Chapter 403: The Challenger of the Overlord
Sampdoria, who are two goals ahead, have played more comfortably, and with this being their home stadium, they are playing like a fish in water.
Juventus, on the other hand, is in a state of agitation.
At this time, they didn't care whether the vacancy in the back line would be used by Gao Zheng again, anyway, they pressed forward when they had the opportunity, hoping to equalize the score as soon as possible.
The balance has been completely upset.
If someone had just turned on the TV and watched the game without looking at the score, they would have thought that Juventus had the advantage and had taken the lead by the minute.
But the reality was exactly the opposite of what he saw.
Sampdoria is united, even if they are pressed and beaten by Juventus, they do not panic and behave very calmly.
The forward line of Giovinco and Quagliarella has failed time and time again.
Conte then used his remaining two substitutions in attack, with Tevez coming on for Giovinco and Llorente for Peruso.
Juventus switched to 343 and constantly attacked the Sampdoria defence.
Their indiscriminate bombardment really had a little effect.
At the 89th minute of the game, Juventus finally blasted Sampdoria open the goal, pulled a goal back, and changed the score to 1:2, but there were still two goals to eliminate Sampdoria.
They had to score another goal in the remaining time to send the game into extra time to have a chance to turn it around.
However, this time Sampdoria did not give them any more chances.
Four minutes after stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
"It's over! Sampdoria beat Juventus 2-1 at home! They reached the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia! ”
Caressa's voice was drowned out by the huge cheers at the Marassi Stadium by the end.
Reaching the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia is an absolute achievement for Sampdoria as a team.
Three-front operations, and the current results of all three fronts are not bad!
The Champions League reached the round of 16, finished seventh in the league, and are far from the relegation zone, and the Coppa Italia has also reached the last four......
The team's results left Sampdoria fans ecstatic.
Sampdoria players poured onto the pitch to celebrate the victory, while Juventus players looked lost and miserable.
They didn't expect to be knocked out away from home.
While they weren't so arrogant as to think that the Coppa Italia was in their pocket, they didn't think they would be knocked out of Sampdoria in the quarter-finals......
As they watched the Sampdoria players celebrate beside them, their eyes showed confusion.
They forget that this team has done even better in the Champions League than they did.
At the very least, they made it to the knockout rounds, and they had to go to the Europa League for the second half of the season......
Of course, if you have to say that Juventus still have hope of competing for the Europa League in the Europa League, and Sampdoria can't win the Champions League anyway, then there is nothing to say......
But now at least Juventus has no hope of winning the treble.
"Juventus are of course the dominant players in Italian football, but I'm also glad to see that there are teams in Italy that can shake the supremacy! If the strong player in a league is always strong, and other teams can only bow down and admit defeat in the face of the boss, it will be too boring...... And, more importantly, it can make a league uncompetitive. I don't think it's a good thing to have Juventus dominate Serie A on a back-to-back basis...... Just look at Juventus' performance in this season's Champions League, the fact that such a team has become the strongest in Serie A only shows that our league is declining......
Caressa's words were sure to cause displeasure among Juventus fans after the game, and the elimination of the team would have been enough to make them sad, but Careza poured salt in their wounds...... But Careza doesn't care, he is telling the truth, but he thinks that the current situation in Serie A that allows Juventus to dominate is not good.
He would love to see Sampdoria rise to prominence.
But unfortunately, Sampdoria's sudden emergence is difficult to sustain, and with the departure of Gao Zheng and some other young players, the team will be beaten back to its original shape.
It's almost certain to happen.
Gao Zheng can't stay in Sampdoria forever, and as the well-deserved backbone of this team, it is difficult to say where this team will go after he leaves. Like Ogbonna, Kostisic, Berardi, Alberto Massi...... With these talented young men, what will Sampdoria keep them for?
It is precisely because of this belief that Careza cherishes the Sampdoria team in front of him.
At home in Italy, they have challenged the traditional giants and are the only team in European football that can defend the dignity of Italian football.
This team is so scarce that they don't know where to hope when they're gone.
Now it's really a glance and a glance, and it's okay to cherish it.
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Sampdoria's elimination of Juventus was a small upset, and the Italian media the next day were reporting on it.
Most of the reports have been on Juventus' side, criticizing Juventus' performance this season.
In addition to a relatively solid performance in the league, whether it is in the Champions League or the Italian Cup, Juventus has failed this season.
Such a performance is really unjustifiable for a top club like Juventus.
So the media is full of all kinds of criticism and cynicism about Juventus.
There hasn't been a lot of interest in Sampdoria.
On the one hand, it is because some media have enmity with Sampdoria and Gao Zheng, and on the other hand, compared with Juventus, Sampdoria is still not topical enough.
Totti's focus is on Sampdoria's side, though.
In the dressing room in Roma, while other team-mates were surprised or gloating over Juventus' defeat, Totti thought about the conversation he had with Gao Zheng after losing to Sampdoria in the last round of the Coppa Italia.
- Because we want to win a championship.
- yes, relatively speaking, this is the best one to take.
Maybe I will really see how this kid has turned all the "wild words" he has said into reality step by step.
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After knocking out Juventus in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia, Sampdoria will face the winner of Napoli and Lazio in the semi-finals, based on the results of their previous draws.
The first leg of the semi-finals will be played on 5 February and the second leg on 12 February.
The first leg of Sampdoria's Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid was on the evening of 19 February.
There was a seven-day gap in between, so it didn't have much of an impact.
After the Coppa Italia match against Juventus, Sampdoria rotated most of their main players for the upcoming league game against Bologna.
In the end, Sampdoria and Bologna played a draw and did not lose, and the result was not bad.
Three days later, Sampdoria's opponent in the Coppa Italia semi-finals was revealed.
Napoli beat Lazio 1-0 at home to advance to the semi-finals, where they will be Sampdoria's opponents.