanks to goals from Isco and Antoine Griezmann, winning nine consecutive La Liga wins in the new season.
Barcelona drew 0-0 away at Osasuna, and Atletico Madrid lost 0-1 away to Espanyol, both teams were deeply affected by the national team competition, and their performances were not ideal, only Real Madrid beat Malaga 2-0 at home to continue the momentum.
After nine rounds, China City jumped to the top of La Liga with nine consecutive wins, becoming the only team to maintain a complete victory in La Liga this season, and at the same time shocked everyone, especially the head coach Zinedine Zidane.
As a manager who has just started in charge, Zidane has shown such a strong momentum in his first season, which is indeed impressive and at the same time deeply admired.
Many media even named Zidane Gao Han II, believing that he is likely to continue the tradition of Gao Han, win all the way on the road of coaching, and perform a miracle in European football again.
But for the praise from the outside world, Zidane modestly said that the team's ability to have such results is inseparable from the support of the management and the efforts of the players, and he will not be entangled in whether to win in a row, but will only focus on every next game, and also encourage the players to make persistent efforts and strive for a better result this season.
Even the tone of speech and response is the same, which makes people feel that Zidane has a deep shadow of alpine.
But for all the hype and remarks from the outside world, Gao Han did not participate.
He is more involved in the construction of the new stadium in Chinatown, occasionally having the opportunity to walk around the youth team and visit the young players, just for the youth training cooperation project between China and Spain, he has been running between Beijing and Madrid.
Even if he is occasionally caught by media reporters, Gao Han never mentions Zidane and the team.
Because he knows very well that no matter what he says, it will eventually form pressure on Zidane.
But in private, Gao Han is still very open and honest about some of the phenomena he has observed and some of the shortcomings exposed by the team, all of which are explained to Zidane, after all, he is a clear observer, and many opinions and ideas are of great help to Zidane.
Three days after reaching the top of La Liga, Chinatown drew 2-2 away at Manchester United.
In this duel at Old Trafford, Zidane and Pochettino both worked each other's weaknesses, Manchester United dominated the high pressing, and China City was determined to pass and control, and the two sides played inextricably and finally shook hands.
And on the weekend of the beating to Manchester United, Chinatown once again underwent a major rotation and ushered in the derby in the southern suburbs of Madrid.
Getafe have performed well this season, currently sitting sixth in La Liga, very competitive, and head coach Luis Garcia is also very familiar with China City, and it is a derby and a home game, which can be described as a must-win.
On the other hand, Chinatown, Godin's absence due to injury forced Chinatown to release the center-back combination of Varane and Umtiti, and even Getafe seized the opportunity to score two goals in just 15 minutes of the opening game.
With two goals down, Chinatown fell into despair for a while.
But at the critical moment, Isco forced a breakthrough with the ball, disrupted Getafe's defense, and assisted Hazard to score a goal.
Just two minutes later, an assist from Paul Pogba gave Eden Hazard another brace and a brace to help China City equalise.
Towards the end of the first half, an assist from Alberto Moreno gave Eden Hazard a hat-trick.
In just ten minutes, Eden Hazard scored a hat-trick, and China City also reversed Getafe with these three goals to enter the second half with a score of 3-2.
After the rematch, Chinatown continued to attack and continued to maintain the pressure on Getafe, especially after completely controlling the ball, and the overall pressure was very high.
In the 68th minute, an assist from Eden Hazard allowed Pogba to score a goal and further establish the lead.
Four minutes later, Isco burst into the penalty area with the ball and was fouled, the referee showed a yellow card without any suspense, and gave a penalty to Chinatown, Isco calmly hit the penalty, five to two!
This score was also maintained until the end of the game.
With Eden Hazard's hat-trick and goals from Paul Pogba and Isco, China City won the first derby in the southern suburbs of Madrid 5-2 away to Getafe 5-2.
After this round of matches, China City continued to lead the La Liga standings, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 2-1 at home, still in second place, and Atletico Madrid won 5-0 to continue to occupy third place.
Real Madrid, who had a poor start to the season, fell out of the top four in the league and fell to fifth.
Three days later, the eleventh round of La Liga.
Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 3-0 away, with Martino not only beating Luis Enrique in the battle for the managerial position, but also on the pitch.
Real Madrid also changed the depression of losing to the Camp Nou in the last round, beating Sevilla seven to three.
Unlucky Unai Emery has suffered another humiliation from Real Madrid after moving from Valencia to Sevilla this season.
Atletico Madrid narrowly beat Granada 2-1 away.
Chinatown, which was still scheduled for the final game, was on its home turf, with Firmino's hat-trick and Hazard's goal, beating Elche 4-0 and winning 11 consecutive wins in the new season.
This also makes Chinatown the only team in European football so far this season to maintain a clean sweep.
Zinedine Zidane was also voted La Liga's Coach of the Month for two consecutive months in September and October.
This is undoubtedly a great honor and success for Zidane, who coached at the beginning.
In November, in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Chinatown hosted Manchester United, and the two sides drew 1-1 at Block Stadium, and the two duels between Zidane and Pochettino were drawn.
But as a result, the qualification situation for Group A of the Champions League has become confusing again.
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On the evening of November 3, the twelfth round of La Liga.
Atletico Madrid hosts Chinatown.
When the referee showed Umtiti the second yellow card of the game, Gao Han, who was sitting in the chairman's stand, was speechless and shook his head depressedly.
Chinatown is finally defeated!
Although the daily training of Chinatown has the training method bonus of Gao Han's self-coaching system, there are fewer injuries, the player's strength improves faster, and the state is maintained better, but in the end there will still be injuries.
As the season progressed, especially in late October, every player was tired after a week of double matches, with Godin, Montoya, Kante, Verratti, Firmino and other players all injured one after another, especially Godin, whose injury and absence had a great impact on China's defense.
In the 27th minute of the game, De Vrij went off injured and Zidane had to replace him with Umtiti, but six minutes later, Villa scored the first goal for Atletico Madrid.
In the 41st minute, Herrera assisted Torres to score another goal to extend the score to 2-0.
But after the rematch in the second half, China City quickly fought back, and the offensive momentum was very strong, especially in the 54th minute, after Zidane replaced Koke, who did not perform well in this game, with Pogba, it was a strong signal.
Atletico Madrid also had to retreat in the face of Chinatown's strong offensive momentum.
But perhaps because of impatience, or perhaps because of lack of coolness, Umtiti received two yellow cards in a row in the 64th and 78th minutes respectively, both of which were fouls when defending the opponent's counterattack.
With two goals down and one man less, the chances of a reversal in this game are already slim.
Especially Zidane is still facing a conservative Simeone this time.
No, as soon as the red card appeared, Simeone immediately replaced Navas in the front line with Raul Garcia, and then replaced Villa with Mario Suarez, which was clearly to defend the counterattack.
"To be honest, Diego is a rascal!" Gao Han shook his head from the stands.
Cerezo and Little Hill, as well as Cantarero and others, all laughed.
This is indeed a bit of a bachelor's degree.
However, Simeone's style is pragmatic, he can shrink back, and he dares to press out.
"Don't complain, this season, to fight for this, eleven consecutive wins, there is really no one, especially a novice like Zidane, can have such a result, it is really impressive. Little Hill laughed and persuaded.
"Who says it's not? Just your set of lineups, I can see that I am greedy, and it is only your eyes that it is possible to gather such a set of lineups, almost all of which are from their own youth training. Cerezo also praised with great admiration.
Back then, the cold China Town was still the lowest league team, and it had to survive next to the big tree of Atletico Madrid, and any youth eliminated player came to China Town, all of them were the core of the main role, who would have thought that it had only been more than ten years, but this team had jumped to the top of La Liga.
With this kind of achievement, I'm afraid only Gao Han can get it.
"I didn't say it, I lost this game convincingly. Gao Han admitted with a wry smile.
Zidane is still a little immature in the end, especially in the face of the treacherous and cunning Simeone.
This game was not only a loss, but also a loss, and Umtiti's red card was a bit redundant.
However, the French centre-back has a lot of potential, and both Gao Han, Cantarero and Zinedine Zidane are very optimistic about him.
Cantarero, who was sitting next to Gao Han, also nodded again and again, agreeing with Gao Han's words.
A loss is a loss, winning or losing is a common thing, and no one thinks that Zidane's team can continue to win.
There is no second person who can create such a miracle except for Gao Han.
Zidane's eleven consecutive wins are already very unbelievable, and even more people are beginning to believe that Gao Han has indeed mastered the secret to winning on the football field, otherwise how to explain the success of Guardiola and Zidane that he taught by his own hands?
Even Emery, Tuchel and others are all first-line managers in Europe, and the work of training assistant coaches is no worse than that of Gao Han's training players.
"I'm more worried about this game now. Cantarero looked worriedly at the high cold.
Gao Han comprehended.
With consecutive wins all the way, the team's morale is like a rainbow, and the loss is not a big blow.
In this case, how to stop the team's decline and avoid losing again and again is the key.
Especially for a young team like Chinatown, it is important to revive the team's morale.
But this matter is not suitable for Gao Han.
(End of chapter)