Chapter 1 After the Replay

After the game restarted, the chants targeting Nacho hadn't disappeared from the stands. But they were gradually fading, drowned out by the boos from the Manchester United fans.

When the Liverpool fans' songs rang out from the stands, Solskjaer clenched his fists, sweating for Luis Nacho.

He worried that the goal and the Liverpool fans' chants would deal Nacho an even greater blow.

After all, Chen Hero had once again proven his unshakable dominance with that goal.

Unless he retired, no one could really snatch the top scorer's honor from him.

He kept staring at Nacho, wanting to see his reaction.

Unfortunately, the distance was a bit too far, and he couldn't clearly see the expression on Nacho's face.

So he didn't know what Nacho's mood was at this moment.

But soon he stopped worrying.

Because after the game restarted, the lagging Manchester United didn't continue to defend passively, but launched a fierce offensive towards Liverpool's goal.

Their choice was supported and cheered by the Manchester United fans in the stadium, who frantically cheered for their team.

And in these offensives, Nacho was the most active one.

Luis Nacho wasn't the type of tall and strong center forward. He was thin, but agile, fast, and had delicate dribbling skills. The only thing he lacked was the awareness to snatch a goal in front of the goal. So most of his goals were scored by his own individual skills.

Therefore, Nacho's role was actually very important in this kind of counterattack. Because he could charge Liverpool's defense by himself with the ball, and didn't need much support from his teammates. So in Manchester United's counterattack, he became the vanguard.

Nacho and Chen Hero were two completely different styles of forwards. If it weren't for Nacho's many goals this season, consistently occupying the top spot on the league's scorer list, perhaps these two wouldn't have been compared.

Because it was really unfair.

Nacho had always been praised as a genius before, but his specialty wasn't in scoring goals. So his shooting skills were still not refined, and his awareness in front of the goal wasn't strong. He was able to score twenty-eight goals this season entirely because Solskjaer asked the whole team to feed him the ball.

In fact, his most suitable position was as a shadow striker, or a second striker, rather than a center forward. But now Manchester United didn't have a suitable center forward, and since Nacho was so good at scoring goals, he could only be pulled over to play as a center forward. Manchester United had a tradition in this regard.

Back in the Ferguson era, Cristiano Ronaldo was originally a winger, but under Ferguson's tactics, he became a super scorer king with more than forty goals in a single season. It was from then on that Cristiano Ronaldo became a pseudo-center forward who狂热pursued goals, rather than the pure winger he used to be.

Solskjaer had obviously also gotten inspiration from his mentor. In the previous seasons, Manchester United had been suffering from the problem of weak scoring ability that couldn't be solved.

After Solskjaer took office, he had a flash of inspiration and followed Ferguson's example, moving Nacho, who was originally a winger, to the center. Originally, everyone thought that Solskjaer's approach was too bold and risky. What if Nacho didn't adapt to the new position?

Unexpectedly, Nacho's performance after changing positions was surprisingly good. He seemed to have vented all the goal-scoring feelings he had accumulated before.

Continuously winning goals.

Becoming the league's mid-season top scorer.

Solskjaer's decision had also become a classic that people talked about.

Solskjaer was also very proud of his decision.

A tree dies when it's moved, but a person thrives.

He moved Nacho's position a bit, and as a result, not only did Nacho perform well, but Manchester United's performance was also very good.

This strengthened his plan to continue doing so next season.

But first, it depended on whether Nacho could truly emerge from this setback.

Although he expressed such confidence, Solskjaer was still somewhat uncertain. There were many people with confidence, but many people died in the end.

This was not only related to confidence, but also to strength.

To be honest, Solskjaer believed in the strength of his disciple, but compared to Chen Hero, he was obviously far behind...

He didn't know what kind of answer Nacho could give in a direct dialogue with Chen Hero.

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Five minutes later, Nacho handed in his paper.

In the dense penalty area, Nacho used his skillful personal footwork to dribble the ball and create an opening, then decisively shot.

The football was half a beat late for Liverpool's goalkeeper Hamilton Peters to dive and save. The football窜ed past his fingertips, then hit the far post, and then bounced into the net...

"Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Luis Nacho! Luis Nacho!!! Nacho! Nacho—!!!" The commentator of Manchester United TV was almost crazy.

After Chen Hero scored, he had been pessimistic that his team would lose at home again.

Who would have thought that in just five minutes, Luis Nacho would tie the score with his own personal skills!

As a Manchester United supporter, he was ecstatic.

At the same time, deafening cheers rang out from the Manchester United fans in the stands.

In just five minutes, Manchester United had tied the score, which was the best result for them!

After the cheers, the Manchester United fans sang a temporarily adapted song—one had to admire the on-the-spot performance ability of the English fans—they directly took the Liverpool fans' song and used it, with the same tune, but the lyrics were changed to: "Hey, Nacho, you are our hero! Brave Nacho, beautiful counterattack! Brave Nacho, beautiful counterattack!"

Manchester United fans sang this song over and over again.

To cheer for Nacho, they were also stimulating the Liverpool fans and Chen Hero.

After scoring the goal, Nacho ran frantically, roared, and then plunged into the arms of coach Solskjaer in this song, and then his teammates chased up from behind, and the three people converged together, like three rivers converging.

Solskjaer only hugged Nacho tightly in the crowd, he was so excited.

Because he knew that Nacho had passed this test!

From now on, even if he couldn't become the second Chen Hero, he could become a great Luis Nacho!

He was sincerely happy for his disciple, so he hugged Nacho tightly with his arms.

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"After a round of silence, Nacho scored again! Everyone thought he was scared silly by Chen Hero's crazy performance, now it seems... not! The brave Nacho challenged the powerful hero! Now the competition between the two for the top scorer is still suspenseful! Hero is only three goals ahead of Nacho, three goals... everything is possible!"

"This goal is a typical 'Nacho-style goal'! He easily tricked Liverpool's clumsy defenders in the penalty area, and the shot was also a dead corner! As one of the best shooters this season, if it weren't for Hero, he would have almost certainly become the league's top scorer. But meeting Hero may be his luck instead... The energy that Nacho exploded when facing Hero made people look at him with admiration! It is said that heroes are the touchstones of geniuses. Although the game is not over yet, I can now say that Nacho has passed the test!"

Chen Hero looked at the Manchester United players who were celebrating the goal excitedly. Nacho finally钻ed out of the crowd. His face was red, and he didn't know if it was because he was excited or because there were too many people just now.

He waved his fists at the Manchester United fans in the stands, which caused a new round of cheers.

Then he turned around and found Chen Hero looking at him.

Chen Hero, who was discovered, didn't avoid anything, and continued to look at him like that.

When he realized it, he also looked directly at Chen Hero.

The two people looked at each other in the noisy crowd.

After a few seconds of staring at each other, Nacho turned around and ran back to his own half.

And Chen Hero smiled.

This was really an interesting Manchester United player.

In Chen Hero's twenty-odd years of his career, he had met many opponents, including those big-name stars. But even people like Messi never admitted that they were his opponents, and always tried to avoid talking about themselves. He seemed to think that doing so was expressing his disgust for himself, but Chen Hero felt that this was Messi subconsciously fearing himself.

After so many years, he finally had an opponent who dared to look at himself in the eye. In the eye contact, he did not hide his provocation at all, and the other party actually glared back without fear, which was really interesting.

This Luis Nacho had some courage.

Since it was so rare to encounter such an excellent opponent, it would be better to let go and have a good fight, otherwise he would really be sorry for this opponent!

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Although Luis Nacho helped Manchester United tie the score, it didn't mean that Manchester United could regain control of the situation. After all, there was a pervert Chen Hero in Liverpool's lineup.

And when this old pervert intended to go all out, everyone realized how powerful he was.

When playing against Manchester City, Chen Hero went all out, so he poured thirteen goals into Manchester City.

Now playing against Manchester City's city rival Manchester United, Chen Hero didn't intend to show mercy either.

Manchester United fans were originally in high spirits, looking forward to being able to defeat Liverpool in one fell swoop at home. Other teams couldn't be relied on, so they could only believe in themselves.

But who would have thought that Manchester United's equalizer was not the beginning of Manchester United fans' celebration, but the beginning of a nightmare...

Before the end of the first half, Liverpool took the lead again with a goal from Carlton Cole. And the person who assisted Carlton Cole was Chen Hero. After attracting all of Manchester United's defensive attention, he passed the ball to Carlton Cole who插ed in from behind. And Cole scored with one kick.

With this goal, Liverpool led at the end of the first half.

The cheers of the Manchester United fans finally weakened. It seemed that they also realized the gap between their team and Liverpool, which could not be彌补ed by Nacho's one goal alone.

Some people were already starting to worry about the second half.

Facing the menacing and determined Liverpool, how would Manchester United respond even if they were playing at home?