No one wants to get hurt, no one wants to.

But in the 65th minute of the second half.

Gabby is injured.

Still without any physical contact, he fell to the ground clutching his thigh in pain.

For football players, the most fatal thing is often not what happens after a fierce confrontation, but the injuries that occur without physical confrontation are the most worrying.

Simeone walked around irritably on the sidelines, looking at the team doctor from time to time. He himself is an athlete, and he knows that confrontational injuries and non-confrontational injuries are like nail punctures and sudden tire blowouts, which are often incomparable.

The team doctor who entered the field made a substitution signal and then signaled for the stretcher to enter the field.

Shaking his head and sighing, Simeone walked to the bench and signaled Christian Rodriguez to warm up quickly.

On the court, Xiao Wen and several teammates gathered around Gabi, squinting at the team doctor's treatment. It looked like a strain on the inner thigh. Xiao Wen licked his dry lips, shook his head with a wry smile, Gabi,

Griezmann, Godin. They really fell apart when they came back from the national team match day.

The stretcher has arrived.

Xiao Wen patted Gabby on the shoulder and looked at him gritting his teeth in pain, so he comforted him with a few words.

Gabby raised his head and looked at Xiao Wen, asked the staff carrying the stretcher to wait, then pulled the captain's armband off his left arm, and then tugged on Xiao Wen's right hand.

Xiao Wen was stunned and was pulled to a position parallel to Gabi on the stretcher. Then Gabi wrapped the captain's armband around Xiao Wen's arm. He was really stunned. This season of Atletico Madrid, Gabi was the first captain and he got off.

Oh, the second captain Godin is not here either

But there are still veterans like Juan Fran!

Next to him, Juan Fran smiled and patted Xiao Wen's butt: "Stop opening your mouth and acting like you have never seen the world. Who dares to disobey you?"

Gabi signaled that the stretcher team could leave.

Xiao Wen was left stunned.

Xiao Wen turned his head and glanced at Juan Fran. Juan Fran squeezed his shoulder and then walked back. Xiao Wen looked towards the sidelines and saw Simeone giving a thumbs up.

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The audience in the stands burst into applause, applause that comforted and encouraged Gabi.

Then, the people who were originally talking about Gabi's injury also began to discover this blind spot.

"Gabby gave the armband to Xiao Wen?"

In the eyes of many people, an excellent captain must be able to inspire morale on the field, argue with reason, and lead by example; he must be generous and decent off the field, able to get out of the hall and win over the masses.

Of course, now Xiao Wen is just the captain on the field by chance.

But this can also reflect a lot of problems!

Especially Juan Fran, who was supposed to take Gabi's armband and walked away without hesitation!

The main role of the captain on the field is to toss a coin to pick the side before the kick-off and the penalty shootout. One of these two tasks is completed and the other is not needed, but there is also a task of representing the whole team to negotiate with the referee when something goes wrong.

Therefore, each team generally appoints experienced veteran players as on-field captains to implement the coach's intentions and stabilize military morale.

The stretcher carrying Gabi entered the tunnel.

The applause paused. Then, it started again!

This time, Xiao Wen knew that the applause was for him. He was a little confused.

Young captains are rare in football teams. Teams in the five major leagues, especially the strong teams with some strength, have never been deviant.

But in these years, Atletico Madrid has also had an outlier, and he is the winner in life, Fernando Torres.

Say he is a winner in life.

Not only because Torres won the honorary Grand Slam, but also because the start of his career was much smoother than others. He signed a professional contract at the age of 15, was promoted to the adult team at the age of 16, and made his first team debut at the age of 17.

, rose to fame at the age of 18 and was nicknamed the Holy Child. At 19, Torres became the captain of Atletico Madrid, shouldering the expectation of helping the team revive. That season, Atletico Madrid finally ranked seventh in La Liga and won the opportunity to participate in the next season's international competition.

Toto Cup qualification.

To this day, Torres is still the youngest official captain in Atletico Madrid history!

However, after being loaned back from Chelsea by Simeone, he is still recuperating due to injury.

Xiao Wen shook his head.

Becoming the captain was once one of his obsessions when he was young

In his eyes at the time, there were four possibilities for becoming captain - 1. Absolute tactical core. 2. Qualifications. 3. Leadership qualities. 4. Command ability.

Typical representatives are Maradona, Zanetti, Cantona and Beckenbauer.

Touching the captain's armband with his right hand, Xiao Wen couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. Fortunately, Gabi personally wrapped the captain's armband around his hand... so he didn't have to take out the captain's armband from his crotch and put it on like the second brother in Rome.

call.

The game continues!

The ball was kicked back to the Espanyol defender by Juan Fran.

Eleven against ten, the advantage is mine. With this thought, the Spaniards pressed forward across the board, trying to use this opportunity to score a face-saving goal.

Unexpectedly, the football entered the penalty area of ​​Atletico Madrid, but Oblak attacked and got the ball.

Immediately afterwards, Oblak kicked his right foot in the direction of Xiao Wen again.

Three Spanish defensive players risked their lives to force Xiao Wen into the corner flag area on the right. Xiao Wen was weak and could only lightly kick the ball towards Lopez's calf, earning a corner kick.

dead ball

New player Christian Rodriguez ran to the center circle and explained Simeone's arrangements to several midfielders. Just one sentence - everyone, please stop kicking and don't get hurt!

Xiao Wen slowly walked to the sidelines, pulled the football back, and stepped on the penalty spot in the corner flag area.

In this short period of time, the opponent's defensive players in the backcourt were all attracted to this side by him. Unfortunately, there was no angle, no time to observe the situation in the middle, and no passing route that could allow him to

Pass the ball out or Mandzukic might have a chance.

Atletico Madrid corner kick,

It means that the storm is coming again. Xiao Wen's corner kick has been trained more and more by Simeone, and the tall men in the team have become more and more familiar with it.

There was a crisp sound, Xiao Wen made a push pass, and the running Coker took it to the baseline, then knocked back with his back heel, a tactical corner kick!

Xiao Wen's right foot hit the bottom of the football hard, and then the football flew up like lightning, flew across the entire small penalty area, and hit Jimenez's head heavily!

The football hit the crossbar with a bang! Under the crossbar was the pale and frightened face of the Spanish player, with clear streaks of cold sweat on his forehead. Then in the melee on the line of the small penalty area, the football was driven into the center circle.

Juan Fran held the ball and passed the ball to Christian Rodriguez who was in front of him with a through ball.

Christian Rodriguez was in a dangerous area. He had no idea who was behind him. He just felt that he had been pushed and was about to fall. If the ball was lost in this place, the Spaniard's

A counterattack can be fatal.

Before he could complain about Juanfran setting up a trap for him, Christian Rodriguez half-turned around and fired a powerful volley.

Crooked.

Ridiculously crooked!

With a bang, the ball went straight to the corner flag.

At this time, in the penalty area, Keke and Xiao Wen also ran into the penalty area.

When Cork saw the ball coming toward him, he stretched out his right foot to block it, but the ball was so fast that he didn't even notice whether his foot touched the ball or not.

He suddenly looked up, and there was Xiao Wen standing two or three meters away. There was no one defending him, but Christian Rodriguez hit the goal with all his strength.

Hearing Christian Rodriguez shouting in front of the penalty area, Xiao Wen squinted his eyes slightly and looked in the direction where he was standing. He looked up and saw the ball flying towards him.

He also instinctively shrank his foot. Before he could spread his foot to stop the ball, the football had already hit the outside of his foot and bounced up.

this ball

It actually bounced towards the goal!

But rather than saying it was a shot, it was more like Xiao Wen blocking the forward path of the football and passively acting as a wall.

Almost at the same time, the terrifying atmosphere in front of the Spaniard's goal reappeared. No one could have imagined that Christian Rodriguez's lame shot would eventually turn into this!

Goalkeeper Olazábal ran back desperately, while Sergi Gomez, who was standing guard next to the goal post, was pulling green onions on a dry land. He had jumped to the highest position, but still could not block the ball.

Falling directly into the goal from a high altitude!

After Sergi Gomez finished dancing, he fell on his back towards the door... and ended up hanging on the net in embarrassment, with a look of confusion on his face.

What happened?

meteor?

Many spectators at the Calderon Stadium were also dumbfounded. Something fell into the goal. Was it a football?

Finally, the audience cheered.

Confirmed, the thing that was shaking and falling strangely in front of the goal just now is indeed a football!

Happy Fourth!
To be continued...