The Genoese players interviewed after the game, including head coach Ballardini, had a tacit understanding, and none of them mentioned Gao Zheng.

They faced the cameras and said that losing this "lighthouse derby" was not the end of the world, and they would go all out in the next games to win and succeed in relegation.

"Losing a game doesn't give us a death sentence...... Ballardini said. We have six league games to go and we still have hope of staying in the First Division. ”

The good news is that main relegation rivals Palermo drew 1-1 with Bologna in this round of the league, while the bad news is that another main relegation rival, Siena, beat bottom-placed Pescara 3-2 away.

So the current situation is that Genoa has 27 points and has fallen to the second from the bottom, Palermo with 28 points from the third, and Siena with 30 points from the fourth.

With six rounds left in the league, it's basically the three teams fighting for the only relegation spot.

As for Pescara in the bottom place, they only have 21 points, and there is no suspense about relegation.

Sampdoria, who won this game, also got good news - AC Milan, who are ahead of them, were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Napoli in this round of the league.

Both teams now have the same number of points, both with 58 points, and Sampdoria are ahead of AC Milan in terms of mutual wins and losses, as well as goal difference, so they have now surpassed AC Milan and moved up to third in the league and into the Champions League zone!

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The day after the game, the whole Genoa city was discussing the "lighthouse derby" that had just ended, and Gao Zheng, who scored twice and provided an assist in the game, was naturally the most dazzling one.

"He's in charge of the derby!" This is the front-page headline of the Nineteenth Century Newspaper, and the cover image is the scene of Gao Zheng celebrating a goal in the game.

No one doubts this statement of the Nineteenth Century Newspaper.

is not only this "lighthouse derby", but also Gao Zheng dominated the game in the first half of the season.

Although this season was his first time in a local derby, it took him just two games to become the most goalscoring player in the history of the Lighthouse Derby – five goals that made him the most impressive.

Genoa's local derby doesn't have a long history, because the results of the two teams are not consistent, and there are often relegation and relegation situations, so five goals can be the all-time top scorer in the local derby.

But Sampdoria's supporters are convinced that if Genoa are lucky enough not to be relegated this season, then Gao Zheng will definitely be able to break his stats on this record.

"Handsome guy is so handsome!" Xiao Yingying was holding her mobile phone and swiping all the news about Gao Zheng on the Internet.

She is no longer content with relying on traditional television, radio and newspapers for consultations about Gao Zheng.

The faster news spreads and the news responds more efficiently to the Internet, which has become a paradise for fans like her to track the information of their idols.

The good thing about the Internet age is that after the game, all kinds of videos and news will appear on the Internet, and then within a day, there will be an album edited by netizens on the video site of the star's game - only the footage of the player holding the ball in the game for fans to enjoy.

Xiao Yingying can be regarded as witnessing how Gao Zheng grew up from a nobody.

At the beginning, when Sampdoria was still in the second division, there were not even video highlights that belonged only to Gao Zheng after the game, but there were only highlights of Sampdoria's games, and there were very few of them. Later, as Gao Zheng scored more and more goals in the team, the news media paid more and more attention to him, and Gao Zheng's influence among the fan base also increased.

Some Sampdoria fans have begun to make video highlights for Gao Zheng, but the quantity is not much, and the quality is also very average.

And the fans who watched and left messages were basically limited to Sampdoria fans.

In other words, Gao Zheng's influence was limited to Sampdoria and he didn't go out much.

But this season, with Sampdoria promoted to the first division, Gao Zheng's influence began to rise rapidly.

These can be easily seen from the number of videos, how well they are made, the number of views and comments, the number of likes, etc.

The first outbreak was in the first round of the league, after Gao Zheng defeated AC Milan 4:0, Xiao Yingying noticed that there was a lot of discussion about Gao Zheng on the Internet, and Gao Zheng's name was also mentioned a lot.

At this time, Gao Zheng's fame is more related to AC Milan, and it is because of AC Milan's status and fame that he has attracted more attention.

But after this game, after many people who didn't know Gao Zheng before got to know him, Gao Zheng began to have a fixed fan - not Sampdoria fans, but Gao Zheng's fans.

There are more and more content about Gao Zheng on the Internet, and it is becoming more and more abundant.

The matter of "booking the Golden Boot" made Gao Zheng controversial in the media and also caused controversy on the Internet. Some fans who originally admired Gao Zheng turned to passers-by because of the media's negative evaluation of Gao Zheng. But those who stayed became Gao Zheng's core fan group.

After all, Gao Zheng was scolded like that, and those who can still like Gao Zheng are true love.

Today, Gao Zheng has become a household name throughout Italy, and no fan of the Serie A team does not know him.

After each Sampdoria match, there will be a variety of videos related to Gao Zheng.

His wonderful performance in the competition was also made into a beautiful collection of highlights, accompanied by suitable music, and continued to spread on the Internet.

At the beginning, it was only Gao Zheng's goal highlights, and then there were assist highlights, and now it has been subdivided into various stop highlights, get rid of highlights, pass highlights, and pass highlights...... The highlights of these subdivisions fully show Gao Zheng's skills to netizens around the world.

Some netizens marveled that Gao Zheng's skills were good, and he didn't look like a Chinese player.

It sounds like a disdain for Chinese players, but it's also true, there are people who have such a great sense of the ball and skill among Chinese players...... can't be described as "rare", it's not at all!

The skills that are shown on the training ground are not skills, they are done without pressure and defense, and they are of little practical significance. Otherwise, the best players in the world will probably have to be those freestyle football performers.

For professional players, the most important thing is the technical ability that is shown in the game, in the fierce confrontation.

Only Gao Zheng can handle this aspect. And he's not average, he's at the top level.

Watching those foreigner fans take out all the words of praise they could imagine and praise and praise under every Gao Zheng video, Xiao Yingying felt a sense of national pride.