Chapter 411: A Needle
The Sampdoria players got a glimpse of the frenzy of the Napoli fans as they stepped out of the tunnel, with the players on the live radio broadcasting the rosters of both sides.
The Napoli players were the first to be announced, and each one's name was cheered for by the 50,000 fans in the stands. And when the players from both sides start playing, the home team list has been reported, followed by the away team's player list.
After the live DJ read out the name of each Sampdoria player, the Napoli fans would create psychological pressure on the Sampdoria players with loud boos.
And it was also clear from the boos that Sampdoria players were the most threatening in the minds of Napoli fans - when Gao Zheng's name was read, the boos were deafening and almost induced a heart attack.
Gao Zheng won the "honor" of the Sampdoria team being booed the loudest.
The boos were so loud that Gao Zheng couldn't help but shrink his neck.
Naturally, this scene was also captured by the live TV footage and mapped onto the big screen on the scene.
Seeing Gao Zheng's reaction, Sampdoria fans were cheering for Gao Zheng, while Napoli fans laughed happily.
If you can make the opponent's ace feel the pressure, they have achieved their goal.
In the next game, as long as Gao Zheng dares to take the ball, what awaits him will be such a huge boo.
If he's scared now, he'd better not catch the ball in this game!
"This momentum...... It feels like Naples is in ruins. Lu Bing stood in the media seat, looked at the scene in front of him and said to Wang Yixing.
The 60,000-capacity São Paulo Stadium has 50,000 people and almost filled the stadium.
In fact, the main color of the home jerseys of Napoli and Sampdoria is blue, but blue is not the same as blue, Napoli's blue is lighter, and the São Paulo stadium, which is full of Napoli fans, also looks like an ocean, but the blue of this ocean is lighter, as if it is the kind of sea blue close to the shore.
Sampdoria, on the other hand, is a deep ocean blue.
“…… There is an interesting story that Naples is also known as the 'City of Sirens', and the Sirens use their singing voice to make passing sailors listen distractedly, and the ship runs aground and sinks. And these sirens are legend to be the creators of Naples. Lo and behold, the Sirens of Naples were the natural enemies of the sailors represented by Sampdoria, and they were simply designed to restrain sailors. I wonder if this means that it is almost impossible for Sampdoria to beat Napoli away from home? ”
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After the start of the game, with waves of cheers and songs from the Napoli fans, Napoli launched a fierce attack on the Sampdoria goal. Sampdoria had no power to fight back, only parrying. The whole team retreated into the penalty area and set up a bus in front of the goal.
It's a bit of a myth.
To the song of the sirens, the sailors were dizzy and were sailing into a dangerous whirlpool without realizing it.
Napoli fans are expecting the first goal.
As long as Napoli can score a goal and the aggregate score becomes 3:3, Napoli's away goal advantage can be validated.
Moreover, scoring first in the game can destroy the confidence and morale of Sampdoria players, and coupled with home advantage, it may be possible to defeat Sampdoria in one fell swoop.
But such a ferocious attack did not help Napoli to score early.
Ten minutes passed quickly, the score was 0-0, and Sampdoria still led Napoli 3-2 on aggregate.
Twenty minutes passed, and the score was still 0:0.
Even thirty minutes have passed, and Sampdoria's goal has not yet been declared.
'The whole Sampdoria team was very tenacious today and I think they should have done special training for that situation in training, defending is their top priority......
"But it's really not a good idea to defend, after all, there are still 60 minutes left in this game...... "Bergomi expressed concern about Sampdoria's tactical choices. Napoli don't have to be in such a hurry, they just need one goal to push Sampdoria into the brink. Of course, in such a frenetic atmosphere, it is difficult to stay calm......"
Bergomi is right, the Siren's singing can indeed confuse people's minds. Amid the shouts and cheers of the Napoli fans, the Napoli players on the pitch now have one thought on their minds - to score, to score Sampdoria's goal!
Thirty minutes without a goal made them a little impatient and forced them to want to score as soon as possible.
If they can't score before the end of the first half, then Sampdoria's morale will improve in the second half, and the initiative will fall to the opposition.
So it makes sense that the Napoli players are eager.
Although it is said that a goal in the full 90 minutes is a lot of time, but if there is a condition, everyone wants to score as early as possible, it will make it easy for all the Napoli players.
So in the first half hour, after still failing to break through the Sampdoria goal, Napoli not only did not slow down the tempo, but further strengthened the attack.
But as a result, there are more and more gaps in their backline.
Some people may see this, but in this situation, no one cares.
All the Napoli players and fans were thinking that as long as they could score, even one goal, the situation would be completely different, and the game would be completely on the Napoli track, and they wouldn't have to be in such a hurry. And before scoring this first goal, you can't give up the attack no matter what, just that breath, you can't let it go!
It feels like a giant balloon that is still inflating.
It looks powerful, but it's actually fragile and only requires a needle......
In the thirty-fifth minute, Sampdoria threw a flying needle.
When they broke the ball in the backfield, they directly looked for Gao Zheng with a long pass in the backfield.
This time, the football was not passed directly to Gao Zheng's feet, but to Gao Zheng's body, running towards the Napoli penalty area.
Gao Zheng sprinted with all his strength and chased after the football.
However, there is also Napoli's centre-back Albiol in front of him, who is chasing back.
It's just that Albiol's speed is a little slow, and the distance he has ahead of Gao Zheng is rapidly shrinking.
Seeing this scene, Napoli goalkeeper Reina, who was afraid that his teammates would be overtaken by Gao Zheng, chose to abandon the goal, intending to clear the football before the two of them, so that even if Gao Zheng beat Albiol, it would be useless.
Just as Reyna was about to run out of the box, the ball fell in front of him from the air.
And Albiol finally stood in front of Gao Zheng and didn't let the latter overtake successfully, and then he just stretched out his feet to clear the siege.
Reyna didn't keep rushing forward, so he was out of the box and couldn't catch the ball with his hands. He stood a little inside the line of the big penalty area, posed and did double insurance for Albiol.
Albiol saw the falling football in front of him and hurriedly raised his foot to clear the siege.
But at this moment, he noticed that there was an extra foot in his field of vision, and he was approaching the football much faster than him!
That's Gao Zheng!
"High!!"
At Caressa's exclamation, Sampdoria's number 10 struck the ball first.
The soccer ball hit his outside instep and slid to the side.
And the unprepared Albiol couldn't stop the car and collided with Reina, who was close at hand!
When Gao Zheng kicked the football away, he had already retreated to avoid it, and he was not affected by this collision!
He bypassed Albiol and Reina and ran to football!
"This is Sampdoria's chance! Empty door! Gao is facing an empty door! ”
Gao Zheng was indeed facing an empty goal, but the angle of the shot was rapidly shrinking, and at the same time, another Napoli central defender, Fernandes, cut in diagonally from the other side, pressing Gao Zheng's space.
When running towards the football, Gao Zheng was already looking up to observe, although the angle of the shot was getting smaller and smaller, he did not rush to get up, after adjusting the stepping point, he kicked towards the football.
He pumped the ball towards the goal with the outside instep!
After the ball arced in the air, it went past Fernandez and turned into the back corner of the goal!