Chen Hero was now the focus of the entire match. Whether it was the coaches from both sides, the fans, or the players, everyone was watching him closely.

Especially the Manchester United players.

When they saw that Chen Hero was still shooting, they completely forgot Ferguson's instructions.

They were furious.

Chen Hero actually dared to try and challenge the entire Manchester United team by himself!

How arrogant!

What does this kid think Manchester United is? Manchester United is an English Premier League giant, the overlord of the Premier League! Liverpool has only won the league title for two consecutive years, how many times have we won it for two consecutive years?

And now you're acting like this?

Such wanton indulgence, arrogance, and frivolity must be severely punished!

You think you can take care of us all by yourself? Then let's see you try!

Ferguson's decision to focus on defending Liverpool's other players, made during halftime, was thrown to the wind by the enraged Manchester United players.

First it was one person, then two, then three, and finally four people surrounded Chen Hero from all directions.

Now it was difficult for Chen Hero to even receive the ball, let alone shoot.

He could no longer receive the ball and then shoot from long range.

But if Chen Hero could be trapped so easily, he wouldn't be the Chen Hero who could score more than a hundred goals in a single season.

So far this season, he had already scored ninety-eight goals in all competitions, and he only needed two more to break the hundred mark again.

Such terrifying goal numbers were not achieved by just randomly shooting.

He quickly changed his strategy.

He no longer frequently retreated to ask for the ball. The arm he raised to ask for the ball did not drop, but simply changed position—he rushed into Manchester United's penalty area to ask for the ball.

There was no need to explain to his teammates. Seeing his position, they knew what he was going to do—he was going to use his most powerful header weapon!

So everyone followed suit and changed their strategy, still passing the ball to him, but this time in the air.

For Manchester United's siege tactics, this approach was obviously easier for Chen Hero to get the ball. After all, when the ball comes from the air, everyone's chances are equal. Manchester United players couldn't block Chen Hero with their bodies, cutting off the connection between the ball and him.

In the air, no one in Manchester United was confident that they could cut off the connection between the ball and Chen Hero, as long as the ball was passed up... if the ball wasn't passed up, that was another story.

Once the ball was passed up, all they could do was try their best to compete with Chen Hero for the header, trying to interfere with him and prevent him from heading the ball towards the goal.

Other than that, they had no other choice.

The only thing they could rely on was their numerical advantage.

Chen Hero was alone, but they could have four people competing with Chen Hero at the same time, surrounding him from all sides, jumping up and making small movements. Anyway, Chen Hero didn't fake falls, so even if they interfered with him, he couldn't do anything about it.

If they dragged on like this, until after the seventy-fifth minute, Manchester United could consider organizing a counterattack.

Chen Hero was Liverpool's most powerful offensive weapon. If they could keep Chen Hero in check, they could severely damage Liverpool's morale.

At that time, Liverpool's offense would be weak, and their defense would naturally collapse.

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The Manchester United players' idea was good, very good, too good.

In the air, there were almost no people who could win against Chen Hero, and not many who could interfere with him.

If Chen Hero went all out, he wouldn't even care about four people.

When he jumped up twice in a row, four Manchester United players jumped up with him, pulling and tugging, successfully preventing Liverpool's two attacks.

Smiles appeared on their faces—this works!

Some people even stole glances at Chen Hero, wanting to see if Chen Hero was impatient and annoyed.

But from Chen Hero's face, they saw nothing.

Chen Hero's face was expressionless, very calm. From his expression, you wouldn't know what he was thinking at all.

Chen Hero was just a little dazed, because these two aerial confrontations reminded him of ten years ago.

At that time, he hadn't debuted yet, and was traveling around the world with his father, trying to find a club that could accept him and continue his professional football career. All the way, they had achieved nothing.

Finally, they came to Russia with the mentality of treating a dead horse as if it were still alive.

When he was training at the CSKA Moscow youth training camp, he faced the players from the CSKA Moscow youth team. In order to deliberately make things difficult for him, the CSKA Moscow coach allowed those youth team players to use both their hands and feet, and even if they fouled, they would not be penalized.

Those people were practically hanging on him to defend him.

And the result?

Chen Hero couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the past.

He was now famous and powerful.

What about those youth team players back then? No one remembers them anymore.

Back then, he was nothing, but he didn't bow his head and admit defeat in the face of that kind of defense, did he?

Compared to that, this Manchester United's defense was really... "ordinary."

So why should I admit defeat today?

The Manchester United players who had been stealing glances at Chen Hero made a new discovery—Chen Hero smiled!

Yes, he smiled!

Crazy! How could he still smile in this situation?

Many Manchester United players were strange about Chen Hero's strange smile, and after being strange, they suddenly felt a chill down their backs.

Could there be other meanings in his smile?

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After Chen Hero finished laughing, he looked at the dense Manchester United players, they wanted to prevent Liverpool from scoring, so they built one, two, three lines of defense in front of the goal.

The layers were clear, and the division of labor was clear.

Such a defense could be called "strict defense."

But today he was going to make these people understand a fact.

That is, no matter what level of defense it is, when he is determined to break it, then he can break it!

Isn't it just more people?

I like it the most. It's always easier to deal with ten at a time than to deal with one at a time and then deal with it ten times, right?

He raised his hand again in the dense crowd.

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In the eyes of Manchester United fans, Liverpool's other players were like robots, completely without their own thoughts. Seeing Chen Hero asking for the ball, they passed the ball over regardless of his position.

In the eyes of many people, such a pass was simply shirking responsibility.

But the Liverpool players knew very well that this was not shirking responsibility. This was because of their trust in Chen Hero.

They believed that Chen Hero would not waste their passes.

They carried this trust and sent the ball to Chen Hero again and again, even if they didn't score in the end, they had no regrets and didn't change.

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The Manchester United players who were defending Chen Hero suddenly felt the pressure on their bodies increase sharply.

But after looking around, it was no different from before. Liverpool players crossed from the two sides, and then Chen Hero jumped up to compete for the header in the middle.

But why did they feel that the pressure had increased…

Soon the Manchester United players knew why.

When Liverpool crossed again, at least four people jumped up to compete with Chen Hero.

Chen Hero also jumped up. He was like he couldn't see the people around him at all, and he pounced on the landing point he was optimistic about, like a ferocious beast.

What if someone was in front of him?

Knock them away!

Phil Jones tilted to the side as soon as he jumped up—he was knocked crooked by Chen Hero.

Before he could scream and fall to the ground and roll twice, the referee Webb's whistle sounded.

Chen Hero fouled in the attack to compete for the header.

This was also one of the reasons why Liverpool had not scored yet.

Some attacks will always be terminated by the referee's whistle.

But Chen Hero didn't complain about the referee's penalty.

He seemed very calm.

He knew that he only needed to keep doing this, and then there would always be a time when he would succeed.

Webb's whistle was like an end-of-class bell for the Manchester United players, letting them breathe a sigh of relief.

Now they probably knew why they felt so much pressure.

Because that Chen Hero… was completely playing a desperate game!

Damn it!

Smalling spat.

"Isn't it just fighting physically?" he said indignantly. "We take the initiative to hit him! Anyway, he doesn't fake falls, and we don't knock him down either. Just let him be interfered with! As long as we can interfere with him and prevent him from scoring!"

Smalling was a little more mature now. He no longer fantasized about being able to overwhelm Chen Hero physically. Instead, he began to recognize the gap between himself and Chen Hero, and calmly think about this problem.

He was able to say that he didn't want to knock him down, just interfere with him, which was already a big step forward.

Even so, his understanding of the gap between himself and Chen Hero was still not enough.

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Webb's penalty did not affect Liverpool's strategy. They continued to pass the ball to the top of Chen Hero's head.

When the ball flew to the Manchester United goal again, at least four people jumped up again.

Smalling even used his body to actively hit Chen Hero.

He thought he could make Chen Hero lose his balance and be unstable, even if it was just for a moment, he could make him head it off target.

But no, Chen Hero didn't move!

And he himself was affected by the reaction force and歪了下去.

This time, Webb didn't blow his whistle to signal that Chen Hero had fouled. Because even a fool could see that Smalling had taken the initiative to hit Chen Hero… No matter how much rumors there were that he was a Manchester United supporter, he couldn't make such a naked and bottomless penalty.

Chen Hero headed the ball, but it was headed a little too straight, and was pushed out by the goalkeeper De Gea with one hand, corner kick!

Although this attack did not score, Chen Hero smiled again.

Because he knew he was very close to scoring.

The Manchester United players obviously had no choice. They had even used the trick of actively hitting people, but they still couldn't shake him. Next, even if they pulled his jersey, it wouldn't change the outcome.