Chapter 414: One Man Against Four
Ordinary people should just stand in place when they see their team's goalkeeper rushing towards the opponent's goal, and they won't waste this physical strength.
But Gao Zheng didn't do this, he didn't raise his head, didn't even look at the football in the air, and ran directly to the front court and ran to the predetermined landing point of the football.
Beside him and in front of him, are four of Napoli's defenders.
They were responsible for cutting off the connection between Gao Zheng and the other Sampdoria players, and when they saw Gao Zheng rushing forward, they would definitely not let Gao Zheng run away like this, so everyone also turned around and chased after him.
"Is this a Sampdoria counterattack?" Carresa was a little puzzled when he saw this, because he felt that from his previous observations, the ball should not be a quality counterattack anyway. Romero's big kick was very casual, and if he really wanted to fight back, he should have found a way to pass the ball to Gao Zheng's vicinity, instead of kicking the ball so far forward.
If he were Gao Zheng, he wouldn't waste his energy on this ball.
But Gao Zheng ran up, and the Napoli defenders followed, and it looked like it was indeed a counterattack. Merely......
"One person against four people, even if Gao can catch this ball in a high-speed run, what's the point? He's going to be surrounded by four people in no time! Bergomi couldn't figure it out either.
The Napoli fans didn't see it as Sampdoria counter-attack, they didn't even boo.
Because in their eyes, Gao Zheng's sprint must be in vain. There is no boo for his worth at all.
As everyone watched, the ball flew past the midfield and crashed towards the edge of the Napoli penalty area.
Romero really did his best to kick the ball out, thinking that he could make the ball a direct threat to the Napoli goal.
However, the haste was not enough, and there were inaccuracies.
So the ball didn't fly near the goal, it fell before it even reached the penalty area.
Gao Zheng, who was sprinting with all his might, looked up at the situation of the football.
The football landed in front of the five people running, bounced off the turf, and continued to bounce forward, but it had not bounced into the penalty area yet, and the four defenders were all following Gao Zheng to go head-to-neck, so Reina didn't plan to abandon the goal and take the ball at all.
He still remembers how he collided with Albiol in the first half, and finally gave Gao Zheng the opportunity to shoot empty.
This time, he guarded the front of the door and definitely didn't go out to make trouble.
Last time, there was only Albiol alone, and this time there are four defenders on the Napoli side, so he doesn't believe that four people can't stop Gao Zheng!
Everyone was watching a 100-meter race, and now it's time for the final sprint, and everyone in the race is running hard, and they are going hand in hand, and the difference in position is so small that you can't see it if you don't look closely......
Gao Zheng has two Napoli players on his left and two on his right, and he is completely caught in the middle, and the central defenders Albiol and Fernandes, who have caught him in the middle, are still squeezing him with their shoulders to make him lose his balance.
In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, let alone stopping the ball, it is difficult for him to touch the ball......
But he didn't mean to give up, and although he was caught in the middle, he was indeed the closest person to football.
"Break the siege! Get out of the way! Goalkeeper Reina loudly reminded his teammates not to patronize hand-to-hand combat with Gao Zheng, and kick the football out first.
Albiol wanted to do this, but he was slightly half a body behind Gao Zheng, the two were of similar height and leg length, if they kicked at the same time, Gao Zheng must have touched the ball first.
And he was afraid that if he made the first move and lost his balance, Gao Zheng would have a chance to take advantage of it. So he would rather do this, using a more conservative defensive strategy, as long as he can continue to interfere with Gao Zheng, it will be difficult for Gao Zheng to handle the ball well, and when he makes a mistake in handling the ball, the success rate of grabbing the ball with his feet is obviously greater.
On the other side, Fernandes is clearly in the same idea as Albiol, with the central defenders partnering with one heart and one mind, interfering with Gao Zheng to get the ball.
The other two Napoli players on the outside of them were there to get up in time after the centre-backs interfered.
And the four of them also squeezed Gao Zheng to the side together - this is the last insurance, even if they don't succeed in interfering with Gao Zheng to get the ball, as long as they can force Gao Zheng to the side, let him get the ball There is not so much of a threat.
Surrounded by four people, Gao Zheng looked like he couldn't escape.
To put it bluntly, this was not a premeditated counterattack opportunity for Sampdoria, it was Gao Zheng's forced pursuit of the ball that caused such a result, but Gao Zheng also blocked himself in a dead end, and there was no room for maneuver - there was no teammate nearby who could pick him up, even if he wanted to pass the football to his teammates, he couldn't do it.
But Gao Zheng didn't plan to pass the ball to his teammates, he wanted to do it alone from the beginning.
Seeing that in the face of the close football, he stepped forward with one arrow step, stepped on the side of the football with his left foot, and at the same time he picked up his right foot as if to stop the ball.
Albiol and Fernandes rushed towards him, trying to force him to lose his balance at the moment of stopping.
At the same time, the two Napoli defenders on the outside are also highly concentrated, staring at Gao Zheng, ready to grab at any time.
But Gao Zheng's right foot swept over the football!
He didn't stop the ball!
Before the Napoli defenders could react, he swung his right foot back and slammed the ball to the left back of his body!
At the same time, Gao Zheng stopped and turned around in one go!
None of the four Napoli defenders beside him expected Gao Zheng to come out like this, and they all rushed to the front from Gao Zheng because they didn't brake the car.
Among them, Albiol and Fernandez also lost their balance and collided together......
In just an instant, Gao Zheng threw off the four defenders who were chasing and intercepting him!
"Oh——!!" Caresa shouted. "Beautiful!! High! He got rid of the defense!! Pretty ——! ”
Gao Zheng, who shook off the four Napoli players, immediately turned around and chased the football that he knocked into the middle.
At this time, huge boos resounded in the stands of the St. Paul's Stadium, as if it were an alarm for the city - alarm, alarm, enemy attack!
Reina, who had been staying in the goal, made a hasty attack at this time, but it was too late.
Gao Zheng, who caught up with the football, picked up his left foot, rubbed an arc with the inside of his foot, bypassed Reina's ten fingers, and went straight to the upper corner of the goal.
There's nothing Reyna can do about the ball, he can only pray to God that the ball won't hit the goalframe.
It's a pity that God doesn't seem to be on his side this time......
“GAO! GAO! GAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!! ”
The soccer ball crashes into the net.
Many Napoli fans let out screams of pain and despair, and some Napoli fans opened their mouths but did not make any sound, and the originally uniform boos fell apart in an instant.
Caressa's excited voice rang out: "5:2! 5:2!!! High brace twice!! At the best of Napoli's situation, he pushed Napoli off the cliff with this goal! Napoli's original two-goal advantage on the road was gone, and they were three goals behind on aggregate, leaving them with only half an hour left! To score two goals in the space of 30 minutes and to hope that Sampdoria will not score again...... How is this possible?! How is this possible?! ”