Amid the controversy caused by Gao Zheng's remarks that "I am so **", the match between Sampdoria and Juventus has also come.

In this game, Sampdoria challenged Juventus away.

Although Sampdoria's performance this season is pretty good, it's not worth mentioning when compared with Juventus.

As the league champion last season, Juventus' goal this season is of course to defend the title.

It took them six years to return to the league championship since the "phone door" incident in the summer of 2006.

Last season, they won the league championship with an unbeaten record, with 38 rounds of the league, 23 wins, 15 draws and zero losses.

This is the first team to win the championship with an unbeaten record in the whole season since the 2004-2005 Serie A was expanded to 20 participating teams. They also broke the previous record of unbeaten in the league in the 34 rounds of the league, because they were unbeaten in the 38 rounds, with four more rounds of leagues than AC Milan...

Looking at the entire Serie A history, before them, there were only Perugia in the 1978-1979 season and AC Milan in the 1991-1992 season who achieved unbeaten season wins. Perugia had even fewer teams participating in that time, with only sixteen teams participating.

The more teams you participate in, the more games you need to play, and it will be more difficult to keep the league unbeaten and win the championship.

This shows how powerful this Juventus is now.

This season, they have maintained an unbeaten record until they met Inter Milan and finally lost to Inter Milan 1:3 at home, with the record of 49 consecutive unbeaten games across the season.

However, this did not affect Juventus' performance at all.

Except for defeating Parma 2-0 in the first round, they only ranked fourth, and rose to first since the second round, and then they have been in this position.

Even if they lose to Inter Milan at home in the 11th round of the league, or even if they lose to AC Milan away in the 14th round of the league, they are the first place.

Because except for the two games that were lost, they only drew two games and won all other games.

They are now ranked first, with 44 points, leading second place Naples by as many as eight points.

The schedule is half over. Although there is no saying that Serie A will win the winter break, Juventus is actually the first half of the Serie A.

But even so, no one from Juventus, whether it is club officials, coach Conte, or players, said that their title defense this season is a foregone conclusion.

Gao Zheng is now only two goals ahead of the scorer list, so he dares to clamor for reservations for the Golden Boot.

Compared with the two, it naturally makes Italians unhappy.

It feels like an outsider is kicked out.

Now all across Italy, except for Sampdoria's supporters, I'm afraid everyone thinks that Juventus is the best opponent to teach the arrogant Gao Zheng.

Because their defense is really good.

If you have to say that Gao Zheng is the sharpest spear in the Serie A league at present, then Juventus is the strongest shield in the Serie A league.

This season, Juventus has only conceded eleven goals, the team with the least conceded. Six fewer than Napoli, which has conceded the second fewer goals. What’s interesting is that in the league rankings, the team ranking is inversely proportional to the number of conceded goals. Juventus, which has conceded the least goals, ranks first. Napoli, which has conceded the second fewer goals, ranks second. The third-ranked team is Lazio, who conceded 18 goals, is the team with the third fewer conceded. Next, the fourth and fifth place Fiorentina, both conceded 19 goals, and is the fourth-small team with the fourth-small team.

In contrast, Sampdoria has conceded twenty-one goals so far this season.

In fact, this number of goals conceded is not much in Serie A, but it is not enough to compare with Juventus.

Juventus' good defense is not just about this season. The team was able to win the championship with an unbeaten record last season, and their defense has made great contributions.

Juventus scored 68 goals in 38 rounds of the league last season, ranking second in the Serie A season, AC Milan scored 74 goals, making it the team with the strongest offensive firepower in Serie A last season.

But why was Juventus the final winner, and it was a four-point gap.

Just because Juventus only conceded twenty goals last season, this goal conceded the least in Serie A, conceded thirteen fewer than AC Milan, the second-placed one.

The thirteen goals lost in the short term widened the gap between Juventus and AC Milan.

If you analyze the goals and conceded numbers of teams winning the Serie A championship in the past five seasons, you will find that "winning the championship with defense" makes sense, especially in Serie A - the team that can win the championship may not be the team that can score the most, but it must be the team that conced the least.

The 2007-2008 league champion Inter Milan scored 69 goals, conceded 26 goals, and conceded the least. The teams with the most goals in the season were Roma and Juventus, both scoring 72 goals, but they could only rank second and third because they both conceded 37 goals.

The 2008-2009 league champion Inter Milan scored 70 goals with AC Milan, with the team with the most goals, but conceded 32 goals. Although Milan has strong offensive firepower, it conceded three more goals than Inter Milan and ranked third in the end.

The 2009-2010 league champion Inter Milan scored 75 goals, with the most leagues, 34 goals conceded and the least leagues.

The 2010-2011 league champion AC Milan scored 65 goals, not the most, and conceded 20 goals, the least. Inter Milan, who scored the most goals, scored 69 goals, but ranked second because of conceding 42 goals.

This shows the importance of defense to the championship.

Juventus' excellent defense is inseparable from one of their soul characters, that is, their captain, the legend Gianluigi Buffon, who is living in the goalkeeper class.

It was the goalkeeper's outstanding performance that allowed Juventus to win the championship with an unbeaten record last season.

Last season, Buffon made thirty-five appearances in the league and conceded only sixteen goals. In the three games he did not play, Juventus conceded four goals. He scored a penalty last season.

He is the most trusted patron saint in front of Juventus' goal.

Born on January 28, 1978, Buffon is 34 years old this year and his form remains excellent. He has made 16 appearances in the league this season, including seven of which were clean sheets.

In fact, it is not appropriate to describe him as a goalkeeper in the future, so it is probably more appropriate to use "door god".

And this "goal god" is the opponent Gao Zheng will face in this game.

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When Gao Zheng finished warm-up from the stadium and was about to return to the locker room, he met Buffon in the players' corridor at Juventus Arena.

The encounter between the two was completely accidental. Although Gao Zheng had heard of Buffon's famous name, he was not familiar with him, so he didn't plan to say hello to him, but just passed by him.

But to his surprise, Buffon stopped him.

"Hey, boy."

Gao Zheng was stunned for a moment at first, and looked around and found that there were only two of them in the corridor. So he pointed at himself and asked Buffon: "Are you calling me?"

"Of course, who else could it be?"

"Is there anything wrong with you calling me, Mr. Buffon?"

"Well, I just want to tell you that I have no grudges and no grudges with you, but I will do my best to avoid scoring in this game. I just hope you can learn to respect others." Buffon said.

Gao Zheng shook his head and said, "It seems that we have different understandings of 'respect'. What I understand to respect others is to give our all in the game."

At this time, Buffon had already walked in front of him.

The two were almost the same height, but he was just standing there, but Gao Zheng still felt a huge pressure.

This is the aura of a world-class goalkeeper with many battles and rich experience.

This is the World Cup champion goalkeeper!

While Chinese football is still struggling to reach the World Cup finals, they have already won the Hercules Golden Cup.

If you don’t look at age or qualifications, you are also Gao Zheng’s senior.

Logically speaking, if we meet in private, Gao Zheng, a junior in football, should be respectful to Buffon.

No...even if it was not a private meeting, even in this occasion, Gao Zheng should have enough respect for Buffon, because Buffon's qualifications are worthy of being respected.

In fact, the same is true. Juventus plays with other teams. No matter how the relationship between these two teams or how the opponents feel about Juventus, they respect Buffon very much.

Facing Buffon's head down is not a humiliating or embarrassing thing for anyone.

This is even more so for Gao Zheng.

But when the two stood together, Gao Zheng chose to look directly at Buffon, with no respect in his eyes.

Buffon was obviously a little surprised at Gao Zheng's reaction.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Gao Zheng.

Gao Zheng looked at the football legend with a calm expression.

The two of them had already had a clash of eyes countless times.

This kind of gaze situation was not broken until other players on both sides walked into the passage from the court and the locker room respectively.

The players from both sides later saw such a strange scene.

Under everyone's gaze, Gao Zheng and Buffon separated, and Gao Zheng walked to the locker room first.

The Juventus players came up and asked their captain curiously: "What's wrong, Gigi?"

"Nothing." Buffon also looked back at Gao Zheng's back.

Gao Zheng was also asked the same question by his Sampdoria's teammate Masi: "What did Buffon ask you for?"

"Nothing, we just discussed our views on the development trends in football today."
Chapter completed!