Chapter 223: It's Time

Conceding the goal in the opening 16 minutes was certainly very upsetting for Genoa coach Del Neri, but when you calm down and think about it, it's not too bad.

First of all, it's better to be behind in the opening 16 minutes than to be behind at the end of the game with 16 minutes left, right?

In addition, Genoa was originally going to play a more active tactic in this game, and if it was the previous defensive counterattack, it would be very troublesome to fall behind first. Now there is no need to adjust the tactics and the players are not panicking.

As an away game in the "lighthouse derby", how can you not concede a goal?

So conceding goals, or even falling behind, is in Del Neri's plan.

After the initial disappointment, Delneri took to the sidelines to comfort and encourage his players, and he wanted to lead by example and make the players feel calm through his performances.

Bovo, who scored an own goal, looked depressed and his team-mates comforted him.

"You've done your best, Caesar."

"Yes, if it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to stretch my legs...... It's just the other party's luck......"

Bowomo was silent, he didn't know what to say, he just felt ashamed.

He also said cruel words to Gao Zheng before, but he let people score goals so quickly, and he even felt that this was Gao Zheng's intention, and he wanted to humiliate himself with this way of scoring.

Goalkeeper Antonio Donnarumma, who was on the Genoa bench, was saying to his team-mates: "I don't think Bovo would have scored this goal if he hadn't stretched his foot." Bovo's luck is really bad, and that Chinese kid is so lucky! ”

He snorted vigorously.

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After the restart, the leading Sampdoria played with ease, mentally they had the upper hand, and they played more and more vigorously amid the cheers from the stands.

And Gao Zheng was once again very happy to see that Genoa, which was behind, did not choose to shrink the defense in the face of Sampdoria's fierce offset, avoiding the ball first, but continued the previous tactics and attacked Sampdoria.

It's not often that happens to an Italian team.

Gao Zheng had to sigh again, the derby is really good.

Of course, this time he did not smile, lest he be taught another lesson.

Genoa and Sampdoria launched a fierce attack, but they were behind after all, with a slightly different mentality and more holes in the defence.

"Actually, I think Delneri should let the players stabilize first at this time, and don't rush to play against Sampdoria. The most important thing is to avoid conceding goals in a short period of time......" said the commentator Caressa.

Bergomi, the guest next to him, also nodded in agreement: "Yes, does Delneri think that Genoa can still equalize quickly after conceding a goal?" Genoa Del Neri has always played defensive counter-attacks before, but this game suddenly started to attack Sampdoria, I don't know if it's a good thing, but now I have conceded a goal, which shows that in terms of attacking ability, Sampdoria is slightly superior......"

Bergomi said it politely, so as not to anger the Genoese fans.

Angry fans are irrational, in their eyes, Immobile is no worse than Gao Zheng, even if Immobile has only scored three goals, and Gao Zheng has already scored ten goals......

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Although this goal was ultimately counted as an own goal by Bovo, in Icardi's eyes, this goal was scored by Gao Zheng.

In the "Lighthouse Derby", he was already ahead of himself.

In this game, he was able to start because of Maxi López's injury. Naturally, he hopes to win the support of the fans and the goodwill of the manager by scoring goals, so that he can stay in the starting line-up for the rest of the game.

After all, Sampdoria's forward competition is still very fierce, in addition to Gao Zheng, Sampdoria also has Eder and Poli, both of them are actually higher than themselves.

As a striker, it's easy to win starts, just keep scoring goals.

However, Icardi has only scored one goal so far, and he is still far from Gao Zheng.

He was a little anxious.

In order to score, it is now he who is firmly occupied in the middle of the box.

At this time, Sampdoria launched an attack on the flank, and the cross was direct.

But the cross was not of high quality, a little too close to Genoa's goal.

Generally, when a striker sees this ball, he may not grab it, after all, goalkeeper Frei has already attacked. The goalkeeper has an arm advantage over the striker, as well as the protection of the rules - if there is physical contact between the two sides, it is definitely a foul on the attacking team. For this, it is impossible to fight for the top.

But Icardi didn't think so, he only saw the flying football, and he didn't pay any attention to Frei, he also rushed towards the ball, and then jumped high.

In the next second, he and Frey met in the air, and the two collided violently!

Then it fell from the sky.

Icardi landed first, and Frei fell down on top of him.

Both of them fell to the ground and remained motionless.

"Oh! There was an accident in front of the door in Genoa! Very intense collision! Icardi and Frei! The referee whistled and called a timeout for the game, hoping that both sides were okay......"

Boos rang out from the stands.

In the midst of the boos, Icardi pushed away Frey, who was pressing on him, rubbing his head, his eyes were confused, he remembered that he had fought hard for the top, why did he fall to the ground?

Frey, who was next to him, did not get up, holding his ankles with both hands...... This scene frightened the Genoa players.

The TV broadcast quickly cut to the scene just now, and in the slow-motion shot, Frey was trying to keep his balance when he landed, but the foot that landed first rubbed against Icardi's heel, slid a little, and didn't step on it, and the weight of the whole person was immediately pressed down, and his ankle was twisted to a deformation.

"This ...... The situation is not good, and Frey may not be able to continue the game...... In just 27 minutes, Genoa not only fell behind in the score, but also could lose their main goalkeeper......"

"Hell!" Del Neri scolded in a thunderous rage, he had never been so irritable when he had conceded the ball just now......

"Get ......" he glanced back at the bench, hesitated slightly, and then chose a target. Let Donnarumma go warm up! ”

The assistant coach hurriedly turned around and hooked his hand to Donnarumma on the bench: "Antonio, go warm up!" ”

Donnarumma, as if he had a spring on his buttocks, jumped up from his chair with a thud, and then quickly ran to the warm-up area.

He didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to play the "Lighthouse Derby".

But isn't that the opportunity he's always dreamed of?

A chance to go head-to-head with Gao Zheng!

He humiliated himself so much before the game, and now he wants to pay it back a hundred times!

When Donnarumma was warming up, his heart was hot, he had already thought about it, and when he got on the field and didn't save Gao Zheng's shot, he would shake his finger at him and signal him that he couldn't do it.

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Careza and Bergomi were a bit surprised to see the back-up goalkeeper Donnarumma getting up to warm up, rather than the other Greek goalkeeper, Alessandro Zorvas.

Then Carresa suddenly said excitedly: "Does Del Neri want to choose Antonio Donnarumma to replace the injured Frei?" We all know that before this 'lighthouse derby', the most eye-catching war of words was the feud between Gao and Donnarumma in the AC Milan academy...... I wonder if Del Neri took this into account in his choice – maybe Donnarumma would have played better with anger in the face of a high shot? ”

"Frei looks like he can't hold on, the substitute goalkeeper on the Genoa bench has gone to warm up, and it is Antonio Donnarumma who is warming up!" When Liu Hong mentioned this name, he could obviously hear that his tone was not good.

The war of words between Gao Zheng and Donnarumma is not only in Italy, but also in China, which is thousands of miles away. Because of this war of words, Chinese fans who didn't know who Donnarumma was now all remember the name of this person - no way, it's too hateful.

On the Chinese Internet, almost no fan likes Donnarumma, just because Donnarumma took the lead in launching a personal attack on Gao Zheng.

Seeing this scene now, many Chinese fans in front of the TV are excited.

Do you remember what Gao Zheng said before the game?

Sampdoria will win more easily if Donnaru is right away!

It's time for him to deliver on that phrase!