Chapter 127 Watching Videos

Chen Yingxiong's goal opened the door to victory for Napoli, and the subsequent match was much easier. The most difficult part of any soccer game is always scoring the first goal. Once you take the lead, the game falls into the rhythm of the leading team. Therefore, both sides will do their best to prevent conceding the first goal and try every means to score first.

After Chen Yingxiong scored, Napoli played more smoothly, while Siena was suppressed by Napoli's offensive and unable to counterattack.

Before the end of the first half, Maggio assisted and, after a one-two pass with Arshavin, broke into the penalty area. Everyone thought he would pass the ball to Chen Yingxiong, but unexpectedly, he shot himself, and the ball zipped along the turf into the net. Napoli took a two-goal lead!

With a 2-0 lead in the first half, against a team ranked fifteenth in the league, the outcome of this game was basically without suspense.

Mazzarri didn't make a large-scale rotation, but instead received good results. This way, in the next game, he could substitute players early, giving the three main players a chance to rest.

To this end, he replaced Arshavin just after the start of the second half. Ten minutes later, he replaced Chen Yingxiong as well.

When Chen Yingxiong walked off the field, he hugged Sarayeta, who came on as his replacement. Then he walked to the coaching bench, where Mazzarri shook hands and hugged him. Then he returned to the bench, giving high-fives to the substitute players one by one.

The outcome of this game was no longer in doubt, and everyone was relaxed.

Chen Yingxiong sat down next to Arshavin—in Napoli, each player's seat on the bench was fixed. People with good relationships sat next to each other, and people with more distant relationships naturally didn't have much interaction.

Chen Yingxiong had just sat down and taken a towel from the staff to wipe his sweat when Arshavin spread his hand out to him, with a handful of… sunflower seeds!

The players on the bench sometimes chose some entertainment when they were bored. Eating snacks was the most common, and some people played game consoles and mobile phones… but this was rarely seen.

Chen Yingxiong grabbed a handful and put them in his hand, chatting with Arshavin and the others while cracking the seeds, paying less attention to the game. After all, he was off the field, so even if he paid attention, he couldn't help the team. Moreover, the team's situation was excellent, and it was no problem to win the game unless something unexpected happened.

However, in the last fifteen minutes of the second half, Siena still caused some trouble for Napoli—they pulled back a goal.

The score became 2:1, and the lead was narrowed to one goal, which made the team tense.

Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin and the others didn't bother to chat and laugh while cracking sunflower seeds on the bench anymore. Chen Yingxiong threw all the seeds on the ground, then leaned forward, watching the game on the field.

Mazzarri also walked out of the coaching bench, closely watching the field.

Fortunately, in the end, Napoli's defense collectively retreated and withstood Siena's counterattack, finally winning the game 2:1 at home.

Although the final moments startled many people, it was a good thing to win the game. This way, the team both got rest and didn't fall behind in the league.

It could be described as a win-win situation, pleasing everyone.

As for Chen Yingxiong, he was allocated most of the winning experience because he started the game.

He was one step closer to his beloved Inzaghi—saying that might be a little mushy, and it could easily lead to certain associations. But it was the truth. Since discovering his shortcomings in capturing opportunities and planning to learn from Inzaghi, Chen Yingxiong decided to start with Inzaghi's game videos before he could afford to buy Inzaghi.

So he asked Dekura to get him a few discs of Inzaghi's goal videos. These weren't just the kind of MVs made by fans to show Inzaghi's goal-scoring ability and express their love for him, accompanied by various explosive music, but real expert analyses of Inzaghi's goal videos.

It wasn't difficult to get this kind of thing, because Italian television media had very developed sports programs. As a evergreen tree in Italian football, Inzaghi's technical characteristics analysis had appeared on television many times, and it wasn't uncommon at all.

Nowadays, everything can be analyzed, even midfield passing can be analyzed to create seemingly awesome principles. For example, those players who you only see constantly passing horizontally and backward in the game, and you don't see them having any outstanding performance most of the time, just like they're invisible in the game. After expert analysis, you can find that they're very awesome. They can both intercept and lubricate, provide balance for the team, can attack and defend well, have good passing and shooting, and are all-round players…

So in the analysis video that Chen Yingxiong got, the series of runs Inzaghi made before shooting were outlined by experts. After computer animation processing, Inzaghi's running routes and the timing of his insertions before shooting were revealed.

This was clear at a glance, and even an ordinary fan who hadn't undergone professional training could understand it.

Before earning enough points to buy Inzaghi, what Chen Yingxiong had to do was watch, study, and learn Inzaghi's runs—many people thought that it was an innate talent, but in fact, it could also be practiced. It's just that the effect of hard training plus talent would be better…

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Cristina Cabrella was surprised that Chen Yingxiong had suddenly become well-behaved these days, not going anywhere to play, but staying at home in the living room watching Inzaghi's game videos, watching them over and over again, and constantly pressing the pause button while watching, staring at the screen in a daze.

As Chen Yingxiong's popularity increased, Cabrella had also been officially recognized by the media—this beautiful woman who was inseparable from Chen Yingxiong wasn't his girlfriend, but his bodyguard, whom he had hired to protect his personal safety. In a city like Naples, which had been penetrated to the bone by the Mafia, it was indeed necessary to do so. Especially those extremist fans Chen Yingxiong had offended, many of whom had Mafia backgrounds.

For those women who liked and admired Chen Yingxiong, this was good news. It meant that Chen Yingxiong was still single, so everyone had a chance.

With his muscles and mysterious oriental temperament, Chen Yingxiong had become the target of many Italian women's sexual fantasies. In a poll by a women's magazine, Chen Yingxiong ranked sixth on the "Most Popular Sexual Fantasies" list.

This once made Chen Yingxiong very complacent, and he even showed off this matter to his teammates during training. Because he was the highest-ranked person in the Napoli team, in other words, he was the most popular player among women in the Napoli team, and the player they most wanted to sleep with.

As a result, the next day, Cassano showed him another list in the locker room.

An Italian well-known gay magazine planned a "Your Favorite Sexual Fantasy Object" voted by Italian homosexuals. Chen Yingxiong, who had a strong physique and liked to take off his clothes to show off his muscles after scoring a goal, ranked among the top three…

Chen Yingxiong was speechless at the time, and there was a huge burst of joyful laughter in the locker room.

"Aren't you going out to play today?" Cabrella stood at the door of the living room, asking Chen Yingxiong, who was squatting in front of the TV and tinkering with the DVD player.

After Chen Yingxiong put in the disc, he turned his head and said to Cabrella, "Do you want me to go out? Don't you always look frosty every time I go out?"

Every time Chen Yingxiong went out to a nightclub, Cabrella had to follow him, saying it was to protect his safety. But she had never encountered a dangerous situation. At first, everyone felt embarrassed, but later they found that no matter what they did, the other party just pretended not to see it, so they simply became bolder. But Cabrella didn't really not see it, she just didn't want to pay too much attention to it, but as that group of people became bolder and bolder, she naturally became more and more embarrassed staying next to them.

In fact, this was all Cassano's idea, hoping to anger Cabrella and let her leave, so that they could have fun. Who would have thought that Cabrella would have a frosty face, but she just wouldn't leave…

Chen Yingxiong sometimes really admired this woman in his heart, but of course, he would never say it.

"No, I just think it's strange and ask if you have any other arrangements."

"Yes!" Chen Yingxiong nodded. "Accompany me to watch TV." He pointed to the sofa.

"That's not included in my job." Cabrella shook her head.

"Did your original job include cooking? So don't care about this… and accompanying me to watch TV is also a way to protect me. Think about it, if you go upstairs alone and I sit in the living room watching TV, if a robber breaks in through the window from the back garden, I'm afraid I won't even have time to call out before being solved by the other party…"

What Chen Yingxiong said was terrifying, but in fact, he didn't care at all, because he was just talking nonsense.

"So, accompany me to watch TV." Chen Yingxiong said decisively.

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In the end, Cabrella still sat next to Chen Yingxiong and watched TV with him. She wasn't a fan, so she couldn't see what was so special about Inzaghi's goals, but since she was accompanying him, she couldn't show impatience.

So she sat on the sofa, staring intently at the TV screen, as if she was really interested.

Chen Yingxiong sat next to her, leaning forward, staring at the TV screen without blinking. He was really focused.

Cabrella felt very strange.

"Why do you want to watch this?" She really didn't understand what was so good about this video.

"Because I need to become stronger." Chen Yingxiong paused the picture.

"I think you're strong enough already."

"Not enough." Chen Yingxiong shook his head. It was a good thing for Cabrella to be interested in his profession. Because he always felt that Cabrella was too rigid sometimes and not easy to communicate with. It was a bit too boring for a woman to be like this.

So seeing Cabrella asking questions, he explained the problem to her with great interest.

"How strong is strong enough?"

Chen Yingxiong turned his head to look at the TV. Inzaghi on the screen was frozen at the moment of shooting.

"To become the strongest in the world is strong enough."

"The strongest in the world?"

"Yes, the strongest in the world, bar none."

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ps, a new week is here, sincerely ask everyone for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets~~