Chapter 371: Conquer the sea

Sampdoria's opponent, Celtics, is in the limelight of his domestic league, and he is a rare opponent.
Since the start of this season, they have remained undefeated, with 11 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses, with 36 points, leading the Super League standings. After the rivals in the same city, Glasgow Rangers, were relegated for bankruptcy, this team dominated the Super League and had already won two consecutive championships in the Super League. Looking at this momentum this season, three consecutive championships are also very likely.
However, the biggest problem faced by overlords in small leagues like the Celtics is that the league is not competitive enough. Even if it is the king in this league, it is difficult to get ahead in the European arena. This is true for teams like Ajax, Celtics and Benfica.
It is the overlord in the country, and it is impossible to live forever. When it comes to the Champions League, it will be taught by real European giants.
Take 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 has not participated in the Champions League for many years. There is no Champions League experience at all. How can it be compared with them who can participate in the Champions League every season?
Both the Celtics and Ajax regard Sampdoria as a target.
I completely ignored this Sampdoria but the third place in Serie A.
Even though the current Serie A has fallen, the league's overall competitiveness is still better than that of Su Chao and the Dutch.
This led to the first game of the group stage, the Celtics lost to Sampdoria away.
In this game, the Celtics naturally dared not be contemptuous anymore and faced up with the main force. For this game, head coach Neil Lennon started preparing one week in advance, against Gao Zheng, the top star of Sampdoria. A very strict marking tactic has been developed to ensure that Gao Zheng can be completely misfired in this game.
From the start of the game, the Celtics have been very successful, because Gao Zheng is restricted by the opponent, so Sampdoria's offense has not improved.
Of course, this is also related to the defensive counter-attack tactics used by De Francisco. As soon as Sampdoria fought back, Gao Zheng could hardly get enough strong support. Many times he could only fight alone. Berardi worked very hard, but he still has a heavy defensive task, constantly letting him sprint up and down has a great impact on his physical fitness.
If the game continues like this, when Sampdoria is unable to pose a threat to the Celtics' defense, the Celtics will become more and more aggressive, investing more troops into the offense, against Samp Doria's threat is growing.
In fact, after twenty minutes of the game, there are already such signs.
For five minutes, the Celtics almost formed a siege against Sampdoria.
Samp's current counterattack is simple. It can only be a direct long pass in the backcourt to find Gao Zheng in the front. There is no way to send the football through the organization of the midfield and backcourt and the participation of multiple people.
Such counterattacks are more often based on luck, or... Gao Zheng's personal ability.
The 50,000 home team fans at the Celtic Park Stadium kept cheering. These cheers came with every attack of the Celtics. When the Celtics attacked Sampdoria, they cheered. It will become very large, and then a little bit smaller.
It's like a tide.
The continuous tidal cheers can indeed bring great psychological pressure to the players of Sampdoria, as if they are not fighting a team, but fighting an ocean.
But aren’t they good at fighting the sea as sailors?
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In the 28th minute, Sampdoria broke the ball in the backcourt. Obiang handed the football to Beraldi. Beraldi did not take the ball and attacked. He looked up and the Celtics were in continuous In the offensive, the back line is getting higher and higher, and the center defender has long been out of the three defense zones and is approaching the middle circle.
Behind them is a huge empty space.
At the same time, Gao Zheng was originally in the middle and ran forward from Sampdoria's goal, but at the beginning he was running to the right. Just ran two steps, but suddenly changed direction and turned back to the middle.
Seeing this scene, Beraldi knew how to pass. He passed the football to the left rib, which was Gao Zheng's return route!
Gao Zheng had already accelerated before Bellardi got up, because he was still in front of the Celtics' defense line, so he had not ran offside.
When he ran parallel to the last Celtic central defender, Van Dijk, Bellardi's pass just sent out and flew into the huge space in front of them!
"Sampdoria's counterattack! High--!" Carresa shouted excitedly. After being beaten by the Celtics for nearly thirty minutes, such a counterattack is really exciting.
"Opportunity! Gao Zheng! See if he can get rid of Van Dijk!" He Ping was also very excited. Chinese fans stayed up late to support Gao Zheng. If the game was dull, it would be too wronged.
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As a center defender with a height of 1.93 meters and a weight of 92 kg, Van Dijk's speed is definitely not his outstanding specialty, but it is not slow, because he often has a sudden insertion of the ball in the game. If you move slowly, you have no confidence in doing so.
But at the same time, the excessive center of gravity and weight also limited his turning speed. Just now Gao Zheng suddenly turned diagonally, forcing Van Dijk to turn around hurriedly, and Gao Zheng was suddenly thrown away by half of his position.
Fortunately, speed is not Gao Zheng's specialty.
Van Dijk strode the meteor to catch Gao Zheng.
Gao Zheng could not sprint with all his strength in order to take into account the goal of football.
The distance between the two was shortening at a rapid rate.
When entering the 30-meter area, Gao Zheng received football. Van Dijk changed his defensive strategy, not rushing to break the ball, but posted it, stuck behind Gao Zheng, forcing him to go outside.
This is the most commonly used defensive strategy for defensive players during one-on-one, and they steal directly. Unless they have great confidence and strong confidence, unless they are not recommended to do so, they will either be passed by the opponent or be fouled.
The opponent's offensive player was forced to the outside, so that he could not directly threaten the player. The inside line behind him was naturally handed over to the other teammates who defended. The defense is never a matter of one person, but the result of teamwork.
The two entangled and came to the corner of the left penalty area.
Gao Zheng is still accelerating to bring the football into the penalty area, trying to overtake by speed.
How could Van Dijk make him wish, while accelerating at the same time, using the advantages of physical strength to arch Gao Zheng from the back.
He counted on Gao Zheng when he started acceleratingly. Without fouling, Gao Zhengteng can be pushed out in the air, and he can’t hold it at all. When he falls outside, he will want to come back. Difficult.
This is the experience and quality of an excellent central defender.
Gao Zheng was jumped out of his head, and even let the football fall behind him! Van Dijk is overjoyed, this is a good opportunity, a good chance to steal the ball!
He quickly accelerated his feet and tried to poke the football out, but Gao Zheng's left foot was still dragging behind, like a flexible tail, gently tapping the football behind him with his toes, the football followed Van Dijk At his feet, rolled past behind him!
At this time, Gao Zheng, who jumped to the front, changed direction and overtake!
"People have scored! Ahhhhh!" Carresa couldn't control her emotions and screamed.
"Pretty! Good shot!!!" This is He Ping's flat thunder.
Van Dijk quickly turned back to chase.
But as he said before, he turned very slowly for height and weight. Forcibly wanting to speed up the turn, the result is that he just turned and ran a step, and the thigh muscles in the right leg were suddenly strained... he was covering his right The muscles behind the thigh jumped and slowed down, and could no longer catch up with Gao Zheng.
However, Gao Zheng, who had scored the ball, received the ball decisively and inwardly.
Celtics goalkeeper Foster quickly moved to the near corner, while protruding forward, blocking Gao Zheng's shot angle.
At the same time, the second Celtics central defender Ambroise, who is back, is also approaching Gao Zheng.
In this case, Gao Zheng made a fake move facing the goalkeeper Foster who came out to block the angle. His left foot was kicked towards the football with the outsole of his left foot, and he seemed to want to use the outside foot to eject. Goalkeeper Foster quickly fell to the ground to save.
But he thumped.
Gao Zheng's left foot passed around the football, and the right foot immediately followed hit the football firmly. The inside of the right foot rubbed the football out of an arc, bypassing the goalkeeper Foster, who grabbed the side. Before returning to defender Ambrose's block, he flew into the large back corner of the goal.
The sound of the tide suddenly disappeared, as if the surging sea was conquered by the brave sailor, and quietly lowered under the sailor's feet, docile like a children's swimming pool.
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