I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

Chapter 365 The blue bird turns into a red dragon!Golfer star Bellamy!Is this the beauty of football? !

"Alright, alright!"

Davis said angrily: "A bunch of idiots! Your IQ is like an idiot in front of Gu Ran! How could someone like Gu Ran, who doesn't even go to a bar, have an illegitimate child? Don't listen to the tabloid media's nonsense! Since joining our club, Gu Ran's progress has been obvious to all. Gu Ran must have spent all his time training! I believe Gu Ran is very pure! I'm afraid he has never even had a woman!"

Lallana also nodded and said: "Yes, I agree with what the captain said."

Lambert also stood up to support, "I also believe in Captain, Gu Ran is very studious, let's not judge Gu Ran based on our own ideas."

Damn it, I feel a little embarrassed when you say that.

Gu Ran quickly cleared his throat and said, "Actually, I...ahem, yes, that's what happened."

Captain Davis put his arm around his shoulders and said with concern: "Gu, you must have been suffering a lot during this time, right?"

Gu Ran's mind immediately flashed to the scene of exchanging well drilling techniques with Oscar Water Queen...

"...It's okay."

Originally, I was really not in the mood during this period, but the purely technical exchange process was quite enjoyable.

Schneiderlin said with emotion: "Gu, you have such a strong heart. If it had been the case that the national team didn't want me, I would have been in despair a long time ago."

"Why are you mentioning that?" Wharton put his arm around Gu Ran's shoulders, "Anyway, Gu, just come back! To be honest, we have completely felt the difference between having you and not having you. The days without you , Southampton is really difficult - especially the back line, it is really miserable!"

Chamberlain came over and said: "Gu, I have thought a lot during this period and have been studying your game highlights every day. I feel that I have learned a lot from your highlights and I have a new understanding of breakthroughs from the left wing. Now that I have been released from the ban, in the next game, the two of us will join forces and dominate the left wing together!"

Gu Ran smiled and said, "No, actually I can rule alone."

Chamberlain: ...

If anyone else said this, Gu Ran would definitely be arrogant.

But when Gu Ran said it, he immediately received cheers from almost all his teammates!

The low mood of the last defeat was swept away in an instant!

Wharton put his arm around Gu Ran's shoulders, "By the way, Gu, there's something I want to tell you. The day of my vacation on September 9st happens to be my birthday. I'm going to have a birthday party at home. You are our Nan'an You're a top star in Purton, I don't care if other people come or not. You must give me face and come to my birthday party when the time comes! When the time comes, I'll ask Gregory to help me find some high-end parties. Girls, let’s have some fun together!”

shit...

Last time I heard you found three and only paid for two...

Gu Ran quickly cleared his throat, "Team deputy, you know me, I don't really like the party atmosphere."

Walton said: "Just think of it as a favor for me! Moreover, for this party, I will not only invite our teammates, I will also invite a well-known international star to join us in the carnival! This star is in It's a household name in England! It's hard to see it normally! Just treat it like you're going to meet the star!"

What the fuck?

A household name in England?Isn't this a good opportunity to use "Force"?

Gu Ran suddenly became interested, "Who is this star you are talking about?"

Wharton deliberately kept it secret, "Why don't you tell me you're coming first?"

Gu Ran hesitated for a moment, "Okay, I'll go, mainly to celebrate your birthday."

When the other teammates heard that Gu Ran was going to attend Wharton's birthday party, they cheered excitedly.

Wharton smiled happily and said: "Great, let's leave it in suspense. You will know when the time comes."

Damn it!Wharton, what's wrong with you? Why don't you imitate those crooked guys and leave hooks?
Just when Gu Ran wanted to complain about Walton, coach Adkins came to the training ground with the coaching staff.

Coach Adkins' eyes lit up, "Gu, are you back?"

"Yes, coach! I have rested and I want to get back into training as soon as possible."

"Great, I'm glad to see you looking full of energy." Coach Adkins took the initiative to give Gu Ran a big hug, "Welcome back! Let's start training then!"

"Yes, coach!"

Gu Ran immediately changed into his training clothes and started training with his teammates.

The next knockout round is very important and difficult to play. Gu Ran and his teammates are training very seriously.

Tuesday, May 8nd.

In the second round of the English League Cup, Southampton plays Cardiff City at home.

Early in the morning, Southampton's players drove directly to St. Mary's Stadium to gather for pre-match training.

——In the past two days, Gu Ran obtained a new talent point through training and exchanged it. He also stacked "Strengthened Reasonable Collision" to +1, "Strengthened Block Defense" to +3, and "Two Passes". "One coordination" stacks up to +5.

After upgrading to an A rating, Gu Ran also felt happy that he had finally broken through the bottleneck.

Moreover, after a long break, I can finally start the game again today!
Stepping on the turf of St. Mary's Stadium, Gu Ran felt very comfortable all over.

After the morning training, Southampton's players rested in the home team's locker room.

Coach Adkins took this time to play the Cardiff City game video to the players and analyzed Cardiff's tactics and key players one by one.

At 5 p.m., fans who had just gotten off work flooded into St. Mary's Stadium.

Southampton's fans were a little unhappy due to the huge loss in the previous match against Fort Pitt United, but when they learned that Gu Ran's rest was over and he would start this game, most of their dissatisfaction was reduced.

Every Southamptonian is looking forward to Gu Ran leading the Southampton team to eliminate the powerful Cardiff City team.

Cardiff and Southampton are neighbors, and the residents of the two cities are relatively friendly to each other, with no ill feelings.

After all, Southampton and Cardiff are not in the same league most of the time.

Southampton spent most of their time in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, while Cardiff City spent most of their time in the middle and upper reaches of the English Championship.

The current Cardiff City team is still in the English Championship, while Southampton has dropped to League One.

Speaking of which, Cardiff City Club is also quite special. They are one of the three Welsh teams participating in the British League.

The other two clubs are Swansea Club and Wrexham Club.

Cardiff City's mortal enemy is the Welsh club Swansea.

Cardiff City's recent momentum is very good and they are currently ranked first in the English Championship. If this competitive state continues, they are likely to advance to the Premier League.

In today's League Cup match, the attendance rate of fans reached a historic [-]%.

In addition to the overflowing Southampton fans, the visiting team's stands were also filled to the brim with Cardiff fans.

This is not because of the strong influence of the League Cup, nor is it because Cardiff City and Southampton are close to each other and it is convenient to watch football.

The main reason is that Gu Ran is also quite famous in Cardiff.

Black-haired Bell, that's not for nothing.

Many Cardiff fans have seen Gu Ran's ability in the high school competition. In today's game, they also want to see with their own eyes Gu Ran's performance in a professional game.

The major news media also took advantage of the opportunity early, and Southampton's senior executives also attended the game to watch the game.

The scout area was even more lively. Chelsea's Emenalo, Liverpool's Edwards, and Manchester City's Platt were all sitting together again.

——Seeing that the summer window is about to close, major clubs are also holding back their efforts and want to poach Gu Ran within the last week.

For today's game, the pre-match handicap given by the famous gambling company William Hill is: 3.88 for home win, 3.36 for draw, and 1.92 for loss.

Judging from the odds of this handicap, William Hill is not optimistic that Southampton can eliminate the British Championship leader Cardiff City at home.

After all, Southampton had just lost the top spot in English League One by a big score, while Cardiff City was in good shape, having won three consecutive wins in the Championship and one League Cup victory, making it a four-game winning streak.

At 7 p.m., the referee team came in to inspect the playing field.

Immediately afterwards, the away game Cardiff City team took the lead in entering the stadium for adaptive warm-up.

In today's game, Cardiff City's players wore black away jerseys, while the Cardiff fans in the away team's stands wore blue cheering jerseys.

There seems to be a bit of a misalignment between players and fans.

In fact, Cardiff City's main jersey is blue, which does not conflict with Southampton's red and white jerseys.

But this season, Cardiff City's main jersey has been changed to red, which conflicts with Southampton, so Cardiff City can only wear a black away jersey in this game.

Cardiff City fans did not like the change.Cardiff City's nickname is the Bluebirds, and their team emblem is also a blue petrel. Blue is originally the background color of their club.

However, in May this year, Cardiff City Club changed owners. Malaysian businessman Zeng Changyi took over as chairman of the club. Billionaire Chen Zhiyuan provided funds behind the scenes. The first thing this Chinese businessman did after taking over was to The blue that symbolizes Cardiff's background color was changed to red, and the team's nickname was also changed from Blue Birds to Red Dragons - the reason is that the boss spent millions to find a master to calculate, so that he can advance to the Premier League.

Although this is very unscientific, since changing the team logo, Cardiff City has indeed ushered in 4 consecutive victories and is unstoppable.

Of course, Cardiff fans didn't buy it, and they still wore blue cheering uniforms to cheer for Cardiff City.

After Cardiff's players all appeared on the field, Southampton's players also began to enter the field.

Gu Ran followed his teammates and jogged into the stadium.

"Ooooooooooo!"

"Gu Ran! I love you!"

"Gu Ran! Gu Ran! Gu Ran!"

More than 2 Southampton fans cheered wildly.

Gu Ran applauded the fans repeatedly to thank him, and then concentrated on the warm-up training.

After half an hour of warm-up training, the players from both sides left the field in a friendly atmosphere and returned to their respective locker rooms for final preparations.

At 7:40, players from both sides lined up in the tunnel, preparing to officially take the field.

Ran Live broadcast connected to the live signal, the live broadcast room was filled with barrages, and the number of people in the live broadcast room instantly exceeded the 20 mark!
Under the guidance of the referee, players from both sides formally entered the stadium and lined up to shake hands.

Southampton's captain Davies and Cardiff City's captain right-back Paul Quinn came to the referee to pick a side.

Paul Quinn guessed wrong and was awarded first kick-off, while Davies won Southampton the pick-off.

Davis did not hesitate to choose the south side for his own half. Behind the goal was the crazy Saints Stand St. Mary's Church Stand. This was more beneficial for Southampton to establish an advantage in the first half.

The captains of both sides shook hands in a friendly manner, exchanged team flags, and the players from both sides took a group photo in their respective halves, and then set up their formation——

Southampton's formation is still the usual 442 formation, and the tactics are defensive counterattacks.

The two forwards are Gurley and Lallana.

The left midfielder is Chamberlain, who has finished his suspension, and the right midfielder is Schneiderlin.

The two midfielders are Lambert and Hammond.

The left back is Gu Ran, and the right back is Richardson.

The two central defenders are vice-captain Walton and Jaidi.

The goalkeeper is still captain Davis.

It can be said that Southampton has completed its tactical rest, and all the main players are in place for today's knockout match.

Cardiff City also has a 442 formation.

According to the military intelligence before the game, Cardiff City's tactics are short-pass penetration and backcourt defense, and the game mentality is very cautious.

It must be mentioned that Cardiff's head coach is Duff Jones.

This head coach is not well-known internationally, but in Southampton, he is definitely a household name.

To put it simply, Duff Jones was once the head coach of Southampton, and he also coached Southampton twice.

Duff Jones was born in Everton. He played for Hong Kong Seiko as a player and helped Hong Kong Seiko win five consecutive championships.

After returning to China, Duff Jones played for a small team in his hometown as an assistant coach and player for two years, and then officially retired and started coaching Stoke City.

In 1997, Duff Jones became the head coach of the Premier League team Southampton. He not only helped Southampton successfully avoid relegation, but also reached the middle of the standings.

Until 2000, Duff Jones was the head coach of Southampton, and his position was extremely stable.

But Duff Jones was fired from his head coaching contract after being accused of child abuse off the field.

After several years of fighting lawsuits to clear himself of suspicion, Duff Jones returned to coach Southampton in 2004, but the main team he personally built had already changed. Duff Jones led the team to 15 wins in 4 games. One of the defeats was a 6-0 defeat by the opponent, and he was eventually fired by Southampton Club again.

After that, Duff Jones became the head coach of Cardiff City until now.

Five years...Duff Jones was still the head coach of the Premier League back then, and now he has been reduced to the head coach of the Championship level.

But Southampton is even worse. It was a Premier League team five years ago, but now it is a League One team.

It's hard to say what kind of mentality Duff Jones has when facing Southampton and Southampton fans, but in order to prove himself, Duff Jones will definitely go all out this time.

Duff Jones definitely knows Southampton’s traditional style well.

This is also a side that Southampton is very afraid of.

Cardiff City's two forwards are No. 39 star Craig Bellamy and No. 8 Indian mixed-race shooter Michael Chopra.

Craig Bellamy is definitely the most famous star player in this game.

In terms of playing ability, Bellamy can definitely meet the standards of a Champions League forward/left winger. He is extremely fast, runs extremely actively, and has super physical fitness. Although he is only 173cm tall, his confrontation on the court Very strong.

Bellamy was born in the Norwich youth training, became famous at Newcastle United, and was brilliant at Liverpool in the Benitez era. At his peak, he transferred to Manchester City for 1400 million pounds plus 600 million performance incentives for a total of 2000 million pounds.

In 2010, he was loaned by Cardiff City from Manchester City and became Cardiff City's number one star.

——Manchester City was also generous, spending 2000 million pounds to lend Cardiff City a super shooter.

Of course, Manchester City really has no shortage of players on the front line. Coach Mancini already has Te Sixiang and Bashen, Adebayor, Jo, Belvado Silva, and even Santa Cruz has been loaned out. After joining Blackburn Rovers, it was no surprise that Bellamy was loaned out to Cardiff City.

Bellamy is now 31 years old. He has been selected for the Welsh national team 62 times and scored 17 goals.

His playing style is very obvious. Not only is he fast, but his impact is also powerful. He also likes to yell at the referee loudly.

Bellamy is not tall, but his nickname is "Rice", which comes from his flamboyant character and the fact that he often shows off his personality in the locker room while taking a shower - it is a pity that he has never been teammates with Giroud.

Bellamy is also nicknamed "The Golfer".

Of course, the origin of this nickname is not because all Welsh players like to play golf, but because before Liverpool played Barcelona in the Champions League away game, captain Gerrard organized his teammates to celebrate the victory in advance in a bar in Barcelona. Bellamy drank too much and insisted on his teammate Reise to sing a song for him such as "I Can Ask Where the Road Is". Reese sternly refused and left the bar early to go back to the hotel to rest. As a result, Reese was asleep. Bellamy He kicked open the hotel room door with two teammates and slapped Riise on the butt - using the golf club in his hand.

This incident caused such a sensation that the whole of Barcelona was laughing at Liverpool.

The Liverpool club also fined Bellamy 8 pounds for this, but did not impose a ban on Bellamy. After all, at that time, Liverpool was about to compete with Barcelona, ​​led by Rijkaard, who had Ronaldinho and Messi. The team is playing in the Champions League.

In that game, Bellamy scored the equalizing goal. When celebrating in the corner flag area, Bellamy even made an arrogant swing to celebrate.

Hence the golfer's nickname.

Bellamy's bad boy character is also evident from this.

In an interview with a media program many years later, the victim John Reeser described the scene of being tortured by Bellamy with a golf ball that night:
[...Finnan was standing at the door watching, maybe he was here to stop Bellamy, but the situation was too bad, and he was short and thin, so he was superfluous to help anyone.I could have punched Bellamy out, but I knew if I did, my career at Liverpool would be over.So I chose to dodge and call the police at the same time...]
[Two days later, at Camp Nou, Deco's header made more than 90000 fans cheer. The powerful Barcelona put us under high pressure. We felt that everything was going to collapse. Rijkaard formed a team that was amazing. A trembling team, he not only has the best player in the world in Ronaldinho, but also a brilliant young genius in Messi. ]
[Bellamy equalized two minutes before half-time and celebrated by running to the corner flag, where he paused and made a motion of waving his arms as if he were holding golf clubs in his hands.At first I thought Bellamy was fucking rude, but then it dawned on me that his swing celebration was actually showing me the sincerity of his apology...]
[In the second half, Kuyt's shot was blocked by Valdes. Bellamy did not shoot after grabbing the first point in the penalty area. Instead, he saw me in an open goal position. He decisively passed the ball to Me, even though my butt was still sore, I still hit the ball into the net.Bellamy ran towards me and jumped on top of me in celebration.We were ecstatic and put the past to rest - yes, this is Bellamy, this is me, this is the beauty of football. ]
I'm from Liverpool, they are really talented people!
——When he thought of these things, Gu Ran couldn't help but smile and glance at Bellamy.

Bellamy, on the other hand, stepped on the football with arrogant eyes, completely ignoring Gu Ran's gaze.

Gu Ran's heart moved: Isn't this a good opportunity to "take it by force"?

Although taking it by force will consume 3 pickup progress, it is definitely very cost-effective to take a practical ball-level skill by force!
Among Bellamy's star skills, some must be related to speed, and it is also related to the violent aesthetic sprint.

Continuous collision: violent dash?
this one!
Gu Ran immediately gathered his thoughts and took Bellamy by force.

Bellamy, who was waiting for the kick-off, trembled slightly, as if something had happened, but also as if nothing had happened.

A purple arc of light that only Gu Ran could see flew out of Bellamy's body and landed directly on Gu Ran's Yintang.

Gu Ranyintang felt warm and immediately felt refreshed!Gu Ran also immediately gained a new understanding of strength and sprint speed.

Continuous Crash: Violent Dash +4!
So cool!Taking it by force is much more fun than picking it up!You have to look at your face to pick it up, but you don’t need to look at your face to take it by force!
Unfortunately, you can only use it once a day.

However, it was worth it.

Anyway, it's all for nothing!

There are 7 picks left in today's pickup progress.

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(End of this chapter)