Chapter 148 A Good Person

Chen Yingxiong was definitely not the kind of person who could tolerate sand in his eyes.

If someone provoked him in his face, he would definitely respond with the fiercest counterattack at that very moment.

Because if you don't fight back, you might be seen as weak, and anyone could come and bully you in the future. This unhealthy trend must not be encouraged.

So, could Chen Yingxiong turn a blind eye to Falcao's provocation and demonstration in front of him, as if nothing had happened?

Absolutely impossible!

He said he wanted to break the record, and Falcao was the first to jump out and strongly object. If he didn't kill the objector, he was afraid that no one else would believe anything he said, and would just treat him as a joke.

He didn't need any controversy about breaking the record; he wanted it to be an absolute, ironclad fact.

In other words, he needed to establish his authority.

Now that Falcao had walked right into the muzzle of the gun, it was simply an opportunity delivered to his door.

How could he not use it?

In Simeone's eyes, Chen Yingxiong was a kind person who provided help in times of need.

In Chen Yingxiong's eyes, Falcao, who jumped three zhang high, was obviously a good person too...

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In the fortieth minute of the match, with a little more than five minutes left in the first half, Liverpool intercepted the ball in midfield and launched a counterattack directly. Inler passed the ball to Sanchez's feet.

Sanchez dribbled the ball from the wing towards the center.

For a moment, the attention of the Atletico Madrid players was all on Sanchez.

At this moment, Sanchez passed the ball to Chen Yingxiong.

Chen Yingxiong took the ball with his back to the direction of attack, and Atletico Madrid's center-back, Godín, pressed against him from behind, not giving him a chance to easily turn around and shoot.

But now Chen Yingxiong had learned Dalglish's back-to-goal skills. How could ordinary defense trap him? Not to mention that Godín was one-on-one with Chen Yingxiong, and no one else came to help…

Chen Yingxiong directly performed a Cruyff turn, turning and pulling the ball, directly passing the ball from in front of Godín.

In fact, the Cruyff turn was quite eye-catching in Cruyff's era, otherwise this move wouldn't have been named after Cruyff. But now, no technical move can be considered original or novel. Even amateur players can perform the Cruyff turn.

So, Godín didn't find anything surprising about Chen Yingxiong's turn. He even leaned in at the first moment, intending to intercept the ball while he had the chance. As the main center-back of the Uruguayan national team, Godín's level was indeed not low.

But Chen Yingxiong was even better than him.

After a Cruyff turn, he immediately used the outside of his right foot to hook the ball to the outside, returning to his previous position, but at this time, Godín had already gone to the left side to block his breakthrough route.

The originally airtight defense was forcibly torn open by Chen Yingxiong!

Chen Yingxiong didn't give Godín a chance to make amends. He took another touch with the outside of his right foot and went straight into the penalty area. Godín turned around and tried to pounce again, but it was too late. He reached out to pull but only grabbed a gust of wind.

"Beautiful! He's in! Chen Yingxiong is in!"

Accompanied by the commentator's roar, Chen Yingxiong broke into the penalty area. He didn't continue to dribble the ball. Now that there was an opening, he had to shoot immediately!

Seeing Chen Yingxiong break in, but there were other defenders in the penalty area, so Atletico Madrid's goalkeeper Courtois was hesitating whether to attack.

At this moment, Chen Yingxiong had already shot!

It wasn't a very powerful shot. He naturally swung his leg while running and poked the shot!

Courtois quickly fell to the ground to save the ball.

The ball almost slipped through Courtois's armpit and then shot into the goal...

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"Wow! Hero! He equalized the score!!"

"Hero's fifteenth goal in the Europa League this season has arrived!"

"GoooooooooooooooooAL!! Hero! Hero! The omnipotent hero!"

"1:1! Liverpool has got a valuable away goal! Atletico Madrid is in danger!"

"A beautiful turn and escape! He used this goal to show us his determination to break the record!"

"Hero—he is now only two goals away from Falcao's record!"

The commentators were excited.

Fifteen goals!

Even if Liverpool stopped in the round of 32, there was still half a game left. If Chen Yingxiong continued to develop in this state, he would definitely be able to tie Falcao's record!

Yes, until now, everyone was more willing to believe that Chen Yingxiong would tie the record, instead of saying "break" the record. Everyone was more cautious.

After scoring the goal, Chen Yingxiong didn't run wildly to celebrate. He just shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, with a disdainful expression on his face—isn't it just seventeen European goals in a season? Treating it like some kind of treasure, tsk, I really didn't take it seriously!

His teammates swarmed up and hugged him tightly.

"Well done, Hero! This goal is beautiful!"

"You made Godín dizzy!" Suárez, as Godín's teammate in the national team, of course knew how powerful Godín was, so he admired Chen Yingxiong for using such agile movements to get past Godín twice.

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Seeing Chen Yingxiong score, Martin O'Neill slowly stood up from his seat, raising his arms, just like Chen Yingxiong, he wasn't too excited. Because since he knew what Chen Yingxiong was thinking about in this season's Europa League, he wasn't worried.

Chen Yingxiong would definitely explode, it was just a matter of time.

It was his staff and substitutes who were excited.

Jumping and shouting.

Simeone next door was very annoyed. He wasn't annoyed that Chen Yingxiong might break Falcao's record, but he was annoyed that the opponent got an away goal—who knew what role this away goal could play after one round?

This factor was too uncertain…

Simeone hated this feeling.

Seeing Chen Yingxiong score and seeing Chen Yingxiong's celebration after scoring, Falcao was immediately furious, and his hands clenched into fists. If he could, he really wanted to punch that disdainful face!

But he couldn't, so he could only scold Chen Yingxiong in his heart.

His anger burned more and more, and he wanted to give Chen Yingxiong a good look. Since he couldn't hit Chen Yingxiong, he would vent his anger on Liverpool!

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But until the end of the game, Falcao didn't score. His heart was burning with anger, and he vowed to make Liverpool look good, but where did he put Liverpool's defenders? Liverpool's defenders, Škrtel, Agger, and others, were not mediocre either.

In addition, after the start of the second half, Liverpool coach Martin O'Neill obviously made the team shrink their defense, so Falcao was unable to score again for a long time.

However, Atletico Madrid still won the game at home. The person who scored the winning goal for the team was not Falcao, but Juanfran, who came from Real Madrid's youth training system.

Martin O'Neill paid the price for his conservative approach at halftime. Juanfran's goal was scored in the ninety-first minute, which was considered a lore against Liverpool, making it too late for Liverpool to equalize the score.

With this goal, Atletico Madrid defeated Liverpool 2:1 at their home stadium.

As for Liverpool, they didn't need to be disappointed, because they got an away goal, which meant that they only needed to win 1:0 at home in the next round to eliminate Atletico Madrid.

Of course, Liverpool, returning to their home stadium, would definitely not be satisfied with just a 1:0 score. It was believed that Martin O'Neill would also reflect on his conservative thinking in the second half of this game.

Therefore, Liverpool, returning to their home stadium, would definitely raise the banner of attack and launch a fierce and deadly offensive against Atletico Madrid.

Chen Yingxiong scored his fifteenth Europa League goal of the season in the game, performing well. In the second half, he was restricted by the team's conservative strategy, and he had too few opportunities. But even so, his mood was not affected.

Because he knew that breaking Falcao's record this season was simply as easy as turning his hand. His initial goal was not eighteen goals, but twenty goals, raising Falcao's record by three goals at once.

He didn't take Falcao seriously from the beginning. It was Falcao who jumped out himself, so Chen Yingxiong wanted to use Falcao to establish his authority. Otherwise, he wouldn't bother arguing with Falcao.

If the media hadn't asked about Falcao's record, he wouldn't have mentioned it at all. Just like at the team's internal Christmas dinner, he was talking about scoring twenty goals in a single season, and he didn't say anything about breaking Falcao's record.

As long as he scored twenty goals, wouldn't Falcao's record have been broken long ago? So it wasn't worth mentioning.

The Liverpool players lost the game, but they seemed full of confidence. After returning to Liverpool, everyone updated their Twitter or Facebook, expressing their views on the game. Almost at the same time, they said that they would advance at home.

Of course, some media criticized Martin O'Neill's conservatism. They believed that if he hadn't been conservative, with Chen Yingxiong's state and impact, he would have ended the suspense of the round of 32 long ago in the away game.

At this time, Chen Yingxiong helped O'Neill to speak.

"Of course, it doesn't feel good to lose the ball at the last moment, but I don't think there is anything wrong with the coach's approach. We have already achieved the result we wanted, an away goal. So it is normal to adjust the rhythm appropriately..."

"But you lost more scoring opportunities because of this!" A Chinese reporter was indignant for Chen Yingxiong. If it wasn't for Martin O'Neill, he felt that Chen Yingxiong could even tie Falcao's record in this game—this belonged to a small number of brain-dead fans among the reporters.

Chen Yingxiong smiled: "There are still many games to come, isn't it just two goals? What's so difficult about that?"

In the eyes of those who supported him, his smile was a confident smile.

But in the eyes of those who hated him, the smile on his face was an uncomfortable disdain...

But Chen Yingxiong didn't care, he told the truth.

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