When Chen Hero blasted the football into Manchester United’s goal with his favored right foot, the old manager Ferguson didn’t make any overly drastic movements. His body just swayed a little, and then he continued to stand on the sidelines, his face unreadable. Perhaps only those who knew him best could detect the difference—the speed at which he chewed his gum was much faster than before.

Chewing gum can distract from things, and help alleviate tension. When Ferguson chewed his gum rapidly, it actually meant he was incredibly nervous and anxious inside.

Chen Hero's goal made his heart beat very fast for a time, so fast he couldn't breathe, and he almost thought he would just collapse to the ground like that, and never get up again.

But at this moment, the experience of an old manager who had been through countless storms, and a champion’s heart, saved his life, so his body just swayed and he ultimately stood firm.

But his heart was still beating very fast, and he had to desperately chew his gum, the speed even faster than his heartbeat...

A huge sense of failure and frustration was assailing the old manager.

Everything he had meticulously planned and prepared had been smashed to pieces by this young man before him.

But this wasn't the most deadly thing. The most deadly thing was that what he had once confidently believed to be the truth, turned out to be just a façade created by his opponent...

He thought Liverpool was exhausted, and that Chen Hero’s failure to score in the previous league match meant that he was in poor form.

Who would have thought that Liverpool didn't show any signs of fatigue throughout the entire match? And there was no way Chen Hero, who had scored three goals and assisted another, could be considered to be in “poor form”...

If this counted as poor form, then it would be impossible to find many people who weren't in poor form!

Ferguson, experienced and having seen all sorts of scenes, had actually lost because of his own experience…

This was the most deadly thing.

He even had a thought welling up from the depths of his heart: Am I really getting old? Even judgments I was originally sure of have gone wrong. Is my experience no longer applicable to this modern world? I thought Liverpool should be exhausted from fighting on two fronts, but they weren’t. I’ve been played. Can my body no longer withstand this kind of impact? It’s just losing a championship, so why do I feel like I’m about to die…?

He just stood there on the sidelines, constantly watching Liverpool players spread their arms and run past him, heading to the corner flag, where a “human pyramid” was being put on.

Next to him, in front of Liverpool's coaching bench, Martin O'Neill, who he had contemptuously dismissed as a “greenhorn” before the match, was howling at the sky, raising his arms and shouting.

And behind him, the entire Manchester United bench and coaching staff were silent. Not just here, but in the stands behind him, the silence gradually spread, and it was all deathly still.

At that moment, Ferguson thought he was in a morgue, and a chill climbed up his back along his spine.

※※※

How many people have experienced the feeling of the entire Old Trafford stadium being as silent and still as a ghost town?

Now they had the good fortune to experience it.

Before Chen Hero kicked the football, the stands of Old Trafford stadium were filled with boos to interfere with Chen Hero. However, when Chen Hero knocked the football into the goal, the entire Old Trafford stadium suddenly fell silent—although there were cheers from the Liverpool fans, the voices of three thousand people could be completely ignored in such a large stadium.

Especially for the Manchester United fans, they automatically filtered out the cheers of the Liverpool fans. At this moment, Old Trafford stadium was a silent city for them!

The silence was terrifying, and their bodies began to tremble uncontrollably.

Many people weren't unable to make a sound, but simply didn't want to. They clenched the scarves in their hands, and their eyes were already turning red. More than seventy-two thousand people, sitting or standing, were just there, but no one made a sound. It was as if they didn't exist at all.

The reporters in the press box were very unaccustomed to this scene, and many of them knew reporters who often reported on matches related to Manchester United at Old Trafford. They had never seen Old Trafford so quiet either. They raised their heads and looked around, and all they saw were heartbroken Manchester United fans.

Before this match, these people really believed that under the leadership of the Old Sir, Manchester United could defeat the invading Liverpool at home.

But who would have thought that Liverpool would be more tenacious and fiercer than they had imagined?

"It seems Hero really has scared Manchester United... They're all silent, and haven't recovered from their disappointment and frustration..."

"I have never seen such a dismal scene at Old Trafford. It seems that even the most die-hard and extreme Manchester United fans have realized that their league championship dream is coming to an end."

The reporters discussed among themselves.

The reporters who supported Manchester United were in low spirits and looked dejected. The reporters who supported Liverpool were ecstatic, waving their arms and legs.

The press box was also a small grandstand, acting out all sorts of different things.

※※※

The silent Old Trafford stadium only ended when Chen Hero and Sanchez were pulled up from the ground by their teammates.

Some Manchester United fans booed Chen Hero, but most Manchester United fans gave their applause and songs to Manchester United, who were doomed to fail.

They used this kind of action to tell the dispirited Manchester United players—isn't it just a league championship? If we don't have it, then we don't have it. We’ve already won so many that our hands have gone soft. It’s no big deal to let them have one! Next season, let us make a comeback! We are the glorious Red Devils fans, we are the kings of England!

Chen Hero also heard the songs of the Manchester United fans. He raised his head and looked at the fans in red jerseys in the stands. Their eyes were still red, but they had recovered, and they had all stood up from their seats, their faces serious.

He grinned.

Such opponents are so exciting!

As expected of the Premier League overlord Manchester United, a centipede, though dead, will not fall.

Chen Hero could completely foresee that in the next few seasons, this team would be Liverpool's number one enemy. But he didn't feel unhappy because of this. On the contrary, he was very happy. Challenging strong enemies, completely defeating strong enemies, destroying them, eliminating them, Chen Hero regarded these as challenges, challenges that could make him feel excited.

Constantly challenging strong enemies will also allow him to constantly improve. Is a person who has defeated all the heroes in the world considered a hero?

Chen Hero thought so.

His thinking was so simple. In today's world football, as long as they are strong teams, he would go through them one by one. If one time wasn't enough, he'd go through them twice. If two times wasn't enough, he'd go through them three times... Anyway, he would fight until he was satisfied.

When there was no stronger opponent than him in the world, then he should be the number one person in the football world, right?

At that time, he could be regarded as a hero.

Thinking of this, he raised his fist and waved at those Manchester United fans.

This was a demonstration.

But not every opponent could make Chen Hero take the initiative to demonstrate like this. Chen Hero simply couldn't stand some teams, so naturally he wouldn't pay attention to them. Or he would say some polite words that were good for everyone, so that others would think that Chen Hero wasn't that arrogant and was actually pretty easy to get along with. But this was because he didn't value you from the bottom of his heart.

If it was a strong team, a strong team that could threaten him, Chen Hero's reaction would be completely different.

He would definitely mock them first and then provoke them, saying the nastiest things he could. Behind the scenes, he would work very hard to improve himself, with the goal of defeating the other party. Being able to make him work so hard and take it seriously was naturally because you had the strength and capital.

However, for their opponents, it was contradictory—would they rather be looked down upon by Chen Hero, and then Chen Hero would carelessly let them off the hook? Or would they rather receive this "special" recognition from Chen Hero?

In the eyes of Manchester United fans, Chen Hero's action was a blatant provocation. Chen Hero had a bad reputation, so when people thought about it, their first thought was definitely to throw dirt at Chen Hero.

Since it was a provocation, then they had to fight back!

The extreme Manchester United fans booed and cursed, and even gave the middle finger, responding to Chen Hero's raised fist.

Chen Hero wasn't angry but happy. Seeing that the Manchester United fans were so motivated, he smiled even more happily.

He didn't care at all what his image was in the hearts of Manchester United fans.

※※※

Although everyone believed that the match had lost its suspense, and Liverpool was bound to win this match, the match still had to continue.

The stoppage time had to be played in full.

After the match restarted, there was really no suspense. The Manchester United players seemed to have no intention of fighting.

The Liverpool players also had no intention of fighting—right now, their minds were filled with the league championship that was about to be in their hands!

They would become the people who helped Liverpool lift the Premier League trophy for the first time, and be eternally recorded in history!

They had already begun to imagine what the city of Liverpool would look like then, how they would celebrate, and what it would feel like to kiss the Premier League trophy.

These questions filled the brains of the Liverpool players.

If the Manchester United players had the will to fight, maybe they could miraculously equalize, and tie the score at the last moment of the match.

But unfortunately, they had been frightened by Chen Hero's goal—the seeds that had been planted before had finally taken root and sprouted, and then grew into countless thorny vines.

The Manchester United players lost their fighting spirit as soon as they thought that Liverpool had a Chen Hero. Because no matter how many goals they scored or how many times they took the lead, Chen Hero could equalize the score and then overtake them.

This was too hopeless.

It was as if there was no need to play the match at all. As long as there was Chen Hero, Liverpool was bound to win.

Ferguson naturally saw this problem as well, but psychological reconstruction takes time. It wasn't something that could be achieved just by him yelling a few words from the sidelines and the players would be reborn.

He could only wait for the match to end, and then slowly rebuild the players' confidence.

As for this match…

He sighed in his heart.

It seemed that they were bound to lose. Whether he was willing or not, he had to accept this fact—their mortal enemy Liverpool was stepping on their corpses, approaching the throne of the championship, that trophy, they could already reach out and touch it…