Chapter 16:

On March 31st, Chelsea U18 challenged Ye Shiweizhi U18 in an away game.

Harris brought Roy to the game early. Harris also brought someone with a camera to film the entire game for Zhou Liran.

Roy always felt awkward at first, but once the game started, he immediately gave up this idea, and he didn't even dislike his opponent's dish: he just wanted to dish it out, so that Endritt could arrive at the time Harris said. He has kept zero opponents before.

It would be great if the opponents in every game were like Watford, who shot wildly but of low quality and was hugged by Endritt very handsomely.

Of course, the game will not be based on Roy's personal will. The opponent of Chelsea U18 in this game is not a team like Watford U18. On the contrary, they are playing defensive counterattack.

In the whole game, Chelsea U18 faced Yip Shiwick U18 and scored four times. Yip Shiwick launched a total of five defensive counterattacks in the whole game. Two times the football was cut off immediately after the counterattack, and the other two times he rushed to the goal. In the backcourt, he was stopped by the defender. Only once did he rush to the goal and was easily picked up by Zhou Liran.

The big score victory made the Chelsea fans at the scene shout "Awesome" and shouted the name of the goal scorer. Roy raised his hand and rubbed his ears. For the first time, he felt that these people he once thought had very cute faces. The comrades were very noisy.

Roy turned his head and glanced at Harris, who was sitting next to him and was also cheering, and stretched out his hand to pull him. Harris didn't say a word, he just raised his hand and pressed Roy's head directly and pushed it away.

At the end of the game, the fans left one after another. Roy held it in and finally reached out to grab Harris again. "What should we do? Endrit only saved one ball in this game."

Harris said with some humor: " No, are you so unsure of him?"

"It's not that you have no confidence, or you're worried about him."

"Berkeley has more confidence in Endrit than you do."

This sentence was actually just a joke from Harris.

Berkeley was the photographer hired by Harris. The price was not important. What was important was that he was also a football enthusiast. After hearing that he would be paid to shoot the game, he immediately agreed, but after hearing that he wanted When you shoot the goalkeeper, it means you need to pay more.

However, after the game was filmed, Bekele's eyes were much clearer than before when he exported the video content. "Endrit maintained a highly concentrated state throughout the entire game, for more than ninety minutes. Look here, here and here, the camera was a little shaken because Endrit suddenly moved and I didn't react. "

"These three times were when the football flew through the midfield when Ye Shiweizhi launched a counterattack. The first two times were blocked by defenders . But if he hadn't been stopped by the defender, Endritt could have easily collected the football by suddenly moving his position. "

This is amazing. He kept his eyes on the football throughout the game and never relaxed at all ." , If his own strength is really as strong as you said, and with this state, then I guess he will not miss a single ball even in the Champions League."

Harris's eyes lit up, "Really? So you appreciate Endrit now?"

"Yes!"

"The money I added before..."

Berkeley suddenly stood up, "I'll get a bottle of water, you sit down first."

Harris glanced. He glanced at the water bottle in front of him and shook his head slightly.

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On the same day, the Chelsea home team challenged Watford at Vicarage Road and won the 31st round of the Premier League 0:1.

On April 5, Chelsea welcomed their Champions League quarterfinal opponent, Valencia from La Liga, at Stamford Bridge.

Referee Blakely took the penalty. Thirty minutes after the opening, Valencia's Silva scored and entered the second half with a score of 0:1.

In the 52nd minute of the game, Drogba, who was issued a yellow card in the first half, scored and tied the score. The two sides tied at 1:1 and maintained this score until the end of the game.

On April 7, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Chelsea played against Tottenham at home. No. 12 Mikel assisted No. 6 Carvalho, who took the lead in the 52nd minute of the game. Tottenham made three substitutions to attack, but the starting goalkeeper Cech defended the goal very well and Chelsea defeated Tottenham 1:0.

On April 11, Chelsea went to the Mestalla Stadium in Spain. Both sides adopted a 4-4-2 tactical formation, but Mourinho was obviously better, ending the game 1:2 and advancing again. Champions League semi-finals.

On April 15, Chelsea played Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup semi-finals. Team president Roman Abramovich appeared at the game to cheer Chelsea on. After Chelsea advanced to the final through overtime, Abramovich took the initiative to hug Mourinho in front of the media.

After the game, Mourinho said in an interview, "Roman and I spoke a few words outside the press conference room. I gave him a hug and he gave me a hug. I said to him, 'Congratulations. ', and he also said to me, 'Congratulations.' "This is normal. ①

The home team's performance is booming, the relationship between the coach and the chairman has been broken, and the situation is great. Chelsea fans are smiling.

Except Roy and Harris.

Roy held the pen and looked up at Harris in confusion, "You, you said you are still waiting, how many more years will it take?"

Harris was also a little unconfident, although he didn't speak like Roy. He stuttered, but his eyes were wandering, "Just wait a little longer, I don't think it will take a few years..."

This wait lasted another half a month, and Chelsea made great progress. At most, they would draw, but they would not lose the game at all. They defeated Liverpool 1:0 in the first round of the Champions League semi-finals.

Roy and Harris have temporarily put Zhou Liran's matter behind them. Like other fans, they are already looking forward to this year's Champions League championship!

On May 2, 2007, at Anfield Stadium, Roy and Harris came with a large number of Chelsea fans to watch the last game of the semi-finals away from home. As long as they win this game, they will advance to the final!

It is worth mentioning that no players from the home team Liverpool were injured in this game, but Carvalho, Ballack and Shevchenko from Chelsea were all injured.

The home team Liverpool ranks third in the Premier League and Chelsea ranks second. The home team's Crouch ranks fourth in the Champions League scorer list, and the visiting team's Drogba ranks fifth in the Champions League scorer list. However, both of them scored six goals, but Crouch has more assists, so they are ranked in front of.

Both sides played a very conventional 4-4-2 lineup. In the 21st minute of the first half, Liverpool's No. 5 Agger scored, and Liverpool temporarily led Chelsea 1:0.

In the 28th minute, Chelsea's No. 3 player Cole fouled and was given a yellow card. Then the entire first half ended like this. Liverpool entered the second half with 1:0. Agger, who had just scored, also received a yellow card in the 61st minute. Head coach Benitez scored in the 78th minute. Pennant was replaced by Alonso at the minute, but it did not open up the situation and the game was over.

There was no winner between the two sides, and referee Gonzalez blew the whistle to declare overtime. In the thirty-minute overtime, both sides used up all substitutions, but there was still no player to break the deadlock at this stage, and the game entered a penalty shootout.

Roy's throat was broken, but Chelsea still failed to reach the semi-finals again, losing to Liverpool 4:1 in a penalty shootout.

Cries rang out at the scene, and Harris silently lowered his head and covered his eyes with his hands. He was also in a bad mood because Chelsea lost in the semi-finals again! But at the same time, he felt a little secretly happy, because he knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for to enter the market had finally come.

...

The day after the game, reports about Zhou Liran appeared in some tabloids: Endrit, the starting goalkeeper of the youth team, kept clean sheets against all opponents in the new season!

At first it was just some tabloid reports, and eventually some major newspapers began to report on this youth team goalkeeper who kept a clean sheet in every game in the new season.

Roy's account dedicated to posting Endrit's dynamic applications began to gain a large number of fans. Most Chelsea fans noticed the good prospect of their youth team, a pure Chelsea man, and a goalkeeper with excellent talent!

More Chelsea fans began to watch the youth team games. When they discovered that their goalkeeper Endritt could really keep a clean sheet regardless of whether the opponent was strong or not, they became even more excited.

Zhou Liran: Keeping Heartbreak Online Chelsea fan

Zhou Liran even accepted several interviews with media reporters on the team. Many media began to pay attention to Zhou Liran, a local goalkeeper with an orthodox background in England.

Liz and her husband were very happy for their son. They brought their youngest son Holt to the scene to cheer for Zhou Liran. Zhou Liran's fighting bonus was also increased from one hundred pounds to two hundred pounds.

Zhou Liran and Endrit Carter are starting to become popular!

The popularity has increased several times compared to the previous attention, but Roy is not happy at all, because Harris firmly disagrees with Roy spreading the name "Iron Mask" now.

"This is the ultimate move. We are just in the momentum building stage now. We are still waiting for a better time."

Roy sighed with a frustrated look on his face. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, what will we do? " When will we have to wait?”

“Maybe it will be the 24th of this month, or it may have to wait until next year.”

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May

24th, Athens Olympic Stadium, 2006-07 Champions League Finals, AC Milan. VS Liverpool.

Inzaghi scored one goal in the first half and another in the second half. Liverpool forward No. 18 Kuyt recovered a point in the 88th minute. The finals ended with a score of 2:1. AC Milan was not favored at all. In this case, he became the Champions League champion, adding glory!

On May 25, Zhou Liran came to the locker room to change his jersey after his regular warm-up. When he opened the door, he was a little surprised to find that his teammates appeared in the locker room at this time.

"Wow, you guys came to training so early today? Are you a little bit unwilling after watching yesterday's game?"

Zhou Liran stood on his knees and got dressed. When he was putting on gloves, Coker held up a newspaper and handed it to him. , "Look, Ritter!"

Zhou Liran didn't pay much attention. He glanced at the title casually and then looked away and said casually: "Oh, we need Superman? The new American superhero comic has an Englishman..."

Zhou Liran He paused suddenly, then turned back to stare at the title: We need Iron Face Superman!

Do we need the Iron Mask? We need - Iron Mask?

"I'm just talking about you, Ritter. Look, there's this one too!"

Zhou Liran roughly pulled off his gloves and threw them in the cabinet. He reached out and took the newspaper, and saw the title on it read like this : The Iron Mask is only one chance away from the Yashin Award!

"And this one," Coker read dryly from the newspaper headline, "Please give our Man in the Iron Mask a chance."