Chapter 205: There's still a long way to go

Atletico Madrid's successful defense of the title and the league title again have made Chinese fans very excited, and probably everyone else except for the domestic Real Madrid fans and Barcelona fans is happy.

There is also an enthusiastic Chinese netizen P picture, in which is a photo of Gao Zheng being interviewed by a local reporter in Spain, and the netizen P a sentence under the photo: "Now we can say that we are the boss of Madrid!" ”

This obviously stimulated the creative desire of Chinese netizens, and for a while, various emojis spread quickly on the Internet, and the talents of netizens were breathtaking.

It's no wonder that the cross talk sketches of the Spring Festival Gala are getting more and more unfunny now, people who have been used to staying on the Internet for a long time have already seen countless jokes that are funnier than them, and then look at the cross talk sketches of the Spring Festival Gala that plagiarize all kinds of outdated and rotten stalks, and naturally feel that there is nothing funny......

But in fact, Chinese netizens are still too optimistic about who is the boss in Madrid.

Maybe everyone actually knows that this is unrealistic, and it is more just a catharsis of happy emotions, rather than really thinking that Gao Zheng and Atletico Madrid are the bosses of Madrid.

Everyone knows this, but if it's true, a lot of things on the Internet won't be able to be said.

In fact, although Gao Zhen helped Atletico Madrid win the league title, in terms of personal honors, he is still not as good as Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, two rivals.

In the league scorer list, Gao Zheng and Messi both scored twice in the last round, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick against Getafe to help Real Madrid sweep Getafe 7-3 at home.

With these three goals, he also managed to push his league tally to 50 to 51.

He also set a single-season scoring record in La Liga, a record that belonged to his arch-rival Lionel Messi, who scored 50 goals in 37 appearances in 2011-2012.

At the time, it was considered a difficult record to break, but it was forced to fall after three seasons.

It's just one more goal than Messi's record.

Ronaldo's record is also the record for goals scored in a single season in Europe's top five leagues – the Ligue 1 record was set in 1970-1971 by Marseille striker Skobral who scored 44 goals. No one has been able to break this record so far.

The Bundesliga's single-season goal record belongs to Gerd Müller "The Bomber", who scored 40 goals in the 1971-1972 season, which was the only time in the Bundesliga that a player had scored 40 goals in a single season.

The Premier League's single-season scoring record is held by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer, who scored 34 league goals in 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 respectively. When they set the record, there were 22 teams in the Premier League, and now they have shrunk to 20 teams. It can be said that the Premier League's single-season goal record is probably the best broken record among the five major leagues.

As for the single-season goal record in Serie A, it was set by Gao Zheng in the 2012-2013 season. At that time, he scored 40 goals at Sampdoria, which was a big break in the previous record. Judging from the situation in Serie A, Gao Zheng's record may be difficult to break.

This season's La Liga season has come to an end, with Atletico Madrid successfully defending their title and winning the league title, while Barcelona finished runners-up by three points.

Real Madrid finished third, Valencia fourth.

All four teams have qualified for next season's Champions League, but Valencia will need to start from the qualifying round, while the other three teams can go straight to the main event.

In fifth place is Sevilla, while Villarreal are in sixth place and will play in next season's Europa League.

The relegated teams are Córdoba, Almeria and Deportivo La Coruna – the unfortunate La Coruna are 18th in 18th place after losing to Barcelona and are level on points with Granada.

In terms of scorers, Cristiano Ronaldo is at the top of the list, followed by Messi and Gao Zheng, and the three of them are not a notch higher than the scorers below.

Neymar, who ranked third, scored 22 goals, nearly half of Gao Zheng's goals.

It's no wonder that José Maria put Gao Zheng together with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo when commenting on the last Atletico Madrid game.

Looking at the number of goals, Gao Zheng is indeed a performance with their two world superstars.

However, the remarks against Jose Maria after the game caused a small controversy.

The vast majority of people think that Gao Zheng's performance in a season is not convincing.

There have been players like this who have exploded in a single season before, but the key is not to last.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are considered to be the two strongest players in the world because they have been in good form for a long time, and they have been able to produce dazzling statistics every season.

If Gao Zheng performs well this season and is out of the crowd next season, it will obviously not be comparable to the two of Melo.

Gao Zheng's performance this season is of course impeccable, if he can continue this performance next season, I believe that more people will be willing to believe that he can really stand shoulder to shoulder with those two.

But if you really want to compete with the two of Melo, the performance of one or two seasons is not convincing.

As Torres said, it was a long-term process, and Gao Zheng not only needed to be strong enough, but also to be lucky enough.

At the very least, he can't suffer serious injuries that could change his style of play in the rest of his career, and he can't get injured too often.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to charge at two of the best men in the world.

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“…… In the just-concluded La Liga, Gao led Atletico Madrid to counterattack Barcelona, successfully defended the title, and became the league champion again! And he himself has scored forty goals in the league...... Although he did not become the Golden Boot, he became the first player in La Liga history to score 40 goals in his first season in La Liga. And it's worth mentioning that the 40 goals came when he only played 31 league games, as he played in the Asian Cup, missed five league games, and did not play in two league games due to the rotation policy. So if he could play all 38 games, what would he end up with? ”

"After moving from Sampdoria to Atletico Madrid, from Italy to Spain, Gao almost did not go through any adaptation period or run-in period, and directly showed his strongest form, and maintained this form until the end of the season...... This is very scary, in Spain, some people have already discussed him with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and some people think that he is the one who can break the monopoly of the 'peerless double pride'...... It's just a guess, but that's a lot of praise......"

“…… Originally, it was thought that the record of 40 goals in a single season in Serie A was already terrifying. Now it seems that he should be far from reaching his peak. As he gets older and more experienced, he will probably be even more terrifying than he is now. Now that I think about it, it was really not arrogant that he announced the lock-up of the Golden Boot in advance, but he really had that ability......"

Icardi put down the newspaper, and the "Milan Sports Newspaper", which had criticized Gao Zheng, now fell to his knees at Gao Zheng's feet, racking their brains to praise Gao Zheng, and they devoted a whole page to reporting on a player who did not play in Italy at all. No one in the entire Serie A can enjoy such treatment.

You must know that Icardi himself scored 22 goals in the league this season, and won the Golden Boot tied with Luka Toney, but he did not enjoy such treatment.

The praise for him in the media is far less than that of Gao Zheng.

But Icardi was not indignant.

He just thought of that morning in Genoa, he was riding a motorcycle with Gao Zheng, and he showed his determination to compete with Gao Zheng, but Gao Zheng always casually avoided the topic.

He only figured out now that maybe he was missing him in Gao Zheng's eyes at that time......

"We can be friends."

He really wanted to be his friend, but he only wanted to treat him as an opponent.

What about his opponents?

It's at the level of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo......

The Serie A Golden Boot realized for the first time its insignificance in front of someone who was not even a Golden Boot.

It's like standing at the foot of a high mountain, looking up, only to see the peak towering into the sky, but still not to see the top of the mountain.

It's desperate to climb such a mountain.

It's not so easy to conquer the mountains......