After the "Beacon Derby", there are only the last six rounds left in the league, leaving less time for those who compete for the championship, relegation, and teams who compete for European qualifications.

Sampdoria's situation is somewhat subtle now.

Although they rank third, they scored the same score as Milan and led their opponents only by goal difference.

There is no guarantee that they will certainly be eligible for the Champions League next season at the end of the season.

If you want to qualify for the Champions League, you cannot make any mistakes in the next game.

The league has reached its final sprint stage, with high physical requirements on players and frequent injuries and other situations.

At this time, whoever can grit his teeth and persevere will be able to laugh to the end.

On April 21, in the 33rd round of the league, Sampdoria challenged Bologna away. They finally defeated Bologna 1-0, and Icardi scored the only goal, helping the team score three points.

And good news came from Torino A Milan lost 0:1 to Juventus away.

Sampdoria is now 61 points, a Milan is 57 points, and the two teams are four points apart. Sampdoria's third position in the league is stronger.

Next, in the 34th round of the league, Milan will face Catania at home, and Sampdoria will face Fiorentina at home.

In these two games, both teams at home faced severe tests.

A Milan fell behind twice in the game and tied twice, and finally defeated Catania 4-2 at home with goals from Pazini and Balotelli.

Sampdoria fell into a dilemma of 0:2 in the first half.

In the second half they launched a Jedi counterattack.

Gao Zheng, Icardi and Kostici scored one goal each to help the team complete the reversal. However, in the last moment, in order to maintain this one-goal lead, captain Gastadro led a tactical foul and was sent off with a red card. This victory also cost Sampdoria a heavy price. Gastadoria will be suspended for one game next, which brings great hidden dangers to Sampdoria's defense...

After this round of league, there is still great uncertainty as to whether Sampdoria can still hold on to the top three in the league.

But there is something that is probably no longer suspense.

That's who will win the top scorer in the Serie A league this season.

Because he scored goals in this round of the league, Gao Zheng's goal number this season has increased to 31, and Cavani did not play in this game due to accumulating yellow cards. However, he scored one goal in the last round of the league.

But even so, Cavani's goal count was only twenty-three, eight goals behind Gao Zheng.

With four rounds left in the league, this goal gap is almost an insurmountable barrier.

After the game, Genoa's local media "Nineteenth Century" released a photo of Gao Zheng's shooting in the game, and the title was accompanied by: "The mountain is here!"

The main text of the report blew up Gao Zheng: "... After the 13th round of the league's 'Beacon Derby', Gao, who had already scored thirteen goals, announced his Golden Boot declaration, which attracted a lot of sarcasm and fierce criticism. Critics believe that Gao is too arrogant, but now it turns out that it is not arrogant, but a genius player's clear understanding of his ability. There are four rounds left in the league, but we can already announce Gao's victory in advance. I am not worried that doing so will make Gao be turned over by Cavani at the last moment. With my understanding of Gao, he is not such a stupid person. In terms of shooting, he is efficient and stable..."

This article was written by Sampdoria's team reporter Frecelo. Through more than a season of reports, everyone knows that he is the number one Gao Chuan. No matter how many criticisms Gao Zheng faces, he stands firmly on Gao Zheng's side and advocates for Gao Zheng. So many people who don't like Gao Zheng hate him very much, and even have many malicious speculations, such as he has relatives in China, and he has accepted the financial support of the Chinese consortium...

But now Gao Zheng's results are just in front of everyone. No matter how much those people hate him and Frechello, they have nothing to say.

Before the league was finished, Gao Zheng scored 31 goals. You should know that in the Serie A, which is good at defending, there are only a handful of forwards who can score more than 30 goals in a single season. Serie A once had a record of more than 30 goals in a single season for 47 years. It was not until Luca Toni, who played for Fiorentina in 2006 that he broke this record with a score of 31 goals.

And since then, no one has done it again. Luca Tony stood alone in these fifty years.

Afterwards, Del Piero even scored twenty-one goals to get the Serie A Golden Boot, which shows how strong the defensive intensity of the Serie A League is.

Dinatale was only one step away from breaking through the 30-goal mark again in the 2009-2010 season, but in the end his goal count was frozen at the 29th goal.

Gao Zheng became the first striker after Luca Tony to score a goal in a single season and can break through the 30-goal mark.

This achievement alone is enough to make him stand out and shut up those who question him, mock him, and criticize him.

Moreover, Luca Tony only completed 31 goals in thirty-eight rounds of the league.

Gao Zheng still has a chance to play four rounds now.

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After the training, Gao Zheng was practicing free kicks for himself as usual, and head coach Di Francesco once again came to the training ground, watching Gao Zheng practice free kicks while chatting with him.

"Hi, Gao, I've read the media reports. There should be no suspense about you holding the Golden Boots now, right?" Di Francesco asked with his arms folded.

Gao Zheng shook his head: "The league is not over yet, I only lead Cavani by eight goals..."

Di Francesco waved his hand: "I got the high, there are only two of us here, there are no reporters. You can't do anything to annoy some people. What does it mean to be 'only' leading by eight goals? With only four rounds of league left, eight goals are a huge gap that is difficult to surpass!"

"I'm not afraid of ten thousand, I'm afraid of anything."

"No, no doubt, you will be the best scorer of the season. This is just your first Serie A season. I have to congratulate you in advance, Gao."

Gao Zheng calmly accepted the head coach's advance congratulations.

Di Francesco continued, "To be honest, I think it's too difficult for you to get the Golden Boot, and I'm worried that you will lose motivation, so I thought of a way... Do you want to break a record or something?"

Gao Zheng, who was about to play football, paused suddenly, stopped and turned his head to look at the head coach, and said in surprise: "Coach, why do I think you are talking about records and other things very simply? Breaking records is the same as playing?"

Di Francesco laughed: "For others, breaking records is of course difficult, and I will never make such a 'non-point' requirement. But you are different, high, I think you can do things that ordinary people cannot do. After all, this is your first Serie A season, and you have easily scored 31 goals, so I think you are fully capable of breaking the Serie A single-season goal record."

"Single-season goal record? How many are that?"

"Thirty-five goals. This was created by Milan's Swedish striker Nodar in the 1948-1950 season."

"Hey, it's not as much as I imagined." Gao Zheng was a little surprised.

Seeing this, Di Francesco laughed: "You said that I made the record breaking simple. Don't you think so?"

Gao Zheng scratched his head: "I thought the records were all high and difficult to break. But I didn't expect that I was only four balls away..."

"So I said that for you, breaking records is a very simple thing. How about you, do you want to write your name in the history of Serie A?"

"Coach, I heard from your tone that I would not bother to watch the fun..."

"You just say you think about it or not?"

Gao Zheng nodded and said, "I want to."

"Okay, that team will fully support you in the last four rounds of the league..."

Gao Zheng shook his head and said, "There is no need to mobilize the masses like this. The coach, you can kick whatever you want normally. I can still break the record."

Di Francisco did not think Gao Zheng was arrogant, but nodded: "Very good."

He never questioned Gao Zheng's big talk, nor did he think that it was big talk.
Chapter completed!