Volume 1: When Heroes Appear, People Pay Attention. Chapter 57: Stop Playing, Hero.

Ferguson and Manchester United really thought their strategy worked. Chen Yingxiong was so flattered by his praise that he didn't know the heights of the world and forgot his last name.

Judging from the first fifteen minutes of the game, it seems to be the same. Chen Yingxiong's performance was very dull. If the number of times he appears in close-up shots is used to prove whether a player is active, then Chen Yingxiong is obviously unqualified. Except for the opening, you can't see him from the TV broadcast shots at other times. .

It looks like he is like Manchester United's Carrick, invisible on the field...

Ferguson was sitting on the visiting team's coaching bench, chewing gum in his mouth, and always paying close attention to the situation on the field. From his face, you can never tell that he has any success in his plan.

It's as if he didn't play psychological warfare with Chen Yingxiong before the game.

But in fact, his psychological warfare did work. Chen Yingxiong's performance was very average-this is a more polite way of saying it.

"Fifteen minutes into the game, the hero seemed to have disappeared on the court. He was almost completely different from the omnipotent hero before. I even suspected that he either didn't wake up or was impersonated by someone else! "The commentator was not so polite.

This fifteen-minute game was incomprehensible to many people.

Especially the Liverpool fans.

In this game, they have high hopes for Chen Yingxiong. If you want to defeat Manchester United, Chen Yingxiong is the most important person. If he cannot perform normally, people will worry about the outcome of this game. As long as Chen Yingxiong can perform to his own level, it will not be difficult to defeat Manchester United at home.

Not to mention the Liverpool fans, even the Liverpool coaches couldn't figure out what was wrong with Chen Yingxiong.

"What is the hero doing?" Assistant coach Sammy Lee asked Martin O'Neal next to him.

O'Neill frowned: "I don't know either."

Finally, when there was a chance for a dead ball, Martin O'Neill walked to the sidelines, pointed at Chen Yingxiong and shouted: "What are you doing - hero!"

Chen Yingxiong heard the head coach calling him and ran over quickly.

The two people had a quick exchange on the sideline.

"Are you in bad shape, hero?" Martin O'Neill asked.

"No, boss, I'm in great shape!"

"Then what are you doing?"

"You have to do a complete show, boss, otherwise how can they believe it?"

O'Neill was speechless.

Chen Yingxiong also comforted his head coach: "Don't worry, boss..."

"Okay, stop playing, hero!" He pushed Chen Yingxiong onto the court again.

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In the opinion of the commentators, Martin O'Neill was very dissatisfied with Chen Yingxiong's performance, so he called him to the sidelines to criticize him.

Then Chen Yingxiong, who was scolded back, suddenly became better!

This is not because the head coach criticized him, what else could it be?

After Chen Yingxiong returned to the field, he immediately emerged from the "invisible" state. He began to actively participate in the team's games. He is completely different from his previous performance, and now this Chen Yingxiong is the Chen Yingxiong that everyone is familiar with.

Ferguson also noticed this change. He had been sitting on the coaching bench chewing gum before, with a normal expression on his face.

But now his expression and movements have changed. He is still chewing gum - it is already his subconscious action, but he clenches his fists and leans forward slightly.

Manchester United suddenly fell into an unfavorable situation on the field.

Liverpool launched a fierce offensive against Manchester United at their home court. With Chen Yingxiong as the arrow figure, Liverpool's offensive became higher and higher.

Because it was an away game, Manchester United's initial strategy was to defend and counterattack.

If it were two years ago, Ferguson might have directly attacked Liverpool. But now with Chen Yingxiong, Liverpool's offensive power has been greatly improved. If they attack, Manchester United may only die more. Early, the death will be worse.

Ferguson's plan for this game is that it is best to get three points in the away game. If he cannot get three points, one point is acceptable. In short, he cannot lose.

In order not to lose, you must first be able to concede the ball first.

But Chen Yingxiong broke the old Sir Alex's fantasy in the 33rd minute...

"Hero - gl!!! gl! gl!! The hero scored! He leaned on defender Vidic who was defending him in front of the goal, and then swept the football into the goal!"

"In front of the goal, Chen Yingxiong is like a huge monster! Vidic is a strong central defender, but he still can't do anything to Chen Yingxiong..."

"Liverpool took a 1:0 lead at home! The hero scored the goal. This was his twentieth goal of the season! He has already scored twenty goals before the league was even halfway through! It's really terrifying. Yes! Such a shooter is indeed a headache for any coach, but he also dreams of it!"

Yes, why did such an outstanding center choose Liverpool in the end!

Many wealthy teams are dissatisfied.

At that time, Liverpool really had no advantage at all compared to other giants... But they had an eldest brother who had a particularly good relationship with Chen Yingxiong!

It’s true that human relationships determine everything, and Chinese people still pay more attention to human relationships.

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Watching Chen Yingxiong hugging Adam Johnson who passed the ball to him after he scored, Ferguson couldn't help but clenched his fists hard.

This person...how to deal with him!

He has been with Liverpool for more than a season and has played against all Premier League opponents. The head coaches have never treated him as a rookie. They have never thought that he would have adaptability problems if he changed leagues, and they have no intention of looking down upon him.

Everyone attaches great importance to him, so they have been studying him from the beginning.

At first I thought Chen Yingxiong was best at heading the ball, so let’s not let Liverpool’s wingers pass the ball... Later I found out that this trick didn’t work. Even if you could let Liverpool’s wingers pass the ball, but you If you can't stop others, there are corner kicks and various frontcourt free kicks...

Later, we discovered that Chen Yingxiong suddenly no longer needed to header the ball. Everyone was very happy. Although they didn't know the reason, would Chen Yingxiong still be called Chen Yingxiong without heading the ball? The threat has simply plummeted!

Unexpectedly, he did not rely on headers, but he reversed Robin van Persie at the last minute and won the league's golden boot. Since the start of the new season, Chen Yingxiong has not scored a single header so far and has scored twenty goals. This shows what? It shows that people don’t rely on headers to win the top scorer! It would be too boring if someone used a header to kick the ball - wouldn't it be interesting for a world boxing champion to bully a kindergarten child?

Later, everyone stopped thinking of ways to contain Chen Yingxiong tactically, and began to use some off-board tactics, such as psychological warfare... But whether they were to anger him or praise him, these methods did not work!

So what else can be done to stop him?

It seems that the only way to defeat Chen Yingxiong is to rely on his own character flaws...

However, now it seems that this hope is very slim.

When Chen Yingxiong debuted at Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia, he was criticized by many Russian media. They believed that a player of his character would not be too successful or go too far in his final career. In the end, he Due to the drag of personality, they will gradually be forgotten and disappear from people's sight.

But they were all wrong. Chen Yingxiong was doing very well, and people felt that this was closely related to his personality.

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After Chen Yingxiong scored a goal, he hugged his teammates. What everyone was most concerned about was why he performed so poorly in the first fifteen minutes of the game and then returned to normal now. What did the boss say to him.

Everyone saw Chen Yingxiong's performance in those fifteen minutes, but they usually had such a good relationship that it was difficult to talk about it due to their affection. Now that Chen Yingxiong is behaving normally, we can find out what happened.

Chen Yingxiong confessed: "I did it on purpose in the first fifteen minutes."

"On purpose?" Everyone was stunned.

"Yes, Manchester United thinks that praising me will make me feel good. I will just cooperate with them and act like a character. This is professional ethics!"

A group of people were speechless.

Chen Yingxiong said happily: "Actually, if it were someone else who praised me like this, I might have been fooled, but it was the head coach of Manchester United who praised me... This is so unusual, and I'm not stupid."

"You kid!" Skrtel grabbed Chen Yingxiong's hair and rubbed it randomly. "You kept all of us in the dark!"

"Oh, you know how many paparazzi there are now. Their noses are sharp! I don't want to take risks..."

"Go to hell! Don't you believe us?"

"Do you think we are the kind of loudmouths who will tell the media what we know!"

"Hero, it turns out that you have never regarded us as your teammates. I am sad!"

"That's right! You don't believe us! You must be punished!"

"A treat! A treat!"

"That's right! A treat! A treat! A treat!"

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Amid the shouts of "treat, treat" from his teammates, Chen Yingxiong raised his hands and surrendered: "Okay, okay, I'll treat, I'll treat..."

Only then did the teammates give up.

An English national derby that should have been tense and intense allowed Chen Yingxiong to lighten the atmosphere... It is true that under his influence, the Liverpool players have undergone changes that they may not have noticed... A wealthy team It's still a wealthy club, but its players don't carry the baggage of Liverpool's poor record in the past few years.

In the new season, they changed their head coach and it was like starting all over again.

This team is full of vitality, like an old tree that is dying, and everyone suddenly finds that its branches have sprouted new green shoots...

But few people have realized this yet, not even Chen Yingxiong himself. ro! .