Sassuolo hopes that Gao Zheng's Sampdoria can beat Pescara in the penultimate round, and judging from Gao Zheng's form in the penultimate round against Juvistabia, Sampdoria still have hope of fighting Pescara, after all, they still have home advantage.

As a result, when it was time for the game, Sassuolo media found that Gao Zheng, who had started the last game, was sitting on the bench again in this game......

The starters who replaced Gao Zheng were ...... Mauro Icardi.

As a result, in the opening 18 minutes, the visiting team Pescara opened the scoring through Marco Verratti and assisted Ciro Immobile to open the scoring and lead Sampdoria.

Ten minutes later, Immobile scored twice to give the visitors a two-goal lead. It was also his 29th goal of the season in the second division, and he is now the top scorer, eight goals ahead of second-placed Marco Sau, and is almost certain to win the Serie B Golden Boot early of the season.

Having qualified for the promotion play-offs early seemed to have put the Sampdoria players a little slack.

Towards the end of the first half, midfielder Foggia committed a foul in the box and gave Pescara another penalty.

But when Immobile tried to score his 30th goal of the season, he failed – he missed the penalty.

Despite this, Pescara could still go into the second half with a two-goal lead, which was very bad for Sassuolo.

On Sassuolo's side, their opponents were sent off in the first 28 minutes of the first half, but Sassuolo, who had one more man, did not play very well, taking the lead in the 38th minute only to be equalised by Reggina just two minutes later.

At half-time, Sassuolo's manager Pia scolded his players: "Concentrate! What are you guys up to? Leave it all to everyone, if we can't win the game ourselves, then it's all meaningless! ”

He knows that the team is doing this because the players are thinking about the match between Sampdoria and Pescara.

Sampdoria's performance made many Sassuolo players very unhappy, and Gao Zheng also started in the last game and performed well. Why did this game immediately become a substitute? To say that Sampdoria did not deliberately release water, they do not believe it......

But as the manager said, other people's performances are out of their control, so it's better to do your own thing than to be upset by other people's performances.

Sassuolo, who had been scolded by manager Pia, did improve in the second half, scoring a goal just five minutes into the second half to regain the lead.

Sampdoria, for their part, conceded the third goal of the game in the 61st minute.

Gao Zheng came off the bench in the 70th minute to replace the mediocre Icardi, and provided an assist in the 83rd minute to help Obiang pull a goal back, but it was indifferent to the outcome of the game.

In the end, Sampdoria lost 3-1 to Pescara in their last home game of the season.

Sampdoria also lost to fourth-placed Hellas Verona away from home to fourth-placed Varé, but they secured a four-point spot in the league with only one round left to play.

Sassuolo, despite their 4-1 win over Reggina and the hesitant Pescara beat Sampdoria 3-1 away, left Sassuolo in the standings unchanged – still third.

With the final round of the league remaining, they travel to Juvistabia, while Pescara return to host Nosina, a team that has already been relegated. It can be said that there is no suspense for Pescara to win this opponent at home. So it can also be said that Sampdoria has not been able to hold Pescara back, so Sassuolo can only honestly go to the play-offs.

This is a result that has disappointed many Sassuolo fans.

It's not that they don't feel that if they participate in the play-offs, they have no hope of promotion, but if they can be directly promoted, who wants to play four more play-off games?

Sassuolo has always been in the top two, but now it can only win a third place, which is too big a psychological gap.

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After the game, when Gao Zheng came down from the court and passed through the mixed area, he was stopped by reporters.

Gao Zheng will enjoy such treatment in almost every game, and he is used to it personally, so although he lost the game, Gao Zheng still met the interview requirements of those reporters.

However, after a normal interview today, a reporter claiming to be from Sassuolo Media suddenly asked Gao Zheng: "Is the loss to Pescara an Sampdoria's deliberate act of releasing water?" ”

As soon as he asked this question, the atmosphere on the scene changed a little.

Before Gao Zheng could speak, Frecello jumped out and accused his peers: "It's too much, nonsense without evidence is framing!" ”

"I'm just offering a way of thinking...... "the reporter from Sassuolo pretended to be innocent," "I think your argument is more serious, that you are trampling on freedom of speech, Mr. Frecello." ”

"Freedom of speech is not what you do!" Chinese journalists Wang Yixing and Lu Bing came forward and blamed their Italian counterparts. They think that this Sassuolo reporter has a bad attitude towards Gao Zheng, and such a naked question is simply a direct qualitative button, which makes conspiracy theorist Wang Yixing a little unhappy - my conspiracy theory is just speculation, your conspiracy theory is beaten to death with a stick, and no one refutes it, and refutation is to hinder freedom of speech?

The Sassuolo reporter looked at the two Chinese reporters with a look of disdain: "Don't talk about freedom of speech, right?" I'm afraid you don't know what freedom of speech is. ”

This reporter is now on fire, because Gao Zheng, who is in good shape, did not start this game, which led to Pescara winning Sampdoria, and even caused Sassuolo to almost lose the joint name before the league, he naturally has no good temper towards Gao Zheng and Sampdoria, especially Gao Zheng, who has had and has always had an inexplicable grudge with Sassuolo.

So when he saw two Chinese reporters come up and take the initiative to provoke, how could he not fight back?

"What the are you ......" Although Wang Yixing is a conspiracy theory, he is also a violent temper, how can he bear it when he hears such a naked provocation and insult?

Fortunately, Lu Bing, who was beside him, knew what kind of temper his companion was, and hurriedly pulled him - if Wang Yixing hadn't been tempered, would he have done something to expose the shady scenes of Chinese football?

But this is not his home turf after all, and what if he really beats up other Italian journalists, what if he is deported at that time? Isn't it impossible to see Gao Zheng's outstanding performance for the first time?

Calm down, Lao Wang, calm down!

A group of Italian reporters didn't expect things to suddenly become a little out of control, the Chinese reporter was obviously really provoked, and the Sassuolo reporter also looked coldly at Wang Yixing, who was being pulled by Lu Bing, with an expression of "Lao Tzu is here to find fault".

At this time, Gao Zheng coughed, and everyone was surprised to find that Gao Zheng had not left!

Seeing that Gao Zheng was still there, Wang Yixing finally stopped wanting to break free from Lu Bing to teach the Sassuolo reporter a lesson—he didn't want to cause trouble for Gao Zheng, he was worried that it would be detrimental to Gao Zheng's career.

Hearing Gao Zheng's cough, the Sassuolo reporter also turned his attention back.

Gao Zheng did not seem to be angry because of this sudden conflict, nor was he dissatisfied with the conflict between the Sassuolo reporter and his compatriots, and he still had a smile on his face.

"Mr. Reporter, what is your name?" He asked the Sassuolo reporter with a smile, and he seemed to bend slightly because of the height difference...... It looked as if he was bowing to the other person.

"Leonardo Giovanetti, reporter for Sassuolo News." The Sassuolo journalist did not hide his name and unit.

Gao Zheng nodded, continued to smile and said, "Mr. Giovanetti, I know that your Sassuolo media have misunderstood me a little because of some rumors. But I promise that what I said before is true, and I don't resent Sassuolo's rejection of me in the first place, after all, I am living a good life now, how can I keep thinking about all those things? So I didn't mean to seek revenge on Sassuolo, and I didn't want to target Sassuolo...... We beat you in that game only because we were opponents of each other, it was just a normal league and nothing extras were attached......"

Hearing Gao Zheng say this, not only the Sassuolo reporter named Leonardo Giovanetti was a little confused, but the other reporters present were very strange, not understanding why Gao Zheng said this, and repeatedly emphasized to the other party that he had no malicious intentions...... Is this a confession?

Is it necessary to explain why he did not start this game and why the team lost to Pescara?

But I didn't expect Gao Zheng to say this, but he suddenly changed his words: "Of course, if there is no hatred in the past, it does not mean that there will be no hatred in the future." Just because you didn't target it in the past doesn't mean you won't target it in the future. So my past with Sassuolo has turned the page, and from today on, I'm going to target Sassuolo, and I'm going to fight Sassuolo. Whether you believe it or not, Mr. Giovaneti, I'll leave it here - if I meet Sassuolo in the future, I will definitely do my best to help the team beat you. ”

Then Gao Zheng turned to other reporters: "It just so happens that so many of you are here, so let's help me testify about what I said today." Everybody write it down, help me spread the word, and let as many people know as much as possible - I'm Gao Zheng, because of the offensive behavior of Mr. Leonardo Giovananetti, a reporter for the Sassuolo newspaper, who has become a sworn enemy of Sassuolo, and will see you on the court once and for all. I am a man of integrity, do what I say, and never break my word. If you don't do it, you are welcome to slap me in the face with my words today. ”

When Gao Zheng said this, the smile on his face was not seen at all, and even vaguely made people feel that Gao Zheng seemed to smile more brightly......

Everyone present froze, including Mr. Leonardo Giovanetti, who stared at Gao Zheng blankly, unable to believe what he was hearing.

A player who said that in front of so many media...... Is this Chinese guy crazy?!