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"After Sampdoria took the lead, their offense became sharper. Their core player, Gao from China, was especially active! Just now, he shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area and almost blasted Courtois away again. Guard the goal!"

Giovanni Simeone is sitting at home watching the UEFA Champions League live.

There is a four-hour time difference between Italy and Argentina. It is eight o'clock in the evening there, and it is four o'clock in the afternoon here.

Fortunately, the team did not train this afternoon, so he was able to go home to watch the game after training in the morning.

For this reason, he also declined the enthusiastic invitation of his teammates, even if his teammates told him that there would be several beautiful girls coming together, he would not be moved.

He has been looking forward to the game between Atletico Madrid and Sampdoria for a long time, just to see if his father is alarmist.

Twelve minutes into the game, he saw Gao Zheng's goal.

That goal was beautiful. Although it looked like an ordinary turning shot, Giovanni Simeone, who is also a forward, knew very well that he had to suddenly change his center of gravity in a very short time, and then turn around and shoot. Being able to play football so steadily is not as simple as everyone imagined.

Many players will turn around and shoot, but most of the time, they will fly or miss the football. Moreover, these turn and shoots are mostly the kind of actions that they take the initiative to push the football away, and then turn around and shoot.

When Gao Zheng was running forward, he found that his teammate had passed the football behind him, so he immediately turned around and hit the goal.

In addition to this goal, Gao Zheng will pose a threat to Atletico Madrid's defense almost every time he takes the ball.

Although he did not play and train at Atletico Madrid, Giovanni still pays close attention to his father's team. He clearly knows how powerful the defense line trained by his father is.

Although Atletico Madrid only finished third in the league last season, their 38 league rounds conceded only 31 goals. It is indeed the best in the league and the team with the fewest conceded goals.

In Giovanni's view, his father is very good at defensive training.

As a result, such a line of defense showed trepidation in front of Gao Zheng, as if he had to do his best every time he defended.

He has the performance of breaking through Atletico Madrid's defense with the ball, and he also has the record of holding the ball to attract the attention of Atletico Madrid's defenders, and then passing the football into the space, not to mention shooting.

In addition to a goal, he also directly threatened Atletico Madrid's goal with shots several times.

From the start of the game to now, Courtois has made four effective saves, three of which came from Gao Zheng's shots.

Although his father said at the pre-match press conference that Gao Zheng is not the only player in Sampdoria, and other players deserve attention, Giovanni felt that it was just his father paralyzing his opponent.

But judging from the games during this period, Gao Zheng, who performed well, drove the entire Sampdoria team to run at high speed, constantly threatening Atletico Madrid's goal. Lost away to Sampdoria".

In fact, when this feeling just emerged from Giovanni's mind, he still felt it was ridiculous. But as time went by, he became less and less afraid to think about it.

If Sampdoria can score another goal, maybe Atletico Madrid will really lose.

In his view, Sampdoria's morale has been fully raised, and it is home again. It is like sailing with the wind. Although the ship is small, it is more flexible.

How did the game become like this?

The TV broadcast happened to give Gao Zheng a close-up shot, and then replayed another threatening shot he had just completed.

This time Courtois failed to touch the ball, the ball just went slightly wide of the post...

The commentator of Argentine TV joked: "Coach Simeone praised Gao at the press conference before the game, which also aroused many people's doubts and debates. Some people said that Simeone was using the practice of killing Samp Doria lowered his vigilance... But looking at the game, maybe everyone misunderstood Simeone, and he was sincerely praising Gao?"

Hearing what the narrator said, Giovanni had mixed feelings in his heart.

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"Gao feels very good today!" After seeing Sampdoria's performance, Caresa couldn't hide his joy from the heart, "Just play like this! Keep putting pressure on Atletico Madrid, and after finding a breakthrough, the blow is fatal! "

As an Italian commentator, he naturally hopes that the only seedling of Italian football can persevere in the knockout rounds. Naturally, he doesn't expect Sampdoria to be able to achieve such an incredible thing as winning the Champions League, but even if he can advance one more round, it will be a good thing for himself and Italian football.

"The key point is that the whole team of Sampdoria performed very well today. I have to say that now this Sampdoria team feels more like the Champions League. They have gained nutrition from the Champions League and then fed back to the team. It can show better performance. The Champions League has a virtuous circle with Sampdoria, a mid-range team..." Bergomi, the commentator next to him, said with emotion.

Everyone is a mid-range team participating in the UEFA Champions League. Before that, the result was basically the same, that is, the bamboo basket was empty, the Champions League was yellow, and the league was also yellow. Sampdoria was simply relegated last time, and there are countless examples of other mid-range teams that ended up in a relegation battle because of their participation in the Champions League.

Many people feel that the Champions League has become a game that only the rich and powerful or upstarts can afford.

Teams with insufficient background, insufficient financial resources, and insufficient lineup simply don't even want to play.

But this year's Sampdoria showed them another result.

Among the teams that have reached the top 16 of the Champions League this year, Sampdoria is the team with the weakest financial resources and the smallest budget. In addition to the traditional giants in Europe, most of the other teams that have reached the top 16 are the hegemons of their respective national leagues, or have the support of financial owners.

Galatasaray is a traditional giant in Turkey, Olympiacos is also a professional champion in Greece, and Zenit St. Petersburg is backed by Gazprom's financial support, which is not short of money.

Only Sampdoria's history is not glorious enough, and there is no money.

They are simply outliers in the round of sixteen.

"That's because Sampdoria is tall." Caresa reminded Bergomi.

"I know, but in addition to Gao, the efforts of others are also essential. Otherwise, look, can Sampdoria beat Atletico Madrid only by relying on Gao?" Bergomi pointed out the Sampdoria players their efforts. "Without the cooperation of other Sampdoria players, I believe Gao's ability will be limited. He and other Sampdoria players should complement each other."

Caresa nodded: "That's true. Football is a team sport after all. But the backbone is still Gao. The reason why Sampdoria can perform well in the Champions League is inseparable from Gao's outstanding performance. We can imagine that if After this season, Sampdoria can't keep Gao, what happens next."

Bergomi also had to admit that what Caresa said made sense.

In any case, the core of this team is Gao Zheng.

After the short exchange between the two ended, Gao Zheng used another wonderful shot to force Courtois to make the fifth effective save of the game.

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PS, there is still one hour before the Asian Cup group match between the Chinese team and Kyrgyzstan.

To be honest, judging from the performance of the Chinese team in the warm-up match during this period, I am not optimistic about the performance of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup-not the results, but the performance-the Chinese team seems to have lost its freshness for Lippi . Lippi's performance after taking over Gao Hongbo in the World Cup qualifiers was impressive. The team seemed to have a feeling of exchanging income for a knife.

But judging from this year's warm-up match, there seems to be some problem between the Chinese team and Lippi. Lippi publicly declared that he would leave the team after the Asian Cup and would not lead the team to the World Cup qualifiers. The performance of the players in the warm-up match also seemed to be not working hard.

In this state, I am not optimistic about the performance of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup. Basically, there is little hope of advancing to the knockout round. It must be home after three games in the group stage. Even facing the weakest Kyrgyzstan in this group, I don't think the Chinese team can win...

I very much hope that the Chinese team can slap me in the face with their actual performance. Unfortunately, this possibility is very slim.

I have predicted many games, and the results are basically wrong, but on the Chinese team, I did not miss it.