Chapter 249: The Root of All Evil
After the match between Sampdoria and Juventus, their home game against AC Milan was in the spotlight.
As the game approached, more and more media began to frequently review the grievances between Gao Zheng and AC Milan - after Gao Zheng scored twice and continued to lead the scorer list with 18 goals, the voice criticizing his arrogance was quieter - after all, people scored again, even if they were arrogant? People talk crazy, but people can score goals, if Gao Zheng really won the league's top scorer in the end, it doesn't matter if he is crazy or not now.
Therefore, if you want to calm down the controversy, the best thing to do is not to bow your head and admit cowardice and live as others like, but to use your strength to smash those gossips, so that they are all too scared to open their mouths, and the sound of flies buzzing will naturally disappear.
Another reason is that the personal grievances between AC Milan and Gao Zheng are more worthy of media hype, the topic of whether Gao Zheng is arrogant has been hyped for so long, and it is estimated that it will be hyped up if it continues to be fried, and it will not be fun to make everyone aesthetically fatigued.
Therefore, the past of AC Milan terminating the contract with Gao Zheng because of a sentence from the Milan laboratory was mentioned by everyone again, and this time everyone also focused on highlighting the key knowledge points of the Milan laboratory as a misdiagnosis.
Then in the first round of the league, AC Milan lost 0-4 to Sampdoria at their home stadium...... No, the game that lost to Gao Zheng was also revisited by everyone.
Speaking of AC Milan, it is really miserable, every time there is a super reversal in world football, they will be mentioned by the media, "Istanbul Night" and "Super Laco's magical reversal" are the key words.
As a result, there is now such a person as Gao Zheng, as long as he meets AC Milan, the media will mention the black history of AC Milan in the past, and take this opportunity to hack the Milan laboratory again.
This is really very frustrating for AC Milan fans.
However, Italy's AC Milan fans are not the most congested, the most congested are Chinese AC Milan fans, on the one hand, they have liked AC Milan for so many years, encountered such a moth, on the other hand, they are still Chinese, and they can't devote themselves to Hei Gao Zheng - after all, Italian AC Milan fans don't have to think about these at all, they look at Gao Zheng is not happy, they can spray. And if Chinese AC Milan fans dare to spray Gao Zheng desperately, they are afraid that they will be overwhelmed by other fans in their own country first, and they will be unable to defend themselves with a "unpatriotic" hat.
That's why they're the most congested.
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Sampdoria's home match against AC Milan In addition to the grudge between Gao Zheng and AC Milan, the competition between the two teams is also very interesting.
Because it's a battle between seventh in the league and eighth in the league.
Sampdoria is seventh in the league and AC Milan is eighth.
If this ranking had been set aside two years ago, it would have made many people's jaws drop.
Because Sampdoria was still struggling with relegation a year ago, and in the end it did not succeed in relegation and was relegated to the second division. At that time, AC Milan were strong contenders for the league title, and they also won the league title as they wished.
In just two years, both teams have changed dramatically.
Sampdoria are now on 31 points, one point above eighth-placed AC Milan.
The team is nine points away from the Champions League places in the top three of the league and five points away from the European places in the top five of the league. Now that the league schedule is more than halfway through, AC Milan does have the possibility that they will not even be able to play the Europa League next season.
As league champions two seasons ago, AC Milan's current results are too inconsistent with their reputation and status.
However, the main reason for AC Milan's low ranking is that their performance in the early stages of the league was so poor. They lost five of their first ten league games and won just three. At the bottom of the rankings, they dropped to 15th place......
The root cause is that they lost 4-0 to Sampdoria at their home stadium in the first round of the league...... No, it was lost to Gao Zheng. The game became a nightmare for AC Milan, which not only led to the resignation of Braida, the team's sporting manager in charge of transfers, but also underwent some personnel changes at the club's management, which also affected the confidence of the players.
After that game, AC Milan were confronted in an away match by a fan who gestured with four fingers and mocked them with a score of 0:4.
The failure, coupled with the media hype, did make the entire AC Milan team disheartened and demoralized.
At the time, Roma Sport drew a cartoon to illustrate the plight of AC Milan, with the dejected AC Milan players and manager Allegri being shrouded in a huge shadow, and this shadow was a projection of Gao Zheng.
This cartoon depicts the situation of AC Milan and the root of the problem – all because of Gao Zheng.
Obviously he could become a legend in AC Milan, but he was hastily let go by the club, and now Gao Zheng Phoenix Nirvana has been reborn and turned into a devil to take revenge on AC Milan's debts.
The mistakes made by the club are ultimately borne by the team.
During that time, there was even news that Allegri was going to resign.
If AC Milan hadn't lost to Gao Zheng in shame with this scoreline, AC Milan's new season would have started differently than it does now. Maybe now they're not in the eighth, but in the top five...... No, it's the top three. They will be strong contenders for the league title and will not let Juventus dominate.
Thinking about it this way, Gao Zheng is simply the root of all evil!
For AC Milan, this match with Gao Zheng is their revenge battle.
When I interviewed the AC Milan players before the game, I could clearly feel the momentum on that side.
Ambrosini spoke as captain of the team and set the tone for the game.
“…… After that (0:4) game, we were the subject of a lot of ridicule, and we still do. I know that's football, when you win, everybody praises you, no matter how stupid you are. But once you lose, then the end of the world comes. I'm not going to excuse failure, I think the easiest and best way to get out of the shadows is to beat the shadows! ”
At a regular midweek press conference, he answered the question with a serious expression.
And the current top scorer in the team, the rising popularity of El Shaarawy is naturally also a figure of media attention. In the scorer list, he is also Gao Zheng's direct competitor.
When the two met for the first time, Gao Zheng staged a good show of senior happiness, while Shaarawy did nothing, was replaced early, and performed poorly.
So after half a season, what performance will Shaarawy show when he faces Gao Zheng again?
When Shaarawy faced reporters, he remembered his mood when facing the night view of Milan, in fact, he really had an impulse to say his ambition, catch up with Gao Zheng with four goals in this game, and use a senior to fight back against Gao Zheng's senior at the San Siro at the beginning of the season.
But when he opened his mouth, he coaxed.
Because he thought that if he said this in front of reporters, it would be tantamount to pushing himself into a dead end, and it would be done no matter what.
But he was a little unsure about it.
He was afraid that the media would scold him for being arrogant, just like scolding Gao Zheng.
But he was more afraid that he wouldn't be able to complete it......
As he said to Palin, there are things that can be done, but things that can't be said.
In the end, he comforted himself that it would not be too late to talk about those wild words after he really defeated Gao Zheng.
So what he ended up saying to reporters was: "I'm going to give it my all in the game and help the team beat Sampdoria." As for individual performance? It doesn't matter, it's the team's victory......"
As he left after the interview, reporters in Milan praised El Shaarawy's maturity and poise.
"I think Stefan has really grown up, how could he have said such things before?"
"Yes, yes, it seems that he is also growing rapidly in the competition with Gao, which is really exciting for his future!"
"If Milan wants to get back to the top, they have to rely on young people like Stefan!"
"I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for the club to let go of Gao in the first place, compared to Gao who is obviously flawed, Stefan is the hope for Milan's future. We lost a high, but we gained a better genius...... And most importantly, Stefan is Italian! ”