Chapter 171 He Should Be Sold Off

The first half ended with that score. Liverpool was leading Manchester City by two goals on their home turf.

Back in the locker room, Agüero told the reserve team players that if they wanted to win, they had to listen to him in the second half. They had to pass the ball to him, no matter what the situation, no matter where he was. They just had to keep passing the ball to him.

Boas, as the coach, didn't say a word. He just stood by with his arms crossed, watching coldly.

Since Agüero wanted absolute control of this game, he would give it to him. This man wouldn't shed a tear until he saw his own coffin. He had to lose utterly and completely.

Anyway, it was a game he was going to give up on, so he wouldn't feel any pain if he lost.

But losing would make Agüero fully realize his failure.

So today, he was happy to see Agüero lose, and the more miserable the loss, the better.

Looking at the reserve team players who were expressionless, even a little numb, under Agüero's loud reprimands, he knew that Agüero was doomed to lose.

He thought he could take on the team by himself?

Even Chen Hero hadn't been so blatant!

Well, if you were as awesome as Chen Hero, Manchester City would have already won the championship!

You know what Liverpool was like when Chen Hero first arrived? It was a much lower starting point than your Manchester City. Yet he managed to lead such a team to various championships, transforming Liverpool from a fallen aristocrat into a new Premier League overlord. And you, Agüero?

Manchester City had such a good foundation, so much strength at that time, so many outstanding players that even many top clubs were envious.

What great cards he had! If Agüero was even better than Chen Hero, why hadn't he led Manchester City to become the new generation of Premier League overlords?

Although Boas was now the coach of Manchester City, because of Agüero, he had temporarily sided with Liverpool.

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Liverpool didn't say much during halftime. There wasn't much to say.

The game was a foregone conclusion. Manchester City had surrendered. Although they had Agüero, not to mention Chen Hero, even the Liverpool reserve team players didn't take Agüero seriously anymore.

A player who only knew how to fight alone was no threat, no matter how good he was!

If Agüero knew that even the young punks on the Liverpool reserve team looked down on him, he would be furious...

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After the second half started, Agüero continued to fight alone, constantly raising his hands to ask the Manchester City reserve team players to pass him the ball.

And the Manchester City reserve team players still passed the ball to him.

But after passing it to him, they just stood there and watched Agüero perform.

Actually, it was useless for them to run into position anyway, because Agüero wouldn't pass the ball to them.

Since Agüero wanted to fight alone, they would let him.

Agüero didn't care. That was the result he wanted.

Chen Hero had once taken on the entire Manchester United team by himself and succeeded. He wanted to prove that he was no worse than Chen Hero, so he had to do the same and succeed.

As for the difference in strength between the Liverpool reserve team and the Manchester United first team, he automatically ignored it.

But even so, he was no match for Chen Hero.

His repeated breakthroughs were blocked by the Liverpool reserve team players, although the reserve team had the advantage in numbers.

But who told Agüero that he had no teammates to help him?

The other Manchester City players all stayed in the backfield, absolutely not crossing the halfway line.

This was the tactic that the media had once thought Liverpool would use, where all the goals were Chen Hero's responsibility alone, and the defense was the responsibility of the reserve team.

But in reality, the Liverpool reserve team had never done this. In the attack, Carlton Cole and other teammates provided Chen Hero with assistance. Even if they couldn't directly assist Chen Hero, they could use their runs to create space for Chen Hero. In defense, although Chen Hero rarely ran back to participate directly in the defense, his presence and active pressing in the frontcourt were also a form of defense, reducing more pressure for his teammates.

And Agüero? He couldn't help his teammates relieve defensive pressure at all in the frontcourt.

Because the Liverpool reserve team was no longer afraid of him at all.

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The second half was a tragedy for the Manchester City fans.

Although everyone knew what Boas was thinking, the Manchester City fans who came to watch the game were still clinging to the hope that their reserve team wasn't weak, and with Agüero, plus the advantage of playing at home, they might be able to fight Liverpool's reserve team to the death here.

Who would have thought that it would end up like this?

Agüero was like a headless fly in the frontcourt, crashing around everywhere and running into walls.

And the difference in strength between the Manchester City reserve team and the Liverpool reserve team was obvious even to the blind, let alone them.

This game was a mistake!

Angry and disappointed Manchester City fans could only vent their anger on Chen Hero.

As soon as Chen Hero got the ball, they booed him desperately. The entire Etihad Stadium was filled with their boos, overwhelming and deafening.

But it was of no use to Chen Hero.

He played the way he was supposed to play.

In the second half, Chen Hero scored twice, completing his hat trick.

As for the outcome of the game, no one cared about it anymore. However, Chen Hero's hat trick made the commentator a little excited.

The result of the game was that the Liverpool reserve team defeated Manchester City 4-0 on their home turf and eliminated them. The Liverpool reserve team qualified to enter Wembley Stadium again.

And the other focus of the game, Agüero, became a complete failure.

He performed poorly in the game, not at all like the number one star of the Manchester City first team. At the same time, his performance in this game also gave many people the impression that Boas was right to abandon Agüero.

This was also the result that Boas most wanted to see. In this way, the voices of sympathy for Agüero in public opinion would disappear, and his pressure to clean up Agüero would be much less.

Even the higher-ups of Manchester City would fully realize this, that such a willful and reckless player couldn't be relied upon.

If Manchester City wanted to achieve good results, they still had to rely on themselves.

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The post-match media was full of criticism of Agüero, believing that he was too selfish in the game, completely distrusted his teammates, had no awareness of cooperation at all, and thought that he could handle everything by himself.

As a result, he was beaten to a pulp by the Liverpool reserve team and Chen Hero in the game, losing even his underwear.

Some media even clamored that Manchester City should sell Agüero as soon as possible while he could still make some money.

In the past, when Boas and Agüero had conflicts, there were still quite a few media outlets that supported Agüero.

But now, these media outlets had all changed their tune.

In short, after this game, Agüero suddenly went from an indispensable core of the Manchester City first team to a forgotten person that everyone despised and didn't want to mention.

But Agüero's experience had nothing to do with Chen Hero.

For a person who didn't respect the game, such an end was only natural.

Chen Hero would definitely not feel sorry for him, but at the same time, he wouldn't feel a sense of satisfaction—he simply didn't have a place for Agüero in his heart. After this game, he completely threw this opponent to the back of his mind.

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Liverpool's opponent in the thirty-first round of the league was Aston Villa.

The opponent was not strong, so even on their home turf, Martin O'Neill continued to rotate his team extensively.

Even so, Liverpool still won the game 2-1 on the road.

Chen Hero didn't have many chances in this game, but he still scored a goal from a free kick.

This goal was Chen Hero's one hundred and fifth goal of the season.

He had now caught up with the record he had created last season, one hundred and five goals.

His achievements were amazing.

You know, he had played all the games last season to achieve this result.

And now, with at least a third of the season still to go, he had already achieved this goal.

So next, every goal he scored was a new record for himself.

So how far could he ultimately break his record?

Everyone was looking forward to it with excitement and fear.

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The game against Aston Villa was a "halftime break" for the club games. Next, it was time for the national team games to take center stage.

If it were in the past, this national team match day would have nothing to do with him.

But now... he was a member of the national team, even if it was just a trivial friendly match, as long as the national team summoned him, he had to go back.

In fact, the results of these games had no impact on the national team's performance. It didn't matter whether Chen Hero went back or not.

However, the Football Association still recruited him. Because in the current environment, the only thing that Chinese football could bring some comfort and hope to fans was Chen Hero. Other reforms had to come slowly, but changes could be seen immediately in the national team's games.

It wasn't that the leaders of the Football Association wanted Chen Hero to frequently return to China to participate in those insignificant friendlies. But Chinese fans wanted to see Chen Hero playing in the national team's jersey.

For the past eight years, they had never had this opportunity. Now that they had it, they would naturally enjoy it to the fullest.

Chen Hero understood the Chinese fans' thinking very well.

So he didn't say a word of objection to this long journey and set off to fly back to China.

Then he played two friendly matches at home, against Senegal from Africa and Serbia from Eastern Europe.

In these two games, China drew with Senegal and lost to Serbia.

However, Chen Hero scored in both games.

He scored a total of three goals in these two games.

In this way, his goal count for the season rose to one hundred and eight.

Also worth mentioning is that these three goals were the only goals scored by the Chinese team.