Chapter 370 Left Foot? No Big Deal!

Chen Hero began trying to use his left hand to replace his right in daily life. It was very inconvenient at first, but he stubbornly persisted.

In the copy world, he was also looking for ways to train his left foot.

However, his intelligent teammates couldn't teach him. Because this was something you couldn't teach.

He had to keep practicing on his own, letting his left foot get used to the feeling of kicking the ball.

He started by perfecting ball control with his left foot.

Originally, his right foot was already capable of perfectly controlling balls passed by Maradona from all directions. No matter how Maradona deliberately made things difficult for him, he was almost unstoppable.

Maradona had been in a bad mood these past few training sessions because he rarely had the chance to ridicule and tease Chen Hero during training.

Then Chen Hero suddenly suggested practicing receiving and shooting with his left foot…

Maradona was overjoyed.

"Kid, you asked for this yourself!"

He naturally knew how bad Chen Hero's left foot was. In the training copy world, Chen Hero didn't use his left foot much.

Now that Chen Hero had taken the initiative to practice his left foot, it meant he could continue to torture Chen Hero.

Chen Hero snorted. "Enough nonsense!"

Maradona chuckled and showed no mercy.

Sure enough, Chen Hero was tormented by Maradona until he was a complete mess.

Van Basten found it strange. During a break in training, he asked Chen Hero, "Your right-foot ball control is almost perfect. Why did you suddenly switch to your left foot?"

"Because my left foot is a weakness," Chen Hero replied.

Basten didn't continue asking. He nodded, indicating that he understood.

He could understand Chen Hero's thinking. As a world-class striker, you couldn't have weaknesses. Being good at only one foot was a weakness. If you always used your right foot to shoot, the opponent would be more targeted in their defense.

To become a truly invincible striker, you had to work hard to improve your weaknesses. To make your weaknesses no longer weaknesses.

"It will be difficult and slow," he said to Chen Hero.

"It's only interesting if it's difficult, Marco," Chen Hero said to him.

Basten patted him on the shoulder. "Good luck!"

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Although Ferguson and O'Neill hadn't mentioned the details of that match, there was no shortage of thoughtful people in this world. Soon, someone wrote a long article analyzing the tactics of both sides in the match.

In the article, the author pointed out the key to Ferguson's victory: he had stifled Chen Hero's performance.

Just reading that one sentence was nonsense.

Everyone knew that stifling Chen Hero would stifle Liverpool.

The key was the content below—how to stifle Chen Hero.

"...Ferguson keenly noticed Chen Hero's weakness—his left foot. Chen Hero is not good at using his left foot. In all his goals, he used his head and right foot, not a single left foot—although being one-sided is a problem for many players, it's still shocking to be so one-sided. It's clear that Chen Hero is not good with his left foot. Therefore, in the match, he had his defense target Chen Hero's weakness, forcing him to control the ball with his left foot when he got the ball with his right foot… It worked very well. Chen Hero's sleepwalking performance throughout the match is proof of this…"

"I think this match has provided inspiration and help to many of Liverpool's enemies. Now everyone knows how to deal with him… But I don't think every team can succeed. After all, not every team has excellent defenders like Rio Ferdinand and Vidic. And this is easy to say, but hard to do. So I say this only provides inspiration to other teams, not a panacea."

"But no matter what… This is already a very remarkable improvement. After all, before this match, everyone was scratching their heads about 'how should we defend against Chen Hero?' Now it has become 'how do we prevent him from using his right foot?'"

This article was published in England's *World Football* magazine, a very influential professional football magazine in England. Their annual "World Footballer of the Year" award is still one of the most prestigious annual awards in professional football. At its peak, it was comparable to FIFA's "World Footballer of the Year" and *France Football's* "European Ballon d'Or."

Therefore, this article naturally attracted widespread attention.

For a time, the entire English football world was discussing Chen Hero's weaknesses.

In today's world of advanced information, the speed of information dissemination is very fast. In one day, it spread from England to the rest of Europe, and even the media and fans in distant China knew about it.

Many people cheerfully announced that Chen Hero had fallen from grace.

You had to know that Chen Hero's performance in the Premier League and Europa League this season had been shocking.

Many people were worried that if this continued, no one would be able to stop Chen Hero, just like no one could stop Messi.

Now that was good. Everyone's worries had been dispelled. Chen Hero was no longer invincible!

Those who hated Chen Hero shouted, "Serves him right!"

Why was Chen Hero so arrogant and annoying to them? Wasn't it because he had always had the right to be arrogant?

No matter how arrogant he was, he could always score goals, which meant that many people, even if they hated and disliked him, could only keep their dissatisfaction to themselves. They couldn't vent it casually.

Because if you dared to say, "Why is that guy so arrogant?!"

His supporters would swarm in and tell him, "Our Hero has the right to be arrogant, he has the ability to be arrogant! If you have the ability, you be arrogant too! If you don't have the ability, don't be jealous of others. You're such a boring little person!"

Now that was good. The thing Chen Hero relied on most had lost its effect. He was no longer invincible, so naturally he had no right to be arrogant…

Ferguson had done a great deed!

It was truly a contribution to the present and a benefit to the future!

Martin O'Neill's worries had finally come true…

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Those fans who liked Chen Hero were divided into two factions. One faction was worried about Chen Hero, fearing that he would become ordinary from now on. The other faction felt that it was no big deal. Wasn't Messi invincible as well? But wasn't there also a time when he was stifled? But overall, was he stifled more often, or was he invincible more often? Obviously, it was the latter.

So even if Chen Hero's weakness was caught and his performance was limited in the match against Manchester United, it didn't mean that he would always be at a loss and unable to perform normally.

They accused those who were worried of being easily swayed by rumors and not having any firm beliefs. They didn't believe in Hero at all and didn't deserve to be Hero's fans.

The first faction believed that the latter was blindly optimistic, which would harm Chen Hero. "...We don't not believe in Hero. We just think that Hero should face his weaknesses squarely. If he is spoiled by you like this, then he will really become ordinary… So you don't really love Hero at all. You are harming Hero!"

The two sides argued endlessly. Arguments between fans of both sides could be seen everywhere.

Chen Hero's fans were fighting among themselves, which made those who hated Chen Hero very happy.

So how did Chen Hero himself view this problem?

"Left foot? It's no big deal." His attitude worried the first faction of Hero fans, but made the second faction of fans very happy. "If they think they can stop me like this, then they can come and try. I welcome it!"

The media said that Chen Hero was just bluffing. Think about it, he ran away as soon as the match against Manchester United ended. The media couldn't interview him even if they wanted to. What did that mean? It meant that he was scared! He didn't know what he should do or how to face the reporters, so he ran away.

Chen Hero's teammates were also worried that he would really become depressed because of this…

But everyone still saw a Chen Hero who was very lively and cheerful in training, as if he had not been affected by this matter at all…

The only difference was… he now insisted on using his left hand as his dominant hand in everything he did…

"Hey, Hero. The media says you're bluffing," his teammates would also ask him what they were concerned about.

Chen Hero snorted. "Will I be bluffing or not? Won't you know after the next match?"

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Chen Hero said that everyone would know after the next match, but the problem was that the opponent in the next match was not easy to deal with. Because it was a Merseyside derby.

In the second Merseyside derby of the season, Liverpool would welcome Everton to their home stadium.

This was a match whose importance was no less than that of the previous league match.

Everton's coach, Moyes, couldn't possibly not study the recording of the previous match. This week, the keyword "Chen Hero's left foot" had spread all over the world. As a professional coach, Moyes would of course use this method to deal with Chen Hero.

So could Chen Hero really show in this match that he was not afraid of the opponent's ability to stifle his right foot?

Or was it really just a bluff?

There was less than a week left until the answer was revealed.

In this week, Chen Hero sent Cabrera away and devoted himself to the action of farming in the copy world. His time was tight.

At this moment, he received a call from Dracula.

"Hero, haven't you looked at your task list?"

"I'm farming in the copy world every day. How can I care about that!" Chen Hero was very impatient with him. He had been called out of the copy world by the sound of his cell phone.

"Oh… you'd better take a look."

"What's wrong? Is there a new task again?"

"Yes. And it's a bit related to the problem you're facing now, Hero." After Dracula finished speaking, he hung up the phone himself.

It was as if he was busier than Chen Hero…

Chen Hero was stunned. He didn't care about Dracula's attitude. He was just interested in Dracula's words.