Before the start of the game, the Sampdoria captain of the game, Palombo, gathered everyone together, they formed a circle, and Palombo, as the captain, had something to say.

Before speaking, Palombo glanced at Gao Zheng.

He also remembers the scene when the young man first entered the first team and took him to meet his new team-mates one by one.

I thought it was just a young player who trained with the first team, and I didn't even know if I could stand firm in the first team, who would have thought that this young man would become the savior of this team.

In the meantime, he went on loan to Inter Milan and returned to the team again.

The young man has grown up far beyond his imagination.

After coming back to his senses, Palombo spoke: "Guys, just like Gao said, we have worked so hard to get to the finals, not to get a runner-up. Fiorentina had nothing to fear, they did win us in the league, but that was because they weren't there! ”

Following his words, everyone turned their attention to Gao Zheng.

Under the gaze of his teammates, Gao Zheng accepted it calmly.

"In this game, let's win Fiorentina and bring home a championship for the fans!"

"Champion!" The Sampdoria players roared along with it.

Unlike manager Di Francesco, the players will not consider whether the team will qualify for Europe the following season. Their idea is simple – if you have a championship just around the corner, of course you have to try to get it.

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Gao Zheng stood in the center circle, with a football under his feet, and Berardi stood next to him, waiting for the kickoff.

The referee of the match, Danielle Osado, looked at his watch, checked the time with the fourth official on the field through the headset, and then he pressed the chronograph button on his watch and blew the opening whistle.

"Game on!"

Almost at the same time, the Italian commentator Careza and the Chinese commentator He Ping shouted this sentence.

The Stadio Olimpico in Rome erupted in cheers from fans on both sides.

Looking at the stands, the stadium was almost full.

The blue Sampdoria fans and the purple Fiorentina fans almost each occupied half of the stadium, and there were few truly neutral fans.

For the big clubs, the Coppa Italia title may seem inadequate.

But for mid-table teams like Sampdoria and Fiorentina, the Coppa Italia title is a trophy worth fighting for.

After Gao Zheng teed off, he ran straight forward and ran to his predetermined position first.

The tactics that Di Francesco set for his team in this game were not defensive counter-attacks, or rather defensive counter-attacks from the start.

Playing a team that is stronger than yourself, defensive counterattacks are effective. And when you play against an opponent who is evenly matched with you, you may not be able to swim if you play a defensive counterattack - even if you can take it back, the opponent may not cooperate with you to press up and attack, right?

The opponent is not stupid, knowing that you have to play defensive counterattacks, but also pressing out and leaving a lot of space behind you for you to counterattack.

Di Francesco predicted that Fiorentina would not play with a siege and that the game should be played with each other.

In this case, it is a bit of a waste of resources to shrink and play defensive counterattacks.

So Sampdoria's tactics were still normal at the beginning, or even more aggressive in attacking.

When you score a goal, you will consider turning back to defending and counterattacking, because at that time you have the conditions to play defensive counterattack.

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"When the game started, both teams were playing cautiously and testing each other. In fact, they have played each other in the league, so it stands to reason that they are familiar. But the Italian Cup final is special after all, so it is inevitable to be cautious...... "The rhythm after the opening was a little slow, He Ping took into account that Chinese fans have either stayed up late until now, or have just gotten up, and their mental state is not good, so he explained a little to give the fans relief.

In the past, there has always been a saying called "the final nameless game". That is to say, the two teams that reached the final wanted to win the championship, but because they wanted to win the championship too much, they suffered from gains and losses and did not dare to play. Play cautiously and make no mistakes as the first goal.

It's easy to get bore, boring, and unsightly.

This game seems to have the same signs.

So He Ping had to give the audience a vaccination in advance.

Red Bull, strong tea, coffee, everything you can prepare, so as not to fall asleep.

Of course, he didn't say the latter words, but only put them in his heart.

To some extent, in fact, Heping is right, and Florence is indeed testing Sampdoria.

However, Sampdoria is not necessarily tempting Fiorentina.

Ten minutes of play went by in a flash, neither side created any decent chances, it looked like He Ping said, the two sides were trying, and it was normal for such a start in the final to be.

So when Gao Zheng pulled to the right side to get the ball, it didn't attract everyone's special attention.

As a centre-forward with a wide range of activities, Sampdoria's opponents have become accustomed to Gao Zheng always appearing in a non-goalkeeper position.

But the defense that needs to be done still needs to be done.

So Fiorentina's left fullback, who is also their captain Pasquale, stepped forward to withstand Gao Zheng and did not let Gao Zheng go to the bottom line.

Gao Zheng didn't think about going to the bottom line. Beside him, Sampdoria's right wing-back De Silvestri was quickly cutting in from the side.

It stands to reason that Gao Zheng should pass the football over and create a breakthrough.

Pasquale's attention was also attracted after seeing De Silvestri inserted from behind Gao Zhen, and his eyes moved away from Gao Zheng and followed De Silvestri.

In fact, Pasquale did it very secretly, he just followed the movement of his eyes, and he didn't even turn his neck.

But such a subtle movement was still keenly captured by Gao Zheng - when facing Pasquale, Gao Zheng did not look at the football at his feet, but stared at the opponent's eyes. To judge the other person's movements, it is useful to look at the eyes. As for where the ball is, he relies on his feet to sense, and with his sense of the ball, it's like breathing, it's not difficult.

After noticing Pasquale's eyes off him, Gao Zheng raised his right foot and made a gesture to pass the football to the side, to De Silvestri, who was plugged in behind.

This made Pasquale judge that Gao Zheng would pass the football over.

This time, not only did his eyes move, but even his body shook.

But at this moment, Gao Zheng's right foot crossed the football, and after a false shot, he killed a horse pistol, and used the outside instep to move the football to the middle, followed by him also to cut inside the middle!

Pasquale realized that he had been deceived by Gao Zheng, he turned around again, it was too late, he was pulled away by Gao Zheng by a position, and he could only hope that his teammates could stop Gao Zheng or slow him down.

The rest of the Fiorentina players, whether centre-backs or midfielders, are all on their way to the front.

But Gao Zheng did not continue to dribble the ball, after cutting inside, he directly picked up his right foot, and slashed the football with the outside instep of his right foot, and before the Fiorentina players had time to close up, he had already kicked the football towards the goal!

The ball that was sliced by the outside instep drew a clear and somewhat exaggerated arc in the air, bypassing the players in the box and heading straight for the top corner of the goal.

Fiorentina goalkeeper Neto leaped high and stretched his body as far as he could to save the ball out.

But the distance he took off was so far that his move was useless except to show off his good aerial form.

His hand was 108,000 miles away from a football.

In the end, he could only watch as the ball spun and flew into the top corner of his goal......

“GAO！ GAO！ GAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL！！！！ ”

With Caressa's exclusive roar, the ball spun into the Fiorentina goal.

After only eleven minutes of the opening period, which should still be in the stage of testing each other, Sampdoria has already opened the scoring and broken the deadlock!