ps, I said before that I would update four times a day before the baby was born.

I thought it would be born around the 20th at most. I didn't expect the baby to be so steady, and there is still no movement so far...

So, four updates will continue!

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Liverpool players witnessed Chen Hero's huge popularity in this city at the airport, but that was not enough. In the following days, they fully realized how important Chen Hero was in the hearts of the fans in this city at Zenit's training base in St. Petersburg.

Every day, no matter morning or afternoon, there were crowds of Zenit fans outside the training base.

And these people were all here to see Chen Hero.

After training, Chen Hero would be surrounded by these people, signing autographs for them, taking photos with them, and satisfying their every request.

At first, Chen Hero accepted everyone who came, but later these fans became too enthusiastic, and Chen Hero had to beg for mercy, saying that if he continued to sign, his hand would cramp. He had never been injured before, but he was about to be injured by the fans.

Everyone laughed for a while and let Chen Hero go.

For Chen Hero, the Yudeni Park training base carried too many memories for him.

When he returned here for training on the first day, he kept murmuring the name, stopping to look at every place he was familiar with, to see what had changed from his memory.

Nothing at all.

The training base was exactly the same as he had seen it nine years ago.

At that time, he was still a youth team player in this training base, living in the dormitory building inside the training base, practicing hard every day, dreaming of making a name for himself one day.

At that time, let alone in the world of football, he was unknown even in St. Petersburg. He would get excited when he saw a few reporters at a youth team game, thinking that he could become famous.

The day after the game, he would specifically run to the newsstand outside the training base to buy those Russian newspapers, excitedly checking to see if any media mentioned him.

He was so green back then…

Who could have imagined that Chen Hero would become so successful in the future?

He scored five hundred goals at the age of twenty-six, and scored one hundred and two goals in a single season…

Probably not even he himself would have imagined it.

These were truly dreamlike nine years, nine years of rapid development, nine years in which he went from being unknown locally to becoming famous all over the world.

The starting point of all stories began here.

He did treat this place as a springboard, but that didn't mean he had no feelings for it.

Especially after leaving for nine years, and returning here again, the memories of the past suddenly flooded him like a flood that had burst through the floodgates.

He realized what this inconspicuous place meant to him.

He had never thought that he would return to Yudeni Park training base, because he was sure that he would not return to Zenit to play football again. At that time, he firmly believed that his future was in a big club, and even if he retired, he should retire in a big club, instead of running to some Middle East country, or the United States, to those third-rate leagues and third-rate teams to retire in almost unnoticed situations.

But he didn't expect that even so, he would still have the opportunity to return to Zenit and train at Yudeni Park training base.

The latter was what he missed the most.

Yudeni Park training base can't be considered world-class, and even in Russia, it can only be considered as a middle-to-upper level facility. Training here will not improve his abilities.

He just felt that before an important Champions League final, returning to the place where he started and training here was a very meaningful thing.

And this meaning will bring him great motivation and allow him to do better in the final.

So, Barcelona is going to be in trouble.

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Chen Hero arrived in St. Petersburg with Liverpool three days ago. In these three days, the St. Petersburg media surrounded the Yudeni Park training base, with long guns and short cannons aimed at the training ground and the training base.

The fifteen minutes of public shooting time every day was the busiest time for the media.

These days, St. Petersburg's newspapers, TV news, and the Internet have been filled with news about Liverpool and Chen Hero.

But no one felt annoyed. This was the first time that Chen Hero had been so close to everyone since he left Zenit. Everyone couldn't wait to have more news about him, so how could they find it annoying?

The last time Chen Hero came here with Napoli, the weather was bad, and they were enemies, so it was impossible to use Yudeni Park training base, and everyone could not have such close contact with him.

Watching him train on the training ground in a Liverpool jersey, fans sighed at the passage of time and the great changes.

"Thinking back to how green Hero was back then... more flamboyant than calm. But look at him now, alas... time makes people old, but it also makes people mature!"

"If I were to only look at Hero now, I would never be able to imagine what he was like when he played here... the change is really big..."

"Yes, yes, who could have imagined that Hero would become so powerful? I suddenly feel that he has exceeded the scope of our planet... he is an alien!"

Fans gathered together to talk about topics related to Chen Hero, and at the same time, from Chen Hero's growth and changes, they also saw the traces of time left on themselves.

"He truly is our pride. Such an excellent player actually debuted from here... alas, it feels so good just thinking about it!"

"Hero, go! Kill Barcelona! We will always support you!"

"Hero is looking over! Oh my, he is looking over! Hero—!!!"

A burst of screams from female fans rang out in the distance.

Even these crazy female fans were still exactly the same as they were seven years ago.

Chen Hero heard the screams, and he took the time to wave in that direction, and the screams became even louder.

"Oh my, even the reactions of the female fans are still exactly the same as they were back then, I am so gratified!" Chen Hero said to Skrtel next to him after hearing the fans' reactions.

The other teammates looked at the group of scantily clad, sexy, and buxom female fans with envy, jealousy, and hatred, cursing Chen Hero for having harmed so many Russian blonde bombshells during his three seasons at Zenit.

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Surrounded by the enthusiastic Zenit fans, the atmosphere of Liverpool's preparations was actually very relaxed. Because for Chen Hero and Skrtel, St. Petersburg felt like they had returned home.

They were very familiar with every plant and tree here.

If there wasn't still a Champions League final to play, the two of them might have taken the Liverpool branch of the Eat, Drink, and Play Group to the places where they used to fight.

Even so, as soon as the plane landed in St. Petersburg, Chen Hero turned on his phone, and then widely sent out invitations, summoning the members of the St. Petersburg Zenit Eat, Drink, and Play Group of the past, agreeing that as soon as the Champions League final was over, they would hold a joint event between the St. Petersburg Zenit branch and the Liverpool branch of the Eat, Drink, and Play Group to celebrate their victory—the final hasn't even been played yet, but in Chen Hero's view, the Champions League title is already in his pocket.

They can't lose to anyone, especially not to Barcelona.

So Liverpool will definitely not lose this game.

Others don't understand his confidence, but Chen Hero is very clear. He has a psychological advantage over Barcelona. When he wasn't as awesome as he is now, Barcelona was at its peak, an invincible super team in the world, and he wasn't afraid.

Now, Barcelona has undergone generational changes, old players have retired one after another, new players have not fully caught up, and Guardiola's second stint has not been very smooth. He is even less afraid of Barcelona.

Back then, that Barcelona could win six championships in a season, fighting on several fronts at the same time, and it didn't conflict for them at all. But what about now? In order to compete for the Champions League title, they even gave up the domestic league, allowing Real Madrid to lift the league trophy two rounds in advance, but they also got their wish and defeated Real Madrid in the semi-finals, and got a ticket to the Champions League final.

What is there to be afraid of in such a Barcelona?

Chen Hero doesn't have a headache about Barcelona at all.

But Barcelona is having a headache about him.

Guardiola is feeling a headache now.

Because he doesn't know how to contain Chen Hero.

This question makes him a little embarrassed, but there is no way, this is the reality.

It really is the wheel of fortune that turns.

When Messi under his command swept the world of football, scoring goals like crazy, and winning honors and championships until his hands were soft, all opponents were thinking about a question: when we face Messi, what should we do, how can we defend him?

This is like Goldbach's conjecture in the football world, almost unsolvable.

But now the protagonist of this question has become Chen Hero.

Because of physical reasons, Messi is relatively short and thin, his heading ability is very poor, and his right foot is not good enough. These are his weaknesses. As long as you design tactics against his weaknesses, you can always defend him.

The question is, what are Chen Hero's weaknesses?

His body is so strong, his height is tall, his heading ability is excellent, his confrontation ability is strong, and at the same time his footwork is also outstanding. Although he doesn't often dribble, people who have watched him dribble think that Chen Hero's dribbling skills are very solid.

In addition, his shooting skills are very accurate, and it can be said that he is very versatile in shooting.

In addition, he also has an excellent free kick...

Tell me, how do you defend against such a monster? What are his weaknesses?

Maybe… his left foot?

The thought only popped into Guardiola's mind for a moment, and he甩掉了 it in the next second.

Chen Hero's sixty-second league goal of the season was a beautiful left-footed turn and volley. If this is luck, if it is a blind shot, then based on Guardiola's understanding of Chen Hero, his left foot actually has a very high level, but he himself is used to shooting with his right foot, and the entire Liverpool team is used to feeding his right foot. But if you think that he is not good at using his left foot, and force him to use his left foot to control the ball, you will definitely die miserably in the end...

Ahhhhh!

It's really a headache!

Guardiola thought for several days, but still couldn't come up with a solution. Frustrated, he couldn't help but hold his head in his hands, wanting to pull a handful of hair off his head. But after touching the scalp, he realized that he didn't have much hair left on his head...

The most painful thing is wanting to scratch but not being able to...

Guardiola felt extremely depressed, even his hair was going against him.