When the starters of the Roma reserve team saw Gao Zheng in the opponent's starting lineup, they were a little stunned.

Didn't you say he would only come off the bench in the second half?

Why did you start this game?

They were told repeatedly before the game to pick up the tempo from the first minute, try to score early and score more.

For the past three days, they have also trained according to this tactic.

As a result, they found that the situation was not what they expected......

Can it still be changed?

It can't be changed!

And so, just as the elder De Rossi feared, what should have been a cautious final turned into a battle of offense......

As soon as the final began, the two sides went directly into the hand-to-hand combat stage, which was very intense.

Roma reserves took advantage of the kick-off two minutes to finish with a shot on goal, and a minute later Sampdoria reserves were in the color when Mauro Icardi's shot was tipped over the bar by Roma reserve goalkeeper Mirco Pigliacelli.

The shot stunned the Roma Reserve fans in the stands.

The 4,000-seat Sanquan Football Stadium came with 3,000 people, most of whom were fans of the Roma reserves.

There are still very few Sampdoria fans who have come from afar like Borata and Moretti to watch a reserve match.

After the corner, it was Icardi who fought for the ball in the middle and headed the ball towards goal.

Fortunately, this time the goalkeeper of the Roma reserve team, Pigriacelli, chose a good position and took the football directly into his arms.

Icardi, who was not able to score, was very upset, holding his head in his hands and shouting at the sky.

"Icardi was so active after the opening!" Assistant coach Casirio sighed.

Bruni said next to him, "Maybe it's stimulated by Gao, right?" ”

"Stimulated by high? Gao didn't show much after the opening, what did he use to stimulate him? "Casirio is weird.

Bruni smiled: "Didn't you notice that I didn't mention Icardi's name at all when I laid out my tactics before the game?" ”

Casirio thought for a moment, then nodded suddenly in realization: "You look like you've pinned your team's hopes of victory on Gao." Is that how irritating Icardi? ”

"Hmm. We all know that Icardi has always used Gao as his rival, and since he is a competitor, he will not admit that he is inferior to his opponent. So when I'm only improving, of course he's going to want to be upset and show me that he's the same player as Gao. Bruni said. If you want to score as soon as possible in this game, Gao and Icardi are both important and indispensable. ”

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Compared with the super active Icardi, Gao Zheng, who started for the first time, seems to be a little uncomfortable with the feeling of starting the game.

After all, he had watched dozens of minutes of the game between the two sides off the field before, and he was very familiar with the opponent's performance.

And now he needs to jump right into the heat of the game without knowing anything about his opponent.

Compared to Icardi, it's as if he's not in the game yet.

Old De Rossi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. It seems that Gao Zheng is more suitable to be a substitute player......

He didn't know how long it would take Gao Zheng to find the rhythm of the game, but he knew that time was very precious for his team now, and he must strive to score as soon as possible while Gao Zheng had not woken up and take the initiative into his own hands.

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Gao Zheng looked around the pitch in the center circle, at this time the Roma team was attacking, they had already attacked Sampdoria's backfield, and were waiting for an opportunity to penetrate the defense of Sampdoria's reserves.

The vast majority of Roma players are in Sampdoria's half, with only two centre-backs still in their own half, but they are also very close to the halfway line - if they hadn't been in the middle circle, they would have been able to cross the halfway line and enter Sampdoria's half.

This isn't the first time Roma have done this in a game, as every attack comes as if they're going to give it their all.

Gao Zheng guessed that this might be the manager's request, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to do it every time.

Looking at the large number of vacancies in the backfield, Gao Zheng couldn't help but think that if he was a striker like Ronaldo, who was extremely fast, he could receive a long pass from the backfield alone and break into Longtan alone......

It's a pity that speed is not what he is good at. Although he is not a slow runner, his speed will definitely not let the coach use him as a fast horse.

Gao Zheng set his eyes on the front of the Roma goal, and he found that because the Roma team attacked the front field and the central defenders pressed near the halfway line, the goalkeeper of the Roma team, Pigliacelli, also pressed out of the penalty area.

This is the normal practice of goalkeepers, when the ball is far away from their goal, the goalkeeper will run out of the penalty area and stand outside the box.

Some goalkeepers will even stand a little further forward and get closer to the centre circle.

Gao Zheng squinted his eyes when he saw the position of Roman goalkeeper Pigliacelli.

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Roma have been on the rise up front and have been in excellent form this season, topping Group C in the reserves. The offensive firepower is also very strong, and in 26 regular season games, they have scored a total of 82 goals, which is a lot of goals.

This figure is not only the team with the most goals in Group C where they are located, but also the team with the most goals in all three groups.

Sampdoria's top scorer in Group A of the Reserves is Fiorentina Reserves, who have scored fifty-five goals. The team with the most goals in Group B of the reserve team is AC Milan Reserves, who also scored 55 goals.

The two teams with the most goals in the group are still close to 30 points away from Roma, which shows how fierce the attacking firepower of the Roma reserves is.

Amid the cheers of the Roma fans in the stands, the Roma reserves launched wave after wave of attacks against the Sampdoria reserves.

Gao Zheng stood alone in front and didn't get the ball for three minutes, and he had to continue to retreat.

And as he retreated, the two Roma central defenders M** and Antei also pressed forward further, and finally pressed past the halfway line and entered Sampdoria's half.

They are actually particular about pressing forward, not wanting to come up and join in the fun.

It's that if Sampdoria reserves break the ball and play a counter-attack, they can destroy the ball in front of them as soon as possible to stop Sampdoria's counterattack. If they are too far away from the midfielders, then the gap between them will be exploited by Sampdoria on the counter-attack, and they will not be able to move forward and will have to retreat to the defence.

The two centre-backs stepped forward, and Roma goalkeeper Gianluca Pigliacelli continued to move forward.

Gao Zheng was still at the front of Sampdoria, and even Mauro Icardi went back to defend, and he didn't do it.

He was like a lion lying in ambush in the grass, waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the prey to relax.

At this time, when the Roma reserve team was making a lateral pass at the edge of the Sampdoria penalty area, they were interfered with by Sampdoria central defender Alberto Massi, who came out of the defense, and there was a passing error!

The football broke off another Sampdoria centre-back, Patakchiola.

Then he didn't hesitate for a second, and passed the football to Gao Zheng in the front - this is also a tactical requirement before the game, Bruni asked the team to give priority to passing the football to Gao Zheng when switching from defense to attack, and make full use of Gao Zheng's excellent ball control ability and comprehensive skills to help the team counterattack.

Gao Zheng was between the two central defenders of Rome and the other Roma players in the midfield, he received the football a little outside the arc of the center circle, facing the rush of the Roman central defender M**, he first made a gesture to pass the football to Icardi who was inserting at high speed, but only a false shot, deceived the opponent's body after the center of gravity shifted, he broke through from the other side!

Gao Zheng, who got rid of Mu **, did not continue to dribble the ball, nor did he pass the football to Icardi, but directly raised his foot and kicked the football vigorously to the front!

Under the stunned gaze of everyone, the football was like a ballistic missile, straight into the goal of the Roma reserve team!

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PS, the start and end of the game between Croatia and Denmark were crazy, but the more than 100 minutes in the middle were a little boring......

I'm bullish on Croatia because I'm bullish on Luka Modric, the world's number one midfielder.

I hope they can go as far as they can.

Next up is today's X**C event:

Mexico and Brazil are both very open teams to play, if the two sides are really open...... I'm more optimistic about Brazil beating Mexico by one goal!

This is the end of Japan's World Cup journey as they ran into Belgium, and I predict Belgium beating Japan by two goals!

Proof of this!