"After Sampdoria took the lead, the attack was sharper. Their core player, Gao from China, is especially active! Just now, he burst into a cold arrow from outside the penalty area and almost blasted the goal guarded by Courtois! ”

Giovanni Simeone sat at home watching the Champions League game live.

There is a four-hour time difference between Italy and Argentina, eight o'clock in the evening on one side and four o'clock in the afternoon on this side.

Thankfully, there was no training this afternoon, so he was able to go home and watch the game after the morning session.

For this reason, he also declined the warm invitation of his teammates, even if his teammates told him that there would be several beautiful girls to come together, he was unmoved.

He has been looking forward to the match between Atletico Madrid and Sampdoria for a long time, just to see if his father is alarmist.

Only twelve minutes into the game, he saw Gao Zheng's goal.

It was a beautiful goal, and although it looked like an ordinary turning shot, fellow striker Giovanni Simeone knew very well that it was not as simple as everyone thought that it was necessary to suddenly change the center of gravity in a very short period of time, and then make a move to turn and shoot, and still be able to kick the football so steadily.

Many players will turn around and shoot, but most of the time, they will knock the football off or miss, and these turning and shooting are mostly the kind of actions that they take the initiative to push the football away, and then turn around and shoot, which is a preparatory move.

Gao Zheng was completely in front of him, and found that his teammates passed the football behind him, and immediately turned around and hit the goal.

In addition to this goal, Gao Zheng poses a threat to Atletico Madrid's backline almost every time he gets the ball.

Although he doesn't play at Atletico Madrid, Giovanni still cares about his father's team, and he knows exactly how good his father's defensive line is.

Although Atletico Madrid only finished third in the league last season, they conceded only 31 goals in 38 league games, which is indeed the best team in the league, and the team that has conceded the fewest goals.

In Giovanni's opinion, his father is very good at defensive tuning.

As a result, such a line of defense was trembling in front of Gao Zheng, as if he had to do his best every time he defended.

He has a record of breaking through the Atletico Madrid defense with the ball, and also has a record of taking the ball to attract the attention of Atletico Madrid defenders, and then passing the ball into the air, not to mention shooting, in addition to a goal, he also directly threatened the Atletico Madrid goal with several shots.

Courtois made four effective saves so far from the game, three of which came from Gao Zheng's shots.

Although his father said in the pre-match press conference that Sampdoria was not the only one to watch Gao Zheng and other players to watch, Giovanni felt that it was just his father paralyzing the opponent.

But judging from the game during this time, Gao Zheng, who performed well, led the entire Sampdoria team to run at high speed, constantly threatening Atletico Madrid's goal, and Giovanni had a feeling of "is my father's team really going to lose to Sampdoria away".

In fact, when this feeling first came out of Giovanni's head, he still thought it was ridiculous. But as time went on, he became more and more afraid to think about it.

If Sampdoria can score a goal, Atletico Madrid will really lose.

In his opinion, Sampdoria's morale has been fully raised, and it is home again, it is like a ship sailing downwind, although the boat is smaller, but it is more agile and maneuverable.

How did the game come to this?

The TV broadcast just gave Gao Zheng a close-up, and then replayed another threatening shot he had just completed.

Courtois couldn't touch the ball this time and the ball just went just wide of the post......

The commentator of Argentine TV joked: "Before the game, Coach Simeone praised Gao at the press conference, which also caused many people to be puzzled and argued, some people said that Simeone was using the practice of killing to make Sampdoria lower his vigilance...... But looking at the situation of the game, maybe everyone misunderstood Simeone, he was really praising Gao? ”

Giovanni heard the narrator say this, and his heart was mixed.

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"Gao feels very good today!" After seeing Sampdoria's performance, Caresa couldn't hide his joy from the bottom of his heart, "Just kick like this!" Keep putting pressure on Atletico Madrid, find a breakthrough and then hit a fatal blow! ”

As an Italian commentator, he naturally hopes that the lone seed of Italian football can persist more in the knockout round. Naturally, he doesn't expect Sampdoria to do something as difficult as winning the Champions League, but even if he can go one more round, it will be good for him and Italian football.

'The key is that Sampdoria played well as the whole team today. I have to say that now this Sampdoria team has more of a Champions League feeling, they have gained nutrition from the Champions League, and then after feeding back to the team, they can perform better in the Champions League. The Champions League has seen a virtuous cycle in Sampdoria's mid-table team......" said guest commentator Bergomi.

Everyone is a midstream team participating in the Champions League, and the result is basically the same before that, that is, the bamboo basket is empty, the Champions League is yellow, and the league is also yellow. Sampdoria were simply relegated last time out, and there are countless examples of other mid-table teams falling into relegation battles because of their Champions League participation.

Many people feel that the Champions League has now become a game that only the rich and powerful or the upstart can afford.

A team that lacks foundation, financial resources and a strong squad don't want to play at all.

But this year's Sampdoria showed them a different result.

Among the teams that reached the last 16 of the Champions League this year, Sampdoria was the team with the weakest financial resources and the least budget. In addition to the traditional giants in Europe, the other teams that have reached the top 16 are mostly the hegemons of their respective national leagues, or have the support of financial masters.

Galatasaray is a traditional giant in Turkey, Olympiacos is also a champion in Greece, and Zenit St. Petersburg is backed by Gazprom.

Only Sampdoria has not had enough history and no money.

They are simply outliers in the round of sixteen.

"That's because Sampdoria is tall." Careza reminded Bergomi.

"I know, but in addition to Gao, other people's efforts are also essential. Otherwise, you see, if you rely only on height, can Sampdoria press Atletico Madrid? Bergomi pointed out the effort put in by the Sampdoria players. Without the cooperation of the other Sampdoria players, I believe that the high quality will be limited. He and the rest of Sampdoria should be in a complementary relationship. ”

Careza nodded: "That's right, football is a team sport after all. But the backbone is still high, and the reason why Sampdoria can perform well in the Champions League is inseparable from Gao's outstanding performance. It's entirely possible to imagine what would happen if Sampdoria couldn't keep high at the end of the season. ”

Bergomi also had to admit that Caresa had a point.

No matter what you say, the core of this team is still Gao Zheng.

After a brief exchange between the two, Gao Zheng forced Courtois to make his fifth effective save of the game with a brilliant shot.

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PS, there is still an hour before the Asian Cup group stage between the Chinese team and Kyrgyzstan.

To be honest, judging from the performance of the Chinese team in the warm-up matches during this period, I am not optimistic about the performance of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup - not the results, but the performance - the Chinese team seems to have lost its freshness towards Lippi. Lippi's performance after taking over Gao Hongbo in the World Cup qualifiers was eye-catching, and the team seemed to have a sense of exchanging income and knives.

But judging from this year's warm-up matches, there seems to be something wrong between the Chinese team and Lippi. Lippi publicly announced that he would leave the team after the Asian Cup and would not lead the team to the World Cup qualifiers. The players also didn't seem to be able to do enough in the warm-up games.

In such a state, I am not optimistic about the performance of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup at all, and there is basically little hope of advancing to the knockout round. Even against Kyrgyzstan, the weakest team in this group, I don't think the Chinese team can win......

I really hope that the Chinese team can slap me in the face with actual performance. Unfortunately, this possibility is very slim.

I predicted a lot of games and the results were basically wrong, but with the Chinese team, I didn't miss it.