Chapter 195 Return to the game
When Gao Zheng stood in the middle circle and stepped on the football under his feet, he looked around.
The San Siro Stadium was not full, which could accommodate 80,000 people, but looking around, the stands were empty everywhere.
Although this game was hyped up in the media, it was mainly Genoa media and Milan media were relatively cold to this game.
AC Milan fans are not very enthusiastic either.
This may have a lot to do with the team letting go of Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva this summer, and AC Milan fans will not buy it.
The empty stands made Galliani on the rostrum look a little bad. He knew that the fans were protesting to him in this way.
The matter of letting Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva go from the club management level is a must, because both of them have both salaries. Selling them can not only bring transfer fees, but also terminate the contract and pay a lot of salary, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
But the fans don't care about this, they only saw the team losing two big stars.
Before the game started, Fabio Carresa, the commentator of Italy Sky TV, was more about introducing AC Milan's performance in the summer transfer market to TV audiences. He only mentioned a few words about the grudges between Gao Zheng and AC Milan. At other times, he was discussing the transfer market in Serie A in the summer, and Milan's two heroes were the focus of their discussion.
Only the commentator of China CCTV, Liu Hong, talked endlessly to the Chinese audience in front of the TV and the fans about Gao Zheng's situation in the second division.
"... Last season was a very important season for Gao Zheng. He was abandoned by the head coach at the beginning of the season, and then regained his destiny when the league was halfway through... In the end, he won everyone's favor and love with his outstanding performance. However, that was just the B League. The A League and the B League are still very different. The opponents have different strengths, and the tactics and intensity of confrontation are also completely different..."
"It's so long-winded!" Lin Yuan muttered in front of the TV, and then heard the sound of opening the door behind him.
He turned around and saw his sister in the crack in the door.
"Did your parents fall asleep?"
Lin Yuan jumped off the sofa, lay down under the door of his parents' bedroom and took a look, then turned around and whispered to his sister: "The lights are off..."
Lin Sisi tiptoed out of the bedroom after hearing this, sat on the sofa, and then patted the sofa cushion: "Come and see the ball!"
Lin Yuan frowned and looked at his sister: "Don't you go to work tomorrow?"
"I can get up anyway." Lin Sisi was wearing pajamas, sitting cross-legged on the sofa, holding a pillow, staring at the TV screen.
Lin Yuan thought that she was unlucky after being discovered anyway, so she stopped talking and returned to the sofa to watch the football match with her sister.
This is the first time my sister has watched the game, but he knows why, because there is a high coach in this game...
The TV broadcast happened to give Gao Zheng a close-up shot, who was standing in the middle circle. In the camera, Gao Zheng stared at the direction of AC Milan's goal.
This is the first time Lin Yuan has seen Coach Gao look so serious in his training class. No matter when or when, no matter what the situation, the coach Gao in Lin Yuan's eyes always looks smiling.
"Such handsome..." My sister's moan sounded next to her, and Lin Yuan rolled his eyes. He felt that he might not be able to concentrate on watching the game.
At this moment, after seeing that the players on both sides were in place, the referee looked at the watch and then blew the whistle to the start of the game!
"The game has begun! CCTV, CCTV! Good morning, everyone, everyone, welcome to watch the first round of the Italian Football League 2011-2012 season, AC Milan played against Sampdoria at home! On the court, wearing a red and black shirt, attacking from left to right is AC Milan, and attacking from right to left is Sampdoria... The one who just kicked off was the Chinese player Gao Zheng, who wore a No. 10 jersey! The No. 40 jersey he wore last season. From the change of numbers, we can see that Gao Zheng's importance in Sampdoria's team is gradually increasing..."
When Liu Hongluo talked for a long time, Sampdoria had already hit the frontcourt of AC Milan. Before he could even think of the rosters of both sides, he focused all on Gao Zheng. However, for Chinese fans, this was not a problem. They were watching the game for Gao Zheng.
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"The game has begun!" In the bar, Chinese students and other Sampdoria fans cheered, and then began to watch the game quietly.
After Sampdoria kicked off, she fell the football in the backcourt and hit another long pass to the frontcourt.
The one I was looking for was Gao Zheng.
However, Gao Zheng did not jump up and compete for the top. AC Milan central defender Jepez next to him jumped high and easily pushed the ball back.
Seeing this scene, Sampdoria coach Di Francesco yelled on the sidelines: "Don't fucking pass the ball! The ground! Keep walking on the ground!"
He did not scold Gao Zheng for not fighting for the top, but instead scolded the passer player.
Since he determined the tactical idea of Gao Zheng as the core of the offense, Sampdoria's offense has mainly been ground propulsion, because Di Francesco found that Gao Zheng's heading skills were not very good, he was only 1.9 meters tall, but he was not good at fighting for tops and hand-to-hand combat, so playing high balls for Gao Zheng means losing possession.
The Sampdoria player in the backcourt obviously forgot his advice.
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"Sampdoria passed the ball for a long time to find Gao Zheng. This is their offensive opportunity...uh..." Before Liu Hong finished speaking, he saw Yepas pushing the football back, and Gao Zheng, who was right next to him, didn't even interfere with it. He didn't know what to say. When he was doing his homework, he knew that Gao Zheng was not good at fighting for a header, but he didn't even pretend to behave. This was too honest... How could he say what he prepared to praise him next?
Lin Yuan and Lin Sisi in front of the TV also looked at each other, but they didn't expect that Coach Gao's first performance was... no performance.
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Although his teammate made a wrong pass, Gao Zheng still gave the opponent a thumbs up and signaled that he could pass it well. Then he turned around to observe where the football went.
The football that Yepas fought for the top was controlled by Sampdoria and landed at Obiang's feet.
Seeing this, Gao Zheng did not turn around and run forward, but took the initiative to retreat to meet Obiang.
In this game, Di Francesco lined up a 433 formation. Gao Zheng was in the center as the center, with Edel on the left and Marcelo Estigarivia on the right, who was loaned from Maldonado Athletic. This man played for Juventus on loan last season.
In the midfield, Kostic and Poly were topped, and Obiang dragged in the middle, and was considered a midfielder.
Yepas directly pushed the football to Sampdoria's midfielder, while Gao Zheng, as the center, retreated to receive the center's ball, and it was rare to play like this. Generally, the center will stand in his position and try to push the opponent's defense forward to let his midfielder out of the room.
However, in Sampdoria's formation, Di Francesco gave Gao Zheng such freedom, he would play whatever he wanted and run whatever he wanted.
Gao Zheng retreated to pick up his midfielder. Yepas, who originally wanted to go up, stayed in his position when he saw this. He couldn't let Gao Zheng pull himself out. As for Gao Zheng's defense, he had his own midfield teammates to solve it.
AC Milan's midfielder in this game was Montolivo who was transferred from a free transfer. His body was not strong enough, and his defense was not what he was best at, but Gao Zheng was not strong either, so Montolivo should be fine if he defended...
Just as Yepas thought of this, he saw Gao Zheng picking up Obiang's pass, and pulled the ball behind him with the soles of his feet, then quickly turned around and wiped it against Montolivo!
What about Montolivo? When Gao Zheng was hitting the ball, he was about to stick it on. Before he could make a defensive move, he was overwhelmed by Gao Zheng...
"Oh!!" Liu Hong exclaimed in the studio. "This is extraordinary and beautiful!"
Gao Zheng, who passed Montolivo, dribbled the ball and rushed towards Jepez.
Yepas slowly retreated along with the defense line, compressing the space behind him.
As a result, Gao Zheng swung a long shot while dribbling!
Seeing Gao Zheng swinging his feet, Yepais realized that he had given the other party such a relaxed opportunity!
He wanted to pounce on him to stop him, but it was too late. The football flew over his head and flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal!
AC Milan goalkeeper Abiatti suddenly thought of the goal flying when he saw the football. He hurriedly made a save, but it was also too late. He could not touch the football at all, so he could only watch the football fly to the upper right corner.
Under his gaze, his feet slammed on the crossbar and jumped up and popped out of the bottom line...
The discussion on the transfer operation of AC Milan selling two core players this summer in the commentary seat, as well as the dissatisfaction of AC Milan fans with the club's senior executives in the stands, were interrupted by this sound.
Chapter completed!