Volume 1: Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention Chapter 32 Pressure (50 Monthly Tickets for Additional Updates!)
Chapter 32 Pressure (50 monthly tickets for extra updates!)
After the third round of the Premier League, it was the national team match day. During this period, there were no matches in the Premier League, so Chen Yingxiong leisurely went to Monte Carlo to slap Platini in the face - the national team match also It’s none of his business.
At the end of July, the Chinese national team, which was battered by Chen Yingxiong and Liverpool, welcomed Laos at home. Perhaps the shadow of six goals scored by Liverpool has not completely subsided. They started badly and did not pull back until the second half. return. Although the Chinese team won 7:2 in the end, it still failed to satisfy the Chinese people. Especially in the first half, a weak team like Laos scored two goals and almost lost...
Many people said that if Chen Yingxiong was here, the problem would have been solved long ago. The Chinese team created many opportunities in the first half, but Yang Xu failed to grasp any of them. Bai, who is 1.9 meters tall, did not know how to use them. Look at Chen Yingxiong, who is also a big man. How did he score the goal?
Speaking of this, the Football Association was once again scolded by the Chinese media and fans. Because if they hadn't put forward such idiotic conditions, Chen Yingxiong might have joined the national team this time?
If the national team has Chen Yingxiong, is there nothing they can do to win only Laos? Just crosses from the wing and headers from the center are enough to kill Laos.
Fortunately, the Chinese team defeated the Laos team in the end. At least there is no suspense about entering the top 20. If they win by a narrow margin at their home court, I'm afraid the pressure on the Chinese Football Association will be even greater.
In the end, the Chinese team successfully eliminated Laos in two rounds and entered the top 20, being assigned to a group with Jordan, Iraq, and Singapore. Except for Singapore, Jordan and Iraq all thought they had got a good draw. In their eyes, the Chinese team, like Singapore, was a piece of cake they used to score points.
But the irony is that the Chinese team also thinks they have drawn a good draw...
In this way, the new head coach Camacho started the journey to the top 20 with the Chinese team without Chen Yingxiong.
Their first game was against Singapore at home, and the result was a narrow win of 2:1, and they fell behind 0:1 in the first half!
When the team was unable to start the game, the fans at the scene chanted Chen Yingxiong's name. They used this trick when the Chinese team played against Laos - when Laos led the Chinese team 2:0 in the first half, the sky above the stadium was filled with shouts of "Heroes! Heroes! We want heroes!" , which made the Football Association leaders who were supervising the battle on the scene very embarrassed.
Now they are repeating their old tricks, naturally taking this opportunity to express their dissatisfaction to the Football Association.
Facing a team like Singapore at their own home court, they have to narrowly defeat it. The decline of Chinese football is indeed quite obvious - even if the Chinese team in the past was not the strongest in Asia, it is still not a problem to abuse the teams in Southeast Asia. What? Since then, has the Chinese team been so embarrassed when facing teams like Laos, Thailand, and Singapore?
Camacho's first game with the Chinese team ended in victory, but the controversy has never disappeared. The Chinese team is not a top-ranked team in FIFA, but he has coached such a weak team. I felt tremendous pressure.
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Although Chen Yingxiong is not in the national team, he still has to care about his homeland team. Therefore, although he did not watch the live broadcast of the match between the Chinese team and Singapore, he also watched the news afterwards.
He had nothing to say about the Chinese team's narrow victory over Singapore. With the current situation of Chinese football, we no longer have the right to ask for good-looking scenes. As long as we can win and get three points, it will be good. The rest is just a matter of taking one step at a time. Who knows how far we can go? After entering the top ten, you can finally go to Brazil.
Although some Chinese fans are full of expectations for the "world-famous coach" Camacho and put up slogans such as "Camacho takes us to Brazil" during the game, they may not be able to get the results he wants.
After the game, a Chinese reporter went to interview Chen Yingxiong and asked him what he thought of the game and the shouts from the fans at the scene.
Chen Yingxiong said that it would be great if he could win. As for the fans' shouts, he felt that it was useless.
"It would be awesome if Chinese football could get better just by shouting from the fans. It's a pity that the Chinese Football Association is not made up of fans..." He also did not forget to stimulate the Football Association.
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Chen Yingxiong's UEFA Ballon d'Or did not bring good luck to Liverpool.
After the national team match day ends, the Premier League resumes.
Liverpool lost two games in a row under the leadership of Dalglish.
They lost to Stoke City 0:1 away from home and suffered a disastrous defeat to Tottenham Hotspur 0:4 away from home.
Chen Yingxiong did not score in these two games, and Liverpool as a whole did not score.
Conceding five goals and not scoring a single goal is really embarrassing.
Dalglish is also under tremendous pressure.
Criticisms in the media about his conservative tactics and not letting Adam Johnson play were rampant.
There are naturally many rumors about his unstable leadership position.
And after Adam Johnson sat on the bench for five full games, he finally realized that he had no status at all in the eyes of the head coach of this team! Dalglish didn't like him and was unwilling to give him a chance to play.
He began to regret his decision to move to Liverpool.
Naturally, he wanted to complain, but his complaints were hyped up by the media and became irrefutable evidence of disunity within the Liverpool locker room...
This gave Dalglish an even greater headache.
Adam Johnson, who was manipulated by the media, naturally didn't even think about getting a chance to play. Dalglish openly admitted that he disliked Adam Johnson. Because he did not lead this transfer transaction, he never wanted Johnson to join the team.
But in fact, he once admitted to the media that he was interested in Adam Johnson. If Downing really couldn't transfer, he would consider Adam Johnson.
Now that Tangning's transfer has indeed failed, he has broken his promise. Poor Adam Johnson thus became a victim of the struggle between the two giants at the top of the club.
Liverpool suffered two consecutive defeats, and in a crisis-ridden situation, Chen Yingxiong stood up.
Gerrard is still recuperating from his injury. As the team's biggest star, Chen Yingxiong, with a sky-high transfer fee of 70 million pounds, naturally has something to say. Otherwise, the media would not let him go.
"Isn't it just two consecutive losses?" Chen Yingxiong said when facing reporters, "What's the big deal? I saw you all yelling and thinking before, and I thought the end of the world was coming. Two games in a row Didn’t score a goal in the game? Maybe he will score a goal in the next game?”
The team's vice-captain, Carragher, who is now the captain, also came out to reassure the soldiers, saying that there were no internal problems in the Red Army. The media's rumors that there were conflicts in the Red Army's locker room were completely false.
What he said is also true. The conflicts in the Red Army's locker room are not deep, if any, and are far less deep than the internal conflicts of teams such as Inter Milan.
When Adam Johnson complained about Dalglish, it was a conflict between players and coaches. Other players would not alienate him just because he had conflicts with Dalglish. They should get along with each other how they usually should.
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Although the two giants came out to speak, to appease everyone's military morale and give the fans confidence. But the pressure is still great.
Especially the 0:4 away defeat to Tottenham Hotspur. Such a huge defeat was really demoralizing.
The players still hope to use victory to relieve pressure and wash away the shame.
On September 21st, Liverpool challenged Brighton away. This was not a Premier League match, but an English League Cup match.
Chen Yingxiong, who had not scored in the previous two rounds, finally broke out. He scored twice in the game, helping the team win 2:1 and successfully advance to the next round of the League Cup.
Although it is only the League Cup and not the league, the victory still takes the pressure off everyone's head.
Back in the league, Liverpool defeated Wolves 2:1 at home, with Suarez and Chen Yingxiong each scoring a goal.
After winning two consecutive games, the pressure on Dalglish suddenly eased a lot.
There was much less criticism from the media, and they focused their attention on praising Chen Yingxiong.
He scored in two consecutive games and scored three goals in two games. This performance finally allowed people to vaguely see the omnipotent Chen Yingxiong last season.
Dalglish also seemed very happy for Chen Yingxiong's consecutive goals. At the post-match press conference, he praised Chen Yingxiong as a "phenomenal" player and a valuable asset to the Red Army Liverpool - Dalglish's love for Chen Yingxiong can be seen.
Those who knew the inside story of the high-level struggle at Liverpool felt helpless and funny when they saw this scene.
Dalgliesh and Niang are mortal enemies, and Niang and Chen Yingxiong are friends, but Dalgliesh values Chen Yingxiong very much. It feels really complicated.
Perhaps it's because Dalglish knows that if he wants to keep his job at Liverpool, he must reuse Chen Yingxiong. Because Chen Yingxiong can continue to score goals, and continuous goals can bring continuous victories...
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"Although he hasn't played many games, Chen Yingxiong has conquered the KOP stands!"
"Three goals in two games, the hero once again proved that he is worth every penny!"
"In the game against Wolves, the hero's goal completely destroyed the opponent!"
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Suarez felt unhappy when he saw these media reports.
In the game against Wolves, he also scored a goal. He scored the first goal for the team! It was precisely because he broke the deadlock that the game became easier to play.
But the media almost didn't mention him at all, and even if they did, he was just a foil for Chen Yingxiong.
In fact, this situation did not happen in a day or two. Since Chen Yingxiong joined the team, this person's name has become the most frequently used keyword by the Liverpool media.
His worth, his goals, his appearance, his Chinese identity, his dress... Even when he goes to a nightclub, he can be on the front page of the newspaper...
I've never fucking experienced such treatment!
Suarez thought sourly.
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