Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 291 Face to Face with the Legends
From the very beginning of this game, Naples showed amazing momentum. At first glance, I thought it was Naples who was eager for revenge...

Naples is on the offensive, Chen Yingxiong will naturally get a lot of shooting opportunities.

But he is not facing an ordinary central defender.

When Chen Yingxiong faced Maldini and planned to forcefully dribble a breakthrough, the ball under his feet was shoveled off by Maldini without fouling!

At first, Chen Yingxiong wanted to bully Maldini because he was old, turned slowly, and his movements were not flexible enough.Unexpectedly, although he is old, he still has experience, the card position is extremely accurate, and the prediction is also extremely accurate.Chen Yingxiong pouted his ass, knowing what he was going to do, he was stuck on the road ahead of time, waiting for Chen Yingxiong to bump into him, and then he used his superb tackle skills to destroy the football.

The shovel is clean and neat!

Chen Yingxiong staggered and rushed out out of inertia, but the ball stayed at Maldini's feet.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough. When he saw the ball was lost, his first reaction was not to hold his head in his hands and pose in annoyance, but to turn around and pounce again.

Maldini originally planned to get up and control the football, and then pass the ball.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly had a dangerous intuition, so he resolutely gave up his original plan, fell to the ground, stretched his legs and swept the football to Karadze next to him.

Just after he finished doing this, a gust of wind passed by his ear, and the big man strode towards him.

so close!

Maldini cried out inwardly, but there was no expression on his face. As a 40-year-old veteran, he has long learned to hide his inner activities.

What surprised Maldini was not that his ball was almost intercepted, but that such a big man was so flexible...he was about 1.9 meters tall, but after being intercepted, he quickly turned around and was able to grab back immediately , Such agility is amazing.

Just like scrambling to tease a monkey during training, Chen Yingxiong turned around to fight back, but was in vain.He also secretly marveled in his heart—the 40-year-old guy is still so powerful, he really didn't expect it at all.Leaving aside the tackle, just talking about the sweeping pass that fell to the ground is enough to illustrate his experience and intuition...

In fact, Chen Yingxiong despised Maldini at first, because he was almost his father at Maldini's age. Can a 40-year-old be compared to a 20-year-old self?He has this mentality.

No matter how rich your experience is and how good your skills are, your body alone is enough to beat your opponent.

Unexpectedly, when it was really in the game, he realized that it was not the case at all.

As the former best defender in the world, Maldini is really difficult to deal with...

He can always get stuck in a position that makes him feel very uncomfortable, so that he doesn't need to compete desperately with Chen Yingxiong, nor does he need to compete with Chen Yingxiong in terms of speed and body, he only needs to make a suitable defense in this position Take action and that's it.

But Chen Yingxiong is uncomfortable. If Chen Yingxiong is compared to a healthy and strong adult, then Maldini is a small but tough fishbone, which happens to be stuck in the throat of an adult Chen Yingxiong. If it doesn't go down, it just gets stuck there, making him extremely uncomfortable.I want to cough but can't come out, I want to swallow but can't swallow.

After coming to Italy, Chen Yingxiong also encountered many first-class defenders, but Maldini was the top player he encountered.This is the first time he collided with Maldini. When the two sides played against each other in the first half of the season, Maldini didn't even make the squad.This will also be the last time, because after the end of this season, Maldini will retire.This is the last season of his career.

When Chen Yingxiong was stopped by Maldini one after another, he was not angry or furious. On the contrary, a smile appeared on his face.

In Maldini's last season, he caught up with him, so lucky!To be able to fight against a legendary figure once in my career... My Italy is not in vain!
Chen Yingxiong thinks so.

Before he was born, Maldini was already active in Serie A. When he started playing, he was already famous.So when I started playing professional leagues, it was really not easy to meet such a living fossil character.

Chen Yingxiong cherishes the opportunity to compete with masters very much, because he knows that it is an effective way to improve himself.Besides... he still wants to use this game to feel Maldini's strength, and then maybe he can perfectly present it in the dungeon...

Ever since he discovered that the dungeon could perfectly simulate everything on the football field, he had this idea—wouldn't it be more helpful for his strength to grow by often training with the masters?

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"The hero jumped! He competed for the top! What a pity - under the interference of Maldini, he missed the top!"

After Chen Yingxiong landed, he waved his hand in frustration.This time I was in front of Maldini and got stuck. I thought it would be a goal, but I didn't expect... Maldini interfered behind me and missed it.

Maldini could feel that every time he played against Chen Yingxiong, this kid tried his best, as if he was going to knock himself out.

So don't look at the fact that he hasn't let him score in the confrontation between the two. It seems that he has the upper hand, but in fact he is also working hard.

Looking at the sharp-edged muscles under Chen Yingxiong's tight jersey, he couldn't help but lament his aging.If I could be ten years younger, I wouldn't have worked so hard today...

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The collision between Chen Yingxiong and Maldini has attracted the attention of many people.One is a hopeful star who has just landed in Serie A this year, and the other is a legendary veteran who is about to retire.It seems to mean the end of an old era, and the advent of a new era.

This symbolic duel is the most eye-catching and most inspiring literati.

But a football game is not a one-on-one one-on-one.In other battlefields, there are also wonderful performances.

When Chen Yingxiong and Maldini were competing, the score on the field had changed.

Naples, who played at home, took the lead at No. 201 minutes.It wasn't Chen Yingxiong who scored the goal, but Chen Yingxiong played a role in containing the goal. He alone contained the two Milan central defenders, Maldini and Karazze, allowing Hamsik to assist Arshavin Successfully, the captain of the Russian national team, who has shined in the European Cup, broke into the penalty area and calmed down. The football rolled from Dida's fingers into the goal.

The St. Paul Stadium was full of jubilation.

Many people chanted Arshavin's nickname: "Shava! Shava! Shava!" The voice even gave Arshavin the illusion that "this is St. Petersburg, this is Petrovsky Stadium".

Because the voice only resounds there.

"It seems that Arshavin has been welcomed by the fans here very quickly! The situation with his good friend is really different..." the commentator sighed.

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The lagging AC Milan launched a crazy counterattack. During this period, Naples' offensive was weak, and most of them retreated to participate in the defense.

Chen Yingxiong can get much less support, so the number of direct conversations between him and Maldini is not as frequent as before.

Naples' defense was successful. Until the end of the first half, they did not allow the powerful AC Milan to equalize the score. In the end, the two sides entered the intermission with a score of 1:0.

Taking Arshavin's goal as the dividing line, Chen Yingxiong's performance is also divided into two different situations.Before Arshavin's goal, Naples was on the offensive, and Chen Yingxiong also got a lot of opportunities, and he showed his face frequently in the TV broadcast.And when Arshavin scored a goal, AC Milan's offensive came up, and Naples could only temporarily avoid the edge and choose to withdraw the defense. Chen Yingxiong, as a center who relies heavily on the support of the midfielder, has fewer opportunities and appears in front of the TV audience. The time is naturally less.

Mazari now faces a choice - should he continue to defend in the second half?Or continue to attack?
They are now one goal ahead, but the one-goal lead is by no means negligible.Naples originally played with three backs, and their defense was weak. If they continued to press out and attack, it was inevitable that AC Mi would not find a chance to equalize the score.You must know that there are still three superstars sitting on the bench of AC Milan. Any one of them has the ability to change the result of the game alone.

But what about defense?

Is it too early to start defending from the second half?
Mazari struggled for a while, and finally made a decision-defense!
So during the intermission, he conveyed such a message to his teammates.

Chen Yingxiong frowned when he heard that the team would continue to defend in the second half.Of course he knew what it meant to him.Means fewer chances to attack and less opportunities for him to score.

He felt that the head coach was a little too cautious.

But the opponent is the head coach after all, so it is impossible for him to stand up in the locker room and accuse the head coach of conservative tactics, right?Then he can't get mixed up...Look at Lavitch, that's the end of going against the head coach.

Since the head coach does not intend to invest too much force in the offense, it means that he has to rely on himself more often.

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Mazari believes that the team should be able to withstand AC Milan's defense by shrinking the defense. After all, when it shrinks, Naples is equivalent to playing a 541 formation.Three centre-backs, two full-backs, four midfielders and one striker.

Unexpectedly, only 5 minutes into the second half, their goal was pierced by Inzaghi...

No one thought that Inzaghi would appear in that position, but he just appeared in that position, and stretched out his foot to touch the football lightly, and the ball flew into the goal...

After the goal, Inzaghi was very excited. He opened his arms, waved, roared, and rushed to the sidelines.

Inzaghi, who has always been handsome and unrestrained, distorted his face in ecstasy and excitement after scoring a goal. Judging by his excitement, he looked like a teenager who scored a goal on his first appearance.This may be the reason why Inzaghi can continue to score goals at the age of 35-for him, every game is like the debut of his career. Filled with insatiable hunger and mad passion, he never stops chasing goals.Some people regard "eternal youth" as a wish, but Inzaghi has practiced it for eighteen seasons.

The Napoli fans fell silent as Inzaghi sprinted across the pitch to celebrate.They are frustrated that the team was equalized.

And what about Chen Yingxiong?His eyes have been following Inzaghi, who has been running wildly and celebrating. This is also a famous striker since he started playing football. Now he is in front of him.Chen Yingxiong feels that coming to Italy is really the right choice, because he can always meet those legendary figures who could only watch on TV before, and fight against them, becoming opponents that they need to work hard to defeat.

"Can you imagine him turning 36 in a few months?" Hamsik, who was standing next to him, said suddenly.

Chen Yingxiong shook his head.

"He is a true immortal legend!" Even as an opponent, even if his team had just been equalized, Hamsik made no secret of his respect and admiration for this great man.

Looking at the back of Inzaghi running, Chen Yingxiong suddenly said: "I want to become a legend too!"

Hamsik froze for a moment, then turned his head to look at Chen Yingxiong, there was no joking expression on his face.

He patted Chen Yingxiong on the back: "Come on!"

(End of this chapter)