Chapter 394 Commander Tu, your bus has arrived in Manchester
Manchester United continued to attack, while Liverpool defended desperately.
It was 6-0, only one goal left to reach last season's record 7-0. If they still wanted to save some face, they had to defend in the last 4 minutes.
They no longer had any martial ethics and would take turns fouling Chen Xiaoliang whenever he got the ball.
A considerable number of Liverpool fans who had come with the team to Old Trafford had already left early, unwilling to see their team being humiliated by its main players.
In the 91st minute, Kwa broke through Arnold on the wing, slipped into the penalty area, but was blocked by Van Dijk, and Manchester United won a corner kick.
The corner kick was then headed out by Van der Ven.
In the 92nd minute, Anthony cut in from the left and shot with his left foot, but was blocked by Nunez's body. Casemiro then shot high and the ball hit the stands.
In the 93rd minute, Chen Xiaoliang received the ball with his back outside the penalty area. Just as he was about to turn around, he was tripped by Jota's outstretched legs. The referee Robert Jones showed the fifth yellow card of the game and Manchester United won a free kick in front of the penalty area.
Teammates unanimously asked Chen Xiaoliang to take the penalty, hoping that he would expand the goal record he had just created, but with a free kick ability of 15 and no free kick attribute card in his bag, he faced a wall of five people and his right-footed arc shot went wide of the post.
After the ball was kicked out, Chen Xiaoliang smiled and shook his head.
Although I am indeed very strong, there is still a lot of room for improvement before I can become truly "all-powerful" and "invincible".
But at the moment in Old Trafford, let alone a slightly off target free kick, even if Chen Xiaoliang did nothing but stand there stroking his hair and wiping his sweat, all the Manchester United fans in the stadium would cheer and applaud for him and be completely obsessed with him.
Finally, after Chen Xiaoliang's long shot hit Elliott and bounced back, the referee Robert Jones checked the stopwatch and blew the final whistle in the 94th minute with one second left!
6 to 0!
Zhan Jun: "History is being rewritten once again at this moment!"
"Although the score difference did not exceed the 7-0 score of the Reds at home in last season's Manchester United derby, today's 6-0 is the biggest winning record of the two teams against Liverpool since the establishment of the team, created at the home of Manchester United and Manchester United's predecessor Newton Heath United!"
"The previous records were 6-1 in 1928 and 5-0 in 1946."
"The Red Devils used an absolute victory to wash away the shame of last season, and also let Liverpool taste the taste of a century-old tragedy at Old Trafford..."
"What's more noteworthy is that this is the most satisfying and powerful victory that Manchester United has ever had over Liverpool under the guidance of any head coach since Klopp took over. You know, in the season before last, Manchester United lost 0-5 at home and 4-0 away in a single season, and Liverpool beat them twice in the season and scored 9 goals in a row."
“Although he looked pale, Klopp was still on the sidelines encouraging his players who were leaving the field, but his expression could not hide his loneliness!”
"Both teams spent huge amounts of money in the summer, but we didn't expect this scoreline to appear at Old Trafford."
"It really is like 'The bleak autumn wind blows again, and the world has changed!'"
Zhang Lu: "Hahahaha, but having said that, Liverpool's performance this season is still very good. They are chasing Manchester United and Manchester City very closely. After all, it is a league game. A disastrous defeat in one game may not necessarily affect the result of the entire season. It depends on how Klopp adjusts the mentality of the players."
On the field, when the final whistle blew, all the Manchester United players ran into the field, rushed towards Chen Xiaoliang, surrounded him and threw him high into the air.
Every time he was thrown up, the Manchester United fans in the stadium would shout "Yeah!"
After walking around the field to thank the fans, head coach Ten Hag, captain Chen Xiaoliang and other players interviewed expressed their joy at the result and their gratitude to the home fans for their almost non-stop cheering throughout the game.
After the game, Ten Hag praised Chen Xiaoliang a lot, but in order to prevent the team from getting too carried away, he pointed out that the team's current performance is too dependent on Chen Xiaoliang alone.
Klopp was inevitably a little frustrated. He said with a hint of sourness that the gap between Liverpool and Manchester United was not as big as the score showed. Today they lost because of the red card trap and the personal performance of a superstar.
If that red card hadn't disrupted the game plan, the result would never have been like this.
He also said that Liverpool will definitely try for revenge when the two teams meet at Anfield in the second half of the season.
Given Chen Xiaoliang's explosive performance, the media inevitably began to compare and discuss Chen Xiaoliang and Haaland in all aspects.
Before, the media judged the two from different perspectives of midfielder and striker positions.
They began to ask different players, coaches and celebrities from different angles all day long, asking questions like "Chen Xiaoliang and Haaland, which one do you choose?"
Just like the Melo era.
Among the fans, the Chen faction and the Ha faction began to become clearly divided. One belittled the other side for only relying on physical strength and speed, while the other ridiculed the other side for only being able to eat cakes in the penalty area and bully weak players to brush up their stats.
It's still the same as in the Melo era.
Even many basketball fans who had no place to argue with because of LeBron James' retirement and Curry's aging statistics that dropped significantly were attracted by them and became temporary football fans.
According to the survey report of the statistics company, the distribution of the two fans is also very interesting. In South America, Asia, and Africa, Chen Xiaoliang's number of fans crushes Haaland's number of fans, while in Europe, North America, and Oceania, Haaland's number of fans is higher than that of Chen Xiaoliang.
But there are exceptions. In Japan and South Korea, more people like Haaland, and the sour smell can be smelled throughout the Red Country.
It’s just like when the Korean media shouted that Korean center Ha Seung-jin could easily crush Yao Ming.
I can have Son Heung-min and Kaori Mitoma, but you can't have Chen Xiaoliang.
In Europe, although the proportion of Haaland's fans increases as you go north in Europe, and the proportion remains roughly the same as you go south, France and Spain are two exceptions.
In France, Chen Xiaoliang has a lot of fans, but there are also many people who hate Haaland.
The reason is ridiculous, because in the minds of the French, the world's No. 1 striker is Mbappe, so they hate Haaland.
But in Spain, the situation is quite different. Madrid fans support Haaland because Chen Xiaoliang rejected Real Madrid, while Barcelona fans are upset because Chen Xiaoliang "stole" Pedri's Copa Award and Messi's 8th Ballon d'Or.
In the era of Internet traffic, the media has accurately grasped the code of traffic, and has harvested wave after wave of hot spots by provoking confrontation, dividing camps, and creating controversial topics.
But these have no effect on Chen Xiaoliang.
He woke up early the next morning and opened the system as usual. This game was definitely a great harvest.
The match win plus a clean sheet, plus 6 goals and the well-deserved best player of the match, totaled 22 training points.
6 goals also triggered [Achieve a hat trick in the next game] [Reward: Reward for this game × (number of goals + number of assists)].
The 22 training points were directly multiplied by 6 and instantly became 132 training points!
Training value 24→156!
Then there are the breakthrough points. After successfully shutting out the opponent, 6 goals equals 6 points. However, he triggered the season BUFF for the first time [Season Reward: Breakthrough points doubled when facing the BIG7 and top opponents], and the breakthrough point reward became 12 points.
Breakthrough points 37→49!
Then there are the achievements that are triggered.
【Complete a hat trick in the English national derby】
[Achievement Reward: Shooting +1]
Shots 17 → 18
Finally, the shooting reached a bottleneck.
It doesn’t end there, there are hidden achievements.
[Hidden achievement achieved: Five sons passed the imperial examinations]
[Achievement Reward: Hat Trick Maker BUFF. After scoring 2 goals in a single game, the five attributes of shooting, long shot, penalty kick, header, and free kick will be increased by 1 until the end of the game.]
When Chen Xiaoliang saw this BUFF, his mouth opened wide. However, he found that after this hidden achievement disappeared, a brighter achievement appeared.
[Hidden Achievement: Six Gods Descend]
[Achievement Reward: God's Descend BUFF. After scoring 2 goals in a single game, all technical attributes will be +1 until the end of the game]
After clicking to unlock, the previous "Hat Trick Maker" disappeared, and was replaced by this god-like BUFF!
These days even the system’s rewards are subject to iteration!
Strong! Really strong!
I’m not excited enough yet because I remembered that I haven’t drawn Liverpool’s [Giant Club Mission] card yet.
Return to the reward page and click on the draw.
The dark silhouettes of countless stars kept spinning in the system like a revolving lantern, getting slower and slower, and finally stopped.
As soon as Chen Xiaoliang saw the figure, he was immediately happy. There were a lot of Liverpool legends, and he might not know others, but how could he not know this person?
With this figure, this head shape, and these slightly raised shoulders, who else could it be but Gerrard?
Sure enough, the figure materialized and Gerard's appearance emerged.
[Obtain Steven Gerrard's Slip Card. After it is activated, the defensive player who is guarding you closely can slip once.]
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The air suddenly froze...
“Hahahaha! Oh my god…hahahaha!”
Early in the morning, Chen Xiaoliang couldn't hold back his laughter in the bedroom and almost cried.
Grab the bamboo shoots!
He even suspected that the mysterious person behind the development of this system was a sinister villain.
Helena and Erica, who were having breakfast downstairs, looked at each other and continued to look at their phones and eat, as if they hadn't heard anything.
Anyway, it was common for Chen Xiaoliang to make all kinds of strange noises such as "hum, ha, er, ah" in the bedroom in the early morning of the second day after the game.
Ten Hag did not give anyone a day off today and all the players were called back to the Carrington base for training.
Although all the Red Devils in the city were immersed in an excited atmosphere after the big victory, it was just a league game after all, and the remaining games had to be played one by one.
Four days later, they will face Bayern Munich in the last match of the Champions League group stage.
Before the game, public opinion and the media had already begun to pray for Bayern. It seemed that everyone who cared about the game, whether professional practitioners or amateur fans, were discussing how many points Manchester United would win against Bayern in this game.
Despite a good performance in the Bundesliga and being 5 points ahead of Dortmund in first place after 13 rounds of the league, Tuchel's Bayern has never shown absolute dominance. In addition, there were no big purchases or sales in the summer window, so the outside world's psychological expectations have always been a little weak.
But Manchester United is different. They have not lost a single game so far and are advancing bravely on the league table together with their neighbor Manchester City. In the last round, they were ranked second in the league and beat Liverpool, which was ranked third. This has definitely been the number one topic in football in recent days.
With a 6-goal victory in this round, they scored 47 goals and conceded 11 goals, with a goal difference of 36, surpassing Manchester City's 34 goals, and returned to the top of the Premier League in a tie.
Four days later, he had accumulated another 16 training points (156→172). Chen Xiaoliang glanced at the attribute panel and wanted to add headers and free kicks, but they were missing. After adding free kicks, his ball-stopping ability also needed to be improved.
He finally added "technology".
Technique 15→17
Training value 172 → 12
This attribute works in various aspects, such as improving the smoothness when dribbling the ball, shortening the gap in ball control when changing direction, and better grasping the arc of the shot and the landing point of the pass.
Although it is far less direct and obvious than simply adding related attributes, it can comprehensively improve all-round performance.
For Chen Xiaoliang, who has to do everything on the court, this actually brings the greatest overall benefit.
On the evening of December 14th, early morning of the 15th, Red Country time, at Old Trafford, Chen Xiaoliang and Kimmich led the players from both sides onto the stadium.
Just when all the fans were expecting the two veteran giants to have another , the progress of the game was far beyond everyone's expectations.
On the starting lineup announced by UEFA, Bayern was in 4-2-3-1 formation, playing in 4-4-1-1 formation.
In front of goalkeeper Sommer, the so-called four defenders are all players who were originally central defenders.
From right to left are Pavard, De Ligt, Upamecano and Lucas Hernandez.
The two so-called wingers are Alphonso Davies on the left and Cancelo on the right.
Add to that the two defensive midfielders Kimmich and Goretzka in the middle, and even the Sky Sports commentator, Kahn, who was fired by the Bayern Supervisory Board at the end of last season and is currently unemployed at home, exclaimed, "It's killing me."
There are a total of eight defensive players, and the two wingers are both full-backs. When necessary, all eight players will return to defense, with the wingers directly playing as full-backs, Musiala retreating to the central midfielder position, leaving Hojlender alone in the front, a perfect 6-3-1 formation.
Moreover, Kimmich, Goretzka and Barella are different. They have no grudges against Chen Xiaoliang and Manchester United. They have no personal grudges when it comes to the game, and they will not be reckless enough to commit malicious fouls and get cards.
Under Tuchel's sixteen-character policy of "avoiding the enemy's sharp edge, defending and counterattacking, maintaining a draw and striving for victory, and qualifying as the first", the efficient and rigorous Southern King was like a precisely operated war machine, taking no mistakes as merit and withstanding wave after wave of attacks from Manchester United.
This is a new challenge for Ten Hag after taking charge of Manchester United.
After you display terrifying firepower against a team like Manchester United , the opponent will inevitably adjust their on-the-spot deployment according to your status and offensive tactics.
Just like last season's Champions League final, before the game started, everyone knew that Guardiola's Manchester City would definitely be the side that dominated the ball and attacked more.
This gives the party that is expected to be weaker by the outside world enough public support to launch a defensive counterattack.
However, at this time, Manchester United had not yet reached the level of strength in controlling the ball like Manchester City.
After the first 20 minutes of heavy bombardment, the Germans began their planned counterattack.
In the 24th minute, Alphonso Davies received a long diagonal pass from De Ligt in the penalty area, instantly getting rid of Sancho, who was in the starting lineup of the game. Then, he used his speed advantage from the outside to overtake Wan-Bissaka, making it impossible for the latter to use his stealing ability.
After going down the bottom line, Alphonso Davies made a direct cross. Hojlender, who was quickly moving forward in the middle, was sandwiched by Varane and Lima on the left and right. He simply headed the ball back and passed it to Musiala not far behind him.
The future pillar of Bayern and the German national team fired a fierce shot, but De Gea had no reaction. Fortunately, Musiala did not hit the right spot and the ball went wide of the right post, but this counterattack still made the entire Manchester United team nervous.
Although the 6-0 victory four days ago was exciting, the players' physical exhaustion only increased after one player was sent off.
Casemiro, Dalot, Wan-Bissaka, Kva, Varane, Lima and others who have been working non-stop all showed signs of fatigue.
In addition, Tuchel placed two full-backs who are good at both offense and defense and have extremely fast speed in front of the full-backs on both sides today to play as wingers, which made it very difficult for Kva and Anthony to play.
Especially Kvadrat, who finally passed Cancelo, but saw Pavard in front of him. Just as he was dealing with Pavard, Cancelo caught up with him.
Casemiro and B Fee, who partnered as defensive midfielders in this game, did not dare to press too forward. Bayern seemed to be hiding in a 4-4-1-1 formation, but once they launched a counterattack, they could turn into 4-1-4-1 at any time.
This was also recognized by Kahn. Although he had personal grudges with the current team's board of directors, seeing Tuchel's pragmatic tactical arrangement, he believed that this was the best arrangement for Bayern to face Manchester United away from home with a 2-point lead.
With the increase of a little bit, Chen Xiaoliang, who had obtained a powerful BUFF, also had difficulty in kicking away.
Although there are no sticky players like Bajić and Elliott around today, Kimmich and Goretzka are both top-notch players.
Even if he relied on his personal ability to create space in the middle and ran into the penalty area, he saw Cancelo and Alphonso Davies in position, and Pavard and Lucas Hernandez immediately moved inward. Oh my gosh, there were four central defenders defending in the penalty area.
If he could get whatever he wanted, he could change his name to Dugu Qiubai tomorrow and retire because defeat is so hard to come by.
In the midfield locker room, the young men of Manchester United drank sports drinks, gasped for breath, and looked unwilling.
At halftime, shots were 13 to 4 and ball possession was 58% to 42%. It seemed that Manchester United was leading in all aspects, but there was one statistic that proved that was not the case - shots on target were 1 to 3.
Manchester United's shots basically failed to threaten goalkeeper Sommer. Either this one was blocked or that one went astray or was high.
Bayern's shots were deadly every time. If Hojlender was not still young and had little experience in major competitions, and if De Gea's goal-line saves were still top-notch, Manchester United would have fallen behind long ago.
Chen Xiaoliang looked at the tactical board that Ten Hag was explaining and fiddling with, wondering how he should deal with such a situation.
A top giant launched a pragmatic defensive counterattack.
Tonight, Commander Tu didn't drive a tank, but a bus.
