Chapter 461: Writing History Again
In the 37th round of the league, Sampdoria faces Napoli at home.
In this game, both teams actually have no clear goals.
Sampdoria is currently ranked ninth, and the Champions League is out of reach. They have also qualified for the UEFA Cup, so the fourth and fifth places in the league are not very attractive to them.
Moreover, Gao Zheng basically won the Golden Boot in advance, and the team does not need to fully support him to get the Golden Boot.
Napoli is currently ranked third in the league, thirteen points away from second place Roma, so they will definitely miss second in the league. At the same time, they are still eleven points ahead of fourth place Fiorentina, and they will definitely not fall into the UEFA Cup zone.
It is truly no desire or demand.
The two teams with no desires played very openly in the game, and the two sides fought back and forth and fought a battle against each other.
In the end, Napoli defeated Sampdoria 5:3 away.
However, Sampdoria didn't think there was anything wrong with this failure, on the contrary, they were quite happy.
Because Gao Zheng scored twice in the game.
This allowed him to break through the thirty-goal level in the league this season.
He scored 30 goals in the league for two consecutive seasons!
In another game, Immobile scored a goal, surpassing Icardi in the scorer list and ranked behind Gao Zheng.
As for Icardi, although Inter Milan defeated Lazio 4-1 at home in this round of the league, he still failed to score and was replaced in advance in the 80th minute.
His league goals are still fixed on the 21st.
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The 38th round of the league kicked off on May 17th.
This is the last round of the Serie A season 2013-2014, but the last round of Serie A is not played at the same time. The match between Sampdoria and Udinese is the first of this round of the league, one day earlier than other games.
Perhaps it is because their current rankings are the result of the final result of this game, no matter what it is, it has no impact on the entire league whether it is relegation or competition for European qualifications.
That's why the matches between these two teams were arranged separately on the first day.
Despite this, this game is different from the previous round of Sampdoria's fight against Naples, and it is not a confrontation between two teams that are completely undesirable.
Sampdoria had a very clear task in this game, which was to help Gao Zheng score a goal.
Correspondingly, Udinese's task is also very clear, that is, to prevent Gao Zheng from scoring.
Although the competition for the league's top scorer has basically come to an end, the two teams still have to compete fiercely on whether Gao Zheng scores a goal. This is not for the league's Golden Boot, but for another Serie A historical record.
That is, scored more than thirty goals in two consecutive seasons.
Before this, only one person has done it in the more than 80 years of Serie A.
That is AC Milan's legendary shooter Gunnar Nadal.
He once won the Serie A Golden Boot in two consecutive seasons in the 1949-1950 season and 1950-1951 season. In these two seasons, he scored 35 and 34 goals respectively, becoming the only person in history to score more than 30 goals in two consecutive seasons.
In the same two seasons, his rival, Estevan Niels, who plays for Inter Milan, can only fall below him and rank second in the league scorer list. The legendary Inter Milan scorer also performed very well. He scored thirty goals in two consecutive seasons, but did not exceed thirty goals.
So there is only Nodar recorded in history.
Now Gao Zheng has the opportunity to challenge Nodar.
Sampdoria's entire team naturally has to support it. Although Gao Zheng has never made any public statement on this on any occasion, does Gao Zheng still need to explain it clearly?
The media are hyping this matter. If the whole Sampdoria team is indifferent to this, it will be too ignorant.
Since the media said that Gao Zheng may create history again, we must help him do it!
Udinese naturally did not want Gao Zheng to step on their bodies to create history and write legends, so he wanted to stop Sampdoria and Gao Zheng.
This game that has no impact on the overall situation of the entire league has become the most concerned game in another dimension.
When Udinese was playing against Sampdoria at home, many media reporters came to Udinese's home court, Friuli Stadium.
This phenomenon made many Udinese fans very unhappy. They all knew what these reporters were here for and must have come to witness Gao Zheng write history again. But from the perspective of Udinese fans, it is to see Udinese jokes... How could they still have a good impression of these reporters?
With so many reporters gathered at the Friuli Stadium, it seemed like Gao Zheng would definitely score a goal on Udinese.
Then let them down once!
If Udinese could give Gao Zheng a penalty, and while disappointing these reporters, Gao Zheng could also let him lose a big man in front of so many reporters!
Udinese players may think so, so after the game started, they chose to set up a bus at the door, hoping to stop Gao Zheng from scoring.
But their efforts did not work.
In the first ten minutes of the game, everything seemed to be normal. Sampdoria did not seem to have any good idea when facing Udinese's bus tactics. They could only pass around outside Udinese's defense line.
However, in the tenth minute, Sampdoria suddenly changed the rhythm, changed the previous slow back and forth, and suddenly made a straight pass.
This straight pass was completely beyond Udinese's expectations. They did not expect that Sampdoria would dare to pass directly when they were all in the penalty area. Isn't this the initiative to send the ball over?
Just when Udinese was about to accept it, there was a sudden kick in the crowd, it was Gao Zheng!
While stopping the football coming from inside his left foot, he also shook away the Udinese defensive player who was about to intercept the ball. Although he only shook a little space, for Gao Zheng, this was enough for him to shoot.
His right calf twitched towards the football like a whip.
This kick was strong and suddenly shot in the small penalty area, which caught Udinese goalkeeper Zeljko Burkic off guard. Although Gao Zheng's shot hit him not far, he was still half a beat slower when he fell to the ground and rushed to the side. He waited for the football to fly over and his hand to arrive...
The football flew into the goal without any suspense!
"Thirty-first goal! The 31st goal in a single season! Gao has completed the feat of scoring more than 30 goals in two consecutive seasons!" Caresa exclaimed. "He became the second person after Gunnar Nodal! And just last season, he broke Nodal's single-season goal record in Serie A! I think the fans of AC Milan must be in a complicated mood. Nodal is a legend of AC Milan, and Gao is a rebel of AC Milan. If Gao could stay in AC Milan at the time, then no matter how the record changes, at least he will continue to stay in AC Milan..."
Chapter completed!