After winning the Champions League, Atletico Madrid are unbeaten in four games in all competitions.

But they didn't keep the momentum going.

Three days later, they lost 3-1 away to Valencia in the league.

It was also a sinister game, with Miranda heading a non-threatening cross into her own net in the opening six minutes, giving Valencia an own goal to take the lead.

A minute later, Valencia's Alcacer passed the ball and Gomez forced a breakthrough on the left side of the six-yard box to shoot hard, and the ball flew into the Atletico Madrid goal for the second time.

Seven minutes later, Valencia headed home again from a corner.

They scored three goals in eight minutes!

Thirteen minutes into the game, Atletico Madrid trailed by three goals.

Atletico Madrid beat Valencia twice last season, losing just one of their last seven league meetings.

Atletico Madrid pulled one back in the 29th minute with an assist from Gao Zheng for Antoine Griezmann's goal.

Atletico Madrid, who pulled back a goal, was demoralized and planned to equalize in one go.

And they did get such a good chance in first-half stoppage time when Gao Zheng shot in the penalty area, the ball hit the hands of his team-mate Mustafi when he played for Sampdoria, and the referee awarded Atletico Madrid a penalty.

This is a great opportunity to catch up with Valencia.

However, Siqueira's penalty was held directly by Valencia goalkeeper Diego Alves...... Didn't even give the Atletico Madrid players a chance to shoot!

The missed penalty was a heavy blow to Atletico Madrid's morale.

It wasn't until the end of the game that Atletico Madrid had another chance to score.

However, substitute Cherci was disallowed for a handball foul before the goal was scored. Not only that, but Cerci's handball foul also earned him a second yellow card of the game and he was sent off.

Atletico actually had chances to score in the game, but a penalty was missed and a goal handball was the first, which ultimately gave them a regrettable 3-1 defeat to Valencia away from home.

In fact, with ten minutes left in the game, Gao Zheng was replaced by Simeone, and it can be seen that he has no hope of winning Valencia away.

The loss of this match put Atletico Madrid's unbeaten league run into six rounds.

Despite the loss, Atletico Madrid is still in the top three and is only one point behind second-placed Valencia, and has not been left behind.

However, the failure of this game was not much hyped in the media.

They were afraid of being slapped in the face by Gao Zheng......

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After the match against Valencia, La Liga was temporarily suspended because the international break came.

Gao Zheng left Madrid and returned to China to participate in the two warm-up matches of the Chinese team.

China will play these two matches on October 10 and 14 against Thailand and Paraguay, respectively.

Among them, this warm-up match with the Thai team has attracted much attention, because just over a year ago, the Chinese team and the Thai team had a warm-up match, which was originally thought to be just an ordinary warm-up game, but I didn't expect that the last game will forever be in the history of Chinese football.

The Chinese team suffered a 1:5 defeat in Hefei to the Thai team composed of youth team players.

The defeat of this game also led to the dismissal of the national team head coach Camacho.

There were a lot of rumours about the match after the game, such as some people saying that the internationals deliberately lost to Thailand in order to get rid of Camacho, because their defense in the game can be described as "eye defense".

It is precisely because of this 1:5 Liangzi that this match between the Chinese team and the Thai team is more eye-catching.

No matter what the Chinese team lost to the Thai team before, it has now become a battle for their revenge.

When he came back to participate in this game, Gao Zheng was also asked by media reporters about last year's game, and Gao Zheng replied very smartly: "I was not in the team at that time last year, I don't know what happened, and I probably don't know as much as you." So I don't have much to say about that game. ”

And what about the next game?

"It's better to try to win, because you want to win every game."

"And how much do you know about this Thai team?" A reporter asked.

Gao Zheng shook his head and said honestly: "I don't know much, I don't know anything about the main Thai team, let alone the three Thai teams." ”

Gao Zheng said so unceremoniously that the reporters were still a little surprised.

They thought that Gao Zheng would say something about the scene.

For example, "I don't know much about the Thai team, but I heard that they are a strong team in Southeast Asia".

Who would have thought that Gao Zheng would directly call people "Thailand Team 3", which is ruthless enough.

Some reporters even keenly heard his dissatisfaction from Gao Zheng's answers.

Gao Zheng is indeed a little dissatisfied, he flew back to China from Madrid, and the one-way flight time was more than ten hours, and he ended up playing the third team in Thailand, can he be happy?

I paid such a big price and traveled because I hoped to participate in a high-quality warm-up match, which would help the Chinese team prepare for the Asian Cup.

But playing the Thai team, which can't even get together a substitute, the quality of such a warm-up game is too poor, right?

The dignified Chinese national team is not as valued by opponents as the Chinese Olympic team - at the just-concluded Incheon Asian Games, it was the national Olympic team that represented China in the men's football event. The Olympic team faced Thailand in the first knockout round of the men's football event at the Asian Games.

However, this is not the "Thai three teams" today, but the Thai team that is really playing with all the main force.

In the end, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0:2 to the Thai team and was eliminated.

After reaching the quarterfinals, the Thai team defeated Jordan with a score of 2:0 to reach the semi-finals. In the end, they lost 0:2 to the host South Korea team in the semifinals.

Although such a Thai team is a national Olympic team, it is the team of the future Thai national team, and it is also this team that defeated the Chinese national team 5:1 a year ago. Don't look at them as the national Olympic team, but the strength is stronger than the Thai national team. This is because on the one hand, there is also a talent gap in Thai football in the age range of 26 to 30 years old, and on the other hand, Thailand has vigorously developed youth football training and has borne fruit in youth training. So there is a situation where young players are more able to play than Mesozoic players. The Football Association of Thailand has also consciously allowed the national Olympic team to represent Thailand in various national team competitions.

When the two sides discussed the warm-up match before, the Thai side promised that they would send such a strong team.

But when it came to the game, the Thai side temporarily changed its mind.

At the beginning, Thailand gave a list of 27 players, including 12 players who played in last year's 5-1 match. As a result, due to the fact that the Asian Games had just been played and the Thai domestic cup competition, there were only 15 people left in the final squad of the Thai team who came to China, including three goalkeepers. At that time, there will be four people on the bench, and two of them will be substitute goalkeepers, which means that the Thai team may not even be able to use up the three substitutions......

Gao Zheng flew back from Spain for this warm-up match and in order to prepare for the Asian Cup. In stark contrast, Thailand's biggest star, who has tried out at Manchester City and Atletico Madrid, has not returned to play for La Liga side Almeria.

They are all the leading stars of their respective national teams, they all play in Spain, and the distance is the same, but Gao Zheng came back, but the other party did not come back. What does that mean?

You must know that in Atletico Madrid's 1-0 victory over Almeria, Gao Zheng also scored a stunning goal, and Danda sat on the bench throughout the whole process and witnessed this historic moment on the sidelines......

A player who couldn't even play in Almeria, stayed at the club and didn't come back to play for the national team.

And the absolute core of a club has flown home thousands of miles to participate in this competition.

Gao Zheng hasn't put up a fight yet, but Dangda's score is quite big - of course, the Thai media said that Dangda is trying to play in Almeria, so he won't come back. It's just that judging from his performance in Almeria, staying in Almeria to train and not coming back to play for the national team may not have a positive impact on his chances of playing at the club......

In addition to Dangda, who did not return for the tournament, many of the experienced and powerful players of the Thai team also did not come, and nine of the 15 players have played less than five games for the national team. In the backline, Saraut has only played one game for Thailand, Wannaris has only made one appearance, Fosa Yen has made four appearances, Yuyne, Taiwigan and striker Impinit have only made two appearances in the midfield, and Surya, Bounyong and Supasek have all made their national team debuts. And this Supasek, who is 27 years old this year, has indeed been selected for the national team for the first time, which shows that some players are completely here to "make up the numbers".

The importance that the Thai Football Association attaches to this game can be seen.

In the face of such an opponent, domestic public opinion is still shouting "revenge", which really makes Gao Zheng speechless.

So when facing reporters this time, he was downplaying last year's 1:5 defeat, and at the same time repeatedly emphasized to reporters: "Don't say anything 'revenge', this is not 'revenge', the opponents we face are different from a year ago, what is there to 'revenge'?" This is an ordinary warm-up game, for the Asian Cup at the beginning of next year, just play this warm-up game. It doesn't matter to us what happens to the opponent. ”