Chapter 190: Enemy Road is Narrow
While the Serie A teams are still in pre-season training, the schedule for the new season of Serie A has already come out. The new season of Serie A began on August 25, 2012 and ended on May 19, 3.
The opening match was played by Fiorentina at home, kicking off at 5:00 on the afternoon of August 25. Two and a half hours later, Juventus will welcome Parma at home at Juventus.
These two games were the first day.
The remaining games will be played all the next day.
Sampdoria's game was on this day, and their first round opponent happened to be...ac Milan!
"This is really a narrow road for enemies!" After seeing the result of this matchup, Lu Bing smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed: "The first game of the season is so exciting, interesting. Before AC Milan wanted to dig Gao Zheng again, and the Milan laboratory was exposed... As a result, the two teams met in the first round, ha!"
"I'm a little worried about the result of the game. You have to know that this is still AC Milan's home court." Wang Yixing frowned.
Lu Bing smiled and said, "So what? AC Milan is no longer the AC Milan in the past. They let go of two core players in the team's offense and defense this summer, and their strength has dropped significantly. I think as long as Sampdoria is properly tactical, it may not be impossible to compete."
He is talking about two major transfers from AC Milan this summer, with Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva being sold to Paris Saint-Germain in packages.
These two transfer transactions scared a lot of people, and no one expected AC Milan to sell the two most powerful people in the team.
You should know that Ibrahimovic made 32 appearances in the league last season, scored 28 goals, won the Serie A top scorer, and also scored five goals and four assists in the Champions League. He is the absolute core of AC Milan's offensive.
That's the player who left AC Milan.
Originally, if AC Milan could successfully dig up Gao Zheng, it would have offset the negative impact of Ibrahimovic's departure. However, after the scandal broke out in the Milan laboratory, the road was completely broken.
Then AC Milan exchanged Casano for Pazini from Inter Milan, preparing to replace the space left by Ibrahimovic with Pazini.
Thiago Silva's departure also had a great impact on AC Milan's defense. When he put the captain's armband in AC Milan, everyone thought that the Brazilian player would become the successor to Nesta, Maldini and others, hoping that he would become a legend in AC Milan. As a result... AC Milan sold him to Paris Saint-Germain for 42 million euros.
However, AC Milan has to do so. On the one hand, the increase in annual salaries of the two players has brought a huge tax burden to AC Milan. On the other hand, the Berlusconi family is difficult for the Berlusconi family to continue to make large investments for AC Milan clubs. If AC Milan lacks capital investment, if they want to maintain good operation, they must sell the most valuable players in the team. On the one hand, it can reduce the financial burden, and on the other hand, it can also bring more funds to the club.
In this year's transfer market, AC Milan is the one that Italy earns the most, all because of the transfer fee income brought by the transactions between Thiago Silva and Ibrahimovic...
"I think you are too optimistic, Lao Lu. Even if AC Milan has no Thiago Silva and Ibrahimovic, its overall strength is still above Sampdoria... I hope Gao Zheng can score a goal in the game, but it is too difficult to win. The goal is Gao Zheng, but it is difficult to say that Gao Zheng has the final say. You must know that this is Serie A, not Serie B." Wang Yixing said very seriously.
Lu Bing smiled: "Your analysis makes sense, Lao Wang. But if football can decide the winner according to pre-match analysis every time, it would be so boring..."
Before Lu Bing finished speaking, the door to Mugnaini training base opened, and the players' cars drove out of the training base one after another.
Suddenly, a reporter and a fan came over to interview them and asked them to sign and take a photo.
After Pelle left, Masi took over Pelle's class and became Gao Zheng's driver.
Therefore, Maxi now has the largest number of journalists and fans in front of his car. Maxi knows very well that they are all coming to Gao Zheng, who is his co-pilot.
Most of the reporters squeezed outside the car window of the passenger seat, and they handed the microphone, cell phone and recorder to Gao Zheng.
"I played AC Milan in the first round of the league. How do you feel about it?"
"Gao, you came out of the AC Milan youth training camp, but you have also suffered a huge blow in AC Milan. So will return to AC Milan make you feel complicated?"
"Will this be your revenge on AC Milan, Gao?"
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Facing these reporters' questions, Gao Zheng did not answer the reporter. He waited for everyone to ask, and then shook his head and said, "The first round of the league will have to wait for a while before starting. It's too early to say this now. I'm thinking about preparing for the new season. I'm sorry..."
After saying that, he raised the electric car window and signaled Masi to leave quickly.
The reporters were disappointed that they could not get more answers, but they really could not force Gao Zheng to answer the questions. Besides, Gao Zheng was right, it was too early to that game...
However, Gao Zheng’s failure to answer does not mean that they have nothing to write about.
Whether Gao Zheng said it or not, his grudges and love with AC Milan were all there, just like a novel, with too many things for everyone to dig out and play out.
In the eyes of Genoa media, this game must be a battle of revenge!
Against the backdrop of the scandal of Milan Laboratory, the game is full of gimmicks and is very exciting.
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"What a hell! Even if we sell Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, the team's strength will not drop to the point where even Sampdoria can't win, right? Why do we look at the tone of these media, it seems that Sampdoria will definitely beat us away? And take revenge... It's so shameless!"
This wave of media publicity made AC Milan fans very upset, and some people tweeted and complained online.
It soon attracted many AC Milan fans who had the same view.
"That's it! Although I'm very dissatisfied with AC Milan's performance in the summer transfer market, it doesn't mean that any team can beat us at our home court!"
"This is all the unscrupulous media leading the rhythm. Gao kept silent and did not fall into the trap of the other party. I think it's pretty good. I'm sorry that we lost such an excellent player because of the Milan laboratory's mistake..."
"Excellent is not necessarily true? I have heard of that high school. I was indeed in our youth training camp back then, but the honors I received at the age of sixteen cannot explain anything. I have seen many geniuses of sixteen, and how many of them can play in the end? His performance in the second division may be good, but that's because the level of the second division is too low!"
"Sampdoria was qualified for the upgrade playoffs last season. I don't know what they were crazy about? Even if we lost Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, we also have Robinho and Boateng. So what if they have high status, we also have the genius "Little Pharaoh"!"
The netizen's words seemed to resonate a lot, and immediately many AC Milan fans began to blow up their "little pharaoh" Stefan Al Salave.
"I think Stefan is much better than that! Although I can't bear to leave Zlatan, I think it's a good thing for Al Salavevi after the Swedes left. As long as I can seize the opportunity, I might achieve great success!"
"Galliani said that only Paul Maldini can be as strong as Salave when he was twenty years old. What is that Chinese?"
"I heard that Gao had won the best player in U16? But Salavi had already made a debut in the professional league when he was sixteen. Whoever is better or worse is right! "
If it were just AC Milan fans who praised their players, it would be fine.
But there are everyone on the Internet, and soon this tweet and the reply below were discovered by Sampdoria fans.
After last season's performance, Gao Zheng's position in the minds of Sampdoria fans is very high.
Now, when Sampdoria fans saw that their idol Gao Zheng was so unbearable by AC Milan fans, they were furious and rushed over to argue with AC Milan fans.
AC Milan fans said that Al Salavi is better than Gao Zheng, while Sampdoria fans said that Gao Zheng is more than a hundred times better than Al Salavi.
Someone else listed the data to show that Gao Zheng was better than Al Salavi: "Last season, Gao scored 16 goals in the league, assisted eleven times, and double-double. Four goals and three assists in the play-offs. What about Al Salavi? He played twenty-second league games, scored two goals and assisted twice, and made four appearances in the Italian Cup, scoring two goals and assisted one. It's so amazing! You dare to say that you are better than Gao in such a performance? I really don't know where AC Milan fans got the courage!"
AC Milan fans quickly fought back: "The difficulty of the League Two and League One is different. Can we compare this way?"
"Do you have to perform in the second division? Saravi happened to play in the second division in Padua in the 2010-2011 season. He included all the games and scored nine goals in one season, which was simply terrible!" Sampdoria fans retorted.
“Al Salavi is the best player in the second division!”
Chapter completed!