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From the 22nd minute, Atletico Madrid scored the first goal, to the 28th minute, Atletico Madrid scored the second goal. In just six minutes, Atletico Madrid scored two goals in a row.

These two goals made the commentator of the Kazakhstan TV station afraid to say that there is still a chance to score a counterattack in the second half. He was afraid of being laughed at.

Under the current circumstances, Astana must lose this away game, but they don't know how many goals they will lose.

Astana fans don't expect the team to beat Atletico Madrid, not even a draw with Atletico Madrid. But they want their team to score a goal at the Calderon Stadium.

This season's Champions League group stage, plus this game, Astana has played two away games, but they have not scored an away goal yet.

If they can score a goal at Atletico Madrid's home court, even if they lose in the end, they will be happy.

Now all they ask of the team is to score a goal.

After the game restarted, Atletico Madrid was still on the offensive. Astana fans are thinking, Atletico Madrid is attacking so hard, there must be space behind them, as long as we can catch it...

But until the end of the first half, Astana had no chance to fight back.

They only had two shots on goal in the first half, and neither of those shots were on target.

In the end, Atletico Madrid ended the first half with a score of 2:0.

This score can actually ensure that Atletico Madrid wins the game, but it is obviously not enough. Facing the weakest team in this group, how can it be possible to win only two goals at home?

Benfica also beat Astana 2-0 at home. If Atletico Madrid's score is the same as that game, wouldn't it mean that Atletico Madrid and Benfica are on par in strength?

No, no, no, the two teams are competing for the first place in the group. How can this be the same as the opponent's score?

So during the intermission, Simeone asked the team to continue to strengthen their offense in the second half, and he even criticized the players for their slack after a two-goal lead.

In order to strengthen the attack, Simeone even used the first substitution place at half-time, he replaced Thiago with Oliver Torres.

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After the start of the second half, Atletico Madrid's offensive really became more ferocious.

In the fifty-ninth minute, Carrasco's shot was saved after a long-distance attack with the ball on the left, and Griezmann's supplementary shot in front of the goal missed.

In the 63rd minute, Atlético de Madrid got another chance to counterattack. Gabi drove straight in with the ball, and then distributed the football to Gao Zheng who ran to the position at the front of the penalty area. After Gao Zheng took the ball, he faced the attacking goalkeeper Eric. With a light kick, the football was picked past the attacking goalkeeper and fell into the empty goal behind him.

Atletico Madrid leads 3:0!

"Gao Zheng scored twice!!" Against a team like Astana, He Ping didn't care much about the outcome, he cared more about how many goals Gao Zheng could score.

Now that Gao Zheng has scored two goals in the game, will he have a hat-trick?

As Gao Zheng's competitor, although Cristiano Ronaldo was surpassed by Gao Zheng in the league scorer list, he still leads Gao Zheng in the Champions League scorer list. He scored five goals.

Gao Zheng has now scored four goals and is only one goal away from catching up with Cristiano Ronaldo.

As long as he can complete a hat trick in this game.

Gao Zheng has now completed two hat-tricks in the Champions League, once a season.

The 2013-2014 season was the first time he participated in the Champions League. At that time, he was still in Sampdoria. In the last Champions League game, he played away against Atletico Madrid. He completed the first Champions League hat-trick in his life.

After moving to Atletico Madrid in the 2014-2015 season, he completed another hat-trick in the group match against Olympiacos.

When will the hat trick of this season be?

It may be a good opportunity to face the big team Astana.

After all, he has scored two goals now, and one more goal will do.

The Atlético Madrid players seemed to be aware of this, so they kept passing the ball to Gao Zheng in the subsequent games to create opportunities for him, hoping that he could score the third goal of the game.

But perhaps because of this, Astana only needs to guard against Gao Zheng when defending, and Gao Zheng's third goal has not come yet.

As the game time passed, He Ping began to worry that Simeone would replace Gao Zheng.

But now it seems that Simeone also hopes that Gao Zheng can take this opportunity to complete a hat-trick. In the 73rd minute, he used up the last substitution spot and replaced Griezmann with Fernando Torres.

In this way, Gao Zheng will stay on the court until the end of the game.

Everyone is creating conditions for him, making goals and completing hat-tricks.

At the eighty-ninth minute, Gao Zheng finally had a good chance.

He received a through ball from his teammate and appeared behind Astana's defense. Facing the attacking goalkeeper Eric, he knocked the opponent down with a fake move and shot!

In front of him is basically Astana's empty goal, and the football will definitely fly into the goal. This is his third goal in this game!

But Astana central defender Dennis Dedchiko, who was struggling to return to the defense, slapped him and wanted to kick the football out to make a clearance!

He kicked the ball, but the ball was not in the right place. He sliced ​​the football with the outside of his foot, and the football flew into the goal after drawing an arc!

Calderon stadium burst into cheers again.

But He Ping and the Chinese fans were dumbfounded—whose ball belongs to this ball? Is it Gao Zheng's hat-trick, or Dedechko's own goal?

Gao Zheng was celebrating with his teammates, but he was not celebrating his hat-trick, he was just celebrating another goal of the team.

Instead, his teammates were complaining for him: "The defender's kick is really redundant!"

Gao Zheng didn't care: "It's fine if the goal is scored, whoever scores it!"

"But it should be your hat-trick!"

Gao Zheng shook his head: "Hat-trick or something, it doesn't matter. There will be opportunities in the future..."

Chinese fans, including He Ping, had a premonition when they saw the close-up shot of Dedechko in the TV broadcast.

Sure enough, the news of the goal soon appeared on the TV broadcast screen. Gao Zheng's goal was counted on Dedechko's body, and it was Dedechko's own goal...

"Alas... Actually, if Dedchiko didn't touch this ball, he would definitely score!" He Ping was very unwilling.

But you can't say that they shouldn't play. After all, as a defender, even if you know it may cause an own goal at this time, you still have to be brave to make a clearance. If you just watched and didn't get out of the siege, wouldn't you be an undercover agent?

So there is nothing wrong with the Astana player's approach, but he was unlucky and the clearance turned into an own goal.

But the Chinese fans are very depressed.

In their hearts, Astana is the weakest team in this group, and this game is Atletico Madrid's home game. Gao Zheng has scored two goals, which almost meets all the prerequisites for a hat-trick. For Chinese fans, this is Gao Zheng's best chance to complete a hat-trick.

As a result, the promised hat-trick turned into a brace.

A cooked duck can fly...