On September 18, Simeone announced the 18-man roster and 11-man starting list for the first round of the Champions League group stage, and Qiao Anchen was undoubtedly on the list.
Qiao Anchen also received the rewards of "being selected into the UEFA Champions League 18-man squad for the first time" and "first starting appearance in the UEFA Champions League".
Each goal in the Champions League is twice that of the Europa League: 400,000 experience points. Therefore, both rewards are 800,000, for a total of 1.6 million experience points. This brings Qiao Anchen’s total experience to level 40, 35.78 million/50 million.
The next day, match day, as the Champions League kick-off in the evening got closer and closer, the Champions League atmosphere in Madrid became stronger and stronger.
In the first round of the Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both played at home. Atletico Madrid faced Zenit St. Petersburg at home, and Real Madrid played at home against Manchester City.
Although they have been away from the Champions League for three years, with the current staffing of the Sheets, there is basically no suspense about winning at home. It just depends on how many goals they can win.
Therefore, while watching the game, Atletico Madrid fans also hold their mobile phones and pay attention to another game that starts at the same time, hoping that Blue Moon Manchester City can challenge their arch-rival Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.
It would be even better if Real Madrid failed to make it out of the group of death and were eliminated in the group stage.
Of course, for the players in the game, they cannot pay attention to two games at the same time like fans. They must go all out and focus on their own game.
Atletico Madrid's schedule has been quite tight recently.
The last 4th round of the league was on September 16th, today’s UEFA Champions League group stage is on September 19th, the next 5th round of La Liga is on September 23rd, and it will be played on September 26th because of the European Super Cup.
The postponed third round of La Liga will be played on September 30, the sixth round of La Liga, the second round of the Champions League group stage on October 3, and the seventh round of La Liga on October 7.
All are double matches a week.
It is not until after October 7th that everyone can relax a little bit and enter the FIFA match day. But correspondingly, those international players who can be selected for the national teams of various countries have to travel back and forth to participate in the national team competitions, which is not easy.
Therefore, although this game is the Champions League group stage, Simeone did not stick to the same lineup and dominate the world. Instead, he made fine-tuning in the backcourt. The new player introduced in the summer transfer, No. 18 left back Daniel Di
Yas replaced Felipe Luis in the starting lineup.
At left-back, Adrian also replaced Arda Turan in the starting lineup.
However, compared to the last league game, Simeone only rotated these two people, and the remaining people were exactly the same as the starting lineup of the previous game. Falcao, Diego Costa, and Joan Chen were still the three partners.
Forward, play 433 formation.
He also needs to take a look at the offensive power shown by the three people's partnership in the last game. Is it accidental or inevitable?
At 20:45 in the evening on September 19, 2012, amid the cheers of more than 50,000 fans at the Calderon Stadium, with the whistle of British referee Mark Clattenberg, the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League Group C match
The match between Atletico Madrid and Zenit St. Petersburg has officially begun.
As the opening whistle blew, Qiao Anchen also received the reward of 800,000 experience points for "making his first appearance in the Champions League" and 1 million experience points for "creating the youngest appearance record in the Champions League". The total experience level rose to level 40, 37.58 million/50 million.
After three years away from the Champions League, the fans of the Shelter 19 team are quite enthusiastic. The Atletico Madrid players on the field were not conservative, but launched an attack amidst the cheers of the fans from the beginning.
Zenit St. Petersburg, on the other hand, pragmatically chose to shrink its defense and prepare for a defensive counterattack.
But no one expected that Atletico Madrid's goal would come so quickly.
In the 3rd minute, Qiao Anchen ran into a gap on the right side of the frontcourt, and Gabi passed the ball over in time.
The moment Qiao Anchen received the ball, he used a Matthews pass to break through Zenit midfielder Denisov who was rushing forward. Then he dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area and connected with Diego Kos in the penalty area.
Ta made a hit-the-wall match, successfully entered the penalty area, and then volleyed into the far corner.
The ball accurately avoided goalkeeper Malafeev's save and flew into the goal against the far post.
Just 3 minutes into the game, Qiao Anchen opened the scoring for Atletico Madrid and took the lead. Moreover, this was Qiao Anchen's first goal in the Champions League, and he also set the record for the youngest goal scorer in the Champions League.
Therefore, the commentators all became excited and shouted loudly:
“goooooooooooooooooooooooooal…”
"The ball went in!!!"
"Lightning goal!!!"
"Qiao Anchen scored a lightning goal in the first 3 minutes, giving Atletico Madrid a 1-0 lead."
"After three years, Atletico Madrid just returned to the Champions League and scored a lightning goal in the first 3 minutes."
"And Qiao Anchen successfully scored his first goal in his Champions League debut in just three minutes, and set the record for the youngest goalscorer in the Champions League."
"It was too strong. Zenit St. Petersburg's players might not have even entered the game yet, but they conceded the goal and were already behind."
Chinese commentator Guan Jianwen was even more excited because this was the first goal for a Chinese player in the Champions League.
Guan Jianwen excitedly told the Chinese fans who stayed up late in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast:
"Qiao Anchen scored a goal!"
"In his first Champions League game, Qiao Anchen scored in the first 3 minutes."
"This is not only Qiao Anchen's first Champions League goal, but also the first Champions League goal for a Chinese player."
"Before Qiao Anchen, although Sun Xiang, Hao Junmin and Dong Fangzhuo had played in the Champions League, none of them had scored a goal."
"In the UEFA Champions League, which is the most competitive stage in football with the highest technical and tactical level, it is a pity that Chinese players have not scored a single goal."
"But today, this regret is gone."
"Qiao Anchen not only set the record for the youngest appearance and the youngest goal scorer in the history of the Champions League, but also broke the history of Chinese players never scoring a goal in the Champions League."
"Moreover, this is my first time participating in the Champions League, and I scored a goal in the first 3 minutes."
"With this goal speed, Zenit St. Petersburg, our opponent, may not be able to react."
Indeed, as Guan Jianwen said, the Zenit St. Petersburg players felt a little confused.
Although they know that Atletico Madrid, which won last season's Europa League championship and European Super Cup championship, is very strong, and Qiao Anchen is also a super striker who can compete with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, they are already prepared to lose away from home.
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But no matter how mentally prepared he was, he never expected that Qiao Anchen would dribble the ball straight into the penalty area and score a goal just three minutes into the game.
In the away game, they really haven't entered the game state yet, so they are falling behind?
Seeing Qiao Anchen celebrating wildly with his teammates, Zenit players and fans were a little shocked.
Qiao Anchen paid no attention to them. He was able to successfully score a goal in the first three minutes without using skill cards or lucky cards. He completed his first goal in the Champions League and set the record for the youngest goal scorer in the Champions League. He was naturally quite satisfied.
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While Qiao Anchen celebrated the goal with his teammates, he also received 800,000 for the first goal in the Champions League and 1,000,000 for setting the record of being the youngest goal scorer in the Champions League. The total experience increased to level 40, 39.38 million/50 million.
Qiao Anchen scored a goal in the first three minutes. Qiao Anchen's skills and abilities really scared Zenit St. Petersburg, and they immediately stepped up their guard against Qiao Anchen.
But Qiao Anchen is not alone in fighting alone. The three forward lineup sent by Simeone is designed to work in this situation.
In the 13th minute, when Qiao Anchen took the ball on the right and looked like he wanted to break through with the ball, three players from the Zenit defense surrounded him. Falcao on the left was completely unmanned.
In the defensive gap.
The next thing was simple, Qiao Anchen found an opportunity to pass the ball and sent it to Adrian's feet.
Then, Adrian, who was responding, took a look at Falcao's movement, adjusted it, and made a long diagonal pass, lofting the ball into the left wing of the penalty area.
Falcao rushed into the penalty area with almost no one marking him, volleyed from about eight or nine meters away from the goal, and successfully sent the ball into the upper left corner of the goal.
Although goalkeeper Malafeev had moved to the left side of the goal, the ball was too close, powerful, and at a tricky angle. Malafeev subconsciously waved his hand and hit nothing.
The ball passed over his hand and flew into the goal.
Atletico Madrid easily took a 2-0 lead, and there was really no suspense. The game only started 13 minutes ago, and it seemed that everyone had already seen the disastrous defeat of Zenit St. Petersburg.
Zenit also seemed to have seen the outcome clearly, and defended more resolutely in the following games. It was not a very sure opportunity, and they did not even counterattack. They firmly guarded the goal and resolutely did not concede the ball.
Using such a big bus and iron barrel tactics, Zenit successfully defended for more than 20 minutes.
But Qiao Anchen's personal skills are so good that sometimes Zenit can't stop him even with the crowd tactics.
In the 39th minute, Qiao Anchen got the ball on the right and then stepped on the joint team, passed three people and then entered the penalty area, causing panic in Zenit's penalty area.