From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 375 Double Red Society

October 10th, the afternoon of the game day. Bruno followed his teammates on a bus to Anfield Stadium in Liverpool.

Liverpool and Manchester are very close, only an hour's drive away, so there is no need to come here early.

Arriving at the visiting team's locker room, the Manchester United players put down their bags. They were not in a hurry to change clothes and go out to warm up.

The locker room is a very mysterious place. This mystery not only means that the locker room is almost never open to the public, but also means that every player has some of his own "rituals" in the locker room.

Bruno has only joined the team for two months. Although he is familiar with his teammates, there are not many who can be called his friends. Only Kanter and Maguire will stay with him. As for the other players, they were extremely noisy.

England's locker room is the noisiest. When various pop and rock music are played in the locker room, if you want to chat with your teammates sitting next to you, you have to raise your volume. It looks like two people are talking. There was a quarrel, it was like the whole locker room was quarreling.

After everyone was making noise for about twenty minutes, assistant coach Faria opened the door and shouted to the people inside: "It's warm-up time, gentlemen!"

The players gathered their belongings and walked toward the door while chatting.

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Liverpool Football Club has played home at Anfield since the day it was born in 1892. The stadium's history with football in the city can be traced back to 1878, when it was named Stanley Park after Santo Domingo. court.

The Stanley Park stadium here refers to a public lawn in 1878, which is different from the "New Anfield" stadium that everyone knows is unfinished and has been cancelled.

That’s when everyone can come in and watch the game. When more and more people began to attend the game, the authorities decided to change to another stadium so that the club could charge a certain admission fee. This was Anfield Stadium.

Today's Anfield Stadium has a total of 54074 seats, ranking fifth in the Premier League.

When Bruno and his teammates were warming up at Anfield, he saw that the stands were full. There were not many Manchester United fans who came to Anfield. There were only about 2,000 people. They were arranged in an area behind one goal and near the corner flag area. This area was separated from other areas by security personnel.

As the most high-profile double-red club in the Premier League, fans often clash during games. Without strict security measures, problems will definitely occur.

The remaining approximately 50,000 spectators must be Liverpool fans. After all, this is Liverpool's home stadium.

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Seeing Manchester United players appear on the court, the Liverpool fans in the stands began to abuse them with all kinds of obscene language, and also pulled up many banners with obvious insults.

"How come we have become the villains in the movie?" Kante was somewhat dissatisfied with this approach of Liverpool fans.

Players are human beings too, and even professional players have no reason to accept such insults.

Bruno tugged on his arm and said: "Okay, don't worry about it. You can't stop them from scolding you. Even if you score their goal, they will only scold you crazier."

He has always believed in the credo not to engage in verbal warfare with others, because he knows that it is useless. Just like many media and fans questioned his decision to move to Manchester United, he never opened his mouth to explain and defend himself, just like arguing with those people.

No matter how much you talk, it's better to make achievements.

"Then how can we shut their mouths?" Kanter was still unhappy.

Of course he was unhappy. Who could feel happy about being scolded for no reason?

He paused and suddenly said: "If...I mean if, we win the Premier League championship, will they shut up?"

Bruno glanced at the fans who were holding banners insulting Manchester United and greeting the female relatives of Manchester United owner Jassim, and shook his head: "No, they will still scold you."

"So what if I win many championships? Not only the Premier League championship, but also the Europa League championship?" Kanter asked again.

Bruno continued to shake his head and said: "No, they will still scold you."

Kanter screamed: "It's not over yet!"

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Bruno smiled and patted him and said: "Just give up on this, N'Golo. I tell you, don't take your opponent's insults and attacks as insults, just take them as compliments."

"Praise? How can this be considered praise? They scold you and you are still happy?" Kanter thought Bruno's statement was too strange. What surprised him even more was that Bruno nodded and said: "Of course, I have always looked at it this way. They scolded us, which shows that they are afraid of us. You see, if we are just a relegation team, we will lose every season. "We are fighting to stay in the Premier League and any team that sees us can easily fix us, will their supporters attack us so madly?"

Kanter was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

Bruno pointed to the slogans in the stands and said to Kanter: "That's right. People will never use the most vicious words to attack the ants under their feet, because it is too easy to crush them. But we will insult them. Why should we scold an enemy who poses a great threat to us? Because we have no other way to do it except scolding them and mouthing off. We cannot defeat them, and we cannot resist them, so we can only They cursed with their mouths. That’s what they do now.”

"They know that we are strong, they know that they have no chance of winning, but they are unwilling to admit defeat, so they can only use this method to fight back. But being scolded by them will not make us lose, so they can scold us if they want. Just scold me. Anyway, I don’t care, and I feel very happy. Because the more crazily your opponents attack you, the more threatening you are to them. This is a disguised form of praise, and maybe they themselves don’t admit it. , but that’s actually what happened. So, they were praising us because we made them panic.”

After that, Bruno continued to do his pre-game warm-up.

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Kanter stood there, thinking about Bruno's words. Then he looked at the slogans of the fans on the stands, then tilted his head and muttered: "Afraid of us? Is Liverpool afraid of us?"

Liverpool fans chanted slogans for Jassim to die in the stands, while Manchester United fans were not to be outdone. They also responded with slogans: "If you are jealous, just say so!"

Liverpool fans immediately responded: "Liverpool is jealous of Manchester United? This is really the funniest joke I have ever heard in my life! Hahaha!"

The game hasn't even started yet, but the atmosphere at Anfield is already tense.

Amid the bickering between fans on both sides, Manchester United and Liverpool had ended their warm-ups and returned to their respective dressing rooms. After resting here for twenty minutes, they will step onto the court again, and the game will officially begin at this time.

When Valencia and Henderson led their respective teams into the stadium, the fans at the scene let out deafening cheers.

At this time, Liverpool fans no longer care about attacking Manchester United. They have to cheer for their warriors.

In this game, Rooney continued to be put on the bench by Mourinho, and Carrick still did not start, so Valencia became Manchester United's captain on the field.

Next, the captains of both sides exchange team flags and guess the side of the coin.

When the players from both sides returned to their respective positions and stood still waiting for kick-off, the shouts of insults to Manchester United in the stands started again.

On the court, Manchester United's Ibrahimovic and Rashford went to kick the ball. Bruno gestured to Ibrahimovic from behind, telling him to rush forward as soon as the ball kicked off and break into the center.

Ibrahimovic nodded to show that he understood.

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After the referee and the fourth official off the field checked the time, he blew the whistle to start the game.

After Bruno got the ball, he observed the situation, turned around and passed the football back.

After three passes from defenders, the football returned to his feet. At this time, Liverpool's originally tightly compressed three-line formation had been torn apart. They rushed forward in a swarm, wanting to, as head coach Klopp said, "maintain pressure on Manchester United and prevent them from turning over."

Seeing this, Bruno passed the football to the left back Blind who was running on the wing, and he also ran forward.

Blind and Rashford played a one-two on the wing and continued to break forward. Just when everyone thought he would cross the ball at a 45-degree angle, he suddenly swept the football sideways to the center of the penalty area.

Bruno did not hesitate after receiving the ball, but directly took a long shot. The football was hit by the instep of his right foot and flew towards the goal with a bang!
The football was like a cannonball, whizzing past the ears of Liverpool center back Lovren. The Croatian even felt his ears hurt from the wind.

Liverpool goalkeeper Karius watched the football fly toward him, but he had no time to make a specific save and just raised his hand as a reflex. Then he felt pain in his wrist as the ball made contact with his hand.

In his sight, the football hit his raised hand, then jumped high, crossed the crossbar, and landed on the billboard behind him.

"Bruno's shot! It's so powerful! It's a pity that it's too positive..."

"Bruno unexpectedly took a long shot, and Karius didn't even react. It's a pity, but this long shot is so beautiful!"

Karius looked at Bruno with lingering fear, thinking that this kid's shot was really powerful. It seemed that he should pay more attention during the game. Then he turned his head and shouted: "Corner kick! Pay attention to defense!!"

Bruno retracted his gaze that had been staring at Karius and slowly walked into the penalty area, ready to fight for the top.

(End of this chapter)