Chapter 1 Chen Hero's Goal Against Aston Villa Broke Roger Hunt's Record

Now, in terms of the club's FA Cup goal record, he is still behind the legendary striker Ian Rush. Rush has thirty-nine FA Cup goals, while Chen Hero currently has thirty-one. In the League Cup, Chen Hero is ten goals behind Rush, with thirty-eight goals compared to Rush's forty-eight.

But this is no longer a suspense for him. As long as he participates in another season of domestic cup games, both records will belong to him.

In terms of European goals, Chen Hero has already far surpassed the original leader, Gerrard. The original club record for the most European goals belonged to Gerrard with twenty-seven goals. This was broken by Chen Hero in his first European appearance for Liverpool, when Chen Hero scored thirty goals in the Europa League that season. Now, including all European competitions, Chen Hero has scored ninety-one goals. He is undoubtedly Liverpool's number one European scorer.

The same is true in the Champions League, where he leads with fifty-six goals.

The record for the most hat tricks now also belongs to him. It was originally held by Gordon Hodgson, who completed seventeen hat tricks during his time at Liverpool.

And what about Chen Hero now? Counting the league, European games, FA Cup, and League Cup matches, he has already completed forty-three hat tricks...

Such terrifying data makes the world gasp.

Just imagine, when people curiously open the Liverpool club's goalscoring history records and see that the same name appears under several records, how shocked they will be!

However, there are some records that he probably won't be able to break until he retires. For example, the record for the most penalty goals, because he basically never takes penalties in matches. It's not that he doesn't have the mental fortitude, but that he thinks penalty goals are too easy, lack technical content, and cannot reflect his outstanding scoring ability.

The Liverpool club's all-time leading penalty scorer is Jan Mølby, with a total of forty-two penalty goals.

Chen Hero has accomplished such a brilliant feat, but apart from the pro-Liverpool club media, other media outlets rarely mention it, and even when they do, they downplay it.

Those media outlets have now reached a consensus—they don't want Chen Hero to be too much in the limelight, and they should knock him down a peg sometimes.

They feel that this is for the good of world football, so that world football doesn't fall into the hands of one person. They have made this sacrifice—Chen Hero is the biggest gimmick in football today. Whether people like him or hate him, they are concerned about his news. Those who like him are naturally concerned to make themselves feel happy, and those who hate him are concerned in order to find flaws and watch Chen Hero's jokes. It's just a pity that so far, Chen Hero hasn't given those who hate him many opportunities to laugh at him, disappointing those people's expectations.

The media now doesn't report Chen Hero's various heroic deeds very much, naturally sacrificing some attention.

But they feel that this is necessary for the development of world football.

Since when have the media become so conscientious?

They are complacent—are you saying that we media are all sons of bitches? We also have a sense of social responsibility!

Chen Hero doesn't care about the media's cold treatment. Anyway, they are all a bunch of losers. He has long since stopped relying on media publicity. Now, even people who don't watch football know his name.

It is said that his hometown is even considering renaming the road where his house is located "Hero Road."

This is a very impressive treatment!

At this point, does Chen Hero still care about the English media's "suppression" of him? The reason for using quotation marks is because this is nothing to Chen Hero!

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After playing the games for the national team, Chen Hero took a plane again, crossed the entire Eurasian continent, and returned to Liverpool.

This kind of back-and-forth travel has no impact on him. On the one hand, it is because his physical fitness is good, and on the other hand, long-term training in the dungeon has greatly improved his ability to withstand fatigue.

In addition, another reason is that he has already experienced this kind of thing.

As early as when he played for Zenit St. Petersburg, Zenit had to fly to the distant Vladivostok once every season, a flight of up to fifteen hours, which was torture for everyone.

Since Chen Hero has experienced such a thing, he doesn't feel anything about this kind of flight across the Eurasian continent. The pilots of British airlines fly much more smoothly than the pilots of Russian airlines!

In short, after traveling back and forth, Chen Hero did not show any signs of fatigue and threw himself into the team's training with full energy.

He didn't even need to adjust to the time difference, which made his teammates who had also participated in national team matches very envious, especially the South American internationals who flew back to South America to participate in the warm-up matches before the World Cup.

Suarez came to Liverpool training yawning—according to the time difference in Uruguay, he should still be sleeping at this time.

Some players don't need to adjust to the time difference, but two national team games in a week make them very tired. They are all absolute main players in their respective national teams and cannot be absent from the games, so the physical energy consumed is naturally greater than other players.

In short, the effect of the first training session was very poor.

Martin O'Neill didn't get angry either. He knew that this was a normal phenomenon. Chen Hero's lively and energetic situation was abnormal...

However, he has already considered continuing to make a big rotation in the next league game. He will observe again through these few days of training. If some players cannot adjust in time, or their physical fitness has not recovered to its best state, he will not let these players play.

They will be replaced by substitute players.

Of course, Chen Hero will definitely not be rotated out. Even Martin O'Neill is very curious about where his physical limit is.

Since he is happy to see it, then he doesn't need to feel any guilt about squeezing him.

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Liverpool's opponent in the thirty-first round of the league is Arsenal.

They face their opponents at home.

A few years ago, this game could be regarded as a strong match.

But now that Arsenal can't even beat Liverpool's reserve team, let alone win against Liverpool's first team.

Wenger's attitude is also very pragmatic now. He no longer considers whether to let Arsenal win the league title. As long as Arsenal can participate in the Champions League every year, that is the greatest victory. Anyway, Arsenal hasn't touched the championship for many years, and they should be used to it.

Although Arsenal currently has no championship, they have made a lot of money. On the one hand, they earn transfer fees by selling promising stars in the team, and then they draw players from the youth team, which saves a lot of transfer expenses.

On the other hand, Arsenal's tickets are the most expensive in the entire Premier League, much higher than the ticket prices of Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Liverpool. And what is strange is that they have no championship, and they dare to sell tickets so expensive, but people really buy it!

Their ticket sales have always been good.

It seems that as long as the team plays well, whether there is a championship or not, it will not lack popularity...

But how long will this situation last? More and more Arsenal fans are complaining that the team's tickets and various peripherals are too expensive.

Liverpool will host Arsenal at home, and there is no suspense in this game.

Many people guessed that Liverpool would win.

But they didn't expect Liverpool to win so smoothly.

At home, the score was 4:1.

A hearty victory without any suspense!

Although Arsenal scored a goal, it didn't matter much.

Currently, Liverpool is the team with the fewest goals conceded in the Premier League. After thirty-one rounds, they have only conceded seventeen goals.

The main thing is that they scored four goals.

Arsenal could not stop Liverpool's powerful offensive at all.

Chen Hero completed a hat trick in the game. He proved with his actual performance that the "FIFA virus" that everyone talks about has no effect on Chen Hero at all!

His performance did not deteriorate with participation in national team matches, but instead got better...

The last time he returned home to participate in two national team games, and after returning to the club, he completed a poker in the game against Blackburn, hitting back at those who questioned him.

Now comes another hat trick.

It seems that national team games may be a burden for everyone, but only for Chen Hero is it a shot of adrenaline...

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After all the quarter-finalists of the European Champions League were revealed, UEFA conducted a new round of draws to allocate the quarter-final and semi-final matchups of the Champions League.

Liverpool had good luck in the quarter-finals. They drew Borussia Dortmund, which is not very strong.

However, in the semi-finals, they will face their arch-rival from the final a year ago—Barcelona.

Barcelona had better luck than them. They drew Eindhoven in the quarter-finals. The Dutch team is completely impossible to cause any trouble for Barcelona, so Barcelona is equal to advancing to the semi-finals in advance.

Because Napoli and Barcelona were assigned to the same half, the two teams will definitely meet as long as they can reach the semi-finals.

The media are saying that this is UEFA's deliberate arrangement. Because revenge is always the most interesting drama for everyone.

In last season's Champions League final, Barcelona's championship was snatched by Liverpool. In addition, they were originally very dissatisfied with Chen Hero, so every encounter between these two teams will spark fierce sparks.

Although there are still two quarter-finals and one opponent between the two teams.

However, the media has long automatically ignored their opponents, and some media have directly printed the headline "Barcelona vs. Liverpool, this is revenge!"

In their opinion, Liverpool and Barcelona can close their eyes and use one leg to handle their respective opponents, which is completely without suspense...

Maybe this is what UEFA meant by arranging it this way, using two opponents that are not too strong to warm up the two real protagonists. Let them get into shape, so that they can start a fierce battle in the semi-finals...