Chapter 688: League start

Barcelona lost the Spanish Super Cup at home, and Enric’s five-crown plan was completely declared bankrupt. This year they will have only one World Club Cup left to compete.
Even if Barcelona won the Club World Cup, this year might not be perfect for them.
And it’s not just about losing the Spanish Super Cup.
Pique was sent off for insulting the referee in the game, so he may be suspended for four games and may be suspended for up to twelve games. According to the regulations, insulting the referee is a bad plot, and Pique is hit by the gun.
The red card ban on the Spanish Super Cup will be brought to the league, so the next La Liga start, Pique may be missing a few games.
I don’t know if he will be absent until the third round of the league. At that time, Barcelona’s opponent was Atletico Madrid...
On August 22nd, Atlético Madrid ushered in the first round of La Liga, their opponents were promoted to Maras Palmas.
At home, the opponent is still promoted, considering that the team has just played two Super Cups, Simone made a certain rotation in this game.
However, Gao Zheng is still in the starting lineup.
The game was kicked off at 2:30 in Beijing time, and CCTV was naturally broadcast live.
Although the kick-off time is late, there are still many Chinese fans waiting to watch the game in front of the TV.
The Spanish Super Cup was very lively. Gao Zheng played a hat trick when facing Barcelona, ​​but because CCTV does not have the right to broadcast, not everyone has seen Gao Zheng's excellent performance.
For Chinese fans, La Liga is the real start of the new season.
Since it is the beginning, it is natural not to be absent.
Everyone rested for a summer, just waiting to continue to cheer Gao Zheng on the new season.
Gao Zheng did not disappoint Chinese fans.
Sixteen minutes into the game, he used a direct free kick to open the record for Atletico Madrid, breaking the deadlock.
And this goal is the only goal of this game-thanks to Gao Zheng's goal, Atletico Madrid defeated the promoted Maras Palmas 1:0 at home and scored three points.
Their rival Barcelona defeated Athletic Bilbao 1:0 away and Real Madrid were tied 0-0 by Athletic Gijon.
After Ancelotti resigned this season, Real Madrid hired another tactical master Benitez to serve as the team's head coach.
But from the first round of this league, Benitez's coaching journey may not be so easy...
A week later, Atletico Madrid challenged Sevilla away, which was the first hard bone they encountered in the new season.
Sevilla, who thought they were playing at home, could compete with Atletico Madrid, but both the course of the game and the result were surprising.
Sevilla was completely suppressed at his home court. In the 35th minute, Cork took the lead for Atletico Madrid. In the seventy-ninth minute, Gabi expanded the score to 2:0.
In the 85th minute, Gao Zheng secured the victory for the team. His goal helped Atletico Madrid defeat Sevilla 3:0 on the road and scored two straight victories.
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After two rounds of La Liga battle, it will be temporarily suspended, followed by the national team match day.
Gao Zheng, as an indispensable core of the Chinese national team, will naturally have to fly back to China to participate in the top 40 matches.
Their opponents are Hong Kong, China and Maldives.
In the minds of Chinese fans, the six points of these two games have been booked in advance.
Neither Hong Kong, China nor the Maldives can threaten the Chinese team.
This group can really make the Chinese team feel a little threat, I am afraid that only Qatar.
According to the rules of the Asian qualifiers, the eight teams in the top 40 will directly advance to the top twelve, and the remaining eight teams will select the best four teams in the second to advance to twelve. Strong match.
However, due to the Indonesian government's interference in football affairs, the Indonesian national team was banned from the FIFA World Cup qualifiers before the start of the top 40, and all matches involving the Indonesian team were canceled.
As a result, the second rule of the group with the best calculation score has also changed. When comparing the results of the second group of the seven other groups without the Indonesian team, they will not be counted against the last team of their respective teams. Two rounds of results.
According to the expectations of Chinese fans and the media, the Chinese team with Gao Zheng is definitely going to be the first in the group, so they don't care how they compare the results in the second group.
As the third place in the Asian Cup, shouldn't it be difficult to take the first place in the top 40?
Qatar may have some strength, but whether it is Bhutan, Maldives or Hong Kong, China, the Chinese team is the target of points.
And not only to win the game, but also to win big scores, so that when competing with Qatar, the advantage of the goal difference may come in handy.
Therefore, in the eyes of Chinese fans and the media, Bhutan, Maldives and Hong Kong are the targets of the Chinese team's goal difference. If they can't get enough of their goal difference, it is considered a failure.
Because of this, when the Chinese team defeated Bhutan only 7-0 away, the domestic public reaction will be so strong...after all, in their minds, the score of this game should be double-digit.
At present, Hong Kong, China has played two games, one more than the Chinese team and Qatar.
In the first game they defeated Bhutan 7:0 at home and in the second game they defeated Maldives 2:0 at home. Temporarily ranked first in the group with six points and nine goal difference.
However, they only beat Maldives with two goals at home, showing their strength. In the eyes of many Chinese fans, the Chinese team has at least five goals in home games against Hong Kong.
The Chinese team will play Hong Kong at home first, and five days later they will go to play in the Maldives. When the home team was planned, considering this, the Chinese Football Association arranged the home game in Shenzhen. You can fly directly from here to Male, the capital of Maldives. The road is much shorter, and it also allows players to get more rest time.
However, in late August, the home turf in Maldives’ capital, Male, was severely damaged due to large-scale celebrations. After the investigation, the AFC believed that the turf conditions could not host the World Cup qualifiers. The Maldives hopes to exchange home and away with the Chinese team, that is, the original home of the Maldives on September 8, replaced by the Chinese team home, and then replaced by the Maldives at home when the Chinese team home in March next year.
However, this request was rejected by the Chinese Football Association. On the one hand, it was because the Chinese team had already contracted the home game. Now it is temporarily required to swap the home and away games. China will suffer a lot of losses and it will be too late. On the other hand, it is naturally because the two World Cup qualifiers of the Chinese team in March next year are home, and this schedule is beneficial to the Chinese team. If it is reversed now, the Chinese team will have to go away for a long time.
The problem is the Maldives anyway, the Chinese team naturally does not need to think about them.
In the end, the Maldives could only give up this home court, and the Chinese Football Association made an application to the AFC to arrange this match in China. In this way, the Chinese team was equal to one home court out of thin air.
The Maldives wants to find a Chinese position, but time is tight and the task is heavy. The Chinese position is actually so easy to find? They also made no difference, only to agree to the Chinese team's application.
So now after the Chinese team has played against the Hong Kong team in Shenzhen, they have to go north to Shenyang to play the "away game" against the Maldives.
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