Boas thus gave up on the FA Cup this season, even though they were only one game away from the semi-finals.

But he gave it up without hesitation, like a warrior cutting off his own arm.

His approach naturally caused dissatisfaction from Aguero. Manchester City wanted to win the league title, but it was basically impossible. Now, the FA Cup was the only competition in which Manchester City had a chance of winning a title. He had been with Manchester City for five seasons and was definitely leaving next season, but he had never won a championship.

He especially wanted a title; he didn't want his years at Manchester City to be empty-handed.

But Boas strangled his hopes.

He was unconvinced, unwilling, and angry.

So he went to Boas.

Aguero's opening line was to get Boas to allow him to participate in the FA Cup, even if it was with the reserves.

Boas was taken aback. He didn't expect Aguero to do the same thing as Chen Hero.

Although Aguero was very powerful, because of the public conflict between the two sides, Aguero hadn't been in Manchester City's starting lineup for three weeks.

Boas didn't intend to rely on Aguero to win a spot in the European competition next season.

Therefore, he didn't have much opinion on Aguero going to play in the FA Cup. Anyway, if he got injured or tired, it wouldn't affect the first team.

So, after only being surprised, he agreed to Aguero's request.

Aguero was excited when he left the coach's office.

He cheered for his decision.

Because this was an excellent opportunity to prove that he was no worse than Chen Hero.

Why had Chen Hero achieved extraordinary things and risen to fame in the past two seasons?

The story of him leading a reserve team to defeat Premier League teams one after another, and finally winning the cup, clearly helped him a lot.

Aguero didn't think he was worse than Chen Hero. So, since Chen Hero could do it, so could he.

In his opinion, leading the reserve team was just a gimmick. In fact, the only role of the reserve team was to give him enough people to qualify for the competition. The real decision-maker was still Chen Hero or himself.

So this game became a duel between himself and Chen Hero.

This happened to be what he wanted.

He had always believed that Liverpool gave Chen Hero unconditional support, which was why Chen Hero had become so awesome.

But at Manchester City, he had never received such treatment.

But when he came to the reserve team, the situation was different.

First of all, in terms of strength, the strength of the two reserve teams was not much different.

Secondly, as Manchester City's number one star, he could obviously get the kind of support he dreamed of in the reserve team.

With this all-round unconditional support, he was confident that he could fight Chen Hero to the death.

As long as he could lead the team to defeat Liverpool and Chen Hero, he would definitely create a miracle that would shock the football world.

And then, he led the team into the semi-finals. At that time, even if Boas wanted to give up, he probably wouldn't be able to.

He could only follow his instructions.

The thought of making that annoying guy Boas bow his head to him made him feel very happy.

This was his last wish at Manchester City.

Before leaving, he wanted to let the damn Manchester City executives know what a big mistake it was to sell him, and he also let Boas know that even if he was leaving, he still had the final say in this team!

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When both sides of this FA Cup battle announced their rosters, everyone was stunned.

Liverpool had a reserve team plus Chen Hero. This was not unexpected, and everyone was used to it. Now they even felt that this was normal.

But Manchester City was not so normal.

Manchester City was exactly the same as Liverpool, and also sent out a full reserve team plus Aguero!

If it was just a full reserve team lineup, it would be normal, meaning giving up the game. But what was the point of adding Aguero, the first-team star?

Was this giving up, or not giving up?

The media fell into the kind of confusion they had when they first saw Liverpool's reserve team plus Chen Hero.

Then they thought of a possibility. Although this possibility seemed absurd to them, it was the closest to the truth so far.

That was that Aguero also wanted to be like Chen Hero, single-handedly leading a reserve team into the final and lifting the FA Cup!

Aguero's displeasure with Chen Hero's limelight was no secret in English football.

Because he never thought he was worse than Chen Hero, but neither his achievements nor his fame were as good as Chen Hero's.

So he had always had the idea of overwhelming Chen Hero.

Since Chen Hero could lead the reserve team to win the cup, Aguero, who had never thought he was worse than Chen Hero, naturally had this idea.

He might not be at Manchester City next season, so this was the last chance.

He must take this opportunity to compete with Chen Hero and not leave any regrets for his five seasons in England.

This was the only answer the media could think of.

This time they were right.

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Martin O'Neill was also taken aback when he first saw Manchester City's roster and couldn't figure out whether the other side was giving up or not.

Later, when he thought about his own situation, he suddenly understood.

Aguero wanted to compete with Chen Hero!

But…

He laughed.

He didn't think that a makeshift reserve team plus Aguero could threaten Liverpool's reserve team.

No one knew what kind of price Liverpool's reserve team had paid to participate in the FA Cup and League Cup.

They thought that the reserve team only practiced with Chen Hero the day before the game, and then went on the field, and that the reserve team and Chen Hero were completely two systems.

If Manchester City thought so too, he wouldn't mind letting Manchester City lose miserably.

After experiencing two seasons of cup matches with the reserve team, Martin O'Neill had long changed his attitude of underestimating the reserve team. He knew too well how much the team had paid to get to where they were today.

Any idea that they were just lazy and enjoying themselves behind Chen Hero was an insult to them.

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After the rosters of both sides came out, reporters immediately thought of Chen Hero. Everyone knew about the grievances between Chen Hero and Aguero. Although it was not as hateful as his feuds with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, Aguero was the only one in England who didn't get along with him.

They wanted to hear Chen Hero's opinion on Manchester City's lineup.

Chen Hero said it very simply, but also very powerfully: "I have no opinion. Anyway, we are destined to win."

He didn't deliberately anger Aguero or Manchester City, nor did he want to satisfy the media's desire to provide ammunition for hype.

He was telling the truth.

After seeing Manchester City's roster, he knew that his team was destined to win.

It was very simple. Liverpool's reserve team had spent a lot of effort to train in order to have today's performance. What about Manchester City? They obviously hadn't done any targeted practice before, otherwise they would have done so long ago, but they wouldn't wait until they were about to meet Liverpool to temporarily embrace Buddha's feet.

What kind of combat power could a team that didn't have enough respect for the FA Cup have?

Whether it was Aguero or the Manchester City reserve team players, did they think that they could win the trophy by following a powerful player for a walk in the FA Cup?

This kind of mentality was simply a great insult to the Liverpool reserve team.

This kind of team, the Liverpool reserve team could beat five of them with one hand!

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Aguero got everything he wanted. In the reserve team, he was the big brother, he was the most dazzling star, so he became the core of the tactics, all the reserve team players had to serve him, he enjoyed absolute privileges in the team, and he could boss anyone around.

In training, he even played the role of coach. When he was dissatisfied with his teammates' performance, he could scold them.

No one dared to question whether he was qualified, and no one dared to refute him.

After all, even if he failed in the power struggle with Boas, he was still an unshakable behemoth for the people in the reserve team.

He enjoyed this feeling very much.

He began to be confident that he could lead the reserve team to defeat Chen Hero and his Liverpool reserve team.

This was fair competition…

He thought so in his heart.

Then he waited for the moment of the final battle.

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Manchester City's Etihad Stadium was full of people, and Manchester City fans had almost dyed the stadium sky blue.

This FA Cup quarter-final was more favorable to Manchester City because Manchester City was playing at home. Therefore, the Manchester City reserve team could get the enthusiastic support of tens of thousands of Manchester City fans.

This made Aguero even more confident of winning.

But he didn't look up. In the large blue area in the stands, the red of the Liverpool fans seemed… very glaring.

It was like wounds torn open on the Etihad Stadium, revealing the red flesh and blood inside, and blood was flowing continuously.

Chen Hero was very clear about Aguero's hatred for him. But he had never taken it seriously. After all, compared to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, Aguero was not enough.

But it was annoying to be bitten on the leg by an ant all the time.

Since the other party was about to get out, he might as well send him on his way, completely crush him to death, so as not to have too many unnecessary delusions in his mind.

So from the beginning of this game, Chen Hero went all out.

Not only him, but also the players of the Liverpool reserve team. Because Martin O'Neill told them before the game that the Manchester City reserve team actually妄想 *wangxiang* (to attempt something impossible) to do the same thing as them by temporarily grinding their guns. This was the biggest insult to all the efforts of the reserve team players. In order to defend the dignity of the Liverpool reserve team, they must defeat Manchester City and tell them that this was not going to work. If anyone did not work hard and wanted to get a rich reward, it would be a humiliation to all the people in the world who had made efforts!

These words had a good effect. After the game started, the players of the Liverpool reserve team rushed to the half and penalty area of the Manchester City reserve team like a group of small lions, roaring.

But only five minutes later, they took control of the game and took the initiative!