In terms of the difference in strength between the two teams, Griezmann's goal only kicked off Atletico Madrid's goal, and Wen Zhihao's wonderful performance in this game was more than just an imaginative down-to-earth pass.

As this year's Champions League Silver Boot and World Cup Golden Boot, Wen Zhihao's variety of scoring methods is what everyone is really looking forward to.

In this game, everyone really doesn't care about the outcome or defeat, the only expectation is to hope that the more wonderful goals the better.

As if he knew what the crowd was thinking, just three minutes after Antoine Griezmann opened the scoring, he drilled his old club through his former club with his trademark world wave.

When the fans saw the whole process of this goal, they all couldn't help but exclaim. The real beauty of this goal, in addition to Wen Zhihao withstanding Jin Yingquan's physical pressure and playing a curved ball that ran to the dead corner, reflecting the wonderful ball sense, more importantly, before Wen Zhihao shot, he and Costa, Griezmann, Saul played a continuous pass - Wen Zhihao passed the ball to Costa's feet, Costa kept the ball diagonally to Griezmann, and then knocked back with a big checkered heel, without a second of delay, directly to Saul who inserted from the midfield. Guangzhou Evergrande's defense has actually been torn apart by Atletico Madrid's series of runs and short passes, and the first 30 meters of the penalty area have been completely opened, completely entering Saul's long-distance range.

However, the Spaniard was not greedy, but a straight pass, the ball to Wen Zhihao, who had rushed into the penalty area, Wen Zhihao at a small angle on the left side of the penalty area, grabbed in front of Jin Yingquan, after getting the ball, directly sideways is a furious shot, the ball straight to the left corner of the goal.

Breaking through the goal of his old club, Wen Zhihao did not celebrate, he personally went to the net to pick up the ball, and explained to his national team teammate Zeng Cheng with a smile by the way: "Hehe, coincidence!" I didn't mean to. ”

Zeng Cheng's expression was speechless. Not on purpose? Then you're still shooting so accurately! Could it be that you are blinded?

He really wanted to ask Wen Zhihao: Is it okay to bow your head and not look up in the national team?

In fact, Atletico Madrid was enough to extend the score to 3-0 or more in the first half, but Costa and centre-back Godin both had headers that missed the post.

However, Simeone is still satisfied with the performance of everyone on the field, he thinks it is nothing to waste opportunities, no one can do it all the time, the key is that the performance of a few core players he values on the field shows that their form is clearly getting better. For Simeone, this is the biggest news of the preparation period before the start of the season.

At the end of the first half, Atletico led by two goals.

In the second half of the game, Atletico Madrid's offensive has been reined in, and both sides have begun to change their horses, Evergrande's side, Cannavaro has replaced Zheng Zhi, Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting and other main forces, and Simeone has also replaced a large number of young people. This is also due to the fact that the International Champions Cup is a friendly match, with no substitution rules, and it also gives these giants managers a lot of opportunities to try out their lineups for the new season. For example, in the United States of the International Champions Cup last year, in Real Madrid's 1:4 defeat to Manchester City, Zidane simply changed nine people in one breath when the team was 0:2 behind, which is equivalent to changing a set of lineups!

Although Simeone is not as big as Zizou, Atletico's substitution is enough to make Chinese fans excited.

Because, one of the substitutions was in the goalkeeper position, playing half the soy sauce in front of the goal, Oblak was replaced in the second half with nothing to do, and Yan Junling ushered in the debut of his Atletico career!

Yan Junling appeared, and Wen Zhihao was not replaced! Two Chinese players are playing for a Champions League winning club at the same time! It's a meaningful moment. Wen Zhihao's debut at Atletico Madrid was not amazing, but it was very steady, what about Yan Junling's debut? Maybe it's not a good time for him to make his debut, because he shouldn't have a lot of opportunities to play in this game. Hehe! ”

Yan Junling's steps were still a little tight when he walked on the court, obviously he was not ready to make his debut so soon, and he kept his head down when he walked towards the goal, trying to avoid it, so as not to let the camera capture the tension in his heart.

Simeone's expression behind him was slightly wrinkled, Yan Junling's performance was a kind of lack of confidence in his opinion, and as a goalkeeper, if there is no strong psychology, it is difficult to be alone in front of the goal.

But it stands to reason that against the defending champions in the World Cup, players who can perform absolutely brightly

When Wen Zhihao saw Yan Junling's strange appearance, he immediately thought of his psychological activities, and walked over to help him relieve the pressure in a half-joking way: "Dayan, you should be considered a very lucky substitute goalkeeper, the debut came so quickly, but you probably don't have much chance to be on camera, go ahead, honestly stay in front of the door and play soy sauce!" The rest of the time, all you have to do is make up the numbers! ”

"Soy sauce? Make up the numbers? Yan Junling frowned slightly, and just wanted to refute Wen Zhihao, who did he look down on! However, he soon saw Wen Zhihao winking at him meaningfully, and after thinking about it again, he found that Wen Zhihao was actually right!

This is in Atletico Madrid, with such a strong backline, I am afraid that there are not many opportunities for me to touch the ball, most of the time, I just need to be a spectator on the field and watch my teammates play.

In that case, what is there to be nervous about, and what is there to worry about?

In fact, the process of the game is the same, Yan Junling basically just made the fans excited for a while when he played, and he didn't have anything to do in the later games, if it wasn't for a few backcourt downturns, the central defender deliberately passed back to the goalkeeper, I'm afraid Yan Junling really didn't have much sense of participation in this game, and really became a spectator on the field, watching a half-court offensive and defensive drill without suspense.

The competition between the young players of the second team of the two teams is actually far greater than the gap between the main team, because the youth level of the two countries determines the overall level of young players.

Of course, Wen Zhihao is an exception.

Atletico Madrid had a lot of chances in the second half, but the young player's last kick was almost hot after all, and finally Atletico Madrid scored a goal each by two strikers, Torres and Giovanni, and the whole game ended 4:0, Wen Zhihao was replaced by the 21-year-old midfielder Olabe of the B team in the 70th minute of the game. Simeone's discussion with assistant Boggs focused on 19-year-old striker Giovanni. Counting Singapore's first International Champions Cup, the young striker scored three goals in three games, with overhead kicks in all directions, Simeone saw in him a very good finishing ability in front of goal, but he didn't expect the pre-season warm-up to really dig up treasures.

Sometimes opportunities are also indispensable for the development of young players, such as Giovanni's outburst. With Gameiro and Bietto gone this season, Torres is a year older and has had few opportunities under Simeone since last season, while Atletico have a tradition of developing young strikers. Simeone is already thinking about whether to promote Giovanni to Costa's first substitute this season, just like Real Madrid's Mayoral After all, this striker has exactly the same body template as Costa, and his height is two centimeters taller than Costa, seeing the current Costa, Simeone is also very optimistic about the future of this young striker.

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Atletico Madrid's match with Evergrande, the 4:0 result was fully in line with everyone's expectations, and the four goals were all wonderful, Wen Zhihao contributed a pass and a shot, proving that he recovered well after returning from vacation, and the Chinese media is even more looking forward to the upcoming European Super Cup.

However, just after this match, Italy's Torino Sport newspaper announced the shortlist of 25 candidates for this year's European Golden Boy Award. The Chinese media paid special attention to this year's Golden Boy Award because they were very confident that Wen Zhihao would win the European Golden Boy Award. This year is the World Cup year, and the performance of the national team will account for a large proportion, and Wen Zhihao led the Chinese team as the new World Cup Golden Boot to become the biggest dark horse in this World Cup, which undoubtedly gave him a great advantage in the entire selection. Although Mbappe, the winner of the last Golden Boy Award, still entered the list with a strong performance, he only won the Ligue 1 title last season, and only reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League and the World Cup, not to mention that he did not even enter the top ten in the league scorer list and only ranked third in the assist list. Whether it is individual performance or team results, it is time for him to be the golden boy this year.

Some of the 25 candidates for this year's Golden Boy Award have been shortlisted for two consecutive years, in addition to the defending Golden Boy Mbappe, there are also Jesus, Dembele, Pulisic and other young talents who are strong in Europe, especially Jesus who plays for Manchester City and Barcelona "Mr. Yiou" Dembele, who originally performed throughout the year, and they are also very hopeful to impact the Golden Boy. But compared with Wen Zhihao, their light is not so dazzling.

In fact, not only the Chinese media, but even the Spanish media also very much hope that Wen Zhihao can win the "Europe's strongest young player" award, since Isco won the Golden Boy award in 2012, the final selection for five consecutive years, La Liga has missed the Golden Boy Award. This is unacceptable to the Spanish media in any way. Although the Bundesliga has always been advertised as a fertile ground for the growth of young players, the Spanish media has never been convinced, and they have always believed that the Spanish youth academy is the top existence in Europe!

The most outstanding symbol of Spanish football's youth training is Barcelona's La Masia Academy, of course, the youth training strength of the top three in La Liga is never weak, Real Madrid's Castilla Academy provides more than half of the fresh blood for the entire La Liga every year, and it is difficult to play from the academy to the Real Madrid team, but as long as Real Madrid's youth talents are willing to go to the middle of La Liga, it is still easy to find a main force or even a core position.

As for Atletico Madrid, being good at cultivating excellent strikers is the most famous part of Atletico Madrid's youth training, and it only takes one sentence to explain: Atletico Madrid's production must be a high-quality product!

Although it sounds like an advertising slogan, this is the accumulation of eight strikers in the past 20 years, not to mention, in this Atletico team, Costa, Griezmann, Torres are all fruitful proof.

Of course, Wen Zhihao's goal efficiency is higher than that of a striker, but his position at Atletico belongs to the midfield sequence, so it will not be left out here.

All in all, the Spanish media feel that it is time for La Liga players to reclaim the Golden Boy award and justify the Spanish academy. Compared with Dembele, who joined Barcelona from Dortmund with countless attention, Wen Zhihao was unanimously favored by the vast majority of Spanish media with his outstanding performance.

Judging from the votes of the 25 candidates on the shortlist, Wen Zhihao did get the highest number of votes. A selection team of 20 well-known European media and 30 journalists, including the Dutch "Telegraph", the German "Bild", the British "Times" and other media not only firmly listed Wen Zhihao as the first choice for this year's Golden Boy Award, but also built momentum for Wen Zhihao. The Telegraph's editor-in-chief, Paul? Jensen said bluntly in an interview with reporters: "As long as the media participates in the selection with an impartial position, they should understand that Wen is the best young man in world football this summer and even in the past year, and it should be undisputed that he won the European Golden Boy Award, because he is almost destined to become the leader and king on the field in the era after Messi and Ronaldo, and no young man does it better than him." ”

Paul? Jensen's praise for Wen Zhihao is not just subjective bias because he is a player who has come out of the Eredivisie, but has a factual basis, according to the rules, the comprehensive rating of 25 players, Wen Zhihao ranks first among the 25 players without any suspense, and the final top three competition is almost a certainty.

In addition to the Spanish media, the Chinese media are the most unstable. It happened that Atletico Madrid was training in China during this time, so the Chinese media rushed to contact Wen Zhihao himself as soon as possible, wanting to hear his feelings as soon as possible, but Wen Zhihao saw this situation and hid directly!

He naturally understood through news channels that most of his Golden Boy Awards were stable, but as for the group of reporters downstairs, were they so excited?

The enthusiasm of the Chinese media, Wen Zhihao really can't afford it now, so he can hide if he can.

The point is that he doesn't understand, what's there to be excited about? Your own performance media should know in your heart, isn't everything a matter of course?

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However, Wen Zhihao's teammates and Simeone expressed their views in an interview. Griezmann, as one of the CG group Iron Triangle, naturally supports Wen Zhihao's attitude, he said: "I don't think anyone is more qualified to win this award than Wen, if he can't be elected, then this award can be canceled directly, because the selection fairness has been lost." ”

Griezmann's direct introduction to the Chinese media sounds very useful, this is the real status and recognition.

And in the pre-match press conference of Atletico Madrid's second game against Chelsea, when it came to the selection of the Golden Boy Award, Simeone was even more astonishing: "Golden Boy Award? Of course, there is no suspense! In terms of Wen's performance in the past year to the present, this award grade is not enough, not enough to show his excellence. I think he's not only the best young player in Europe, but the best of all the players in the last year...... I would be surprised if Wen wasn't one of the last few candidates for this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or. ”

The cameras of various media outlets immediately recorded Simeone's exact words, and even the Chinese reporters looked at each other and whispered discussions.

The Golden Boy Award is confident, but for the Golden Ball Award, Wen Zhihao's opponents are Messi and Ronaldo, the two kings, really ...... Is it possible?