Chapter 2 The Next Day

The next day, the eighteen Liverpool players who had made the squad boarded the team bus and arrived at the hotel where they would be staying before the game.

Despite it being a home game, the players still had to stay together in order to facilitate management. They checked into the hotel the day before the match, spent the night there, and then headed to the stadium the next day.

Generally speaking, the players stayed two to a room, with only the head coach enjoying the privilege of having a room to himself.

Some teams had fixed roommates. If a certain person and another person shared a room, they would always stay together as long as they were both in the squad.

Other teams did it randomly, with the head coach deciding who stayed with whom.

Liverpool was the latter, but not too frequently. Chen Hero still managed to stay with someone a few times without having a different partner every time.

He had stayed with many people, but never with Suárez.

Today, that record was broken.

"Hero, you're staying with Luis." Assistant coach Sammy Lee gestured for Chen Hero to come and get his room card.

Chen Hero didn't react at first. "Luis? Which Luis?"

"Which Luis could it be? Suárez!" Sammy Lee first rolled his eyes at Chen Hero, then raised his voice and shouted at a figure in the distance.

Suárez, on the other side, heard the assistant coach calling him, so he turned and ran over.

"Were you calling me, Sammy?"

Sammy Lee nodded and pointed to Chen Hero beside him. "You two are in the same room."

The two men looked at each other, and Chen Hero rolled his eyes. "I'm just saying, don't mistake the wardrobe for the toilet this time..."

Suárez shouted, "Damn it!"

I'm sharing a room with him?

Suárez couldn't believe his ears.

"Are you sure about this, Sammy?" He was grasping at straws.

"Yes, why would I be wrong? It's not a complicated matter..." The assistant coach didn't understand why Suárez would say such a thing.

"Uh..."

Suárez really wanted to say that he didn't want to share a room with this guy...

But before he could say it, Sammy Lee had already left to hand out room cards to the next batch of players.

Chen Hero wasn't as conflicted as Suárez. He waved the room card and said to Suárez, "Let's go, Luis. I'm telling you, don't mistake the wardrobe for the toilet this time..." He kept harping on the matter.

"Can you not bring that up?" Suárez said grumpily.

He was completely speechless at the sight of this big guy.

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The two had just settled into their room when Martin Škrtel came to visit. Adam Johnson wasn't in the squad, so he was alone this time.

When the three of them got together to chat, they naturally talked about everything under the sun, from football to beautiful women, from beautiful women to war, from war to cars... They talked about everything, and in such conversations, the relationship between the three seemed to be getting closer...

So in the end, everyone said goodbye to each other with laughter, and Martin Škrtel returned to his room to rest, while Suárez still had a smile on his face when he lay in bed. Everyone had just been telling jokes from their respective countries, and the atmosphere was really happy and harmonious.

He was still savoring those jokes when he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

The smile on his face froze...

Hey, why am I so happy!

That's not right! Aren't I supposed to be competing with him? Isn't our relationship supposed to be that of enemies?

Why am I smiling so happily?

Suárez frowned as he reflected on his performance just now. He felt that his performance was really obsequious and embarrassing!

So in order to retaliate, he decided that he wouldn't pass to Chen Hero in tomorrow's game, not even a deliberately difficult cross!

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Suárez really didn't pass the ball. Most of the time, if he had the ball at his feet, he would dribble it himself and then shoot.

Sometimes Chen Hero was in a better position next to him, but he still didn't pass the ball.

Which made Chen Hero roll his eyes frequently.

But he didn't think too much about it. He just assumed that Suárez was still sulking about the peeing incident. It's normal for friends to bicker, it's no big deal...

In the end, because of Suárez's go-it-alone attitude, Liverpool couldn't even beat Norwich, who weren't very strong, at their own home...

They drew with the other side 1:1.

The goal scorer for Liverpool was neither Suárez nor Chen Hero, but Bellamy.

He helped Liverpool take the lead in the last minute of the first half.

In the sixtieth minute, Norwich equalized the score with a goal from Holt.

After that, neither side scored again, and the fans at Anfield watched as Suárez broke through and shot, but just couldn't score. Chen Hero also had a few chances, but also didn't score.

And so they were held to a draw by their opponents at their own home...

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Dalglish was very dissatisfied with Suárez's performance in the game.

After the game, in the locker room, in front of all the players, he gave Suárez a thorough dressing-down. And Suárez didn't dare to refute at all, and could only lower his head and accept it.

It can be seen how much authority Dalglish had within the Liverpool team...

Chen Hero didn't find Suárez's performance strange. He thought of something else.

If even someone like Suárez didn't dare to challenge Dalglish, then Adam Johnson probably had even less hope of turning things around, right?

Chen Hero would naturally not challenge Dalglish for the sake of his friend, and threaten him that if he didn't let Adam Johnson start, he would go on strike - that would be too stupid. If he really did that, Johnson might not appreciate it, and might even be surprised, not understanding what Chen Hero was doing...

He was just feeling dejected about his good friend's bleak future at Liverpool.

And the other Liverpool players weren't very happy about being held to a draw at home, and the atmosphere in the locker room was a bit depressing.

Although Suárez was scolded by Dalglish, he admitted his mistake and had a good attitude, so if there were no surprises, he would still have a chance to start in the next game. Besides, everyone knew that Suárez was a bit selfish when he played, and sometimes when he got emotional, he insisted on shooting himself, and wouldn't pass the ball to others. No one thought that he was deliberately targeting Chen Hero.

But Suárez himself secretly glanced at Chen Hero, and found that he also looked very frustrated and disappointed.

He couldn't help but laugh to himself.

This is the end for those who oppose me!

Now you know how powerful I am, right? Ah ha ha ha!

He didn't feel any remorse for Liverpool being held to a draw at home, and his mind was full of Chen Hero.

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He was very happy that Chen Hero was so frustrated because he didn't assist or pass the ball during the game, which resulted in Chen Hero not scoring.

Suárez felt that he had finally proved his power to Chen Hero.

But he didn't plan to continue doing this, because what the head coach Dalglish said wasn't farting, and it wasn't just wind passing through his ears, to be heard and then forgotten.

He believed that Dalglish really had this power within the team. Just look at his resolute attitude in banishing Adam Johnson to the cold palace, and you can see it.

In order to support the players he insisted on bringing in, he didn't even hesitate to put old players like Kuyt and Bellamy on the bench. This old man was very stubborn, and you shouldn't offend anyone, especially him. If he didn't like you, and banished you to the cold palace, you probably wouldn't have a chance to turn things around for the rest of the season...

Suárez was like a docile kitten in front of Dalglish, and didn't dare to make any unusual moves.

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Chen Hero didn't know that Suárez had misunderstood again. Although he was a little dissatisfied with Suárez for not passing the ball to him during the game, after the game, this dissatisfaction disappeared. Since everyone was friends, he had to be tolerant of the other party occasionally making a mistake, and being a fool for once in a while...

Look, he and Cassano were two fools who complemented each other.

So after the game, he also ran to comfort Suárez, and told him not to take Dalglish's words to heart.

Suárez rolled his eyes in his heart, thinking, is this kid stupid, stupid, or stupid?

But on the surface, he couldn't seem to find any reason to reject Chen Hero's kindness...

So he was conflicted again.

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After returning to the hotel, Suárez found that the first thing Chen Hero did was to drill into the bathroom in the room and start taking a shower. He was very strange, was Chen Hero going out on a date?

When Chen Hero finished taking a shower and saw Suárez looking a little puzzled, as if he wanted to ask something but didn't know how to ask, he revealed the answer himself.

"I have to catch a plane."

"Huh?"

"I'm going to Italy."

"What are you going there for?"

"A date!"

Suárez realized that the media had been saying that he had a girlfriend in Italy, right?

So that's how it is...

Suárez's eyes darted around, and he suddenly thought - such back-and-forth travel must be a very tiring thing for Chen Hero. He was basically running to Italy to play an away game right after the end of this league game...

Liverpool would give the players a day off after the game, and would start training as usual the next day.

So Chen Hero was flying over tonight, and had to fly back tomorrow night. It would be strange if he wasn't tired from all this back and forth!

If he was exhausted, would that be more beneficial to me?

He patted Chen Hero on the shoulder, with an expression of understanding on his face: "I understand you, Hero! Keep it up! Back then, I felt that I was too far away from my wife, I was in Montevideo, and she was in Barcelona, we were really too far apart, so I ran to Europe to play football!"

When Chen Hero heard this, it was new to him. He had never known that Suárez came to Europe to play football in order to chase his wife.

"When I came to Europe, the distance between the two of us became closer, and then we got married. So you have to work hard, don't be afraid of the distance, what's there to be afraid of? I'm telling you, if you want to pick up girls, you have to be willing to pay the price! So what if you're an air traveler? It doesn't matter if you fly seven times a week!"

He really wanted to lead Chen Hero astray, so he even dared to say such unrealistic things as flying seven times a day.

Chen Hero didn't hear his hidden meaning, and only felt that Suárez was really his good friend, using his successful example to cheer him on - although he didn't need him to cheer him on now, but he was always doing it with good intentions...

He nodded vigorously: "Don't worry, Luis, I will definitely work hard!"

Then he flicked his still wet hair, turned and went out.

Suárez didn't forget to rush out and hold the doorframe and shout: "Go, Hero!! Yeah!"

Chen Hero turned back and gave him a thumbs up, with a confident smile on his face.

After Chen Hero disappeared into the elevator hall, he went back, and the smile on his face was gone.

He was confused again. What am I doing this for?

Why do I feel that my relationship with Chen Hero is getting closer and closer?

If it had been a month ago, he would never have thought that he would say such things to Chen Hero... and even encourage him to pick up girls! Really, he might be cursing him in his heart to be destined to be alone forever!

The situation, is really not right...

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