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Conceding the goal in the opening three minutes brought a huge impact to Sampdoria, and made the Sampdoria players a little bit out of their minds.

After the game restarted, facing Atletico Madrid, who were chasing after the victory, Sampdoria played very passively and made frequent mistakes. It is really difficult for the players to accept the loss of the ball at the beginning of the game.

During the game, many people may still be thinking about the conceded goal just now in their minds, unable to concentrate on the ongoing game.

"Dangerous! Oh--! Diego Costa's shot almost scored again! Sampdoria has been really passive during this time!" He Ping exclaimed, and then said with fear. He supports Sampdoria, so he is very nervous now.

It stands to reason that he should be objective and neutral, but in the presence of Gao Zheng, it is difficult for him to do this. So TV viewers can clearly hear his emotional tendencies.

But there are no fans complaining about his partiality on the Internet, and everyone is as partial as him.

The Chinese fans who lost the ball to watch sighed and were in a terrible mood. The "miracle" in their hearts has not yet happened, and the cruel reality has poured cold water on them first.

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After Atletico Madrid's goal, the home team has been besieging Sampdoria's goal. Atletico Madrid fans seem to have gradually gotten used to this scene. Their team has the advantage, no matter how they play, and their opponents can only be exhausted in the fierce offensive of Atletico Madrid, the spirit is high, and they don't know when they will lose the ball again-Atletico Madrid fans firmly believe this a little.

So they are also very motivated, constantly cheering for the team in the stands, hoping to speed up the process-if the team can score again in a short period of time, there will be no suspense about the outcome of this game.

The shouts of Atlético Madrid fans did put a lot of pressure on the Sampdoria players, and most people might think it was just shouts? What's the big deal?

But it's really hard to appreciate how terrifying it is without being in the hustle and bustle. Every time you touch the ball, every action will attract ruthless boos from opponent fans, and every mistake will be ridiculed by tens of thousands of people in the stands. People who are not good enough in mental quality may not be able to play stably.

This is why there is a saying of "the devil's home field advantage".

In the continuous attack of Atletico Madrid, Sampdoria can only defend with all their strength. There are only a handful of opportunities to counterattack, and occasionally it is difficult to form a threat.

It has been a while since Gao Zheng got the ball from his teammates.

Because they were all tired of defending from behind, even if they touched the ball, they basically kicked forward with a big foot, whether it was kicked to the frontcourt or out of the sideline, anyway, they would not consciously pass the football to Gao Zheng.

When the teammates passed the football forward, Gao Zheng chased after him, but later found that he couldn't catch up, so let it go.

This time, the teammates kicked the football forward again, but Gao Zheng didn't chase it at all.

He turned and yelled to Obiang who passed the ball to him: "Pedro! Hold on! Hold on! Don't panic!!"

At the same time, he kept pressing down with his hands. This is a gesture that everyone can understand. Although he was doing this to Pedro Obiang, he was actually doing it for all his teammates.

After finishing, he patted his chest and shouted to Obiang: "Pass me the ball!"

He can see the problems the team is facing now. If they are allowed to make such a chaotic clearance, sooner or later they will collapse under Atletico Madrid's continuous offensive.

If he doesn't stand up at this time, he will be the core for nothing.

"Gao Zheng made a gesture to his teammates, signaling them to relax and calm down. I am very happy to see that Gao Zheng can take the initiative to make such an action during the game, which shows that he is not only the core of the team tactically, It is to be a truly all-round core. Gao Zheng is indeed growing rapidly! To be honest, when the team encounters difficulties, the core can take the initiative to stand up, comfort teammates, and give teammates confidence. A very morale-boosting thing!" He Ping was full of praise for Gao Zheng's performance.

After all, Gao Zheng is constrained by the lack of opportunities and has nothing to boast about in the game itself, so naturally he has to look for highlights from these places.

I don't know what the effect will be if Gao Zheng does this, so let's praise it first.

At the same time, the Spanish commentator naturally noticed Gao Zheng's actions, but he didn't think it was meaningful for Gao Zheng to do so.

"... Gao asked his teammates to pass the ball to him? Let alone the ability of the Sampdoria player to pass the football under the pressure of Atletico Madrid. Even if he got the ball, so what? He was alone , there are two people around him defending at any time, even if he can stop the ball, he will immediately fall into the encirclement. He let his teammates pass the ball to him? That is nothing more than making it easier for Atletico Madrid to defend... In fact, from this In this game, we can see that the Atletico Madrid players have fully absorbed the experience and lessons learned from the first round of the match between the two sides. Opportunities. So so far, Sampdoria have not been able to create a single threatening offensive opportunity..."

The Spanish narrator was right,

Atletico Madrid did a good job of cutting off the connection between Gao Zheng and other teammates. When he got the ball, he was surrounded by at least two people, sometimes three people. They surrounded Gao Zheng so that Gao Zheng could not threaten Madrid at all. Competitive goal.

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After receiving Gao Zheng's signal, the Sampdoria players really tried their best to pass the football to Gao Zheng.

Although there are not many such opportunities, there are always times when the football pass is accurate.

When the football was stopped by Gao Zheng, two Atletico Madrid defenders, Godin and Miranda, had already stuck to Gao Zheng's side, preventing him from turning around.

And they have a clear division of labor. One sticks to Gao Zheng, pushing and kicking, constantly disturbing Gao Zheng and attracting Gao Zheng's attention. Gao Zheng ignored the other, and it would be considered good if he could pass the football back to his teammates.

But this time Gao Zheng's feet seemed to be glued, sticking the football firmly to his feet, and moving it back and forth made him slip out of space!

Just when the defensive players turned their attention to Gao Zheng's flashes and moves, he suddenly changed his rhythm, flicked the football behind him, and turned around to break through!

But he didn't succeed, because just as he was about to complete his turn, the center back Godin, who was in charge of defending him closely, reached out and pulled him down.

The Uruguayan central defender has rich experience and is very decisive. He didn't hesitate at all because he was about to foul.

Foul here, even if Sampdoria is given a free kick, it will be difficult to threaten Atletico Madrid's goal, because there are still more than 40 meters away from the goal. If Sampdoria directly passes the high ball to Atletico Madrid's goal, Go Ding believed that with his and Miranda's air defense capabilities, it would not be a problem to grab the first spot. And if the opponent's central defender comes up to compete for the top, Atletico Madrid can take advantage of the situation to fight back, maybe it will be Atletico Madrid's chance to score instead.

So it is very cost-effective to foul here, and the risk is much lower than letting Gao Zheng break through with the ball hesitantly.

And Gao Zheng was not angry or annoyed because his breakthrough was blocked. He quickly got up from the ground and held the football in his hands, regardless of Godin's sophistry to the referee. After his teammates came up, he handed the football to Kosticic.

"Come on," he said to Kosticic.

"Okay." Kosticic nodded and agreed without changing his expression.

Then Kosticic took the football in his hand and tossed it, while Gao Zheng turned and walked forward. It seemed that there was nothing unusual, as if he wanted to go to the front and wait for the landing point.

Kosticic put the football directly on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, and looked back at his teammates who were coming up one after another.

When he turned his head again, he suddenly kicked the football in front of Gao Zheng!

And Gao Zheng, who was walking forward slowly, suddenly accelerated and rushed out, rushing towards the football!

"Free kick quickly!"

Fortunately, Godin was very experienced at this time. After the foul, he did not just entangle with the referee on the spot, but withdrew back, and now he happened to be right next to Gao Zheng, so he rushed forward, trying to stop Gao Zheng .

Facing him, Gao Zheng stretched his long legs forward and stabbed the football away first. Godin missed it and knocked Gao Zheng down instead.

The referee's whistle sounded again, but he did not ask Sampdoria to take the football back and re-send a free kick, but made a gesture of Godin's foul, and he gave Sampdoria another free kick in the frontcourt!

But this time, Sampdoria's free kick is much closer to Atletico Madrid's goal, and the threat level to the goal is completely different from the previous free kick!