The Romans were now extremely nervous, feeling as if every one of Napoli's attacks would break through Doni's goal.

In the sky above the Stadio San Paolo, cheers and boos were evenly divided.

Many Napoli fans had not forgiven Chen Hero. Since Chen Hero intended to fight them to the death, they would not back down.

Chen Hero no longer cared about the boos. When he played in Russia, at the Luzhniki Stadium, tens of thousands of people booed him throughout the game, but he still scored goals and defeated his opponents.

So, if many fans thought that booing could interfere with him, they were just daydreaming.

Just like former assistant coach Borowiec, who had decided to sign him, believed, this big guy had a big heart to match his build and could withstand tremendous pressure.

Would Chen Hero be satisfied with completing a hat trick?

No.

They hadn't won the game yet. With no win, what was there to be satisfied about?

What was the purpose of a striker scoring goals? It wasn't to pad his stats and win the Golden Boot. If his goals didn't bring victory to the team, then he wasn't a qualified striker!

So, for the sake of the team's victory, Chen Hero was still searching for opportunities to score.

He was like a hound with a keen sense of smell, running wherever there was a possibility of scoring.

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Chen Hero's range of motion suddenly expanded. He used to stay in the penalty area obediently, waiting for his teammates to pass him the ball. What if his teammates couldn't pass it to him? At most, he would withdraw from the penalty area and continue to wait. What if his teammates still couldn't pass it to him?

Then he would be helpless.

Withdraw further back? Even if he could turn around after getting the ball, he couldn't carry it forward, he could only pass the ball to his teammates, and then continue to run forward to wait for opportunities. In that case... he might as well not come back in the first place.

So Chen Hero rarely retreated very far. He knew that his ball control and dribbling weren't very good, and retreating to support wouldn't be very useful.

Now it was different, people could even see him near the center circle.

He retreated so far because Chen Hero had some confidence in his footwork.

After ten days of hard training in the instance dungeon, to the point of exhaustion, if he still didn't see any results, then he could announce his retirement—that would only prove that he had no talent for playing football.

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Spalletti was very nervous, standing at the forefront of the command area. He had been here ever since the team conceded its second goal and hadn't gone back.

Now that a two-goal lead had turned into a tie, he was even more nervous.

Would this game end in defeat?

If that were the case... it would be really unacceptable!

He looked at his watch. There were still more than ten minutes left in the game.

He planned to make another substitution.

But he didn't intend to give up attacking. He knew very well that in these last ten minutes, if he gave up attacking and focused on defending, the final result would definitely be their goal being broken.

Because ten minutes was still enough for Napoli, who had gone crazy, and for Chen Hero, who had gone crazy, enough for them to score another goal.

Only by continuing to maintain offensive pressure, forcing Napoli's defense to shrink, and preventing them from supporting the attack in the frontcourt—especially Maggio and Vitale, the two wingers, whose assists on the flanks would be the main source of Chen Hero's goals.

Napoli was playing with three defenders, which meant there was a lot of space on their flanks, and if Roma could put pressure on this point, Maggio and Vitale would have to retreat to defend.

At that time, the support Chen Hero could get would be greatly reduced, and the pressure he put on Roma's defense would naturally be lighter.

Spalletti brought on Totti to put pressure on Napoli's defense.

This substitution worked, and Napoli's two wing forwards immediately retreated to assist in defense.

Chen Hero couldn't continue to wait for the ball in the penalty area, so he simply retreated to the vicinity of the center circle.

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There was one thing that was always intentionally or unintentionally ignored by many people.

In fact, everyone knew it, but they always couldn't remember it.

This included those Chinese media who claimed to know Chen Hero very well.

That thing was... Chen Hero's speed was actually not slow!

*** was a fast horse well-known to Chinese fans. His peak speed was not slow, and his 100-meter speed was also 11.5 seconds, in the same range as Chen Hero.

Most people didn't know that Chen Hero was fast because he didn't have many opportunities to show off this skill...

But Bayern Munich's center-back Demichelis would definitely not forget the moment when he turned around and found that Chen Hero had already left him behind. Unfortunately, Demichelis would not be present at the Stadio San Paolo at this moment to remind Roma's players, fans, and coach.

Therefore, here, now, there was only one person who knew this characteristic of Chen Hero.

That person was... Andrei Arshavin, who had cooperated with Chen Hero for three seasons at Zenit Saint Petersburg!

When Roma had just completed an attack and was retreating to defend, Arshavin received a pass from Hamsik in the backcourt.

He looked up and saw Chen Hero roaming near the center circle, so he directly sent the football forward with a straight pass.

Chen Hero had also been looking back to observe the situation of his teammates. When he saw Arshavin getting the ball, their tacit understanding made him quickly choose to run.

He ran to the same spot as Arshavin's pass!

"Chen Hero receives the ball. This is Napoli's counterattack, but now there is only Chen Hero alone in Napoli's frontcourt..."

The commentators were not too excited. Because they all knew that Chen Hero was extremely bad at dribbling, so this ball falling at his feet basically meant that a quick counterattack had been terminated. Chen Hero would definitely take the football down, and then carefully protect the ball, not letting the opponent take it away would be his greatest achievement.

He would wait for his teammates, such as Arshavin, Hamsik, Maggio, Vitale, and others, to rush up to support him, and then he would pass the football out.

But at this time, Roma's players were all in place. A quick counterattack could not be launched, but fortunately, the ball was still at their feet, and they could reorganize the attack and continue to find a way.

If Arshavin or Lavezzi, who had already been substituted, had gotten the ball in this situation, I'm afraid a group of commentators would have collectively reached climax, and their voices would have been eight degrees higher.

In fact, not only did they have this idea, but the Roma players also had this idea. Before, they were worried that Napoli would seize the time to launch a counterattack, but when they saw Chen Hero receiving the ball, their hearts were at ease. This big guy was not good at dribbling, not good at breaking through, had no speed, and no skills. What did he have besides his body? But the body was the most unnecessary quality in a counterattack.

Thinking of this, some Roma players who were desperately retreating slowed down their pace—they had been fighting for more than seventy minutes, and their physical strength had reached a critical point. They were panting, and the fatigue period had not yet passed. Everyone's legs were a little heavy. If they hadn't been thinking about not losing the ball, they wouldn't have gritted their teeth and chased back...

But just when the Roma players' hearts relaxed, they saw Chen Hero suddenly lunge forward with the ball!

The last time Chen Hero went to meet Kahn alone, he kicked the football five or six meters away, almost letting Kahn pounce ahead of time.

This time, it could be seen that his ball-lunging technique had improved significantly.

At least the football was finally at a suitable distance...

Mexès, who was 1.87 meters tall, had been Chen Hero's marker ever since the first goal was conceded. He and Juan had switched. Although Juan's heading skills were also excellent, he was twelve centimeters shorter than Chen Hero. When all other conditions were the same for the two, this height disadvantage determined Juan's tragedy.

So Mexès took over Juan's job.

When he saw Chen Hero lunging forward with the ball, he was stunned for a moment—he didn't expect Chen Hero to rush towards the penalty area.

His thoughts were the same as everyone else's, thinking that Chen Hero would steady himself and wait for his teammates to come up. So he didn't prepare to cut off Chen Hero's path at first.

Who would have thought that Chen Hero on the wing would suddenly break through with the ball!

In a hurry, he quickly went to cut off the inside line, so that with Chen Hero's footwork, he could only move on the wing, and there was no possibility of breaking through Mexès and rushing straight into the penalty area.

Just when Mexès hurriedly set up his formation to prepare to meet the enemy.

He suddenly saw a blur in front of him!

What did he see?

Chen Hero's feet swayed!

He thought that Chen Hero was going to push the ball to the outside, and the center of gravity of his body shifted over with it, but just when he had just tilted his body, he found that it was just a feint!

Chen Hero's left foot went around the football, but didn't touch the football. The football was still moving forward in a straight line!

Immediately afterward, before Mexès could react, he saw Chen Hero push the football to the inside line with his right foot! Then he chased after it.

The football and Chen Hero broke through Mexès's body to the left side!

Bicycle kick?!

This was the only thought in Mexès's mind.

A 1.93-meter-tall guy did a bicycle kick in front of him and shook him away!

"Whoa—!"

The fans in the stands couldn't help but exclaim after seeing this scene.

No one had ever seen Chen Hero show off his personal skills on the court before. What he did was very simple, which was to receive the ball and shoot. He rarely dribbled, let alone dribbling skills...

But now Chen Hero used the simplest bicycle kick to get past Mexès!

He was the last center back in Roma's defense!

Chen Hero, who had gotten past Mexès, dribbled the ball from the right corner of the penalty area into the penalty area.

Then he made some adjustments, and Doni came out to attack.

Chen Hero didn't continue to carry the ball forward. After adjusting his body, he suddenly shot directly!

When he had just entered the penalty area, for Chen Hero, this could barely be considered a long shot!

The "Heavy Cannon" talent was activated!

The football passed by Doni, who was rushing out to attack. Doni reflexively made a diving motion, but his reaction was obviously slower than the football, so it looked like... as if he had been knocked down by the football!

The football that "knocked down" Doni rushed straight to the far corner of the goal, then hit the inside of the goalpost, and then bounced back down!

It fell into the goal...

At this moment, Mount Vesuvius erupted!

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ps, Come on, quadruple!

Come on, monthly tickets!!

Use the tickets in your hands to celebrate Chen Hero's first quadruple in his career!!
Chapter 4 The Quadruple