Chapter 579: Stealing the Spotlight

On February 14th, the first day of the Chinese New Year in the Chinese lunar calendar, Valentine's Day in Europe, Inter Milan sent to Napoli, the third largest city in Italy, to challenge the sixth place in the league Napoli. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although such a game is not important for Inter Milan, who are far ahead of the standings, it is very important for Gao Xiaodong and Sneijder.

Sneijder's performance in the Italian Cup was very good, beating Juventus and Fiorentina in a row, but in the league, Sneijder did not perform well, sending off in the first red card, then two games, and now he has just returned from the ban, and if he wants to replace Gao Xiaodong's core position, he must perform well against Napoli.

For Gao Xiaodong, the significance of this game is also not small, this is the Lunar New Year of China, the most important festival of Chinese people, in the minds of Chinese people, today is the beginning of the new year.

Gao Xiaodong is very eager to send a New Year's gift to your own compatriots on this day.

In addition, the newcomer Sneijder's performance was eye-catching, his strength was amazing, and before the game, the media advocated that the Dutchman was on the top, and Gao Xiaodong scored a hat trick in the last round to shut up the media.

In terms of the competition between Gao Xiaodong and Sneijder, Mourinho's attitude is very clear, Gao Xiaodong is the core of the team, Sneijder is the main force of the team, the two can compete, can coexist, but cannot compete viciously.

When Inter Milan arrived in Naples in the morning, there were very few Inter Milan fans who came to pick up the airport, only two or three hundred, and there were only a few dozen Chinese fans.

Inter Milan have won consecutive titles in recent seasons, and the number and passion of the fans have doubled, and the number of people who greet them everywhere they play is no less than 1,000, but Napoli is an exception.

Naples is the city with the fewest immigrants in Italy, almost all of them Italians, and the Italians of Naples are almost exclusively Naples fans, and it is unlikely that a team outside of Naples will be popular with local fans here.

Most of the Chinese fans who came to watch the game were die-hards of the fat fan group, and there were also a few Chinese tourists who spent the Spring Festival abroad.

Gao Xiaodong's die-hard fans brought Gao Xiaodong roses and a pair of cloth tigers, wishing him a prosperous tiger in the Year of the Tiger and finding a tigress as soon as possible.

Seeing that the number of people who came was small, Gao Xiaodong also patiently sent autographs and group photos for each fan.

Coming to the hotel, Mourinho held a short meeting for everyone, the theme of the meeting was to ask the players not to go out casually, because Napoli is a very bad city, the fans are very passionate, Mourinho is worried that the players will cause trouble outside, especially Balotelli.

Finally, Mourinho wants his players to give it their all and try to get the three points at the Sao Paulo Stadium, where they have not been able to win for 13 years.

In the afternoon, when Inter Milan adapted to the venue at the Sao Paulo Stadium, they really felt the "passion" from the Napoli fans, and almost all of the people who came to watch the training were Napoli fans, and they kept booing and humiliating the players of Inter Milan, especially Gao Xiaodong, because Gao Xiaodong has the title of Maradona of Huaguo, Maradona is like a god in the minds of Napoli fans, and they are very dissatisfied with the nickname of Gao Xiaodong, thinking that it is a humiliation to Maradona.

Sneijder is happy to see this situation, although Gao Xiaodong has comprehensive skills, scores a lot of goals, and is very similar to Maradona, but Sneijder thinks that Gao Xiaodong's football is just barbaric and violent, and it can't be compared with the imaginative and extraordinary Maradona, saying that Gao Xiaodong is Huaguo Maradona, is completely a praise of Gao Xiaodong and a humiliation of Maradona.

However, Napoli fans did not let Sneijder go, saying that Sneijder was garbage, could not play in Real Madrid, and could not compete for a fake Maradona when he came to Inter Milan.

Inter Milan's training at the Sao Paulo Stadium was uncomfortable, in addition to boos and scolding, they also faced threats of violence from fans, and watched the sky drift snowflakes, and the original 90-minute training session only lasted more than 70 minutes, and then hurried back to the hotel.

The acclimatisation made many first-time Napoli players aware of the dangers of the conditions, and in the days that followed, everyone was serious about preparing for a possible snow battle in the evening, aiming for their first victory in 13 years at the Stadio de São Paulo.

At 8:45 p.m., when the game between Inter Milan and Napoli began, the snow stopped, which was more advantageous for Inter Milan, who are better at playing on the ground, but in the first minute of the game, Napoli midfielder Pazienza kicked Muntari in the chest in a scrum, making the Inter players realize that it was impossible for them to play a good combination today.

Referee Rossetti was not relentless in such fouls, and immediately showed a yellow card to warn Pazienza and gave Inter Milan a free kick.

Gao Xiaodong, who plays as a left midfielder, took the free kick.

The ball was in the midfield, about thirty meters away from the goal, but Gao Xiaodong still shot directly, he shot too hard, the ball was not suppressed, and flew directly into the stands.

Sneijder was a little dissatisfied with Gao Xiaodong's direct shot, he thought that at such a long distance, he should play a match, it was best for him to pass the ball, Gao Xiaodong to fight for the top, rather than rushing to shoot.

"How dare you call Diego here?"

"High! Shoot so high!"

"High plane!"

The Napoli fans in the stands burst into applause, cheering for Gao Xiaodong's jerk off.

Napoli's goal kick went straight up front and Lucio grabbed the spot and headed the ball into midfield, but he was also knocked to the ground by the opposition striker.

The ball was grabbed by Napoli midfielder Hamsik, who chested the ball, picked off Muntari and passed the ball to Quagliarella, who had already observed the running position of another striker, Zuriga, and he kept the ball into the Inter penalty area.

Zuriga sped diagonally from the side of the penalty area, but Inter Milan goalkeeper Cesar was so focused that he grabbed the ball in his arms first.

Cesar quickly threw the ball to Zanetti, who then passed it to Gao Xiaodong, who quickly broke forward along the side.

Napoli midfielder Gargano flew into a diagonal tackle and wanted to destroy the ball out of the sideline, but Gao Xiaodong was faster, and Gargano did not tackle it, but Gao Xiaodong went a little big, and Napoli right-back Grava took the first step to clear the ball.

Grava's movements were rude, and he didn't retract his feet after clearing the siege with one kick, and the kicked foot went directly to Gao Xiaodong's abdomen.

Fortunately, Gao Xiaodong was quite flexible, and he turned around sharply to avoid this broken grandson's foot.

After a back-and-forth struggle down the middle, the ball was snatched away by the more aggressive Napolins, with Hamsik crossing to Zuriga, who then passed back to Parienza, who was also booked for a yellow card with a retaliatory kick that knocked Parienza over.

Gargano took a free-kick and passed the ball into the box, Zanetti nodded it in front of him, and the ball fell right at the feet of Hamsik, who fired a powerful curling ball from 23 yards, which went around goalkeeper Cesar and headed straight for the right corner.

Just when the Inter fans were desperate, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced out!

The 23-year-old Czech genius Hamsik couldn't help but hide his face and sigh, lamenting bad luck.

Napoli's attack didn't end there, the ball was collected by Napoli midfielder Aronica, he crossed diagonally into the box on the left, Samoel missed the header, Hamsik followed up with a header, and Quagliarella volleyed into the near corner from eight yards, but the ball hit the side-netting.

In the opening 10 minutes, the Napolins were completely dominant at home and had a dangerous shot on goal.

Inter Milan didn't want to show weakness, and then Gao Xiaodong ate Guevara with speed, Grava was forced to foul, Gao Xiaodong quickly sent a free kick to the penalty area to find Milito, but the ball was blocked by Aronica's arm in the penalty area, Gao Xiaodong hurriedly raised his hand and shouted a penalty, but referee Rossetti ignored it.

Napoli launched a quick counter-attack when Inter took a penalty, Hamsik crossed from the left, Dennis grabbed in front of Samuel and dived over the top from 6 meters in front of the goal, Cesar made a world-class save and flew to block the ball off the line!

There were sighs and curses from the Napoli fans in the stands, who were unhappy with the god of luck and if they had been lucky, maybe they would have been two goals ahead.

Originally, many people thought that this game was a competition between Sneijder and Gao Xiaodong, but they didn't expect it to be Napoli's Hamsik who stole the show, and his performance was better than Gao Xiaodong and Sneijder.

The Napoli commentator was both excited and regretful: "Mourinho admires Hamsik very much, thinking that he combines the technical characteristics of the two superstars of Frank Lampard and Nedved, and now it seems that Hamsik's role alone is completely comparable to that of Sneijder and Gao Xiaodong." ”