Chapter Seventy-Nine: Who's More Experienced?
After Gao Zheng's goal, Juventus tried to fight back, but in the face of Atletico Madrid's close-knit short play tactics, they played very uncomfortable, and they were never able to stop their more effective attack, not to mention, but they were also aroused by Atletico Madrid's style of play and lost patience.
They weren't without chances, with their best chance of equalising coming in the 80th minute, when Andreas Pereira crossed from the right and Lichtsteiner burst into the box to cross from the right, and Atletico Madrid's Raul Garcia cleared the ball in front of the goal, only for the ball to roll off the line against the near post.
Almost an own goal!
The Atletico Madrid fans in the stands scared a lot - Gao Zheng managed to help the team take the lead, and in the end, they couldn't stand it because of an own goal to give up the victory.
Raul Garcia was also terrified after getting up on his own.
However, this is the closest Juventus have come to scoring.
Most of the other time, they couldn't even threaten Atletico Madrid's goal, completely restrained by Atletico Madrid's tactics.
As the end of the game approached, the Juventus players became more and more impatient, and in the 85th minute, Atletico Madrid full-back Ansaldi protected the ball in the corner flag area, and Juventus player Lichtsteiner fouled and received a yellow card.
Seeing the Juventus players move more and more, Simeone also quickly made adjustments, replacing Gao Zheng, who scored the only goal for the team with Mario Suarez.
Now there is not much time left before the end of the game, and the replacement of Gao Zheng will not have much impact.
When Gao Zheng left the field, the Atletico Madrid fans stood up and gave him applause and cheers.
He Ping was very emotional when he saw this scene: "In a foreign country, what should I do if I want to win the respect of others? Show them politeness, humility and kindness? All of this is fine, but at the end of the day, it comes down to speaking with your own strength. There is no doubt that Gao Zheng has conquered this stadium and won the love of these fans. This respect is earned by him ball by ball! ”
Caressa sighed with emotion: "I think that when he was at the Malassi Stadium, it was like this every time, this Chinese young man who loves to laugh can always win the love of the fans as quickly as possible, no matter where he goes, I think this is also his 'superpower', right?" ”
Borata, in front of the TV, nodded vigorously: "That's right, superpowers!" He's a superhero! ”
José Maria said: "Gao was replaced by Simeone, listen to the cheers and applause!" I said before that in the future, the Chinese player could be a source of pride for Calderón. But I was wrong, I think he is becoming the pride of Calderón! ”
In the stands, Danielle Herrera was surrounded by fellow fans who were applauding and cheering for Gao Zheng, and he turned his head to look at them, without speaking or giving a standing ovation.
He was expressing his protest in this way. It's just that resistors like him have become less and less in the stands of this stadium, less and less, so few that they are almost ignored.
His companions no longer advised him to support Gao Zheng and applaud and cheer for Gao Zheng, because they no longer cared about his opinion.
Whether Gao Zheng is worthy of their support and love, Danielle's words have no influence.
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After Gao Zheng left the game, judging from the development of the game, Simeone was right to replace Gao Zheng.
Juventus center forward Alvaro Morata, who had just been replaced, kicked down Alda Turan in the game and was shown a yellow card. Juventus were shown two yellow cards in just two minutes.
In stoppage time, Pogba was also booked for a foul on Miranda.
Juventus striker Giovinco deliberately handballed the ball in the last minute and also received a yellow card.
In general, the final stage of the game was basically spent in a frenzy of fouls and cards by Juventus players. Oh, and the stormy boos of Atletico Madrid fans – all for Juventus, of course, who fouled them.
Despite the desperate fouls committed by the Juventus players, they were unable to equalise.
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, José Maria sneered: "Congratulations to Juventus for their first defeat of the season!" But this defeat should have been in no suspense......"
He was mocking Bruch for missing two handballs in the box for Juventus during the game.
Careza didn't hide the fact that the two handballs were not awarded: "It must be said that this defeat was not too surprising for Juventus, and from this game, they were suppressed by Atletico Madrid for almost the whole game, and there were no good chances - as evidenced by the fact that there was not a single shot on goal in the whole game. And if it weren't for the referee's hand, the score of this game might have been more than just 0:1...... Buffon played very well, but he met the high who played better. Unexpectedly, after leaving Sampdoria, the competition between Buffon and Gao continued......
"I think tomorrow, the media will be full of discussions about this game, and Gao Zheng will definitely be the focus of attention. But this is no longer something worth discussing and paying attention to, we are used to Gao Zheng making the front page headlines of major European media after every game, being hotly discussed on the Internet, getting used to his goal video being played repeatedly, and getting used to him being the brightest star...... And this 'habit' I think is a sign of our confidence improvement, we will not worry that Gao Zheng is just a flash in the pan, and we will not worry that Gao Zheng will be scolded for not performing well......" He Ping said.
Xu Yang added next to him: "And this kind of 'habit' was a kind of thing that I couldn't even think about three years ago!" ”
"Yes. Now this scene really looks like a scene depicted in science fiction. ”
The two men looked at each other and laughed.
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After the game, Juventus coach Allegri said at a press conference that the team's loss was due to Atletico Madrid's foul tactics of close play, which made his players very uncomfortable and unable to play normally.
“…… Everyone tells us that Atletico Madrid is a team that is good at doing this, and their games are always full of controversy. I didn't know how it was before, but today I have a first-hand experience. I think they're right. They played rudely, they had a lot of experience and they knew how to deal with the referee......"
Simeone, who appeared later, laughed after hearing Allegri's words as relayed by reporters: "I don't know what Juventus are qualified to say this. All I know is that we committed 21 fouls in this game and Juventus 28, which is more than us. We got two, Juventus got six, and we got more than us. And they also have two handballs in the box, which is still more than us. I think Juventus obviously have more experience than us in terms of what Allegri is talking about. ”
The game is over, but the smell of gunpowder from both teams is still strong......