Chapter 482: American Zipper

The United States, the most powerful country in the world today, was once a desert of football, but today the level of football has also been rapidly improved.
Because there are a large number of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States, La Liga has a strong influence in the United States.
Every summer, many Spanish teams go to the United States to practice and play warm-up matches.
So that formed a fixed business warm-up event-the International Champions Cup, the predecessor of this event is the World Football Challenge.
But this time Atletico Madrid did not go to the International Champions Cup. This time the International Champions Cup did not have them.
They really just go for training.
The team will only stay in the United States for a week, next week in the United States and the major league team San Jose Earthquake, and Wednesday will rush to the Mexican capital Mexico City and Mexico's traditional strong team America.
After playing, he returned to the country and played with other first-team players who stayed in the country. He prepared for the first round of the Spanish Super Cup that began on August 19th. His opponent was Real Madrid.
Unlike in Italy and Spain, Gao Zheng is much less famous in the United States.
He and Xu Xin went out shopping without using sunglasses to disguise themselves. They walked around until they returned to the hotel, and they were not recognized.
In the warm-up match with the San Jose earthquake team, Gao Zheng did not start.
He and Xu Xin sat on the bench to watch the game.
In the first half, 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 goal post, and Siqueira's supplementary shot was also saved by the San Jose earthquake team's goalkeeper.
Then neither team scored, and the score of 0:0 remained until the halftime break.
In the intermission, Simone made a substantial rotation adjustment to the team's starting lineup, almost ending the starting eleven in one breath.
Gao Zheng naturally came off the bench.
If this were to be played in China, it was estimated that when Gao Zheng was on the court, there was already a lot of joy in the stadium and no other sound could be heard.
But in the United States, the audience responded mediocrely, but it was just a routine applause.
Fans lacked interest in Gao Zheng, but Diego Simone straightened his waist after Gao Zheng played and looked forward, paying close attention to Gao Zheng's performance.
No matter how many times the tactics are practiced in training, it is meaningless if they are not tested in actual combat.
For him, this is an occasion for preliminary inspection.
However, after the start of the second half, I thought that it was the San Jose Earthquake that advanced the ball-just three minutes after the second half, and the new Atletico Madrid players did not react, they just used an offside pre-position for the San Jose Earthquake. Lead.
Fans of the San Jose Earthquake team cheered and cheered for their team.
Gao Zheng, who had high hopes from Simone, helped Atletico Madrid equalize the score in the fifty-fifth minute-he did not score, but instead used an assist to assist Arda Turan to equalize the score.
Then the goalkeepers of both sides performed well, and no one lost the ball.
In regular time, the two sides battled to a 1:1 draw, and the game went directly to the penalty shootout.
In the penalty shootout, Gao Zheng was placed in the fourth penalty by Simone.
The first penalty player of the San Jose Earthquake kicked the football, while Atletico Madrid's first three penalty players all hit. After three rounds, the penalty shootout was 3:1. Atletico Madrid led by two goals.
In this way, as long as Atlético Madrid can score in the fourth round, then regardless of whether the San Jose Earthquake kicked in, Atlético Madrid will win the championship.
San Jose Earthquake's fourth free thrower kicked a penalty under pressure and it was Gao Zheng's turn.
Going to the penalty spot from the middle circle, Gao Zheng looked relaxed and didn't take kicking seriously.
Of course, this is a warm-up match, there is not much pressure.
After Gao Zheng set up the football, he waited for the referee to whistle, and quickly ran up and kicked the ball, kicking the football into the goal without suspense.
Atletico Madrid thus won the first game of North American training.
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After finishing the game with the San Jose earthquake team, the Atletico Madrid team did not delay here and went straight to Mexico City.
This time in Mexico City, the stay was very short, and no free time was arranged, so Gao Zheng did not take Xu Xin to go shopping.
Only one day after the match with the San Jose Earthquake, Atletico Madrid ushered in a game against Mexico's traditional powerhouse America.
In this game, Simone made a big adjustment to the team's starting lineup. The players who played in the last game all sat on the bench, and the players who played in the last game started.
So Gao Zheng appeared on the starting list.
After the game started, the American team at home was more proactive and continued to threaten the goals of Atletico Madrid. There was a time when Atletico Madrid could not grab the ball.
It wasn't until half an hour later that the situation gradually improved.
The sign of a gradual improvement is that Gao Zheng broke the deadlock for Atletico Madrid.
He received an assist from teammate Cork in the penalty area, grabbed a shot in front of the goal and scored his first goal after playing for Atletico Madrid.
Although this was not an informal match goal and was not counted in Gao Zheng’s career goal stats, it also made Simonny on the sidelines excited and jumped up and waved his fists in celebration as if it were a Champions League. The game, not the warm-up game that has nothing to do with it...
Gao Zheng, after scoring a goal, seemed more calm than the head coach. He just gave a high-five to his congratulatory congratulatory teammates, and his expression was not 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 at the end of the first half and created two very good scoring opportunities, they were all saved by goalkeeper Oblak.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought. Gao Zheng was not replaced in the intermission, but played another ten minutes and was replaced in the fifteenth minute.
But the leading Atletico Madrid failed to expand the lead, nor did they hold on to the results of pursuing the lead.
In the seventy-ninth minute and the eighty-fourth minute, he conceded two consecutive goals in five minutes and lost the game.
Atletico Madrid failed to win two consecutive victories in the North American practice warm-up match.
The overall performance of the team in these two warm-up games was also unsatisfactory, exposing the problem of weak offense. Although both goals were scored in both games, only two goals were scored.
The only good thing is that these two goals are still related to Gao Zheng-one assist, one goal, which should somewhat indicate that Gao Zheng bought the right...
In the post-match press conference, Simone also talked about Gao Zheng's performance and praised Gao Zheng.
Now Gao Zheng and the team have been training together for less than 20 days. He can only show such performance with his own abilities, and he can’t help but look forward to when he is integrated into the Atletico Madrid team. What kind of performance.
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After the two warm-up matches in North America, Atletico Madrid set off for their home country, and there are intensive matches waiting for them.
Go to Germany and Wolfsburg to warm up, and then return to China to participate in two Ramon Carranza Cup.
These three games are all warm-up games, the result is not the most important, the process is important.
In addition to Gao Zheng, Griezmann, who has newly joined the team, needs to use these three warm-up matches to run in 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.
Since the Super Cup, the team has officially entered the pace of the new season.
The rivalry with rivals in the same city also makes the Super Bowl infallible.
There is not much time left for Simone to adjust trial and error.
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