Chapter 70: The Start

Gao Zheng really saw the fat boss father and son on the side of the court on the day of the game.

He was warming up on the Sanquan Stadium when he heard someone shouting his name loudly.

He followed the prestige and saw the fat boss Borata and his son, who were wearing Sampdoria jerseys, and then turned around together to show Gao Zheng the number and name printed on the back of the jersey:

40。

GAO。

Gao Zheng was happy - this is his jersey number and name.

This father and son are so lovely......

Then he turned his attention back to Warm.

As Borata and his son were about to return to their seats, they ran into Clariant Moretti.

"You're coming to see the ball too?" Both of them asked in unison.

Then they looked at each other and smiled.

"Your bakery is out of business today?" Moretti, who is fatter than Borata, asked.

"It's just a day off, so it doesn't matter." Borata said nonchalantly. "How did you get here?"

"...... by train"

"That's great, let's take our car back after watching the game in a while!" Borata said enthusiastically.

Moretti's eyes widened: "You guys came by car?" ”

"Of course."

"Oh God...... Hundreds of kilometers! Moretti thought the father and son were crazy.

"Fortunately, it was less than 500 kilometers, and it took four and a half hours to drive." Borata still doesn't care. "When the time comes, we will go back together, and we can still have someone to talk to, I'm afraid that I will fall asleep by then......"

Moretti is naturally very welcome to this way of saving road expenses, and he nodded without hesitation: "No problem, chat with you, lest you drive the car into the sea, haha!" ”

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After returning to the dressing room after the warm-up, Bruni announced the starting line-up for the game.

To everyone's surprise, Gao Zheng, who was supposed to play as a substitute in the game, actually started this game!

"Wow!"

It was not Gao Zheng himself who gave this cheer, but Alberto Massie, of course, he was not alone, and the other players were also very happy when they heard that Gao Zheng had started.

In fact, they may want him to start more than Gao Zheng himself.

When Gao Zheng heard that he was starting, his first reaction was not surprise, but surprise: "Hey, coach, can I play the whole game?" ”

Marcy touched him with her elbow next to her: How to speak? Isn't it time to thank the manager? What if you ask the manager to reconsider your starting decision?

Bruni shook his head and said: "Starting is not the same as playing the whole game, if you have a problem with your fitness, I will definitely replace you." ”

"Oh, yes, I see." Gao Zheng nodded.

After reading the starting list, Bruni began to give everyone the final advice for the game.

"Roma shouldn't have imagined that we would start Gao in this game, so their original tactical arrangement should have been to attack with all their might after the opening, relying on home advantage, hoping to break the deadlock as soon as possible and try to score a few more goals. So they're definitely not as good on defense as they are on the offensive end...... That's our chance. ”

"It's just about let's score as quickly as possible, and the more goals we score, the better." Gao Zheng interjected.

Bruni nodded: "Yes, attack at the beginning, don't be soft if you can score." ”

When he said this, he looked at Gao Zheng directly, and the ardent expectation in his eyes could be seen by a fool.

This made Icardi, who was sitting on the other side, a little jealous - because he was the team's top scorer, but everyone was always used to putting expectations on Gao Zheng.

He admits that Gao Zheng is very powerful, but he doesn't think that there is much difference between himself and Gao Zheng, and he even thinks that he and Gao Zheng are of the same level, much higher than other Sampdoria reserve players.

So why is it that when expecting a goal, even the head coach will look at Gao Zheng instead of himself?

Icardi is holding back his strength in his heart, wanting to prove it to everyone in the game, especially to the head coach Luciano Bruni, maybe in other aspects, Gao Zheng is a little more comprehensive than him, but he is a professional in scoring goals!

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In football, starters often have to wait for the referee to lead them in, and the substitutes have no such problem, they can leave the dressing room early, enter the playing field, sit on the bench and wait for the game to start.

So when the head coach of the Roma reserve team, the old De Rossi, came out and found that there was no Gao Zheng on the bench of Sampdoria's reserve team, he realized that Gao Zheng was the starter in this game!

This took him by surprise.

Based on his analysis of Gao Zheng, he believes that Gao Zheng's physical fitness is a big problem, so big that Sampdoria reserve coach Bruni can only let him come off the bench every game, but dare not let him start, and then play the whole game.

This makes Gao Zheng the "super sub" of Sampdoria's reserve team this season.

You must know that in the regular season, the schedule is not too dense, so you can't play the starter.

The playoff schedule is more intense, especially since the start of the tournament, with three to four days between the quarterfinals and semifinals, and only three to four days between the semifinals and the finals.

Such an intensive tournament requires a higher level of physical fitness on the players.

Since Gao Zheng's physical fitness is already poor, why did the head coach of Sampdoria's reserve team let him start in this final?

You must know that he participated in all the games in the previous playoffs, although they were all substitutes, but it does not mean that he has enough time to rest.

Moreover, Sampdoria's reserves are all away from home in the playoffs, going back and forth, which is a great physical drain on them.

How could Gao Zheng still have enough physical fitness to start the final in such an environment?

He turned his head to look at the coach's box of Sampdoria's reserves.

He felt he could see the problem, and Sampdoria reserve manager Bruni couldn't have failed to see it.

So why did he do it?

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On the bench for Sampdoria's reserves, sporting manager Radich, who came with the team for the game, also asked Bruni in a strange way: "Did you let Gao start?" Is his fitness up to par? ”

There was also a hint of excitement in the surprised tone - because if Gao Zheng's physical fitness was fine, it would clear the last obstacle for him to go to the first team.

But Bruni shook his head: "Of course it's not up to par, but if you want to win this game, you have to let Gao start the game." If we had put him on the bench as usual and let him play again in the second half, maybe his appearance would have lost its meaning. The strength of the Roman reserves is very strong, and in order to beat them, we had to choose to take the risk ......"

Sure enough, after listening to Bruni's explanation, Radici was a little disappointed.

Bruni could sense Radici's disappointment and continued: "At the end of the season, he'll be transferred to the first team anyway. His fitness and strength development is a long-term process and if I can, I would recommend that he start off the bench so that there will be less pressure on him. ”

Radici nodded repeatedly: "No problem, I will pass it on to the first team manager Atezori......"

Just a few days ago, Sampdoria FC announced that former Reggina coach Gianluca Artezori has become the team's new manager, with the responsibility of leading the team to promotion next season.

'But the most important thing is to give him plenty of playing time and not just throw it on the bench. In fact, the second division is a good training occasion for players of this age, other giants are lending their young talents to play in the second division, we don't have to rent from the giants, we have our own talents, which is a very lucky thing. Bruni was babbling as if he were talking about the aftermath.

But Radici didn't hear the emotion in Bruni's words, just kept nodding: "No problem, no problem, Luciano." I promise to get the first team to treat Gao well, he's a genius, we can all see that......"

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Old De Rossi suddenly thought that he had been thinking about why Gao Zheng would start, but he ignored a more important question:

The tactics he arranged before were based on the foundation that Gao Zheng would not start and Sampdoria would defend to the death. Roma had to launch a fierce attack from the start of the game to try to score first and score more.

And now that Gao Zheng is on the field, he has no time to adjust his tactics......

Could it be that Rome is going to fight against Sampdoria?

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PS, Spain was actually eliminated by Russia on penalties......

Football is amazing!

However, in this game, Russia did perform better than Spain and had a more fighting spirit.

In addition, Akinfeev is really worthy of the door god of Nottingham Forest!