Chapter 38: Next battle, Leicester City!
In the days that followed, the league and cup competitions continued, and Rangers remained unbeaten in the league and Europa League during this period.
The team once won fifteen consecutive games in the league, especially in the second encounter with the Celtics, when Furuhashi Kengo was locked down by Chen Xiaoliang again. The angry Japanese striker repeated his old elbowing trick, but this time the referee showed no mercy and directly expelled him from the game.
The Rangers won a double victory with a score of 1-0.
By February of the following year, they were already 18 points ahead of the Celtics in the standings.
The league championship, which has been absent for ten years, is just around the corner.
In the Scottish FA Cup and League Cup, Gerrard adopted a rotation strategy to give the main players time to recover and reduce the probability of injuries.
In these two cup competitions, the team was eliminated as planned according to the adjustment of strategic focus.
However, what Chen Xiaoliang remembers most is the second group match against Benfica.
The Rangers, who came to their home court, were still conceded two goals by Nunez, head and foot. In the end, they used their height advantage to score two set pieces to equalize the score.
He once again witnessed Nunez's crazy performance on the sidelines and began to have a new understanding of the term "striker bully".
In these two months, Chen Xiaoliang started in 12 games and completed 40 routine tasks. In addition to the daily training and extra training after using the physical recovery card, he accumulated a total of 209 hours of training value.
These are the results of his hard work.
Helena still monitors Chen Xiaoliang's physical condition at least once a week.
Over time, Chen Xiaoliang developed a habit. Whenever he saw the German lady with blonde hair and black frames, he would take off all his clothes.
However, as the frequency of competitions increased, Helena began to remind Chen Xiaoliang that his muscle fatigue was increasing and the probability of injury was greatly increased.
This served as a reminder to Chen Xiaoliang that next time he faced a stronger opponent, his physical strength would be consumed faster and the intensity of the confrontation would become more intense. If he used all the physical strength recovery cards in extra training, once an accident occurred during the game, he would be forced to leave the field and rotate.
This will affect the number of tasks you can complete and the rewards you receive.
What's more, stamina recovery cards are only given in league missions, and cup missions only give skill points that you don't know how to use.
After 209 hours of training, Chen Xiaoliang improved his passing from 7 to 10, technique from 2 to 10, dribbling from 2 to 10, and ball stopping from 5 to 10, which means that he has raised all the technical attributes needed for a defensive midfielder to a decent level.
Since all attributes are from 1 to 10, each point only takes 5 hours of training, so these technical attributes take a total of 120 hours of training.
The rest was still added to the physical attributes he cared about most.
The speed increased from 14 to 15.
Going up to level 16 to 18 would cost 80 hours of training, which was too expensive. He hesitated for a long time and was reluctant to do so.
All that's left is to increase your stamina from 10 to 13.
Now its properties become:
【Technical attributes】
Passing 10, Crossing 2, Marking 10, Penalty 9
Technique 10, Corner Kick 2, Dribbling 10, Out of Bounds 5
Steals 20, Shots 5, Stopping 10, Free Kicks 4
Headers 10, long shots 4
【Physical attributes】
Burst 10, Bounce 10, Agility 11, Stamina 13
Balance 10, Strength 10, Speed 15, Constitution 10
Basically, you no longer have to worry about the embarrassing situation of receiving the pass from your teammates and being able to stop 3 meters away when there is no one within 3 meters.
As for crosses, shots, and long shots, these are neither his tactical tasks nor something he needs to consider.
The reason for increasing his speed again is very simple, because he will face the Premier League team Leicester City in the first knockout round of the Europa League next.
The opposing team also has a powerful striker, Jamie Vardy, who won the Premier League Golden Boot with 23 goals last season.
Vardy has made a name for himself in the Premier League with his extraordinary speed and clever off-ball movement .
But before that, there was still a "troublesome matter" for him to deal with.
One day, Reese called mysteriously and said he had something good to show him.
After hanging up the phone, a web page was sent from Reese.
Chen Xiaoliang opened it and found that it was actually a Chinese web page.
The title is: "When the first rays of morning sunlight shine into Cheryl's bedroom"
Author: Chen Chi
After he clicked on it, he saw that the author had cut the blurry video footage obtained by the paparazzi into several pictures, and then added a long paragraph of extremely sexy text to form such an article.
Chen Xiaoliang originally thought it was a prank by Reese and didn't pay much attention to it. After all, the rumors during this period were almost over and he no longer took them seriously.
But when he saw the comments at the end of the article, he became anxious.
On the Internet, no matter whether it is finance, sports, culture, entertainment, or even damn online articles, the comment section is basically a war of words, with supporters and opponents, and a large number of trolls.
But below this article, it is all the same:
"Chi Ge V5"
"Brother Xie Xie Chi"
Oh my god! It’s okay in Europe where people have open minds. After all, I’m just a newcomer. But in the Red Country where tradition is valued, how can I face the people of Jiangdong if this thing gets out…
Chen Xiaoliang quickly called Reese.
Unexpectedly, Reese said with a smile that there was no real evidence for this kind of thing, and netizens were just watching it for fun, but it was invisibly increasing Chen Xiaoliang's popularity.
Just now, a well-known and time-honored pharmaceutical company found him and wanted Chen Xiaoliang to endorse a drug. The endorsement fee was 200,000 pounds. Although it is not a lot, all he needs to do is hold the medicine bottle and smile.
Reese said that he knew nothing about the traditional medicine of the Red Country , so he had sent the prepared information to Chen Xiaoliang.
After Chen Xiaoliang opened it, he almost fainted.
A few days later, the advertising page of him holding Siwei Dihuang Pills and smiling was pushed to the men over 40 years old in the Red Country by big data. The media rated it as the most simple advertisement in football after Ronaldo's Golden Throat Lotion.
February 19, 2021, 19:00, Leicester King Power Stadium.
In the Penguin Sports live broadcast room, Zhan Jun announced the starting lineups of the two teams:
“Leicester City has performed well this season and is currently third in the Premier League and is expected to compete for a Champions League spot.
Rogers continued to use the 4231 formation which worked very well in the league.
goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel;
The four defenders from right to left are Amartey, Evans, Seyunju, and Thomas;
Tielemans and Ndidi form a double defensive midfielder;
Barnes and Albrighton are responsible for the two flanks in the frontcourt, Vardy is the lone striker forward, and Maddison plays the role of attacking midfielder behind him.
For Rangers, Gerrard continues to use the main lineup that he always sends out for tough games.
The goalkeeper is 38-year-old McGregor;
The four defenders are Tavernier, Goldson, Balogun, and Barisic;
Davis, who is good at both offense and defense, and Aribo partnered in the midfield, one on the left and one on the right;
The forward line is still the three arrows of Roofe, Hagi and Kent.
Our player Chen Xiaoliang will play as the lone defensive midfielder, which is also the biggest highlight of the game. In the direct confrontation with Premier League-level players, can his defense still protect Rangers?
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