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Chapter 143: Fish Belly (Second update, please vote for me)

At Wembley Stadium, the stands are almost full. There are fewer and fewer fans staying outside. Those with tickets have all entered the stadium. A few people without tickets are still outside the stadium holding a sign saying "I need tickets." "Waiting for the sign.

The players have finished their warm-up and returned to their respective locker rooms.

The head coaches of both sides are giving their final instructions.

It was a semi-final, but the atmosphere was as intense as the final.

Maybe it's because the semi-finals are also held at Wembley Stadium.

Martin O'Neill was standing in the locker room. The players had changed their clothes and were waiting to go out.

He decided to say a few words.

"First of all, I want to congratulate you guys. You have worked hard to get to this point. You deserve to be able to play at Wembley! But I will not say to you, 'Go and enjoy the game' . Because this is just the semi-finals. We still have the final, so you must win this game! You have to enter the final and finally get to Wembley. How can you go back after only playing one game?"

"That's all I have to say. Just remember, no matter what happens on the court or what you encounter, you must win!"

After speaking, he waved his hand and let the players come out.

The reserve team players stood up in excitement and poured out of the locker room door.

When they finally stood in the tunnel, they were not able to chat calmly like the first-team players. Everyone looked at the entrance of the passage, as if the end of the entrance was a paradise on earth, making them full of longing and expectation.

No one chatted with each other, and no one looked around. Everyone moved in unison and looked at the entrance of the passage, appearing very quiet.

The Tottenham Hotspur players standing next to them looked at the Liverpool reserve players curiously.

They are not familiar with the reserve team players because this is the Tottenham first team, not the Tottenham reserve team. Many of them can't even name the Liverpool reserve players opposite them. In the team, there is only one Chen Yingxiong. The people they know best.

In the previous locker room, their head coach McClaren gave his team a winning order. In fact, they will do it without the head coach saying so. Because the opponent's strength is too weak, if they still can't win, they should really find a big enough piece of tofu and kill them collectively.

When they learned yesterday that Liverpool had sent its entire reserve team to play, they felt that the game had lost its suspense. So what if there is a Chen Yingxiong? No matter how powerful Chen Yingxiong is, he is only one person. Even if he can defeat three people by himself, there are eleven of us. Can eight of us still win against one?

There is news that Martin O'Neill made this arrangement to thank the reserve team players, because they sent Liverpool to the semi-finals, so he wants the reserve team to continue playing in the semi-finals.

Many Tottenham players can't understand Martin O'Neill's approach at all. For them, there are many ways to thank these reserve team players. For example, they can invite the reserve team players to the championship celebration and join them. Accept the cheers from the fans.

But you still have to play the game yourself, otherwise what if you lose?

Although I don’t understand what Liverpool did, this is indeed good news for them. Liverpool has a group of weak chickens from the reserve team. Only one Chen Yingxiong is a threat. They can easily defeat Liverpool and enter the finals. .

Since Redknapp and Bale left, Tottenham's achievements have not been as good as before, and their ranking in the league is even in doubt of qualifying for the Europa League.

For this reason, they especially need the FA Cup championship, which is their only chance to qualify for the European competition.

Against Liverpool, who are much weaker than them, Tottenham will not show mercy. Even if they are moved by Liverpool's glorious act of humanity, they will not feel pity for Tottenham.

In their view, these reserve team players in Liverpool are already "dead people". The victory in this game is destined to belong to their Tottenham Hotspur!

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Chen Yingxiong felt that it was always quiet behind him, which was a little strange to him. He participated in many games. Before each game, everyone would get together and chat, just like going on an outing. It was rarely quiet to the point of not saying a word.

He turned around strangely, and met the eyes of goalkeeper Brad Jones. He was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the other person was not looking at him, but at the exit behind him.

Not just Jones, all the reserve team players did this, staring intently at the exit of the player tunnel.

Chen Yingxiong suddenly understood. He smiled and turned back, waiting to appear.

The chief referee and the surrounding assistant referees came up from behind, and after walking to the front of the team, he said to the two captains: "Okay, gentlemen, follow me, we are about to go on the field."

Chen Yingxiong turned around and shouted to his teammates: "Guys, let's go!"

Each reserve player stepped towards the tunnel one after another.

As they got closer to the tunnel, the noise from the fans outside grew louder.

The afternoon sun shone on the court outside, turning the green turf into a pure white.

This is the biggest stage, this is the best stage. The hero did it. He said he would appear on this stage with us. How can we just come here and lose a game and then go home?

In fact, we know that the hero must be under a lot of pressure. When he wins, the glory belongs to him, and when he loses the game, the responsibility is also his.

Heroes have helped us, and we must also help heroes.

In fact, it is also to help ourselves, because after feeling the atmosphere of Wembley Stadium, we are really reluctant to say goodbye... We also want to play one more game, and we also want to be able to receive the award at Wembley Stadium. Come on stage and take this trophy from the Queen!

Who said we are fish belly?

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Tottenham's players are still dreaming of massacring Liverpool's reserve team in the semi-finals. In their view, Wembley Stadium is like a chopping block, and Liverpool is a fish on the chopping block. You can only let them slaughter you, cut them how you want, with horizontal knives, vertical knives, flower knives, cut them into segments, slices, strips, and shreds, and finally chop them into minced meat, even the bones. Chop it into pieces and dissolve it...

Then we cook it into a big meal!

But they don't know what the Liverpool reserve players are thinking. In fact, even if they knew, they would probably take it as a joke, because the Liverpool reserve team, a weak team, would actually want to defeat our Tottenham Hotspur? I really don’t know how high the sky is and how high it is! Ha ha ha ha!

Of course, they don't know.

So they didn't laugh, but the contempt in their hearts didn't diminish at all.

But not long after the game started, Tottenham Hotspur players suddenly discovered that the performance of Liverpool's reserve team was not what they thought...

The opponents they thought would be easy to deal with turned out to be quite tenacious!

Martin O'Neill is very aware of the strength of Liverpool's reserve team. If they go out and attack their opponents, they will definitely die miserably in the end.

Therefore, the tactics he formulated for this game were to defend and counterattack with limited troops.

Most of the players had to stay in the backcourt to avoid the goal being penetrated. In terms of individual combat capabilities, like Tottenham's players, they can only win with numbers, so most of Liverpool's reserve players have to defend and cannot provide much help on offense.

In the offense, Chen Yingxiong is a well-deserved assistant. The only way to provide him with help is from the two wings. The center will not go up at all, because the center has a heavy defensive task.

Neither Bell nor Sanchez was on the field. The starting full midfielders in this game were Tony Silva and Marco Pelosi, both of whom were unknowns in the reserve team.

Their role is very important, that is, they are responsible for delivering ammunition to Chen Yingxiong so that Chen Yingxiong can fire with all his strength.

Both players have certain speed and breakthrough ability, and their crosses are also the strongest among the reserve teams.

Martin O'Neill's request to them is not to control the ball too much and pass the ball to Chen Yingxiong when there is an opportunity.

When the football hits Tottenham's 30-meter zone, it's basically Chen Yingxiong's performance alone.

O'Neill's idea was to use tenacious defense to prevent Tottenham from scoring. Tottenham certainly did not expect that the players in the reserve team would be so high-spirited and tenacious, so they must have been impatient. When they get impatient, there will naturally be a lot of space behind them.

At that time, it will be Chen Yingxiong's chance!

Martin O'Neill doesn't trust the players in the reserve team very much, but he trusts Chen Yingxiong very much. He believes that Chen Yingxiong can definitely cause a lot of trouble to Tottenham...

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Fifteen minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur, whom everyone had been optimistic about before the game, had six shots, but none of them scored, and only two shots hit the goal frame.

The score was still 0:0, and Liverpool did not concede a goal.

"Liverpool's tenacity is beyond our imagination. They all recovered in their own penalty area. This style of play is not good-looking, but it is very consistent with their strength..."

"How are Liverpool going to win the game if they just keep defending like this? Do they plan to drag the game into a penalty shootout and rely on luck to defeat the opponent? The problem is that their goalkeeper Brad Jones is definitely not as good at saving penalty kicks. Tottenham’s Brazilian goalkeeper Gomez!”

"I want to applaud Liverpool's tenacious players, but that's it. I admire their courage and spirit. The problem is that football matches cannot be decided by courage and spirit alone... In the face of a huge strength gap , courage and spirit just make their failure look more tragic..."

Although the commentators were surprised by Liverpool's tenacity, they still were not optimistic about them.

The Tottenham fans in the stands even booed loudly, expressing their dissatisfaction with Liverpool's cowering. According to their ideas, Liverpool should open the door for them to bombard them wildly. It is best not to even use the goalkeeper, and let Tottenham's forwards shoot empty goals at will...

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