Chapter 370 The miserable Sampdoria

On December 1, Sampdoria welcomed Dynamo Kiev at home.

Before this game, Sampdoria had basically qualified to lock in the group qualifying. However, the situation of Dynamo Kiev's qualifying situation is not that optimistic.

Since he failed to win Tel Aviv's Maccabi and Besiktas' record with one win and one loss, Dynamo Kiev can only rank third in this group.

If they want to qualify from this group, they have no choice but to fight Sampdoria and strive for a victory. Only by winning the game can they have the chance to qualify in the group.

Sampdoria didn't dare to be careless at all.

Although the situation on the line is very good, if they lose two consecutive games in the end, they may be eliminated.

Dynamo Kiev, who owns Shevchenko, and Besiktas, who owns Quaresma, are not mediocre teams. Once they play crazy, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In order to ensure qualifying, Sampdoria can only fight against Dynamo Kiev without reservation.

At the beginning of the game, Dynamo Kiev, who was unwilling to be eliminated, turned away and pushed forward, and bombed Sampdoria's goal.

Fortunately, Chu Jiang's high contact and resistance were extremely outstanding, and he tried his best to ensure that his goal was not lost.

The main players played all out in 90 minutes and finally relied on a trick shot from Dimikale in the counterattack to barely defeat the Dynamo Kiev player who had fought for his life.

During the game, Chu Jiang also saved a penalty kick from Shevchenko, completely ruining his opponent's hope of advancement.

Of course, he activated the ace skill of "setting ball nemesis".

Otherwise, even an excellent goalkeeper like Chu Jiang would not dare to say that he could save Shevchenko's penalty 100%. After all, the "nuclear warhead" Shevchenko is also a star player who once won the European Golden Globe Award.

After this round, Sampdoria remained unbeaten with 4 wins and 1 draw. Not only did she qualify one round ahead of schedule, but she also directly locked in the first place in the group with a score of 13 points.

Besiktas in the same group ranked second with 3 wins, 2 losses, 9 points, and Dynamo Kiev ranked third with 1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses, 5 points.

Due to his loss to Sampdoria away, Dynamo Kiev was eliminated early before the group stage was over, and regretfully bid farewell to the Europa League.

After the Europa League match, Sampdoria immediately ushered in the Serie A match.

In the next league round, they are about to go to the Sao Paulo Stadium to challenge the powerful Naples team.

In order to give Naples enough energy to prepare for the Champions League, the league originally scheduled to be held on December 4 was advanced to December 3.

In this way, Sampdoria was in trouble.

On December 1, they had just fought fiercely with Dynamo Kiev with real swords and guns for 90 minutes. On December 3, they had to rush to the away game to face the powerful Naples.

After removing the time of hard work, Sampdoria players have less than one day to rest!

Isn't this bullying?

This is not the case with wheel battles, right?

protest!

Sampdoria Club protested to the league organizing committee, hoping to postpone the 14th round of the league by one day and resume the event on December 4.

In this way, their players can at least recover one more day and recover some physical strength.

Unfortunately, in order to ensure Naples' fighting ability in the Champions League, Sampdoria's protest was quickly rejected.

People are slight, but as a small club, Sampdoria's voice is still too low.

Of course, Naples also has their own difficulties.

On December 7, Napoli will face the powerful Villarreal in the last round of the Champions League group stage.

Currently, in the Champions League A group where Naples is located, Bayern Munich has 13 points and has secured the first place in the group to qualify early.

Naples, ranked second, has 8 points, while Manchester City, ranked third, has 7 points, with only one point gap between the two teams.

In the last round, Bayern Munich played against Manchester City, and Napoli challenged Villarreal away.

Since they have already won the top spot in the group in advance, there is no need for Bayern Munich to fight Manchester City, which is desperately trying to qualify, they are likely to give Manchester City a shot.

In this case, Napoli has only the last way to qualify, which is to defeat Villarreal away and take his destiny into his own hands.

The Sampdorians have already won the first place in the Europa League group one round ahead of schedule, while the miserable Naples had to go to Spain in the last round to fight Villarreal at the Love Song Stadium.

This is fate!

The battle on December 7 will be the life-and-death battle in Naples.

In order to allow the Naples to have enough physical strength to prepare for the battle between life and death, the league organizing committee will advance their league one day.

However, this will make Sampdoria players suffer.

what to do?

Just bite the bullet and go on.

In the absence of the protest, Sampdoria players could only obey the arrangements of the league organizing committee, and set off from Genoa and headed for Naples.

On the evening of December 3, at the Sao Paulo Stadium, the match between Sampdoria and Naples officially started!

In order to prepare for the Champions League life and death battle, Naples hid some main players.

The three main players, Cannavaro, midfielder commander Hamsik, and Iron Waist Gargano, did not start and all entered the team's substitute list.

However, apart from these three people, Naples basically made all the main players.

Obviously, they are also unwilling to give up on the league game.

In order to compete for the Champions League qualification for next season, they still hope to beat Sampdoria at home.

In this game, Mazarry still lined up their usual 3421 formation.

The three defenders are Fernandez, Federlev and Aronica, and the four midfielders are right forward Marjoer, left forward Dorsena, central defender Inle and Dezemelli.

The center forward in the middle of the frontcourt is the Uruguayan Cavani who is in good shape. Behind Cavani, Pandev and Ravic support him.

Their goalkeeper is 34-year-old Italian Mogan Desanctis, who has performed quite well in the past two seasons and has also been selected for the Italian national team.

This summer, Napoli had a scandal with Chu Jiang because their goalkeepers were about to be renewed, and Chu Jiang is the most popular goalkeeper in the Serie A league this summer.

However, when reporters asked Naples president Aurerio de Laurentis if he would bring Chujiang to the Stadium in Sao Paulo, De Laurentis said so.

"Chu? Everyone wants excellent players, but unfortunately, we can't afford him. The market is so crazy now. An 18-year-old child is already at a sky-high price. I guess there are few teams in the Serie A that can really buy this young goalkeeper."

DeLaurentis did not lie. He did ask Sampdoria for the price, but Garone ignored him at all.

You know, Manchester United's offer of 15 million euros did not impress Garone. How could Garone be willing to sell Chu Jiang easily?

In this game, Naples chairman De Laurentis sat in the VIP seat at the Sao Paulo Stadium and personally supervised the team.

In his sight, Chu Jiang was right in front of Sampdoria's gate.

In this game, Chu Jiang still guarded the gate for Sampdoria.

Naples hid three core players and sent several substitutes, and their strength was weakened to a certain extent.

Sampdoria's strength was even weakened even more.

Due to the short rest time, many players are very tired. In order not to get injured, they had to send many substitutes to the bench.

In today's game, Sampdoria changed the formation for the first time, and the one who lined up was a 4312 defensive counterattack formation.

Four defenders Cardirola, Gastaldello, Lucini, Martinez, three midfielder Nocer, Palonbo and Desena, front midfielder Cudinho, double strikers Klose and Pozi.

On this list, the main players Ziegler, Zauri, Poli, Semioli and Dimikale all entered the substitute lineup, and the team's strength losses were much heavier than Napoli.

Moreover, Gastaldello, Lucini, Nocerino, Palonbo and Klose all participated in the last hard battle with Dynamo Kiev. How long can their physical strength last is still a very unpredictable question.

All in all, this game was very difficult for Sampdoria.

Facing the impact of three powerful players, Cavani, Ravic and Pandev, and facing the fanatical players of the São Paulo Stadium, Sampdoria will win or not, even whether she can escape from Naples is a huge problem.

The person who enforced the law in this game was Italian Romeo.

With his whistle, the focus of the 14th round of the Serie A League, Sampdoria's away challenge to Napoli officially began!

As soon as the game started, Napoli's main attack was on the offense and immediately beaten the half.

Under Mazari's training, the blood of the offensive has flowed into the hearts of every Napoli player. They are one of the few teams in the Serie A who likes to play three defenders and all attacks and defenses.

On the other hand, Sampdoria's side was to judge the situation and retreat to the full line. Almost everyone retreated to their own half and organized the defense line.

When facing AC Milan in the Super Cup, Sampdoria did not retreat completely without neatly.

Now, there is no way to do this.

Many main players cannot play, and they have problems with their physical fitness. In order to save physical fitness, they can only play like this. This is also the strategy designated by Kavacin before the game.

But is there really no problem with defending with all your strength?

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Chapter completed!