Chapter 1 Liverpool's Winning Streak

After defeating Feyenoord at home, Liverpool has achieved two consecutive victories in this season's Champions League group stage. Some media outlets have commented that their performance "has rendered the group of death completely harmless."

Originally, everyone thought Liverpool had been placed in a group of death, with Paris Saint-Germain, Feyenoord, and Valencia, none of whom were easy to deal with.

Who would have thought that after just two rounds of group matches, Liverpool would be at the top of the table with six points, making them the team with the best situation right now.

If this momentum continues, it shouldn't be too difficult for Liverpool to secure a spot in the knockout stage ahead of time.

Liverpool's victory itself is not worth mentioning.

It is the competition between Chen Hero and Messi that has aroused everyone's interest.

Through yesterday's game, the competition between the two has become clear, unfolding starkly.

Neither side intends to hide it. After scoring, Messi twice picked up the ball to kick off without any celebration. After hearing that Messi had scored two goals, Chen Hero also quickly scored twice in response.

Both Messi and Chen Hero are among the top players in football today.

Such obvious competition between the two makes many people look forward to it.

Previously, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi had engaged in a fierce battle for the top scorer award in La Liga. However, they were competing in La Liga at the time, and the influence of the Champions League is naturally higher than that of La Liga.

The competition between Messi and Chen Hero in the Champions League is exhilarating. These are two top players, and their rivalry is a clash of masters. People certainly love to watch masters compete.

Will Chen Hero be able to reclaim the Golden Boot that once belonged to him, or will Messi successfully defend his Golden Boot and win the Champions League's top scorer award for the third consecutive year?

This suspense will become the main theme of European football in the coming season.

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There are many stories to tell surrounding the competition between the two.

For example, a recent scoop from an English media outlet.

"...In Barcelona's away game against Dynamo Kyiv, the Dynamo Kyiv fans at the stadium actually cheered for the visiting team's Messi. What's going on?... It turns out that it's due to the competition between Messi and Chen Hero... Dynamo Kyiv fans are clearly also Messi fans, and they all hope that in this highly anticipated competition, Messi can defeat Chen Hero..."

As soon as this news came out, it attracted a lot of attention. It's not that home fans cheering for visiting players has never happened before, but it has never been done so blatantly.

For example, when Ronaldinho was still playing for Barcelona, he once played exceptionally well in a Spanish Clasico against Real Madrid. After dribbling past several defenders and scoring a beautiful goal, he was applauded by the Real Madrid fans in the stands.

This can be considered winning the enemy's praise.

But such praise is also limited. For example, when those Real Madrid fans were applauding, their expressions were actually indifferent, with no joy on their faces. They were impressed by Ronaldinho's superb skills, but that didn't mean they would become Ronaldinho fans. They still clearly recognized that Ronaldinho was their enemy, and they were Real Madrid fans, so they would never sincerely and happily cheer for Barcelona players.

Being able to stand up and applaud only reflected their gentlemanly demeanor, and even contained anger and disappointment at Real Madrid's poor performance.

The Ukrainian fans behaved differently; they were cheering for Messi from the bottom of their hearts, without being forced to. Moreover, from the live broadcast footage, many people had obvious smiles on their faces. They were cheering for Messi as his fans.

After learning about this, Chen Hero publicly expressed his views.

"...I think it's disgusting. They are Dynamo Kyiv fans, how can they openly cheer for their opponents while the game is still going on? And they're smiling so happily, the cheering has nothing to do with the game at the time... No, if you follow their cheering, then the Argentine has to score a few more goals against Dynamo Kyiv. I can't imagine what kind of moron could do such a thing... I don't know what the Dynamo Kyiv players think, but if this happened to me, I definitely wouldn't be able to stand it! Fortunately, it's worth celebrating that our Kops would never do such spineless things!"

In fact, what Dynamo Kyiv fans do has nothing to do with Chen Hero, and it is indeed a bit puzzling that he jumped out to criticize Dynamo Kyiv fans. But who told those Dynamo Kyiv fans to cheer for Messi, and to hope that Messi would defeat him?

This made Chen Hero very unhappy, and he felt a surge of anger in his heart—it seems like I haven't offended you Dynamo Kyiv, have I? So far, I haven't even played against a Ukrainian team! Why are you so biased towards Messi for no reason? If you're going to be biased, why not be biased towards me, why do you have to go against me?

Those sons of bitches!

Chen Hero was standing up to criticize Dynamo Kyiv fans because of this unhappiness in his heart.

If he had offended Dynamo Kyiv fans before, like his grudges with Besiktas fans, or his grudges with Manchester City fans, he would have no complaints if the opposing fans messed with him, and he would only mess back.

Now, the Dynamo Kyiv fans are doing this, which makes him very frustrated, because he feels like he's been stabbed in the back!

Chen Hero's resentful words, like sparks, ignited a fuse, and everyone stood up to express their views on this matter.

Liverpool naturally supported Chen Hero, and criticized the Dynamo Kyiv fans for being too spineless.

Barcelona spoke up for the Dynamo Kyiv fans, believing that people have the freedom to choose who to cheer for, and Ukraine is a democratic and free country, and no one can force others to accept their views. Therefore, Chen Hero is naturally not qualified to talk nonsense about the Dynamo Kyiv fans.

In addition, other media outlets and football celebrities stood up to cheer for their respective camps.

It was quite lively for a while.

These actions have hyped up the competition between Chen Hero and Messi, letting more people know about it and pay attention to it.

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In the end, no one argued whether this matter was right or wrong. There is no right or wrong in this kind of thing, and you cannot convince the other party to agree with your opinion. So the momentum is to attract attention. As time passes, the number of people paying attention to this matter will gradually decrease, and then naturally no one will mention this matter again.

The only result is that the Chen Hero-Messi rivalry has risen to a new level—even the home fans are willing to defect to cheer for Messi. How fierce is the competition between these two!

Chen Hero didn't say anything else after initially stating his views in an interview.

He is now working non-stop. Everyone else can rest, but he can't. Therefore, he doesn't have extra energy to argue with others in the media. Although many people want to argue with him...

After the Champions League game against Feyenoord, there is another important game on the weekend—Liverpool's away game against Manchester City!

It has to be said that these few games are very important for Liverpool. The league has just started, and Liverpool has been surrounded by strong enemies, and their ability to achieve six consecutive victories further proves their strength.

In the fourth round of the league, Liverpool defeated Manchester United 2-1 at home, followed by the first round of the Champions League group stage against Paris Saint-Germain. In the sixth round of the league, Liverpool challenged Everton away, which was like a Merseyside derby. After the Merseyside derby, it was the Champions League group stage match against Feyenoord.

After the Merseyside derby, it will be the league match against Manchester City.

This high-intensity confrontation is also a test of the Liverpool team's physical fitness and willpower.

Considering Manchester City's strength and the special significance of the battle between Liverpool and Manchester City, Martin O'Neill will not rotate players, and this game will definitely be played with all the main players.

However, before this game, there is one less topic for the media to hype. That is, Richards and Chen Hero's personal grudges.

This summer, Mancini, who lost the league title at the last moment for two consecutive seasons, was once on the verge of being sacked. But the final result surprised many people. He was not fired, and the club's senior management even renewed his contract.

Since Mancini was retained, then one person could not be retained... Richards, who had a very serious hatred with Chen Hero, was sold to Tottenham by Mancini.

In this way, there is no one in the Manchester City team who has an irreconcilable feud with Chen Hero. The grudges between Richards and Chen Hero can be talked about for three days and three nights, so it is a pity that he left—Richards' greatest value in Manchester City is to give the media topics to hype.

But now that he is gone, it doesn't mean that the relationship between Liverpool and Manchester City is normal.

Some hatred has nothing to do with personal grudges... The hatred between Manchester City and Liverpool has long been fermented through these two seasons and eventually turned into a "deadly enemy" relationship.

Manchester City suffered losses in Liverpool and lost two league titles. How can they swallow this breath? So even without Richards, this game is still a highly anticipated focus battle.

Not to mention, there are still stories between Chen Hero and Manchester City fans...

Richards, as a promising player cultivated by Manchester City's youth training, has seen his form plummet and was eventually sold by Mancini because he clashed with Chen Hero. This made many Manchester City fans feel unhappy, and they identified Chen Hero as the culprit. Even though Richards is gone, they are still there! They want to seek justice for the sold Richards!

This time, Manchester City is playing at home, so Chen Hero is doomed!