Hero of the Penalty Area

The ninety-ninth chapter has nothing to do with us (the second one asks for a monthly pass)

Although Chen Yingxiong had almost no rest because he was going to Zurich to attend the FIFA Ballon d'Or awards ceremony, he still appeared in the away game against Stoke on the 17th.

You must know that the last League Cup semi-final was on January 14th. There was only two days off in the middle, and Chen Yingxiong went to Zurich on the 15th to participate in the National Football League Golden Globe Award. Award ceremony. He arrived in Liverpool on the morning of the 16th and went to Melwood for training in the afternoon. After training, he went directly to the away game.

There is no time to rest at all.

Such a non-stop running, the average person's physical strength has long been unable to stand, and the state will definitely be affected.

But Chen Yingxiong did not.

The goal is to score, and the one to win is to win.

He scored an away goal and helped Liverpool beat Stoke City by a score of 4:2.

Three days later, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Liverpool challenged Burnley away.

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In the semi-finals of the League Cup, Martin O'Neal only used six second-team players. However, the fourth round of the FA Cup is far from the semi-finals of the League Cup, so he still insisted on letting all the second team players play, only one Chen Yingxiong from the first team.

For the players of the second team, the discomfort of being abandoned in the League Cup semi-finals quickly disappeared. Coach Clark was right. They are a whole, whether it is the first team, the reserve team, or the youth team. All of the names have a common name-"Liverpool".

Therefore, whether it is the Liverpool first team or the Liverpool reserve team, it is Liverpool that broke into the League Cup final. They are naturally proud of being a member of the Liverpool club.

Anyway, the FA Cup game still allows them to play.

In this way, they have the opportunity to show their strength again.

"Hi, guys, long time no see!"

Chen Yingxiong saw the players of the reserve team in the second field and raised his hand to greet them.

In fact, it didn't take long. I only saw it once on January 2nd, and today is January 19th, only seventeen days have passed.

Some people he met in the semi-finals of the League Cup.

But he just felt as if he hadn't seen these people for a long time.

Some reserve players are older than him, and some are younger than him. But Chen Yingxiong is the leader of this team.

When he played with them in the League Cup and the FA Cup, the captain's armband was worn on his left arm.

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In fact, the training on the day before the game had little content. The main thing was to let Chen Yingxiong and the players of the reserve team practice together, adapt to each other, and get familiar with each other. After all, the reserve team has always been systematically trained. The training intensity received by Chen Yingxiong in the first team is not low, so there will be no shortage of training volume on both sides. Instead, it takes a bit of running-in and getting familiar with each other to have a tacit understanding.

But now this kind of training is no longer important, because since last season, Chen Yingxiong has come to train with the second team in every League Cup and FA Cup game. No matter how unfamiliar it is, now he is gradually familiar with it. It's not a problem to cooperate with anything.

Moreover, as a center, Chen Yingxiong didn't require much cooperation, so he could basically pass and run.

There is no need to specifically design any particularly complicated tactics. Both parties need to train and adapt at the same time.

Just get together to do positioning tactics practice, and then have a small nine-man vs. nine-man match, and it's done.

After training, everyone went back to the locker room to take a shower, and then took the bus to the away stadium.

In the evening they will arrive at the hotel where they are staying, where they will spend the night, the next morning coach Martin O’Neal will participate in the pre-match press conference, and the FA Cup game will be in the afternoon.

This is how the itinerary is.

When taking a shower and changing clothes in the locker room, Chen Yingxiong was still the focus.

Congratulations to him for winning the Silver Ball Award from FIFA.

Although Chen Yingxiong didn't take this silver ball award into his eyes at all, for those reserve team players, as long as they can stand on the stage with the other two people, it is already a great honor. Because that proves that Chen Yingxiong is one of the three best players in the world.

Chen Yingxiong thanked them for their congratulations and congratulations, and talked with them. The topic did not know what to do, and it went to the semi-finals of the League Cup again.

Although Clark cleaned up Evan fiercely, it didn't mean that everyone had no other thoughts in their hearts. Just talk about Evan himself, he is actually very unconvinced in his heart. He always thinks that being able to reach the League Cup semi-finals is the credit of their reserve team players. Even if the main credit is not his own, at least there is a secondary credit, right? Although Chen Yingxiong is great, if there is only one Chen Yingxiong without them, then Chen Yingxiong would not even be eligible to participate.

So he feels that this behavior of the first team is picking peaches, and he feels aggrieved for himself and other reserve teammates.

He belongs to the kind of active connection in the reserve team, who wants to leave Liverpool as soon as possible and go to other teams to pursue his football career. No matter how great his affection for Liverpool is, his future is not as important as his own.

He lost an opportunity to show himself in the League Cup semi-finals. How could he not be angry?

Seeing Chen Yingxiong, he had to complain a few words.

"The League Cup finals, maybe we don't have much of our share, right?"

"Evan!" How could the teammate next to him couldn't hear what he meant, and quickly stopped him.

He rolled his eyes, and although he didn't continue to speak, the unhappiness in his face was fully revealed.

Chen Yingxiong did not have the same knowledge as this Evan, thinking that this is the real thoughts of the reserve players.

Although he was drunk, the bathroom, which was originally quite lively, suddenly fell into a moment of silence.

Obviously Evan has opened up the scars in the hearts of most reserve players-they are still very concerned about losing the chance to participate in the League Cup half-sentence and finals.

And Evan was right that only six reserve players were used in the League Cup semi-finals, so the League Cup finals against opponents of Manchester City's level, maybe a reserve team player would not use it. By then it will be the complete Liverpool first team against Manchester City.

Everyone felt a little frustrated when they thought of this. Because they thought about the future of the FA Cup.

They worked so hard to help the team reach the semi-finals. Maybe the last two key games will not have their share. They can only watch in front of the TV and be a spectator.

The man who scolded Evan was Jay Spearing, the usual captain of the reserve team. The twenty-six-year-old player, who was a good year, was transferred from the youth team to the reserve team in 2007. He played for the first team for a long time in 2009, but then he made slow progress and has not been able to reach the first line. Because of the team’s request, he was sent to the reserve team for a long time to participate in the game.

He is now the oldest player in the Liverpool reserve team, and the armband of the reserve team captain is usually on his arm.

Not counting Chen Yingxiong, he is the most prestigious player in the reserve locker room, because he has the richest experience in first-team matches compared to others.

"What silly thing are you talking about, Evan? If you weren't a hero, you might not even qualify for the semifinals! You can play a few more cups than usual, which is pretty good!"

This is actually not bad. If it weren't for Chen Yingxiong, they might not even reach the semifinals.

They have had a lot more chances to compete than usual, so what is there to be dissatisfied with?

But humanity is like this, it's not his, it has nothing to do with him, he won't think about it. But if you give him a little bit, he will want more.

There is a story that tells the truth: A man sponsored a poor man and gave him monthly living expenses, but then his wife fell ill and he needed a lot of money to treat his wife, so he did not continue to support the poor man. Who would have thought that the poor man came to the door and scolded him, "How can you give your wife the money that belongs to me for treatment!"

Yes, when help becomes a habit, the recipients will feel that it is a matter of course and that they should enjoy it.

Seeing Spilling teaching the reserve teammates, Chen Yingxiong felt a little embarrassed.

This matter really formed a knot in his heart.

He took a hurried shower and left the bathroom.

After seeing him go, Spilling didn't want to scold Evan anymore, just sighed.

What is in the minds of the reserve players, as the captain, he also knows very well. Because he also had similar thoughts, but it was buried deeper than most people.

And he also wants to leave the team after the contract expires, when he is a free agent, it should be easier to find a new team.

But these things are my own inner plan, how can I say it in front of Chen Yingxiong?

In any case, Spearing, as a player who has been growing up in the Liverpool youth team, still cares about the sense of collective honor.

His own future is his own future, the glory of the team is the glory of the team, he is very divided.

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After the incident in the bathroom, the atmosphere of the reserve team suddenly became passive and silent.

On the second day of the FA Cup game, Spilling and Evan both started their games. Their performance was quite satisfactory. Chen Yingxiong was still the most dazzling person.

Just like what the media said after the League Cup semi-finals, Chen Yingxiong is the only guarantee for this team to move forward. The others are all green leaves, or even green leaves are not counted, their existence is the only one. The value of the game is to allow Chen Yingxiong to gather enough eleven people to play the game, and then be a spectator in the game, watching Chen Yingxiong solve his opponent.

Burnley is not strong, just a British championship team, Chen Yingxiong shined in the game, staged a hat-trick, helped the team defeat the opponent 4:1 and successfully advanced to the fifth round.

However, after the game, everyone did not seem to be too happy.

Because they all know that even if the team wins the FA Cup in the end, it has nothing to do with them. It is not them who will receive the FA Cup from Prince Charles on the podium. They can only sit in the stands. On, stand and applaud with the other audience.

But for them who have participated in every FA Cup game before the semi-finals, they always feel empty.

This feeling makes them unable to laugh now.

The happier they laugh now, the more they will feel that their efforts are in vain in the future.

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