Huddlestone fell dramatically to the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs. In an instant, the other Tottenham players surrounded Spearing, but Chen Hero quickly shielded Spearing, glaring at the Tottenham players and saying, "Want to fight? Try touching him!"

The referee was finally drawn to the commotion. He turned and blew his whistle sharply to separate the two teams.

Then he ran to the linesman. He had been facing away from the incident and hadn't seen what happened, but the linesman had a clear view.

So the linesman told the referee everything that had happened.

After running back, he showed Spearing a yellow card.

The Tottenham Hotspur players were not happy—knocking our teammate to the ground only gets a yellow card? Look how much force he used! Huddlestone's chest is caved in! Wait… something doesn't seem right… Never mind! Anyway, you knocked our player down, isn't a yellow card too lenient?

But the referee didn't listen to them. The Tottenham Hotspur players' protests were ineffective, and they could only retreat sullenly.

Evans was carried off on a stretcher. It was still unknown whether he could continue the game.

The team doctor would do some tests to see if his brain had been impacted.

The conflict on the field ended, and the game restarted.

But the tension didn't diminish at all; on the contrary, it grew thicker.

Chen Hero's gaze toward Huddlestone remained cold, even though his heart was burning with anger.

Of course, he couldn't just run over and beat Huddlestone up. Their positions were different, and he couldn't humiliate Huddlestone that way.

So how could he teach this damned bastard a lesson?

By winning the game, of course, defeating them, eliminating them.

Nothing could be more painful for an opponent.

Perhaps Huddlestone was still regretting that he hadn't managed to take Chen Hero down, but he certainly didn't know that doing so would only make him die faster!

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The game restarted. With one less player, Liverpool was at a disadvantage on the field, and Tottenham Hotspur seized the opportunity to bombard Liverpool's goal, hoping to break through Liverpool's defense with their numerical advantage and open the door to victory for the team. Evans was Liverpool's center-back, and losing a center-back had a significant impact on the team's defense.

During this period, Liverpool fell back in full defense, leaving only Chen Hero up front. Everyone was like Evans, desperately blocking every Tottenham attack.

Although Chen Hero didn't directly participate in the defense, he constantly weaved and ran in the frontcourt, creating all sorts of feints to attack, fooling the Tottenham defenders into not daring to press forward completely, which also contributed to Liverpool's defense.

After a few minutes of persistence, Evans reappeared on the field, and the Liverpool fans in the stands applauded and cheered.

Evans had a simple bandage applied to stop the bleeding, and his nostrils were stuffed with cotton. The bloodstained jersey had been changed.

His brain didn't seem to be affected, and many people breathed a sigh of relief.

From the bench, Brookner walked back to the coaching area and shrugged at O'Neill: "Actually, it would be best to take him off, but he insisted on playing. He said this opportunity was hard-won, and he didn't want to miss it because he didn't know when he'd have such a chance again..."

O'Neill was speechless.

He could understand Evans's thoughts, so he was even more determined to lead this team to the final and lift the trophy.

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Evans's return boosted the morale of Liverpool's reserves. His center-back partner, Andre Wisdom, even gave him a hearty high-five.

Morale was an invisible and intangible thing, so the Tottenham Hotspur players, who were busy trying to break through Liverpool's goal, didn't see this change.

When they sensed this change, it was already too late…

After being bombarded by Tottenham for more than half an hour, in the thirty-fifth minute, Liverpool launched a counterattack.

They had tried many counterattacks before, but because of the lack of manpower, most of them were disrupted by Tottenham midway. Even the very few that resulted in shots didn't hit the target.

Tottenham Hotspur had eleven shots in the first thirty-five minutes, which was an amazing statistic.

Liverpool only had two shots, and neither of them were on target.

Against this backdrop, Liverpool's counterattack didn't attract much attention from the Tottenham players at first.

Liverpool still didn't send too many players to participate in the attack. As before, there were only three people—Chen Hero in front, with Tony Silva and Marco Pelosi pressing up from the flanks, forming a triangular arrowhead with not too much distance between them.

Now it was Tony Silva with the ball. As a Portuguese player, he inherited the excellent traditions of Portuguese wingers: fast speed, good dribbling, and decent crosses.

Liverpool's counterattack wasn't about letting a player dribble the ball until he couldn't dribble anymore and then pass. That kind of counterattack was truly not threatening at all.

Liverpool's counterattack was about three people cooperating and supporting each other.

Faced with a Tottenham player's interception, Silva passed the ball to Chen Hero, who was facing away from the direction of attack. Behind him was Tottenham's center-back, Phil Jagielka, who was closely guarding him.

But Chen Hero didn't plan to turn around and force his way through. Instead, he passed the ball back to Marco Pelosi on the other side.

Marco Pelosi ran forward with the ball and, when faced with an obstacle, passed the ball to Chen Hero again, performing a one-two with Chen Hero.

During the counterattack, Chen Hero took on the responsibility of a transfer station, connecting the three of them together to ensure that the team's attack wouldn't be lost because one person was surrounded.

The effect of doing this was excellent, and this was what Liverpool's reserves had been training on for the past month. However, without Chen Hero, they had Biev, the center forward in the reserves, play the role of Chen Hero and simulate the counterattack.

It seemed that Liverpool's reserves' training mode was quite useful. The two players coordinated very smoothly with Chen Hero, and it was impossible to tell that they had only practiced together a few times.

Of course, no one knew that Chen Hero trained with this reserve team in the copy every night, and the training projects and content were exactly the same as in reality…

That's why they seemed so tacit.

Fast passing and cutting cooperation, coupled with tacit understanding, allowed Liverpool's three players to quickly advance the ball to the edge of Tottenham's thirty-meter area.

Here, it was Chen Hero's time to shine, because Tottenham's goal had entered his range. And what Tony Silva and Marco Pelosi had to do was to distract the opponent's defensive attention for Chen Hero.

When Chen Hero got the ball, the two of them simultaneously made accelerated sprints forward.

No matter how much they despised Liverpool's players in their hearts, the Tottenham players absolutely couldn't completely ignore Liverpool's reserve players.

Because even if they were reserve players, it was only because their strength was inferior to the first team. It didn't mean they were idiots, pure amateurs who didn't know anything. They had undergone many years of professional training, they had played many games, they had no lack of experience, and if they were given the opportunity to get the ball unmarked in the penalty area, they could also easily send the ball into Gomes's goal!

So even if they knew that Chen Hero was the most threatening Liverpool player, Tottenham didn't dare not defend the other two Liverpool players.

When Tony Silva and Marco Pelosi simultaneously sprinted into the penalty area at high speed, the Tottenham defenders didn't dare not defend!

Immediately, the two full-backs moved inward to contain Liverpool's two players.

Now there were only two Tottenham center-backs in front of Chen Hero.

Because Liverpool's attack was a counterattack, they didn't face many defensive players, only two. Chen Hero didn't take them seriously.

His gaze passed over the two defensive players and landed directly on the goal.

That was his target!

He knew that Silva and Pelosi were attracting defensive attention for him, and he also knew that this attraction wouldn't last long. The opportunity was only fleeting!

Chen Hero kicked!

Not a feint, not a bluff, but a direct shot at the ball!

He took a long shot directly from more than thirty meters!

The two Tottenham center-backs, Jagielka and Shawn Cross, didn't understand how Chen Hero could shoot so suddenly. They didn't have time to make any defensive moves, and the ball shot past between them!

Whizzing, stirring up a gust of wind!

The fans watching the game in the stands and in front of the television always felt that this kind of long shot wasn't very fast, and they didn't quite understand why such a shot could have a speed of more than one hundred kilometers per hour.

The goalkeeper knew better than any of them how fast a ball traveling at over one hundred kilometers per hour was!

Gomes made a diving save as soon as he saw the ball fly up.

But he was still too slow!

The ball shot by Chen Hero was like a flying meteor, crashing into the goal from in front of his fingertips!

Everyone was stunned for a moment before reacting—the ball… the ball went in?!

Yes, the ball went in!!

Liverpool's reserves were leading Tottenham Hotspur, who had fielded their full squad, in the FA Cup semi-final!

The Liverpool reserves, who everyone thought would be completely KOed by Tottenham Hotspur before the game, were actually leading their opponents!

Liverpool's commentator, Harry Levy, was the first to react. He raised his arms and shouted in the commentary box: "gooooooAL!! Hero! Hero!! Hero scored! He's put us ahead in the game!! Tottenham Hotspur bombarded Liverpool for thirty-seven minutes and couldn't take the lead, but Liverpool's reserves took care of them with one counterattack!"