Chapter 63: Miraculous medical skills from the East!
Four consecutive days of training left all the players, including the three goalkeepers, exhausted.
There was no tactical confrontation. The whole day's training was all about physical fitness. Even the recovery training for rest was lap-grabbing exercises.
Especially Patterson, Aribo and Haji, who were urged by Gerrard .
The targeting is very obvious.
Only two veterans, McGregor and Davis, were properly taken care of by Gerrard. After all, from the players' perspective, the two are old and have done their best in the previous game.
In fact, Gerrard was not very satisfied with Chen Xiaoliang's performance in the last game, but his 16-year-old age became a major factor in why he did not use harsh measures against Chen Xiaoliang like Patterson and others.
"I started playing for Liverpool's first team in the Premier League when I was 18."
Gerard knew in his heart that this sentence, which made him proud, did not apply to Chen Xiaoliang.
As the youngest goalscorer in the history of the Scottish Premier League and Rangers, and the record holder of the youngest on-field captain in the Scottish Premier League, if Chen Xiaoliang had not been loaned to the Scottish Premier League, he would have been a substitute in Tottenham and played in the Premier League.
However, what made Gerrard show mercy was Chen Xiaoliang's crazy performance in the "corporal punishment training" in the past few days.
When others were already panting like dogs, he was still sprinting with his head down; when others finished a set of 20-meter shuttle runs, they had to bend down and walk slowly to rest for a while, but he could do another set right away; when others took a breath during the circle-grabbing training, he was stealing every ball within his control like a madman.
There were times when Gerrard even wanted Chen Xiaoliang to stop, fearing that his excessive waste of energy would lead to injury.
But he also saw it with all his might, and everyone was inspired by his crazy performance.
No one wants to lose to a young player on loan, especially since everyone knows that Chen Xiaoliang will most likely be signed by a big club next season.
Only being stronger than him means that you also have that ability.
But Chen Xiaoliang was too crazy. The two black players with the best physical fitness in the team, Morelos from Colombia and Aribo from Nigeria, had always occupied the top two places in the team's physical fitness tests before Chen Xiaoliang joined the team.
However, now both of them have practiced until they vomited, but Chen Xiaoliang still looks like he is strolling in the garden.
After the last day of training, Gerrard announced the starting roster for the second round of the Europa League knockout match against Slavia Prague the day after tomorrow. These players will get a day of rest, while the rest of the players will still have to come to the club for an extra day of training the next day.
This list was drawn up entirely based on the performance during the extra training in the past few days.
Goalkeeper McGregor, the four defenders are Barisic, Balogun, Goldson and Patterson, and captain Tavernier has a muscle strain and continues to rest.
In addition to Chen Xiaoliang and Davis, the other midfielder was replaced by veteran Canadian international Ivoit.
Gerrard made it clear that the midfield must be controlled in the next game! Although as good at running as black players such as Aribo and Kamara, they are better in ball control and passing skills.
The forwards are Kent, Morelos and Roofe.
Aribo and Haji were both relegated to the bench by Gerrard.
After the training, everyone dragged their tired bodies back to the locker room, without even the energy to chat.
Chen Xiaoliang took off his training suit, and the dozen or so red and black circular marks on his back and shoulders instantly attracted the attention of his teammates.
"Chen, what is this? Is this the medical skill that has been passed down for thousands of years in your Red Country?"
Chen Xiaoliang replied: "This is called cupping, and it can help relieve muscle soreness."
These cupping marks were of course left by Helena's physical therapy for him over the past few days.
Continuous physical training left Chen Xiaoliang with no energy at all.
Helena felt distressed when she saw this. In the past few days, she had been doing instrument testing, preparing energy meals, and doing acupuncture, cupping, massage, and physical therapy. It seemed as if all the skills the female doctor had learned were for this boy from the Red Country.
"Is this thing useful?"
"It must be useful. Look at his physical fitness. He's stronger than a bull!"
"Fuck, did you bribe the boss? I think he has gained a lot of weight in the past few days. Did he eat something at home?"
"Where did you get it? Can you take us there to get it done too?"
…
Faced with the enthusiastic expectations of his teammates, Chen Xiaoliang naturally could not agree.
Helena is his personal sports science director!
Do you understand what exclusive and private mean?
It's mine alone! How can I share it?
But Chen Xiaoliang only said half of it. Erica has helped him a lot in the past few days.
As a professional athlete who won the silver medal in the sprint at the European Games, her professional ability in short-frequency sprinting, breathing and force movements that are more in line with the actual use of football players is far superior to that of the physical coaches of ordinary football clubs.
Moreover, Erica secretly told Chen Xiaoliang that she was actually a part-time physical trainer for Dortmund in the Bundesliga, and she would go to Dortmund every year during the off-season to guide the players in physical training.
There is a video online of her instructing Hummels in running practice, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
I'm saying this now because I feel sorry for my sister Helena. Seeing her working hard in the kitchen and cooking every day to help Chen Xiaoliang recover his physical strength, I gave her some free guidance as a way of repaying her for the delicious food she treated me to that night.
Of course, Chen Xiaoliang would never tell such a secret.
The elder sister is yours, and of course the younger sister is also yours!
However, facing his teammates who were spitting and talking excitedly, Chen Xiaoliang knew that he would not be able to pass this test if he didn't explain something today.
He couldn't tell them that he couldn't take it any longer, so during the next two days of training, whenever he felt physically exhausted at noon, he would use an extremely precious physical recovery card.
He thought about it, took out his cell phone and called David.
After a while, a group of teammates followed Chen Xiaoliang out of the parking lot outside the training ground.
David opened the trunk, and Chen Xiaoliang pointed to a box of medicine and said:
"It's this medicine, a formula passed down from the ancestors of the Red Nation. It's non-toxic and harmless, and it doesn't contain sugar. Take it once a day, ten pills at a time. There are about two hundred pills in this bottle. You can try it."
"This medicine... can really increase endurance?"
Seeing the small yellow bottle in Chen Xiaoliang's hand, the teammates asked while taking the bottle, smelling and looking at it.
They are all Chinese characters, how can they understand them?
What's more, foreigners who are used to taking pills have never seen this kind of red Chinese medicine pill.
Chen Xiaoliang smiled slightly: "That's right."
Most of the teammates were still confused: "Will this thing have any side effects..."
"Hey, I can't really fool you with that ." Chen Xiaoliang immediately opened a bottle, poured out a handful and swallowed it.
I will eat it when I get home anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I eat it now.
Facing his teammates who were still confused, the dazed Morelos jumped out first: "Chen, give me a bottle! I believe you!"
Old Davis, with a murderous look on his face, also grabbed a bottle. Although Gerrard reduced his training volume in order to take care of him, he was still exhausted in the past few days.
I'm already 36, I can't afford to struggle any longer. At worst I'll take the wrong medicine and retire early. It's fate.
Seeing two mice take the initiative, the other teammates also took a bottle each.
But what I was thinking in my heart was to wait until they finished eating and then observe them secretly.
When Helena returned home that night, she underwent routine testing and physical therapy.
Chen Xiaoliang realized that he had taken the medicine too early after he lay in bed.
Although exhausted, but ready to go.
Later, Chen Xiaoliang only remembered that when he turned off his phone before going to bed that night, he vaguely saw the text message Morelos sent him:
"Chen, thank you! This medicine is really good! I was afraid that the effect would not be obvious, so I took twenty pills at a time!"
