Chapter 60 Prelude
The team cannot get a rest after the Christmas dinner. On Christmas day, the team ended the training early and asked everyone to go back and celebrate the festival with their families. Although tomorrow will be the home game against Southampton, Martin O'Neal did not let everyone stay in the hotel one day in advance as usual, but arranged the players to go home, considering that today is Christmas. This day's significance in the Western world is no less than the Spring Festival in China. If you arrange for everyone to stay in the hotel at this time, it will only make the players feel dissatisfied and have no intention of preparing for the game, which will affect the players' status.
Just go home on holiday.
Chen Yingxiong returned home and had a warm Christmas with Cabrella. The only regret was that he could no longer create an atmosphere of one day, so Chen Yingxiong naturally could not succeed. When he thought of this, Chen Yingxiong gritted his teeth at West Ham United and Allardyce.
Cabrella has just arrived in Liverpool. After spending Christmas together, she has to accompany Chen Yingxiong back to China. Her parents have not seen her son's current girlfriend yet. This time, her father's 50th birthday has to bring her beautiful foreign girlfriend back to support the father. As the elderly, sometimes they are very proud of their face. They take Cabrella back to ensure that their parents' faces are bright and they are so happy.
The next morning, the players who returned home to celebrate the festival came to the hotel where Liverpool set up their stay, and then gathered together to watch the video of the recent Southampton game edited by the coaching staff. They understood their characteristics and status. They were supplemented by Martin O'Neal's commentary, so that they could deeply understand what the opponent looked like this time.
After lunch at the hotel at noon, lunch break and simple strength training, I set off to the court.
Southampton is a newly promoted team this season. He is not strong. In addition, Liverpool is at his home court. They just defeated Manchester United in the last round of the league, and their morale is high and the Christmas dinner also played the same role. The result of this game can be imagined.
Although Southampton once tied Liverpool at home in the sixth round of the league, Liverpool had a rotation in that game, and many main players, including Chen Yingxiong, did not play. The entire Liverpool team was not very adapted to the various changes brought about by rotation. But now it is completely different.
In the end, Liverpool defeated Southampton 4-1 at home. Chen Yingxiong scored one goal and assisted two goals in this game and was selected as the best player.
Someone said that if this continues, Chen Yingxiong has to dig an underground wine cellar at his home to hold the best player reward champagne.
In the next away game against Wigan Athletics, Martin O'Neal continued to rotate, and players including Chen Yingxiong sat on the bench.
Even so, Liverpool still defeated Wigan Athletic 2:1 away.
The league has played nineteen rounds and the schedule is halfway through. Liverpool is currently ranked first in the league, scoring forty-two goals, conceding twelve goals, and accumulating forty-seven points. Such a result is Liverpool's best result in the league since the new century. In this half season, Liverpool's ball miracles have never been as proud and happy as they are now. It is really a pleasure for them every game. Even if they lose one or two games, no one will panic.
Even halfway through the league, many Liverpool ball mi believed that they could participate in the Champions League next season.
Manchester City is one point less than them and ranks second. Manchester United is four points less, third, and fourth place is Arsenal, one point less than Manchester United.
Next, it's the game against Manchester City.
This is the first time Liverpool met Manchester City in the new season. Logically speaking, in the league, the same opponent fought once last season and again in the second half of the season, but this season is so strange. Liverpool and Manchester City's first encounter was in the second half of the season. However, the two matches with Southampton this season have been completed.
In the penultimate round of the league, Liverpool will still welcome Manchester City at home. If this is the case at that time, the game will definitely be called "a game that determines the championship".
But now, it's still early.
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Martin O'Neal looked at the next round opponent on the matchup, and suddenly realized that he was a little nervous and moved...
This is not a final, what are he moving and nervous?
Because he thought of the bet between him and Chen Yingxiong.
He was jokingly rejecting Chen Yingxiong, but what if Chen Yingxiong really scored five goals in the game?
Do you really want to allow him to return to China?
O'Neal shook his head - this probability is too low? He doesn't believe that Chen Yingxiong can complete the feat of scoring five goals in any given game. Even for someone like Messi, it's not easy for you to designate a game to get him to win five yuan alone, let alone Chen Yingxiong...
But there was a thought in my mind that couldn't help but turn it up - what if he really did it?
If he really did, he really wanted to let him go?
Martin O'Neal neither hoped this was the case, nor did he look forward to it, and wanted to witness such a great scene in the game.
Five goals! The opponent is still a team like Manchester City. If it can be achieved, I believe that it will be a huge improvement in the morale of my team, and it will be a huge blow to Manchester City, killing two birds with one stone...
He was in a conflicted mood.
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While Martin O'Neal was struggling with conflicts in his heart, Chen Yingxiong was packing his luggage with Cabrella.
"You can definitely score five goals in the game against Manchester City?" Cabrella asked while packing her luggage.
"You have to complete it even if you can't finish it! This is a dead mission, it must be completed!" Chen Yingxiong put the birthday gift he bought for his parents into the suitcase.
"What if it's not done?"
Chen Yingxiong looked up at Cabrella: "In my dictionary, there is no 'in case'." Then he continued to pack up his things. "I have booked all the air tickets, and we will go back and forth. We will get home on the afternoon of the 31st and leave after lunch the next day."
Chen Yingxiong actually rarely asked O'Neal for a day off. According to his plan, he had to wait until the second to return to Liverpool, which was just in time for the next day of the game against Newcastle United. Newcastle has also performed well this season, currently ranked sixth in the league and is a strong rival. Chen Yingxiong must play in this game. Even if Martin O'Neal rotates, he will not rotate at this time. He will only rotate when facing a weak team.
However, if he said three days, he was afraid that the head coach would not agree, so he asked for leave for two days, and then... he would be out of his way...
At worst, he will accept the punishment afterwards.
From this we can see how important his father's fiftieth birthday is to him. What price did Chen Yingxiong pay to be able to come back to participate?
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Before the match against Manchester City Derby, the media had already started to hype the game wildly.
Because the hatred between Chen Yingxiong and Manchester City is really endless for three days and three nights...
Starting from malicious revenge on Richards, Chen Yingxiong and Manchester City were all on the rise. The subsequent series of events deepened the contradictions and hatred between the two. Now it has reached the point of "dead hatred" that never stops even after death.
This game is away again, and Manchester City ball miracles have already threatened to give Chen Yingxiong a good look at their home court.
Of course, this time they should no longer use racial discrimination slogans and methods to attack Chen Yingxiong.
Liverpool ball migrants announced that they would defend Chen Yingxiong to the death.
The clubs of both sides began to cool down the two teams' goals.
Martin O'Neal said in an interview with reporters: "The grudge between Liverpool and Manchester City? I'm not very clear. At that time, I was not Liverpool's head coach. In my opinion, this is an ordinary league game, and I hope both sides will treat the ball with peace of mind. Such a game will happen as many as thirty-eight times a season..."
Manchester City's head coach Mancini also called on the ball migrants not to point their finger at Chen Yingxiong: "I agree with Martin's words. This is just an ordinary game. The ball migrants should focus on the game. Manchester City needs their cheering voice, not booing against the opponent's players..."
However, in the fanatical atmosphere, their appeals seemed soft and powerless. At least Manchester police did not take the call from the two head coaches seriously. Their person in charge had announced that they would strengthen the security of the stadium on the day of the game. At that time, the fully armed riot police would separate the Liverpool ball mi from the Manchester City ball mi, and would open an entrance only for Liverpool ball mi to enter and exit, ensuring that both sides would not have the opportunity to have direct contact.
At the same time, Liverpool Club also issued a warning, reminding the ball milf not to go to Manchester too early, and it is best to follow the main force. Generally speaking, only in Turkey and Italy where football violence is high, will English clubs give such warnings to their ball milf. Now it is just a domestic league game, and it actually sends such warnings.
From this we can see what the game is in...
This is not the end. Although the head coaches of both sides are very friendly, the players of both teams are not easy to save money.
Richards did not hide his disgust towards Chen Yingxiong during the interview: "He is very good at scoring goals? Yes, but so what? When facing Manchester City, I will not give him a chance to score! He is a despicable guy, and I will not shake hands with him. I will do what I say!"
Before Chen Yingxiong could speak, Suarez had already jumped out: "To be honest, Richards is the second in the world, and no one dares to say that he is the first. I still remember that he pretended to be innocent after he shoveled me! He did something wrong but didn't dare to admit it. I don't think he is a man!"
Chen Yingxiong also said: "Dirty? Ahha, who falsely accused me of racial discrimination, who lied to the FA, the media, and the public? Who was the one who defeated the case, was sued to court and then lost the case? I really think that it is impossible for him to confess to being a social worker. It is better to let him go to prison to pick up soap."
Richards shut up immediately.
He is in a disadvantage!
He did tell lies and deceive everyone, falsely accusing Chen Yingxiong of racial discrimination against him. So when Chen Yingxiong turned on the old debt, he couldn't continue to be stubborn.
Chapter completed!