Chapter 85: What's the point of the opponent not being strong enough?
Gao Zheng, who returned to Madrid, almost did not rest, and devoted himself to the training of Atletico Madrid.
Because of the defeat to Valencia in the last round, the next game against Espanyol is very important.
Even after receiving the influence of the national team game, Simeone still sent the strongest squad in this game.
The team's performance was not satisfactory either, with Atletico Madrid facing Espanyol at home and comfortably winning 2-0.
After this game, Atletico Madrid will usher in the third group stage of the Champions League.
Home to Malmo.
However, after the experience of the previous round of the group stage, I am afraid that no one will regard them as the weakest team in this group and take points casually.
If you don't go all out and underestimate the enemy in your heart, Olympiacos is a lesson from the past.
So in this game, although Atletico Madrid was playing at home, Diego Simeone still lined up the strongest lineup.
The effect of this strongest lineup is still very good.
The first half was a full game, with both sides attacking and defending each other, but in general, Atletico Madrid, who were playing at home and were stronger, had the advantage on the field.
As long as you are not blind, you can see that if you continue to play like this, it will only be a matter of time before Atletico Madrid scores.
Sure enough, just three minutes into the second half, Koke opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid.
Then in the 61st minute, after receiving a cross from Koke, Gao Zheng stabbed a shot with his left foot to score his third goal in this season's Champions League.
Three minutes later, Gao Zheng instigated the attack, passed the ball to Koke, who in turn passed the ball to Griezmann and assisted Griezmann to score his first Champions League goal of the season.
In the 77th minute, Gao Zheng scored twice to help Atletico Madrid extend its lead to 4:0.
At the end of the game, substitute Antoine Griezmann's Italian striker Celci scored the final goal to help Atletico Madrid beat Malmo 5-0 at home.
"That's right!" Commentator José Maria commented. "That's what Atletico Madrid should have when they play against a team that is not as good as them, what the hell is the 2-3 defeat to Olympiacos in the first game......
He's still haunted by the defeat in that game.
Because if Atletico Madrid wins that game, they are now at the top of the table with nine points, far behind Juventus - in another group game at the same time, Juventus actually lost 0:1 to Olympiacos away, making a two-game losing streak, and now Atletico Madrid and Olympiacos are tied on six points, and Atletico Madrid is temporarily in first place on goal difference. However, in the end, it is not the goal difference that determines the ranking, but the win-loss relationship between the teams on the same score, and Olympiacos has beaten Atletico Madrid at the moment, and they have the advantage in the win-loss relationship......
However, Olympiacos still have one more chance to challenge them at Atletico Madrid's home stadium, so as long as Atletico Madrid can beat Olympiacos at home, it will not be a problem.
Can they beat Olympiacos at home?
Judging by their 5-0 home win over Malmo, there should be little suspense...... Of course, the premise is that the Atletico Madrid players have a good mentality and do not be arrogant and underestimate the enemy.
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Back in the league, Atletico Madrid won two in a row, beating Getafe 1-0 away to win the 'Madrid South Derby' – both Getafe and Atletico Madrid are based in the south of Madrid.
Gao Zheng scored the only goal of the game.
Then in the home game against Córdoba, Atletico Madrid defeated the opponent 4:2, and Gao Zheng scored twice in this game.
Ten rounds of the league have been played, and he has scored eight goals.
It's a very good result, and it's a performance he has had since joined La Liga, a completely unfamiliar league, and there is no adaptation period at all.
But even so, the eight-goal score only put him in third place.
Take a look at his rivals in the La Liga scorers' charts:
In second place is Barcelona's Brazilian star Neymar, who has scored nine goals in 10 league games and is above Gao Zheng.
This kind of performance is actually quite normal, which shows that Neymar is also in good shape, but the good is not very exaggerated, and the good is still within the understandable range.
But the state of the man who ranks first on the shooter list makes people think that he is from outer space......
At the top of the list is Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo.
The league started ten rounds, except for the second round where he missed due to injury, there are nine games left, scoring every game, and not one by two.
In the first round of the league, against Córdoba, he scored a goal; In the third round of the league, playing Atletico Madrid, although Real Madrid lost the game, he still scored a goal; In the fourth round of the league, against Deportivo La Coruna, he scored a hat-trick; In the fifth round of the league against Elche, he finished his senior year; In the sixth round of the league against Villarreal, he scored a goal; In the seventh round of the league against Athletic Bilbao, he scored a hat-trick again; In the eighth round of the league, he played Levante, and he scored twice; The ninth round of the league is the national derby, where Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 at home, and he scored a goal in that game; In the tenth round of the league, Real Madrid beat Granada 4-0, and he scored another goal.
After ten league games, the Portuguese scored seventeen goals.
Some strikers probably don't score that many goals in a season......
And it's not just the league that scores, Ronaldo also scored every game in the Champions League group stage at the same time.
Cristiano Ronaldo's form is simply terrible.
In the face of such a Ronaldo, the Spanish media don't know how to blow it. It can only be announced that the suspense of this season's league Golden Boot competition has ended early. You must know that when Gao Zheng was in Italy, he announced that he would lock the Golden Boot in advance after only thirteen rounds of league play, but he was scolded by the Italian media for being bloody, saying that he was arrogant and ignorant.
And now, when the Portuguese blasted the horrific statistic of 17 goals in 10 games, no one felt that there was anything wrong with letting him lock up the league golden boot in advance.
After losing the Madrid derby at Real Madrid, the media was full of all kinds of voices against Real Madrid, against Carlo Ancelotti and against Cristiano Ronaldo.
Unexpectedly, they were all slapped in the face at the speed of light.
Under the leadership of Ronaldo's terrifying state, Real Madrid has maintained a ten-game winning streak on all fronts.
Every goal is scored, every game is won.
When Gao Zheng led Atletico Madrid to defeat Real Madrid in the Madrid derby, he scored two goals alone, and after scoring twice, there were Chinese fans and media who compared him to the Portuguese superstar.
But now even the most hardcore Gao Zheng fans, in the face of such data, have to admit that Gao Zheng's performance is already very good, but it is not enough to compare with Cristiano Ronaldo.
But Gao Zheng probably won't see it that way.
He said to Feng Shiyu on WeChat: "That's why I came to La Liga!" Being able to compete with such a powerful opponent is better than anything else! ”
"Xiao Yingying is still worried that you have been hit by a huge gap, and now she should be relieved." Feng Shiyu replied.
"What's there to be hit with? If the opponent is not weak enough, how boring is that? Gao Zheng made a grinning expression.
Putting down the phone, Feng Shiyu turned to Xiao Yingying and said, "Don't worry, he is high-spirited." ”
Xiao Yingying smiled: "Then I'll be relieved." By the way, Sister Feng, what else did you two talk about? ”
"I didn't talk about anything, but I conveyed your concerns."
"Sister Feng, did you really just talk about this one thing?" Xiao Yingying was dumbfounded.
"Or else? Everyone is so busy, how can they have time to chat? ”
Xiao Yingying covered her face.
Feng Shiyu kicked her: "Let's work!" ”
After Xiao Yingying jumped off the sofa, Feng Shiyu picked up her mobile phone and replied: "Then come on, defeat him as soon as possible!" ”