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Before the match between Sampdoria and Inter Milan, the media was hyping up the Golden Boot battle, and the most promising threat to Gao Zheng is naturally Icardi.

Icardi is the one who publicly stated before that he wants to beat Gao Zheng. His performance on the league scorer list this season seems to have proved that he has such an ability.

It's time to fry it hard now.

The media is hyping up this topic, and Icardi's teammates have also stood up to support him and cheer for him.

"We will fully support Icardi, he deserves the Golden Boot honor!" This is what Cambiasso, Icardi's Argentine fellow in the team, said.

"Icardi is really a super good shooter, and he is still so young, his future is limitless..." It was Icardi's partner Palacio who said this.

Palacio has scored 14 goals in the league this season, and the number of goals is considered very good. He currently ranks second in the Inter Milan team's scorer list, second only to Icardi.

It stands to reason that he and Icardi are more or less competitive, just like Icardi and Gao Zheng. But this time he also chose to stand up and speak for his fellow Argentines, which shows how much the Inter Milan team values ​​this Golden Boot competition.

Except for Cambiasso and Palacio, almost all Argentine players in the Inter Milan team have sided with Icardi.

They thought that their little brother had been bullied by Gao Zheng, so they naturally wanted to stand with their compatriots and show their support.

Chinese fans ridiculed this. No wonder there is a rumor that there is a "barbecue gang" in Inter Milan. It turned out to be true. Let alone Genoa, there is no Chinese player in Italian football who can speak for Gao Zheng.

But Gao Zheng didn't need others to speak for him.

After all, the real strong will not ask for help when they are fighting.

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After the start of the game between Sampdoria and Inter Milan, Icardi was very active. Although he would hear boos from the stands of the Marassi Stadium every time he got the ball, this did not affect his performance. Even made him perform better. He seemed to be angry with the Sampdoria fans-the more you dislike me, the more I will slap you in the face!

The active performance made Icardi frequently appear in the close-up shots of the TV broadcast,

His name is also mentioned the most times by commentators.

But it wasn't him who scored first.

It's the person he least wants to see score...

"Gao Zheng!!! Gao Zheng!!!" Liu Hong yelled out the name passionately, and he was extremely excited and excited now. Because just before he yelled that, Gao Zheng had just scored the first goal of the half-time game.

It was after responding to Berardi's cross in the penalty area, he shoveled the goal.

Although Inter Milan's defensive players focused most of their attention on Gao Zheng at the time, they couldn't hold back Gao Zheng's height and long legs. football……

"In the 14th minute of the game, Gao Zheng took the lead for Sampdoria at home! He raised his personal league goals to the 22nd goal!"

Liu Hong was very happy when he said these words. He specifically emphasized Gao Zheng's current number of goals because everyone knows that the hot topic in Serie A is no longer who can win the championship, but who can win the league golden boot.

The league has played 32 rounds, Juventus ranked first with 84 points, Rome ranked second with 76 points, the difference between the two sides is 8 points, if nothing unexpected, the league champion should be Juventus up.

How can such a sure thing be compared with the ownership of the Golden Boot?

Liu Hong knows what the Italian media has been hyping about who will win the Golden Boot. Isn't he just hoping to see Gao Zheng fail to defend the Golden Boot?

Under such circumstances, as a Chinese commentator, he now feels elated when he sees every goal Gao Zheng scores.

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After scoring the goal, Gao Zheng didn't celebrate. He simply raised his arms and high-fived the teammates who came up to celebrate.

Icardi was not dissatisfied with Gao Zheng's performance.

On the contrary, he was very happy.

Because he sees the essence through the appearance.

Although Gao Zheng didn't celebrate, he actually scored a goal, which showed that Gao Zheng was really competing with himself. Isn't this what you want to see the most?

In the past, he had been troubled by the fact that Gao Zheng didn't regard himself as an opponent at all, so he did not hesitate to transfer to Inter Milan with his infamy.

With his hard work for most of the season, he finally managed to force Gao Zheng to face him head-on. Isn't that a good thing?

Thinking of this, Icardi was full of fighting spirit, ready to hit back Gao Zheng with a goal in the game.

But before he could put his fighting spirit into action, another accident occurred on the field.

Just four minutes after Sampdoria's goal, Gao Zheng dribbled the ball into the Inter Milan penalty area. He was about to take a shot, but was tackled to the ground by Inter Milan's central defender Ranocchia.

This was an undisputed foul, and Ranocchia did shovel Gao Zheng. But the Inter Milan players were still arguing around the referee, hoping that the referee could change the sentence.

Why bother with an undisputed foul?

Of course it's because it's a penalty kick!

At the critical moment when Gao Zheng and Icardi are competing for the Golden Boot, giving Sampdoria a penalty kick is not equivalent to giving Gao Zheng a goal?

Originally, Gao Zheng was ahead of Icardi by two goals, and they kept saying that they would support Icardi. Is this how they gave Icardi's opponent a divine assist?

Even Icardi was frowning and serious. Although he hopes that Gao Zheng will fight head-on, it doesn't mean that he wants to see the gap between himself and Gao Zheng being widened...

But no matter how the Inter Milan players argued, the referee still insisted on the penalty that he saw clearly.

But then something happened that surprised everyone.

Gao Zheng didn't come to take the penalty kick he made himself. He got up and walked out of the penalty area. He didn't go in until the Inter Milan players and the head coach were finished. The person who took the penalty kick in the penalty area was Captain Palumbo.

"Gao gave up this opportunity to take the penalty kick?!" Caresa was also surprised, feeling a little incredible.

When the competition for the Golden Boot is getting more and more fierce, any goal is very precious. Why can Gao Zheng give up a chance that is almost better than scoring so easily?

"Speaking of which, Gao hasn't taken a penalty kick yet? Could it be that he didn't have the confidence to take the penalty kick, so he gave the opportunity to Palombo?" Bergomi guessed.

Caresa shook his head: "I don't believe that Gaohui has no ability to take penalty kicks. Taking penalty kicks is nothing more than a test of shooting skills and psychological quality, and these two aspects are not bad. There is no reason why penalty kicks are not good. "

"Maybe Gao felt that he already had a two-goal lead and was sure of winning, so he didn't need to use this penalty to expand his lead over Icardi?" Bergomi gave another guess.

"Maybe it's like this..." Caresa couldn't think of a suitable explanation, so he could only say so.

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No matter how confused others were, it was Palumbo who took the penalty kick, not Gao Zheng.

It is really rare for the TV broadcast to put a close-up shot on Gao Zheng instead of the player who took the penalty kick.

Doing so obviously also expressed the doubts of the game broadcaster.

In the close-up shot, Gao Zheng has a calm face, without any expression of regret, and he can't see any unwillingness to concede a penalty.

His expression was calm as if the penalty had nothing to do with him.

In the end, Palombo kicked the penalty into the goal guarded by Handanovic. When Gao Zheng went up to celebrate with Palombo, he smiled happily, as if he had scored the goal.

But in Icardi's view, he remembered the unwillingness to be underestimated by Gao Zheng...