Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 121: Two Goals Behind (Third Update, Please Vote for Me)

For the Liverpool players, they just saw something strange outside Newcastle's home stadium - funerals for cats and dogs. Everyone has heard of it and is not surprised. But the matter of holding a funeral for the stadium... this was the first time they had met.

But for the Newcastle players, this incident will definitely affect their mood to some extent.

We are all Newcastle players and have stayed at Newcastle for at least half the season. In the past, even they themselves have always called their stadium this way - St. James Stadium, not some unspeakable sports term. Directly operated stadium.

Now the name of this stadium has suddenly been pried off in a rude way. Many players who have played for Newcastle for many years cannot accept this result for a while. Originally, this matter was over, but the funeral of the Newcastle players once again aroused the dissatisfaction and sorrow in their hearts.

Newcastle head coach Pardew also noticed the subtle emotional changes in his players. For head coaches, understanding what their players are thinking is a must.

He realized that if this emotion interfered with the players' performance, it wouldn't be a matter of seconds. Although Liverpool has not been doing well in recent league rounds, it is still an opponent that cannot be underestimated. The players had better cheer up, otherwise losing the game at their home court will be a huge loss.

After he walked into the locker room, he clapped his hands.

Everyone looked up at him.

"I understand the anger of the football fans about the removal of the St James' Park logo. But you have to remember that you are not the football fans. Once the game starts, what matters is the result on the pitch. I think the football fans trust the players and they know You will show hard work. Don't let those football fans feel cold. They are here to watch the game to see you win, not a bunch of absent-minded people sleepwalking on the court. Otherwise, they might have done better by themselves. Guys, the reason Newcastle is great is not because of the name of a stadium, but because your predecessors accumulated victory and defeat in every game. Please keep this in mind."

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When Chen Yingxiong followed his teammates out of the player tunnel, he raised his head and looked around. Sure enough, he saw the new red and blue logo on the roof of the stadium - "Sports Direct Stadium".

"This name is really ugly..." Chen Yingxiong muttered.

He felt sad for the Newcastle fans - with such a tasteless owner, fans from other teams would be laughed to death when they called their home stadium.

With a capacity of 52,387 people, St James' Park is the third largest stadium in the Premier League, behind Old Trafford and the Emirates Stadium. When Newcastle was founded in 1892, this was its home ground. Selling stadium naming rights is not new in England. Three Premier League stadiums are named after sponsors: Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, Bolton's Reebok Stadium and Wigan's DW Stadium. However, these three stadiums were re-located and newly built with investment from sponsors. Even so, this naming method is still controversial due to the lack of humanistic spirit and excessive commercialization. There is no precedent in the Premier League for Ashley to change the name of a famous stadium with a history of 120 years. Knowing this, he will not bury the Magpies Football Club in "St. James Park". It felt weird to express dissatisfaction in an extreme way.

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After the game started, the Newcastle players performed normally. This may be related to what coach Pardu said before the game - they were still successfully pulled out of their distracted state of mind by Pardu.

So they took the lead very quickly, and with more than just one goal.

In the first half of the game, Newcastle played at home and took a two-goal lead. This somewhat diluted the sadness of Newcastle fans about the renaming of their home stadium.

The atmosphere in the stands of St. James Park Stadium... er, no, it should be the Sports Direct Stadium was much more lively than when it started.

But this kind of activity is not all about cheering for the team. They are active because they can finally relax and attack club chairman Ashley - when they were only leading by one goal at most, Newcastle's fans wanted to Worried about the team, afraid of being equalized by Liverpool. Now that we are two goals ahead, what else is there to be afraid of?

The current show is... scolding damn Mike Ashley as much as you want! !

Newcastle fans changed their ways and sang songs to attack their club president.

"Ashley! You are a sinner in Newcastle! You are going to hell! St James' Park is watching you from up there!"

"We have an idiot, an idiot that none of you have! He made us look bad! He made us look bad! That idiot is Mike Ashley!!"

Ashley was sitting in the rostrum with no expression on his face, and he couldn't tell that he had any intention of burying the name "St. James Park".

How much do Newcastle fans hate Ashley?

There was once a Newcastle player named Alan McCann, who was beaten up by the angry Newcastle player because he looked too much like Mike Ashley. Although he argued at the time that he was not Ashley because he was not as fat as Ashley, he was still beaten to death. Even when he went to watch the Newcastle game, he was repeatedly insulted by the fans.

So much so that now he can't wear a Newcastle jersey when he goes to the stadium to watch games, but has to wear a white T-shirt with the words: "I'm not fucking Ashley!"

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The stands were so lively, but the game on the court was a little dull.

It wasn't a great game to be honest, and apart from two goals, Newcastle had nothing to show for it.

But football is so wonderful sometimes. You don't perform well, but you can win.

Of course, Newcastle, which was not performing well, was still leading by two goals because their opponent, Liverpool, was performing even worse...

"The performance of the Liverpool team and Chen Yingxiong has not improved. Now Liverpool's best player is Suarez. His dribbling and breakthrough are the team's most threatening offense. But he lacks support, and more often They all fight alone..."

"The performance of the hero Liverpool can rely on the most is still low. Of course, in fact, his performance is not considered low, it can only be said to be average. But who made his previous performance too outstanding? It was completely beyond the mark. The cognitive scope of ordinary people, so when his performance is only average, we will think that his state is low..."

Yes, Chen Yingxiong's performance in this game cannot be called low-mi, it can only be regarded as... average. But everyone's expectations for him were too high before, so as long as he didn't perform to the level he should have, everyone would swarm to say that he was in poor condition.

Of course, Chen Yingxiong still doesn't need to header the ball. Everyone still doesn’t understand why? Is there an injury on his head that cannot be touched?

This idea is close to the truth, but everyone thinks it is nonsense - who saw a wound on Chen Yingxiong's head? Good!

Without heading the ball, what would he do if his teammates still hit him with a high ball?

Chen Yingxiong invented a way, that is... to stop the ball with his chest!

Yes, it’s harder to use your chest than your head, and you can’t compete with others when you jump up. But Chen Yingxiong worked tirelessly and persisted in doing so. Because this is the only way...

The first half ended in this dull rhythm. Newcastle is leading by two goals, and comparing the performance of their opponent Liverpool, winning this game should not be a problem.

So throughout the halftime break, Newcastle's players were all in contact, discussing how to continue to deal with Ashley in the second half.

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In the dressing room, Dalglish's face was solemn.

The team was two goals behind in the away game and the future was uncertain. Although he had been prepared, he still did not expect the situation to be so bad.

Liverpool's players were also frustrated. Since head coach Dalglish decided to change the team's offensive tactics, this is already the third game, and the team has not won a game.

If it weren't for Dalglish's high prestige, I'm afraid the players would have rebelled by this time. Fortunately, Dalglish has such great prestige within the team... Otherwise, the team would have been in chaos.

Faced with this situation, Dalglish was really helpless.

He had no choice but to say: "I won't put any pressure on you for the rest of this game. It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. Anyway, our goal for this season has been achieved..."

Yes, the team has qualified for the European competition. Even if we lose all the next games, as long as we are not relegated, it doesn't matter.

These words are a bit discouraging, but they are the team's true reaction to the situation. Faced with this situation, Dalglish had no choice. The only thing he could do was keep going. In fact, even without Chen Yingxiong, he has realized that if Liverpool's tactics do not change, there may still be no hope. In modern football, it is a dead end to continue to adhere to what was done more than ten years ago.

No matter what, he wants to make Liverpool better tomorrow, so the reform should start with himself.

Chen Yingxiong looked at his boss's face. In fact, he was only sixty-one years old, but he looked as if he had aged ten years rapidly.

He knew why his boss was aging rapidly.

He can no longer sit back and do nothing like this...

Otherwise it would be too boring, right?

Many people thought that Chen Yingxiong was in poor form in these games. In fact, only the first game against Queens Park Rangers was in really bad form. At other times, he was more dragged down by the team's overall low state. But who calls him the team's number one star? If the team can't win, who will scold you if I don't scold you? Naturally, he also has to bear tremendous pressure. It's just that Chen Yingxiong didn't take these pressures seriously.

The team's performance still hasn't improved, so what can I do to help the boss?

Just a free kick! ! .