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In the twenty-eighth round of the league, Atletico Madrid ushered in the same city team Getafe at home.

In fact, this can also be regarded as the "Madrid Derby", but I am afraid that no one will really call these two games by that name.

After all, the strength of the two teams is too different.

In this game, Gao Zheng returned to the starting lineup, and it was with his two goals that Atletico Madrid defeated Getafe 2:0 at home.

However, this game is not a focus battle, even if Atletico Madrid's current points have temporarily ranked first in the league.

Because everyone knows how Atlético de Madrid came to be the number one in the league. In the case of the same points, Atletico Madrid played one more game. Naturally, the points were three points more than Barcelona, ​​and they became the number one in the league.

But such a league first is meaningless.

No one will bring this matter up.

The focus of everyone's attention is on the next "Clasico" between Barcelona and Real Madrid at home.

Although Real Madrid had fallen from the top of the league table due to an accident before and became third in the league, they were only one point behind Barcelona.

As long as they can beat Barcelona, ​​they can not only surpass Barcelona, ​​but also surpass Atletico Madrid, which has the same points as Barcelona. It can be described as "killing two birds with one stone".

Of course, the only problem is that this time Real Madrid is an away game, and Barcelona's home game is not easy to play.

Many analysts before the game believed that as long as Barcelona can beat Real Madrid, Real Madrid can completely bid farewell to the league championship.

The next league title will be between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

But Atletico Madrid's record against Barcelona three times this season is really not convincing. Their only advantage is that when they played Barcelona last time, they played at home.

But they also played against Barcelona at home in the Copa del Rey, what was the result?

Isn't it still lost?

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This high-profile national derby is the last game of this round of the league.

From this arrangement, we can also see the importance of this game.

Nineteen minutes into the game, Messi assisted Jeremy Mathieu with a header. This was Mathieu's first goal of the season and he broke Real Madrid's goal.

Cristiano Ronaldo equalized for Real Madrid though.

But in the 56th minute of the second half, Suarez's goal gave Barcelona the lead again.

This score continued until the end of the game.

In the end, with two goals from Suarez and Mathieu, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid at home and won what may be the most important victory of the season.

Relying on these three points, Barcelona opened Real Madrid by as many as four points.

This result disappointed Real Madrid supporters, who felt that their team had missed the league title this season.

After the game, cameras caught a disappointed Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese walking off the pitch with his head down, giving no interviews or greeting anyone.

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Gao Zheng didn't know the result of this national derby until he arrived in China - after the match against Getafe, he left Madrid and returned to China, thousands of miles away.

After reuniting with his own national team, on March 27th and March 31st, he will participate in two friendly matches against the national team against Haiti and Tunisia.

These two games will be the last two warm-up matches of the Chinese team before the World Cup qualifiers.

So although it was just a warm-up match, Gao Zheng still had to return to China to participate, just to get in touch with the team.

Although Simeone didn't want Gao Zheng to return to China to participate in the competition, he didn't stop him.

He knows very well how important the World Cup is to Chinese football.

After finally having a player like Gao Zheng, Chinese fans must hope that their national team can enter the World Cup finals.

When preparing for a game like the Asian Cup, he can still compete with the Chinese Football Association for Gao Zheng, but preparing for the World Cup, he knows very well that Gao Zheng will definitely stand by the Chinese team.

However, despite the help of Gao Zheng, the Chinese team did not play well in these two warm-up matches.

After the Chinese team won the third place in the Asian Cup, everyone's expectations for this team are very high.

As a result, the Chinese team drew with Haiti 2:2 in the first game, and drew with Tunisia 1:1 in the second game.

Gao Zheng scored all three goals of the Chinese team, but failed to help the team win even one game.

After these two warm-up matches, the domestic media and fans were very dissatisfied with the performance of the Chinese team.

They believed that apart from Gao Zheng, no one else took these two games seriously, which led to the fact that the Chinese team with Gao Zheng could not even win a team like Haiti.

Someone complained for Gao Zheng: "If I had known that his teammates had this attitude, then I think Gao Zheng shouldn't have come back at all. He wasted time and energy and played two meaningless games!"

"Facts have proved that even if the Chinese team won the third place in the Asian Cup, there is no improvement in strength. It should be what it should be..."

"Look at Gao Zheng, aren't the other international players ashamed!"

However, some people think that the international players cannot be blamed for this matter. The Chinese Football Association's amateur preparation plan is also a big problem.

In the last two warm-up matches before the World Cup qualifiers, teams like Haiti and Tunisia were chosen as warm-up opponents. Is there any similarity between these two teams and our opponents in the Asian Cup qualifiers? Can playing against them help us prepare for the qualifiers?

Some people criticized Perrin for still inspecting the players on a large scale during the last two warm-up matches. Such behavior is wrong. After all, the qualifiers are about to start. In the last two warm-up matches, what the Chinese team should do now is to adjust the existing lineup and find the optimal solution for the lineup, instead of continuing to inspect new players and run in. line-up.

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However, Gao Zheng did not respond to any questions about his teammates, nor did he publicly express his dissatisfaction with the two warm-up matches.

He did not accept any interviews with reporters. After the game, he hurriedly left China and flew back to Madrid.

The club competition tends to be fierce, and he needs to go all out there.

But at the same time, this is also a good excuse to escape the cusp of Chinese football.

In the debate on Chinese football, no matter what noise he makes, it is not good, so he just kept silent.

In addition to the league, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid met again. This is the seventh meeting between the two teams this season.

Before that, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid met in every possible competition this season - the Spanish Super Cup, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.

Now it's the Champions League's turn.

There are rivals in the same city in the Champions League. In the league, Atletico Madrid is also facing competition with Barcelona. If the defending champion wants to defend the title successfully, it will be very difficult. Now public opinion is more optimistic about Barcelona, ​​but it has mentioned very little about the defending champion.

As for the debate and thinking left by these two warm-up matches for Chinese football, Gao Zheng didn't bother to pay attention to it. In fact, it would be useless even if he paid attention to it. That's not something he can solve.

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In the twenty-ninth round of the league, Atletico Madrid challenged Cordoba away.

Although he flew back to China and played two warm-up matches, Gao Zheng still appeared in the starting lineup for this game.

On the one hand, Córdoba, which is number one from the bottom, wants to relegation, and as we all know, relegation teams have always been difficult to play.

In the final sprint against Barcelona for the league title, there is no room for loss in any game.

Therefore, when Simeone faced Cordoba, who was obviously not as strong as himself, he resolutely let Gao Zheng start.

And Gao Zheng did not live up to the expectations of the head coach. He scored twice in the game and helped the team finally beat Cordoba away with a score of 2:0.

A day later, Real Madrid thrashed Granada 9-1 on their own home ground, with all the hype but little to no avail, and they were still four points behind Atletico Madrid.

On the same day, Barcelona beat Celta Vigo 1-0 away.

Although this score is not enough compared with Real Madrid's, whether it is 1:0 or 9:1, it is three points.

So Barcelona is still in first place in the league, also leading Real Madrid by four points.

What does this four-point gap mean? Meaning Real Madrid have to count on Barcelona to make two mistakes in the remaining nine league rounds before they have a chance to overtake.

But if a team can win the championship, how can it make two mistakes at the last moment?

The odds of this are extremely low.

And even if Barcelona did make two mistakes, Atletico Madrid would be the first to benefit, not Real Madrid. Unless... Atletico Madrid also made two mistakes.

The top two teams in the league both make two mistakes just to get Real Madrid to the top... what are the odds?

Even if you think about it with your butt, you should know that it is impossible.

So although there are still nine rounds left in the league, it can basically be said that Real Madrid has bid farewell to the league championship in advance.

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