Volume 1: When a Male Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 60 Prelude

The team was not able to rest after the Christmas dinner. The team ended training early on Christmas Day and asked everyone to go back and spend the holidays with their families. Although tomorrow is the home game against Southampton, Martin O'Neill did not let everyone stay in the hotel a day early as usual, but arranged for the players to go home, taking into account that today is Christmas. The significance of this day in the Western world is no less than that of the Spring Festival in China. If you arrange for everyone to stay in a hotel together at this time, it will only make the players dissatisfied and unintentional to prepare for the game, but will affect the players' condition.

Just go home for the holidays.

Chen Yingxiong returned home and spent a warm Christmas with Cabrera. The only regret is that the atmosphere of the day can no longer be created, and Chen Yingxiong naturally cannot succeed. When he thought of this, Chen Yingxiong gritted his teeth at West Ham United and Allardyce.

Cabrera has just arrived in Liverpool. After spending Christmas together, she will accompany Chen Yingxiong back to China. In fact, his parents have never met their son's current girlfriend. This time, it is his father's fiftieth birthday, so he has to bring his beautiful foreign girlfriend back to support his father. Old people, sometimes to save face, take Cabrera back by themselves to ensure that their parents will be happy and happy.

The next morning, the players who returned home for the holidays came to the hotel where Liverpool had planned to stay, and then gathered together to watch the video of Southampton's recent games edited by the coaching staff. Understand their characteristics and status. Supplemented by Martin O'Neill's commentary, it gave them a deep understanding of what their opponent was like this time.

We had lunch at the hotel at noon, took a lunch break and conducted simple strength training in the afternoon, and then set off to the stadium.

Southampton is the newly promoted team this season and is not very strong. In addition, Liverpool is at their home stadium. They just defeated Manchester United in the last round of the league. Their morale is high. The Christmas dinner also played the same role. This game The result can be imagined.

Although Southampton once tied with Liverpool at their home court in the sixth round of the league, Liverpool had a rotation in that game. Many main players, including Chen Yingxiong, did not play, and the entire Liverpool team was not very good. Adapt to the changes that come with rotation. But it's completely different now.

In the end, Liverpool defeated Southampton 4:1 at their home court. Chen Yingxiong scored one goal and assisted two goals in this game and was selected as the best player.

One explanation is that if this continues, Chen Yingxiong will have to dig an underground wine cellar in his home to hold the champagne awarded to the best player.

In the next away game against Wigan Athletic, Martin O'Neill continued to rotate, and players including Chen Yingxiong sat on the bench.

Even so, Liverpool still won 2:1 away from Wigan Athletic.

The league has played nineteen rounds and is halfway through the schedule. Liverpool currently ranks first in the league, scoring 42 goals, conceding 12 goals, and accumulating 47 points. This result is Liverpool's best result in the league since the new century. In this half-season, Liverpool fans have never been so proud and happy as they are now. Every game is really enjoyable for them. Even if they lose one or two games, no one will panic.

Even halfway through the league, many Liverpool fans believe that they can participate in the Champions League next season.

Manchester City is one point behind them in second place. Manchester United is in third place with four points less, and Arsenal, which is one point less than Manchester United, is in fourth place.

Next, it’s the game against Manchester City.

This is the first time Liverpool and Manchester City have met in the new season. It stands to reason that in the league, the same opponent will meet once last season and again in the second half of the season, but this season is so strange. The first confrontation between Liverpool and Manchester City was in the second half of the season. On the contrary, the two meetings with Southampton this season have been completed.

In the penultimate round of the league, Liverpool will face Manchester City at home. If by that time, the situation is still the same, that game will definitely be dubbed "the game that determines the championship."

But right now, it's still early days.

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Martin O'Neill looked at the next round of opponents on the match list, and suddenly found that he was a little nervous and excited...

This wasn't a final, so why was he excited and nervous?

Because he thought of the bet he made with Chen Yingxiong.

He rejected Chen Yingxiong as a joke, but what if Chen Yingxiong really scored five goals in the game?

Do we really want to allow him to return to the country?

O'Neal shook his head - this chance is too low, right? He does not believe that Chen Yingxiong can complete the feat of scoring five goals in any given game. Even for someone like Messi, it would be difficult for him to score five yuan in a game, let alone Chen Yingxiong...

But there was a thought in my heart that couldn't help but come up - what if he really did it?

If he really did it, would he really let him go?

Martin O'Neal did not hope that this would be the case, but he was also looking forward to it, wanting to witness such a great scene in the game.

Five balls! The opponent is still a team like Manchester City. If it can really be realized, I believe it will be a great improvement for the morale of my team, and it will be a huge blow to Manchester City. Kill two birds with one stone...

He was conflicted.

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While Martin O'Neal was struggling with inner conflicts, Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera were packing their luggage.

"Are you so sure you can score five goals against Manchester City?" Cabrera asked as he packed his bags.

"Even if you can't finish it, you have to finish it! This is a fatal task and must be completed!" Chen Yingxiong put the birthday gift he bought for his parents into his suitcase.

"What if it can't be completed?"

Chen Yingxiong raised his head and looked at Cabrera: "In my dictionary, there is no 'in case'." Then he continued to pack things. "I have booked the air tickets, round-trip. We will arrive home on the afternoon of the 31st and leave after lunch the next day."

Chen Yingxiong actually asked O'Neal for one less day off. According to his plan, he would not be able to return to Liverpool until the second day, just in time to catch up with the game against Newcastle United the next day. Newcastle's performance this season is also outstanding. They are currently ranked sixth in the league and are a strong rival. Chen Yingxiong will definitely play in this game. Even if Martin O'Neal rotates, he will not rotate at this time. He will only rotate when facing weak teams.

But if he said three days, he was afraid that the head coach wouldn't agree. If he said two days, he would ask for leave, and then... he would be in trouble...

The worst thing he can do is accept the punishment afterwards.

This shows how important his father's fiftieth birthday is to him, and what price Chen Yingxiong paid in order to come back to attend.

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Before the derby with Manchester City, the media had already begun to hype the game crazily.

Because the hatred between Chen Yingxiong and Manchester City is really endless for three days and three nights...

Starting from the vicious revenge on Richards, Chen Yingxiong and Manchester City are considered to be in trouble. A series of subsequent events deepened the contradiction and hatred between the two. Now it has reached the point of "death feud" that will not give up until death.

This game is an away game again, and the Manchester City fans have already threatened to give Chen Yingxiong a good look at their home court.

Of course, they probably won't use racially discriminatory slogans and methods to attack Chen Yingxiong this time.

Liverpool fans announced that they will defend Chen Yingxiong to the death.

The clubs on both sides began to cool down the football matches between the two teams.

Martin O'Neill said in an interview with reporters: "The feud between Liverpool and Manchester City? I am not very clear. I was not the head coach of Liverpool at that time. In my opinion, this is an ordinary league. I hope both sides The players should treat it calmly. Such games happen thirty-eight times every season..."

Manchester City's head coach Mancini also called on the players not to target Chen Yingxiong: "I agree with Martin, this is just an ordinary game. The players should focus on the game, Manchester City needs them Cheers, not boos directed at opposing players..."

But in the fanatical atmosphere, their appeals seemed weak. At least the Manchester police did not pay attention to the appeals of the two coaches. Their leaders have announced to strengthen the security of the stadium on the day of the game. At that time, heavily armed riot police will separate the Liverpool fans and the Manchester City fans, and at the same time, a special entrance will be opened for the Liverpool fans to enter and exit, ensuring that there will be no chance of direct contact between the fans from both sides.

At the same time, Liverpool Club also issued a warning, reminding players not to go to Manchester too early. It is best to follow the large forces. Generally speaking, only when going to areas with high football violence, such as Turkey and Italy, will English clubs be strict with themselves? Ball mi issued such a warning. But now it's just a domestic league, and such a warning is issued.

This shows what kind of state this game is in...

This is not over yet. Although the head coaches of both teams are very friendly, the players of both teams are not fuel-efficient.

Richards did not hide his dislike for Chen Yingxiong in the interview: "He can score goals? Yes, but so what, when facing Manchester City, I will not let him score. The ball has a chance! He is a despicable guy, and I will not shake hands with him. I will keep my word!"

Before Chen Yingxiong could say anything, Suarez had already jumped out: "In terms of despicableness, Richards is second in the world, and no one dares to say that he is first. I still remember after he tackled me You're pretending to be innocent! If a person does something wrong but doesn't dare to admit it, I don't think he is a man!"

Chen Yingxiong also said: "Despicable? Aha, who falsely accused me of racial discrimination, who lied to the FA, the media, and the public? Who conspired against Lu, was taken to court and lost? I sincerely I feel that asking him to work as a social worker will not make him repent, and it would be better to let him go to prison to pick up soap."

Richards immediately shut up.

He is in the wrong!

He did lie and deceive everyone, falsely accusing Chen Yingxiong of racial discrimination against him. Therefore, once Chen Yingxiong settles old scores, he can no longer be so stubborn.

He could only hold this breath in his heart, and then made up his mind to make Chen Yingxiong look good in the game. When he won the game, he would celebrate unscrupulously in front of Chen Yingxiong! ! .