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When Emmanuel Borata walked into Sampdoria's Mugnaini training base, he was a little confused - which field was the reserve team playing on?

This was his first time watching a reserve team game, and he knew very little about the reserve team.

At this moment, he saw in front of him a big fat man who was a circle fatter than him was walking tremblingly. The Sampdoria scarf around his neck showed his identity and made him look like he was gone. neck……

So he hurried to catch up: "Excuse me, may I ask where the reserve team game is played?"

The big fat man turned his head and saw Borata: "Is this the first time to watch the reserve team game?"

Borata was a little embarrassed: "Yes..."

Unexpectedly, the other party didn't ask any more questions, but said, "Just follow me."

"Thank you, my name is Emmanuel Borata."

"Clarian Moretti."

Accompanied by Moretti's heavy breathing, they soon came to the Ricardo Garrone Stadium.

When they arrived, players from both sides were warming up on the pitch.

Polata saw at a glance that one of the warm-up players on Sampdoria's side was a tall and thin man. It was the Chinese boy who often came to his shop to buy focaccia!

It turned out to be a reserve team player...

Borata felt amazing.

"Aren't you going to watch in the stands?" Clariant Moretti next to him asked when he saw that the other party was standing on the sidelines in a daze.

"Oh, oh... yes, thank you." Borata then looked away and followed Moretti into the stands.

The angle of view is better here, and it is clearer to see.

The Chinese boy who was warming up was playing with a ball. He kicked the football high. When the football fell, he stretched out his foot casually without lifting it up. He put it on the ground. When the football touched his feet , It actually stopped firmly on the turf, without rolling at all, like an iron nail attracted by a magnet.

"This..." Borata whispered in surprise.

Moretti next to him laughed, "This is your first time watching Gao's game?"

"Tall?" Borata looked at Moretti strangely.

"His name is Gao, Gao Zheng." Moretti pointed at the Chinese boy on the court.

Polata remembered that the newspaper had introduced the name of this Chinese boy. "Yes, it's my first time here..."

"I think so, you didn't even know which venue the reserve team was playing just now." Moretti laughed.

Borata smiled sheepishly.

"Did you become interested in him because you read the newspaper?" Moretti asked.

"Uh, yes and no." Borata replied ambiguously.

"what does that mean?"

"It was only after I read the newspaper that I realized that the Chinese boy who often came to my store to buy focaccia turned out to be a player for the Sampdoria reserve team."

Moretti was taken aback by Borata's words: "Is he your ... regular customer?"

"I didn't expect that either." Borata laughed. "When I saw the report in the newspaper, I was also taken aback. So I decided to watch his match to make sure. I didn't expect it was really him..."

"It's unbelievable..." Moretti shook his head.

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I don't know if Tosi really convinced the first team. In short, neither Gao Zheng nor Icardi was promoted to the first team for training. They still stay in the reserve team training and also participate in the reserve team games.

After defeating the Genoa reserve team at home, the Sampdoria reserve team's away game against the Bologna reserve team was postponed to April 19th. Today's home game against the Cesena reserve team is the first game after the Lighthouse Derby.

But the number of fans who came to watch the game was much less than the previous game.

It seems that in the reserve team, except for the key games of the Lighthouse Derby and the playoffs,

There are not many people watching the other games.

Gao Zheng still didn't start the game, and he continued to sit on the bench.

The starting forwards are Icardi and Testaldi.

Although Gao Zheng had a very good performance in the match against Genoa, Bruni still did not change his plan for Gao Zheng - not to encourage growth, lay a solid foundation, play steadily, and try not to trigger the "booby trap" on his left foot.

In the last game, Gao Zheng played almost half of the game, and Gao Zheng really worked hard. As a result, in the training after the game, Bruni's coaching staff found that Gao Zheng's physical fitness had not fully recovered, and he seemed a little tired during the training. Therefore, the training effect is not as good as before. You must know that this is still on the premise of taking a day off after the game.

This shows that Gao Zheng's physical fitness is still far from the requirement to play the whole game.

Gao Zheng did not raise any objection to this arrangement, of course he was aware of his current situation. He trusts Bruni's arrangements for him, and he doesn't think that the head coach is deliberately suppressing himself.

But Marcy and the others didn't understand very well. They felt that the head coach was confused, leaving the big devil alone and making him a substitute every game. Isn't this a waste of money?

Massey was also placed on the bench for this game.

He murmured to Gao Zheng who was sitting next to him: "You really can see..."

Gao Zheng laughed when he heard the words: "I have experienced worse things. I just played as a substitute. What's wrong with me?"

"You say that, I can't refute..."

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"Another substitute?" Clariant Moretti was surprised to see that Gao Zheng was not among the starting eleven. He thought that with Gao Zheng's performance in the Lighthouse Derby, he should definitely be able to start this game, right?

"Again? Is he a substitute every game?" Borata next to him asked curiously.

"He didn't play until the 50th minute of the last lighthouse derby," Moretti explained.

Completed a hat-trick in 40 minutes, helping the team beat their rivals in the same city 4:2. Such a performance is not enough to make him start?

Borata thought in his heart, not understanding how the head coach of the reserve team arranged it.

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Ten minutes after the start of the game, the Sampdoria reserve team conceded the ball.

In fact, the performance of the Sampdoria reserve team in the reserve team league this season is very mediocre. Before the appearance of Icardi and Gao Zheng, the Sampdoria reserve team had almost no bright spots.

Even if Icardi came, it did not significantly improve the team's performance. After all, Icardi is a pure shooter and needs the support of his teammates. If his teammates are not strong, then his ability will also be compromised.

However, when Gao Zheng started to play and scored four goals in two games, the deeply stimulated Icardi was more desperate and active than before.

So after eleven minutes he equalized for the Sampdoria reserve team.

After the goal, Icardi shook his fist at the bench.

"Demonstrating at you again," Marcy said.

Gao Zheng smiled, but did not respond.

Then the game was deadlocked.

Both sides had some chances, but neither took them.

At the end of the first half, the Sampdoria reserve team also ushered in bad news-the attacking midfielder Nicola Muratore was injured and could not persist in the game, and was replaced by Nenad Kosticic down.

After the start of the second half, Gao Zheng was not replaced like in the previous game.

In the 50th minute, Bruni used up his second substitution, replacing Luca Rizzo with Bruno Maltra.

"There is only one substitution, why not let Gao play?" Borata was very dissatisfied with the decision of the head coach of the reserve team. He came here to watch Gao Zheng play football. If Gao Zheng didn't play, wouldn't his trip be in vain? Honestly he's not interested in reserve games at all...

Moretti didn't say anything, just stared at the pitch.

Compared with the previous lighthouse derby, this game was far from intense or exciting. This is the normal state of reserve team games, so how can there be wonderful games often?

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Gao Zheng and Marcy were called to warm up by assistant coach Cascilio again. This was just to prevent them from sitting on the bench and getting cold. It did not mean that they would be able to play after the warm-up.

"After the two consecutive victories, I originally thought that we had hope of making it to the playoffs this time, but now it seems that it is still in doubt. What is the head coach thinking, let you use this big killer..." During the warm-up , Ma Xi complained to Gao Zheng beside him.

"Maybe the coach is waiting for an opportunity?" Gao Zheng replied.

"Waiting for an opportunity? What opportunity?"

While warming up, Gao Zheng looked towards the court: "Waiting for the opponent to win the game?"

Just finished speaking, there was a dead ball in the game, and the visiting team Cesena's reserve team made a substitution. They replaced the left back Andre Marozi with center forward Alejandro Rodriguez, and adjusted the original five backs to With four backs, the formation changed from 541 to 442.

Massimo Agostini, head coach of Cesena's reserve team, showed his ultimate move and was about to attack!

When the substitute players of the Sampdoria reserve team returned from warming up, Gao Zheng was directly stopped by assistant coach Cacilio, who refused to let him go back to the bench.

"Ready to play, Gao."

Ma Xi stared at Gao Zheng with wide eyes, unexpectedly, he was really hit by the big devil! When the opponent made changes, the head coach also made adjustments...

He now wonders if the big devil got some hint from the head coach in advance, or why is he so accurate?

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PS, well, I really don’t blame me for Egypt’s two-goal loss to Russia... How could I have imagined that Russia playing at home is like the Soviet Red Army that surrounded Moscow back then...

Portugal played Morocco at 8 o'clock today. I was worried that Ronaldo was too good in the first game, and this game would be misfired.

Morocco has already lost to Iran, this game cannot be lost... I am more optimistic about the draw between the two teams.

There is no suspense in the match between Uruguay and Saudi Arabia. Uruguay will beat Saudi Arabia with three goals!

Spain played against Iran in the middle of the night. Judging from the performance of Spain in the first game, there is no problem for them to beat Iran in this game. The suspense is just a few goals. I think Spain will also beat Iran with three goals.

Don't say I'm a bright light, these two games will not live if the light is bright again-is it possible for Spain to lose to Iran by three goals? Could Uruguay lose three goals to Saudi Arabia?

Impossible!