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When Gao Zheng stood in the middle circle with a football under his feet, he looked left and right and looked around.

The San Siro Stadium was not full. This stadium can accommodate 80,000 people, but as far as the eye can see, the stands are empty everywhere.

Although this game was fired up in the media, it was mainly the Genoa media, and the Milan media were relatively indifferent to this game.

AC Milan fans are not very enthusiastic either.

This may have a lot to do with the team letting go of Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva this summer. AC Milan fans don't buy it.

The empty stands made Galliani on the rostrum look a bit ugly. He knew that this was the way the fans were protesting to him.

Regarding the release of Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, from the perspective of club management, it must be done, because the salaries of the two are not low. Selling them can not only exchange for the transfer fee, but also pay a lot of salary for the termination of the contract, which is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

But the fans don't care about this, they only see the team's loss of two big stars.

Before the start of the game, Fabio Caresa, the commentator of Sky TV in Italy, was also introducing to the TV audience the performance of AC Milan in the summer transfer market. He only mentioned the grievances between Gao Zheng and AC Milan. A few words, other times he was discussing the summer Serie A transfer market with the guest commentator, Inter Milan star Bergomi, and the Milan duo was the focus of their discussions.

Only Liu Hong, the commentator of China Central Television, continued to introduce Gao Zheng's situation in the second division to the Chinese audience and fans in front of the TV.

"Last season was a very important season for Gao Zheng. He encountered the abandonment of the head coach at the beginning of the season, and then regained control of his destiny in the middle of the league. Finally, with his outstanding performance, he won the Everyone’s favor and love. But that’s only the second division. There are still big differences between the first division and the second division. The opponent’s strength is different, and the tactics and the intensity of the confrontation are also completely different.”

"It's so long-winded!" Lin Yuan muttered in front of the TV, and then heard the sound of the door opening behind him.

He saw his sister in the crack of the door.

"Are parents asleep?"

Lin Yuan jumped off the sofa, took a look under the door of his parents' bedroom, and then whispered to his sister: "The lights are off."

Lin Sisi tiptoed out of the bedroom upon hearing the words,

Sitting on the sofa, he patted the sofa cushion: "Come and watch the ball!"

Lin Yuan frowned and looked at his sister: "Aren't you going to work tomorrow?"

"Anyway, I can get up." Lin Sisi was wearing pajamas, sitting cross-legged on the sofa, hugging a pillow, staring at the TV screen.

Lin Yuan thought that it would be her sister's bad luck to be discovered anyway, so she stopped talking and went back to the sofa to watch the football game with her sister.

This is the first time for my sister to watch the game, but he knows why, because this game has coach Gao

The TV broadcast happened to give a close-up shot of Gao Zheng standing in the middle circle. In the shot, Gao Zheng was staring at the direction of AC Milan's goal very seriously.

This was the first time Lin Yuan saw Coach Gao look so serious. In the training class before, no matter what time, no matter what the situation, Lin Yuan always saw Coach Gao smiling.

"Handsome!" His sister's groan sounded next to him, and Lin Yuan rolled his eyes. He felt that he might not be able to concentrate on watching the game.

At this moment, the referee saw that the players on both sides were in position, looked at his watch, and then blew the whistle to start the game!

"The game has begun! CCTV, CCTV! Good morning, audience friends, welcome to watch the first round of the 2011-2012 Italian Football League, the match between AC Milan and Sampdoria at home! Wearing red and black on the court AC Milan is attacking from left to right in a striped shirt, while Sampdoria is wearing a blue jersey and attacking from right to left. The player who just kicked off is Chinese player Gao Zheng. He is wearing the No. 10 jersey! Last season The No. 40 jersey he wears, from the change of the number, we can see that the importance of Gao Zheng in the Sampdoria team is gradually increasing.”

When Liu Hong talked for a long time, Sampdoria had already played the football to AC Milan's frontcourt. Before he even had time to read the rosters of both sides, he focused all on Gao Zheng. But for Chinese fans, this is not a problem, they are watching this game for Gao Zheng.

"The game has begun!" In the bar, the Chinese students and other Sampdoria fans cheered, and then began to watch the game quietly.

After Sampdoria kicked off, after turning the football around in the backcourt, another long pass hit the frontcourt.

It was Gao Zheng who was looking for him.

However, Gao Zheng didn't jump up to compete for the top. The AC Milan center back Yepes next to him jumped high and easily pushed the football up.

Seeing this scene, Sampdoria coach Di Francesco yelled from the sidelines: "Don't pass the fucking high ball! The ground! Stick to the ground!"

He didn't scold Gao Zheng for not competing for the top, but the player who passed the ball.

Since the tactical idea of ​​using Gao Zheng as the core of the attack was determined, Sampdoria's offense was mainly based on ground advancement, because Di Francesco found that Gao Zheng's header skills were not very good, and he was 1.9 meters tall. , but not good at fighting for the top and hand-to-hand combat, so hitting Gao Zheng with a high ball means losing possession of the ball.

The Sampdoria players in the backcourt just now apparently forgot his instructions.

"Sampdoria is looking for Gao Zheng with a long pass. This is their chance to attack." Before Liu Hong finished speaking, he saw Yepes pushing the football, and Gao Zheng who was right beside him didn't even interfere. Interfering, he didn't know what to say immediately. When he was doing his homework, he knew that Gao Zheng was not good at fighting for headers, but he didn't even pretend to do it. How can I speak the words?

Lin Yuan and Lin Sisi in front of the TV also looked at each other, but they didn't expect Coach Gao's first performance to be nothing.

Although his teammate made a wrong pass, Gao Zheng still gave the opponent a thumbs up, indicating that the pass was good, and then he turned to observe where the football went.

The football that Yepes fought for the top was controlled by Sampdoria and fell to Obiang's feet.

Seeing this, Gao Zheng didn't turn around and run forward, but took the initiative to withdraw to meet Obiang.

In this game, Di Francisco played a 433 formation, Gao Zheng was in the center, Edel was on the left, and Marcelo Estigarivia, an attacker on loan from Atlético Maldonado, was on the right. He played for Juventus on loan last season.

In the midfield, Kosticic and Polly are on top, and Obiang is dragged behind and in the center, which is regarded as a midfielder.

Yepes pushed the football directly to Sampdoria's midfielder, while Gao Zheng, as a center forward, withdrew the ball to meet the center forward. Such a kick is considered rare. Generally, the center forward will stand in his position, try to push the opponent's defense forward as much as possible, and leave space for his midfielders.

However, in the Sampdoria team, Di Francesco gave Gao Zheng such freedom. He can kick and run as he wants.

Gao Zheng withdrew to support his midfielder. Yepes, who wanted to go up, stayed in his position. He couldn't let Gao Zheng pull himself out. As for Gao Zheng's defense, he had his midfield teammates to solve it. .

AC Milan's defensive midfielder in this game is Montolivo, who came on a free transfer. His body is not strong enough, and defense is not his best. But Gao Zheng is not strong, so Montolivo should be good at defense. All right

Just as Yepes thought of this, after receiving Obiang's pass, Gao Zheng pulled the football behind him with the sole of his foot, then turned around quickly, and wiped it against Montolivo!

And what about Montolivo? When Gao Zheng hit the ball, he was about to paste it. Before he had time to make a defensive move, he was passed by Gao Zheng.

"Oh!" Liu Hong exclaimed in the studio. "This is so beautiful!"

Gao Zheng, who had passed Montolivo, dribbled the ball towards Yepes.

Yepes retreated slowly following the defense, compressing the space behind him.

As a result, Gao Zheng took a long shot while dribbling the ball!

Seeing Gao Zheng swinging his feet, Yepes realized that he had given the opponent such a lenient opportunity!

He wanted to rush forward to stop it, but it was too late, the football flew over his head and flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal!

AC Milan goalkeeper Abbiati saw the football flying toward the goal, he hurriedly made a save, but it was also too late, he couldn't touch the football at all, he could only watch it fly to the upper right corner.

Under his gaze, he slammed his foot on the beam, jumped up and jumped out of the bottom line

The discussion in the commentary about AC Milan's transfer operation of selling two core players this summer, as well as the dissatisfaction of the AC Milan fans in the stands with the club's top management, were all interrupted by this crisp sound.

In just one minute of the opening, Gao Zheng used a long shot from Sampdoria to create a threatening attack.