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Sampdoria's opponent in this game, the Celtics, is in the limelight in their own domestic league, and it is rare to meet an opponent.

So far this season, they have remained unbeaten, with 11 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses, accumulating 36 points, leading the Scottish Super League standings. After the city rivals Glasgow Rangers were fined and relegated due to bankruptcy, this team dominated the Scottish Premier League and has won two consecutive championships in the Scottish Premier League. Looking at this momentum this season, a third consecutive championship is also very possible.

However, the biggest problem faced by the overlords in small leagues like the Celtics is that the league is not competitive enough. Even if they dominate this league, it will be difficult to stand out in the European arena. This is true for teams like Ajax, Celtic, and Benfica.

In the country, he is the overlord, arrogant, and in the Champions League, he is taught by the real European giants in various ways.

Take it now.

When I saw Sampdoria in the group stage before, I thought it was a soft persimmon that could be pinched casually. After all, this Sampdoria team has not participated in the Champions League for many years, and has no experience in the Champions League at all. How can they compare with them who can participate in the Champions League every season?

Whether it is the Celtics or Ajax, they all regard Sampdoria as the object of scoring points.

It is completely ignored that this Sampdoria is the third place in Serie A.

Even though the current Serie A is in decline, the overall competitiveness of the league is still better than the Soviet Super League and the Eredivisie.

This led to Celtic's away loss to Sampdoria in the first game of the group stage.

For this game, the Celtics naturally did not dare to underestimate them any more, and they fought with all their main players. For this game, the head coach Neil Lennon started preparations a week in advance. A very strict marking strategy has been formulated to ensure that Gao Zheng can completely misfire in this game.

Judging from the beginning of the game, the Celtics were very successful, because Gao Zheng was restricted by the opponent, so Sampdoria's offense did not improve.

Of course, this is also related to Di Francesco's active use of defensive counterattack tactics. As soon as Sampdoria fights against counterattacks, it is difficult for Gao Zheng to get enough strong support. In many cases, he can only fight alone. Berardi is working very hard, but he still has a heavy defensive task, constantly making him sprint up and down, which also has a great impact on his physical fitness.

If the game continues like this, when Sampdoria can't pose a threat to the Celtics' defense, the Celtics' offense will become stronger and stronger, and more troops will be invested in the offense. Doria's threat is getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, after twenty minutes of the game,

There are already signs of this.

For five minutes, Celtic almost formed a siege on Sampdoria.

Samp's current counterattack method is single. He can only use a long pass from the backcourt to find Gao Zheng in front of him. There is no way to send the football up through the organization of the midfield and the participation of multiple people.

This kind of counterattack can only depend on luck, or... Gao Zheng's personal ability.

The 50,000 home team fans at Celtic Park continued to cheer, and these cheers accompanied every Celtic attack. When Celtic attacked in front of Sampdoria, the cheers It gets bigger and then gets smaller.

It's almost like a tide.

The continuous tidal cheers can indeed bring great psychological pressure to the Sampdoria players, as if they are not fighting a team, but an ocean.

But as sailors, isn't fighting the sea what they are good at?

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In the 28th minute, Sampdoria stole the ball in the backcourt. Obiang handed the football to Berardi. During the offensive, the back line pressed higher and higher, and the central defender had already left the third defensive area and was approaching the center circle.

There is a huge void behind them.

At the same time, Gao Zheng was originally in the middle and ran forward from Sampdoria stealing the ball, but at the beginning he was running to the right. Just after running two steps, he suddenly changed direction and turned back to the middle.

Seeing this scene, Berardi knew how to pass. He passed the football to the left rib, which was the route Gao Zheng turned back!

Before Berardi kicked, Gao Zheng had already accelerated, because he was still in front of the Celtics defense, so he hadn't run to the offside position.

When he ran parallel to the last Celtic central defender Van Dijk, Berardi's pass was sent out and flew into the large space in front of them!

"Sampdoria's counterattack! Gao—!" Caresa shouted excitedly. After being pressed and beaten by the Celtics for almost 30 minutes, such a counterattack is really stimulating.

"Opportunity! Gao Zheng! Let's see if he can get rid of Van Dijk!" He Ping was also very excited. Chinese fans stayed up all night to support Gao Zheng. If the game is dull, it would be too wronged.

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As a central defender with a height of 1.93 meters and a weight of 92 kilograms, Van Dijk's speed is definitely not his outstanding specialty, but he is not slow either, because he often suddenly dribbles forward in games. Move, if the speed is slow, there is no confidence to do so.

But at the same time, the high center of gravity and weight also limited his turning speed. Just now Gao Zheng suddenly changed his direction and thrust obliquely, forcing Van Dijk, who was guarding him, to turn around hastily, and was thrown away half a body by Gao Zheng.

Fortunately, speed is not Gao Zheng's forte.

Van Dijk strode after Gao Zheng.

Gao Zheng couldn't sprint with all his strength in order to take care of the football's placement.

The distance between the two is rapidly shortening.

When entering the 30-meter zone, Gao Zheng received the football. Van Dijk changed his defensive strategy, instead of rushing to steal the ball, he stuck it up and got stuck behind Gao Zheng, forcing him to go outside.

This is the most commonly used defensive strategy for defensive players in one-on-one situations. Directly stealing, unless there is a lot of confidence and confidence, unless it is not recommended to do so, it will either be passed by the opponent or fouled.

Force the opponent's offensive player to the outside line so that he cannot directly threaten the player. Finally, the inside line behind him will naturally be handed over to other teammates who return to defense. Defense has never been a matter of one person, but the result of teamwork.

During the entanglement between the two, they came to the corner of the left rib penalty area.

Gao Zheng is still speeding up to bring the football into the penalty area, trying to overtake with speed.

How could Van Dijk let him get what he wanted? While speeding up, he used his physical strength to push Gao Zheng out from behind.

He guessed that Gao Zheng would be pushed up like this when he accelerated to start. On the premise of not fouling, Gao Zhengteng could be pushed out in the air, and he couldn't stabilize at all. When he fell to the outside line, he would have to come back Difficult.

This is the experience and quality of an excellent central defender.

Gao Zheng was pushed out by him, and even let the football fall behind him! Van Dijk is overjoyed, this is a good opportunity, a good opportunity to steal the ball!

He quickly stretched out his foot, trying to poke the football out, but Gao Zheng's left foot was still dragging behind, like a flexible tail, he tapped the football behind him with his toe, and the football followed Van Dijk at his feet, and rolled over behind him!

At this time, Gao Zheng, who jumped to the front, changed direction and overtook another car on the outside!

"The human ball has been scored! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Caresa couldn't control his emotions and screamed.

"Beautiful! Great shot!!" This was He Ping's flat-ground thunder.

Van Dijk quickly turned around and chased after him.

But as I said before, he is tall and heavy, and his turning speed is very slow. The result of trying to speed up his turning is that he just turned around and took a step, and the thigh muscle of his right leg was suddenly strained... He clutched his right leg. The muscles on the back of the thigh slowed down bouncing and bouncing, and could no longer catch up with Gao Zheng.

And Gao Zheng, who had passed the ball, cut in decisively after receiving the ball.

Celtic goalkeeper Foster quickly moved to the near corner, and at the same time protruded forward to block Gao Zheng's shooting angle.

At the same time, the second Celtic center back, Ambrosse, who was chasing back, was also approaching Gao Zheng.

Under such circumstances, Gao Zheng made a fake move against the goalkeeper Foster who came out to block the angle. He kicked the football with the outside of his left foot, as if he wanted to use the outside of his foot to eject. Goalkeeper Foster quickly fell to the ground to save.

But he missed it.

Gao Zheng's left foot went around the football, and his right foot followed closely to kick the football firmly. The inside of his right foot made an arc of the football, bypassing the goalkeeper Foster who was throwing sideways, and grabbed the ball. Flying into the back corner of the huge goal before the blocking of the returning center back Ambrosse.

The sound of the tide suddenly disappeared, as if the turbulent sea was conquered by brave sailors, and it calmly bowed under the sailors' feet, docile like a children's swimming pool. () "The Rising Greenery" only represents the author Lin Hai Tingtao's point of view. If you find that its content violates national laws and conflicts, please delete it. Our position is only committed to providing a healthy and green reading platform.

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