Falcao ultimately failed to score another goal to help Atlético Madrid eliminate Liverpool.

Not only him, but no one in the entire Atlético Madrid team could do it.

Liverpool defeated Atlético Madrid 3-1 at home and eliminated Atlético Madrid with a 4-3 aggregate score, advancing to the round of sixteen.

As soon as the game ended, the Liverpool players embraced each other, celebrating their victory.

The Atlético Madrid players, on the other hand, hurriedly left the field with their heads down. This wasn't their home ground, and they weren't the main characters.

Liverpool players lined up and came to the stands to thank the fans. No matter what the game, Liverpool fans are always the team's best twelfth man.

After thanking the fans, the players returned to the locker room, and Chen Hero was immediately called to the mixed zone for an interview.

He tied Falcao's seventeen-goal record in this game, so of course he was the focus of media attention.

The reporters all congratulated Chen Hero first, then asked him questions, wanting to know how he felt about tying the record.

Chen Hero was as calm and... indifferent as if he was celebrating.

"No special feeling," he shrugged. "It's just tying it."

"But you only need one more goal to break the record!" A Chinese reporter was particularly excited and thrilled, his voice trembling when he asked the question, as if he had tied the record himself.

Chen Hero thought to himself, what's eighteen goals? My goal is more than twenty... If I said it, it would scare you to death!

"Yes, just one goal to break the record, haha, the feeling of breaking the record is indeed good!" Although that's what he thought in his heart, he was still quite polite on the surface.

In fact, everyone could see that Chen Hero didn't seem very interested in tying the record or breaking it, and he didn't seem too excited anyway.

So they were all puzzled. Chen Hero himself said he wanted to break the record, so why did he seem to lose interest when he was already at the door?

Seeing everyone so puzzled, Chen Hero thought: Forget it, it shouldn't hurt to tell them... Actually, he had a bit of a show-offy smugness in his heart—I'll tell you my goal and scare you to death!

"Ahem, well... I don't care whether it's seventeen or eighteen goals. That's not my goal..."

When everyone heard that Chen Hero was actually taking the initiative to reveal something, they immediately perked up and their eyes lit up—if seventeen or eighteen goals weren't Chen Hero's goal, then what would his goal be?

"My goal is the championship!"

Liverpool wants to win the championship? It could be considered a big deal, but why were the reporters a little disappointed?

If this was Chen Hero's goal, it was really ordinary...

Seeing the change in expression on the reporters' faces, Chen Hero cursed the reporters in his heart for being fickle.

He curled his lips: "Yes, it's the championship, so we will work hard to reach the finals. There are seven games left from now until the finals. You can guess how many goals I can score, there are prizes for guessing correctly!"

The reporters perked up this time. Seventeen goals weren't enough for him. According to his average of two goals per game, if Liverpool really made it to the finals, how many goals would that be? Seven games would be fourteen goals, plus the existing seventeen goals, that's thirty-one goals!

Thirty-one!!

"My God..." A reporter who reacted exclaimed at the time.

Many forwards may not score thirty goals in a whole season, did Chen Hero want to score thirty goals in one Europa League? Was he crazy?!

Chen Hero didn't know that the reporters had raised his goal by eleven goals, and thought they understood.

Looking at the group of reporters with surprised and dumbfounded expressions, he was full of a sense of accomplishment.

"Yes, that's right! In this season's Europa League, I want to score at least twenty goals!"

Chen Hero felt that the time was ripe and finally threw his goal out like a bomb.

However, the reporters' reaction was not strong enough, because they had been frightened by the thirty-one goals they had calculated before.

Compared to thirty-one goals, twenty goals seemed a little less...

Of course, the reporters quickly reacted—thirty-one goals was indeed too outrageous, and twenty goals was already shocking enough.

Twenty goals! So far, no player has been able to score so many goals in a single season in European competitions... Even Messi only scored eighteen goals in the Champions League, which is still two goals short of twenty goals.

But... everyone thought again and felt something was wrong—why do we still feel that twenty goals is not impactful enough... Hero has already scored seventeen goals, if he really makes it to the finals, will he only score three goals in the remaining seven games? That would be too bad for a shooter of Chen Hero's level, right?

Many reporters didn't realize that Chen Hero had spoiled their appetites. Logically speaking, if it were someone else who could achieve such an achievement, a group of media would definitely rush to praise them. But when it came to Chen Hero, everyone would feel that it was not strong enough... It was really a blatant double standard!

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Although the media's reaction was not very intense, they still did their best to exaggerate when writing the news, expressing their surprise at Chen Hero's goal.

Although the reporters were not too surprised, they didn't mind fueling the flames, making everyone feel surprised, so as to form a topic.

The media was very successful in inciting people's hearts and controlling other people's thoughts and emotions. After their rendering, the news that Chen Hero would score at least twenty goals in the Europa League this season spread throughout the world in an instant, and then spread from Europe to China and other places.

Now, as long as people who pay attention to football, even if they don't pay attention to Chen Hero, know Chen Hero's "great goal".

Everyone also had one more topic in their usual discussions.

Chinese fans and Liverpool fans are supportive. They even think that it is easy for Chen Hero to complete this goal, because he is only three goals away. And they also believe that Chen Hero can definitely lead Liverpool into the finals, in which case he will have seven games to play, and twenty goals is not difficult at all.

Some people are skeptical. They think Chen Hero is too arrogant. He said what he wanted to do at this time, and he didn't take their next round of opponents seriously at all. Many people began to hope that Chen Hero would not be able to complete this goal. As long as Liverpool is eliminated in the next round, they can...

The media succeeded. Everyone learned about and began to discuss this topic, and even two factions of people who supported Chen Hero and questioned Chen Hero argued.

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As the head of UEFA, Platini is very busy, but sometimes he will take time out of his busy schedule to sit down, drink a cup of coffee, read the newspaper, and take a nap.

As a major topic in European football these days, he naturally couldn't not know the news that Chen Hero claimed to score twenty goals in the Europa League this season.

However, before that, he had only heard about it, and didn't know what happened specifically. So now, taking advantage of his rest time, he found a newspaper with a detailed report on this matter to read.

After reading it, he realized that information would always have various deviations and accidents in the process of dissemination, and the information he could finally get might be completely different from the original information.

For example, he didn't know until he read the newspaper that Chen Hero's big talk was far more than he thought. What he said was not just scoring twenty goals in a single season, but at least twenty goals.

The two statements differ by one word, and the meaning is vastly different.

Scoring twenty goals in a single season can be understood as scoring a maximum of twenty goals. When he reaches twenty goals, his goal will be achieved, and he may lose the motivation to continue moving forward.

Scoring at least twenty goals in a single season means that the minimum goal is twenty goals. After reaching this number, he is very likely to continue to rush upwards, with no upper limit. It is possible to score as many goals as he wants, as long as he wants to score.

The latter is more scary than the former.

However, everyone seems to be focusing on the number "twenty" at the moment. After all, this is the most intuitive. Messi only scored eighteen goals in the Champions League last season...

Speaking of Messi... Platini was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

He suddenly understood why Chen Hero had to be so persistent about the number "twenty". It was exactly two more goals than Messi, and it might be even more. Wasn't this just telling the world—I am stronger than Messi?

How naive!

Platini snorted in his heart.

But he doesn't intend to stop Chen Hero.

He even hopes that Chen Hero's Liverpool can go further in the Europa League.

In this way, everyone's appetite will be whetted, and they can see if Chen Hero can really deliver on his promise.

Although Platini has a lot of ill feelings towards Chen Hero, personal feelings are personal feelings. The current Europa League has greatly declined in attractiveness, and he even wants to cut the Europa League and merge it with the Champions League.

At this time, Chen Hero came up with the idea of scoring at least twenty goals in a single season in the Europa League.

Everyone's interest was immediately aroused.

Look at what the European and even the world's sports media and fans are discussing and paying attention to these days?

Chen Hero's "twenty goal" declaration!

Platini had to admit that Chen Hero is a natural topic generator. As long as he is there, no matter how bad the game is, he can make a lot of noise. He really has the ability to turn decay into magic...

So although he is not happy with Chen Hero, Chen Hero has an important role in expanding and promoting the influence of the Europa League, so he will not mix his personal feelings into it. Not only that, he will even push Chen Hero...

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