Chapter 462: Side by side with the legend
Everyone thought that Sampdoria and Udinese would definitely play hard to distinguish in this game, after all, Udinese obviously had to set up a bus in front of the goal.
According to many people's predictions, it may be difficult to score goals in the first half of this game. If Sampdoria was patient enough, they might be able to score goals in the second half.
But it is hard to say whether Gao Zheng can score a goal.
But no one expected that the game had only started ten minutes, not only Sampdoria scored, but Gao Zheng also scored.
The biggest suspense of this game before the game collapsed.
The only reason to support Udinese's entire bus is no longer there.
In the stands, Porata, who was on the stadium, pointed at Gao Zheng in the stadium and said to his son: "Didn't you ask me why I was willing to let Gao leave? Isn't this obvious? Neither Sampdoria nor Serie A can tolerate Gao anymore. Our pond is so big, and when we come in, we squeezed out all the water. How else can others play? So he must leave Sampdoria and must leave Serie A. Look, Udinese has put in such a lot of effort to defend Gao, but what happened? They failed in ten minutes..."
The son didn't say anything and looked at Gao Zheng silently on the court who was celebrating the goal with his teammates. He was used to Gao Zheng coming to their store from time to time to buy Focacha and chat with his father for a while.
This big star on the court is ordinary like an ordinary person off the court.
When he thought that this star would never appear in the store again, he felt a little uncomfortable.
As a Sampdoria fan, he couldn't understand his father as much as his father. He still couldn't let go of Gao Zheng's possible departure. He hoped that Gao Zheng could continue to stay in Sampdoria.
Didn’t it mean that Sampdoria Club has no money?
Then when Gao Zheng leads the team to win more championships, won’t he be rich? Not only the championship bonus, but also the investment attracted by the number of championships... By the way, there are also Chinese people, Chinese people are so rich. When they see Gao Zheng playing football in Sampdoria, wouldn’t they come to cooperate with our club and invest in us?
When we have money, we buy more stars and form a more combat-ready team. With Gao Zheng as the core, why can't we become a wealthy family?
But now seeing this scene, he also felt that even if Gao Zheng was willing to stay, Sampdoria Club would not allow this scene to happen. With Gao Zheng's current performance, how valuable is he in the transfer market? How could Sampdoria Club keep such a large amount of money in front of him?
He sighed. Sampdoria is a small team and is destined to be unable to retain talents, especially those brilliant superstars... Superstars should go to wealthy families, and don't be foolish in small clubs. Even if you force yourself to stay, you may not be able to support them...
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After Gao Zheng scored, Udinese's morale was obviously seriously affected.
When the game started again, they stopped talking nonsense. The purpose of setting up a bus was to stop Gao Zheng from scoring the goal. As a result, Gao Zheng has scored the goal now, so what else is necessary for this bus?
Udinese, who no longer has a bus, decided to go out to fight Sampdoria. Since it is his home court, of course it is impossible to tolerate the final loss.
Sampdoria is the tactic of taking the initiative to attack.
So the two teams fought against each other in the next 80 minutes.
In the 27th minute, Udinese, who played at home, equalized the score by Dinatale.
Five minutes later, Dinatale scored twice to help Udinese reverse the lead.
The second half was just eight minutes old, and in the 53rd minute, Gao Zheng used a goal to help Sampdoria tie. This was his 32nd league goal this season, but the commentators were no longer as excited as he scored the first goal.
Because after more than thirty goals, whether it is more than one or more than two, the meaning is the same.
In the 55th minute, after Gao Zheng scored twice, he completed his hat trick in this game.
Helped Sampdoria take the lead with a score of 3:2.
"Another hat trick!"
"Thirty-three league goals, this is Gao Zheng's 114 goals scored in various Sampdoria events! It only took three seasons... No, it was two and a half seasons. He basically didn't play in the first half of the Serie B..." Liu Hong said excitedly. "Such efficient goal rate is really terrifying!"
Even Udinese fans at Friuli Stadium stood up to applause Gao Zheng, paying homage to his wonderful performance, and paying high respect to this second person in Serie A history.
From now on, in this record, the legendary AC Milan shooter Gunnar Nodar is no longer a lonely person.
Gao Zheng was a little surprised by the applause from the Udinese fans, and then he expressed his gratitude to the Udinese fans. He folded his hands and bowed to the stands where the Udinese fans gathered.
"What a wonderful scene!" Caresa sighed happily after seeing it. "Gao contributed a wonderful goal for us and a wonderful season. His performance in this game conquered Udinese fans, and made Udinese fans, who are opponents, applaud him. I think this is the best side of football. When you are simply impressed by the beautiful football, the difference between the team is thrown behind... Thanks to Gao, and to Udinese fans..."
In addition, the camera also captures the scene where Udinese's captain, Dinatale, who scored twice in today's game, gave Gao Zheng a thumbs up.
Heroes cherish heroes!
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After Gao Zheng completed the hat trick, both sides continued to go back and forth, but no more goals were scored until the end.
The final score was Sampdoria defeated Udinese 3-2 away and ended their 2012-2014 season with a victory.
Many years later, perhaps Sampdoria fans will still think of this incredible season from time to time.
At the beginning of the season, no one was optimistic about them. If they scored in the Champions League, they would be considered to be going home after the group stage. Many people also believed that playing in the Champions League would affect the team's performance in the league. Maybe they would achieve nothing in the Champions League and were on the verge of relegation in the league.
But who would have thought that Sampdoria not only broke through the siege in the Champions League group stage and became the only team in Italy to advance to the knockout stage, but also relegated early in the league and won a championship in the Italian Cup.
I thought it was a very difficult season, but it finally had a great harvest.
The Italian Cup champion belongs to them, and the results of the Champions League quarterfinals are also remarkable. Gao Zheng defended the top scorer and scored more than 30 goals in the league for two consecutive seasons, standing side by side with legendary shooter Gunnar Nodal.
Although it has not reached the glorious peak of Sampdoria in the 1990s, in the current football environment, it is already a very remarkable achievement that Sampdoria can still achieve such results.
After the game, Gao Zheng went to the referee to use the ball for this game to be remembered. This is the routine of players who performed a hat trick.
Caresa joked: "Gao may have to leave a room for these hat-trick memorial football in his house, otherwise he would not be able to let go..."
Then he changed his tone: "I really hope to see Gao in the Serie A field next season. But my intuition told me that with Gao's performance this season, it may be difficult for Sampdoria to keep him again. I don't know if Gao can still be in Serie A. If he thinks that Serie A is no longer difficult for him, then he might choose to leave... If that's the case, I will feel sorry for our league not being able to retain such excellent talents, but I will respect Gao's choice because it is a wise approach... From the planning of professional players, staying in Serie A is definitely not the best choice. No matter what, I still have to thank Gao for the beautiful goals and hot topics that Gao brought us in these two seasons..."
Gao Zheng held the football with one hand and waved to the Sampdoria fans who came with the team and cheered for the team.
In the stands, the fat boss Porata also waved to Gao Zheng.
It was as if two people were saying goodbye to each other.
Chapter completed!