Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 200 Starting from a Hat-trick

The lingering heat of Mbappe's winning the Ballon d'Or is still going on, but another voice emerged on Chinese media websites, expressing grievances for Wen Zhihao.

Domestic fans also understand that it is unrealistic for Wen Zhihao to be shortlisted for the final three, but he cannot make it to the 70-man roster, which makes everyone emotionally unacceptable.

The level of the Eredivisie is low, and Waiters didn't pay attention at that time?Then Ajax's Kluivert Jr. can be shortlisted, and he is also one of the main favorites of the 25 players. The main core of the Eredivisie champion almost single-handedly carried Waiters into the quarter-finals of the Europa League. Is it really a matter of origin?

Many angry youths with strong national sentiments quickly lost their rhythm, and what was supposed to be a good topic of the Golden Boy Award became a forum for talking about history, politics and comprehensive national strength.

Wen Zhihao wandered around the domestic websites at night, thankful that he did not express too much attitude about the Golden Boy Award to the Chinese media, let alone reveal the goal in his heart, otherwise he would not have known how lively it would be.

Wen Zhihao knows the level of attention and support for him in the country. To be honest, this is a kind of happiness trouble. He feels that he is living under the spotlight all the time. Many people are eager to live this kind of life that attracts the attention of all. But for him, this is a kind of pressure that cannot be slackened. He set himself the goal of winning the Golden Boy Award next year, rather it is a kind of psychological spur, using goals to promote himself to continue to improve.

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In late October, between the league and the Champions League, the Copa del Rey also entered the fourth round. The first three rounds of La Liga teams all had byes, and they started to appear in this round.Atletico Madrid's next game is an away game against West C team Elche.

The Copa del Rey adopts a home and away two-round elimination system, except that the final is a single match.Although the opponent Elche in this round is in the Spanish fourth tier league (Note: La Liga has two levels, La Liga and La Liga B, which are different from other leagues), but this team also won the La Liga championship in the 2012-13 season.

The strengths of the two teams are not at the same level. Simeone's starting lineup has four substitutes who have not played much in one breath, allowing Wen Zhihao to retreat to the midfield and play with a group of young people on the field.The first few rounds of the domestic cup are originally the rotation and training ground for the giants, and it is also a stage for these substitute players to show themselves. To put it bluntly, the head coach gives these fringe first-team players who have not been able to play for a long time a fair competition for a higher position. It depends on whether young people know how to seize the opportunity.

After 10 minutes of the game, Simeone made his first discovery on the field. The young player Barre, who had just been promoted to the first team at the beginning of the season, was active in the right forward position.

Simeone and Boggs looked at each other, and both saw each other's satisfaction.He was used in the Audi Cup training before the season and scored goals.After the start of the season, due to performance pressure, he could only be put on hold temporarily.I didn't expect him to show up again in the short time he played in the Copa del Rey.Simeone is already considering whether to give him more opportunities. The Argentine Gaitan has not found his form after recovering from a serious injury, and Simeone has been afraid to use him.Barre may be able to add a fresh blood to the winger position.

Although the away fans created a lot of momentum, and the opponent relied on the iron barrel to defend quite tenaciously, Atletico Madrid still took the lead early in the No.205 minute.Sergio Gonzalez, the young left-back who made his debut for the first time, responded to the clearance pass. Wen Zhihao ran forward in the middle of the back row, attracting most of the attention around him.

Wen Zhihao scored a single-handed goal with a late plug, but unfortunately he was whistled for offside by the referee.Atletico Madrid only had this goal advantage in the first half.Although it is not enjoyable for those who want to watch Atletico Madrid's massacre, at least there are goals, and no one will believe that this is the final score.

But as soon as the second half came up, Atletico Madrid was tricked by their own people first.Elche made a quick counterattack. Lucas Hernandez saw the opponent's striker Lolo bring the ball into the penalty area under the three-man defense. He stretched out his foot in a panic and tripped the opponent.

Seeing Hernandez arguing with the referee with a dissatisfied face, Wen Zhihao hurried over and pulled him aside, comforting him: "It's okay, I don't blame you, at worst, I'll score a few more goals."

At the same time, Wen Zhihao also wondered, if he dared to defend like this in the penalty area, how could this kind of principled error appear on the players who were shortlisted for the Golden Boy preliminary list?
Lolo took the penalty kick himself, and Elche tied the score to 1:1. Elche broke out with unprecedented passion at home.

The Spanish commentator Garcia gloated a bit: "This small team is angering Atletico Madrid. Look at it. The moment when they take over the game really begins from this time."

After being scored by a fourth-level team, Simeone felt ashamed. He replaced Torres and Saul in one breath, and sent all the main players who accompanied the team to the field. It was an obvious sign of a strong attack. Obviously, Simeone was irritated by this small team.

Wen Zhihao was the first to understand the signal from the head coach. Five minutes later, he received Barre's cross and broke into the penalty area with a low shot to help Atletico Madrid take the lead again. Simeone breathed a sigh of relief, but also praised Wen Zhihao even more. He was able to understand his intentions and respond with effective practical actions. With such a good player, what can the coach ask for?

But this was just the beginning of Wen Zhihao's scoring performance. No. 603 minutes corner kick tactics forward header scored twice, No. 608 minutes single-handed push and scored. Wen Zhihao completed the first hat-trick of Atletico Madrid's career in 15 minutes. Simeone replaced him with the last substitution in No. 80 minutes, which is an affirmation of the first contributor.Leading by three goals in the away game, to put it bluntly, Atletico Madrid has ended all the suspense in this round ahead of schedule.

The La Liga teams that have played successively in this round have not missed, and the second round of the game is like a chicken rib.No wonder some media suggested that the Copa del Rey should follow the example of the German Cup, and all adopt a single-match win-loss competition system to increase the suspense of the game, and at the same time reduce the burden on the strong teams with heavy competition tasks.

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With his hat-trick, Wen Zhihao temporarily topped the King's Cup scorer list, but he didn't feel much about it. Although this hat-trick can be seen as the beginning of hitting the goal of the Golden Boy, the opponent is not high-level and lacks gold content. The first hat-trick in La Liga and the Champions League may give him a sense of accomplishment.

(End of this chapter)