Vermaelen was unable to hold on to the game in the end, and Enrique had to substitute him in the 28th minute of the game, using up a substitution.

After making this substitution, Enrique looked up to the sky and sighed.

At this point, he lost the last patience with Vermaelen.

Vermaelen is a high-caliber defender, but his body simply can't accommodate his talent.

Back when he was still playing for Ajax, Vermaelen started to get injuries frequently.

In February 2007, he missed 10 games due to injury. From September 2007 to January 2008, he missed 15 games due to a torn ligament. After finally returning, in May 2008, he ended the season early with a groin injury.

Vermaelen moved to Arsenal in 2009 and his first season at Arsenal was generally successful, especially when compared to the after. At least he didn't get injured until April 2010 and missed four games.

As a result, in his second season at Arsenal, he suffered one of the worst injuries of his career – he missed 51 club games this season.

In the following third season, he missed nine more games due to multiple injuries.

In the 2012-2013 season, he did not miss many games due to injury, but his position in the team was threatened by multiple injuries in the past, and he was substituted several times in the latter part of the league.

In the 2013-2014 season, Vermaelen missed 14 games due to injury. He has completely lost his place in the team and Arsene Wenger has lost patience with the Belgian centre-back.

So in the summer of 2014, he moved to Barcelona for a fee of 19 million euros. This transfer deal has so far been incomprehensible to Barcelona's own fans, who do not understand why the club would spend so much money on a "glass man" known all over the world.

What's even more incredible is that Barcelona announced that Vermaelen is very healthy after a physical examination, and the club's technical director Subisareta also declared that he has no worries about Vermaelen's health, and he believes that Vermaelen is the kind of player who can perform well immediately when he comes.

The premise of this is that Vermaelen suffered a right thigh muscle injury at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and he came to Barcelona with the injury at all.

Then FC Barcelona and Subisareta were also slapped in the face at the speed of light - Vermaelen has been lying on the team's injury list.

When was his debut in the team?

On May 23, 2015, in the final round of La Liga, he started and was substituted in the 63rd minute. Although he was not injured, perhaps because he was replaced early, he didn't have time to get injured.

Although Vermaelen played just one game last season, they managed to win two titles: the Copa del Rey and the Champions League. Many fans joked that Vermaelen was the most efficient player in history, winning two titles in just one appearance.

He started the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup this season and also started the first two rounds of the league and played the full 90 minutes.

This has left everyone, including Enrique, feeling that Vermaelen may have shaken off last season's injury and is finally available to Barcelona.

Unexpectedly, in the third round, only twenty-eight minutes into the opening game, he was injured again.

This made him realize that he might never be able to wait for Vermaelen to be healthy.

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Vermaelen's fate disrupted Barcelona's rhythm.

At the same time, it also allows Atletico Madrid to take a breather.

When the game resumed, the scene that Barcelona had been pressing against Atletico Madrid was gone.

Instead, Atletico Madrid's attacks began to increase and become more threatening.

In the 35th minute, Atletico Madrid made a long pass from the back and directly found Gao Zheng in the front.

When Gao Zheng was running forward, the football flew behind him, and next to him was Barcelona's central defender Mascherano, and not far from him there was also a Barcelona defender, Mathieu, who had just been replaced after Vermaelen's injury.

Both of them were chasing Gao Zheng and didn't give him room to get the ball.

Especially Mascherano, although it has not yet reached the point of "close", as long as Gao Zheng stops the ball and slows down or something, and adjusts it slightly, Mascherano can quickly stick it up.

Besides, it's hard to stop the ball at high speeds.

It can be said that Barcelona's defense of Gao Zheng is indeed very strict.

But in the eyes of many people, it is difficult to stop the ball, but Gao Zheng, who is running at high speed, just stops the football in front of him with the outside of his right foot when he runs forward.

He didn't even slow down, he didn't need to adjust his pace, and he caught up with the ball with one more leg.

At this time, the distance between Mascherano and Mathieu and Gao Zheng is basically unchanged from before he stopped the ball, which also means that Gao Zheng's stop just now was clean and neat, and he really didn't lose a little time!

"Oh! Nice stop! José Maria, the narrator who knew the goods, exclaimed.

Atletico Madrid fans also gave a huge cheer.

A good stop means a great chance, and there are a lot of good chances in the game that are wasted because they don't stop the ball.

Gao Zheng's stop fully demonstrated his amazing ball sense.

It's very difficult to stop a long ball from the back so easily while running at high speeds.

After Gao Zheng stopped the ball, he caught up with the football but did not continue to move forward, beside him Mascherano and Mathieu were struggling to catch up with him, if he continued to dribble forward, I am afraid that he would really be pasted, after all, he is not known for his speed.

So Gao Zheng did not hesitate at all, and directly swept the ball in front of him to the right.

This Barcelona goalkeeper Bravo was caught off guard - he had already attacked to block Gao Zheng's shooting angle, in his opinion, Gao Zheng must have shot himself this time.

Who would have thought that Gao Zheng passed the football in front of him!

He quickly turned to block the other side, but the slippage under his feet slowed his reaction by half a beat.

On the other side is Griezmann, who is following up, and Gao Zheng's pass can be regarded as a "nanny assist".

The Frenchman didn't have any reason to miss a chance in the face of such a pass. He adjusted his pace, did not stop the ball, but directly stretched out his foot and shot the football pushed by Gao Zheng towards the goal!

"High! Horizontal Crossing - Antoine Griezmann!! With José Maria's shouts, the football was pushed towards the goal by Antoine Griezmann.

Bravo couldn't get back in time to stop Griezmann's shot, and before he could pounce, the ball flew past and into the goal behind him!

"Griezmann! Strike! He equalized for Atletico Madrid!! ”

The cheers after Gao Zheng stopped the ball suddenly climbed to the peak at this moment, and Atletico Madrid equalized in the first half!