After the 31st round, Atletico Madrid not only regained the top spot in the league, but Gao Zheng also continued to lead the scorer list with a brace against Real Betis.

He now has 29 league goals and is tied for the top scorer along with Cristiano Ronaldo.

Suarez, who turned out to be neck and neck with him, scored twenty-six goals and fell to second. Messi, on the other hand, has only scored 22 goals this season due to injury, and his hopes of competing for the league's Golden Boot this season are getting slimmer.

Gao Zheng only needs to score one more goal to complete the achievement of 30 league goals in four consecutive seasons.

And this achievement also allowed him to tie Messi's record record.

The Argentine prodigy scored more than 30 league goals in 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. They are 34 goals, 31 goals, 50 goals, and 46 goals.

But that's not the peak, it belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored more than 30 league goals in five consecutive seasons from 2010-2011 to 2014-2015. They are forty goals, forty-six goals, thirty-four goals, thirty-one goals, and fifty-one goals.

Now, if Gao Zheng can also score 30 league goals next season, then he can tie Cristiano Ronaldo. Of course, provided that Ronaldo doesn't score any more goals this season...... But how is this possible?

Ronaldo has scored 29 goals like him, and just one more goal would take his sixth consecutive season to 30 league goals. Gao Zheng has to work hard for two more seasons.

But youth is his biggest asset, and how many seasons can Cristiano Ronaldo's form last? As he gets older, his league goals will definitely decline, and as long as Gao Zheng can maintain his form, he will definitely have hope of breaking Cristiano Ronaldo's record when he is six years younger than Ronaldo.

Since Gao Zheng was promoted to Serie A with Sampdoria, his offensive firepower has been completely unleashed.

In the 2012-2013 season, he scored a staggering 40 goals in his first Serie A season, breaking the single-season goal record in Serie A's history.

The following season, when everyone was worried that he would hit the rookie wall, he handed in a record of 33 league goals. It's a drop from the 40 goals in the first season, but it's still the top scorer of the season, and the lead is huge.

In the 2014-2015 season when he moved to Atletico Madrid, he scored 40 league goals in his first season in La Liga.

And in just 31 rounds this season, he's scored 29 goals, 30 league goals in four consecutive seasons, which is a very, very remarkable achievement.

How great is that?

You know, before that, in the history of European football, in the traditional four major leagues of the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga, only Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have done it.

Before Messi and Ronaldo, the European record belonged to the original bomber Gerd Muller, who scored 30 goals in the Bundesliga for three consecutive seasons.

Not to mention 30 league goals in consecutive seasons.

It's very, very difficult to even get to 30 league goals twice, and those two times are not necessarily 30 goals in two consecutive seasons.

Just because Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo break records like eating, you can't feel that this is a small achievement that can be done easily and is not worth mentioning.

You must know that in the history of the four major leagues, only nine people have done it, and only Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gao Zheng have achieved the achievement of scoring 30 goals in the league twice.

In addition to league goals, he also scored 39 goals in a single season for clubs, just one goal away from breaking the 40-goal mark, and has scored more than 40 goals in three consecutive seasons, and only two active players can do this: Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

No matter how you look at it, Gao Zheng is the first person after Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

There are fewer and fewer people who question this.

Chinese fans have also gone from not believing and questioning the Chinese media's undisciplined killing at the beginning to being able to accept it calmly and take it for granted.

So sometimes, they will even pay more attention to the performance of Wu Lei in the Spaniards, after all, Gao Zheng is successful enough, they don't care, Gao Zheng will continue to succeed.

On the contrary, Wu Lei may add one more example of successful overseas players for Chinese football, which can attract more Chinese players to step out of their comfort zone, go abroad to stay abroad, and improve their strength.

When we have more players who have a firm foothold in Europe – not as successful as Gao Zheng, but as successful as Wu Lei – who can gain a foothold in European clubs, even if they are in the middle and lower reaches of the team – then why worry about the strength of the Chinese team? Why worry that the Chinese team can't reach the World Cup finals?

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The focus of this round of the league was on the national derby, but the next day was the Espanyol away to Malaga.

Wu Lei appeared in the starting lineup in this game, and this is not the first time he has started. But this start may be telling: he is using his performances to conquer the discerning Spaniard manager Galca.

This game was also broadcast live on CCTV - you can't favor one over the other. Gao Zheng's game will be broadcast, and Wu Lei's game can't be lost, even if the time of the two games conflicts, it will generally be a free sports channel to broadcast Gao Zheng's game, and the paid Fengyun Football Channel will broadcast Wu Lei's game live. Of course, there has not been such a situation so far, but everyone can guess that it will definitely be this broadcast plan.

Diop gave Espanyol the lead in the opening eleven minutes as they got off to a good start on the road.

But towards the end of the day, Malaga equalised.

In the second half, Wu Lei continued to stay on the court, but everyone was worried that he could be replaced at any time.

Because Wu Lei has shown his lack of physical fitness in the previous games, after all, he joined Espanyol after playing directly in the domestic league and without much rest.

In addition, before the Chinese Super League last season, he also participated in the Asian Cup in Australia with the team, and going back further, after the league played in the previous season of the Asian Cup, he did not rest, and directly gathered with other domestic players to prepare for the Asian Cup.

His teammates at Espanyol have all played in the league for half a season, but Wu Lei has played two complete seasons of the league plus the Asian Cup in one go, and then he didn't even slow down, and came directly to La Liga.

Hell if you're still in good shape.

Everyone's plan is that Wu Lei gritted his teeth and insisted on half a season, and after the end of this season, he would take a good rest and adjust, and then from the pre-season preparation next season, he would have been training systematically with the Spaniards, so as to keep up with the rhythm of the Spanish Tooth Extraction Man and ensure physical fitness.

Next season is key.

I don't expect Wu Lei to have an outstanding performance this season, as long as he can stand up.

He's already had a goal and an assist this season, and it's certainly not as good as it gets, but it's not useless enough to help her stay in the team.

Everyone's expectations for him are more focused on next season.

But Wu Lei's thinking is definitely different from others.

After the start of the second half, he ran as if he didn't know he had a physical problem, and he still ran aggressively and sparingly.

Perhaps it was precisely because he knew that his physical strength would definitely not last the whole game and would definitely be replaced by the head coach in advance, so there was no need to conserve his physical strength, but to take advantage of the opportunity to rest for fifteen minutes just now to release all his energy.

And with his positive mentality, he also led the Spaniard's attack to become more threatening.

Perhaps Garca's pre-match plan was to be able to draw away from Málaga as an acceptable result.

But for now...... The Spaniards still have hope of winning!

In the 60th minute, Wu Lei was kicked down in the penalty area by the opposing defender after a successful breakthrough in the penalty area!

The referee's whistle sounded, not to sentence Wu Lei to fake a fall, but to give a foul to the Malaga defender, and the Spaniard won a penalty!