Volume 1: Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention Chapter 54 Face to Face with the Legends (First Update Guaranteed)

Chapter 54 Face to face with the legends (first update guaranteed)

Naples showed amazing momentum from the beginning of this game. At a glance, I thought it was Naples who was eager for revenge...

Naples is on the offensive, and Chen Yingxiong will naturally get a lot of shooting opportunities.

But he is not facing an ordinary central defender.

When Chen Yingxiong faced Maldini and planned to force a breakthrough with the ball, the ball at his feet was scooped down by Maldini without fouling!

Chen Yingxiong initially wanted to bully Maldini because he was old, turned slowly, and his movements were not flexible enough. Who would have thought that although he is older, his experience is still there, his positioning is extremely accurate, and his predictions are also extremely accurate. Chen Yingxiong stuck his butt out and knew what he was going to do. He was stuck on the road in advance, waiting for Chen Yingxiong to bump into him, and then he used his superb tackle skills to destroy the football.

This kick is so clean!

Chen Yingxiong staggered and rushed out due to inertia, but the ball stayed at Maldini's feet.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough. When he saw the ball was lost, his first reaction was not to put his hands on his head and pose in annoyance, but to turn around and throw it out again.

Maldini originally planned to get up, control the football, and then pass the ball.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly developed a dangerous intuition, so he decisively gave up his original plan, fell to the ground, stretched out his legs, and swept the football to Kaladze next to him.

Just after he finished doing this, a gust of wind passed by his ears, and the big man stepped towards him.

so close!

Maldini screamed inwardly, but there was no expression on his face. The forty-year-old veteran has long since learned to hide his inner activities.

What surprised Maldini was not that his ball was almost intercepted, but that such a big man was so flexible... He was over 1.9 meters tall, but after the ball was intercepted, he quickly turned around and was able to return immediately. Grab, such agility is amazing.

Just like teasing a monkey in a circle during training, Chen Yingxiong turned around to fight back, but missed. He also secretly marveled in his heart - a forty-year-old guy could still be so powerful, which really surprised him. Let’s not talk about the tackle first, let’s just talk about the sweep pass when he fell on the ground, which is enough to illustrate his experience and intuition...

In fact, Chen Yingxiong looked down on Maldini at first, because at Maldini's age, he was almost old enough to be his father. As a forty-year-old, can I compare with my twenty-year-old self? He has this mentality.

No matter how experienced and skilled you are, your body alone is enough to defeat the opponent.

Unexpectedly, when it came to the game, he realized that was not the case at all.

As the former best defender in the world, Maldini is indeed difficult to deal with...

He can always get stuck in a position that makes him feel very uncomfortable. In this way, he does not need to compete with Chen Yingxiong desperately, nor does he need to compete with Chen Yingxiong for speed or body. He only needs to make appropriate defense in this position. Just take action and that's it.

But Chen Yingxiong is uncomfortable. If Chen Yingxiong is compared to a healthy and strong adult, then Maldini is a small but tough fish bone, which happens to be stuck in the throat of Chen Yingxiong, an adult. If it doesn't go down, it's stuck there, which makes him extremely uncomfortable. I want to cough but can't come out, I want to swallow but can't swallow.

After coming to Italy, Chen Yingxiong has met many first-class defenders, but Maldini is the top person he has met. This is the first time he has collided with Maldini. When the two sides played against each other in the first half of the season, Maldini was not even included in the squad. This will also be the last time, because after this season, Maldini retires. This is the last season of his career.

When Chen Yingxiong was stopped by Maldini one after another, he was not angry or furious. On the contrary, a smile appeared on his face.

In Maldini's last season, I caught up, so lucky! To be able to fight against a legendary figure once in my career... My trip to Italy is not in vain!

Chen Yingxiong thought so.

Before he was born, Maldini was already active in Serie A. When he started playing football, he was already famous. So it was really not easy to meet such a living fossil when I started playing in the professional league.

Chen Yingxiong cherishes the opportunity to compete with masters because he knows that it is an effective way to improve himself. Besides...he also wants to use this game to get a good feel for Maldini's strength, and then maybe he can show it perfectly in the copy...

Ever since he discovered that the dungeon could perfectly simulate everything on the football field, he had this idea - wouldn't it be more helpful to practice with masters to improve his strength?

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"The hero jumped up! He fought for the top! What a pity - due to the interference of Maldini, he missed the top!"

After Chen Yingxiong landed, he waved his hand with some annoyance. This time, I got ahead of Maldini and got stuck. I originally thought it would be a goal, but I didn't expect... Maldini interfered behind him and he missed the goal.

Maldini could feel that every time he fought against Chen Yingxiong, this kid tried his best. It felt like he was going to be knocked away.

So despite the fact that he hadn't allowed him to score in the confrontation between the two, it seemed that he had the upper hand, but in fact he was also working very hard.

Looking at Chen Yingxiong's angular muscles under his tight jersey, he couldn't help but lament his aging. If I were ten years younger, I wouldn't be as hard as I am today...

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The collision between Chen Yingxiong and Maldini attracted a lot of attention. One is a star of hope who has just landed in Serie A this year and has high hopes, and the other is a legendary veteran who is about to retire. It seems to mean the end of an old era and the coming of a new era.

This kind of symbolic duel is the most eye-catching and the most inspiring for literati.

But football games are not one-on-one. In other battlefields, there are also wonderful performances.

When Chen Yingxiong and Maldini were competing, the score on the field had changed.

Naples, playing at home, took the lead in the 21st minute. The person who scored the goal was not Chen Yingxiong, but Chen Yingxiong played a role in containing the goal. He alone restrained the two Milan center backs Maldini and Kaladze, allowing Hamsik to assist Arshavin. Success, the captain of the Russian national team who shined in the European Cup, broke into the penalty area and calmed down, and the football rolled into the goal from Dida's fingers.

The San Paolo Stadium was in jubilation.

Many people chanted Arshavin's nickname: "Shava! Shava! Shava!" This voice even gave Arshavin the illusion that "this is St. Petersburg, this is Petrovsky Stadium."

Because the sound only sounded there.

"It seems that Arshavin was quickly welcomed by the fans here! The situation with his good friends is really different..." the commentator sighed.

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AC Milan, which was lagging behind, launched a crazy counterattack. During this period, Naples' offensive was weak, and most of them retreated to participate in defense.

Chen Yingxiong can get much less support, so the number of direct conversations between him and Maldini is not as frequent as before.

Naples' defense was successful. Until the end of the first half, they did not allow the powerful AC Milan to equalize the score. In the end, the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1:0.

Taking Arshavin's goal as the dividing line, Chen Yingxiong's performance is also divided into two different situations. Before Arshavin scored, Naples was on the offensive, and Chen Yingxiong also got a lot of opportunities. He appeared frequently in TV broadcasts. When Arshavin scored, AC Milan's offensive came up, and Naples could only avoid the edge temporarily and choose to recycle defense. As a center who relies heavily on midfield and backfield support, Chen Yingxiong had fewer opportunities to appear in front of the TV audience. Naturally, there will be less time.

Mazzarri now faces a choice - should he continue to defend in the second half? Or continue the attack?

They were one goal ahead now, but a one goal lead was insignificant. Naples originally played three defenders and was weak defensively. If they continued to press out and attack, AC Milan would inevitably not find a chance to equalize the score. You must know that AC Milan still has three superstars sitting on the bench. Any one of them has the ability to change the outcome of the game alone.

But what about defense?

Is it too early to start defending in the second half?

Mazzarri struggled internally for a while, and finally made a decision - defend!

So at halftime, he conveyed this message to his teammates.

Chen Yingxiong frowned when he heard that the team would continue to defend in the second half. Of course he knew what this meant to him. This means that there are fewer offensive opportunities and he has fewer chances to score goals.

He felt that the head coach was a little too cautious.

But the opponent is the head coach after all. He can't stand up in the locker room and accuse the head coach of conservative tactics, right? Then don't even think about messing around... Just look at Lavezzi, that's what happens when you go against the head coach.

Since the head coach doesn't plan to invest too much in the offense, it means that he has to rely on himself more often.

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Mazzarri believes that if the team shrinks its defense, it should be able to withstand AC Milan's defense. After all, when it shrinks, Naples is playing a 541 formation. Three centre-backs, two full-backs, four midfielders and one forward.

Unexpectedly, only five minutes into the second half, their goal was penetrated by Inzaghi...

No one expected that Inzaghi would appear in that position, but he appeared in that position, stretched out his foot and touched the football lightly, and the ball flew into the goal...

After scoring the goal, Inzaghi was very excited. He opened his arms, waved, roared, and rushed to the sideline.

Inzaghi, who has always been handsome and handsome, was so ecstatic and excited after scoring that his face was distorted. Judging from his excitement, he looked like a teenager who scored a goal on his first appearance. This may be the reason why Inzaghi can continue to score goals at the age of thirty-five - for him, every game is like the debut of his career. The goal is full of endless desire and crazy passion. He will never stop chasing goals. Some people regard "eternal youth" as a wish, but Inzaghi has been practicing it for eighteen seasons.

The Napoli fans fell silent as Inzaghi ran on the pitch celebrating. They are frustrated that their team was equalized.

And what about Chen Yingxiong? His eyes have been following Inzaghi who was running wildly in celebration. This striker who has been famous since he started playing football is now right in front of him. Chen Yingxiong feels that he made the right choice to come to Italy, because he can always meet those legendary figures who could only watch on TV before, and play against them, becoming opponents that they need to work hard to defeat.

"Can you imagine that he will be thirty-six years old in a few months?" Hamsik said suddenly, standing next to him.

Chen Yingxiong shook his head.

"He is a true immortal legend!" Even as an opponent, even if his team had just been equalized, Hamsik did not hide his respect and admiration for this big man.

Looking at Inzaghi's running back, Chen Yingxiong suddenly said: "I want to become a legend too!"

Hamsik was stunned for a moment, and then turned to look at Chen Yingxiong. There was no joking expression on his face.

He patted Chen Yingxiong on the back: "Come on!"