Manchester City was very confident in their home stadium, and their offensive didn't diminish in the second half. But this was also their only option—it was their home game, and they certainly wanted to win. Even a draw would be a failure for them.

Moreover, they were under a lot of pressure in the league standings. Manchester United had the same points as them. If they couldn't win, Manchester United could take the top spot on the league table as long as they beat Newcastle away.

So, apart from attacking, they had no other way.

And they really got an opportunity.

In the sixty-third minute, Agüero broke into the penalty area. Agger tackled and brought Agüero down. The referee decisively blew his whistle, gave Agger a yellow card, and awarded Manchester City a penalty!

"Ah! Liverpool is really unlucky! They have trailed twice in this game, and now they have suffered a penalty!"

"Agüero has done a great job! The penalty he earned will definitely calm Manchester City's hearts!"

"Liverpool's players are protesting, they think Agger touched the ball first, and Agüero is diving... But from the slow-motion replay, Agger did commit a foul. Although he touched the ball, he also touched Agüero!"

The Liverpool players' protests were ineffective. James Milner scored the penalty, and Manchester City tied the score at 3-2 at home!

"It's not easy... Look at the celebration of the Manchester City fans after the goal, as if they have already won the game!"

"They were tied twice, and now they lead again! In fact, Manchester City is quite tenacious..."

"Manchester City, playing at home, definitely did not expect that they would win this game so hard, right? They lead twice and were tied twice... I don't know if this third lead will..."

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When Milner shot the penalty into Reina's goal, the Manchester City fans cheered loudly.

But this time they were just purely cheering, and no one dared to shout at Chen Hero to tie the score again if he could...

They were all faintly worried... If they continued to shout for Chen Hero to tie the score, it would be the third time... As the saying goes, things don't happen more than three times. Once or twice, they could comfort themselves that it was just a coincidence, but what if it was the third time? Many people would think that it wasn't a coincidence, but... that he really had the ability. Manchester City fans were unwilling to admit this, so in order to prevent this scene from happening, they simply chose to remain silent and didn't continue to argue with Chen Hero on this matter.

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Dalglish frowned as he watched the Manchester City players celebrate their goal. It seemed that his original plan to get a point away from home was not going to be easy to achieve in such a difficult game...

He really didn't expect Manchester City's strength to have grown to this point.

Just one or two seasons ago, Manchester City was just a mid-table team. Although they had money, their results were unstable, and many of his peers thought they were nouveau riche and not worth worrying about.

Who would have thought that Manchester City would suddenly explode this season...

What caused Manchester City to make a qualitative leap?

At first, Dalglish didn't think money was a big deal, but later he realized that having money was really amazing. Especially after being able to keep spending money to buy high-quality players.

Buying one Robinho might not improve the team's strength, but if they successively bought Džeko, Agüero, Balotelli, Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Touré, Kompany, Clichy... after such players, they could change from quantitative change to qualitative change...

What about Liverpool's problems?

We lack so many high-quality players.

Many people in this Liverpool team are actually no longer suitable to continue staying in the team. Their abilities do not meet the requirements, and the team also lacks famous stars. Only Chen Hero and Gerrard can be considered presentable. Without enough famous stars, there is a lack of attractiveness. Everyone will think—those superstars don't go to Liverpool, and we won't go either, because everyone knows that there is no future there!

This forms a vicious cycle.

This season, Liverpool spent 70 million pounds in transfer fees on Chen Hero alone, so when they wanted to buy other people, the transfer budget was not enough... In fact, a transfer budget of 100 million pounds cannot be considered small, but...

Fortunately, Chen Hero is worth the money, otherwise Liverpool would really lose out!

He didn't know what kind of signings Niang and Chen Xing would bring to the team next season. He only hoped that this time the club could learn from Manchester City and not be stingy with investing money.

You can't catch a wolf without letting go of your child. You can't play football without spending money.

Dalglish had a deep understanding of this. When he coached Blackburn, why was Blackburn able to win the Premier League title from Manchester United? Wasn't it because that Blackburn had the investment of Jack Walker, the then British steel tycoon? Just buying Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton cost the steel tycoon 30 million pounds, which was an unprecedented sky-high price in the history of English football at the time.

Liverpool's new owner, Chen Xing, seems to be a wealthy person, otherwise he wouldn't have spent 70 million pounds to buy Chen Hero. He only hopes that he can fulfill his promise to himself that he will increase investment in signings every year...

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Many people were lamenting Liverpool's bad luck, but Liverpool's bad luck was not over yet.

In the seventieth minute, midfielder Lucas had a fierce collision with Yaya Touré, and then Lucas fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

He was carried off on a stretcher.

The team doctor told Dalglish that the Brazilian could not continue the game.

Dalglish cursed angrily, complaining about this damn luck, and then sent on Henderson.

Everything seemed to be developing in a direction unfavorable to Liverpool.

Even Liverpool's old commentator was silent for a long time, only occasionally mentioning the names of Liverpool players who had the ball.

This game was too suffocating for Liverpool supporters—being in a state of chasing for a long time, the pressure was actually very high... They were afraid that if they were not careful, the gap would widen.

But the Liverpool players did not give up.

Especially Chen Hero, who was wearing the captain's armband.

Now when Chen Hero gets the ball, there is still a huge booing sound in the stands, even more crazy than in the first half, but the shouts of "Tie the score again if you can" can't be heard anymore.

Because Manchester City fans discovered during the half-time break that they were actually afraid of Chen Hero, which made them very unhappy, and their hatred for Chen Hero became even deeper. In order to prove that they were not afraid of Chen Hero, their booing in the second half was naturally louder than in the first half.

Some extreme Manchester City fans even made monkey gestures and monkey noises towards Chen Hero in their area, using racially discriminatory words and deeds to insult Chen Hero. They didn't believe the evidence Chen Hero presented, and they were unwilling to believe that Richards had really framed Chen Hero. They thought that Chen Hero must have cursed with racially discriminatory words, but due to pressure, Richards said that he was lying.

They wanted to get justice for Richards.

"Yellow-skinned monkey! Yellow-skinned monkey! Yellow-skinned monkey! Come and eat bananas!"

"Why don't you have a pig tail behind your head? Chink!"

The voices of a few extreme fans were not obvious in the Etihad Stadium, but if you got close to their stands, the voices were still very loud...

And coincidentally, their stands were behind the Manchester City goal in the second half, so every time Chen Hero attacked, he could hear them.

He didn't burst into tears like some black players after being insulted, or run to the referee to complain.

He felt that these counterattacks were too weak, and he had his own way of doing things.

That is... scoring goals!

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"The game has reached the seventy-fifth minute, and the score is still 3-2, with Manchester City leading Liverpool at home..." The commentator was saying, and Liverpool launched a counterattack.

Charlie Adam sent a direct pass near the center circle to Bellamy on the wing.

Bellamy did not stop the ball, but directly passed the ball back to the center, and Chen Hero happened to follow up.

He received the ball and pretended to break through from the right, deceiving Lescott to move his center of gravity there, but he suddenly buckled the ball to the left. With such a simple change of direction, he solved Lescott!

"Oh! Simple but practical dribbling! Beautiful! Hero broke through!"

Chen Hero, who has passed Lescott, is now one-on-one. Many people think he will continue to dribble through.

But Chen Hero didn't do that. He had just buckled past Lescott, took a step forward with his left foot, and then swung his right leg and shot!

The whole connection was very smooth, quick and sudden.

Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart made a save, and he also touched the ball. But Chen Hero's shot was too powerful! Although his fingertips touched the ball, he could not change the direction of the ball. If you don't look carefully, you won't even think that Joe Hart touched the ball...

In this way, the ball flew directly into the far corner of the goal...

"Ah... it's in again! It's in again! Hero has gone crazy!! Hat-trick! He completed his first hat-trick in the Premier League!! My God, who can stop this Superman!"

The commentator also went crazy...

"3:3! This game has completely become Chen Hero's personal performance, and Manchester City has become the best supporting role, and can be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Role! Manchester City led three times, and Chen Hero tied the score three times! He is really going against Manchester City today!"

"It is Manchester City's misfortune to be targeted by someone like Hero, otherwise, with these three goals, they could have won a clean victory at home! But because the opponent has Hero, the current score is 3:3!"

"God..." Some commentators simply didn't say anything except for this exclamation, because under Chen Hero's crazy performance, no amount of words would be pale and weak at this moment...