Chapter 1 Liverpool's Lucky Draw

Liverpool had a pretty good draw in the League Cup. Manchester United drew Arsenal, Chelsea drew Manchester City, while Liverpool only drew Barnsley, a Championship team.

So there was no suspense about the outcome of this game. Even without Chen Hero, with the strength of Liverpool's second team, as long as their morale wasn't low, defeating Barnsley would be normal.

Of course, with Chen Hero, there was even less suspense. Chen Hero was like a double insurance.

Although everyone was used to Chen Hero participating in the League Cup, some of Liverpool's opponents still felt indignant—you're a superstar, your other teammates are resting, why don't you rest? Why do you have to focus on the League Cup? You're a team that competes for the league title and aims for the Champions League. What's the point of competing with us in this insignificant competition? The League Cup is probably not even a chicken rib for you, but it's a very important event for us. We can get more winning bonuses through this competition, and if we're lucky, we might even get a ticket to enter the European arena. Aren't you cutting off our financial path?

Cutting off someone's financial path is the most hateful behavior, so it's no wonder Liverpool's opponents were very unhappy with Chen Hero.

This time, Barnsley fans hung up a lot of banners in their home stadium to ridicule and insult Chen Hero.

"The League Cup is too small, you won't care about it!"

"The Champions League is your stage, don't join in the fun in the League Cup!"

"Please, Hero, be merciful and let us go!"

"Liverpool is bullying us like this, it's really unreasonable!"

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But these verbal attacks had no effect on Chen Hero. He was least afraid of trash talk, because he had been attacked by opposing fans' trash talk since his debut, and he had long been immune to it.

He still went all out in the game, not only scoring goals himself, but also leading his second-team teammates to perform well.

He scored a goal in the thirty-first minute, and before that, he also assisted a teammate in scoring a goal.

The final score was 3:1, with Liverpool defeating Barnsley away and advancing to the quarterfinals.

As said before the game, there was no suspense about the outcome of this game.

Not only was the result of the game without suspense, but even the process of the game was without suspense.

Although Barnsley scored a goal, it was still scored against the background of Liverpool leading 3:0.

Throughout the game, Liverpool firmly controlled the initiative, and Barnsley's goal was a bit lucky. In fact, they didn't have any decent chances at all.

The exciting part was after the game.

Barnsley's coach didn't criticize Chen Hero or Liverpool's approach. But some media spoke up for them.

Sympathy for the weak is a common trait of human beings, just like many people like small animals. Although they shout that humans and animals are born equal and that there should be love, in reality it is only because small animals are in a weak position compared to humans. They are just sympathizing with the weak. If animals were to become dominant over humans one day, it is estimated that these people would not be able to love them anymore. For example, when they are alone and surrounded by wolves, I am afraid they would not imagine that they could still go up and pat the head wolf's head, and then hug it affectionately and rub it, exclaiming: "Wow! What a cute husky dog!"

If there really is such a person, they definitely won't survive...

So these media spoke up for them purely because they sympathized with Barnsley and felt that it was hateful for Liverpool, as a wealthy club, to bully people like this.

Having compassion is a good thing, and sympathizing with vulnerable groups is not wrong, but having sympathy without asking right or wrong, and without principles, is a disgusting thing...

This is why those animal rights activists are so annoying now—because their group has been smeared by many unprincipled, indiscriminate, right-and-wrong-reversing, inhumane, and dog-like extreme animal rights activists.

Now Chen Hero has encountered something similar.

After the game, a group of indignant media surrounded Chen Hero, wanting to ask him what the point of winning this kind of game was.

Chen Hero was stunned when he heard this question. He thought he had misheard, so he cleaned his ears and asked again: "Sorry, I didn't hear clearly, what did you say just now?"

The reporter who asked the question repeated loudly: "Liverpool's strength is originally stronger than Barnsley's, and even if they use the second team, they may not lose to the opponent. But your appearance has made this game completely one-sided, and Barnsley has hardly shown any resistance. May I ask if this kind of victory is meaningful to you?"

Chen Hero understood—these people came to make trouble for him today.

Since that's the case, I don't need to be polite with you.

"If we send out our full strength and easily defeat Barnsley, would you still ask such a low-level question, Mr. Reporter?" Chen Hero asked back.

Then, without waiting for the reporter to answer, he continued. "My teammates are resting, and only I am playing. The reason is very simple. It's not that I want to torture my opponents, but that they need to rest, but I don't. I don't need to rest, I like to play games, why can't I play? Who stipulates that a player can't play in the league and the League Cup continuously? Is the English FA run by your family?" He stared at the reporter and asked, pressing him step by step, making the poor reporter feel Chen Hero's aggressive aura.

"Aren't you always touting this as a free country? Then I have the freedom to play games. I am willing to play continuously. I don't want to miss any game in a season, even a friendly match or a warm-up match. Is it your business?"

"Barnsley has no sense of resistance? Then you have to ask them, instead of running over to question me. If I were a Barnsley player, even if I was facing Liverpool's strongest lineup, I would not give up. I would fight them to the end, just like I did in Naples when I faced Barcelona. If you don't even have that much fighting spirit, what kind of professional football are you playing? Go play in the Sunday League!"

The Sunday League is a weekend league system all over England. It is an amateur competition. The teams participating are all amateur football enthusiasts, or young people who have received youth training in professional football clubs but have not been able to become professional players. The level of such competitions is not high, and the difficulty is not great. It is really just played for fun, which is completely different from the cruel and fierce professional football.

"This is the second time I have encountered a situation where a fair winner is questioned and criticized. Are you guys in the same group as the Preston coach, what's his name...what's his name?"

"I'll put my words here. I will not only participate in all the League Cup games, but I will also participate in all the FA Cup games that follow. I don't care if the other people in our first team will participate, but I will definitely participate. If you are unhappy, I am very happy, and I can make you unhappy many more times!"

After speaking, Chen Hero left the mixed zone and left triumphantly.

A group of reporters looked at this arrogant figure, so angry that they couldn't speak—of course, they would rather admit this point. As for the fact that they were actually refuted by Chen Hero and speechless, and felt that what he said was right...they would not tell others about this!

That would be too embarrassing.

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Reporters, these people who play with pens, always have ways to disgust Chen Hero. Even though they were refuted by Chen Hero in person and speechless, they can still find particularly novel and strange angles to look at this matter.

This is why, throughout the dynasties, people who play with pens are the most hated...

They don't criticize Liverpool's drive to win at all costs, nor do they say whether Barnsley's lack of fighting spirit is right or wrong. They just focus on Chen Hero himself.

They talk about whether Chen Hero's actions are too cruel.

This is a very subjective question. Some people think that Chen Hero's style of going all out regardless of whether the opponent is strong or weak is worthy of appreciation and promotion. Others will definitely think that Chen Hero is making excuses to bully the weak, which is very tasteless and despicable.

They talk about whether Chen Hero is really going all out to win, or is he just using this as an excuse to pad his goal stats...

This question is even more subjective. Who knows what Chen Hero is thinking? Since we don't know, even if we analyze a result from the side, you can't say that what we say is unreasonable? Because there are indeed signs that he is really padding his goal stats!

In the last season, Chen Hero scored a total of eighty-seven goals in all competitions, blasting Messi's single-season goal record of seventy-six goals. You know that Messi's record was only held for less than a season...

This proves that Chen Hero is a person who is very sensitive to and cares about goal records.

In order to create new records and score more goals, he naturally doesn't let go of even a League Cup chicken rib competition.

Moreover, the more this kind of competition, the more he wants to play. Because the opponents in this kind of competition are not strong, it is a great opportunity for him to pad his goal stats.

Look at Barnsley, look at Leeds United, what kind of opponents are these...

He can score goals as easily as chopping vegetables.

These things are very subjective. If you say he has this intention, then he has it. If you say he doesn't, then he doesn't.

It all depends on one's mouth.

And reporters are best at oral skills.

Therefore, after the game, there were comments in the media questioning Chen Hero for padding his goal stats in the League Cup.

Chen Hero responded to the reporters on Twitter: "How the fuck can you pad your goal stats and have two assists and only score one goal in a game? Morons!"

In the game against Barnsley, Chen Hero did have two assists and only scored one goal himself.

Combining this answer with the facts, it is really very powerful.

A group of reporters thought—yes, he only scored one goal in a single game, and also assisted teammates with two goals. It's really embarrassing to say that he is padding his goal stats...

In this way, the reporters were slapped in the face by Chen Hero in person.

But reporters are great men who can bend and stretch, just like the thing under their crotch, which can be big and small, long and short, soft and hard.

It doesn't matter if we suffer a loss now. We will be silent and pretend to be grandsons for the time being, lurking in the dark, waiting for an opportunity, and there will definitely be a way to deal with that arrogant bastard!