Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 331 Acting Cute is Shameful (Second guaranteed update, requesting monthly tickets!)
The Champions League could be set aside for the time being because the second round of Serie A this season was closely following. This was also their first home game of the season.
August 30, Napoli home against Livorno.
Since the team lost the previous league game, they couldn't afford to lose this home game. So many fans would go to the stadium to watch the game, if they lost... two consecutive losses in the new season, it would be difficult to explain...
Therefore, Mazzarri would send out his strongest lineup for this game to ensure that he could take three points.
As a result, Chen Hero would also get his first start of the new season in this game.
Chen Hero seemed very happy.
Because...
"My great axe is already starving!"
On the bus to the stadium, Chen Hero said this to Cassano.
But even if the two had a good understanding, Cassano was still confused by this sentence and didn't quite understand what it meant.
Chen Hero felt it was quite boring. People from different countries have different cultural backgrounds, and some things cannot be communicated...
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From the Napoli starting list in the hands of reporters, one could fully feel the fierce killing intent!
Back in their home stadium, Mazzarri still lined up in a 433 formation. The goalkeeper was number one, Iezzo. Paolo Cannavaro and Ranocchia partnered as center backs, Aronica as left back, and Maggio as right back. The four midfielders lined up from right to left were De Jong, Hamsik, and Blasi. The three forwards lined up from right to left were Arshavin, Chen Hero, and Cassano.
This was the strongest lineup that Napoli could currently field.
"It seems that Mazzarri is determined to win this home game..."
"That's nonsense. They lost the first league game. If they lose again at home, how can they explain it to the fans?"
"I think we can tell whether Napoli can win at home by looking at Chen Hero's performance in this game..."
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When the players from both sides came out, the San Paolo stadium's announcer began to loudly announce the Napoli starting lineup.
When Chen Hero's name was announced, that special kind of noise rang out in the stands again—a mixture of cheers and boos.
This was a manifestation of the complex emotions of the Napoli fans.
Currently, Chen Hero had been welcomed by many fans, but those who opposed him were still very stubborn.
This could be seen from the huge flag in the east stand—after a season, this flag with the words "You are not worthy to shine Diego's shoes, bastard!!" was still there and had not disappeared with Chen Hero winning the league's top scorer award.
The boos from the hardcore fans were even louder than usual because Chen Hero and Cassano had led the players in a beatdown of their comrades... hitting their comrades was the same as hitting them. It seemed that the hardcore fans and Chen Hero were irreconcilable...
Those die-hard Napoli fans were proclaiming their disgust for Chen Hero in this way.
"Even if he can score more goals, we won't like such a disgusting guy!" Before the season, a Napoli fan said in an interview.
Of course, there were also many fans who liked Chen Hero. Most of them were concentrated in the west stand. They held up various slogans supporting Chen Hero, and there were also several Chinese five-star red flags in the stands. Chen Hero was from China, and these fans waved the Chinese flag to show their support for Chen Hero.
Chen Hero didn't care about the fans' boos. Anyway, his continuous scoring was not to please those stubborn hardcore fans.
He scored goals for those who liked him, in order to win, in order to get closer to the championship, for... money!
But it was not to please those who didn't like him.
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For this game, China's CCTV also continued to broadcast it live. Since CCTV Sports Channel and Fengyun Channel had broadcast every round of Napoli's games last season, some Chinese fans of Milan, Rome, Lazio, and Juventus had expressed dissatisfaction, saying that "CCAV has become the Napoli channel!"
However, judging from the broadcast situation of the first two rounds of this season, CCTV Sports Channel didn't care about these people's complaints.
In the first round, Napoli challenged Palermo away, and they broadcast it live. In this round, Napoli played Livorno at home, and they still broadcast it live.
"In the last game, Chen Hero came on as a substitute, and Mazzarri only gave him ten minutes, which was too short for Chen Hero. He will start in this game, so we can look forward to his performance..." While the game hadn't started yet, commentator Liu Jianhong introduced Chen Hero's situation to everyone.
And what about Zhang Lu next to him? He was making the final preparations for the game that was about to begin—burying his head in buying the starting lists of both sides. He never looked at the players' information before commentating on the game, and he didn't do any other extra preparations. Because he believed that reading too much information would easily lead to being biased by the information and easily generate some non-neutral and objective things, being trapped in the information, and being preconceived. And his profound football professional knowledge and rich experience could help him to make incisive comments based solely on his own observations, even without looking at the information. This was his style, and this style made him have a very high reputation among Chinese fans.
After the start of the new season, he still sat next to Liu Jianhong, serving as a commentary guest for Serie A games. In fact, he was already fifty-eight years old now. He was old, and commentating on games required full attention for ninety minutes, which was really tiring.
He had revealed the idea of wanting to unload the burden.
But now this idea was gone. In Chen Hero, who didn't play cards according to common sense and was full of passion, he seemed to be inspired and felt a burst of youthful vitality.
He thought, then he would continue to commentate for a few more years...
Even if he was scolded by fans for slips of the tongue, he felt it was worth it.
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Napoli finally returned to their home stadium, and the home fans made the stands as lively as the Serie A opener, constantly bursting out their enthusiasm from the first minute of the game.
In the face of such a powerful home atmosphere, the poor promoted team Livorno was frightened.
Only seventeen minutes into the game, Napoli took the lead.
The goal scorer was Arshavin. After receiving a direct pass from Hamsik, he broke into the penalty area and shot low into the net from a small angle. This shot also went through the goalkeeper's legs.
"gooooooooooooooL——!! Andrei Arshavin!!" The commentator roared.
The fans in the stands also let out huge cheers.
After scoring the goal, Arshavin shrugged and spread his hands, sticking out his tongue and making a face at the camera lens, as if he was surprised that he had scored a goal. However, he was quickly pulled back by Chen Hero.
"It's shameful to act cute!"
He pulled Arshavin into his arms and rubbed his messy hair vigorously.
Cassano also ran over, jumped onto Chen Hero, supported himself on his shoulders with both hands, and roared at the Napoli fans in the stands.
The relationship between these three people was extraordinary now, and they were already very good friends within the team.
They were the core members of the Napoli branch of the Eating, Drinking, and Playing Group.
"Cassano seems to be integrating into the team very smoothly..." The Italian commentators sighed.
Before the season, everyone was sure that Cassano would become a tumor in the Napoli dressing room, affecting the team's unity and splitting the team. Although it seemed to be the case from the first day he joined the team... But only one day later, he and his new teammates cleared up their previous suspicions and became good friends...
This change made many people confused, and the inside story was not clear at all.
Later, it was learned that when Cassano was besieged by soccer hooligans, Chen Hero was the first to rush up to help beat people, and the two forged a deep friendship in the battle of blood and fire...
This story sounded very legendary, but it was the truth. Cassano didn't get along well with many people, but he became good friends with Chen Hero, all because of a fight.
With Chen Hero, Cassano integrated into the team faster. Chen Hero's current status in the Napoli dressing room was still quite high.
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After Napoli took the lead, they didn't slow down the pace.
Slowing down the pace was almost impossible for the passionate Napoli. They continued to attack Livorno's goal in their home stadium. The first victory of the new season must be won at home!
Before the end of the first half, Arshavin assisted Cassano, and the bad boy also scored his first league goal in the Napoli sky blue jersey.
After scoring the goal, he pounced on Arshavin, who assisted him, and the two hugged each other.
Of course, how could Chen Hero be missing at this time? He rushed over, opened his arms, and hugged the two like wrapping dumplings.
Watching him celebrate so happily, Liu Jianhong couldn't help but joke about Chen Hero.
"It's great to see his close relationship with Cassano. But I think we would rather see him celebrate so happily after scoring a goal, right? Haha!"
Zhang Lu laughed beside him: "Hehe, hehehehe."
Although it was a joke, Liu Jianhong spoke the minds of many Chinese fans—score a goal quickly! Hero!
So far, the first half of the second round of the league was coming to an end, but Chen Hero had not yet harvested his league goal. As the league's top scorer last season, he had not scored a goal yet, could people not be anxious and worried?
Many people were worried whether Chen Hero was too crazy last season, so he had used up all his goal-scoring luck this season?
He also had such a precedent. When he first transferred to Napoli last season, he fell into a goal drought. And before that, he scored crazy goals in the Russian Super League, scoring twenty-one goals in eleven games, and his state was hot.
Young people are like fountains, accumulating for a long time, and then suddenly coming out with an extremely magnificent shot, which is amazing.
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