Chapter 357 Stealing Messi's limelight
Gao Zheng's goal caused a huge storm in the Malasi Stadium.
Even if the game has resumed, everyone's mind is still on the goal.
Fans have discussed scoring goals over and over again, and many gif animations and short videos of Gao Zheng's entire goal have appeared on the Internet.
If there were many ordinary European fans who didn't know Gao Zheng before, then after this game and with the spread of this goal video, I believe that ordinary fans in Europe will soon know that Sampdoria actually has such a tall player with excellent footwork.
Then they will know that this young man who won the entire Barcelona defense line by one-on-one is called "Gao Zheng", who is a Chinese player.
Although there is still time left for Barcelona to do something more.
However, Sampdoria, who was recycled on the entire line, united as one, and did not let Barcelona defeat them again.
Despite the injury time of up to five minutes, Sampdoria's defense did not collapse.
Amid the booing of Sampdoria fans, Barcelona returned in vain for several attacks.
Bruch finally blew the whistle to the end of the game.
"The game ends!" Caresa raised his arms and shouted, "The game ends! Sampdoria tied Barcelona 2:2 at home! This is an amazing game! With the disadvantage of strength and not favored before the game, and encountered controversial punishment in the game, Sampdoria still tied the powerful Barcelona stubbornly! Gao scored a very exciting goal in the game, and there was a key assist... Such performance is enough to make him the best player in this game!"
He Ping said even more exaggeratedly: "In the duel with Messi, Gao Zheng laughed to the end! Although both of them scored a goal and an assist, being able to help Sampdoria, who was inferior to Barcelona, tied the opponent, is enough to show Gao Zheng's ability! This is the first time our players have confronted the world's top players. The confrontation process and results show that Gao Zheng is not bad!"
This is to directly compare Gao Zheng to the same level as Messi.
This comparison will definitely attract a lot of criticisms such as "overestimating one's own abilities", but at this time, no one cares about this statement, and judging from this game alone, Gao Zheng is indeed not inferior to Messi.
The TV broadcast also knew this very well. The protagonist of this game should have been Messi, but now it has become Gao Zheng.
A young man can steal the limelight from Messi's hands, and that's enough to attract the media's pursuit.
As soon as the game ended, the close-up shot was aimed at Gao Zheng.
He and his teammates were celebrating this winning draw.
But he didn't go to any Barcelona players to exchange jerseys.
In the past, after Barcelona and other teams played, Messi's jerseys were always the most popular. There were even incidents where opponents exchanged jerseys with Messi at the end of the first half in order to avoid being unable to exchange jerseys with Messi at the end of the game.
However, this time, no Sampdoria player ran to Barcelona players to exchange jerseys, including Messi.
The lost Barcelona player showed a confused look on the court, feeling a little incredible about why he didn't win this game.
Messi walked back to the player's passage with his head down.
It seems that Barcelona's players did not draw with Sampdoria away, but lost to Sampdoria...
After celebrating with his teammates, Gao Zheng was pulled to the interview area by reporters.
"I'm glad we ended up with one point. Although it was only one point, it was pretty good for our team. Barcelona is a very strong team, so strong that it's almost invincible, so I'm glad we were able to get points from such a strong opponent."
Gao Zheng's words sounded like a praising Barcelona, but I believe that Barcelona's supporters may not be happy at all after hearing this.
Some people even think that Gao Zheng is "behaved well when he gets the cheap."
A reporter asked Gao Zheng what he was thinking when he scored that wonderful goal.
"I didn't think about anything, or I didn't care about it at all. I just wanted to avoid those opponents standing in front of me and then hit the football in, that's that simple."
"Will the team consider qualifying in the group now?"
"If possible, why not?"
When Gao Zheng answered this, no one would think that Gao Zheng was arrogant and Sampdoria was overestimating her abilities.
You should know that before Sampdoria's first Champions League group stage, Gao Zheng said that his home goal was to win, and he was called arrogant and arrogant, and he had never seen the world.
But now Sampdoria has proved that they have such strength with their actual performance, and qualifying in the group is not such an incredible goal.
Another group match in this group has been finished. The Celtics defeated Ajax 2:1 at home, and now the ranking of three-pointers has risen to third place, while Ajax, who has only one point, has fallen to fourth place.
Barcelona still topped the list with seven points, while Sampdoria ranked second with five points.
They did have the chance to qualify from this group.
Now mocking Sampdoria's group qualifying target, what if she is slapped in the face in the end?
Experienced Italian journalists will not rush to show their attitude at this moment. They still remember what happened after they mocked Gao Zheng for booking the Golden Boot in advance... It was a sad story.
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Sampdoria tied Barcelona 2:2 at home, which was unexpected.
In this round of group stage, the three Italian teams were just one win, one draw and one loss. Napoli defeated Marseille 2:1 away, Sampdoria tied Barcelona 2:2 at home, and Juventus, the Serie A champion, lost 1:2 away to Real Madrid.
After three rounds of group stages, Napoli, which had six points, was the best in the Serie A team, while Juventus, who had not won a game, was the most critical situation in the qualifying situation.
This is really something that people can't imagine before the start of the Champions League group stage.
Gao Zheng's goal in the game spread throughout Europe through the Internet, and more and more people knew him and met him.
Of course, some transfer rumors also came.
It is said that Real Madrid is already inspecting Gao Zheng and wants to take him to the Bernabeu after the end of this season.
Some media also said that Juventus was dissatisfied with the team's performance in the Champions League, and they also hoped to bring Gao Zheng to Turin.
Because Gao Zheng's performance in the Champions League proves his strength, there is no problem in playing in the Champions League, Juventus hopes to make a breakthrough in the Champions League.
But that's going until next season.
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After playing the group stage between the Champions League and Barcelona, although Sampdoria went to a draw and got a valuable point, it also paid a huge price.
In the next league with Atlanta, Di Francesco almost replaced the entire starting lineup, which shows that when playing against Barcelona, Sampdoria was simply a serious injury.
In the end, Sampdoria, who played on the bench, lost 0:1 to Atlanta.
After the failure of this game, Sampdoria's ranking dropped to 11th place, and after nine rounds of the league, he only accumulated 11 points, and the goal difference was a negative.
This is really different from the performance of the same period last season.
But Sampdoria's fans and Genoa's media basically did not blame or criticize the team.
After all, the team still has the Champions League to play this season.
The team performed well in the Champions League, so it is natural that it is normal to sacrifice the league for this.
Chapter completed!