Chapter 50: What Are You Thankful For?

At halftime, the commentators and guests of various TV stations summed up the performance of both sides in the first half, and they all believed that although Real Madrid conceded the goal, they had the upper hand, and it could be said that they beat Atletico Madrid completely. Some experts have suggested that Real Madrid's players should focus on efficiency when seizing opportunities, so that Real Madrid is likely to blow up Atletico Madrid in the second half.

“…… It's a bit difficult to contain Real Madrid because Cristiano was in good form today, he was lively in the first half, and basically Real Madrid's dangerous attacks were all caused by him...... If Atletico Madrid wants to reverse this passive situation, they will have to strengthen their defense against Cristiano......"

There were also talks about Gao Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo. Although not many people know about Gao Zheng's challenge to Ronaldo, everyone will still compare the two of them together.

“…… Gao and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored a goal in the first half, but in terms of activity, the Portuguese are better than the Chinese. Beyond that goal, the first half was largely gone......," the TV guest said, but his remarks were refuted by another guest.

"No, he had another foul, which was also taken care of by the close-up of the broadcast camera!" The guest said seriously.

This caused everyone to laugh, and in the end, the serious guest couldn't hold back, and laughed: "Well, it's no different from disappearing......"

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"High, Simeone said you did a great job. He wants you to be patient in the second half. In the away dressing room, assistant coach Boggs was talking to his players on his phone, which was a message from Simeone about the second half.

"It's not just high, everybody has to be patient. Our tactics in this game are still defensive counterattacks, even if the score is equalised, it is also defensive counterattacks. Because this is Real Madrid's home stadium, it is them, not us, who are in a hurry to win. So even if it's 1:1, it's not our ...... who will be in a hurry in the end."

"As long as we can make sure we don't concede a goal, the game will still be played. Therefore, in the second half, we must defend with all our strength and strive not to concede goals, as long as we do not concede goals, we can hit the morale of the opponent. Gabi and Thiago, you have to protect the area in front of the centre-backs, with Koke and Garcia on either side. Griezmann, you have to work harder, more tandem ......"

He followed the instructions left by Simeone and laid out his tactics one by one.

Meanwhile, in the home team's dressing room, Carlo Ancelotti was also planning his team's second-half tactics.

He has just praised Cristiano Ronaldo's performance and reiterated his strategy of continuing to attack with Ronaldo at its core in the second half.

The rest of the team is asked to cooperate with Ronaldo.

At halftime, when everyone was about to play, Ronaldo was the first to jump out of his seat, slapping hard and shouting out to his teammates: "Come on, guys! It's our home stadium and it's Atletico Madrid to be scared! We can definitely beat them here! ”

"Chris is right, we can beat them!" Captain Casillas expressed his support for Cristiano Ronaldo.

"Let's get revenge and settle the accounts of the Spanish Super Cup with them here!" Sergio Ramos echoed the same chorus.

The rest of the Real Madrid players stepped up and showed their confidence with their roars.

Ancelotti saw this scene with a relieved smile on his face.

Morale is available.

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At the start of the second half, neither side made any substitutions, and the line-up for the first half was retained.

Real Madrid also continued their first-half performance, Ronaldo was still the most active, and Atletico Madrid had to send more players to defend Cristiano Ronaldo, but even then they struggled to defend him, and it also led to a lack of defensive strength elsewhere.

Just two minutes into the second half, in the 47th minute, Cristiano Ronaldo sent in a pass and James Rodriguez received the ball 25 yards from goal before taking a shot with his feet, but his shot went over the crossbar.

'James wasted the chances Ronaldo created again, and he had several chances in the game, but none of them were capitalized...... To be honest, the midfielder, who spent 75 million to buy from Monaco, is very disappointing. Gao, who spent the same amount of money, contributed at least two league goals......" GOLTV commentator Ray Hudson criticised mercilessly. He's known for praising players with all sorts of tricks, but he's also a very strict commentator who doesn't save face when a player doesn't play well.

In the 51st minute, Arbeloa passed the ball and Pepe shot wide from distance.

Even the centre-backs pressed up and shot from distance, which shows what the situation is like for Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

In the face of Real Madrid's attack, Atletico Madrid could only shrink the defense across the board.

Gabi then received a yellow card for a foul on Cristiano Ronaldo, who was active defensively.

"Ronaldo really put a lot of pressure on the Atletico Madrid defence and Gabi got a yellow card on him. I don't think it's a good thing that Atletico Madrid will have more defenders playing cards on him if the game goes on like this......" Jose Maria's words made Atletico Madrid fans worried.

Originally, the game had taken the lead in the first ten minutes, which should have been a good start, and after Gao Zheng's goal, they were full of thoughts about how Atletico Madrid would go ahead and completely kill the suspense of the game away from home.

Unexpectedly, since then, Atletico Madrid has not had any decent opportunities, basically all of them are Real Madrid's attacks, and even if Atletico Madrid has some occasional attacking opportunities, it is difficult to threaten Real Madrid's goal.

In the Spanish Super Cup, they beat Real Madrid, drew 1-1 at home, and beat each other at home, plus last season's league game, Atletico Madrid completed the double against Real Madrid, every Atletico Madrid fan takes it for granted that their team is finally capable of removing Real Madrid from the position of Madrid boss.

Therefore, the first Madrid city derby in the new league season has given Atletico Madrid fans high hopes.

Everyone hopes that their team can beat Real Madrid again on the road, even though Atletico Madrid has never done so before......

However, it seems that this is probably the real strength of Real Madrid at home, even if they concede a goal first, they can still quickly stabilize their position, equalize the score, and constantly threaten the Atletico Madrid goal.

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Seeing that Gabi was appealing for his yellow card, Gao Zheng shook his head gently.

This is not his first Madrid derby, he has been involved in three Madrid derbies recently, but this one has impressed him.

That's the power of the new Champions League......

He turned his gaze to Cristiano Ronaldo, who had risen from the ground. In terms of performance, he is indeed much more active than himself.

But Gao Zheng didn't feel depressed or sad at all.

Even he was what he wanted to see.

Why else would he have come to Spain from Italy?

Isn't it just to be on such a stage and face such a powerful enemy?

That's nice!

Thinking of this, Gao Zheng couldn't help laughing.

When Sergio Ramos was besieging Atletico Madrid by his team-mates, his attention was focused on Gao Zheng.

Since being humiliated by Gao Zheng in the Spanish Super Cup, he has vowed never to let Gao Zheng score.

As a result, just ten minutes into the game, Gao Zheng scored, and it was still under his nose.

This made Ramos angry, so he and Gao Zheng got together in this game. In the previous game, Atletico Madrid had some counterattacks, and Gao Zheng was destroyed by Ramos using his physical strength advantage.

Gao Zheng did not take advantage of Ramos, which is also one of the main reasons why Atletico Madrid can only be beaten passively.

Ramos, whose eyes fell on Gao Zheng, noticed that Gao Zheng was actually laughing!

He was laughing when his team was pressed to the ground and rubbed!

Ramos looked at Gao Zheng with wide eyes, feeling that this kid's brain was simply in water, how could he still laugh?

Standing next to Gao Zheng, he asked in astonishment, "What are you laughing at?!" ”

Gao Zheng heard his question, turned his head to look at him, still with a smile on his face, and said to him, "Thank you." ”

Thank you for being so strong and making my victory more valuable.

The Spanish "thank you" Ramos still understood, but he didn't understand why Gao Zheng wanted to thank him.

Thanks for what?

We're holding you down!

You're actually our undercover agent, aren't you? You joined Atletico Madrid to help us win, right?

Ramos was a little cranky for a while, he really couldn't keep up with this Chinese kid's train of thought.

Is this a cultural difference?