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Gao Zheng has no objection to pulling it out to make wedding dresses for his teammates. He feels that the head coach Simeone has made a very wise choice.

He himself is willing to pull it out, because he gets more opportunities in this way.

Against Casemiro or other Real Madrid players, he is not as restrained as he is in the penalty area.

Because the space in the penalty area is too small, there is almost zero space for moving around or sending a pass to teammates.

But now, when he took a step back and exited the penalty area, the whole world was different in front of him.

Under his instigation, Atletico Madrid continued to create murderous opportunities, and the offense was much more threatening than in the first half.

In order to cope, Real Madrid also had to make some adjustments.

Real Madrid's starting formation in this game is 433, three midfielders, Casemiro is in the middle and lags behind, and is in charge of defense, while Croatian midfielders Modric and Toni Kroos are in front. Responsible for organizing offense and assisting in defense.

But now when Gao Zheng retreats and Koke also pulls to the middle, Atletico Madrid has lined up four players in front of Real Madrid's back line. With Casemiro alone, it is obvious that there is not enough manpower. A situation where one loses sight of the other.

In addition, they still need to focus on marking Gao Zheng. Casemiro alone cannot guard Gao Zheng.

So Modric and Kroos had to drop back to Casemiro and help him defend together.

Even so, the midfielder often plays three against four, and the numbers are at a disadvantage.

Not to mention that Gabi can still jump in to participate in the offense from time to time, and his long-range shots from the back row are also quite threatening.

Gao Zheng often delivered shells to his teammates, which benefited Griezmann, Carrasco, Cork and others a lot.

And Real Madrid is not a fool who doesn't know how to adapt. Since other Atletico Madrid players are more threatening than Gao Zheng, they have no reason to keep around Gao Zheng.

So Gao Zheng's defensive pressure became less and less.

Sometimes it's not even close to the mark. Only when the football is passed to Gao Zheng's feet, the Real Madrid players will come forward to defend.

The Real Madrid players are actually quite helpless, and Gao Zheng is not the only one who can create threats at Atletico Madrid.

For example, if they don't defend Griezmann, the French striker will definitely score.

There are also Atletico Madrid players such as Carrasco, Saul, and Koke.

Real Madrid played against them a lot in the league, so they naturally know how good they are.

It can be said that Simeone's move to let Gao Zheng retreat is really wonderful.

Zidane on the sidelines was a little anxious. Instead of sitting on the coach's bench, he was standing on the sidelines all the time, frowning and looking solemn.

This game is also a tactical contest between the two head coaches. Zidane unexpectedly adopted a defensive style of play after taking the lead in the first half. The cleverness of the tactics in this field.

But Simeone was not to be outdone, and used the intermission to make targeted adjustments immediately, using Gao Zheng to retreat, and Cork came to the middle to assist him, which immediately put Real Madrid's defense under tremendous pressure.

Zidane has no better way now, he can only take one step at a time,

I hope my team can withstand Atletico Madrid's offensive.

He knew that it was impossible for Atletico Madrid to keep attacking like this, and their physical fitness couldn't stand it.

If Atletico Madrid still can't score, the advantage will return to Real Madrid.

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Fifteen minutes into the second half, Atletico Madrid was still on the offensive, but still failed to score.

This made the already optimistic Atletico Madrid fans nervous.

Many people with better memories immediately thought of Atletico Madrid's away game against Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals.

At that time, after Barcelona scored a goal, Atletico Madrid launched a counterattack.

Unexpectedly, Atletico Madrid won't score, but Barcelona's Messi suddenly broke out and scored two goals in a row, which completely ended the suspense of the game.

Barcelona has Messi, Real Madrid has Cristiano Ronaldo.

Are Atletico Madrid going to stumble over the same stone twice?

Atletico Madrid fans focused their attention on Gao Zheng.

After Gao Zheng retreated, Atletico Madrid's offense did come alive, but Gao Zheng also reduced the team's scoring ability because he was far away from the goal...

Griezmann got a lot of opportunities, but he didn't take them.

At a time like this, Gao Zheng still needs to stand up!

But it is obvious that Gao Zheng's task now is mainly to organize the offense, not to score goals...

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Gao Zheng seemed to be unable to see the current situation on the field, and he was still organizing the attack very seriously.

In the 70th minute, he even pulled to the right rib outside the penalty area to meet his teammates.

When Juanfran passed the football to him from the wing, he made a direct cross at a forty-five-degree angle. After attracting the attention of the Real Madrid players, he suddenly picked up the football with his toes. Let the football go over the head of Real Madrid left-back Marcelo, directly in front of him.

The Real Madrid players looked back and saw Griezmann standing behind Marcelo, and immediately raised their hands - Griezmann is not only behind Marcelo, but also behind the entire defense of Real Madrid , he was offside!

But Griezmann stood still and didn't make any moves to catch the ball at all.

It was a figure who jumped in from beside him at high speed and caught the ball!

"Juanfran!!" Jose Maria shouted.

"Gao Zheng's wonderful pass! This is Atletico Madrid's opportunity!"

Juanfran plugged in to catch the ball, not offside!

Real Madrid's defense quickly turned around and returned to defense.

And Juanfran didn't waste Gao Zheng's wonderful pass, he didn't stop the ball to adjust, because then Real Madrid's defenders would all be back in place.

Before the football hit the ground, he volleyed and swept the football sideways towards the goal!

Navas guessed that Juanfran would do this, he turned around ahead of time and rushed behind him. At this time, he was desperate!

He doesn't know whether he can catch the ball, but he must bet when it's time to gamble, and he must never hesitate!

The football quickly crossed the front point and the middle, and rushed to the back point.

There, Carrasco has gone beyond and got stuck in front of Carvajal, and then he kicked the ball!

"Carrasco—!!" Jose Maria elongated his voice, ready to shout for a goal.

Regardless of him, the Atlético Madrid fans in the stands and in front of the TV can't wait to raise their arms to cheer for this goal.

But what happened next made them unbelievable!

The football flying towards the goal was blocked by Navas who turned and threw back with his arm!

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" GOLTV's Ray Hudson yelled in regret. "Unbelievable—"

He didn't have time to finish his sentence, because the football didn't fly out of the bottom line, but bounced back to the goal, and the alarm in front of Real Madrid's goal was not lifted!

After the football was blocked by Navas' arm, it came to the vicinity of the penalty spot.

Ramos rushed to the football, ready to kick the football as far as he could.

While rushing towards the football, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a tall figure wearing an Atletico Madrid jersey appearing behind the football. Based on his knowledge of Atletico Madrid, he knew it was Gao Zheng!

After the opponent organized the attack, he did not know when he came to the penalty area, and appeared just in front of the football's landing point!

"Gao Zheng!! There is still a chance!" He Ping raised his heart in his throat.

The Chinese fans in front of the TV stared wide-eyed, and they didn't dare to take a breath, as if they were afraid that if they panted louder, it would affect Gao Zheng.

In the VIP box, Feng Shiyao grabbed Xiao Yingying's arm next to her at some point, her knuckles turned white, and Xiao Yingying, who was held by her, was also staring at the court unknowingly.

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Ramos stepped behind the football and swung his left leg up. It seemed that he wanted to win the ball and cleared the football in front of Gao Zheng.

But just as his right foot swung towards the football, Gao Zheng's left foot appeared above the football, and then stepped on the football very quickly and pulled it back!

Ramos swung his left leg, but the football was no longer in its original position, and he swung it in vain!

Because of too much force, his whole body was lifted up by this kick, and there was nowhere to vent his strength, so he was thrown out in the end!

Real Madrid's captain fell to the ground in embarrassment, unable to stop Gao Zheng anymore.

And what about Gao Zheng?

Gently pulling back the football, he was still stepping on the ball, which was in stark contrast to Ramos who fell beside him.

At this time, apart from Ramos, there were no Real Madrid players around him.

Before Gao Zheng kept passing the ball to his teammates, he finally managed to make the Real Madrid players temporarily ignore him in this defense. Unexpectedly, after completing a wonderful pass, he did not stand outside the penalty area to watch the show, but quickly inserted into the penalty area , and appeared in the most terrible place!

Ramos, who fell on the ground, looked up at Gao Zheng in despair. He didn't know if it was an illusion. He felt that Gao Zhen seemed to be smiling at him...

Then he saw Gao Zheng kick the football towards the goal!

Navas, who had just miraculously saved Carrasco's shot in front of the goal, was struggling to get up from the ground, intending to create another miracle.

But he was already at the end of his strength, he got up, but he was unable to throw it anymore, he could only watch the football fly into his goal from a place far away from him!