The Asian Cup ended with hosts Australia beating Iraq 2-1 in the final to lift the Asian Cup for the first time in history.

The whole of Australia is in a frenzy.

But this has nothing to do with Chinese fans and Gao Zheng.

After the Asian Cup, Chinese fans are full of hope for the Chinese team's trip to the world preliminaries.

Gao Zheng is even less likely to be distracted and care about the results of the Asian Cup final.

After more than a dozen hours of continuous flight, Gao Zheng appeared at Madrid's Barajas Airport.

When the agent Viviano picked him up at the airport, he said to Gao Zheng: "I found that there are media reporters waiting at the airport, they should be waiting for you." ”

"Really?"

"yes, maybe there's a reporter's camera on our car at this time."

Gao Zheng smiled: "Then say hello to them." ”

After saying that, he waved his hand across the road across the road.

Under the viaduct, he couldn't see if there were reporters in ambush under the shadows, so he just waved over there, if not to the reporters, but to the city of Madrid.

It's been a month and a half since he'd been out of the city, and he'd been away for so long in the past, when it might have only been the summer holidays at the end of the season.

Viviano was right, there were indeed reporters waiting for Gao Zheng in the parking lot, and some reporters even followed Viviano's car all the way to the airport parking lot.

So Gao Zheng's waving photo soon appeared on the Internet.

Nowadays, it is an era of online information, and a lot of news will not appear in the traditional media for the first time, because if you have to wait for the traditional newspaper to typeset and print, then no matter how good the news is, it will become fried cold rice.

The latest news must be on the web.

After the photo of Gao Zheng waving his hand was posted on the Internet by reporters, it caused cheers from Atletico Madrid fans.

Many Atletico Madrid fans left a message under the photo: "Welcome back to Madrid, high! ”

"We miss you!"

It seems that although Simeone did not directly admit that he missed Gao Zheng for reasons of maintaining the unity within the team, the fans of Atletico Madrid were already a little impatient.

Originally, it went fairly smoothly in the league, but the two Copa del Rey quarterfinals made everyone realize the importance of Gao Zheng at once.

Many Atletico Madrid fans said after being eliminated that if Gao Zheng was there, we would never have scored a goal without scoring a goal when we could counterattack in a full second half.

Griezmann has proven to have a lot of potential, but his scoring ability can't be compared to Gao Zheng.

Torres scored three goals on his return, but by any measure, he is no longer the golden boy of Atletico Madrid. His declining form is an irrefutable reality, and it doesn't feel like Torres can really replace the vacancy left by Gao Zheng because of feelings and feelings.

His presence is a useful addition to Atletico Madrid's forward strength, but it must be understood that the main force of this force has to be Gao Zheng.

When some people are there, it seems that everything is ordinary, and life is as ordinary as water.

But once you lose him, you will find that he is the most indispensable person.

When Gao Zheng was there, although no one would think that Gao Zheng was not important, it was too ordinary. But I'm afraid I won't take his status too high, after all, Simeone's words represent the thoughts of many people - Atletico Madrid is not Sampdoria, in addition to Gao Zheng, Atletico Madrid also has Griezmann, Raul Garcia, Gabi, Koke, Alda Turan and a group of powerful players. Before Gao Zheng joined, Atletico Madrid was also a team that won the La Liga championship and reached the Champions League final, and it was the third pole outside the top two in the Spanish Super League.

However, after this Asian Cup, everyone found that today's Atletico Madrid is indeed indispensable for Gao Zheng.

After Diego Costa left the team, Gao Zheng was the team's most consistent scoring point.

He scored in seven consecutive league games before leaving for the Asian Cup, not counting the Champions League group stage. He has scored 10 goals in seven league games and is still the team's top scorer.

He has scored a total of 15 goals in the league this season, although he has been away for a month and a half, but he is only surpassed by Messi in the league scorer list.

Now at the top of the scorer list is Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, with 28 goals, Messi is in second place with 21 goals, and the next third is Gao Zheng with 15 goals.

It's a bit like the three-man team standing in the league standings.

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On the afternoon of the next day, Gao Zheng appeared at Atletico Madrid's Mahada Onda training base to reunite with his club teammates.

Everyone was very happy about Gao Zheng's return, and they talked and laughed with Gao Zheng, and they were happy.

Diego Simeone also appeared on the sidelines, and in the presence of reporters, he gave Gao Zheng a big hug.

Although Gao Zheng returned to the team, in the next training, everyone could still feel that Gao Zheng's body was not in the best condition.

This is also normal, in the twenty days in Australia, Gao Zheng played six games, an average of a little more than 3 points, and there was a fierce battle with the South Korean team.

This kind of high-intensity competition has a great impact on Gao Zheng's physical fitness.

He's not the kind of player who excels at physical fitness.

In addition, he had just experienced nearly twenty hours of air flight, and the jet lag was probably not completely reversed.

It's great to be on the training pitch and you shouldn't have any unrealistic expectations of his form.

Simeone is also very aware of this, so in the next 21st round of the league, Atletico Madrid challenged Eibar away, although Gao Zheng entered the squad, he did not enter the starting list.

The reason given by Simeone is that Gao Zheng still needs to have enough rest.

This is not surprising, after all, the next game against Real Madrid is more important, and even if the match with Eibar is not high, even if it is an away game, it should not be too much of a problem to win.

Of course, we must do everything we can to let Gao Zheng rest when I have the opportunity.

So that he can have the best form to face Real Madrid.

In the match with Eibar, Atletico Madrid finally defeated the opponent 3:1 away, and when Gao Zheng came on as a substitute in the 80th minute, the score was already this.

Gao Zheng failed to score, but Simeone was quite satisfied with his performance off the bench: "...... The important thing is that there is no problem with Gao's physical condition during the game. ”

The reporters all nodded in agreement, before the game against Real Madrid, Gao Zheng really can't make any mistakes, as long as he is in good physical condition, he can use basically 100% of the state to deal with Real Madrid.

Although Atletico Madrid was in the Copa del Rey, there was no Gao Zheng who also eliminated Real Madrid. However, Real Madrid's emphasis on the Copa del Rey and the league is clearly not the same. After all, in the Copa del Rey match that Real Madrid lost to Atletico Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo did not start.

And in this league city derby, as long as the Portuguese are not injured, they will definitely start.

Everyone wants to see the confrontation between Gao Zheng and Ronaldo, who are in good physical condition.