Chapter 253 Escort
After the game started, A Milan launched a fierce attack on Sampdoria's goal, and the anger of each A Milan player has been almost visualized.
Caresa said: "Today's A-Milan entered the game very quickly. They almost let themselves enter the game while referee Marco Jeddah blew the kick-off whistle. But it's normal to think about it. For this game, A-Milan must not know how long it has been prepared. They must return all the shame of losing four goals in the last confrontation to Sampdoria!"
Bergomi introduced: "A Milan does have such confidence because their performance has been very good recently. In fact, since they lost 1:3 to Fiorentina in the 12th round of the 11th League last November, they have only lost one game of 18th to Roma. There is also a four-game winning streak. In fact, they have come out of the first round of the game of 0:4 to Sampdoria, but for the players, they may need a sign to confirm it..."
Caresa laughed: "That's really... a Milan needs to defeat Sampdoria to break the knot in his heart. This kind of drama was never possible in the past!"
"Because Sandoria has become taller this time." Bergomi said seriously, and then he laughed.
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A Milan players may think that Sampdoria really despises them because of the performance of Sampdoria players in the pre-match player corridor.
But in fact, Sampdoria attaches great importance to this game.
Di Francisco specifically targeted A Milan's eagerness to revenge and arranged a defensive counterattack tactic for the team.
In fact, Sampdoria really didn't want to create some illusions to make Milan think they underestimate the enemy.
Gao Zheng did not show anything special in training. They just told the truth when they were interviewed.
But the Milan media didn't believe it. What can they do?
And what happened in the player channel was just a coincidence. In fact, what was reflected was the relaxation and maturity of the Sampdoria players. This mentality existed after they could beat Juventus 2-1 when they faced the away game with ten players.
That game greatly improved the players' confidence. Although Gao Zheng scored the goal, the team was able to withstand Juventus' bombardment with one less person, which also shows that their defense was done well and withstand the test.
It was also because of his performance in that game that Di Francisco arranged the defensive counterattack tactics in this game to deal with A Milan.
As a result, the confidence that Sampdoria players showed before the game was understood by the A-Milan players as proud and underestimated the opponent.
He angrily launched a fierce attack at Sampdoria's goal, but hit them but hit the iron plate.
The offensive was thrilling for more than ten minutes at the beginning, but he was unable to break through Sampdoria's goal.
In this game, Allegri had a 433 formation, with the three forwards in the center, Salavi on the left and Mbaye Nion on the right.
This forward combination can be said to be a F-demon combination, but apart from Saravi's outstanding performance this season, both Boyan and Nian's performance are far inferior to the game.
Therefore, this attack lineup is not very dangerous to Sampdoria's defense line, with heavy thunder and little rain.
Salavi worked very hard. The only time Milan had a threat in the attack in these ten minutes was that it was from him.
But the threat he can bring is limited enough by relying on him alone.
After resisting Milan's three-pronged attack at the opening game, Sampdoria began to fight back.
Unlike the offensive like Milan with heavy thunder and low rainfall, Sampdoria did not counterattack many times, but it was very threatening.
In the 18th minute, Gao Zheng passed the football to Icardi in the counterattack. After Icardi stopped the football with his own strength, he swung his feet, forcing Milan goalkeeper Abiati to make a wonderful save and use his fingertips to push the football out of the baseline.
"Icardi!! Beautiful and confident door!"
Di Francisco started playing three forwards at the beginning of the season, but with Maxi Lopez's injury, Pozi and Edel's decline in form, and Icardi's active performance, Sampdoria now has become a double forward, with Gao Zheng and Icardi partnering.
Although Icardi's current number of goals is far less than that of Gao Zheng, the talent he showed has been understood by everyone.
Now in Sampdoria's lineup, there are young players like Gao Zheng, Icardi, Kostici, Obiang, and Masi. These young people have the aura of being a newborn calf not afraid of tigers, so although they are young, they dare to fight when playing against their opponents. Their condition was indeed ups and downs in the early stages, showing common problems among young people, but these young people are also growing rapidly in the game and performing better and better.
The last game beat Juventus in extreme disadvantage is the best proof.
Of course, the reason why this young guards can grow up so quickly has a lot to do with the people who escort them. If it weren't for Gao Zheng, this ship full of young people would have sunk long ago...
It is precisely because Gao Zheng scored goals one by one that helped the team to achieve good results even if they encountered ups and downs and still ranked seventh. Di Francisco was under little pressure to continue to implement his youth strategy.
Under Gao Zheng's "escort", both Kostici and Masi, Icardi grew up quickly.
Now they are able to stand firm in their respective positions.
The reason why Icardi had such a calm opportunity to start foot just now is also inseparable from Gao Zheng's wonderful passage.
Although Gao Zheng is the center, he is very comprehensive, with a large range of activities, excellent skills and strong overall view, and he is more like an offensive libero. He can connect the team's offense, score points by his own goal, or send a wonderful pass to his teammates after attracting the opponent's defense.
So although the outside world has been criticizing DiFrancisco for letting Gao Zheng bet on the core, DiFrancisco did not shake his ideas at all and firmly supported and believed in Gao Zheng.
Gao Zheng's performance did not disappoint him.
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In the 25th minute, Gao Zheng retreated to pick up his teammates.
Obiang passed the football to him from behind, but Gao Zheng did not meet and catch the ball, but waited on the spot.
This made Montolivo feel that he had a chance, so he decisively stepped forward and planned to tackle the football before Gao Zheng.
But he obviously made a mistake in his judgment. His robbery did not grab the ball, but instead created a gap behind him!
Seeing this, the team's captain Ambrosini realized that it was going to be bad, so he rushed up to make up for the position.
While he rushed up, Gao Zheng waited for the football. He did not catch the ball and then adjust the rotation. Instead, he directly stopped the football with the inside of his right foot. At the same time, he turned again and received the ball and turned in one go.
As soon as he turned around, he faced the robbery Ambrosini.
Gao Zheng's center of gravity tilted to the left, as if he wanted to push the football directly to the left.
Ambrosini had just run to the position and had not yet established a firm foothold, so he was forced to confront Gao Zheng.
He spread his legs and lowered his center of gravity to be on guard.
Gao Zheng's left-leaning center of gravity was indeed a fake move. He moved the football to the right and moved it to the right.
Ambroseni, who was intercepting from the front, quickly moved horizontally to the right, then stretched out his foot to shovel at Gao Zheng and the football under his feet.
Gao Zheng caught up with the football with a quick step, fully utilized his advantage of longer legs, and drew the football back with one kick, and Ambrosini made a sack!
Football passed by him, and he could only watch the football rolling over, but he was helpless and now he lost his center of gravity and slipped to the ground.
He was unwilling to see Gao Zheng throw him away, so he turned around and wanted to get up from the ground, but he kicked his legs and found it was broken... He seemed to have injured his thigh muscles while tackled just now. In order to expand the defense area during the tackle, he spread his legs very wide...
"Gao Zheng! The beautiful fake moves are extraordinary! He passed two people in one breath!" Liu Hong cheered for Gao Zheng excitedly. "He continued to drive the ball to the Milan area!"
A Milan is facing a great enemy, Abiati pointed at Gao Zheng in front of the goal and yelled: "Stop him! It's okay to make a foul!"
At this time, he no longer cared about Gao Zheng's free kick.
Because I didn't expect Gao Zheng to pass two of his teammates in a row so easily, Milan's back line was originally relatively back, which gave Gao Zheng room to drive the ball forward.
At this time, they rushed out to defend, and the care of other places would naturally not be so good. For example, when they came up to intercept Gao Zheng's A-center-back Mex, he inevitably had a gap.
And this space was immediately occupied by Icardi.
At the same time, Gao Zheng poked the football with his toes to Icardi, who already occupied the gap!
"Icardi!" Amid the shouting of Karesa's long voice, Icardi pulled Gao Zheng's pass forward and then swung his foot!
He ran to the near corner, but turned the ball to the far corner, which caught goalkeeper Abiati off guard!
Abiati could only use his feet to try to block the football, but he couldn't do it.
The football rushed into the back corner of the goal!
"The ball is in!!! Icardi! Mauro Icardi! This is his fifth league goal this season! In the 26th minute of the game, Sampdoria led Milan 1:0 at home!"
"A Milan puts his defensive attention too high and completely ignores Icardi... In fact, Icardi is also a young player with outstanding abilities and should not be underestimated..."
Chapter completed!