Chapter 1 Chen Hero Helps Napoli Take the Lead

Chen Hero used a goal that combined a keen sense of smell, unexpected off-the-ball movement, strong physique, and a powerful shot to help Napoli take the lead in this match, and also widened the gap in the aggregate score to two goals.

Inter Milan was forced into a dead end—this time, no kidding.

Leonardo's face was very ugly.

But what could he do?

He spent fifteen minutes and still couldn't figure out why Napoli wasn't playing like they were away from home, but like they were at home.

Now he understood even less.

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Inter Milan fans were even more in pain, holding their heads in their hands, unable to believe their eyes.

Playing at home, with all the advantages, Inter Milan was actually beaten 3:2 by Napoli…

How could they bear this?

The beautiful memories of winning the Italian Cup, Serie A title, and European Champions League trophy a year ago were still deeply imprinted in everyone's minds. Closing their eyes, they could almost return to that year, as if it were yesterday.

But opening their eyes, they realized how cruel reality was…

At that moment, they really had the urge to close their eyes again.

But the cheers of the noisy Napoli fans in the upper stands kept reminding them—"Wake up, this is the reality!"

Yes, Inter Milan after Mourinho left became an object that anyone could bully, making every fan who deeply loved this team feel miserable—the Treble! A year ago, we were the Treble winners. What, what made us become a good-for-nothing that everyone bullies? Even if we lost a coach, we shouldn't have fallen to this point, right? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why—!

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Leonardo knew how much pressure he would be under if his team was eliminated from the Champions League.

But he never thought that there might be even greater pressure to face…

Inter Milan fans all hoped that if this was a nightmare, the nightmare would wake up soon. If this wasn't a nightmare, but reality… then let the score stop here.

Unfortunately, God didn't hear their prayers.

Napoli, who took the lead away from home, became more and more energetic. To say something that would anger Inter Milan fans—Napoli at this time didn't treat Inter Milan as their opponent at all, but treated Barcelona from last season as their opponent.

They were determined to enter the final, and then wait for Inter Milan, to destroy the universe team at Wembley Stadium and avenge their shame!

In order to achieve this wish for revenge, all obstacles must be destroyed.

What about Inter Milan? What is the Treble? The defending Champions League champion? They will all be wiped out!

After the game restarted, Napoli's offensive was still sharp, and Inter Milan was obviously a bit dazed by such a cruel reality. For a while, they couldn't figure out the situation, and their condition was conceivable… they had no idea what they were playing. In commentary terms, they were "sleepwalking"!

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In the fifty-ninth minute, Maggio made a long pass directly from the backfield to the wing in the frontcourt. Arshavin, with his back to the attacking direction, made a wall pass, and gently passed the ball back to Hamsik.

After Hamsik received the ball, he drove straight in. There wasn't even one Inter Milan defender in front of him! So where were Inter Milan's defenders? They were all eating his exhaust fumes behind him…

Two people used such a simple one-two to get past Inter Milan's defense.

From this, it can be seen how low the state of Inter Milan's defense was…

Chen Hero, who was originally in the middle, saw Hamsik dribbling forward, and didn't join in the fun in the middle. He ran diagonally towards the far post of the goal.

Hamsik's dribbling caused huge boos at the Meazza Stadium. Inter Milan fans hoped to use their boos to interfere with Hamsik.

Hamsik's dribbling speed was definitely not fast, but he could still rush forward in these ten meters or so.

Now there were two paths in front of him—one, choose to continue dribbling the ball himself, and then shoot. However, in this way, his shooting angle would be very small, because the strategy of Inter Milan's defenders was to force him to the outside, and César would also block the near corner.

The second path was to cross.

Hamsik didn't need to look up to observe, he knew who would be in the middle.

This path was obviously better, as it could attract all the defenders to his side, leaving Chen Hero temporarily unmarked, and also allow Chen Hero to score an empty goal.

So he took another step forward, raised his right foot, and pretended to shoot.

But in the end, he passed the ball horizontally to the front of the goal!

In fact, Inter Milan already had a defender who noticed Hamsik's choice. Samuel gave up chasing after Hamsik, who he was destined not to catch up with, and instead went to find Chen Hero.

But his speed was still a bit slow.

Before he had even run halfway, the ball had already been passed over.

Lucio, at the near post, slid in, hoping to block the ground ball.

He was also half a beat late, and the ball passed in front of his toes…

"Hero! Hero—"

With the commentator's prolonged roar.

Chen Hero accurately appeared in the position where he should have appeared, and then half-turned and used a very powerful movement, swung his right foot, and heavily slammed the ball into Inter Milan's goal!

What about goalkeeper César?

He was on the way back from the near post, and he had only run halfway when he saw Chen Hero appear in front of the ball and raise his thick right leg. Then he gave up, even if he had God's blessing, he couldn't save this shot…

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"Ah… this…"

Inter Milan's commentator was already dumbfounded.

Within six minutes, César's goal was lost twice, which was really unacceptable!

Other commentators were very excited, especially He Ping, the Chinese commentator: "Goal! Goal! No suspense! Goal!! Hero scored his second goal in this game, a brace! It is also his eighth goal in the Champions League this season! This is more than crazy! This is simply crazy!" He was already incoherent…

In fact, there were many commentators who were as excited as him.

Everyone witnessed Chen Hero narrow the gap between him and Messi to one goal in one game. Anyone would go crazy.

"What material is he made of? Is he from the future? Is he an alien? Or a Predator? Eight goals in four games! It's unbelievable! The most crazy, most scoring, most incredible shooting machine in the history of the European Champions League is born!!!"

"What language should I use to express my surprise? I really want the live camera to give me a close-up, I can tell you, my expression at this moment is enough to explain everything! And I looked around, everyone is the same as me! The guy next to me from Saudi Arabia was so excited that he was dancing. To his left is a Brazilian, who is pulling his hair, yes, pulling his hair! The poor man, he must not believe what he is seeing! But… this is the truth! It is the living truth happening before our eyes!"

"Napoli has extended its lead, they have pushed Inter Milan one step further towards the cliff… What's so great about this? It's not worth mentioning anymore! The focus now is on that big guy running wildly on the sidelines! He is the lighter that ignited the entire Meazza Stadium, he is the culprit that made everyone hysterical!"

"Before the official start of this season's Champions League, this person, at the awards ceremony, through the live broadcast on television, shamelessly told the whole world that he would defend the top scorer title with six fewer group stage games. At that time, the whole world thought he was telling a joke, a habitual arrogance that said the wrong thing. But now! Now! Look at the big screen at the Meazza Stadium, the scorer under the score, who still thinks he is telling a joke?!"

The voices of doubt can no longer be heard…

All that can be heard is a near-crazy chorus of praise. It's not that the commentators are too flattering, but that Chen Hero used iron-like facts to firmly shut the mouths of all the critics who doubted him. If they didn't close them tightly, and a bit of news leaked out, at this time it would probably become the target of everyone's ridicule…

In front of the TV, the Chinese fans who stayed up all night, jumped up from their seats one after another. Perhaps before the game, they were still half-asleep, perhaps they had to rely on strong tea or coffee to dispel the sleepiness that was even stronger than strong tea, but now, no need! Their sleepiness was completely gone!

Even Inter Milan fans, after seeing such an outstanding performance from their national player, couldn't help but spit: "Damn! For the sake of Hero's awesome performance, even if our country loses, it's worth it! Losing at the feet of such a perverted Hero, there is no regret!"

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After scoring the goal, Chen Hero ran to the sidelines, raised his right hand, raised his index finger and thumb, and curled up the other three fingers. Then he made a shooting motion at the stand where Inter Milan fans were most concentrated, blew away the gunpowder from the muzzle, and finally put it next to his face.

This time, the foreign commentators understood: "This is a shooting motion!! He killed Inter Milan with two bullets! I completely don't believe that Inter Milan can turn the game around at their home!"

But in fact, the Chinese commentator He Ping has a different explanation.

From the celebration action starting with Chen Hero's first goal, He Ping had already figured out the pattern—Chen Hero was clearly using Chinese number gestures to count his goals.

This gesture is clearly the number "eight"!

"This is eight! Eight! It is Hero's eighth goal in this season's Champions League! Ladies and gentlemen, now our Hero is only one goal away from Messi!!"

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ps, monthly tickets! Monthly tickets!

How can there be no monthly tickets at such an exciting moment?!