Hero of the Penalty Area

Martin O'Neal was indeed frightened, and was very frightened.

At first he thought he had misheard, and there was a bit of noise in the plane, but Chen Yingxiong faced him face to face and spoke in a loud voice. He heard clearly and every word was correct.

Chen Yingxiong said that he would score at least 20 goals in the Europa League this season!

"Are you crazy?" he blurted out these words.

Then he realized that there was something wrong with saying about his player, and tried to explain: "Uh...I mean you are crazy, hero..."

Chen Yingxiong has long been accustomed to this reaction of others. When I first expressed this idea to the members of the food, drink and play group, I also got the same response.

He didn't take O'Neal's words to heart, but explained his thoughts to the coach.

After listening, O'Neal's boss opened his mouth and couldn't close it.

He recovered after a while.

"You mean... you want to surpass Messi? Just because Messi scored 18 goals in the Champions League last season, you are going to score at least 20 goals in the Europa League this season?" O'Neal brought The tone of surprise repeated the main points of Chen Yingxiong's words.

Hero Chen nodded.

"Well... why do you have such an idea, hero? I mean... well, beyond Messi's idea."

"It's very simple, because I want to be the number one in the world!" Chen Yingxiong pointed at himself with a thumbs up.

This reason made Chen Yingxiong speak out with confidence, and Martin O'Neal didn't know how to pick it up for a while.

Because of this reason, I always feel that it shouldn't appear in reality. It's too tall and far away, and it's more like something that appears in literary and artistic works such as movies and novels.

What is "our journey is the sea of ​​stars", what is "dominance of the country", what is "to be an invincible man in the world"...

In reality, if you hear someone say this, 80% of you will be contemptuously scolded by others as neurotic, lunatic, idiot, or sensationalism or hype...

However, based on his understanding of Chen Yingxiong, he knew that Chen Yingxiong was not a lunatic, nor was he a lunatic idiot. He didn't do anything to sensationalize, and it was not necessary to hype.

In other words, is he serious?

"Are you serious, hero?" O'Neill asked.

Chen Yingxiong nodded: "Of course, or else you see why I am desperately scoring goals this season?"

Chen Yingxiong did not tell O'Neal that the 20 goals scored in the Europa League were only part of a mission called "old enemy".

Martin O'Neill thought about it carefully and found that it was really the case.

He had thought that Chen Yingxiong's condition was particularly good before, and vaguely wondered whether it was something abnormal in such a good state, but he did not delve into this issue. After all, Chen Yingxiong was in good condition and it was him who benefited. Now that he was spotted by Chen Yingxiong, he realized that Chen Yingxiong's condition was really too good...

"Are you trying to surpass Messi?"

"Yes." Chen Yingxiong shrugged. "So, I have to play in the home game against Grika, boss. Look at the entire group stage, I have only scored ten goals so far..."

O'Neal rolled his eyes in his heart, and said to his heart: What does "cai" score ten goals? You don't look at how many goals you are behind in the current Europa League scorer list!

"My stamina has no problem at all, the real boss. When did you see me experiencing physical exhaustion on the court? In fact, to be honest, rotation really doesn't work for me, you just let me play all the time. I won’t feel tired after more than seventy games, boss."

Martin O'Neill thought about it seriously, and it is true. He thought that the days when Chen Yingxiong always used trapeze, flying between England and Italy, would affect his physical fitness and state. But in fact, the response he gave was more goals and better performance.

It’s too unconvincing in terms of physical fitness...

Since Chen Yingxiong didn't really want to challenge his own authority, but to pursue "the world's first", Martin O'Neill had no reason to make things difficult for Chen Yingxiong. It would be impossible for a head coach to prevent his players from improving. Who doesn't want his players to have such ambitions to compete for first place? In that case, the team's strength will be greatly improved.

So he couldn't refuse Chen Yingxiong's request.

He nodded: "Well, I will let you start."

Chen Yingxiong smiled.

"But I want to ask, how long will it take you to achieve this goal?"

"My plan is to make it to the finals." Chen Yingxiong said.

"then?"

"Get a champion back."

Martin O'Neill said in his heart: I knew it!

"But it's very difficult," he said.

"I know, so I have to try it, boss. Who cares about things that are too difficult?"

"Are you confident?"

Chen Yingxiong did not answer this question immediately, but looked at his head coach: "It depends on whether the boss supports me or not."

Martin O'Neill did not speak either, but looked at each other with Chen Yingxiong. After the two looked at each other for a while, he smiled and shook his head: "You have another problem for me, hero..."

"Boss, don't you like champions?"

"Who doesn't like it? But do what you can..."

"It's okay, boss. Give it a try. Even if it fails, then we have accumulated experience." Chen Yingxiong said plausibly.

O'Neill was defeated by him, because what Chen Yingxiong said really made sense. Liverpool can't always be on the front line, and it is impossible to always give up some chances to win and fight for a championship with all their strength. This is not the characteristic of a rich family. The giants have to win as many titles as they have. Triple, fifth, and sixth crowns. The more the better.

Although the depth of the team's bench is not enough, Liverpool can try it at this time to accumulate some experience for the players.

"Well, hero, you successfully convinced me. I decided to think about this in the second half of the season."

Chen Yingxiong smiled.

The most important thing this season, he finally told the head coach and got his support. There is nothing to worry about now, just work hard to score a goal.

He returned to his seat. Suarez approached him and asked him, "How is it?"

Chen Yingxiong made an "ok" gesture.

"Finish!"

Suarez slapped him: "Good job! Now, we can throw away our legs and rush!"

"Well! Let the whole of Europe be surprised!" Chen Yingxiong clenched his fist.

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Back in the league, Martin O'Neal continued to insist on his rotation, and Chen Yingxiong continued to sit on the bench. Although Chen Yingxiong has reached a consensus with Martin O'Neal, they have reached a consensus on the Europa League, not that there is no need to rotate in the league.

The rotation should be continued in the league.

The result of the rotation was that Liverpool lost to Norwich in the away game. The team lost with a score of 1:3, and Krasnic, who returned from injury, scored a face-saving goal for the team.

Liverpool, who lost the game, fell to second place, and the first place was retaken by Manchester City, which had a good momentum.

After the game, Martin O'Neal insisted that it was not wrong to implement a rotation: "A team cannot lose a game in a season. This is normal now... Is there anything wrong with being second in the league? I am very satisfied with the current situation of the team."

This is not a dead duck. Anyone who has experienced Liverpool’s poor performance last season will agree with Martin O’Neal, because this Liverpool team lost to Norwich, ranked 13th in the league, and lost. To be No. 1 in the league, that would be much better than last season...

Last season, the team lost one game and is likely to lose the second game. And this season, even if it loses a game, it is not a big deal for everyone. Liverpool can still perform decently in the next round of the league.

Everyone is full of confidence. There is a saying that is said to be bad, but it really applies to Liverpool today-a failure in a game is not the end of the world.

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On the 14th, Liverpool ushered in the last match of the Europa League group stage at their home court, and Gryca will be their opponent.

Before this game, everyone analyzed that Martin O’Neal would make a substantial rotation, and all the main players should be able to rest. The players on the field are all second-team players.

Even the main goalkeeper Reina, who cannot be beaten by Thunder, has to sit on the bench.

There is even the media giving advice to Liverpool players-what do you do when you are too boring to watch the game on the bench? They can use their smartphones or tablets to play Angry Birds or Plants vs. Zombies. They can also bring snacks to eat and recommend melon seeds.

From this we can see what kind of attitude everyone has towards this game-almost no one regards it as a Europa League game, but more like an outing.

The result of the game is irrelevant. Even so, few people would think that Liverpool can lose to a team from Slovenia at home. Even if Liverpool use the second team, they can easily beat them.

The contempt of the Liverpool media naturally aroused the anger of the whole Grika team.

Although we are the weakest team in this group, although we have been eliminated, but we also have dignity!

As the runner-up team of Slovenia, how can you allow you to humiliate us so much! Don't think that you are an English giants team, so you can disrespect your opponents so proudly and be careful to kick the stone!

You can ignore us so much now and laugh at us loudly...but we must make you pay! You will know that fish belly also has a few teeth!

In this way, the angry Grika players set foot on Liverpool's home stadium, Anfield.

When they passed the placard that said "This is Anfield", they looked up at the metal nameplate full of anger. The anger that spurted from the eyes seemed to melt this famous brand...