Chapter 298: I Never Expected

At the start of the second half, neither side made any substitutions, but changed sides.

On the Juventus side, Giovinco is still very active, working hard, and even feels more positive than in the first half.

His excellent form has led Juventus to focus on him when attacking, and hopefully he will be able to score again with his excellent form.

Now only one goal ahead of Sampdoria is very unsafe, if they can lead by two goals again, I believe it must be a heavy blow for Sampdoria, maybe they will no longer have the strength to resist.

AC Milan fans in front of the TV are also cheering on Juventus, who are a key factor in their team's participation in next season's Champions League. If Sampdoria draw at home to Juventus, it will be meaningless regardless of what happens to AC Milan. With a tie on points, Sampdoria has an absolute advantage in terms of mutual wins and losses.

Juventus' win over Sampdoria was a sure thing, but now it has made AC Milan fans a little worried.

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AC Milan fans' fears were justified, as after the start of the second half, Juventus did not have much quality attack, despite Giovinco's lively performances.

Giovinco was defended and could only pass the ball back from outside the penalty area, but it was difficult to get in.

Sampdoria's attack was of higher quality.

In the 50th minute, Gao Zheng suddenly made a straight kick at the edge of the penalty area, penetrating the Juventus defense, Icardi's diagonal cut in to respond, and then a shot was taken, and Buffon rubbed the football out with his fingertips.

The goal didn't go in, but it scared the Juventus fans and AC Milan fans out of the way.

When Icardi scored, many AC Milan fans almost jumped out of their seats - why not Juventus fans, because AC Milan fans care more about the outcome of this game than Juventus fans.

Icardi is frustrated that he missed his sixteenth league goal of the season.

Gao Zheng waved at him, comforted him, and told him not to worry.

However, Gao Zheng's comfort is of no use to Icardi, he is in a hurry because of Gao Zheng!

Gao Zheng has scored, but he hasn't scored yet, but now Gao Zheng comforts him in turn...... You're the culprit of my anxiety!

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After Sampdoria took a corner, the ball was not headed over by a Sampdoria player, but Chiellini headed it over.

However, the second landing point was still held by the Sampdoria players.

Sampdoria knew that Gao Zheng was not good at heading as a high school striker of the team, and he couldn't do this kind of thing in the penalty area. Therefore, another set of positioning tactics was formulated, focusing on controlling the second landing point, and the second landing point could be controlled to organize the attack again, and at this time, the organization of the attack could make full use of Gao Zheng's technical characteristics.

So now Sampdoria's corners don't care much about the kind of thing like a lethal one, and they will spend more effort to control the second spot.

No matter who gets the second landing point, you must quickly find Gao Zheng.

The same goes for this corner.

In second place was Sampdoria full-back De Silvestri, who immediately looked up for Gao Zheng as soon as he got the ball.

But what troubled him was that Gao Zheng had Juventus players around him - obviously the Juventus players were well aware of Gao Zheng's position in Sampdoria's attack, so as long as he had the ability, he would definitely be closely guarded.

Seeing that there was someone around Gao Zheng, De Silvestri did not pass the football to Gao Zheng, but to his nearest teammate Kostisic.

Kosticic turned to protect the ball and tried to pass it again, but was pushed to the ground by Juventus midfielder Vidal.

The whistle sounded.

"Vidal fouls! It was a foul that didn't have much to say, but it wasn't the foul that mattered, it was Sampdoria who got a free-kick in front! Caressa said.

Sure enough, there was a burst of cheers from the stands.

Juventus, on the other hand, nervously surrounded the referee to appeal.

Because they all know that Gao Zheng has the ability to score free kicks.

And this position is not far from the goal, although the foul of Vidal is more off.

But in the eyes of many people, I am afraid it is also within Gao Zheng's range.

Sure enough, Gao Zheng came up and picked up the football and got to the place where the foul was committed.

Sampdoria's players were not surprised to see Gao Zheng walking over with the ball, and even made way for him.

Then the situation is obvious.

Juventus saw that Gao Zheng was going to take the penalty for the ball, and they didn't care about arguing with the referee, even if they argued, it was impossible for the referee to change the penalty, so it was better to hurry up and line up the wall......

Buffon also commanded the human wall in front of the door, and he must not leave any chance for Gao Zheng.

Because the angle is relatively biased, this free kick is very simple to defend, the human wall blocks the near corner, and the goalkeeper can stand in the middle, so that it can be advanced or retreated, and the far corner and near corner can be taken care of.

Of course, the premise is that the human wall can play a role, and it can indeed seal the near corner.

And the general penalty players will basically choose to hit the side of the human wall, because although the human wall can seal their shooting angle, it also often blocks the goalkeeper's view.

This gives the penalty taker an opportunity to take advantage of.

Juventus' human wall blocked the near corner, making sure that the football would not be released.

As for the far corner, they were handed over to Buffon.

After Gao Zheng set up the football, he stepped back.

Buffon stared at the retreating Gao Zheng, intending to speculate on how he would kick the free kick from the perspective of his run.

Vidal's foul was on the right side of Sampdoria's attack, and on the left side of the defense.

If you want to kick the ball around the wall and into the near corner of the goal, you will most likely choose to kick it with your left foot. It's the norm.

Of course, it is not excluded to use the right foot to wrap the football around the outside of the wall. However, it is more difficult and it is easy to kick off.

In addition, the angle at which players kick the ball is also affected by their dominant foot, and players who are accustomed to using their left foot will use their left foot no matter what angle the penalty is from, and vice versa, so the player who is used to using the opposite foot will choose to take the free kick in this kind of remote place.

But Gao Zheng is all-powerful with both left and right feet, and I have never heard of him not being good at any foot. Looking at his goal stats, his left and right foot goal stats are average.

To Buffon's surprise, Gao Zheng did not retreat diagonally to pull out the running distance, but went straight back, forming a straight line between him, the football and the goal.

This is...... What do you mean?

He's going to volley with a positive instep?

But at such a close distance, there is a good chance that the volley will hit the human wall, or directly above the crossbar.

The experienced Buffon frowned slightly, could it be that Gao Zheng wanted to use a vigorous way to perform miracles?

No, it shouldn't be that simple.

Buffon feels that although Gao Zheng is very young, he is definitely not the kind of player who likes to be impulsive.

He leaned down and took a closer look, and then a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind - maybe Gao Zheng would press the football on the turf while volleying hard, so as not to let the football fly.

And if Juventus's human wall is focused on defending against high balls, but jumps up while Gao Zheng kicks the ball, won't the space under his feet just be left for Gao Zheng?

The more Buffon thought about it, the more he felt that there was a possibility, after all, Gao Zheng had scored more than once through this kind of boccia free-kick.

However, Buffon, who figured it out, did not inform his teammates, and at this time he reminded him, which would only startle the snake.

He decided to shift the focus of his defense to the boccia ball, which was handed over to the human wall.

He moved slightly to his left, not very much, to avoid Gao Zheng seeing through his intentions.

Then he lowered his center of gravity and waited for Gao Zheng to kick the football from under the foot of the human wall.

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After the wall was lined up, the referee stepped back, stood aside and blew the whistle.

As soon as the whistle sounded, Gao Zheng began to run.

He did run a little longer than usual, which seemed to confirm his suspicion that he wanted to volley hard.

And he didn't deliberately make an arc when he was running, but went straight to the football.

Buffon, who was behind the human wall, was even more sure that Gao Zheng was going to take advantage of the guess that the human wall was going to jump up and hit the football from under the human wall.

In an instant, Gao Zheng rushed to the football, and then he picked up his right foot and kicked the football. Buffon keenly observed that when Gao Zheng was lifting his feet, the instep of his right foot was tensed, and his toes were pointing to the ground. It's a very obvious volley action!

Buffon's body was already tilting slightly to the left, ready to pounce at any moment.

But when Gao Zheng's foot hit the football, the football did not come over like a torpedo against the turf, but ...... Fly!

Fly high above the human wall!

Juventus' human wall also jumped quickly, and there was indeed a noticeable void under their feet, but nothing came out of it......

Buffon's attention was all on the boccia, and his center of gravity was pressed too low, and it was completely too late to jump at this time!

The wall of people who jumped up was not able to stop the football, even though they were already jumping very high. But the football was taller than them, and it just flew over their heads, and then ...... Plunged headlong!

Grazed the inside of the near post and flew into the goal!

Buffon didn't make any save, just twisted his head and sent the ball in.

He never expected that Gao Zheng would kick the elevator ball out!