Chapter 220: The group wins
With the final group stage of the Champions League in two days' time, Wen Zhihao's main focus was on preparing for the group finale against Chelsea, and although the actual result had no effect, Simeone still wanted to set a team record and win the group. Throughout the history of the Champions League, only five teams have done it, and Real Madrid is one of them.
Atletico Madrid not only has the need to win the game and suppress the points ranking, but also seeks all-round, any aspect of the match or even surpass. If you want to be a real super-first-class giant, Real Madrid is a good benchmark, and they have a record that Atletico Madrid can't do, at least on an equal footing.
However, before the game, the British Guardian poured cold water on Atletico's head-on. What if the group wins? You still can't win the Champions League!
Chelsea have already been knocked out of the group early, and the Madrid media naturally think that the British are talking about things with a sour grapes mentality, and by the way, they are making a good excuse for the defending Premier League champions to lose.
But among Atletico Madrid's die-hard fans, there are really some parties who have turned over the history of the first five times, and the most terrifying thing is that this is actually the truth.
In the 1992-93 season, AC Milan were the first team to win all the Champions League group and made it all the way to the final, but lost 1-0 to Marseille in the final, falling to the final step of the championship.
A year later, Paris Saint-Germain in 1994-95 replicated AC Milan's group stage glory two years earlier, but in the end, the Champions League title that year belonged to Ajax's 95 golden generation.
In the 1995-96 season, Spartak Moscow also achieved a momentary success, but in the end they did not have enough stamina to win the championship.
Both of the new century's winning streaks belong to La Liga teams, Barcelona in 2002-03 and Real Madrid in 2014-15. However, the two Champions League titles belong to AC Milan, the representative of extreme defense, and Barcelona, the representative of the art of passing football.
The above examples all prove one thing, group wins are poisonous, and teams that have won all groups in history have not had good results!
Speaking to reporters, Conte said: "Although we are out of the question, I don't believe Atletico will dare to win against us. The group wins, it's a curse from God! ”
Simeone dismissed this statement in his pre-match press conference: "It's complete nonsense! It's because no team has done it before that we want to make history! It's not my style to retrace the path that others have taken. ”
Wen Zhihao's response was more humorous: "The head coach can only use the past history to comfort himself, which can only prove that he has no confidence in the future game at all. Against an opponent who is not confident, it doesn't make sense that you can't win. ”
The BBC reporter didn't want to see Chelsea lose face like this, and wanted to save face: "Are you really that confident enough to ignore the curse?" Stronger than Barcelona and Real Madrid, both fell under the curse of winning the group. ”
The subtext of this is very insidious, if Wen Zhihao answers that Atletico Madrid is stronger than Barcelona Real Madrid, it is to pull hatred, the fans of the two giants will definitely attack in groups, and Atletico Madrid will be more disturbed before the game. Even if you win, you will lose the hearts and minds of many neutral fans.
Wen Zhihao understood the other party's intentions with a roll of his eyes, and replied with a smile: "God's curse? Sounds scary. But you forgot one thing, I am Chinese, your God can't control me! ”
After a pause, Wen Zhihao continued: "I only believe in one sentence, my life is up to me. If you don't understand what it means, you can find out. My goal is to keep winning, and then, champions! People block and kill, God blocks, I kill God, and then replace him! ”
Wen Zhihao's tone was not excited, and he said this with a peaceful smile, but the momentum on his body made Simeone next to him look sideways for a while. He felt that he had a new understanding of Wen Zhihao.
God blocks and kills God and replaces him. In other words, be your own God! The absolute master of fate!
How much courage and courage does it take to say such a thing?
Simeone thinks that his personality is similar to Wen Zhihao, and he doesn't dare to express this attitude in front of the media, and he is easily regarded as a public enemy.
Simeone felt that he was sometimes inferior to Wen Zhihao in terms of determination.
If it is other young players of the same age as Wen Zhihao, Simeone's first feeling must be that he does not know the sky, but with Simeone's understanding, Wen Zhihao has publicly stated that he will do his best to complete it.
Simeone secretly decided that at the end of the season, if Wen Zhihao can deliver on what he is today, he can even build tactics around Wen Zhihao for the absolute core next summer, including a personnel reshuffle.
If the situation calls for it.
……
Wen Zhihao said as soon as he said it, and there was a lot more sweat for him, and there were also media waiting to see the excitement. They actually only care about one thing, if Atletico Madrid doesn't win this game, and Wen Zhihao's rhetoric is self-defeating, how will he end.
In the last group game, Simeone still played with all the main force in order to impact the whole victory. Antonio Conte learned the lessons of his home game and it was another Champions League honour game this year, with Chelsea in absolute control in the first half. Conte has invested heavily in Wen Zhihao's defense, and Tiemoue Bakayoko and N'Golo Kante, two young and capable top midfielders, have turned into two generals, doing everything possible to hinder Wen Zhihao's movement. The effect of the whole first half was very good, Wen Zhihao constantly encountered all kinds of physical confrontation and tackles, and it was difficult to run and organize the attack.
Not only that, but Chelsea's attack was also sharp, with goals from Pedro and Alvaro Morata giving the Blues a two-goal lead to end the first half, a situation that surprised all predictions.
The media is talking about the situation in front of them, and many people have already made a good draft in their hearts, and they will laugh at it after the game, Wen Zhihao's statement before the game is something that many of them are not used to, and they just took this opportunity to fall into the ground.
Shortly after the start of the second half, referee Brech played cards to N'Golo Kante and Tiemoue Bakayoko. The two probably didn't expect to be able to defend Wen Zhihao almost invisible on the field in the first half, the excitement continued, and the movements of their hands were confiscated.
He Wei saw that the two of them were dyed yellow one after another, and his tone was slightly excited: "This is a good phenomenon, it will make the other party dare not foul unscrupulously." In the first half, Wen Zhihao enjoyed the VIP treatment that only Messi has. ”
In the second half, the level of confrontation between the two sides increased, and Brech's penalty scale was much stricter, after all, this game has nothing to do with the overall situation, and preventing extraneous complications is the first priority.
N'Golo Kante and Tiemoue Bakayoko received successive verbal warnings and were unable to get the intensity of the foul for a while, and Wen Zhihao took advantage of the slight hesitation of their defense to pass through the two's defensive zone for the first time and push past Courtois's ten fingers. Scored his fourth goal in the Champions League.
Nearly 60 minutes later, Wen Zhihao's goal-winning goal gave Atletico a chance of an equaliser, and Simeone immediately brought on Gameiro, who played a key role in goal.
In the 77th minute, Atletico Madrid took a corner kick from the left, and Gameiro headed the ball in the opposite direction of Courtois before Cahill, and Atletico equalized.
From half-time lead to the loss of advantage, the Chelsea players have been inconsistent in their thinking and have huge ups and downs in mentality, Wen Zhihao is extremely experienced, and the unbalanced Azpilicueta was recruited by the unbalanced Azpilicueta to win a penalty for Atletico Madrid in the last minute.
Antoine Griezmann conceded the penalty to Wen Zhihao. Atletico Madrid's three-goal reversal in the half, Wen Zhihao's brace scored twice.
In the media seat, the reporters looked at each other with wide eyes, from 0:2 at half time to 3:2 at the half, oh my God, what did I go through?
The original draft can only be nullified, and Atletico must be touted as the winner of the group and a record in team history.
At the same time, most people are convinced. Although I haven't seen the final finale of the season yet, I have to admit that Wen Zhihao did it this time, and it was really fierce!
PS: I just finished class in the afternoon, and I was late for the update today, sorry