Chapter 1 "Goooooooooooooal! Hero! Hero! He scored! This is his eighth league goal of the season! Eight goals in four games, the Northern Bear is unstoppable!"

Whether they were watching the game live, or sitting in front of the television in bars, Zenit's fans jumped up from their seats. They didn't know why Chen Hero was in such good form, but they were happy to see him score.

Helsinki even began to expect Chen Hero to score twice in this game, with two goals in four consecutive games... How awesome would that be!

"He's on fire right now, can he still score? Can he?"

Just three minutes after Chen Hero's goal, Saint Petersburg Zenit was awarded a penalty.

Chen Hero had never been a penalty taker, because his shooting skills with his feet weren't very good before, so the team hadn't considered letting him take penalties.

Currently, the team's number one penalty taker is captain Tymoshchuk.

Tymoshchuk picked up the football and walked towards the penalty spot, looking like he was going to take it himself. Just then, he suddenly turned and waved to Chen Hero in the crowd.

"Come here, Hero."

Chen Hero pointed at himself in surprise, and Tymoshchuk nodded: "That's right, you."

He ran over.

Tymoshchuk put the football in his hand: "You take it!"

Chen Hero was a little surprised, he didn't expect the captain to be so generous as to give him the chance to score.

"I don't know what you want to do, but seeing you pursuing goals so madly, I think you might have your own ideas. So here you go. Nine goals in four games."

With that, he patted Chen Hero on the shoulder and retreated from the penalty area.

Chen Hero didn't stand there in a daze, feeling emotional about anything. He bent down and placed the football on the white penalty spot.

Then he looked up, took a few steps back, leaving room for a run-up.

Then he took a deep breath.

This was the first time in his career that he had stood in front of the penalty spot.

He had never taken penalties before because his shooting skills weren't good enough, and he could even miss an open goal. But that was before. After more than a season of hard training, his shooting skills were now up to the standard that a professional striker should have, at least for shots without defense—isn't a penalty without defense? The difficulty of a penalty is never in the technique, but in the psychology, in how you can withstand the huge pressure of "it's harder to miss than to score," "a penalty should be scored, it's wrong if it's missed," "you might as well die if you miss a penalty," and kick a completely undefended penalty into the opponent's goal.

Technically, Chen Hero might still be lacking, but psychologically, Chen Hero really didn't lack anything... Or rather, his weakness was overconfidence.

Pressure? What was that? Chen Hero could use his own turbocharging system to increase the pressure and then convert it into strong power. Just like his self-inflicted Best Shooter plan. There was nothing wrong at first, but after his big mouth made a fuss, it became something that had to be done. In the eyes of others, this was purely being full and having nothing to do, increasing the pressure on himself.

But it was precisely this "turbocharging" that allowed Chen Hero to burst out with such hot form at the beginning of the league, scoring eight goals in four games so far... Saint Petersburg Zenit scored a total of nine goals in the four league rounds, of which Chen Hero alone scored eight...

Now, he had the opportunity to score his personal ninth goal of the season!

Everyone focused their attention on him. This was the first time they remembered Chen Hero taking a penalty. They knew the reason why he hadn't taken penalties before. So this time, could he live up to the captain's good intentions?

Many penalty takers have their own feints and tricks, such as shooting directly without a run-up, stopping suddenly halfway through the run-up, or aiming at the left side but kicking the football to the lower right corner... And so on.

Chen Hero didn't have any of that, he didn't know any of these feints.

His way of taking a penalty was... when the referee blew his whistle, he started running, two or three big strides to the front of the football, and then swung his right leg, without any fancy moves, and without using his eyes to deceive the goalkeeper—he stared at the football under his feet from beginning to end.

He swung his thigh around and kicked the ball with the instep of his foot!

With a bang!

The football flew straight to the middle.

Because the ball was too fast, Yaroslavl Shinnik's goalkeeper almost got to the ball—when he pounced to the left, the football had already rushed to the goal line, and he reflexively raised his right leg that was still dragging behind, trying to block the football with his leg...

Facts proved that this was futile, the football flew past his toes and rushed into the goal.

"The ninth goal!"

Chen Hero stood still and punched the air forcefully.

He wasn't as excited about scoring a penalty as he was about scoring other goals, after all, this goal was... too easy!

But he was still swarmed by excited teammates and hugged.

"Ninth goal! Only four games!" the commentator exclaimed.

"Hero scored twice in four consecutive games! Average goals per game... two point two five!" Helsinki quickly calculated. "Such a Northern Bear can no longer be stopped by the Russian league! Looking at his current performance, I bet he can't stay in Saint Petersburg Zenit, and he can't stay in Russia! Perhaps because he knows this, he is so madly pursuing goals... Will this be his last madness in the Russian league?"

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Chen Hero's two goals in this game didn't mean his team could win. There are many times when a striker performs well, but his team performs mediocrely.

Like this game. Although Chen Hero's two goals in three minutes helped the team take a two-goal lead, the team's defense had problems again.

In the sixty-first minute, Yaroslavl Shinnik was awarded a penalty, which was scored by their striker Maxim Buznikin, making the score 1:2.

Then in the ninetieth minute, Yaroslavl Shinnik finally equalized the score after unremitting efforts.

When they equalized, the whole stadium was shaking!

This was Saint Petersburg Zenit's first game without a victory since the new season began. Yaroslavl Shinnik was unable to stop Chen Hero, who was no longer human, but they stopped Zenit.

Advocaat was furious about this goal—from a two-goal lead to a draw in the last minute, the three points in hand became one point, how could he not be angry?

The team's defense was too bad!

The departure of Martin Škrtel was indeed a big loss for Zenit.

Chen Hero also felt speechless when he saw this goal—he scored two goals, but it wasn't enough to make up for the defense conceding two goals... He seemed very disappointed. Individual goal records were of course important, but he also valued the team's results.

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But Zenit's three points turning into one at the last moment was not the focus of media reports.

The media's attention was still on Chen Hero's "personal heroism epic."

"...He scored again in yesterday's game against Yaroslavl Shinnik, and it was another brace!"

"Who can stop this Chen Hero?"

"The entire Russia can't find anyone who can stop him!"

"Nine goals in four games! His scoring efficiency has broken the sky!"

"How long can this crazy scoring form last?"

"Chen Hero scored again, this is no longer news. He scored another brace, this is not too attractive news either. I think if one day he doesn't score, if he is stopped, it will be worth everyone's attention, right?"

"...What I find most incredible is that he is only nineteen years old! Nineteen years old! At the age of nineteen, most players are still struggling in the youth team, waiting for an opportunity, right? But he has become a popular striker in the entire Russian Premier League! Now I am worried that he will explode his form too early, and then fall into a long goal drought—this is not without precedent. Last season, he always fell into a goal drought after scoring consecutive goals, and then exploded again. He meets all the characteristics of young players—strong explosiveness, insufficient endurance, unstable form, and ups and downs..."

The photos of him celebrating after scoring were on the front pages of almost all Russian sports media, and the sports sections of those comprehensive newspapers also had news of his goals.

If it was said that last season, this nineteen-year-old young man broke Vereteninkov's record and won the league's top scorer, they only thought that this kid had a great future. Then, at the beginning of the new season, Chen Hero pursued goals like a hungry tiger, which made them feel terrified...

According to his current scoring efficiency, if he can maintain it for the entire season, how many goals will he score in the end? More than sixty? Would that leave anyone else alive!

After the game, a reporter interviewed Chen Hero: "Why are you scoring so madly?"

Chen Hero sneered: "You ask a striker why he scores? What's the difference between that and asking humans why they breathe? I like scoring goals, I like scoring goals so much! My job is to score goals, scoring goals is like breathing, I can't live without scoring goals, the more goals I score, the happier I am, I get bonuses for scoring a lot of goals, each goal has a four thousand euro bonus, I want to score as many as I can. Pick any one of these answers."

The reporter who asked the question was choked by Chen Hero and couldn't say a word. Some reporters who were familiar with Chen Hero were secretly laughing on the side—newbie!

This is Chen Hero. Arrogant and domineering on the field, and unforgiving off the field... When dealing with him, if you are not familiar with his temper and do not accept his style, he will not suffer any losses, only you will feel angry.

Which of the reporters who interviewed him here didn't come from this step?

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