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Near midnight in West London, on the quiet streets, the rain seemed to fly. Benjamin continued to accelerate. His thoughts flew along with the speed of the car and the rain outside the window.

On the morning of the second day after the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Benjamin accompanied Lady Hamilton to brunch. During this period, my mother suddenly asked why I hadn't seen him in gossip magazines for the past six months. Debra was also on the sidelines, winking at him lightly. He didn't know what Debra had told his mother. He took a sip of tea and told his mother with a smile that he was too busy with competitions, training, and classes. Mrs. Hamilton, who probably thought she knew the youngest son well, slipped the food on her plate gracefully, and said with the same grace, "Don't prevaricate me." Benjamin still smiled and told his mother that he was too busy. Debra finally couldn't hold back, she was the youngest child in the family, she was pampered by everyone, she was unscrupulous from what she said, unlike her brothers.

"Ben either has a girl he likes, or he has a secret lover - if that's the case, I guess it's a married woman!"

In the past, Debra's playful voice would have made Benjamin laugh, but at that time, he told his sister in all seriousness, Don't say ridiculous things. His mother's inquiring gaze followed, and he told Mrs. Hamilton for the third time that he was busy.

He's really busy. He's always thinking. For example, although the course is not difficult for him, the books that should be read and the questions that should be done must be completed step by step. For example, in the game against Chelsea, after the team had a one-goal lead, he had some difficulties in the second half, and he was very much thinking as a playmaker on the pitch, especially in Patter's absence. He couldn't let himself and his baby down.

With only 30 seconds to go in the second half, JT fell to the ground with a scream, and Amadou Ao got up from behind him. Benjamin saw his teammate's socks cut through O's spikes and his calf showing blood, and the referee only verbally warned O's. JT was treated by the team doctor and returned to the field. It didn't take long for him to sense that something was wrong with the atmosphere on the field. Maybe Amadou O's foul on JT was just a personal act, but the Chelsea players' eyes changed.

He doesn't know what Simeone said in the dressing room at half-time, but he did know that game was a decisive one for Chelsea, and a loss would have given him four points less than QPR with one more game. In a desperate situation, a manager who is good at motivating people can definitely induce the players to fight strongly**.

Therefore, when Saul swung his elbow at his armpit, he was prepared. He dodged and gave the ball to Ian's feet. Ross Barkley immediately made a vicious tackle and Ian still gave the ball to Glenn, but Rose still brought Ian over.

He began to understand Chelsea's intentions. And under the opponent's ferocious feet and ruthless small movements, he must remain absolutely calm.

Chelsea's left-back Ake made a big move to bring down Jake's eyes.

Ake received his first yellow card of the game. Ake chose to go up with his left foot very sharply, and his right foot dragged behind him and was obviously unstable, resulting in an unnatural way of exerting force and body posture. Ake's movements may have been caused by nervousness. Jake's breakthrough handling at the time wasn't very good, and the Newcastle man could have gotten a throw-in by getting in position.

Subsequently, Ake made two more wrong choices, which were not very serious, but he did not think that Ake was very well adapted to this special tactical requirement of Simeone.

He looked at the sideline.

****

Patrick has worked with GQ many times, and Tina has also appeared on the cover of GQ. He couldn't sleep, lying in bed flipping through the latest issue of the collaboration. He's the cover character. The man on the cover has short blond hair that is a little messy, his face is angular, and his eyes are blue and deep. His expression is serious, and he is sexy against the shape of his lips. Tina saw the cover and said she wanted to kiss him. That's enough.

Patrick remembers that after the cover photoshoot, the editor named Rocky sat across from him. They talk about music and movies, fashion and books, food and women, and even make some political jokes. Roki is a middle-aged British man who is interesting and tasteful as soon as he speaks. He would never ask Patrick directly about his ongoing "shocking" romance. His way is to fragment everything, piece it all together, and fragment it again.

"Feminism is an unavoidable topic these days, but it's hard to talk about, it's always a complicated issue, and sometimes even an academic paper can't articulate a point of view. I'm curious if everything that happened to Kristen Lu was typical. Roki said. But through the previous conversation, Patrick knew that what Roki was essentially trying to ask was what kind of chemistry and what kind of fusion the female power represented by Tina and the male power he represented. Is this chemistry mild? Does Patrick-Amber need to sacrifice some so-called male authority in this process of fusion?

So, what exactly is the so-called female power and male authority?

Patrick knew everything in his own mind, the question was whether it was necessary for him to talk about this, and if he did, how he should say it.

"There's a group of men, mind you, and I don't think they are necessarily sexists, and they can be very 'respectful' of women and their rights. But deep down they have a fear of female power, and they unconsciously feel that male authority is being challenged in the process of expanding female power. Even in sex/love, women's overly active behavior turns into aggressive behavior, far less intense than the pleasure of female passivity. I like danger and aggression, it's probably in my nature. I know I'm strong enough that I don't need to be afraid of anything. And in fact, my power and hers are in a balance. This balance is stimulating enough. He told Rocky. The clever Rocky didn't put this passage directly into the magazine, he conveyed his point in fragments. Patrick liked the way Rocky said it. Probably more interesting and easier to understand than his own.

Patrick knows his Tina. Including her desire to control football. Her desire for control expanded rapidly over the course of six years, to the point that she eventually grew into a queen.

He was also worried at one point in the box stands at Stamford Bridge, but he was confident that the woman on the sidelines would regain control of the game at some point.

Chelsea's tactics in the second half were to disrupt the tempo of the QPR with big moves. A common tactic, Tina used something similar. It's just that the referee's penalty scale was a bit outrageous - Amadou O's action at the beginning of the second half was a yellow card and a test of the penalty scale, but the referee chose to back down in front of the noise at Stamford Bridge.

In the later period, referee Mike Dean swayed from side to side. The scale that was too lenient at the beginning probably made him feel inappropriate. He started dealing yellow cards at random – five in ten minutes. And in the first 60 minutes of the game, he didn't pick his pocket at all.

That's not a rational balance.

And the referee's behavior also made the players on both sides of the field and most of the fans on the scene restless.

There is one player exception.

Patrick remembered what Ben was.

Ben looked like he was completely out of the game. But he knew Ben well enough that he knew it wasn't the case.

Ben, like Tina, enjoys establishing order in the midst of chaos.

Chelsea's Brazilian right-back Reinardinho was brought down by Gonzalo, resulting in a sixth yellow card of the game, while Reinardinho was receiving treatment when Patrick saw Ben scurry to the sidelines.

Tina was waiting for him.

****

The baby is waiting for him.

Soon to Harrington. Benjamin tightened his grip on the steering wheel and glanced at the red rose again.

At Stamford Bridge, she was also waving to him as he looked to the sidelines, ready to go to her.

He told her, "I think Henk should be sent to fight Ake, and it's better to change the way." In addition......"

"Yes, Ben, I still need you to go there from time to time to support and try to create a 1v1 situation for Genk. Take care to pull the carrasco on the same side to your side. She immediately interrupted him, but before that, she looked at him with delight.

That's obvious, baby.

Benjamin remembers wiping the sweat from his forehead and walking back to the field with the corners of his mouth curled upward.

****

11：04。

Lu Ling picked up the iPad and entered the club's video library.

She played a fun game.

After visiting Benjamin Hamilton twice, she watched quite a few clips of him in action. In the process of watching, every time Ben is about to pass, she freezes the screen, and she mentally gives her best way to handle the ball, and then looks at his choices. For the most part, Ben's choice is the same as hers. Of course, he made mistakes, but on a few occasions, Ben even made a better choice than hers.

It's not so much that Ben plays like Nick, it's that Ben plays like her, if, she's a top professional player.

The similarities and differences between people are sometimes illogical.

After the mess against Chelsea, Ben was pretty much exactly what she thought.

She had allowed Genk to play more on the left because he could interact more with Gonzalo, and then let Genk go to Ake's side for two reasons. Ake's hesitation is one thing, and on the other hand, Genk knows his Dutch national team team-mate very well. However, in order to truly gain an advantage from this point, we need this organization. After all, Chelsea's system of helping each other to defend is very mature.

She saw that Ben was starting to schedule the way it had done in the first half, only with more complicated things, first left and then right, and then back to left. Every time he passed the ball, it was accompanied by a clear and concise command, and he asked his teammates to follow his rhythm. Ian immediately grasped Ben's intentions, and the Scot connected with a simple pass next to him, and the two melted into the same rhythm.

After two waves of attacking attempts, QPR took control of the tempo.

Ben and his team-mates stirred up their opponents' nerves with a series of short passes. Two Chelsea players leaned in to form a circle, including winger Carrasco. In that case, Carrasco couldn't help Ake defend.

Phil also moved to that side at that time. But the idiot was waving his hand vigorously for the ball, and seemed to want to catch it.

She shouted Phil's name from the sidelines as the Chelsea fans sang a ballad and her voice drowned out in the song.

But then she saw that on the field, Ben pointed at Phil with his left index finger, and then turned his finger to signal him to go to the middle. While giving this instruction, Ben kept his feet on his feet, even if his opponent took two more steps closer to him.

Henk had already started by then. And Ake, who has already received a yellow card, looks unsure whether he should follow.

Ben uses the outside of his right foot to create an arc that fits perfectly into Genk's running line.

Ake hesitated, but was thrown away by Genk's speed, and the offensive situation became completely clear.

Genk didn't get his first right-footed cross, he reached the bottom line and turned on and continued to advance into the box, where Chelsea centre-back Oliveira, who was pinned down by Phil, was on the back foot. It was only after the distance to the penalty area that Genk crossed with his feet.

Phil Beasley leaps up and smashes the ball into the net!

****

Roki jokes that Patrick is not only confident enough, but also arrogant enough.

Arrogance isn't absolutely disgusting, if your abilities match it.

Patrick flipped to another page of that issue of GQ, where they voted the 50 best-dressed men of the year in Britain. He came first. Commenting that he can handle any style, he also joked that his fashion taste is as good as his other tastes. Ben was in eighth place on that list. GQ certainly doesn't skimp on Mr. Hamilton's praise, elegance and scarves are two of Ben's hallmarks.

Tina also loves scarves. Her neck is so graceful that it fits well with a scarf.

Patrick couldn't fail to see that there was some special connection between Tina and Ben. Tina must have known that herself. As for Ben, he probably sees this special connection directly as some kind of inevitability, which may also be the main reason why he has fallen to this day, and is paranoid to this day.

The special bond between Tina and Ben was particularly evident in the game against Chelsea.

In that game, Benjamin Hamilton was the QPR's boss on the field.

After QPR took a two-goal lead, Chelsea's defensive formation completely collapsed and they ran with the ball and played wherever they went.

Paradoxically, it worked well.

Ben may have been a brilliant thinker, but not a brilliant leader, at least not yet. At this point, not to mention compared to Ian, he is not as good as himself.

In those minutes, there was a slack in the team.

Chelsea midfielder Rosales unleashes a long ball. Amadou O's long body overtook at an almost frantic speed and swept away from John's side. Morata crossed between Glenn and JT on the other side at the same time, but Glenn and JT held on. The Senegalese striker had already rushed into the box, with Alvaro Morata ready to grab a spot between two QPR centre-backs and Glenn shifting sideways to block Amadou-O's pass or angle of shot. But the moment Glenn started, his back heel collided with the back of Morata's calf and he stumbled. This time, it became a 2v1 in the penalty area.

Hans immediately moved, but Ao crossed the ball horizontally. Alvaro Morata gets close to JT and smashes the ball into the back of the net.

It was the 71st minute, five minutes after the QPR goal.

That goal certainly sparked enthusiasm and gave Chelsea a glimmer of life.

This season, although the QPR has not conceded many goals, it has never been able to be invulnerable in the strong dialogue.

He was looking to the sidelines, and Tina had turned to the bench to get Marcelo ready to play.

****

Lu Ling was holding her iPad, she had planned to watch the Champions League semi-final opponents, but she changed her mind and chose the game against Chelsea that ended not long ago.

There was no Pat in that game. Before the game, the entire coaching staff was actually as worried as the outside world, and Tim even directly said in the coaching staff meeting that it was better to draw than to win three points. She didn't speak at the meeting, but afterwards she made a suggestion to her teaching assistant and best friend:

"Even if you have that in your heart, you should never say it to your assistants, let alone your players. ”

Tim is no longer shy about talking about the possibility of leaving her in the future. It's just that she hasn't told him some of her plans yet. She didn't think it was time.

Ahead of the game against Chelsea, she didn't think about what a draw meant. But a manager better not make such assumptions before a game is played, no matter how strong the opponent is. Because you simply don't know what's going to happen in the game. It's more rational to make some trade-offs as the game progresses.

The truth is, in that game, a lot of things happened that she didn't expect.

Marcelo's arrival was a step in her alternative plan. Although she didn't expect Chelsea to pull a goal back so quickly, she still got the plan in motion. It was Genk who was replaced, who had done a great job of getting the job done with his passes, shots, runs and sprints in that game. QPR needed a different element at that time.

Marcelo was still in midfield and the formation changed to 352.

The tempo is slowed down by the QPR.

Ben won the ball in the middle and gave it to Marcelo. The Brazilian pulls the ball, dodges Saul and gives Ian back. By that time, Ben had already moved to the right, forming a good point of contact. Ian didn't give it to him directly, but through Jake on the right, he poured the ball back to Ben's feet.

Carrasco lunged at Ben, who half-turned and turned his back to the Belgian, and with his rival's strong inertia, Ben fell to the ground.

It was a foul with no problem.

The referee blew the whistle as well.

But when Ben was holding one hand on the ground and getting ready to get up, Carrasco gave Ben a hard push, causing Ben to fall back and yelling at him.

****

Benjamin drove into Harrington.

The rain stopped. Suddenly, it stopped.

There are a lot of things you can't think of.

Windy and rainy, violent weather. I fell in love with a beautiful girl.

But the Uruguayans who you beat and humiliated and provoked you suddenly took your side. But it won't surprise you.

Benjamin smiled.

Leon was near him at the time, and ran over and went up and pushed Carrasco aside. He knew Leon's personality, he knew why Leon hated him, and he understood why Leon did what he did.

Baby said that we stand side by side and fight for honor.

But Leon is also a boring person. After Carrasco was sent off, the Uruguayans were afraid that he would misunderstand, so they wanted to come over and say, I'm not for you, any teammate is bullied, I will stand up.

He smiled and said thank you anyway.

In the final ten minutes, QPR11 played 10 and Chelsea were powerless to stop.

QPR's counter-attacks easily penetrated the Blues' defence. Phil's return effortlessly to his feet, and with a dashing push of his foot, the straight ball was given to Leon, who formed a one-on-one momentum. After Leon scored the goal, he came over and hugged him awkwardly, and thanked him jerkyly. He smiled faintly and said you're welcome. They both knew that they would never be friends. But that thing is definitely in the past.

The final score was QPR 3:1 Chelsea.

He walked behind the baby as he left Stamford Bridge. He thought to himself, no surprises, baby's second league champion, his first.

Benjamin drove into the Harrington parking lot.

The baby is waiting for him.

"If the other person already has a husband or is in a stable relationship, you must not behave undecennially, or even have thoughts. Before he left his parents' mansion that day, Mrs. Hamilton said.

No, Mom, fuck decent. I love her. I want her.

And, baby, she doesn't understand anything, she doesn't understand anything. 166 Reading Network