On September 18, local time in Spain, Atletico Madrid at the Calderón Stadium ushered in the first round of the group stage of this season's Champions League.

Despite his current strength and achievements in the Bundesliga last season, he is worthy of being among the world's best stars. However, due to the fact that the Hamburg club he played for last season did not qualify for Europe, this game was his European debut.

Sun Xiang, who used to play for Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven, became the first Chinese player to play in the Champions League in the first leg of the 2006-2007 Champions League quarter-finals at home to Arsenal. However, compared with Feng Quan's status in Atletico Madrid, Sun Xiang is significantly inferior.

At the same time, this is the first time since the 1996-1997 season that Atletico Madrid returns to the Champions League family.

Therefore, whether it is for Feng Quan himself or for Atletico Madrid, this match against the Russian powerhouse Zenit St. Petersburg is of extremely important commemorative significance.

Considering that the new "Number One Great Elder" is very fond of football, and has helped Feng Quanquan at critical moments before. Therefore, CCTV Sports specially put the game in the "CCTV Five" for live broadcast, and put the strong dialogue between Dortmund and Arsenal on the relatively low ratings of the "Fengyun Channel".

It's been 16 years since Atletico Madrid last played in the Champions League, and for those of Atletico Madrid's die-hard clubs, the team's desire to return to the Champions League is definitely comparable to the desire of criminals who have been in prison for more than a decade to women.

As a result, even though Calderón Stadium can accommodate more than 68,000 spectators, all tickets were swept out half a month before the start of the game.

On September 18, just over two hours before the start of the game, the roads around the Calderón Stadium were crowded with tens of thousands of fans who had come to watch the game.

In desperation, in order to avoid fan brawls around the Calderón stadium or stampedes caused by traffic jams, the local police in Madrid had to mobilize hundreds of police officers to maintain order at the scene.

Thanks to the cooperation of several die-hard Atletico Madrid fan groups and hundreds of local Madrid police, the traffic environment around the Calderón stadium has been greatly improved. And, more than an hour before the official start of the game, more than 60,000 fans who had purchased tickets all began to enter the stadium in an orderly manner.

More than half an hour later, when the starters of the Atletico Madrid team entered the stadium for warm-up activities, a giant "TIFO" printed with the Atletico Madrid emblem and the words "We are finally back" written in Spanish below was immediately "raised" on the main stand of the Calderón stadium.

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With Feng Quan's current level of Spanish, although he still couldn't understand the meaning of Spanish on the giant "TIFO", he couldn't help but feel a raging battle spirit in his heart when he saw the excitement on the faces of his teammates who were warming up, and the fans in the audience who were obviously a little excited.

In order to show his desire to win to the supporters of the team in attendance, Feng Quan, who received a pass from his teammate near the touchline near the side of the stand, took a few steps sideways in the direction of the middle, and then completed a powerful heavy bombardment from a position 30 meters from the goal.

Although the ball flew towards the goal with a terrifying whistling sound in mid-air, Courtois, who was standing on the line of the small penalty area, was clearly unprepared for the shot due to the fact that the position of the shot was far from the goal.

Courtois, who is nearly two meters tall, subconsciously pounced on the right side of the goal, but because the speed of Feng Quan's shot was a little frightening, coupled with the tricky angle that went straight to the upper right corner of the goal, even if Courtois in mid-air had stretched his left arm to the extreme, he could not change the trajectory of the football flight at all, and had to watch with an unwilling face as the football crashed into the net behind the goal to reduce the cushioning momentum, and then fell into the goal he was responsible for guarding.

The next moment, tens of thousands of fans who saw Feng Quan's wonderful shot couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations. After the exclamation, the nearly 70,000 spectators in the stands burst into deafening cheers.

Although there is still more than half an hour before the start of the game, from Feng Quan's domineering shot, the fans have already seen the team's desire to win.

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At 7:42 p.m., the 22 starters of Atletico Madrid and Zenit St. Petersburg slowly walked onto the pitch under the leadership of three referees to the rousing Champions League theme song.

At the moment when Feng Quan followed his teammates on the lawn of the court, a "new message reminder" from the system immediately appeared in his mind.

Since each time you trigger a specific event, the system will send you some "message" about a "new task". Therefore, Feng Quan did not rush to check this "new news", but was ready to wait until halftime to find out.

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Although the time is 2:45 in the morning, in order to be able to see his son's Champions League debut, even though the upper and lower eyelids are no longer "fighting", the couple Feng Weiguo and Xu Jingxin are still waiting in front of the TV in the living room.

"With the referee's whistle, Atletico Madrid's home match against Zenit St. Petersburg officially began." Just when Feng Weiguo and his wife were about to be unable to bear the harassment of sleepiness, the voice of CCTV sports commentator Deng Xuan came out of the TV at the right time.

Immediately afterwards, just as Deng Xuan began to introduce the starting lists of the two teams, Atletico Madrid, which was the first to get the ball, had already launched a quick attack.

Midfield playmaker David Villa's pass took two steps forward and then went straight to Feng Quan on the left side of the field.

Feng Quan stopped the ball and dribbled along the left sideline for more than ten meters, and suddenly made a sharp stop to the middle.

The next moment, when the opposing full-back Igor Smolnikov approached him and tried to break the ball, Feng Quan slammed the ball behind him with his right foot, and after completing the turn, he passed the ball to the left side of the field.

Felipe Luiz, who was inserting at high speed, stopped the ball on the left side of the front field and directly lifted his foot to the center of the penalty area at 45 degrees.

Mario Suarez, who replaced Raul Garcia as the starting midfielder, headed the ball into the top right corner of the goal before the opposition centre-back Nicolas Lombaerts.

Mario Suarez's header, although from a tricky angle, was barely held up by the reflexing goalkeeper Yuri Lodigin.

Although Mario Suarez seized the opportunity to help his team build the lead, there were plenty of cheering applause from the fans in the stands.