Chapter 269: The Divine Dragon Swings Its Tail
After the stab, Torres kept his eyes on the football. Although he doesn't care much when the hundredth ball comes.
But when this goal is really possible, how can he really be indifferent and his heart is like water?
He still wants to score goals.
But alas, this stab shot finally slid out of the goal......
He held his head in his hands, looking very disappointed.
"Torres missed a great opportunity!" He Ping shouted.
He has already seen that Gao Zheng is frozen in this game, and Torres will get more opportunities.
He also hopes that Torres can score as soon as possible, not because he is a Torres fan, and he wants Torres to complete the achievement of 100 goals early. It's because once Torres can score, Gao Zheng will be liberated, and then Astana will not be able to put all the defensive focus on Gao Zheng, and Gao Zheng will get more opportunities, at least more than now.
But alas, Torres' kick was too hasty and missed the right spot.
This also made He Ping feel a little emotional.
Thinking about the Torres who was in Liverpool at the beginning, how could he let go of such an opportunity?
I have to say that Torres is really old, and his physical function has declined significantly.
If it weren't for Griezmann's slight injury and Simeone's caution in putting him on the bench, how could it be Torres' turn to start?
But now that everyone is coming, there's nothing to say.
It may be a bit difficult to count on Torres to help Gao Zheng relieve the defensive pressure......
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Although Torres didn't score, he still turned around and gave Gao Zheng a thumbs up, signaling that Gao Zheng passed the ball well.
Gao Zheng also gave a thumbs up and praised Torres for running well and shooting well.
Of course, it is a pity that this goal was not scored, but Gao Zheng saw the hope of scoring from this goal.
Torres is in great form!
Maybe this historical moment inspired Torres to perform well unconsciously, and even Torres himself probably didn't know about this.
Then it's as simple as you can, try to pass the ball to Torres as much as you can.
Gao Zheng believes that as long as he passes a few more times, Torres will definitely find a chance to score.
They didn't tell Torres directly before that they were going to help him complete the 100-goal commemoration, because they were afraid that Torres would think it was given to him by his teammates.
But now the situation is different, Gao Zheng himself is being stared at, who will this ball pass to Torres if it is not passed?
Gao Zheng looked left and right, there were two Astana players following him, and wherever he went, these two people followed.
He was happy.
This is a good feeling.
The only regret is that he does not speak Kazakh and Russian, the official languages of Kazakhstan, otherwise he would have shouted at them to come closer to him, rally closely around him, and not go to Torres for trouble.
Astana's central defender, the 1.92-meter-tall Bosnian Marin Anisi was following Gao Zheng, in order to defend Gao Zheng, he was engrossed, the string in his head was always tight, and he didn't dare to wander in the slightest.
He thinks that under the tight defense of himself and his teammates, Gao Zheng, who was entangled by them, should be miserable.
The specific manifestation is that they should frown tightly at all times, with frequent impatient expressions on their faces, and are very resistant to their close defense.
He was ready, if Gao Zheng dared to touch him, he would cover his face and fall to the ground. It would be better if Gao Zheng could be given a yellow card because of this.
But he never expected that Gao Zheng, who was in a tight defense, would actually ...... I actually laughed!
It was nothing like he had imagined.
The Bosnian does not speak either Spanish nor Chinese, but he speaks a little English.
Shocked and angry, he asked in English, "What are you laughing at?" ”
It's been a long time since Gao Zheng has met someone who suddenly asked him "what are you laughing at" during the game.
When he was playing in Italy, he was asked once by the Genoa players, but he can't remember exactly who asked him.
After the transfer to Atletico Madrid, he was asked by Ramos again.
Then everyone got used to his sudden smile in the game, and everyone found that if Gao Zheng laughed, it meant that the opponent was going to be unlucky.
So no one asks such stupid questions anymore.
It's just that the Astana players who participated in the Champions League for the first time obviously don't know Gao Zheng enough, so they have this question.
Gao Zheng didn't bother to explain his psychological drama to the other party, so he also replied in English: "It's nothing." ”
Of course, there is still a smile on his face.
This made Anisi even more confused.
He always felt that there was something wrong with Gao Zheng's smile, but he couldn't say what the problem was.
He swore in his heart that he would never be deceived by Gao Zheng's smile, and he would never give Gao Zheng any chance!
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Gao Zheng has a wider range of movement, making the most of his runs to move Astana's backline.
Because no matter how you run, wherever you are, there will be Astana players following you, so you can run as much as you want and make a mess of the opponent's defense.
Anyway, on such a cold day, it's not good to stand still, but it's warmer to run.
But that made it hard for Astana's defenders.
By studying the previous video of Gao Zheng's game, they all know that Gao Zheng is a person who can score directly in the midfield, so even if he is far away from the goal, it does not mean that he will not be able to create a threat, so even if he runs farther, he must keep up with it as soon as possible.
In this kind of running, they gradually lost care of the defensive arrangements near their penalty area.
Anyway, where Gao Zheng is, their defense line is there.
Torres suddenly found that everything was empty in front of him.
He couldn't believe it could be seen in a Champions League game.
But he looked carefully for a while and found that this was the case, and the defenders were all attracted away by Gao Zheng.
Although the most consistent attack of the game so far was contributed by themselves, Astana's defenders seem to be more concerned about Gao Zheng.
Isn't this your chance?
Goal......
100th goal......
The thought of this made Torres' heart beat faster.
But he quickly calmed down.
Already a veteran, what scenes haven't he seen?
I have long been honored and disgraced.
The more times like this, the more you have to calm down.
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Atletico Madrid launched an attack, Gao Zheng retreated from the front, and he was about to become a forward midfielder. But that didn't get him out of the Astana defence, with two Astana players still flanked by him, centre-back Assini and midfielder Roger Canas.
In addition, there is an Astana player not far away, and if his two teammates can't handle it, he will immediately rush up to close it, making it difficult for Gao Zheng to fly.
With Gao Zheng's retreat, Torres saw the vacancy again.
Because Astana's No. 5 central defender followed out to defend Gao Zheng, there was a gap in his original position. Another Astana centre-back, No. 44, had to take care of it, and of course he couldn't run to the original defensive zone of No. 5 by himself. But it used to be an area that required two people to control, but now there is only one person, doesn't that mean that there is a vacancy?
Torres looked behind him, as long as he could get the ball up......
But how do you get it?
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Thiago picked up the ball and passed it to Coke who cut in.
Because Gao Zheng retreated, Cork ran farther forward than Gao Zheng.
Faced with Thiago's high ball, he jumped up and directly pushed the ball towards Gao Zheng with his head.
Seeing the football flying towards Gao Zheng, Anisi and Canas both quickly stuck to it, as if closing the door, intending to clamp Gao Zheng to prevent him from taking the ball easily, or get rid of them.
At the same time, the players in nearby Astana are also preparing to form an encirclement with Gao Zheng as the center.
In the face of such a tight defense, even if Gao Zheng can take the ball down, I am afraid that he can only pass it back again, and it is difficult for him to form a threat with the ball.
At the same time, he is far away from goal, and if he shoots directly, it is difficult to threaten......
To watch Astana's defense succeed again.
But I saw Gao Zheng's body leaning slightly sideways, letting the ball come, and at the same time raising his right leg, like a whip, and like a dragon swinging its tail, cocked up from behind, and used the outside of the foot of his right foot to pull out the football that was about to fly!
The soccer ball flies straight ahead!
It's a great pass, he passes to Fernando Torres!