Chapter 263: Own Goal

From the 22nd minute, Atletico Madrid scored the first goal, to the 28th minute, Atletico Madrid scored the second goal, and in just six minutes, Atletico Madrid scored two goals in a row.

These two goals made the commentator of Kazakh TV dare not say anything about waiting until the second half has a chance to counterattack the goal, he is afraid of being laughed at.

In the current situation, Astana must have lost this away game, but I don't know how many goals they will lose.

Astana fans don't expect the team to beat Atletico Madrid, even if it comes to a draw. But they hope their team can score a goal at the Calderón Stadium.

In the group stage of this season's Champions League, plus this game, Astana have played two away games, but they have not scored a single away goal so far.

If they can score a goal at Atletico Madrid's home stadium, they will be happy even if they lose in the end.

Now all they ask of the team is to score a goal.

After the resumption of the game, Atletico Madrid continued to attack. The Astana fans are thinking that Atletico Madrid will be on the back of the storm, and there will be a gap behind them, as long as we can catch the ......

However, until the end of the first half, Astana had no chance to counter-attack.

They had just two shots on goal in the first half, and both of those shots were not on target.

In the end, Atletico Madrid ended the first half with a score of 2:0.

This score would have ensured Atletico Madrid a win for this game, but it was obviously not enough, and how could they win only two goals at home against the weakest team in the group?

Benfica also beat Astana 2-0 at home. If Atletico Madrid's score is the same as that game, wouldn't that mean that Atletico Madrid and Benfica are not equal?

No, no, the two teams are fighting for the top spot in the group, how can this play with the same score as the other team?

At half-time, Simeone asked his team to continue to attack in the second half, and he even criticized his players for slacking off after taking a two-goal lead.

To bolster the attack, Simeone even used up his first substitution at half-time, bringing on Oliver Torres for Thiago.

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After the start of the second half, Atletico Madrid's attack was indeed more ferocious.

In the 59th minute, Carrasco had a shot saved after a long run down the left flank, and Antoine Griezmann's follow-up shot in front of goal was deflected wide.

In the 63rd minute, Atletico Madrid got another chance to counterattack, Gabi drove straight into the ball with the ball, and then distributed the football to Gao Zheng who ran to the position at the edge of the penalty area.

Atletico Madrid leads 3-0!

"Gao Zheng scored twice!!" Playing a team like Astana, He Ping doesn't care much about winning or losing, he cares more about how many goals Gao Zheng can score.

Now that Gao Zheng has scored two goals in the game, will he score a hat trick?

As Gao Zheng's rival, Cristiano Ronaldo was surpassed by Gao Zheng in the league scorer list, but he was still ahead of Gao Zheng in the Champions League scorer list, and he scored five goals.

Gao Zheng has now scored four goals and is just one goal away from catching Cristiano Ronaldo.

As long as he can complete a hat-trick in this game.

Gao Zheng has now completed two hat-tricks in the Champions League, once a season.

The 2013-2014 season was his first Champions League appearance, when he was still at Sampdoria, and his final Champions League game was away to Atletico Madrid, where he scored his first Champions League hat-trick.

After moving to Atletico Madrid in the 2014-2015 season, he scored another hat-trick against Olympiacos in the group stage.

When will the hat-trick be this season?

It may be a good opportunity to face Astana, a fish belly team.

After all, he's scored two goals now, and one more goal is all it takes.

The Atletico Madrid players also seemed to be aware of this, so they kept passing the ball to Gao Zheng in the following games, creating opportunities for him, hoping that he could score his third goal of the game.

But perhaps because of this, Astana only needs to defend Gao Zheng when defending, and Gao Zheng's third goal has not arrived for a long time.

As the game time passed, He Ping began to worry that Simeone would replace Gao Zheng.

However, it seems that Simeone also seems to be hoping that Gao Zheng can take advantage of the opportunity to complete a hat-trick, and in the 73rd minute he used up the last substitution, replacing Griezmann with Fernando Torres.

In this way, Gao Zheng will stay on the court until the end of the game.

Everyone is creating the conditions for him, scoring goals and scoring hat-tricks.

At the eighty-ninth minute, Gao Zheng finally had a good opportunity.

He received a through ball from a teammate, appeared behind the Astana backline, faced the attacking goalkeeper Eric, shook the opponent with a feint, and shot with his feet!

It was already basically an empty goal for Astana in front of him, and the football would definitely fly into the goal, and it was his third goal of the game!

But Astana's central defender Dedečko, who struggled to defend himself, slapped the horse and wanted to kick the football out to clear the siege!

He kicked the ball, but it was in the wrong place, and he slashed the ball with the outside of his instep, and the ball made an arc and flew into the goal!

The Calderón Stadium erupted in cheers again.

But He Ping and the Chinese fans were dumbfounded - whose goal is it? Was it Gao Zheng's hat-trick or Dedechico's own goal?

Gao Zheng was celebrating with his teammates, but he wasn't celebrating his hat-trick, he was just celebrating another goal for the team.

It was his teammates who were fighting for him: "That defender's kick is really redundant!" ”

Gao Zheng didn't care: "As long as the ball goes in, it doesn't matter who scores!" ”

"But it's supposed to be your hat-trick!"

Gao Zheng shook his head: "Hat trick or something, it doesn't matter." There will be a chance in the future......"

And Chinese fans, including He Ping, had a hunch when they saw the TV broadcast give a close-up to Dedechiko.

Sure enough, soon the information of the goal was played on the TV screen, and Gao Zheng's goal was counted on Dedechico's body, and it was Dedechico's own goal......

"Alas...... In fact, if Dedechiko doesn't touch this goal, he will definitely score! He Ping was very unwilling.

But you can't say that people shouldn't play, after all, as a defender, even if you know that it may cause an own goal, you still have to be brave to clear the siege. If you just watch and don't solve the siege, wouldn't you be an undercover agent?

So there was nothing wrong with the approach of the Astana players in this ball, but he was unlucky and the clearance turned into an own goal.

But Chinese fans are very depressed.

In their minds, Astana is the weakest team in the group, and this game is Atletico Madrid's home game, Gao Zheng has scored two goals, almost meeting all the prerequisites for a hat-trick, for Chinese fans, this is the best chance for Gao Zheng to complete a hat-trick.

As a result, the hat-trick that was said to be good turned into a brace.

Cooked ducks can fly......