"After Sampdoria took the lead, the offense became even sharper. Their core player, Gao You from China, was active! Just now, he suddenly shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area and almost broke the goal guarded by Courtois!"

Giovanni Simeone sat at home watching the Champions League live broadcast.

There is a four-hour time difference between Italy and Argentina, which is eight o'clock in the evening and four o'clock in the afternoon.

Fortunately, the team did not train this afternoon, so he was able to go home to watch the game after the morning training.

For this reason, he also declined his teammates' enthusiastic invitation. Even if his teammates told him that there would be several beautiful girls coming together, he was unmoved.

He has been looking forward to the match between Atletico Madrid and Sampdoria for a long time, just to see if his father is exaggerating.

He saw Gao Zheng's goal just twelve minutes into the game.

The goal was beautiful. Although it looked like an ordinary turning shot, Giovanni Simone, who is also a striker, knew that he would suddenly change the center of gravity in a very short time and then turn and shoot, and he could still play the football so steadily, not as simple as everyone imagined.

Many players will turn around and shoot, but most of the time, they will knock the football away or miss it. Moreover, these turn around and shoot are mostly the kind of actions that they take the initiative to push the football away and then turn around and shoot.

Gao Zheng was completely in front of the ball and found that his teammates passed the football behind him, and immediately turned around and shot.

In addition to this goal, Gao Zheng almost every time he gets the ball, he poses a threat to Atletico Madrid's defense line.

Although he is not trained at Atletico Madrid, Giovanni is still very concerned about his father's team. He knows clearly how powerful the defense line his father trains.

Although Atletico Madrid only won third place in the league last season, their score of conceding only 31 goals in the 38 rounds of the league was indeed the best in the league, and they are the team with the least goals conceded.

In Giovanni's opinion, his father is very good at defensive training.

As a result, such a defense line was trembling in front of Gao Zheng, as if he had to give all his strength to defend every time.

He has performed by dribbling the ball and breaking through Atletico Madrid's defense line, and has also recorded the record of taking the ball to attract the attention of Atletico Madrid defender and then passing the football into the air, not to mention the shot. In addition to a goal, he also directly threatened Atletico Madrid's goal with several shots.

Courtois has made four effective saves since the beginning of the game, three of which came from Gao Zheng's shots.

Although his father said at the pre-match press conference that Sampdoria was not the only one who was Gao Zheng and other players were worthy of attention, Giovanni felt that it was just his father numbing his opponent.

But judging from the game during this period, Gao Zheng, who performed well, led the entire Sampdoria to run at high speed and kept threatening Atletico Madrid's goal. Giovanni actually felt that "Is his father's team really going to lose to Sampdoria away?"

In fact, when this feeling just came out of Giovanni's mind, he still felt it was ridiculous. But as time went by, he became less and less afraid to think about this matter.

If Sampdoria could score a goal, Atletico Madrid might really lose.

In his opinion, Sampdoria's morale has been completely improved, and it is also home court, just like a sailing ship. Although the boat is small, it is more flexible and mobile.

How did the game become like this?

The TV broadcast happened to give Gao Zheng a close-up shot, and then replayed another threatening shot he had just completed.

Courtois failed to touch the ball this time, and the football just slid out of the post...

The commentator of Argentina TV joked: "Before the game, coach Simeone praised Gao at the press conference, which also caused many people to be confused and controversial. Some people said that Simeone was using the practice of praise to make Sampdoria less vigilant... But looking at the situation of the game, maybe everyone misunderstood Simeone. Is he sincerely praising Gao?"

Giovanni felt mixed feelings when she heard the commentator say this.

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"Gao felt very good today!" After seeing Sampdoria's performance, Caresa couldn't hide her joy from the bottom of her heart. "Just kick like this! Keep putting pressure on Atletico Madrid, and after finding a breakthrough, one blow was fatal!"

As an Italian commentator, he naturally hopes that this Italian football team can persist in the knockout round. He naturally does not expect Sampdoria to win the Champions League championship, which is difficult to reach the top, but even if he can advance one more round, it is a good thing for him and Italian football.

"The key is that Sampdoria's whole team performed well today. I have to say that Sampdoria now has a more sense of Champions League. They have gained nutrition from the Champions League and then fed back to the team, and can perform better in the Champions League. The Champions League has a virtuous cycle in Sampdoria's mid-range team..." Bergomi, the guest commenting next to him, sighed.

Everyone is a mid-range team participating in the Champions League. Before that, the results were basically the same, that is, the game was in vain, the Champions League was gone, and the league was also gone. Sampdoria was simply relegated last time, and there were countless other mid-range teams who ended up in a relegation battle because of participating in the Champions League.

Many people think that the Champions League has now become a game that only wealthy and powerful families or upstarts can afford.

Teams with insufficient foundation, insufficient financial resources, and insufficient lineup are not strong enough.

But this year's Sampdoria showed them another result.

Among the teams that reached the top 16 in the Champions League this year, Sampdoria is the team with the weakest financial resources and the least budget. In addition to traditional European giants, other teams that reached the top 16 are mostly overlords of their respective national leagues, or supported by financial backers.

Galatasaray is a traditional giant in Türkiye, Olympiacos is also a professional winner in Greece, and behind St. Petersburg Zenit is the financial support of the Russian Natural Gas Company, which is not short of money.

Sampdoria's history alone is not brilliant enough and there is no money yet.

They are simply outliers in the top 16.

"That's because Sampdoria is tall." Caresa reminded Bergomi.

"I know, but besides high, the efforts of others are also essential. Otherwise, you see, if you rely solely on high, can Sampdoria be able to play against Atletico Madrid?" Bergomi pointed out the efforts made by Sampdoria players. "If there were no other Sampdoria players' cooperation, I believe that high ability would be limited. He and the rest of Sampdoria should be in a complementary relationship."

Caresa nodded: "This is, football is a team sport after all. But the backbone is still high. The reason why Sampdoria can perform well in the Champions League is closely related to Gao's outstanding performance. We can completely imagine what will happen next if Sampdoria cannot keep Gao after the end of this season."

Bergomi also had to admit that what Carresa said made sense.

No matter what the team says, the core is still Gao Zheng.

After the brief exchange between the two, Gao Zheng forced Courtois to make the fifth effective save for the game with a wonderful shot.

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PS, there is still one hour to go to the Asian Cup group stage between the Chinese team and Kyrgyzstan.

To be honest, judging from the performance of the Chinese team's warm-up match during this period, I am not optimistic about the performance of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup, but the performance of the Chinese team seems to have lost freshness to Lippi. Lippi's performance after taking over Gao Hongbo in the World Cup qualifiers was eye-catching, and the team seemed to have a feeling of changing income and swords.

But judging from this year's warm-up match, there seems to be something wrong between the Chinese team and Lippi. Lippi publicly claimed that he would leave the team after the Asian Cup and would not lead the team to the World Cup qualifiers. The players' performance in the warm-up match also seemed to be ineffective.

In this state, I am completely unfavorable to the performance of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup. I have little hope of advancing to the knockout stage. I must have gone home after three games in the group stage. Even facing Kyrgyzstan, the weakest group, I don’t think the Chinese team can win...

I really hope that the Chinese team can slap me in the face with actual performance. But unfortunately, this possibility is very slim.
Chapter completed!