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The United States, the most powerful country in the world today, was once a football desert, but today's football level has also been rapidly improved.

Because there are a large number of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States, La Liga has a wide influence in the United States.

Every summer, many Spanish teams go to the United States to train and play warm-up matches.

As a result, a fixed business warm-up match has been formed - the International Champions Cup, which was formerly known as the World Football Challenge.

But this time Atletico Madrid is not going to participate in the International Champions Cup. This time the International Champions Cup does not have them.

They were really just there for training.

The whole team will only stay in the United States for one week. Next Monday, they will play against the major league team San Jose Earthquakes in the United States. On Wednesday, they will rush to Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, to play against Mexico's traditional strong team, the Americas.

After the game, he returned to China, and had a round with the other first-team players who stayed in the country, and practiced together to prepare for the first round of the Spanish Super Cup starting on August 19th.

Unlike in Italy and Spain, Gao Zheng's popularity here in the United States is much smaller.

He and Xu Xin didn't use sunglasses to disguise themselves when they went shopping, and they walked around until they returned to the hotel, but no one recognized them.

In the warm-up match against the San Jose Earthquakes, Gao Zheng did not start.

He and Xu Xin sat on the bench to watch the game.

In the first half of the game, Mario Suarez fell in the penalty area after breaking through the middle, and the referee awarded a penalty. Unfortunately, Raúl Garcia's shot was blocked by the post, and Siqueira's follow-up shot was also saved by the San Jose Earthquakes goalkeeper.

Then neither of the two teams scored a goal, and the score remained 0:0 until halftime.

During the intermission, Simeone made a substantial rotation adjustment to the team's starting lineup, almost paying off the starting eleven in one go.

Gao Zheng was naturally able to come off the bench.

If this was played in China, when Gao Zheng played, the stadium would have been so full of cheers that no other sound could be heard.

But in the US, audiences responded with mediocre, routine applause.

The fans lacked interest in Gao Zheng, but Diego Simeone straightened up after Gao Zheng came on the field, leaned forward, and paid close attention to Gao Zheng's performance.

No matter how many tactics are practiced during training, it is meaningless if they are not tested in actual combat.

For him, this is an occasion for preliminary testing.

However, after the start of the second half, it was the San Jose Earthquakes who scored the first goal-three minutes into the second half, and the newly replaced Atletico Madrid players hadn't reacted yet, and they used an offside forward to score the San Jose Earthquakes. lead.

Fans of the home San Jose Earthquakes cheered and cheered for their team.

Gao Zheng, who had high hopes from Simeone, helped Atletico Madrid equalize the score in the 55th minute-he did not score, but assisted Arda Turan with an assist to equalize the score.

Next, the goalkeepers of both sides performed well, and no one conceded a goal.

The two sides fought to a 1:1 tie in regular time, and the game went directly to a penalty shootout.

In the penalty shoot-out, Gao Zheng was arranged by Simeone to take the fourth penalty.

The first player of the San Jose Earthquakes to take the penalty kicked the football away, while Atletico Madrid's first three penalty takers all hit. After three rounds, the score of the penalty shootout was 3:1, and Atletico Madrid led by two goals.

In this way, as long as Atletico Madrid can score in the fourth round, regardless of whether the San Jose Earthquakes scored or not, Atletico Madrid will win the championship.

The fourth free thrower of the San Jose Earthquakes withstood the pressure and scored a penalty, and it was Gao Zheng's turn to play.

Walking from the middle circle to the penalty spot, Gao Zheng looked relaxed and didn't take the penalty kick seriously at all.

Of course, this is a warm-up match, so there isn't much pressure in the first place.

After Gao Zheng set up the football, he waited until the referee blew his whistle, quickly ran up and kicked the football into the goal without any suspense.

Atlético de Madrid won the first game of the North American training.

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After the game against the San Jose Earthquakes, the Atlético Madrid team set off for Mexico City without delay.

The stay in Mexico City this time was very short, and no free time was arranged, so Gao Zheng didn't take Xu Xin out for shopping.

Just one day after the game against the San Jose Earthquakes, Atlético Madrid ushered in a game against Mexico's traditional powerhouse America.

In this game, Simeone made a lot of adjustments to the team's starting lineup. The players who started the game in the last game all sat on the bench, and the players who came off the bench in the last game started.

So Gao Zheng appeared on the starting list.

After the start of the game, the American team, which was waiting for work at home, was more proactive and constantly threatened Atletico Madrid's goal. There was a time when Atlético Madrid couldn't win the ball.

It wasn't until half an hour later that the situation gradually improved.

The sign of gradual improvement is that Gao Zheng broke the deadlock for Atletico Madrid.

He received an assist from his teammate Koke in the penalty area, grabbed a shot in front of the goal, and scored his first goal after playing for Atletico Madrid.

Although this is not an unofficial game goal and will not be included in Gao Zheng's career goal statistics, it still makes Simeone very excited on the sidelines, jumping up and shaking his fists to celebrate, as if this is a Champions League game Competition, not an irrelevant warm-up match...

On the contrary, after scoring the goal, Gao Zheng seemed much calmer than the head coach. He just high-fived the teammates who came up to congratulate him, and he didn't look very happy.

Gao Zheng's goal was also the only goal scored by both sides in the first half.

Although the American team tried to counterattack towards the end of the first half and created two very good scoring chances, they were both saved by goalkeeper Oblak.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Gao Zheng was not replaced at halftime, but played for another ten minutes, and was replaced in the 15th and 15th minutes.

But the leading Atletico Madrid failed to extend their lead, nor did they hold on to the result of chasing the lead.

In the 79th and 84th minutes, they conceded two goals in five minutes and lost the game.

Atletico Madrid failed to win two consecutive victories in the warm-up match in North America.

The team's overall performance in these two warm-up matches was not satisfactory, exposing the problem of weak attack. Although there were goals in both games, they only scored two goals.

The only thing to be happy about is that these two goals are still related to Gao Zheng - an assist and a goal, which should show that Gao Zheng is right...

At the post-match press conference, Simeone also talked about Gao Zheng's performance and praised Gao Zheng.

Now Gao Zheng has only been training with the team for 20 days, and he can show such a performance only by relying on his personal ability. What kind of performance.

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After the two warm-up matches in North America, Atletico Madrid set off to return home, and there are still intensive games waiting for them.

Went to Germany and Wolfsburg to warm up, then returned home to participate in two Ramon Carranza Cup.

These three games are warm-up matches, the result is not the most important, the process is important.

In addition to Gao Zheng, Griezmann, who has just joined the team, needs to use the opportunity of these three warm-up matches to get in touch with the team and find a sense of cooperation.

Then on August 19th, the Spanish Super Cup started. This is not a warm-up match where the outcome does not matter.

Since the Super Bowl, the team has officially entered the rhythm of the new season.

Rivalry with rivals in the same city also made the Super Bowl unavoidable.

There is not much time left for Simeone to adjust and try and make mistakes.

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