After the start of the game, although the weather was cold, the initiative of the game was still in the hands of Atletico Madrid.

Astana's tactic was clear, and that was to defend and counter-attack.

They set up a bus in front of their own goal and completely gave up possession from outside the 30-metre zone.

So Atletico Madrid had plenty of time to keep the ball and organise the attack, and they bombarded the Astana half with a fierce attack.

Soon Atletico Madrid won a corner.

After the corner, there was chaos in front of Astana's goal, and Thiago took the opportunity to shoot, but the ball was blocked.

This was followed by another corner. This time it was Saul's header that went over the crossbar.

The penalty area is full of people, and it is difficult for Gao Zheng to get a chance to get his feet.

This time, Astana really did their defense to the extreme.

In fact, tactically speaking, Astana's game is no different from the previous game, and it is also a big bus.

But because it was on their home turf and cheered on by 30,000 fans, the Astana players felt they were in great shape.

Whether it's a cross or a through ball, or a long-range shot, Atletico can defend it.

At the same time, the cold did affect the performance of the Atletico Madrid players, who were significantly less comfortable in handling some key balls than they were in a normal environment.

The Atletico Madrid players wore long-sleeved jerseys, and some of the players who were afraid of the cold wore gloves and a scarf around their necks, but it didn't seem to help.

For the first 20 minutes, Atletico Madrid basically laid siege to the Astana goal, but did not score a single goal.

However, every time Astana successfully defended, it drew cheers from the stands, as if they had played a beautiful attack......

Every Astana player is running tirelessly, blocking Atletico Madrid's shot with his body, and they are very focused on this time, and there is only one thought, and that is - go down in history and go down in history forever!

They are convinced that as long as they can defend against Atletico Madrid's attack, then Atletico Madrid will be impatient as time goes by, and then it will be Astana's chance to counter-attack.

They scored two goals at home to Galatasaray, so a discount can always score a goal at home to Atletico Madrid, right?

It was a one-goal affair, so with just one goal, they were sure they could make history by beating Atletico Madrid at home.

Stojlov sat in the dugout, watching his players work together to defend like gunshots, and he was satisfied.

That's the effect he wants, otherwise why would he say so much before the game?

He is well aware that there is a huge gap between Astana and Atletico Madrid, and it will be difficult to close this gap even at home. So at this time, the only way to stimulate the inner potential of the players is to say beautiful and beautiful words to arouse the fighting spirit of the players.

The cold weather, home advantage and mental strength are enough for him to wrestle with Atletico Madrid.

For this game, he studied Gao Zheng very thoroughly.

Make sure that at all times, Gao Zheng has Astana players around him, sometimes one, sometimes two.

Gao Zheng is the center of gravity of the whole team's defense, where Gao Zheng is, where the center of gravity is.

Just don't let Gao Zheng take the ball comfortably.

Judging from the first 20 minutes of the game, his tactics were successful, and Gao Zheng really didn't get many opportunities to shoot.

The performance was nowhere near as good as it was when he was at home in the previous round.

Stojlov was very pleased with the performance of his players, and if it continues, it will be difficult for Atletico Madrid's attack to threaten their own goal.

So he sat in the coach's box, looking like he was "sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai", although his team was under siege, he was not in a hurry at all.

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"Gao Zheng was very restricted in this game, and he basically had no chance ......to perform," commentator He Ping said, which made many Chinese fans in front of the TV a little worried.

Although I know that the various objective conditions of this game are not on Atletico Madrid's side, everyone still hopes to see Gao Zheng perform well.

This is also the biggest motivation for them to watch Atletico Madrid, after all, the number of native Atletico Madrid fans in China is still not as large as those of the traditional giants.

Now many people watch Atletico Madrid games and gradually become familiar with Atletico Madrid, all because of Gao Zheng.

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Gao Zheng himself is not in a hurry, he even thinks that it is really a good thing.

Because the opponent has strengthened their defense, it means that they have not defended enough against other Atletico Madrid players.

For example, his striker partner Fernando Torres faced much less defensive pressure.

Gao Zheng had noticed several times that Torres had run into the air, but there was not even a single Astana player by his side.

Clearly, Astana didn't take Torres seriously.

In their view, Torres is just a rotation player, and if it was Antoine Griezmann, they might have taken it a little more seriously.

In the 32nd minute, when Gao Zheng got the ball, he was surrounded by the Astana players again.

He couldn't get close to Astana's goal.

But Gao Zheng didn't want to do this, he stopped the football lightly when he received the ball, and then a pick-up, which picked the football that was still in the air directly over the heads of the Astana players and passed it to the empty space in front!

Torres is rushing forward and running towards the landing point of the football!

Seeing that Torres was about to get the ball, an Astana defender finally chased after him.

But his start was over, and Torres still reached out before him to unload the ball from Gao Zheng.

The Astana defender made a lunge and struggled to stretch his leg up to interfere with Torres.

Torres didn't make any more adjustments after unloading the ball, but stabbed the ball in the first place.

The Astana defender's feet arrived after the football flew over, and if it was a little later, he wouldn't have had a chance to shoot with his feet!

"Torres ——!!"

José Maria dragged out his voice, his eyes fixed on the football on the TV screen – he didn't go to the game because it was so far away – and he was expecting to catch up with the "GOL" after the sound.

He knows that Torres has scored ninety-nine goals for Atletico Madrid, and one more will be the hundredth.

Although he didn't have much hope before the game, he couldn't help but beat his heart when the goal was actually in front of him - I'm going to witness a historic moment?!

The ball didn't fly into the goal, it slid out.

"Ah!!h José Maria held her head in her hands regretfully. "The ball didn't go in! It's a pity! ”

Sure enough, how could a historical moment come so easily?