Volume 1: Males Come and Go, People Pay Attention to Chapter 206: The Battle of St. Petersburg (First Update)

Chapter 206: The Battle of St. Petersburg (First Update)

After Chen Yingxiong completed his hat-trick, the game has completely lost all suspense. No one will have illusions about Bayern Munich. It is absolutely impossible for them to come back under such circumstances.

Even the referee thought so, so he didn't make up for a minute of injury time, which was at least three minutes. When the 90 minutes just came, he blew the whistle for the end of the game.

"The game is over! Zenit St. Petersburg defeated Bayern Munich 4-0 at home! They advanced to the final with their heads held high!"

"Manchester, here we come!!" Shirgeevsky shouted excitedly. "Let's cheer! This is the night of Russian football, this is the night of St. Petersburg football!"

"This is the most memorable moment in the history of Zenit St. Petersburg - they reached the final of a European competition for the first time!"

Zenit's home stadium, the Petrovsky Stadium, became a sea of ​​joy at this moment.

Everyone jumped up from their seats, raising their arms and shouting. There were even tears in many people's eyes, no matter who the people around them were, they turned their heads and hugged. There were also people who embraced the woman next to them and kissed passionately, only to be shocked after the kiss was over. But the women were less coy, and quickly returned a more passionate kiss.

I really don't know how many couples will be born on this happy night, and how many hotel rooms will be full...

Zenit fans celebrated wildly in the stands, Zenit players also celebrated wildly on the pitch.

Chen Yingxiong took off his jersey and embraced with his teammates to celebrate the team's victory and advance to the final.

The camera lens follows him closely, no matter where he is or what he is doing. Being able to enjoy such treatment shows that he is the best player in this game.

In fact, for the best single game, Chen Yingxiong got soft hands. In this season's Russian league, he was the best player in every league game, and he firmly occupied the forward position in the best team in every round.

In this game, he scored three goals alone. Not only did he complete a hat-trick against Kahn, but he also helped the team completely destroy Bayern Munich and advance to the final. It can even be said that it was his goal in the fourth minute that opened the door to victory for the team.

If it wasn't for scoring goals so quickly, Bayern Munich shouldn't collapse so easily. With their strength, once the game falls into their control, Zenit will be at home.

And Chen Yingxiong's ball told all Zenit players that Bayern Munich is not terrible, they will panic, and they will behave very amateurishly.

Everyone's hearts settled down.

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While the Zenit St. Petersburg players were wildly celebrating their victory, the Bayern Munich players had left the field with their heads down and returned to the locker room. It was an unforgettable and humiliating night for them.

When they set foot on the land of St. Petersburg with great ambitions, they never thought that they would leave as a loser.

This is really a hard land to conquer... The French came and they failed. Now the Germans are coming, and they are also defeated.

Not only Shirgeevsky, the local commentator of St. Petersburg, but also Yuri Petrov, the commentator of Russia's national TV station, was excited for St. Petersburg's promotion to the final.

However, his angle of concern is slightly different from that of Shirgeevsky.

While everyone was cheering for Zenit St. Petersburg, he set his sights on the failed Bayern Munich players.

"The Germans have failed again, and they left in disgrace! Great St. Petersburg! Great Leningrad!"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the name was rarely mentioned. But today, when Yuri Petrov called out this name again, many old St. Petersburgers and even old Russians burst into tears. Because that name means the most difficult, darkest, saddest, but also the most glorious, most unyielding, and greatest period of time in the three hundred years since the city of St. Petersburg was founded.

During Soviet times, the city of St. Petersburg was renamed "Leningrad" in honor of the city that was the cradle of the October Revolution.

During World War II, the city endured an 882-day German siege. When Hitler launched the Barbarossa plan, he once threatened to "wipe the city of Petersburg off the map".

The results of it? The Battle of Leningrad, which was originally scheduled to end on September 1, 1941, continued until the end of January 1944. Leningrad paid more than 1.5 million deaths, 3,200 buildings were destroyed, the city was beyond recognition, and the streets became piles of rubble. It not only defended its own city, but also restrained the main force of the German army's Northern Army, creating conditions for victory in other battlefields, and finally successfully counterattacked, defeating the German army and fleeing for 200 kilometers. Thus won the victory in the defense of Leningrad.

Instead of erasing this heroic city from the map, Hitler brought about his own demise. From this battle, his Third Reich began to gradually collapse.

"It's not that St. Petersburg is afraid of failure, but failure is afraid of St. Petersburg!!" Petrov changed the famous saying of Soviet Marshal Zhukov, which was surprisingly appropriate.

During the defense of Leningrad, Zhukov replaced Marshal Voroshilov, who was weak in command, and became the commander-in-chief of the Leningrad campaign. His slogan was "It is not Leningrad that fears death, but death fears Leningrad." This sentence inspired countless Leningrad soldiers and workers in the defense battle, and became their creed when fighting the German army, hunger, and cold.

Now Petrov has slightly modified this sentence, which really properly illustrates the tenacity and bravery of Zenit St. Petersburg.

"From now on... let's counterattack to - Manchester!!"

"U-la-!"

"U-la--!!"

The Zenit St. Petersburg fans at the scene gave out huge cheers at this time, as if they were warmly responding to Petrov's call.

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On the streets of St. Petersburg the next day, any newspapers about yesterday's game were sold out as soon as they came out. Everyone rushed to circulate these newspapers to relive that exciting night.

Stimulated by the victory, the media in St. Petersburg gave full play to their creativity and ingenuity.

The newspaper that once published "This is the second defense of Leningrad" and called on everyone to focus on the game itself, is proud of it this time. No one cared about the previous reports, but now it is different. The newspapers are sold out as soon as they are put on the newsstands and bookstalls.

The newspaper produced a visually striking and imaginative front page dedicated to the model of the former Soviet Union.

They drew a poster in the style of the former Soviet Union, showing the Zenit St. Petersburg players flexing their muscles and clenching their fists to the sky. The most eye-catching one in the center is of course Chen Yingxiong, the number one hero who performed the hat-trick. Their eyes are wide open, their expressions are firm and full of strength, exactly the same as the righteous figures before. Behind them is the red flag fluttering. This front page makes Chinese people not feel strange at all when they see it, because the early Chinese propaganda posters are also like this, the style of the socialist big brother and younger brother is in the same line...

Below the poster is the eye-catching subtitle:

Warmly celebrate the victory of the Second Defense of Leningrad!

subtitle:

Long live the invincible Zenit St. Petersburg! Long live! Long live!

All the media are enthusiastically applauding this great victory.

"Although we are used to Zenit creating miracles, I still didn't expect that they could defeat Bayern Munich 4-0 at their home court! Such a great achievement can be compared with the defense of Leningrad that year!"

"Russian football has really risen! In 2005, CSKA Moscow from the capital won the UEFA Cup. This time, can Zenit do it?"

"At this moment, please put aside the strife between Moscow and St. Petersburg, and cheer for this great victory together! Zenit St. Petersburg has done something that many top giants can't do - beat Bayern Munich 4:0!"

Everyone is talking about topics related to the game. They were chatting excitedly about Chen Yingxiong's hat-trick and his "***". The words Chen Yingxiong said in the interview after the game were also regarded as classics by them, and they repeatedly talked about——

"See what I said right? I feel sorry for Bayern Munich, unfortunately they met us early in the semi-final..."

In Munich, Germany, there was a wail.

Many German media have used words such as "shame" and "shame" to describe Bayern Munich's fiasco.

"... such a 0:4 loss to Zenit St. Petersburg, if it was placed before the game, I would not believe this result. But the cruel reality gave me a slap in the face!"

"Bayern Munich's dream of winning the Triple Crown this season has been shattered. Before, everyone thought that it would be easy for them to win the UEFA Cup. Who would have thought... Now it seems that maybe it is this mentality that hurt them..."

"For Kahn, there is no more painful way to say goodbye to the European game... In the second half of the game, the "Lion King" didn't even roar at his defense line once. I think he may have lost confidence in this game, right?"

"...I hope this game can give Klinsmann a good look. The team he is about to take over is like this! Such a team, even if they win the league championship in advance, cannot cover up their incompetence last night!"

Even Bayern Munich coach Hitzfeld, also admitted that this is a humiliating defeat.

"...We conceded the ball at the beginning of the game, which put us in a very disadvantageous situation...But this is not an excuse, our players do not have the confidence and fighting spirit to win this game, this is the key! Bayern Munich can't lose, but it must not be lost in this way! It's a shame!"

When interviewed after the game, the coach seemed very excited.

Originally thinking that he would lead the team to win the Triple Crown, even if he left, he would leave Bayern Munich with a rich fortune. Have a great season. When he coached Bayern Munich, he also created a treble. At that time, Bayern Munich won the European Championship.

Unexpectedly, he was defeated in the semi-finals. What made him feel more ashamed than losing the semifinals was that his team was conceded four goals by the opponent!

It is estimated that many years later, he will still remember this game, and remember the No. 99 hero who performed a hat-trick in the game and made "Lion King" Kahn pick up the ball three times in the goal.

This game will become an indelible part of many people's memories, but some people will talk about it with great interest, while others don't even want to mention it. The past is too painful to look back...

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