Chapter 257: A New Opponent

After the match with AC Milan, Gao Zheng sat on the bench in the next discussion of the league.

Di Francesco took into account that Gao Zheng has started every game from the beginning of the season to the present, and there is no winter break this year, and Gao Zheng's physical fitness has also reached a critical point, so he let him rest. After all, the second half of the league has just begun.

In this game, Sampdoria drew 1-1 with Siena away from home, and Icardi scored Sampdoria's only goal.

It seems that as Bergomi said, Icardi's performance would have been better without Gao Zheng.

He took on the heavy lifting of Sampdoria's attack in this game, and in terms of the final result, he performed quite well.

Gao Zheng didn't go up and play for ten minutes until the last minute of the game, which was considered to warm up and maintain the feeling of the game.

But Gao Zheng's competitors in the scorer list did not rest.

Edinson Cavani scored in this game to help Napoli draw 1-1 with Fiorentina.

The number of individual goals rose to the seventeenth, narrowing the gap between him and Gao Zheng to two goals.

El Shaarawy is still goalless and is tied for third in the scorers' charts with Udinese's Di Natale with 14 goals.

Now the tone of the Italian media that criticized Gao Zheng has changed again, from the previous boast that Stefan El Shaarawy will be Gao Zheng's challenger in the scorer list, to Cavani threatening Gao Zheng's leading position, and Shaarawy has been ruthlessly abandoned......

Edinson Cavani has been in really good form this season. So far this season, he has scored two hat-tricks, and like Gao Zheng, he is the player with the most hat-tricks this season.

He has also been in excellent form with eight goals in five consecutive games.

This helped him catch up with Gao Zheng in the scorer list.

Now some Italian media are putting the treasure on Cavani, but they don't care that Cavani is not Italian...... Anyway, as long as you don't let Gao Zheng get the Golden Boot, it's okay.

This is already the bottom line of those Italian media.

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In the 22nd round of the league, Gao Zheng, who had a break for a game, returned to the starting lineup and formed a forward partner with Icardi.

Sampdoria host Pescara in this league round, while Napoli travel to Parma.

The kick-off time for both games is the same, both are Sunday afternoons at 2 o'clock, and at home it's 9 o'clock, which is quite a good time.

CCTV naturally did a live broadcast of this game - in fact, since Gao Zheng's Sampdoria was promoted to the First Division, Sampdoria's CCTV broadcast has not been lost.

Previously, Serie A matches were broadcast live mainly by the Big Three – Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan, plus Roma and Lazio, with these five teams being the most broadcast. Because they have a large number of fans in China, it doesn't make much sense for Serie A games not to turn their games.

But since Sampdoria was promoted, this situation has been broken, and it would be good to say if the game time did not conflict, but in case of conflict, there was absolutely limited guarantee that Sampdoria's live broadcast was placed on the free sports channel, and the matches of the other giants of the conflict were put on the paid Fengyun football channel.

Fans of the original giants can enjoy a variety of resource tilts, and it is simply common sense to watch their own team's games for free.

But not anymore, the easiest way to support your team is to spend money on the game.

But this kind of thing can't be complained about, who called Sampdoria Gao Zheng? This is the Chinese's own star, who does not support him? A lot of people who watch Sampdoria games now aren't even Sampdoria fans, they're just pure high-flying fans. To put it bluntly, if Gao Zheng leaves Sampdoria one day, the vast majority of these people may also follow Gao Zheng to change owners.

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During the live broadcast of the game, CCTV commentator Liu Hong also mentioned the current battle for the scorer list in Serie A, and told the current situation to the Chinese fans in front of the TV to let them know the current situation.

Although the game of Sampdoria is live, it is actually very concerned about the game of Napoli on the other side.

It's not just him who is paying attention, but everyone in Italy is also paying attention to these two games that kick off at the same time......

As a result, Napoli scored away from home only 20 minutes into the game, and the scorer was Cavani!

'Edinson Cavani scored...... This is his eighteenth goal of the season, so he is only one goal away from Gao Zheng! Liu Hong's tone simply made many people sound his classic saying, "There is not much time left for the Chinese team"......

The match between Sampdoria and Pescara has not yet moved.

The two teams played each other in Serie B last season, and Sampdoria didn't take advantage of Pescara at all.

However, the situation has changed radically since promotion to the First Division, with Pescara losing three of their promoted key figures – Immobile, Verratti and Insigne – at the start of the season.

After 21 rounds of league play, Pescara is now in 16th place, with 20 points, three points above the relegation zone, which is not safe.

After Gao Zheng's last game, he said that Sampdoria was fighting for relegation, but in fact, Pescara was really fighting for relegation. If Sampdoria is considered relegation, Pescara doesn't know how envious he is......

Twelve minutes after Cavani's goal, in the thirty-second minute of the game, Sampdoria also scored.

Gao Zheng, who failed to score in the previous game, opened the scoring for the team with a stab shot in front of the goal.

"Twentieth ball!!" Liu Hong shouted excitedly. "Twentieth ball! Gao Zheng's twentieth league goal of the season! Looking at it now, it seems that only a rotation break can stop him from scoring! ”

Ten minutes later, in the forty-second minute, Gao Zheng assisted Icardi's goal, and Sampdoria led Pescara 2-0.

In the first half, Sampdoria led Pescara 2-0.

And there, after Cavani scored the first goal, neither side scored again, and the first half ended with Napoli leading Parma 1-0.

In the first half, Gao Zheng scored one, and Cavani also scored one.

The goal gap between the two is still two goals.

The rivalry between them also looks normal, and it is no different from the previous 21 rounds of the league.

In the second half, the two sides changed places and fought again.

Parma and Napoli are still inseparable, and Napoli, who are ahead, have little advantage, and they are only one goal ahead and are worried about being equalized by Parma.

The style of painting on Sampdoria's side is starting to change......

Just five minutes into the second half, Icardi scored twice!

"Icardi !!" Careza shouted.

Bergomi said with some excitement next to him: "I said before, he is a very talented player, but playing next to Gao has made people ignore him......"

"Icardi wasn't a regular at the start of the season and he started playing slowly. It was only with the injury of his compatriot Maxi López that he became a starter...... But he's scored eight goals so far and he's been amazingly efficient! Sampdoria have two excellent goalscorers this season, Gao and Icardi, and it makes sense that they can sit sixth in the league......

Wanda in front of the TV was watching the game with her children, and her husband was named in the squad for the game, but sat on the bench and did not start.

However, Wanda's mind is obviously not on her husband, she looked at Icardi who was celebrating the goal on the TV, her eyes were a little confused, and she was happy in her heart: Mauro scored two goals, and Gao only scored one goal, Mauro should be temporarily ahead of Gao, if you can end the game like this, does Mauro beat Gao? Wouldn't it be logical for her husband to invite Mauro to celebrate at home on this ground?

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On the side of the Parma and Napoli match, the Napoli media were a little nervous when they first heard that Sampdoria had scored again, thinking that Gao Zheng had scored twice, so the gap between Cavani and Gao Zheng would get bigger and bigger......

But soon when it was Mauro Icardi who scored, many people were relieved – okay, okay.

Edinson Cavani is still just two goals away.

The league is so long, two goals are nothing, and maybe you can get it back in one game.

Then they all set their sights on Edinson Cavani, who was playing.

Come on, Addison (Cavani), one more goal!

As the Napoli media, they certainly hope that Cavani can win the Golden Boot, on the one hand, this is the glory of Napoli football, and on the other hand, it can also kill the prestige of the arrogant Chinese.