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Barcelona lost the Spanish Super Cup at their home court, and Enrique's team's five-time crown plan was completely bankrupt. In this way, they have only one Club World Cup left to compete for this year.

Even if Barcelona won the Club World Cup, this year may not be perfect for them.

And it's not just as simple as losing the Spanish Super Cup.

Pique was sent off for insulting the linesman during the game. He may be suspended for four games for this, and the maximum possible suspension is 12 games. According to the regulations, insulting the referee is considered a bad plot, and Pique has hit the gun.

The red card suspension in the Spanish Super Cup will be brought to the league, so Pique may miss a few games at the start of the next La Liga.

I don't know if he will be absent until the third round of the league. Barcelona's opponent in that game is Atletico Madrid...

On August 22, Atletico Madrid ushered in the first round of La Liga, and their opponent was newly promoted Las Palmas.

Playing at home, the opponent is still a newly promoted team. Considering that the team has just played two Super Cup games, Simeone made a certain rotation in this game.

But Gao Zheng is still in the starting lineup.

The game kicked off at 2:30 Beijing time, and CCTV naturally broadcast it live.

Although the kick-off time was very late, there were still many Chinese fans waiting in front of the TV to watch the game.

The Spanish Super Cup was very lively. Gao Zheng scored a hat-trick against Barcelona. However, because CCTV did not have the rights to broadcast it, not everyone saw Gao Zheng's outstanding performance.

For Chinese fans, La Liga is the real start of the new season.

Since it is the beginning, naturally we cannot be absent.

After resting for a summer, everyone is waiting for the new season to continue to cheer for Gao Zheng.

And Gao Zheng did not disappoint the Chinese fans.

Sixteen minutes into the game, he opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid with a direct free kick, breaking the deadlock.

And this goal was also the only goal in this game-with Gao Zheng's goal, Atletico Madrid defeated the newly promoted Las Palmas 1:0 at their home court and scored three points.

Their rival Barcelona defeated Athletic Bilbao 1:0 away, and Real Madrid was tied 0:0 by Sporting Gijon away.

After Ancelotti resigned this season, Real Madrid recruited another tactician Benitez as the team's head coach.

But judging from the first round of this league, Benitez's coaching journey may not be so easy...

A week later, Atletico Madrid challenged Sevilla away, which was their first tough encounter in the new season.

Everyone thought that Sevilla, which is playing at home, could compete evenly with Atletico Madrid, but both the process and the result of the game were surprising.

Sevilla was completely suppressed at their home court. In the 35th minute, Cork took the lead for Atletico Madrid. Gabi expanded the score to 2:0 in the 79th minute.

In the 85th minute, Gao Zheng sealed the victory for the team. His goal helped Atletico Madrid beat Sevilla 3-0 in the away game and achieved two consecutive victories.

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After two rounds of La Liga, it will be temporarily suspended, and the next day will be the national team match day.

Gao Zheng, as an indispensable core of the Chinese national team, naturally has to fly back to China to participate in the two top 40 matches.

Their opponents are Hong Kong, China and the Maldives.

In the minds of Chinese fans, six points in these two games have been booked in advance.

Neither Hong Kong nor the Maldives can threaten the Chinese team.

This group is probably only Qatar that can really make the Chinese team feel a little threatened.

According to the rules of the Asian qualifiers, the eight first-place teams in the top 40 will directly advance to the top 12, and among the remaining eight second-place teams, the four teams with the best results will be selected to advance to the top 12. Strong game.

However, due to the Indonesian government's interference in football affairs, the Indonesian national team was banned by FIFA from participating in the next World Cup qualifiers before the top forty match, and all games involving the Indonesian team were cancelled.

As a result, the rules for calculating the second place in the group with the best score have also been changed. When the second place in the other seven groups without the Indonesian team will compare their results, they will not be counted against the last team in their respective groups. Results of two rounds.

According to the expectations of Chinese fans and the media, the Chinese team with Gao Zheng will definitely win the first place in the group, so they don't care at all how the second place in the group compares.

As the third place in the Asian Cup, it shouldn't be difficult to win the first place in the group of the top 40, right?

Qatar may have some strength, but whether it is Bhutan, Maldives or Hong Kong, China, they are all targets for the Chinese team to score points.

And not only to win the game, but also to win by a large score, so that when competing with Qatar, the goal difference advantage may come in handy.

Therefore, in the eyes of Chinese fans and the media, Bhutan, Maldives, and Hong Kong are all targets of the Chinese team for goal difference. If you can't get enough goal difference on them, it's a failure.

It is also because of this that when the Chinese team only defeated Bhutan 7:0 in the away game, the domestic public opinion reacted so strongly... After all, in their hearts, the score of this game should be in double digits.

At present, Hong Kong, China has played two games, one more than the Chinese team and Qatar.

In the first game they beat Bhutan 7:0 at home, and in the second game they beat Maldives 2:0 at home. Temporarily ranked first in the group with six points and nine goal difference.

However, they only beat the Maldives by two goals at their home court, which shows their strength. In the eyes of many Chinese fans, the Chinese team played at home in Hong Kong, China, and at least had a goal difference of five goals.

The Chinese team will play Hong Kong, China at home first, and then go to Maldives away to play Maldives five days later. When the home game was planned, the Chinese Football Association arranged the home game in Shenzhen. You can fly directly from here to Male, the capital of the Maldives. The journey is much shorter, which also allows the players to get more rest time.

However, in late August, the home turf in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, was severely damaged due to large-scale celebrations. After inspection, the AFC believed that the turf conditions could not host the World Cup qualifiers. The Maldives hope to swap the home and away games with the Chinese team, that is, the Maldives’ home game on September 8 will be replaced by the Chinese team’s home game, and then the Maldives’ home game will be replaced by the Chinese team’s home game in March next year.

However, this request was rejected by the Chinese Football Association. On the one hand, it was because the Chinese team’s home game had long been contracted out. Now that the temporary request to switch the home and away games will cause great losses to China, and there is no time. On the other hand, it is natural that the two World Cup qualifiers of the Chinese team will be at home in March next year. This schedule is beneficial to the Chinese team. If the transfer is reversed now, the Chinese team will have to travel thousands of miles away to play away games. I am afraid that the expedition will be detrimental to the results.

Anyway, it was the Maldives that went wrong, and the Chinese team naturally didn't need to think about them.

In the end, the Maldives could only give up this home court, and the Chinese Football Association took advantage of the opportunity to apply to the AFC to arrange this game in China. In this way, the Chinese team had an extra home court out of thin air.

The Maldives wanted to find a neutral location, but time was tight and tasks were heavy, and a neutral location was actually so easy to find? They had no choice but to agree to the application of the Chinese team.

So now the Chinese team will go north to Shenyang to play an "away" game against the Maldives after finishing the match against the Hong Kong team in Shenzhen. (=easy to read novels)