Chapter 177 Feeling Superior

Chen Hero suddenly had a thought—he didn't take CSKA Moscow seriously anymore.

This thought popped into his head after he scored a goal.

"Hero! Hero! Beautiful!! The second goal! His second goal of the match! Eighteen! This is his eighteenth goal of the season! He has surpassed Pavlyuchenko and regained his league-leading scorer title!"

The piercing air raid siren sounded again over Petrovsky Stadium. This had become a common sight at Zenit matches, and a trademark of Chen Hero. Chen Hero, the aerial threat, paired with the air raid siren after scoring was indeed very fitting—beware of air raids!

However, this goal wasn't scored with a header, but with a long shot. He adjusted his position slightly, received the ball from his teammates in a more rearward position, wound up, and shot. The football flew into Akinfeev's goal like a cannonball.

Akinfeev was also a well-known international goalkeeper, but he was helpless against this long shot because… the power was too great!

Chen Hero trained under weighted conditions in the instance for a long time, so his shooting power was naturally very strong.

What's more, the shot was very sudden. Akinfeev was caught off guard, and his fingers were pierced!

"3:0! Saint Petersburg Zenit is about to win a great victory at home!" Although there were still twenty minutes left in the match, both Sergeevsky of the local television station and Petrov of the national television station believed that it was no longer difficult for Saint Petersburg Zenit to win this match.

After scoring, Chen Hero ran to the stands, waving his arms, responding to the cheers of the Zenit fans. The fans, stirred up by him, cheered even louder.

It is very easy for a striker to gain the love of the fans: just keep scoring goals.

Chen Hero used his goals to gain the love of the local fans. Before this match, the Saint Petersburg fans had expressed that they would not allow any booing of Chen Hero—obviously, these fans were very angry about the situation Chen Hero had encountered in the previous away game. At that time, they were outnumbered and unable to compete with the CSKA Moscow fans who had the home advantage.

But now it's different. This is their territory, how could they allow others to run wild?

"Hero! Hero!"

Everyone shouted the name of their idol in the stands.

Mixed in with the shouts were the screams of female fans: "Hero! I love you! Marry me!"

"I want to sleep with you!!"

"I can have your babies!!"

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After finishing the celebration, Chen Hero returned to the field. When he passed the CSKA Moscow coaching bench, he turned his head and saw a dumbfounded Gazzaev and a Latysh with a gloomy face.

It was at this moment that he suddenly had that thought.

Is this kind of team my opponent?

Then I am… really cheap.

Is it a bit small-minded to fight against such a team?

That's what he thought.

This team suddenly became like an ordinary opponent… He no longer felt bitter and resentful when facing this team.

When he first stepped into the threshold of professional football, he regarded CSKA Moscow as a major goal in his life. He wanted revenge, he wanted to defeat CSKA Moscow, and he wanted to score goals in the matches against CSKA Moscow.

All along, the treatment he and his father had received at the CSKA Moscow training base had made him feel uneasy.

But now, he is no longer the Chen Hero of the past. He is not an unknown person. He is no longer a rookie who has to use all his strength to score a goal under the defense of the opponent's youth team.

He doesn't need to say any bold words to express his confidence, he now has enough confidence even if he doesn't say anything.

Of course, he knows that CSKA Moscow is the most successful team in Russia in the past two seasons. They won the UEFA Cup and can be regarded as a strong team in Russia.

But Chen Hero just felt that this team was too low-level, and he even felt that the Russian league was a bit low-level…

UEFA Cup!

Still have to look at the UEFA Cup!

The European arena is what attracts me!

Now Zenit is only one qualifying match away from the UEFA Cup group stage, and Chen Hero is not worried at all that his team will capsize in the gutter in this last match.

For him, the current Russian league only has two honors left, one is the league championship, which he wants to win. Winning the league championship in the second season of his career is a remarkable achievement.

The other is the top scorer.

In this match, he surpassed Pavlyuchenko and regained the top spot in the scorer list. In the next few league matches, his task is to continue to help the team win with goals and consolidate his position in the scorer list.

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In the end, the match ended with Saint Petersburg Zenit defeating CSKA Moscow 3:0 at home. CSKA Moscow suffered a major blow on their way to the top three in the league, and their ranking also dropped to sixth in the league as a result. It is hard to say whether they will even qualify for next season's UEFA Cup, let alone dream of the Champions League.

Next, what Zenit fans and Chen Hero were most concerned about was Spartak Moscow's match.

Their match was the last match of this round of the league, a Moscow derby against Lokomotiv Moscow.

In many countries, city derbies are exciting and make the media excited for a long time. But in Russia, this rule may not necessarily be true.

Because there are too many "Moscow derbies"...

Everyone is tired of it.

Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, plus Torpedo Moscow... These five teams can play forty city derbies in a season - such a dense derby is absolutely impossible to see in other cities around the world, no wonder everyone is tired of it.

Nevertheless, the television station still had to broadcast this match.

Chen Hero also watched other people's matches for the first time.

He came out of the instance, took a shower, and stayed at home, quietly watching the live broadcast of the match alone.

The final result of this match made him feel complicated.

When the final whistle blew, he could even hear the cheers from the Saint Petersburg fans.

Because after ninety minutes of fierce fighting, Spartak Moscow lost to Lokomotiv Moscow 3:4 away.

In the ninetieth minute, Lokomotiv Moscow scored the winning goal, completely plunging Spartak into the abyss.

Saint Petersburg Zenit became the first in the league after this match, returning to the position they had been looking forward to for a long time.

This is good news.

Chen Hero is very likely to win the league championship in his first full professional season.

At the same time, there is also bad news.

Pavlyuchenko scored three goals in this match, performing a hat-trick...

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"The 2007 Russian Premier League has been a competition between two teams from the beginning, a war between two people from the beginning! Saint Petersburg Zenit and Spartak Moscow, Chen Hero and Pavlyuchenko..."

"In the match the day before yesterday, Chen Hero just scored twice in the match against CSKA Moscow, scoring his eighteenth goal of the season, and Pavlyuchenko followed up with a hat-trick, scoring his twentieth goal of the season!"

"The two people motivate each other and inspire each other to perform at their best..."

"Pavlyuchenko has become the first player in the new century to score more than twenty goals in a single season in the league!"

This last point was what made Chen Hero the most disappointed and the most unhappy. That is, the record he had been eyeing for a long time was broken by Pavlyuchenko first...

Twenty goals! Those are twenty goals that will go down in history!

Although Chen Hero still has a chance to win the league's top scorer, from now on, in the history of the 2007 season, mentioning twenty goals will add another person's name...

This made Chen Hero very unhappy, and the more he thought about it, the more unhappy he became. A day had passed, and he was still thinking about this matter, still unhappy.

On the contrary, he was not worried about whether he could win the league's top scorer.

Pavlyuchenko said in an interview with reporters after the match that the league's top scorer is of course good, but he values the league championship more, so he was not very happy to lose this match.

It was only when a familiar reporter congratulated him on becoming the first person in the Russian Premier League in the new century that he smiled.

Chen Hero couldn't laugh.

When they were training the next day, his teammates were excitedly discussing the league championship. They are currently ranked first in the league, and as long as they don't make mistakes, they will win the league championship. The initiative is now in their hands.

But Chen Hero did not participate in such discussions.

Denisov was still wondering what was wrong with Chen Hero and wanted to go up and ask. It was Kerzhakov, who was also a striker, who understood Chen Hero's psychology and pulled Denisov back.

"Pavlyuchenko completed a hat-trick yesterday, he surpassed Hero by two goals..."

But unfortunately, his understanding was still wrong...

Denisov suddenly realized - so he was worried about not getting the top scorer.

But it doesn't matter, we will help you!

He walked to Chen Hero and patted Chen Hero on the back: "Hero, I know Pavlyuchenko's hat-trick made you very unhappy, but it doesn't matter! We will help you! What is a Pavlyuchenko? Step on him!"

Chen Hero didn't know that what Denisov was talking about was not the same thing that he was depressed about. He thought that Denisov was also feeling sorry for him. Hearing the regiment leader's comfort, he was still very happy, and he clenched his fist and waved it.

"Yes! I want revenge!"

Pavlyuchenko, you wait for me!

I will let you know what the consequences are for stealing my limelight...

He had already made up his mind.

Since the record of twenty goals has been broken by Pavlyuchenko, then I will set a threshold for this new century's Russian Premier League top scorer that you will be difficult to surpass. No matter who becomes the top scorer in the Super League in the future, I will always be the golden boot with the most goals in a single season!

I will create a new record!

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ps, thank you everyone, in order to repay everyone, I have added another chapter!