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The boos in the Astana Arena did not know when it had disappeared. The home fans behind the Astana goal put their heads in their hands and looked at all this in disbelief.

They really never expected that the second half had just started less than five minutes after the Astana players showed them the courage and awareness to fight to the death, the gap would be widened...

Also dumbfounded were the Astana players.

Including the goalkeeper Eric, they all looked at the football in the goal, hoping that this was their illusion. The football is actually behind the net, not in it...

Especially Anisi who fouled, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.

No, it shouldn't be like this!

He yelled in his heart.

Shouldn't it be us to fight back and let Atletico Madrid, who is proud and underestimated the enemy, taste the bitter fruit?

We were so tenacious, why did we lose the ball in the end?

It was the head coach who told us to be more aggressive in the second half. Am I not aggressive enough?

But why...

why……

Why did we do everything and still concede the ball?

The weather, the home stadium, 30,000 of our fans... Isn't it enough to close the gap between us and Atletico Madrid?

Some Astana players put their hands on their hips and looked up at the sky, as if they wanted to find answers in the night sky, or hear revelations from the sky.

But there is nothing in the night sky except stars.

Stoilov sat on the coaching bench of the home team. At this time, he already understood that it was impossible for his team to make history on Atletico Madrid.

Just because they drew with Galatasaray in the last minute at home doesn't mean they can repeat it against Atletico Madrid.

He sighed.

There are many miracles in the football world, but none of those miracles belong to Astana.

In other words, Astana's ability to enter the Champions League is already a miracle, and it is really a luxury to want to create a miracle...

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After Gao Zheng's goal, the fans of Astana were much quieter, and the singing that had been almost non-stop before was quieter. What sustained them before was the prospect of a draw at home or beating Atletico Madrid.

But now, Atletico Madrid let them see a huge gap in strength between the two teams.

And this Atlético Madrid team is not at their best.

The wind also seemed to be a little weaker than at the opening, and the corner flag hung low and stuck to the flagpole, motionless.

Simeone replaced Gao Zheng in the 67th minute-he was really afraid of Gao Zheng's injury.

Of course he knew that Astana drew with Galatasaray in the 89th minute in their last home game. But compared with the team's performance, he was more afraid of Gao Zheng's injury.

If Astana is really capable of chasing two goals in a row in the last twenty minutes, then he will admit it, as long as Gao Zheng doesn't get injured.

Although Gao Zheng's free kick was beautiful, he was still worried about Gao Zheng's calf.

Sure enough, after the game, the team doctor wrapped an ice pack on Gao Zheng's left calf.

You must know that today is actually very cold. Many players have to pay attention to heat preservation, but Gao Zheng has to do the opposite. His calf was slightly swollen.

"Fortunately, it's just a flaw." The team doctor said, comforting Simeone.

"I know, but it's still a bit scary to watch..." Simeone nodded. "I mean when you got kicked."

Gao Zheng smiled at the head coach: "It looks scary, is it because I jumped too high when hiding?"

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After Gao Zheng left the field, the game was uneventful. Although Astana still wanted to score a goal in the last ten minutes.

But they seem to have forgotten that Atletico Madrid's defense is also very good, don't think that they are the only ones who can put the bus.

In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was fixed at 2:0, and Atletico Madrid scored three points in the away game.

This will help them consolidate their top spot in the group.

Next they will face Galatasaray and Benfica, as long as they make no mistakes, it will be impossible for their opponents to catch them.

In another game, ten-man Benfica defeated Galatasaray 2:1 at home, and their points rose to seven points. But Atletico Madrid already has ten points and is still three points ahead of them. As long as they beat Galatasaray at home in the next round of the group stage, they will advance out of the group.

In the next round, Benfica will challenge Astana away.

It will be November 25th. I believe the temperature will be lower than now and the game will be more difficult.

If Atletico Madrid hadn't had Gao Zheng's outstanding performance, it might be difficult to get out of the game. And Benfica, without the main core Gaitan, may not be able to get cheap from Astana...

If Benfica cannot win Astana, even if it is a draw, it will make the final round of direct dialogue between them and Atletico Madrid meaningless, because Atletico Madrid will not only qualify for the group stage one round ahead of schedule, but will also win at the same time. Lockdown group first.

This will make it easier for Atletico Madrid to play away against Benfica in the final round. Maybe Simeone will be able to carry out a substantial rotation of the lineup at that time, so that the main players who have been on the axis for so long can get a chance to rest without going to the away game at all.

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Atlético Madrid's players returned from Astana with another seven-hour flight across two continents. But this time their mood was completely different from before.

The return flight was full of joy and laughter.

And Gao Zheng didn't continue to watch the football book called "The Hero of the Restricted Zone". The big bear in it never gets hurt. It seems that only he hurts others, and there is no possibility of him being hurt by others.

This made Gao Zheng feel unrealistic.

Look at the price he paid for the head-on bone swelling in his calf for the victory of this game. It is not yet known whether the next league game against Sporting Gijon will be able to catch up.

It's not that easy to win a game...

So he changed a book called "The Godfather of Champions", which tells the story of a Chinese fan who travels from 2007 to 2001 in Nottingham, England, a young acting head coach named "Tony Twain", a rookie who has never been favored by others The story of a coach who became a world-renowned champion coach step by step.

This book is not as fancy as the previous one, but Gao Zheng read it with gusto.

In the protagonist Tony Twain in the book, he vaguely saw the shadow of his head coach Diego Simeone.

All for the sake of victory.

Sometimes Simeone will tell them how to delay the time in the game, how to do small moves when defending to avoid the attention of the referee, how to pretend to be innocent...

To be honest, before joining Atletico Madrid, he really didn't expect that the head coach of a team would openly promote such a view in the team.

However, as a player with excellent skills but thin body, Gao Zheng has been kicked since he was a child, so he has also learned how to protect himself. It has to be said that many of the things Simeone emphasized are the habits he developed from playing football since he was a child. So he felt that this head coach was very suitable for him.

Perhaps because of this reason, when he watched "The Godfather of Champions", he had a sense of substitution and a sense of identity, and he was very invested in watching it.

The seven-hour flight time seemed to speed up too, and before he could see enough, the plane had already arrived at Barajas Airport in Madrid.

Although Atletico Madrid players felt that Madrid had begun to cool down when they set off, every Atletico Madrid player who walked out of the cabin felt warm after experiencing the weather of minus ten degrees in Astana.

After fourteen hours of flying back and forth, and a difficult game, they finally returned to the world from hell...

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