Chapter 461: Writing History Again
In the thirty-seventh round of the league, the penultimate round, Sampdoria hosted Napoli.
Neither team really had any clear goals in this game.
Sampdoria are currently ninth, the Champions League is out of reach, and they have already qualified for the Europa League, so fourth and fifth places in the league are not very attractive to them.
And Gao Zheng basically won the Golden Boot in advance, and the team doesn't need to fully support him to win the Golden Boot.
Napoli, on the other hand, are currently third in the league, 13 points away from second-place Roma, and will certainly miss out on second place in the league, while they are also eleven points ahead of fourth-place Fiorentina and will certainly not fall into the Europa League zone.
It's truly desireless, desireless.
The two wantless teams played very openly in the game, and the two sides went back and forth and played an offensive battle.
In the end, Napoli beat Sampdoria 5-3 away.
However, from top to bottom, Sampdoria did not feel that there was anything bad about this defeat, on the contrary, they were quite happy.
Because Gao Zheng scored twice in the game.
That allowed him to break through the 30-goal mark for league goals this season.
He has scored more than 30 league goals in two seasons in a row!
In the other game, Immobile scored a goal to overtake Icardi in the scorers' charts and finish behind Gao Zheng.
As for Icardi, although Inter Milan beat Lazio 4-1 at home in this round of the league, he still failed to score and was substituted early in the 80th minute.
His league goal tally is also fixed at 21st.
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The 38th round of the league kicked off on May 17.
This is the final round of the 2013-2014 Serie A season, although the final round of Serie A is not played at the same time. The match between Sampdoria and Udinese was the first of the league and came a day earlier than the others.
Perhaps it's because whether it's Sampdoria or Udinese, their current position means that whatever the final result of this game is, it will have little impact on the entire league, whether it is relegation or the fight for European qualification.
That's why the two teams played separately on the first day.
That said, this game is not the same as Sampdoria against Napoli in the previous round, and it is not a meeting between two teams who are completely destitute.
Sampdoria had a very clear task in this game, and that was to help Gao Zheng score.
Correspondingly, Udinese's task is also very clear, that is, to prevent Gao Zheng from scoring.
Although the battle for the league's top scorer has basically come to an end, the two teams still have to fight fiercely over whether Gao Zheng scores, not for the league's golden boot, but for another historical record in Serie A.
That's two consecutive seasons with more than 30 goals.
Prior to this, only one person in Serie A's more than 80-year history had done so.
That's AC Milan's legendary goalscorer Gunnar Nadal.
He won the Serie A Golden Boot in two consecutive seasons in 1949-1950 and 1950-1951, in which he scored 35 and 34 goals respectively, becoming the only man in history to score more than 30 goals in two consecutive seasons.
In the same two seasons, his rivals, Esteban Nils, who played for Inter Milan, were only below him, ranking second in the league's scorers' charts. And the legendary goalscorer of Inter Milan has also been outstanding, scoring thirty goals in two consecutive seasons but not exceeding thirty.
So Nodal is the only one recorded in history.
Now Gao Zheng has the opportunity to challenge Nodal.
The whole Sampdoria team naturally wants to fully support it, although Gao Zheng has never publicly expressed his stance on this on any occasion, but does this still need Gao Zheng to make it clear?
The media is hyping up this matter, and if the whole Sampdoria team is indifferent to this, it will be too unhuman.
Since the media said that Gao Zheng may make history again, then we must help him do it!
Udinese's side naturally didn't want Gao Zheng to step on their corpses to create history and write legends, so they wanted to stop Sampdoria and Gao Zheng.
This game, which has no impact on the overall situation of the entire league, has become the game that everyone pays the most attention to in another dimension.
When Udinese hosted Sampdoria, Udinese's home stadium Friuli Stadium was visited by a number of media reporters.
This phenomenon makes many Udinese fans very unhappy, they all know what these reporters are here for, they must be here to witness Gao Zheng write history again, but from the perspective of Udinese fans, that is, to see Udinese jokes...... How could they possibly still have a good impression of these journalists?
So many reporters gathered at the Friuli Stadium, as if Gao Zheng would definitely score a goal against Udinese.
Then let them down once!
If Udinese can keep Gao Zheng clean and disappoint these reporters, it can also make Gao Zheng lose a big person in front of so many reporters!
Udinese's players may have thought the same way, so after the game started, they opted to put a bus at the door in the hope of preventing Gao Zheng from scoring.
But their efforts didn't help.
In the first ten minutes of the game, everything seemed to be normal. Sampdoria didn't seem to have much of a way to deal with Udinese's swing tactics, and they could only pass around outside Udinese's defence.
However, in the 10th minute, Sampdoria suddenly changed the rhythm, changing the previous slow back and forth foot, and suddenly came with a straight kick.
This through ball was completely unexpected by Udinese - they didn't expect Sampdoria to dare to go through when there were people in their own penalty area, didn't they take the initiative to send the ball over?
Just when Udinese was about to laugh, there was suddenly an extra kick in the crowd, it was Gao Zheng!
While he used the inside of his left foot to stop the passing football, he also shook off the Udinese defender who was about to break the ball, although it only shook up a little space, but for Gao Zheng it was enough for him to shoot.
His right calf raced like a whip towards the football.
On the line of the small penalty area, this powerful and sudden volley caught Udinese goalkeeper Zeljko Burkic off guard, although Gao Zheng's shot hit him not far away, but when he fell to the ground and pounced, his action was still half a beat slower, and his hand did not reach until the football flew past him......
The football flew into the goal without any suspense!
"Thirty-first goal! Thirty-first goal in a single season! Gao has achieved the feat of scoring more than 30 goals in two consecutive seasons! Caresa exclaimed. He became the second man after Gunnar Nodal! And just last season, he also broke Nodal's Serie A single-season goal record! I think AC Milan fans must have mixed feelings - Nodal is a legend of AC Milan, and Gao is a traitor of AC Milan, if Gao could have stayed at AC Milan, then no matter how the record changes, at least he will continue to stay at AC Milan......"
On such a festive occasion, Careza did not forget to stick a knife in the hearts of AC Milan fans...... He knows that this match will definitely be followed by some AC Milan fans, as they are also interested in the dialogue of the century between Gao Zheng and Nodal.