our champion dream

Chapter 78 Rising Popularity
Because it was late at night when I arrived in Hangzhou, and it was already early in the morning when I arrived at the hotel where Manchester United stayed.Li Xiaoming, who was exhausted by boats and cars, could finally lie on the bed and sleep soundly.

On the second day, at the Zhejiang Huanglong Sports Center, the home stadium of Hangzhou Greentown, the whole Manchester United team, who was training on the field, once again felt Li Xiaoming's popularity.

Because there are too many fans who come to watch the team's training, which has completely affected the normal training of the team.

Those fans kept shouting Li Xiaoming's name in the stands.Occasionally, Li Xiaoming has some wonderful performances, which will also arouse loud applause from the fans.

It was difficult for the players who had been training to concentrate, but Li Xiaoming was completely unaffected and concentrated on training.

For this reason, after the training, Li Xiaoming, who went back to the locker room to change, was given a good lesson by his teammates.

"Li, you stole our limelight, so you just say what to do." Wayne stood in front of Li Xiaoming aggressively, with one foot on the chair next to Li Xiaoming, like a rogue bully on the streets of England.

"What can I do?" Li Xiaoming looked desperate as to what I could do.

"I don't care, you made our whole team your foil, you have to treat us to a good meal." Rooney was still relentless.

"Okay, Wayne, someday you come to my place, I'll treat you to Chinese food." Li Xiaoming said, patting his chest.

"Come whoever wants to come. If you have enough food, there will be no more beauties."

All joking aside, this also reflects that within the team, everyone is also intimidated by Li Xiaoming's popularity in China.

When Manchester United came to China this time, they only arranged one match in total. They will fly back to Manchester the next day after the match, because the team's next match will be in more than ten days. I want to buy more time to prepare for this game.

Manchester United's opponent is Hangzhou Greentown, but because Li Xiaoming is not a professional player, he knows little about this super team.

Li Xiaoming was brought by Ferguson to the pre-match press conference. Looking at the packed press box, he felt a little guilty for the first time.

At the pre-match press conference, the game did not become the focus of media attention. Instead, some of his prospects in Manchester United became the focus. Some reporters pointedly raised such a point that Ferguson, who was listening on the sidelines, felt cold sweat. Question: "May I ask if your excellent performance in the warm-up match has ensured that you have won the main seat?"

However, Li Xiaoming's answer still satisfies Ferguson: "I am still a learner and a young player. Whether I can become the main force is not my concern now. Manchester United has many great players. The desire to play, I think when the time comes, you will get your chance."

Li Xiaoming's answer surprised many people.Because such questions are often designed with traps in them, players often do not speak through their brains, so sometimes when they answer media questions, media reporters will catch loopholes, take out of context and publicize wantonly.However, as a young player, Li Xiaoming's answer was decent, generous, and humble, and did not let those with ulterior motives find any opportunity to take advantage of it.

And soon there were detailed questions about the pre-match press conference on the Internet. Li Xiaoming's high EQ answers were numerous, and many people had to praise Li Xiaoming's calmness and confidence when facing the media.However, some people think Li Xiaoming's answer is hypocritical.In fact, Li Xiaoming doesn't care what happens on the Internet.He doesn't even know how the Internet will interpret his remarks. He actually just said what he should say, and it actually thinks so.

Still the game is more important.Any questioning remarks are not worth the performance on the court.

However, when the reporter interviewed Wang Hong, a young player from Hangzhou Greentown, there was still a staggering remark: "I don't think Li Xiaoming is so strong. He is just a lucky kid. If such a young man can become Manchester United's If I am a player, then after this game, my worth is estimated to reach 1000 million euros."

Before the game, such news was seen as a provocation to Li Xiaoming and Manchester United.However, Li Xiaoming did not respond to this.

The match was held as scheduled at Zhejiang Huanglong Sports Center, home of Zhejiang Hangzhou Greentown.The entire stadium was full of seats, and even set the highest attendance rate since Hangzhou Greentown entered the Chinese Super League.It's just that most of the fans are wearing Manchester United jerseys.

Li Xiaoming got the chance to start.Starting with him are goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, the main players on the back line, Neville, Nemanja Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra lined up, and the midfielders are Park Ji-sung, Carrick, Giggs Partnering with Welbeck as a left and right winger, Rooney stood in the center position.

"What's the matter? Why does that kid keep looking at you?" Rooney, who was standing in the midfield and was about to kick-off with Li Xiaoming, asked involuntarily when he saw the opposite striker looking at Li Xiaoming with vicious eyes.

"How do I know, the big tree attracts the wind." Li Xiaoming shrugged and glanced in the direction Rooney was looking at. The player named Wang Hong looked at him with contempt and hatred. "It's the guy who said he was worth 1000 million euros before the game, and Leo said he's going to kill him today." Rooney said with a smile towards Li Xiaoming.

After checking the time, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.Li Xiaoming kicked the ball to Rooney, Rooney knocked back to Carrick, and the game officially started.

After the start of the game, Manchester United, which is more dominant in absolute strength, adopted a tactic of controlling the ball.They did not rush to attack, but steadily moved forward with the ball under the leadership of Carrick and Li Xiaoming. Manchester United's back line has even advanced to the middle circle, constantly compressing Hangzhou Greentown's defensive formation. Forward Wang Hong, who clamored to be worth 1000, had to return to his own half to defend.

It's just that the gap in strength makes this seemingly tight line of defense an opportunity for Li Xiaoming to take advantage of.

Seeing Li Xiaoming who had a gap on the left, he motioned to Evra who was holding the ball to give it to him. Evra kicked the ball high and passed through the crowd to find Li Xiaoming who was in the middle. Li Xiaoming had just unloaded the ball with his chest before he had time When the football was passed, Wang Hong crashed into him like a car.

Such a sudden impact made Li Xiaoming unprepared, he was knocked to the ground, and the referee's whistle sounded.

Wang Hong fouled, but he stopped Manchester United's attack, and such a collision was not too serious, and it was not worth the referee to give Wang Hong a yellow card.But I don't know whether he was intentional or not. When Li Xiaoming fell down, he spit on the lawn beside Li Xiaoming who was lying on the ground.

It was nothing serious. Li Xiaoming looked up from the floor and met Wang Hong's eyes. Wang Hong's mouth was slightly opened and he mouthed. Li Xiaoming understood that he was talking about his own rubbish.

Li Xiaoming was not surprised by such a scene. In the previous reports, he felt that not everyone would like him, because his fame at a young age would naturally cause imbalances in many people's hearts. If he wanted to let these people If you shut up, you can only show a performance that makes them even more astonished.

But soon after Li Xiaoming received the ball again, he was pushed to the ground by Wang Hong again.

The referee still called a foul. This time, Wang Hong aggressively made a diving action to the referee, and then said: "This is clearly a flop, referee. I'm a reasonable collision!"

But the referee ignored his defense, so Wang Hong turned around and said to Li Xiaoming: "Hey, boy, do you only know how to flop? Could it be that Manchester United's No. [-] is at this level?" Hearing what he said, what? Li Xiaoming who didn't say anything looked up at him.

"Why, do you have any other opinions?" Wang Hong saw Li Xiaoming looking at him. "I think at your level, it's better not to play football. I don't want to hurt you when I'm in your university, kid."

After speaking, he even poked Li Xiaoming's chest fiercely with his fingers.At this time, Ferdinand, who had long been displeased with Wang Hong, came to Li Xiaoming's name and shouted in English, "What are you doing first?"

Not to be outdone, Wang Hong cursed back in Chinese.Just when the two sides looked like they were about to fight.Li Xiaoming pulled Ferdinand's clothes and said, "Leo, let me handle it myself. I will give him a painful memory." After speaking, he glanced at the pretentious and arrogant Wang Hong with indifferent eyes.

Ferdinand glanced at Li Xiaoming and nodded.Seeing that there was no disturbance in the game, the referee blew the whistle to restart the game. i
Li Xiaoming knows what Wang Ming wants in his heart, and by stepping on the super genius in the media's mouth, sensationalize the public, his popularity will rise steadily, and he may even get promoted and raise his salary to become a domineering president, marrying Bai Fumei's spring and autumn dream.

But in the face of such an opponent who repeatedly provoked him, Li Xiaoming would not fail to react, but this is a football field, and he wanted to use football to let Wang Hong know the pain of stepping on a nail.

Manchester United attacked again, this time when Li Xiaoming ran to the middle circle, Carrick behind him passed the football up.

Li Xiaoming raised his foot to stop the football, and then made a gesture to pass the ball, but he seemed to have made a mistake, because his toe touched the football first, stabbed the football forward, and the football rolled forward about two meters.

Wang Hong rushed up quickly, trying to grab the ball.

And Li Xiaoming was naturally unwilling to just lose possession of the ball, so he also rushed towards football.

Just when the two were about to meet, Li Xiaoming slowed down and stepped on the football with his left foot.

Immediately afterwards, before Wang Hong realized what was going on, he turned around and fixed the football on the turf with his left, not letting the football continue to roll forward.Halfway through the turn, step down with your left foot, step on the turf next to it, switch to your right foot, step on the football and pull it behind you!
At the same time, he took advantage of the situation to complete the entire turn.

Marseille roundabout!
When Wang Hong saw Li Xiaoming turning around, he felt something was wrong. He wanted him to know that if he didn't step down, he would be broken through, so he chose to fall down and try to trip Li Xiaoming.

But he was still half a beat behind.

Before his outstretched foot reached the football, it was pulled away by Li Xiaoming's right foot.

He shoveled empty!
He turned his head back to Li Xiaoming's hand, and his body continued to rush forward according to the inertia. He couldn't believe that he was broken through like a wooden stake.

But this time, he can only look at the back of Li Xiaoming leaving in the dust unwillingly.

Hangzhou Greentown didn't expect Wang Hong to be broken through so easily. Wang Ming's two "tough" defenses made them think that Li Xiaoming's strength was no more than that.

When Li Xiaoming came straight to the middle with the ball!Like bees attracted by the stamens, they swarmed towards Li Xiaoming.

But in this way, Hangzhou Greentown's defense against other positions has declined...

So when the defenders rushed towards him, Li Xiaoming passed the football to Rooney who was already in the neutral position.

After receiving the ball, Rooney turned around, adjusted, and was facing Hangzhou Greentown's goal. He chose to shoot directly!

The goalkeeper of Hangzhou Greentown did not respond, and the goal was blasted away by Rooney's heavy artillery.

After the goal, Rooney pointed to Li Xiaoming with both hands, indicating that he passed the ball well.Li Xiaoming also extended his thumb and smiled at Rooney.

Wang Hong, who witnessed the whole process, gritted his teeth and spat on the lawn.

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After a simple celebration, the game started again.Hangzhou Greentown, who was scored a goal, seemed to want to counterattack.

In the 6th minute of the first half, Hangzhou Greentown's offense hit Manchester United's penalty area for the first time. As a result, the Greentown winger's cross was blocked by Ferdinand.

The football that was cleared fell to Li Xiaoming's feet.

As a striker, Wang Hong also rushed forward immediately.

Li Xiaoming did not directly lift his foot to stop the ball, but turned around with the football.

Wang Hong turned around and turned everything sideways, intending to cut off the connection between Li Xiaoming and football.

He did successfully block Li Xiaoming's body behind him, but he did not block Li Xiaoming's feet.

After Li Xiaoming gave way to the football, he moved his left foot forward, turned his ankle inward, and swept the football that was about to roll across, and the football rolled in front of Wang Hong, from Wang Hong's left Rolled to the right.

At the same time, Li Xiaoming retracted his left foot, turned around on the spot, turned to the right, and dodged from behind Wang Hong.

This time, Wang Hong was too obsessed with physical confrontation - he originally planned to hit Li Xiaoming with his body, so after turning around and cutting across, he leaned his body towards Li Xiaoming. If Li Xiaoming wanted to break through in a straight line, he would definitely hit his body , and finally he can steal the ball and shoot.

It's just that what Wang Hong thought was really beautiful.

But who would have thought that Li Xiaoming had no intention of going forward at all, but dodged in place and avoided it!
As a result, Li Xiaoming's body leaning back lost its point of stress, the center of gravity leaned back too much, and his feet lacked support. As a result, he lost his balance!

After Li Xiaoming withdrew, Wang Hong sat down on the ground!
Wang Hong who fell was still very surprised. He did not expect that Li Xiaoming did not forcefully break through him, so when he landed on the ground, he could only stare blankly at the position not far from him, dodging Li Xiaoming who was defending himself. He didn't continue to dribble, he had already seen the direction and space, and directly kicked a long pass!

The football flew to the right of the Manchester United half, where Giggs was charging forward!

The football landed from the air and hit the turf. It didn't accelerate forward, but slowed down. The distance and speed of the forward rush were significantly reduced.

This just gave Giggs a chance to catch up with football. Although Giggs is old, his speed is still not comparable to that of the Super League players.

Two steps later, Giggs caught up with the football, then cut inside and brought the football to the penalty area of ​​Hangzhou Greentown.

His inside cut attracted the attention of other Hangzhou Greentown players, and the limited number of Hangzhou Greentown's defense immediately adjusted their defensive focus to this side.

After successfully attracting the opponent's defensive attention, Giggs passed the football directly to the center and gave it to Rooney who was in place!
Rooney stopped the ball, then flicked the football to the outside with the instep of his right foot, took a step forward, and shot!

The football drew an arc and bypassed the ten-finger pass of Hangzhou Greentown, and flew into the goal again!

After the goal, Rooney was very excited. He gave Giggs a thumbs up, ran back to the backcourt and hugged Li Xiaoming, and waved to Wang Hong who was still sitting on the ground. Rooney was using his own way The supporter's own little brother.

But Wang Hong's nightmare didn't stop.

Li Xiaoming seemed to be doing it on purpose. After Manchester United all pressed on again, Li Xiaoming directly charged towards Wang Hong. When Wang Hong kept retreating and stared at the football at Li Xiaoming's feet, he saw Li Xiaoming suddenly throw the ball towards Wang Hong. The first wave, and then the football passed through his crotch, and then Li Xiaoming skipped beside him.

Wang Hong, who had been broken through, wanted to chase back unwillingly. When he turned around, he saw Li Xiaoming, who had reached the football, flicked his left ankle, and the football passed through his crotch again, and then Li Xiaoming once again He ran away from his side.

Wang Hong, who had been worn twice in a row, watched Li Xiaoming distribute the football to the right. Welbeck found Giggs in front of the penalty area with a cross. Giggs scored Manchester United with a volley. the third ball.

This goal can be said to completely sink Hangzhou Greentown's momentum to counterattack.

In the 403rd minute of the game, Li Xiaoming once again sent a wonderful through pass to help Rooney complete a hat-trick at halftime.

In the end, the score in the first half was fixed at 4:0.

After leaving the meeting, Rooney held Li Xiaoming's waist and looked at Wang Hong, who was in a daze, and said softly, "Isn't it a bit too hard? Your two consecutive crotch piercings just now are really wonderful. However, I guess you will be scolded by the old man."

Sure enough, when Li Xiaoming returned to the locker room, he was severely scolded by Ferguson for showing off his feet skills. Li Xiaoming, who was scolded bloody, seriously apologized to Ferguson and his teammates, expressing that he wanted too much. Fight back.

In the second half, Li Xiaoming sat on the bench and Ferguson replaced five players on the field.However, this did not weaken Manchester United's strength, and the replaced Manchester United players continued the killing rhythm of the game.

No.601 minutes, Scholes scored the fifth goal with a long shot.

No. 607 minutes, Berbatov scored with a barb.

No. 701 minutes, No. 806 minutes, Owen scored two goals in a row.

In the end, Manchester United ended the game with a score of 8:0.

At the press conference after the game, Li Xiaoming followed Ferguson to the venue to accept questions from reporters.

"Hi Ferguson, I'm a reporter from Sports Weekly, what do you think of this game?"

Ferguson smiled cheerfully, rubbed his iconic big nose and said: "I heard that there was a Greentown player worth 1000 million before the game. I really want to meet this most valuable Chinese player, but it seems that I haven't watched it." to him."

After hearing Ferguson's words, the reporters smiled wryly. They naturally knew Wang Hong's nonsense before the game.

"Then Mr. Li Xiaoming, the Hangzhou Greentown players seemed to have some confrontation with you on the field, and even had a dispute. Did his defense cause you a lot of trouble?"

Li Xiaoming thought for a while and said: "I think the difference between me and Wang Hong is that he speaks with his mouth and I speak with his strength. If his mouth is worth 1000 million, then I am worth 8000 million. I think such a player should Focus more on football."

After the post-match press conference, Wang Hong became the center of public opinion he wanted to be, but the difference was that it became a stepping stone stepped on by geniuses and a target of public criticism.

(End of this chapter)