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I have to say that the strength of the Genoa reserve team is indeed stronger than that of Sampdoria. Otherwise, why are they now ranked high in the reserve team league instead of Sampdoria?

The reserve team has played nineteen rounds in Group A, and the Genoa reserve team is currently at the top of the list. In this group, there are also the reserve teams of Juventus, Fiorentina, and Turin. What about the Sampdoria reserve team? Currently ranked sixth, if they want to qualify for the reserve team playoffs, they must at least get fifth in the league at the end of the season.

Counting this game, there are seven games left. This is not an easy task. Last season, the Sampdoria reserve team only finished eighth and missed the playoffs. I can only watch helplessly as the city rival Genoa's reserve team advances to the playoffs as the number one and finally wins the championship trophy.

Although the players of the Sampdoria reserve team were high-spirited and played hard after the opening game. But the first goal is the visiting team Genoa reserve team.

In the 21st minute, Genoa striker Samuele Longo opened the scoring for his team and broke the deadlock.

After conceding the goal, Andre Tozo, the starting goalkeeper of the Sampdoria reserve team, was very angry. Before the game, he swore that the Genoa reserve team would not score in this game. Unexpectedly, it was only 21 minutes and he The goal he was guarding was pierced, and he felt ashamed...

Sure enough, he saw that Jelenic hadn't forgotten to shake his finger to his side when he participated in the goal celebration of his teammates-everyone knew what this action meant.

"Damn it!" Tozuo cursed, then turned his gaze to Gao Zheng on the sidelines.

In his eyes, the Great Demon King was sitting on the bench, with his chin in his hand, looking towards the field, not knowing what he was thinking. Would he be anxious about the situation? Will he be eager to play early?

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After losing the ball, the left back of the Sampdoria reserve team saw Tommaso Cancelotti was replaced by Bruni, because the area he guarded on the pitch has obviously become the biggest weakness-Longo scored The ball is launched from this side.

Being replaced after only 23 minutes of the game is certainly not a good thing for the players, which means that he has become the worst performing member of the team.

But football is so cruel, or professional football is so cruel.

When you're not good enough, you can't expect to stay on the court.

After all, the game of the reserve team is already very close to the game of the first team. If the players of the reserve team want to go up, they must enter the first team. The competition of the first team is more intense than that of the reserve team. If you can't even handle the various situations of the reserve team, what is the point of gaining a foothold in the first team?

This is no longer a place for thirteen and fourteen-year-olds to enjoy happy football.

It was Grico who replaced Canceloti, who finally stabilized the Sampdoria reserve team's defense after he played.

The two sides began to fall into a stalemate, and the situation was very stalemate.

The Sampdoria fans in the stands did not stop cheering for their team, but what they could do was limited, and the cheering sound could not completely make up for the gap in strength between the two sides.

The main situation on the field was that the Genoa reserve team was attacking, and the Sampdoria reserve team was defending. Tozo made several wonderful saves in the next game, which finally prevented him from being the main goalkeeper of the reserve team. The team stepped into the quagmire to humiliate...

But he was able to save the opponent's shot, but he couldn't help the lagging team equalize the score. In the end, the two sides scored 0:1 in the first half, and Sampdoria, who was playing at home, was temporarily behind by one goal.

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During the halftime break, many members of the Sampdoria reserve team turned their attention to Gao Zheng, either explicitly or secretly. In their minds, if anyone could change the situation on the field, it must be Gao Zheng... Not Icardi.

It's not that they look down on Icardi, or have a prejudice against Icardi.

As a pure shooter, Mauro Icardi relies heavily on the support of his teammates in the midfield. If the midfield does not perform well, or is restrained by the opponent's offense, then there is no way to provide enough support for Icardi.

In this game, because of Genoa's strong strength, the players of the Sampdoria reserve team were mainly in a stalemate with Genoa in their own midfield and did not have much spare power to support Icardi.

So although Icardi is very active in the frontcourt, he has little actual performance. Icardi played very uncomfortable in the first half of the game.

Icardi was also not happy with his first-half performance.

He had spoken big and boasted before. Say he's here, and Sampdoria can beat Genoa. In the end, he ran for forty-five minutes in vain and didn't score a single goal. It was a shame...

And now everyone's eyes are on Gao Zheng...

He lowered his head and didn't look at Gao Zheng.

However, these players only dared to set their sights on Gao Zheng, but they didn't dare to really make such a request to head coach Bruni...

In the face of everyone's eyes, Gao Zheng did not take the initiative to ask to play in the game. It seems that this contest started because of him has nothing to do with him now. He will only play when the coach asks him to play.

Bruni is also indifferent, he did not make any adjustments in personnel.

At the beginning of the second half, Gao Zheng was not substituted.

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At the beginning of the second half, the Genoa reserve team led by one goal attacked fiercely, and they scored again in the 49th minute.

This time it was midfielder Stefano Sturaro who scored for the team.

After Tozo lost the ball, Jelenic, who happened to be in front of the goal, leaned over and said to him: "I don't think that big stupid guy needs to play, anyway, you are all finished! Hahaha!"

After speaking, he laughed and ran to his teammates to join their celebration - a group of Genoa reserve team players ran to celebrate under the stands where the Sampdoria fans gathered. This was a naked provocation.

Of course they also got curses and boos from the Sampdoria fans, as well as the middle finger.

"Go back to your coop, bastards!"

"Don't let me see you on the street!"

A group of old men are not polite when they scold younger people... There is no traditional virtue of "respecting the old and loving the young" here.

Gao Zheng was fascinated by watching from the bench - this is Derby.

He was also a person who experienced the Milan Derby back then, and the situation is similar to now. Although everyone is fifteen or sixteen years old, they all imitate the performance in the adult team derby, trying to make themselves behave like the stars of the first team.

At this moment, assistant coach Cacilio walked over quickly and said to Gao Zheng, who was turning his head to "appreciate" the performance of the Genoa players: "Gao, it's your turn to play!"

Gao Zheng froze for a moment, the second half only started five minutes...

But he didn't talk nonsense, he stood up directly from the bench, and took off his vest.

It seems that two goals behind in the Lighthouse Derby made the usually unsmiling head coach a little restless...

When Gao Zheng walked to the sidelines, Bruni pulled him, opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

Because he remembered that in the last game, he let Gao Zheng kick casually, but Gao Zheng scored the goal when he came on the field.

So should we do the same this time?

Seeing the head coach like this, Gao Zheng asked with a smile, "Do you want to play casually?"

Bruni changed his mind, he shook his head: "No, this is a derby. Go out and use your abilities to change the situation. You know what to do, Gao."

Gao Zheng was not humble, he nodded.

Yes, he knows what to do.

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PS, this is released regularly, so when I update this chapter, I don't know the result of the competition, I don't know if my prediction is right...

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