Chapter 1175 Four Goals!

Chen Yingxiong placed the football on the ground, then stepped back, took a deep breath, and ignored the Manchester City players who were slowly forming the wall. Instead, he turned to the referee and waited for him to blow the whistle.

However, the referee seemed to misunderstand. He blew his whistle to stop the game and strode towards the wall.

Because the Manchester City wall players were inching forward, almost a meter and a half from the initial 9.15 meters.

The referee gestured for the wall to move back.

Chen Yingxiong didn't care about this. Anyway, when he practiced free kicks in the copy space, Juninho never set the wall distance at 9.15 meters, but at 7.15 meters, pushing it forward by a full two meters.

The purpose of doing this was to allow Chen Yingxiong to more accurately control the timing and arc of the football's descent. At the same time, it was also to deal with situations in the game where the wall didn't retreat to a sufficient distance. In actual games, this often happens: the wall simply doesn't retreat enough 9.15 meters, and the referee allows the free kick to be taken.

So Chen Yingxiong didn't care whether the wall had retreated enough distance. If Manchester City thought they could make things difficult for him with such a trick, they were sorely mistaken.

Chen Yingxiong didn't mind giving Manchester City a lesson.

After a long delay, Manchester City's wall was formed, and while the referee was retreating, they moved forward a few more steps—no wonder Manchester City was so cautious and unscrupulous. Now Chen Yingxiong's free-kick skills were famous overseas, and everyone knew that Chen Yingxiong had been promoted to a "free-kick master," and free kicks had become an important means for him to score.

Chen Yingxiong didn't loudly remind the referee; he didn't care.

He turned his head to the referee again, waiting for him to blow the whistle.

The whistle finally sounded.

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Chen Yingxiong started his run-up. After a few steps, he reached the football and took a shot!

The football was hit in the center by his toe, very precisely!

The football was like a precision-guided missile, launched from a cruiser, and headed straight for the target.

It crossed the wall without any obstruction, flying towards the goal, steadily heading for the upper near corner!

Joe Hart jumped up, trying to block the football, but the football bypassed his fingertips, and then suddenly dropped just as it passed his fingertips!

In the very narrow space between Joe Hart's hand and the goal crossbar, the football slipped in!

"gooooooooooooooooooooooooAL!!!"

This time, the commentator couldn't wait for the football to actually enter the goal before shouting.

Because there was no suspense about the goal!

Sure enough, the football fell into the goal during the commentator's drawn-out death cry.

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"Fourth goal! Fourth goal!"

"Hero—!!! Beautiful free kick! He scored again with a free kick!"

"A wonderful falling-leaf ball!"

"Liverpool leads Manchester City 4-1 away from home! Manchester City, whose performance had just started to improve, suffered a heavy blow! First, Richards maliciously fouled and was sent off with a red card, and then Hero used this free-kick opportunity to score directly!"

"Hero is not human! He's not an earthling! After being violently fouled by Richards, he was still able to stand on the field as if nothing had happened, and then personally take this free kick! Is there really nothing wrong with his right foot?!"

In the commentators' wild shouts, Chen Yingxiong planned to rush into the goal to retrieve the ball again, but he was too far from the goal... This time, Adam Johnson was at the front,抢 (qiang, snatch) the ball for him.

In order to抢 (qiang, snatch) the football, he even had a little dispute and scuffle with Manchester City's goalkeeper, Joe Hart. It wasn't until the referee intervened that it subsided.

In the end, Adam Johnson handed the football to Chen Yingxiong.

"Go ahead, Hero! Keep scoring!" Adam Johnson said as he handed the football to Chen Yingxiong.

Behind this sentence was a yellow card—in order to get the ball, Adam Johnson pushed Joe Hart away and hugged the football in his arms, no matter how the Manchester City players came up to push him and curse him, he didn't let go. There were even many Manchester City fans behind the goal giving him the middle finger and cursing him as a traitor. He remained unmoved.

In the end, he got a yellow card for being the first to push someone.

But it didn't matter, he didn't get cards easily anyway.

Chen Yingxiong grinned at Adam Johnson: "Okay!"

Then he took the football and ran back.

Surrounded by his teammates.

After running to the center circle, Chen Yingxiong slammed the football on the field and continued to point at the football under his feet, beckoning to the Manchester City players.

Blatant provocation!

The Manchester City fans' lungs were about to explode.

But they really couldn't do anything except boo louder...

The Manchester City players were also dissatisfied, but what could they do? They were already three goals behind. Today's Chen Yingxiong was like he had taken aphrodisiacs, completely beyond their level.

Turning around and dribbling past people for a small-angle shot, dribbling past people and then shooting from long range, directly volleying, free kicks... he could score in almost any way.

How were they supposed to deal with such a monster?

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When Agüero scored, Mancini was indeed full of hope and anticipation for the second half, anticipating a great comeback.

But Chen Yingxiong's fourth goal completely extinguished the flames of vain hope in his heart.

He knew that this game... there was no miracle for Manchester City.

Richards being sent off with a red card was also an important factor. He needed to adjust the defense. He couldn't continue to concede goals, which would definitely damage the attacking power.

He suddenly felt very wronged—why is it that every time we face Chen Yingxiong, it's our Manchester City that gets hurt?

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"Four goals... He also scored four goals at the Etihad Stadium last season, but it took him the whole game, but now the game has only started for more than sixty minutes, and he has already scored four goals... It's really terrifying!" A reporter in the media box exclaimed.

More reporters were so shocked by Chen Yingxiong that they couldn't say anything coherent.

Many forwards may never be able to score four goals in a single game in their entire lives, and many forwards have to work hard to score four goals in their lives. But Chen Yingxiong completed the four goals so easily, which was difficult for many people to accept.

Chen Yingxiong was indeed very good at scoring goals, very, very good at it, but being able to score goals to this extent was still a bit... too much, right?

Four goals? He scored them in so many different ways...

At this time, many people realized that this game might not be so ordinary, because Chen Yingxiong's form today was really too good... exaggeratedly good!

It had only been sixty minutes, and Chen Yingxiong had already scored four goals... So, was the fifth goal still far away?

Many people began to look forward to it with excitement and nervousness.

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There was nothing more frustrating than this reality—when you encounter an opponent, you resist him again and again, but you soon find that every time you try to fight back, you are met with ruthless suppression. It's like you flip a switch and the light turns on, it's that effective.

The Manchester City players finally realized that they could not defeat Chen Yingxiong in this game, nor could they defeat Liverpool with Chen Yingxiong.

In the following game, they played much more openly. Anyway, they were bound to lose, so they might as well let go a bit and maybe score one or two goals to save face...

Balotelli was soon substituted. When he was taken off, he looked very angry, refused to shake hands with Mancini, and walked straight back to the locker room.

It was estimated that after the game, the media would be concerned about Balotelli's future prospects at Manchester City again, and would start counting down for him.

But these were not the focus.

Manchester City's super-luxury attacking lineup was overshadowed by Chen Yingxiong alone. Whether it was Agüero or David Silva, whether it was Balotelli or Nasri, the value of these people combined exceeded 100 million pounds, but they were not as good as Chen Yingxiong, who was worth 70 million pounds.

This comparison was really frustrating.

No matter how hard Agüero or Silva tried, they couldn't steal the spotlight from Chen Yingxiong.

Since Manchester City had this mentality, the game eventually turned into an all-out attack.

Mancini did not correct the players' self-adjustment. The outcome of this game had already lost its suspense when Richards himself applied for a red card and Chen Yingxiong kicked the football into the goal for the fourth time.

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When Chen Yingxiong scored his fourth goal, Liverpool fans made "bowing" gestures to express their admiration and love for Chen Yingxiong.

How long had it been since Liverpool had such a domineering and powerful center forward? The standard for measuring whether a center forward is good is very simple, which is to see if he can score goals, and whether he can score goals only needs to look at his goal numbers.

Chen Yingxiong was obviously an outstanding center forward who met the standard.

With such a center forward, Liverpool was equivalent to being equipped with the most powerful weapon. How could the Liverpool fans, who had been suffering for so many years, not be happy?

With a divine weapon in hand, I have the world!

In their cheers, the game continued.

Liverpool and Manchester City attacked each other in a lively manner.

As for a certain guy who was sent off with a red card, he had become a forgotten person.

But Richards' troubles were not over.

After Balotelli returned to the locker room, he saw Richards, and he was immediately furious and angry.

He pointed at Richards and shouted, "Idiot! You're an idiot!! Why the hell don't you go die? If we lose the game, it's all because of you! It's all because of you, you idiot! Is your head full of shit?!"

He was angry with Richards because Richards' red card led to him being substituted early, which made him very unhappy.

But Richards was also angry, because not only did he fail to cripple Chen Yingxiong, but he also allowed Chen Yingxiong to seize this opportunity and score the fourth goal, so the responsibility for this goal had to be counted on him...

Even so, Chen Yingxiong did not let go of the opportunity to humiliate him.

This made Richards very unhappy, very unhappy. But he was the only one in the locker room, and he had no way to vent except by kicking the cabinet.

At this time, Balotelli came back...

After a few swear words, Richards exploded,嗷嗷 (ao ao, howling) screamed and rushed up, wrestling with Balotelli.

This time, no one could stop them and pull them apart. They could have a good fight!