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Chapter 73 The state is good

Vidal's handball was not awarded a penalty, which made Simeone on the sidelines excited, but when he wanted to shout loudly to the head coach, he was dragged away by assistant coach Boggs covering his mouth.

In the Champions League final last season, Diego Simone was sent to the stands for a dispute with Real Madrid player Varane and was later suspended for one game.

This also led to his suspension in the next Champions League match. Because he was sent off in the Champions League final last season, the suspension fell into the first Champions League group stage of the season.

That is, Atletico Madrid lost to Greece's Olympiacos 2:3 away. In that game, Boggs stood on the sidelines to direct the game on behalf of Simeone.

So in fact, the failure of that game may have a lot to do with Simeone's absence.

Because of such a profound and painful lesson, Boggs took action in time this time and pulled Simeone back.

"Diego! Calm down, calm down!" He kept persuading Simone.

"This referee is so fucking..." Boggs covered Simeone's mouth again.

"I understand your dissatisfaction with the referee's penalty, but you don't have to put yourself in?" Boggs said, "This way, this... when you want to scold the referee in the future, you let me get on!"

Boggs pointed at himself.

Simeone was stunned: "You're here?"

"Yes, I'll go on, I'll scold you. After the scolding, I'll be punished to the stands and I'll be suspended, but this won't cause any loss to the team. At least you can continue to stay in the coach's seat to direct the game." Boggs said seriously.

Simeone smiled: "You are really the best assistant coach in the world, Mono."

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Simeone was pulled away by Boggs, but referee Bruch did not escape the angrily scolding and booing of Atletico Madrid fans.

In the next game, they gave boos to referee Bruch and Juventus midfielder Vidal.

Not long after, when Vidal got the ball in the backcourt, he was surrounded by three Atletico Madrid players. As soon as he hesitated, he did not pass the ball immediately, and found that he could no longer pass the ball.

Amid the booing, three Atletico Madrid players used their hands and feet together, and Raul Garcia poked the ball out and knocked down Vidal.

Vidal, who was lying on the ground, shouted, hoping that the referee would be able to judge Atletico Madrid for a foul, but the referee Bruch's whistle did not sound.

The football that was stabbed by Raul Garcia just fell to Gao Zheng.

Gao Zheng turned around and snatched Chiellini, before he came up, shot the ball low and shot the ball towards the lower left corner.

This is a very sudden and high-quality shot.

The football was pressed very well by Gao Zheng, and he rushed to the lower left corner of the goal on the turf.

It's almost time to go to the dead corner.

But when the football was about to enter the door, a big hand suddenly came, and then he used his fingertips to push the football around the post and rolled out of the bottom line...

"woooooooooooooooooooooow!!!" Caresa exclaimed. "Buffon made a very wonderful save! Faced with this high-quality shot, he still kept the football out!"

Gao Zheng himself did not expect that Buffon could block his scheming shot, so he raised his hands and hugged his head.

Buffon, who had climbed up from the ground, grinned at Gao Zheng, who was holding his head and hugging his regretful smile, and then shouted to his teammates: "If you don't blow the whistle, you will continue the game!"

He was complaining about Vidal and Chiellini. At that time, Chiellini was patronizing to raise his hand to the referee to signal that Raul Garcia had a foul, but he was unable to rush up to block Gao Zheng as soon as possible, giving Gao Zheng a chance to shoot.

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As the game progressed, Juventus felt more and more difficult to stop a threatening attack.

Faced with Atletico Madrid's fierce pressing and physical confrontation that was crazy and tentative on the verge of foul, Juventus struggled very hard.

Pogba, a young genius who has grown into the core of offense at Juventus, seems very uncomfortable under Atletico Madrid's "wolf-pack tactics". If he handles the ball slightly slower under his feet, he will be immediately surrounded by Atletico Madrid players. Then, after a chaotic battle, he will lose possession.

However, Atletico Madrid uses this fierce press to make the offense vivid. Many times they can directly steal Juventus' ball in the frontcourt and turn around and throw it into the offense. The offense and defense conversion speed is very fast, and there will be no situation like other teams who intercept the ball in the frontcourt but don't know how to play. Everyone is mentally prepared, which is obviously the result of targeted training that has been carried out normally.

This tactic made Juventus players very unhappy. Juventus coach Allegrini also protested to the fourth official on the sidelines several times, telling him that Atletico Madrid's moves were too rude and that the referee should play cards to control the situation.

But whenever a Juventus player protests that Atletico Madrid players are too harsh, the booing of Atletico Madrid fans will sound in the stands. When Vidal escapes the handball, why don’t you let the referee come out to be fair?

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When Atletico Madrid launched another attack from the wing and Arda Turan passed the ball in, Gao Zheng ran forward.

All this looked like his first heel shot. This time, Chiellini and Cáceres, the center backs of Juventus, did not dare to neglect, and at the same time, they clamped the guards from both directions. One slightly defended Gao Zheng on the inside and then stopped the ball, and the other one shot from behind, defended Gao Zheng on the heel shot from behind.

After all, they can't always expect to send someone to lie in front of the goal to block Gao Zheng's shot with their hands? The last time Vidal was able to escape, doesn't it mean that he could escape this time?

But what they didn't expect was that Gao Zheng had no intention of receiving the ball at all. He rushed forward and made a move to swing his feet, but let the football run through his legs!

"Hey? Leak the ball?!"

The football passed by Arda Tulan passed through Gao Zheng's crotch and came to the near penalty spot in the middle.

Because Juventus' defensive attention was taken away by Gao Zheng who was firmly rushing forward, this place was a little empty!

"Griezmann!!"

Amid Jose Maria's roar, the French striker slammed the ball and shot the football directly at the goal!

In the stands, Atletico Madrid fans in front of the TV were ready to jump up and cheer.

But Juventus goalkeeper Buffon, who was obviously taken to block the front point, appeared in front of the football and reached out to racquet the football that Griezmann shot. The football bounced back and fell to the ground and jumped up again. Vidal, who was also retreating to the goal, kicked it out with his feet this time, and successfully cleared the ball!

"My God! Buffon made a shocking save! He unexpectedly appeared where he shouldn't have appeared, blocking Griezmann's shot! He saved Juventus' goal again!"

This time, even Jose Maria exclaimed: "Buffon! Buffon! Oh! Can you believe this is a save that a thirty-six-year-old goalkeeper can make? His reaction was as quick as twenty-six-year-old!"

It was Griezmann's turn to hold his head in his hands and kneel down in Juventus' penalty area. He stared at the goal with an incredible look, unable to believe that his shot was actually saved.

He admitted that the shot was indeed too far from the middle, but considering that Buffon had been taken to the front point by Gao Zheng, the middle goal was wide open. He wanted to be more stable and hit the football within the goal frame, and he should have scored goals. So he did not think about kicking the football backwards.

As a result, he was seized by Buffon. The only chance to save the ball and blocked the football outside the door.

When the save slow motion replayed, CCTV commentator He Ping and commentator Xu Yang were also amazed at Buffon's save: "...In fact, Gao Zheng's running position is very smart, which has attracted the attention of most Juventus players. Buffon also followed him to the closer... And Gao Zheng's leak is really the finishing touch. No one expected that he would leak the ball... No, look carefully. Buffon seemed to be preparing to move to the middle before Gao Zheng missed the ball. He guessed that Gao Zheng was going to leak the ball! It's such a terrible prediction ability..."

Xu Yang said: "This is the ability brought by super rich experience... Buffon is really worthy of being the top goalkeeper in this world, and this reaction and prediction... Tsk tsk. This is not good news for Gao Zheng. If Buffon is in this state, it would be even more difficult to break his goal!"

Gao Zheng at Calderon Stadium was also watching Buffon.

Buffon blinked after grinning at him.

It felt like provoking Gao Zheng.
Chapter completed!
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