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Vallecano's home stadium, the Vallecas Stadium, can only accommodate 15,000 people, which is considered a very small stadium.

However, this is not considered the stadium with the smallest capacity in La Liga. The smallest stadium in La Liga is the Iprura Stadium, home of the newly promoted Eibar, which can only accommodate 5,000 people.

In this Vallecano vs. Atletico Madrid game at home, more than 11,000 people sat in the Vallecas Stadium, and the attendance rate was pretty good.

Vallecano is a small club, not comparable to Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, the two football giants in Madrid, but such a team is also more rooted in the community and more in line with the most traditional meaning of football - community culture .

Their training base is very small, hidden in a residential area, it looks like a football school in the community. Every evening, children from the neighborhood come here for football training. In fact, many parents of children probably don't expect their children to become professional players. They just want to cultivate their children's love for football and loyalty to Vallecano Football Club.

Although this kind of team lacks the support of big sponsors, the results are not very good, and they basically miss all kinds of championships. Even the qualifications for the First Division are often lost, and they have to be relegated to the Second Division.

But that doesn't detract from the fans' love for them.

After all, there is only one champion, but there are tens of thousands of clubs and people involved in football. There are still many supporters for those teams that have missed the championship. Emotions - Fans regard the club they live in as their own family and will always be with them no matter what their grades are. Just like a family member, you can't say that because the family member can't make money, doesn't look good, and has no social status, other family members dislike him, right?

So even now that Vallecano is behind Atletico Madrid in terms of score, the singing of Vallecano fans in the stands has not weakened in the slightest, and they are still cheering for their team.

"The game has been in the last ten minutes. Although Atletico Madrid is only one goal ahead, the initiative is in their hands. Now I believe that many Chinese fans want to see Gao Zheng score. After all, this game has been played until now. Gao Zheng hasn't scored yet..."

As a La Liga commentator, He Ping can finally commentate Gao Zheng's games in addition to the UEFA Champions League commentary. When Gao Zheng was in Serie A, the commentator was always Liu Hong's job. He Ping could only comment on the Champions League.

Now that Gao Zheng has come to La Liga, he can see Gao Zheng once a week, which makes him feel very happy.

After Gao Zheng's first La Liga game in this game, he was well prepared,

I thought of a lot of wonderful words to describe Gao Zheng's goal in advance, but they didn't come in handy at all.

Gao Zheng didn't score a goal, but sent an assist, which assisted Koke to score and scored the only goal of the game so far.

It stands to reason that the assist is also a highlight performance, but the Chinese fans just don't find it enjoyable, and hope that Gao Zheng can score another goal.

But their hopes were dashed in the 85th minute when assistant coach Boggs replaced Diego Simeone with striker Raul Jimenez, also a summer transfer. Gao Zheng.

"Gao Zheng was replaced? Oops... It's a pity that Gao Zheng left the field without scoring a goal... The reason why Gao Zheng was replaced in advance may be due to the impact of the previous two consecutive Spanish Super Cups , Boggs hopes that Gao Zheng can take a good rest. After all, the third round of the league is the real 'Madrid City Derby'..." Although He Ping is very sorry, he can understand.

This actually stems from his confidence in Gao Zheng. The league has just started and the season is still very long. He believes that Gao Zheng's first goal in La Liga will definitely come, and he won't have to wait too long.

Because as he said, the third round of the league is the same city derby with Real Madrid.

Based on his understanding of Gao Zheng, wouldn't Gao Zheng not score in such an important game?

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In the end, the score of this game was 1:0. Atletico Madrid beat their city rival Rayo Vallecano in the away game, and got a good start to the new season of the league. The defending champion of the league officially set sail with a victory.

At the post-match press conference, Boggs, who replaced Diego Simeone at the press conference, faced a group of Chinese reporters and praised Gao Zheng's performance: "... (although Gao did not score) but I think Gao's performance is very Excellent, what is more important than scoring is what he reflects in the team's offense. This assist shows that he is getting more and more familiar with our team's offensive system. As I said, I don't value Gao just because He was the golden boot last season. Yes he can score goals, but more importantly he is also a player who can create chances for his teammates..."

Gao Zheng was quite satisfied with his performance when he was interviewed after the game, and he didn't care about the fact that he didn't score at all: "...the most important thing is for the team to win. Help him score. As for when I score myself? I never cared about that, let it be, it just happens naturally."

After the game, the Madrid media praised Gao Zheng for showing a high degree of confidence.

Only those who have become a habit of scoring goals will not have any "scoring shortage anxiety", and will not feel that it is such a big deal not to score in a game.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Scoring goals is not a rare thing for Gao Zheng. In his career, there is really no such thing as a long scoring absurdity. The Italian media has become a "goal shortage"...

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In the second round of the league, Atletico Madrid returned to their home court to face the newly promoted Eibar.

Eibar is the newly promoted club with the smallest stadium in La Liga as mentioned before.

They won the La Liga championship last season. As a result, according to the rules, La Liga participating clubs must pay a certain amount of participation deposit to the Spanish Football Association, otherwise they will not be eligible to participate in La Liga.

The specific amount of the participation guarantee is calculated based on 25% of the average expenses of all La Liga teams, and this 25% is 1.7 million euros.

For many clubs, 1.7 million euros is not a big amount. For example, this 1.7 million is only equivalent to Messi's salary for one month. For the town, the 1.7 million euros is an astronomical figure.

Then there was a famous "network crowdfunding" operation. Ebar divided his club's shares into several shares and put them on the online crowdfunding. Anyone can spend money to buy the shares of Ebar Club and become a shareholder of the club. .

The money they paid for the shares was used to pay the team's participation deposit.

Speaking of which, this team and China also have a fate-after their deeds were spread to China on the Internet, enthusiastic Chinese fans generously donated money and bought a large number of shares in Eibar, thus helping Eibar to tide over the difficulties. Successfully paid the participation deposit and stayed in La Liga.

If it weren't for these Chinese fans, maybe this matchup between Atletico Madrid and Eibar would never have happened.

However, Atletico Madrid did not show mercy to Ebar because of such an inspirational story.

Just 12 minutes into the game, Miranda headed a corner kick to give Atletico Madrid the lead.

The question of whether Gao Zheng can score a goal that Chinese fans are most concerned about was also answered in the 25th minute.

"Gao Zheng received the ball in the penalty area... a beautiful turn and volley!! The ball is scored! Great goal!!" He Ping raised his arms and shouted. "He scored his first league goal in La Liga!"

Chinese fans finally heard what they most wanted to hear.