Chapter 1 Super Newbie

In reality, Chen Hero was a super newbie in the European Super Cup, because this was actually his first time participating in this competition.

This fact surprised many people, they wondered if there was a mistake. But there wasn't.

Chen Hero was indeed participating in the European Super Cup for the first time.

When he was with Zenit Saint Petersburg, he had won the UEFA Cup Champion. Logically speaking, he was qualified to participate in the European Super Cup, right? But he transferred, and in the summer transfer window he moved from Zenit to Napoli, so naturally he couldn't participate in the Super Cup.

Later, he won the European Champions Cup with Napoli, and was also qualified to participate in the summer Super Cup. But this time he transferred again!

He went from Napoli to Liverpool, and naturally there was no way for him to participate in the European Super Cup.

So, adding it all up, today was actually his first time participating in this competition.

His personal honor roll had always been missing such a championship.

And fate had it that they ran into the powerful Real Madrid.

Chen Hero didn't take Real Madrid seriously.

He had eliminated Real Madrid in the Champions League before, so he had a psychological advantage. Even if this Real Madrid was led by Mourinho, he wasn't afraid, because his record against Mourinho was even better... The most important reason was that he had extraordinary self-confidence, he firmly believed that he was the world's number one, stronger than any Messi or Ronaldo!

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For O'Neill, what he valued in this game was not winning or losing, but the process. Because this was an excellent opportunity—the blitz tactics he had formulated were very effective against weak teams, but what if they encountered a strong team and were unable to score goals in a short period of time? He really wanted to see what kind of answer his team would give in this situation.

Real Madrid was definitely a strong team, the number one team in the world today. In La Liga and the Champions League, they had completely suppressed their arch-rival Barcelona.

So much so that Barcelona had to re-hire Guardiola, who was resting at home, to come out of retirement and coach the team to compete with Real Madrid...

The fact that Barcelona's godfather Cruyff had to personally persuade Guardiola to come out of retirement showed how strong Mourinho's Real Madrid was.

Confronting such an opponent was the best opportunity to test his team. True gold fears no fire. Under the Samadhi True Fire of Real Madrid, O'Neill wanted to know whether Liverpool could only bully the weak, or whether they were true gold!

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As Martin O'Neill wished, Real Madrid created huge problems for Liverpool in the early stages of the game.

They took the lead in the seventeenth minute!

Benzema scored the goal, with an assist from Özil. Benzema made a clever run, slipped into the gap, and then scored with a low shot.

"Ahhh! Real Madrid! Real Madrid!! They're in the lead! The mighty Real Madrid! They are invincible!" The Spanish commentator roared frantically.

In recent years, Spanish football had been invincible on all fronts, and the Spanish commentators were particularly arrogant, feeling that their football was the highest level in the world.

This goal was a typical Real Madrid goal, taking only thirteen seconds from the backcourt to the frontcourt, four passes, and finally a goal.

Real Madrid used their speed to tear apart Liverpool's defense.

Martin O'Neill frowned when he saw this scene.

It had to be said that Real Madrid's attacking style was what Liverpool feared most, because they were fast enough, while Liverpool's center backs were all tall and slow.

Such center backs were killed by a direct pass from the opponent. Özil's pass was like that just now. Skrtel and Agger didn't have time to react at all, watching the ball and Benzema rush past them.

By the time they turned around, all they could do was watch the ball go into the net.

You can't use your weakest defense to fight the opponent's strongest attack.

Liverpool's strongest point is also the attack, so let's just fight them in attack!

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The team was behind, and Chen Hero was a little depressed, but fortunately, it wasn't Ronaldo who scored the goal, otherwise he would have been even more depressed.

Chen Hero found that he had underestimated his opponent a bit too much before. This Mourinho wasn't the Mourinho he knew in Serie A, and this Real Madrid was also different from the team in his memory.

Their strength had improved by more than one level...

It seems that Mourinho is doing really well at Real Madrid?

Chen Hero clenched his fists.

The opponent was strong, unexpectedly strong, but this made Chen Hero even more motivated.

It's more interesting to defeat such a Real Madrid!

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Ronaldo raised his hand many times to ask for the ball, and his teammates cooperated very well in giving him the ball. As long as he got the ball, he would definitely not pass it out, and in the end, he would finish it off with a shot himself.

He and Chen Hero really had a tacit understanding, because their thoughts were exactly the same—Chen Hero wanted to defeat Ronaldo, defeat Real Madrid, and ruin Ronaldo's celebration banquet. Similarly, Ronaldo also wanted to defeat Chen Hero, defeat Liverpool, to prove that his Ballon d'Or was well-deserved, and that all the claims that compared Chen Hero with him were self-inflicted humiliation!

The two of them were at odds with each other like this.

Chen Hero didn't need to raise his hand, his teammates would pass the ball to him.

The two sides started a shooting competition.

By the end of the first half, neither of them had scored a goal. The score was still 1:0, Real Madrid leading.

O'Neill left the field with a frown. Against a strong enemy, the performance of Liverpool's tactics couldn't satisfy him.

Not scoring a goal in the first half meant failure for him.

Mourinho did do a better job in defending Chen Hero. And himself, he had put a lot of energy into dealing with Ronaldo, so he was unable to provide more support to Chen Hero.

To reverse this situation in the second half, he had already made a choice—reduce the pressure on Ronaldo and turn to support Chen Hero.

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After the second half of the game restarted, the two shooters on both sides continued to be the protagonists on the field.

It was obvious that even a center forward like Benzema had to pass the ball to Ronaldo, but Real Madrid fans were no strangers to this scene. Although Ronaldo's position on the field was not a center forward, he had such privileges, everyone had to pass the ball to him, because he was the only one in the Real Madrid team who could compete with Messi, Real Madrid not only hoped to surpass Barcelona in terms of team results, but also hoped that Ronaldo would surpass Messi in terms of personal honors.

On the Liverpool side, Chen Hero was naturally the target of everyone's passes.

With the full support of the two teams, if the two shooters still didn't perform, then they would simply be unworthy of their current reputation!

Ten minutes into the second half, Chen Hero took the lead!

Sanchez feigned a cross after breaking through on the wing, tricking Real Madrid's left back Marcelo into jumping up to block the cross, but he suddenly cut the ball back in with one foot, and then crossed with a low pass.

Chen Hero appeared on time in the right place, leaned against Pepe, and swept a shot across his body!

Although Casillas made a save, and he also touched the ball, his movements were still a bit slow, and the ball rolled into the goal from under his armpit!

"Goal!!" This time it was the English commentator who roared. "Hero! Hero! He equalized the score for Liverpool! 1:1! The two sides are back to the same starting line!"

After scoring the goal, Chen Hero ran all the way to the corner flag area, jumped high, and raised his arms and shouted!

The Liverpool fans on the scene let out a huge cheer: "Hero! Hero! Long live Hero!!"

Then Chen Hero turned around and beckoned Sanchez to come over, he wanted to thank Sanchez for passing the ball to him.

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Watching Chen Hero jump high again and wave his fists to celebrate the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo felt unhappy, he frowned slightly.

But he quickly responded to Chen Hero's challenge. He also scored a goal, using his most proud weapon—a free kick!

A free kick from about thirty-five meters from the goal, Ronaldo shot a signature elevator ball, blasting the ball into Reina's goal.

Ronaldo seemed very excited after scoring the goal, he lifted his shorts and pointed to his thick right thigh, showing everyone that this leg was the one that blasted the ball into the goal.

"Oh oh oh! The invincible Ronaldo! He is the most complete player in football today! Free kicks, long shots, left and right feet, headers! He is omnipotent!!"

The Spanish commentator put all the praise he could think of on Ronaldo's head.

Watching Ronaldo's gesture of showing off his strength, Suárez said to Chen Hero beside him, "If I said he was showing off to you, would you believe it?"

Chen Hero nodded: "I believe it. But I will too!"

"You will too? Show off your muscles?"

"Free kick!"

Chen Hero replied.

Suárez spread his hands: "Okay, I know what I should do..."

Chen Hero reminded him: "Don't show off your acting skills, it'll make people laugh!"

Suárez rolled his eyes: "Okay, okay, I guarantee it's a real fall!"

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After celebrating the goal, Ronaldo ran back to his own half with his teammates, and he also took a special look at Chen Hero's direction.

But he couldn't see Chen Hero's expression, because Chen Hero was facing away from him, talking to Suárez. He could only see Suárez's gesture of spreading his hands.

You don't dare to look, do you? Haha! This is my strength! You're scared, right!

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The game restarted, and because of Ronaldo's goal, Real Madrid took the lead again. Everyone had been so focused on the duel between the two of them that they had ignored the progress of the two teams. Only then did they realize that Real Madrid was still in the lead...

In terms of overall strength, Real Madrid is definitely stronger than Liverpool, so this score is quite fair...

But the Liverpool people would not think this was fair.

Suárez suddenly became active, he repeatedly retreated to midfield to get the ball, and then turned around to break forward. Because Real Madrid's defense had to defend Chen Hero, Suárez was able to dribble the ball successfully many times...

This can't go on like this!

Pepe finally couldn't help but take action.

When Suárez was dribbling the ball into the penalty area, he went up and cleanly... tripped him, tripping Suárez to the ground!

The referee's whistle sounded, and he decisively awarded Liverpool a free kick about thirty meters from the goal.

Suárez stood up hugging his knee and limped two steps, then grinned and said to Chen Hero: "I'm really going for it! You have to give me a real one too!"

Chen Hero patted his shoulder while holding the ball: "Don't worry, your sacrifice is valuable! The military medal will have half of mine, and half of yours!"