Chapter 444: Stand Up
"Huh? Huh! Hey! Godin fouls again! Sampdoria won another free-kick, a free-kick closer to the goal! Seeing that the referee gave Sampdoria a free kick, He Ping waved his fist and shouted, because he knew what Gao Zheng was good at.
Godin was also anxious, and when he committed a foul for the first time, he got up and patted his ass and ran, ignoring the referee and Gao Zheng at all.
But this time, when he heard the whistle, he jumped up from the ground like a spring on his buttocks, rushed to the referee, and shook his fingers vigorously to show that he had not committed a foul.
Why did two fouls make him have such a contrast, because he obviously also knew what Gao Zheng was good at......
But no matter how he argued, the referee didn't plan to change the decision, and he also warned Godin to calm down, otherwise he would give him a yellow card - if it wasn't for Miranda behind Godin just now, he would have been the last person on the defensive line for this foul, and the nature of the foul would be completely different from now, not to mention the yellow card, if Gao Zheng fell exaggeratedly, Godin might get a red card......
This time it was Gao Zheng's turn not to be in a hurry.
He sat on the ground arranging his socks and shin guards and waited for his teammates to come up and pull him.
Even if Godin made his fake fall to the referee, he was not annoyed, and his leisurely appearance really made Godin's teeth itch.
Godin's defense did not work, the referee of this game, the famous European golden whistle Mark Clattenburg insisted on his decision, the ball was obviously Godin's slow reaction, and he could only take a foul to stop Gao Zheng.
Seeing that his defense was invalid, Godin could only shake his head and retreat, and then beckoned his teammates to line up the wall.
This place is only more than 30 meters away from the goal, and the human wall naturally cannot be lined up casually.
It can be said that all the big and tall men in the Atletico Madrid team have joined the human wall, increasing the height of the human wall as much as possible and expanding the defensive area.
At the same time, they also rubbed forward in small steps, closing the distance between themselves and the football.
This little bit of caution was naturally spotted by the Sampdoria players, who alerted the referee. Clattenberg drove the wall back again.
Gao Zheng didn't mix in, he carefully placed the football, and after setting it up, he stood behind the football and quietly watched the performance of the Atletico Madrid players.
'The Atletico Madrid players looked nervous and they obviously knew that Gao was good at free-kicks. Caresa said when she saw this.
After a lot of tossing, the human wall was finally lined up, and it was no longer rubbed forward in small steps.
Referee Clattenburg stepped back and blew the whistle.
A whistle sounded, Gao Zheng began to run, and after two steps, he stepped on the side of the football with his left foot, and kicked the football with the inside of his right foot.
While kicking the football, his body leaned at a wide angle, and for a moment, it looked like he was about to fall. But no, the right foot that was driven by this was like the end of a whip, and it hit the football.
The football is like a spinning top, spinning rapidly and taking off into the air.
The wall jumped as hard as it could, but no one could reach the soccer ball because the ball was coming from the side of the wall, not over their heads......
Diego Costa, who was on the outermost side of the wall, turned his head and could even see the football right next to him!
The ball spun like a crazy spinning top, so quickly transferring the air on both sides of it to create different velocity differences, and finally pushed the ball to draw a very exaggerated arc to the top right corner of the goal!
Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois only reacted when he saw the ball coming around the outside of the wall, he didn't see the ball at first, but it was clearly too late for him to make a save...... As soon as he took off, the ball was in front of the goal line and flew into the goal without any suspense!
"Oo!!oo Caressa screamed. "High! High! High ββ!!! He's scored!! A beautiful direct free-kick goal! He equalized for Sampdoria, 2:2! And Sampdoria also have an away goal! β
"Good shot! Strike! What a ball!! He Ping was so excited that he could only keep repeating this sentence for a while. When the team was in trouble, the core Gao Zheng stood up again! This ball is worth a thousand dollars! β
"Sampdoria equalised!" The Spanish commentator looked very annoyed, "And Sampdoria also had an away goal, which was offset by the fact that the two sides scored on the road...... But don't forget, Sampdoria have an away game, and as long as they score again, the away goal advantage will fall into their hands! β
There was silence among the Atletico Madrid fans in front of the TV and in the stands at the CalderΓ³n Stadium, who had thought that the team would take the lead in the opening three minutes and make the game a good one, and they were expecting a massacre for the team, and their goal was not only to eliminate Sampdoria at home, but also to beat Sampdoria by a big score to relieve their hatred - the first leg, despite being Sampdoria's home stadium, Atletico Madrid fans deserved to win. Instead of shaking hands with Sampdoria.
As a result, the game now went in a different direction than they expected. Sampdoria equalised and also scored away goals.
The next game suddenly became a little delicate.
Atletico Madrid couldn't have come out of the nest to bombard the crowd because they were worried about Sampdoria scoring again.
If Sampdoria had scored one more goal, even if Atletico Madrid had come back with the same aggregate score, Sampdoria would have eliminated Atletico Madrid on away goals β it would have been a joke if the game had come to that......
But for some reason, seeing the Chinese player who was celebrating the goal with his teammates, many Atletico Madrid fans were vaguely worried.
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After Gao Zheng's goal, Di Francesco and his assistants almost rushed onto the field, while Simeone, who was next to them, stood on the sidelines, leaning back only a little, and the range of movement was not very large, but it did not mean that he was not disappointed or angry.
He was just not surprised that Gao Zheng would score.
Although he had repeatedly warned his players before the game, and used the first leg of the match between the two sides as a "lesson from the past", and the players of Atletico Madrid in this game did defend Gao Zheng very well.
But there are some people, no matter how hard you defend, it's hard to freeze them completely, you can do a perfect job for 89 minutes of play, but just one minute of negligence can make the opponent score.
In Simeone's opinion, Godin's only mistake was that he didn't expect Sampdoria to take a quick free-kick, but he was rushed to defend Gao Zheng and was forced to foul.
In other games, this mistake would not have been fatal. With Simeone's understanding of Gao Zheng, it is difficult to say about Gao Zheng.
But he didn't blame anyone, the Atletico Madrid players were already doing well and blaming them was an unnecessary harshness.
Simeone's current idea is very simple, instead of thinking about how to prevent Gao Zheng and not letting him score, it is better to think about how to score more goals in his home stadium and use more goals to defeat Sampdoria. After all, there is only one Gao Zheng on Sampdoria's side, and the level of others is too far behind him, and he may not be able to keep up with Gao Zheng's pace. In the end, it is likely to turn out to be a drag on Gao Zheng.
Originally, in this Champions League knockout round about who can advance to the quarterfinals, he has always had to defeat the Sampdoria team, not Gao Zheng......