Chapter 1 Real Madrid and Barcelona's Feud

What was going on between Real Madrid and Barcelona had nothing to do with Liverpool, although they might ultimately benefit from it. However, Chen Hero wasn't going to care.

At the City Ground, they defeated the home team, Nottingham Forest, 2-1.

Chen Hero had a goal and an assist in the match. Liverpool's two goals were both related to him. He once again demonstrated his role as the core of Liverpool's attack, and why he could be the core of Liverpool's attack, while others could not.

With this victory, Liverpool took a big step towards their goal of winning the title three rounds in advance. Now, there were only three steps left.

These three steps wouldn't take too long.

Because two days later, it would be the second step.

Liverpool would be at home to challenge Stoke City.

Since this match was at home, Martin O'Neill didn't need to use all of his starters. Playing two games in two days was indeed too tiring for the players. The league was nearing its end, and at this time, the players' previously stored physical energy had reached a very dangerous critical point.

In order to avoid a large number of injuries occurring afterwards, rotation was necessary.

But even with rotation, Stoke City couldn't defeat them.

Liverpool defeated Stoke City 2-0 in their home stadium.

Chen Hero once again scored a goal.

Having won two consecutive games, Liverpool showed no signs of faltering. The team was united internally, there were no rumors of discord in the locker room, and the injuries were all within a controlled range...

This team was terrifyingly stable!

Immediately after this match, Liverpool's plan to win the title early needed to be revised.

They no longer needed to win four consecutive games. They only needed to win the match against Manchester City in the thirty-fourth round of the league to win the title four rounds in advance.

Because in this round of the league, Manchester United unexpectedly lost 1-2 to Portsmouth away from home... The gap between them and Liverpool widened from eleven points to fourteen points. In this way, with five rounds of the league remaining, as long as Liverpool could win the next round of the league, they would win the title four rounds in advance with a fourteen-point lead!

Manchester United, who had been gritting their teeth and persevering until the end, finally couldn't hold on any longer. After all, this team actually had nothing to pursue at the end of the season. Their only goal was to delay Liverpool's title win as much as possible.

Even so, their hopes were very slim. If both teams won, Liverpool would win the title three rounds in advance as long as they kept winning. At that time, no matter what Manchester United did, it would be useless. Unless Liverpool made mistakes themselves. But when Liverpool made mistakes, Manchester United couldn't help... They could only watch.

Now, this Liverpool team was stable to the point of despair. Even their arch-rivals, Manchester United, had to admit it.

After being held to a 1-1 draw by Everton at home, Liverpool had won seven consecutive league games. This was also while constantly interspersing the League Cup final, FA Cup matches, and Champions League matches.

So many games, such a dense schedule, and they still hadn't shown any signs of mistakes, flawless, like machines that had set their goals in advance and executed them meticulously.

Faced with such a powerful opponent, an atmosphere of despair finally spread throughout the Manchester United team.

Anyway, old coach Ferguson couldn't do anything about Liverpool, and he was about to retire. How could we possibly stop Liverpool? Whether they win the title three or four rounds in advance doesn't make any difference.

Once this idea appeared, it was like planting a seed in the hearts of all Manchester United players, growing wildly and then overwhelming their normal thoughts.

So, with no hope left, Manchester United unexpectedly lost to the not-so-strong Portsmouth on the road.

The last breath was released, and it was impossible to build it up again.

With one league round left, Liverpool would challenge Manchester City on the road.

Although it was an away game, many people believed that Liverpool would definitely be able to win the title in this match!

After the thirty-third round of the league, the media successively published their views, and many media outlets had already congratulated Liverpool in advance on defending their league title.

Of course, this approach naturally made Manchester United fans very unhappy. On the Internet, Manchester United fans ridiculed Liverpool, saying that they had already won the Premier League title fourteen times, while Liverpool had only won it three times. Even if Manchester United lost this time, they would win it back in the future. So, losing to Liverpool now was no big deal.

If they knew Chen Hero's ambitions, they probably wouldn't think that way... No, they would still think that way, and they would still unscrupulously laugh at Chen Hero's ignorance. Because such a goal was simply impossible to achieve! If it were said that in the next hundred years, Liverpool might surpass Manchester United in the number of Premier League titles, then many rational people would still believe it. But for Liverpool to complete this feat during Chen Hero's time at Liverpool, it was absolutely impossible! Because that would mean that Liverpool would have to win the Premier League title in every season from now on! To catch up with Manchester United now would require winning the title for eleven consecutive seasons, and to surpass Manchester United would require twelve consecutive seasons...

But how was that possible?

In the history of world football, Lyon's seven consecutive Ligue 1 titles was already very amazing. It should be known that Ligue 1 was one of the top five European leagues, and the level of competition in this league was very fierce.

And in the history of European football, Rosenborg, the hegemon of the Norwegian league, once created a record of thirteen consecutive titles. It's just that... the Norwegian league had no reference value at all. That league was too weak, and Rosenborg, such a Norwegian hegemon, was just a side character when it came to the Champions League.

The longest consecutive title record recognized by FIFA appeared in the Latvian league, where Skonto Riga once won fourteen consecutive titles.

But the Norwegian league wasn't good enough, let alone the Latvian league...

And what was the Premier League? It was the top football league in the world right now! In the Premier League, it had never happened that someone had won the title for so many consecutive years.

The most in the Premier League was three consecutive titles. Even if this range was expanded to the entire English top league—that is, including the First Division—the most consecutive title record was still three consecutive titles.

Liverpool had already won three consecutive titles. If they could win the title again next season, that would be a record-breaking and historic four consecutive titles.

Four consecutive titles weren't impossible, but if they were to win the title for twelve consecutive seasons after that, that would be sixteen consecutive titles! Not only would it be unique in English football history, but it would also be unique in the history of world football!

Chen Hero had never told anyone about such a crazy idea, because he knew that even if he said it, no one would believe him, and it might even become a handle for others to ridicule him for the next ten years.

The Manchester United fans were even more unlikely to know.

They were still immersed in the beautiful dream of "When it comes to the Premier League title record, we have more than you."

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For Martin O'Neill, Manchester United's loss to Portsmouth was even better news than Liverpool's victory over Stoke City.

This meant that Liverpool would win the title four rounds in advance, which would give Liverpool ten days to prepare for Barcelona.

Now his chances of beating Barcelona were even higher!

He didn't know about Guardiola's pride. He was a very practical person. He only knew that if Guardiola didn't die in the semi-finals, he wouldn't be able to win the championship. If he couldn't win the championship, Liverpool and Chen Hero's seven-crown goal couldn't be achieved. That was the most important thing.

Nothing in this world was more important than this.

Nor could anything stop Liverpool and Chen Hero from achieving this goal!

Now, even the heavens were helping him!

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After the match against Stoke City, Liverpool still had a match against Borussia Dortmund to play. Although they had to go to the away game, no one in the team felt nervous.

Because this match had lost its meaning.

Even Martin O'Neill didn't plan to arrange for most of the starting players to go to the away game.

Not only that, but in training, Liverpool's imaginary enemy had become Barcelona—they had already begun to prepare for the semi-final against Barcelona in advance.

And at this time, Barcelona still had to be entangled with Real Madrid in the league.

Liverpool was now truly waiting for work at leisure.

On April 11, Liverpool went to Germany.

This match was without suspense, and some TV stations didn't even broadcast it at all.

Borussia Dortmund, like PSV Eindhoven, had a goal in the first leg, but the meaning of this one goal was completely different.

PSV Eindhoven had once threatened Barcelona, ​​while Borussia Dortmund was completely due to luck.

The spirit of the two teams was different.

Even at home, Borussia Dortmund could not pose any threat to Liverpool.

This was also the case.

In this match, Borussia Dortmund seemed to lack fighting spirit, and Liverpool was not aggressive.

After a dull match, Liverpool defeated Borussia Dortmund 1-0.

Chen Hero scored the only goal of the match.

This goal was not scored until the eighty-sixth minute of the match.

Chen Hero's goal allowed him to continue a record he set this season—that is, he had scored in every match he had participated in this season, which was also all of Liverpool's matches!

So far, sixty-one matches, one hundred and seventeen goals!

An average efficiency of 1.9 goals per game!

Such terrifying efficiency made people sigh.

Even Messi couldn't do this.

Chen Hero did it.

At the end of the match, the commentator from Catalonia, who was responsible for explaining the match, said worriedly: "Chen Hero's state is obviously just right... Barcelona will probably encounter big trouble in the semi-finals..."