Volume 1: When a Male Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 171: Is This Considered a Bad State? (Third Update, Please Vote for Me)

Liverpool won the European Cup, their first title of the season.

In the game, they defeated Real Madrid. Some local media in Liverpool shouted that this was the restoration of the Red Army.

At the same time, their grouping situation in the Champions League this season has also been released.

Liverpool, which has missed the Champions League for many seasons, has been classified into the second tier of teams due to their points in the European war. This is also because they won the Europa League last season, otherwise they might be in a lower tier.

If you are not a seeded team, you may be assigned to the death group.

But this time nothing like that happened. Liverpool were drawn into what looked like a friendly group.

They were placed in a group with Valencia, Paris Saint-Germain and Feyenoord.

Two seasons ago, this group would have been a proper "Group of Death". The so-called Group of Death does not mean that all four teams are strong teams. As long as the four teams are close in strength, who will qualify? It’s hard to say if you don’t qualify, then it’s considered a group of death.

Why do you want to put it aside two seasons ago? Because Liverpool two seasons ago was about the same strength as these teams. It's not that those three teams were strong, but that Liverpool was too useless.

Liverpool is not confident that it can fight its way out of the siege of these three teams and gain the right to qualify.

But things are different now. Now this group is considered "friendly" by everyone.

Because Liverpool's strength has been greatly improved. Last season's Europa League championship and this season's victory over Real Madrid to win the European Super Cup all illustrate their strength. The most important thing is that they have Chen Yingxiong.

Many people now feel that as long as Liverpool has Chen Yingxiong, there is hope.

Anything can happen. There is nothing wrong with leaving any impossible task to Chen Yingxiong!

With Chen Yingxiong, Liverpool instantly became a highly favored team, and there was no suspense about qualifying from the group. Even first place in the group is not a problem. The other three teams can only compete for the second place in the group.

Returning to England, Liverpool immediately began preparations for the third round of the league.

Originally, Martin O'Neal did not plan to use large-scale rotation in this third round of the league.

But who allowed them to play a full 120 minutes with Real Madrid in the European Super Cup, and also experience a tense and exciting penalty shootout?

Therefore, in this game, most people were excluded from the big list or starting list by Martin O'Neal. There is only one exception, and that person is Chen Yingxiong.

Facing reporters' questions, Martin O'Neill said straightforwardly: "The hero does not need to rest. He is fully capable of continuous combat."

The reason why Chen Yingxiong was not allowed to rest was naturally because Chen Yingxiong was the key to the team's victory. This season Martin O'Neill intends to achieve results in the league, and grabbing points at the beginning of the season is crucial.

Chen Yingxiong is the key figure in the team's scoring.

Just like Mourinho will not consider rotating Cristiano Ronaldo no matter how intensive the game is, Martin O'Neill also wants to understand,

Regardless of the devilish schedule, Chen Yingxiong must start and play for the full ninety minutes, because his presence is a guarantee for the team to win and can deter opponents who have other ideas.

How do players like Ronaldo and Messi score 50 league goals in a season? Isn't it just this kind of "pampering" from the head coach? No one rotates them in the rotation, ensuring that they have sufficient game time, and then breaking the record is naturally a matter of rapid growth. Last season, in order to cooperate with the whole team to adapt to the rotation tactics, Chen Yingxiong participated in the rotation in ten games and did not play. There is also a red card suspension. In other words, out of the thirty-eight league rounds, he actually only played twenty-seven games. In these twenty-seven games, he scored an estimated thirty-nine goals!

If you don't rotate him throughout the season and let him play all 38 games, how many goals can he score?

Martin O'Neill felt very excited just thinking about it. He suddenly became childlike and planned to try such an interesting thing...

Therefore, out of dual considerations of team performance and personal bad taste, Martin O'Neill rotated everyone including Gerrard, except for Chen Yingxiong and goalkeeper Reina. The goalkeeper is basically not in the rotation, this position is very special.

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In the end, Chen Yingxiong, who was not rotated, played a key role in the game. In the absence of support from most people, and in the extremely unfavorable environment of the away game, he used a free kick to score the only goal of the game for the team. goal. Helped Liverpool win Aston Villa 1:0 away from home.

This performance was already considered very good, but there were still discordant voices after the game.

It's just that this discordant sound is somewhat dumbfounding for Chen Yingxiong...,

In the first three rounds of the league, Chen Yingxiong had two goals and one assist. The victory of the three games was all related to him. Logically speaking, this kind of performance is considered a good result for most forwards.

But the owner of this achievement is Chen Yingxiong, which is not enough.

After the game against Aston Villa, everyone was already wondering if Chen Yingxiong was out of shape... Why did he only score two goals in three league rounds? Comparing the same period, his performance in the season when he first came to Liverpool was worse than this. At that time, he scored one goal in three league games. But at that time, he was still adapting to Liverpool and the Premier League. At the same time, the tactics at Liverpool were in a mess because of Dalglish, and it was normal that he didn't score...

Last season, Chen Yingxiong was considered normal by everyone. He scored five goals in the first three rounds of the league and had one assist.

After such a comparison, everyone felt that Chen Yingxiong must be in poor condition.

There is a real difference between five goals and one assist in three league rounds and two goals and one assist in three league rounds...

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Liverpool has won three consecutive games, and Chen Yingxiong is a key figure. He really didn't expect that his performance could be criticized. This made him dumbfounded.

Cabrera joked that he was making everyone's media cunning.

If Messi fails to score in three consecutive games, he will be criticized by the media for reaching a bottleneck. If Ronaldo dared to shoot in two games without scoring, he would be criticized as the "King of Indiscriminate Shooting". Similarly, Chen Yingxiong's current treatment shows that he has officially become equal to Messi, Cristiano and Ronaldo.

Nowadays, football has entered a new era of three-point world. The last three-point world was represented by Kaka, Ronaldo and Messi. Now that Kaka has aged and has withdrawn from the ranks, Chen Yingxiong has joined in.

"This is a good thing, hero. Now that your status has risen, you have greater responsibilities." Chen Yingxiong curled his lips. He didn't care about being criticized.

He just felt that this matter was too helpless, especially when he saw the media seriously criticizing two goals and one assist in three league rounds as a low state. He thought that when you said this, where would you put other players? ! !

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Martin O'Neill didn't know whether Chen Yingxiong would be affected by the criticism from the media, but based on his experience of working with Chen Yingxiong for a season, he would definitely stand up and challenge Chen Yingxiong at this time.

And if Chen Yingxiong wanted to laugh, he just used Chen Yingxiong's ideas as a reason to defend Chen Yingxiong.

"Two goals and one assist in the three rounds of the league. He contributed to the wins in all three games. He did not perform well in any of the games. If such a performance can be criticized as being in poor condition, I really don't know what you think. What do the forwards of other teams think?" Chen Yingxiong himself also defended himself in an interview.

"The new season has only started three rounds. Why are you so anxious? In the first season I came to Liverpool, let alone the three rounds of the league, I only scored one goal in the first five rounds of the league. As a result, What? If I remember correctly, I scored thirty-seven league goals that season and was the top scorer. So I think you all have nothing to do. There is nothing to worry about." He waved his hand. Anyway, I will definitely be the top scorer in the league this season."

He said this in an understatement, with a calm expression on his face, as if he was saying "one plus one equals two."

However, in the minds of many reporters, it was like a huge rock was thrown down, setting off a huge wave. Everyone thought that Chen Yingxiong would be the favorite for the best scorer this season, but they were not sure that Chen Yingxiong would definitely win the best scorer. As a shooter, after all, this depends not only on status but also on luck. Chen Yingxiong may be able to guarantee his status, but can he guarantee that his luck will always be good?

Becoming the league's top scorer for three consecutive seasons is something that only three people have ever accomplished in the long 115-year history of England's top league. Tottenham Hotspur's Jimmy Graves did it in 1962- -Did it in the 1962 season, 63-64 season, and 64-65 season. After entering the Premier League, Alan Shearer monopolized the league's Golden Boot for the next three seasons starting from the 1994-95 season. The third person came from Arsenal in the 21st century. Thierry Henry performed the "Premier League Golden Boot Hat Trick" in the 2003-04, 04-05, and 05-06 seasons.

This is not the key.

The key is that these three people did not downplay it and announced that they would defend the Golden Boot with a matter-of-fact expression when the third round of the league had just started.

Compared with his three consecutive championships, this attitude shocked reporters the most. Chen Yingxiong completely underestimated the heroes of the world!

What do you think the top powers in the Premier League are like!

Everyone was filled with indignation at the time, but after they left the training base and gradually calmed down, they felt that they might really have the right to underestimate the world's heroes who broke the Premier League's single-season scoring record in their first season in the Premier League. , he scored thirty-nine goals in his second season. This was scored while he missed eleven league games. If he could play all thirty-eight league games, how many goals could he score?

These people suddenly thought of Chen Yingxiong's ferocious expression celebrating his goal, and some of them shivered in this hot summer! .