Chapter 1 The Beginning

Liverpool's team bus drove into the dedicated lane amidst the roars and various f-word curses from Manchester City fans. Police maintained order here. Except for reporters, there wasn't a single fan. They could only stand outside, flipping middle fingers and spitting at the bus.

Every time a Liverpool player got off the bus, the roars from outside grew louder. The Liverpool players, however, turned a deaf ear—they were used to this kind of scene. After all, those people could only yell outside; they couldn't rush in.

When Chen Hero got off the bus, the volume of the roars and curses suddenly increased, with all sorts of "f" words ringing out.

The reporters next to him sighed inwardly at this scene. If it were them, they probably couldn't withstand being cursed by thousands of people like that; they would have a mental breakdown long ago. But looking at Chen Hero now, his face was calm. His psychological endurance was truly good!

Just as they were thinking this, they saw Chen Hero make a gesture to the fans who were cursing him—he put his right hand next to his ear, as if listening intently!

This was blatant provocation!

Okay… I take back what I just said. This guy doesn't have good mental fortitude; he's just a moron!

The reporter thought to himself.

Sure enough, after Chen Hero did this, the shouts outside grew even louder, and the curses were even louder and clearer. Looking out, it was a dense forest of middle fingers.

But Chen Hero ignored them. After teasing them, he swaggered into the tunnel.

The reporters wanted to interview him, but at this time, they couldn't even hear their own voices; their ears were filled with "f" words.

Looking at Chen Hero's arrogant back, they shook their heads repeatedly.

This guy… makes too many enemies. He should be careful of bad luck in the future!

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Chen Hero was riding the crest of success, a young man achieving his ambitions. Too many enemies? What was there to fear? He could handle even more! Bad luck in the future? The future was still far away!

He didn't know if he would be unlucky in the future because he made too many enemies, but he could make his enemies unlucky now.

He admitted the media's evaluation of him. He spoke more bombastically than Manchester City, but he had the qualifications to do so. Manchester City didn't!

From the moment he went out to warm up, Chen Hero could clearly feel the hostility of Manchester City fans. He kept making the gesture of listening intently. Every time he did this, the curses aimed at him from the stands would become much louder.

"Warm up properly, Hero!" Gerrard saw that he was always busy "interacting" with Manchester City fans and had to remind him.

Chen Hero said to Gerrard, "I'm preparing for the game, Captain!"

"Then what are you doing?" Gerrard imitated Chen Hero's gesture.

"I'm charging!" Chen Hero's serious answer almost made Gerrard strain his thigh muscle…

"Ch-charging?"

"Yes, I'm collecting the power of anger from the stands and turning it into my own use," Chen Hero said seriously. "Forming an angry storm to blast them all into渣渣 (zhāzhā) (dust)!!"

Gerrard couldn't understand Chen Hero's words and shook his head, walking away.

Sometimes, Chen Hero's world was really hard to understand…

Chen Hero continued to warm up while provoking the Manchester City fans in the stands.

If the Manchester City fans had a mini submachine gun in hand, Chen Hero would have been blasted into dust by them long ago…

Unfortunately, they could only spit at Chen Hero and send him the most vicious language they could think of.

But the lethality of language was too limited. They weren't earth masters, Jiangtou masters, or witches of this kind of mysterious expert, who could kill people invisibly with curses alone.

Chen Hero wasn't afraid of them.

Their anger was a very good source of energy for him.

He was like a spring. How much force the other side applied to him, how much force he would bounce back to the other side in the end.

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After the game started, as long as Chen Hero got the ball, the boos and curses were so loud that they could cause a heart attack in many people with healthy hearts.

One could imagine what kind of environment Chen Hero was playing in.

In contrast, the boos received by other Liverpool players were not worth mentioning. Everyone felt that compared to Chen Hero, they could be considered to have received special treatment…

And in this game, Manchester City did not adopt a defensive posture in their home stadium like Arsenal did. In their home stadium, they naturally had to attack. What kind of home game would it be if they didn't attack?

Manchester City didn't believe they were worse than Liverpool. They thought they were stronger than Arsenal, so they disdained using Arsenal's set of tactics!

They wanted to kill Liverpool with attack!

Moreover, attack was originally Manchester City's most powerful and best weapon…

However, this scene was pleasing to Martin O'Neill.

He wasn't afraid of the opponent attacking Liverpool head-on. What he was afraid of now was that everyone would follow Arsenal's example, defending to the death. Although Liverpool had methods and weapons to break through a dense defense, it was always much more troublesome than attacking and counterattacking. More trouble meant more accidents, and with more accidents, who knew what would happen.

Now that Manchester City was confident that they were stronger than Arsenal and wanted to attack Liverpool head-on, Liverpool didn't mind granting their wish.

So in this game, Liverpool's countermeasure wasn't to attack head-on, but… a defensive counterattack!

This was Liverpool's most commonly used tactic. When facing a team that was good at attacking and liked to attack, a defensive counterattack was the best way to respond.

As the head coach, he naturally considered the result first. What happened in the process didn't matter. As long as Liverpool won in the end, that was enough.

As a player, Chen Hero was a little dissatisfied that the team didn't attack Manchester City head-on.

He knew that a defensive counterattack was a more secure way to win, but he had absolute confidence in himself. Even if it was an all-out attack, even if his team's defense conceded a few goals, he could let Liverpool defeat Manchester City. Because in terms of scoring ability, no one on this planet could match him!

But he couldn't directly disobey the coach's arrangements, so he could only use his ability to change the situation little by little.

Even if it wasn't a very good counterattack opportunity, he worked very hard and desperately to make the shot threaten Joe Hart's goal.

With a few more attacks like this, the entire Liverpool team would naturally be pushed forward by him, and they could continuously put pressure on Manchester City's goal, forming the established fact of an "all-out attack".

Aren't you boasting that you are real men? Then I'll give you a particularly manly way to die!

Dying by my knife is your honor, so… smile and be on your way!

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Chen Hero's very active running and even counter-pressing in the frontcourt brought a lot of trouble to Manchester City's defense.

Kompany, who clamored before the game that he would let Chen Hero know that Manchester City was not a coward, was now having a particularly hard time.

Because Chen Hero only looked for him, treating the other defenders as if they were nothing.

Now Liverpool was in a single-striker formation, and Chen Hero alone had to withstand the entanglement of two to three of the opponent's defensive players, but he didn't care at all.

He just targeted Kompany, always looking for Kompany's trouble.

It seemed that any attack that didn't open a gap from Kompany didn't count.

Kompany cursed Chen Hero in his heart as a petty and wretched man, while desperately blocking Chen Hero's offensive.

But he didn't last long.

Under the constant invasion of the angry storm swept up by Chen Hero, Manchester City's defense collapsed in the twenty-seventh minute…

And the gap was opened from Kompany.

Chen Hero really wanted to find Kompany's trouble. Who told him to offend him before the game? Daring to act like a hero in front of him?

Didn't he take a look at whether I, Chen Hero, was so easy to talk back to?!

At that time, Chen Hero suddenly turned around when he was facing away from Kompany. Kompany thought he was going to take the opportunity to turn around and break through, and without thinking, he rushed up to block Chen Hero's path. Who would have thought that Chen Hero had just turned around when he swung his left leg, and then with a dashing scoop, scooped the football back from between Kompany's legs!

Kompany was thus nutmegged by Chen Hero!

This was the benefit of having long legs! If it were a player like Messi who was this tall, he probably wouldn't be able to reach it…

After scooping the football back, Chen Hero also completed his turn, and he was now facing the goal head-on.

Kompany had been tricked to the other side by him. Although he stretched out his hand in vain, it was of no avail. The distance was too far, and he could only watch Chen Hero scoop past him, then stretch out his right foot and gently lay the football inside, while also completing the preparations before the shot, and then swing his right foot again!

Bang!

When the instep of his foot made contact with the football, Kompany heard the muffled sound clearly.

It was like a drumstick hitting his heart hard.

His heart trembled.

The football was blasted towards the goal by Chen Hero with force.

In the blink of an eye, the football rushed towards the goal.

Joe Hart made a save, and he also got to the football. But Chen Hero's shot was really too powerful. His fingers had originally blocked the football, but in the end, they were broken open by the powerful and heavy football and crashed into the goal.

"Goal… Goal, goal! ! "

"Hero scores the first goal for Liverpool! Liverpool is ahead again! Huh, why did I say again?"

"Beautiful dribbling past the opponent, beautiful shot! Beautiful goal! Hero's movements are done in one go, very beautiful!!"

The entire Etihad Stadium suddenly fell silent. The vast majority of Manchester City fans were choked by Chen Hero's goal. All the roars, boos, and curses were all stuck in their throats.

They had just opened their mouths when something was stuffed into their mouths, and then all the sounds were blocked back.