Chapter Twenty-Five: Internal Contradictions (Eruptions!) )
"The boos disappear? Wishful thinking ()! ”
This is a banner hanging outside the training base of Fort Voltuno in Naples, which is a counterattack by Napoli fans against Chen Yingying.
Just after the end of the last round of the league, Chen Yingying said in an interview after the game that he would continue to score goals and use the goals to make Napoli fans stop booing him.
That's the answer he gets.
Napoli fans love and hate clearly, and they are not people who will forgive Chen Yingying so easily. So they felt that Chen Yingying thought that he could buy them by scoring goals, which was completely wishful thinking.
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After Chen Yingying scored his first goal in Serie A, the media of the Chinese Creceous Kingdom cheered and instantly lifted Chen Yingying to the clouds. It seems that Chen Yingying can completely get out of the current predicament, and the hat show, the brace, and the senior happiness are easy for him, and they can be completed without much effort.
There are also some media outlets that go to great lengths to sensationalize, saying that "when Chen Yingying is on the top, his hair and clothes flutter in the wind to the wild boos of Napoli fans." He shook his head and put the ball into the back of the net...... At this moment, we seem to know each other, but we haven't seen it for a long time - the giant bear in Russia has woken up from hibernation ()! ”
But the cruel truth is that the giant bear only woke up by chance during a long hibernation and soon fell asleep again.
In the next match against Lazio, Chen Yingying started the game, but did not score. In the seventy-second minute, he was replaced by Salayeta.
This time, though, the focus of the media was not on him, but on the clash between Napoli fans and Lazio fans.
The extremist fan group Theirriducibliii (Lazio) and the Napoli extremist fan group Napoli Ultras clashed in the stands, with both sides throwing flaming flares, tearing down seats and burning each other's flags.
At one point, the clash even interrupted the game for ten minutes before it could be restarted. A large number of police forces intervened and arrested many people before the game returned to normal.
Chen Yingying did not score in this game, and the entire Napoli team failed to score, and they lost to Lazio in this chaotic game.
The league table has slipped to eighth place, compared to fifth.
Chen Yingying then behaved like a drowning man struggling to survive in the water, sometimes he rose and sometimes sank, splashing in all directions, and the fans and media of the Creceous countries who watched him were anxious.
On October 23, in Napoli's first UEFA Cup group game, Chen Yingying still started, but still failed to score. Napoli drew 0-0 away at Hertha Berlin.
However, in the ninth round of the league on October 29, in Napoli's 3-0 home win over Reggina, Chen Yingying scored a goal, and in a corner kick, he scored again with a header. He scored his second league goal of the season.
After the game, some media commented that Chen Yingying seemed to be playing a "tug-of-war" with Rhea, and whenever Rhea was about to give up on him, he would use a goal to regain his position (). After all, Chen Yingying is a player personally bought by the club owner, and as long as he can still score, Rhea can't find a reason to put him on the bench......
And when he scored, everyone began to cheer for his recovery, but he lost his crosshairs again.
The ups and downs of state are the best summary of Chen Yingying's performance during this period.
Maybe that half a season in Russia was crazy. There have been media complaints that Advocaat is completely squeezing Chen Yingxing's surplus value, allowing him to fight on two fronts and start almost every game, so Chen Yingxing's state is crazy, but after madness, it is prostration...... He left his crazy state in Zenit St. Petersburg, but brought his prostration, exhaustion to Naples, so that he could be in good shape.
On November 2, Napoli played AC Milan away, and Chen Yingying started the game and was substituted after 75 minutes. His form has been in a slump along with the whole team, with midfield core Hamsik suspended for a strange red card in the last game against Reggina, and Napoli, who have lost their core and lack of form, have failed to score a goal and lost 0:1 on the road.
In the UEFA Cup, Napoli lost 0-2 at home to Galatasaray and qualification was in jeopardy.
Back in the league, Napoli lost 3-1 away to Atalanta. Lavezzi scored a goal for the team, but to no avail. In this game, Chen Yingying entered the squad, but did not play. The reason given by Rhea is still rotation.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Yingxing's state was in a slump again, he suddenly broke out unexpectedly. On November 23, in the thirteenth round of the league, Napoli hosted Cagliari. The score of the game was 2-2 draw, and Napoli's results were still not improving, but Chen Yingxing's performance was excellent - he scored twice in the game!
Of course, both goals were scored from set-pieces. But everyone doesn't care how he enters, as long as he enters.
In terms of the cooperation of the whole team, Chen Yingying still does not have a tacit understanding as Lavezzi and others, but he still has to score, what should I do? Set-pieces were the only ones he had done. In set-pieces, Rea arranged for him to be the main attacker, so he can only try to grasp every opportunity from set-pieces to fight for his own interests and status.
In Napoli, there was a strange situation where Lavezzi scored in the chuckle and Chen Yingying repeatedly scored with headers from set-pieces.
Chen Yingying still hasn't integrated into Napoli's tactical system, he doesn't fit in at all. He's just going to show the manager with a goal and see who you choose!
For Rhea, this is really a distressing thing.
Lavezzi is a star player of Napoli, known as "Maradona II", and he has a better understanding with his teammates, and the tactics of the whole team are related to him. But at the same time, Chen Yingying suddenly found his form, scoring twice at once, and also showing an aggressive trend.
It stands to reason that for a manager to have both strikers score, that's a good thing. Unfortunately, the relationship between Laviczi and Chen Yingying is not very good, and the two almost never contact each other on the field. At first, Lavezzi didn't pass the ball to Chen Yingying, and then Chen Yingying didn't pass the ball to Lavezzi anymore, and when the football came to their feet, they could shoot, break through or pass to their teammates, but they didn't pass to each other who were close at hand.
This contradiction can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. The Italian media also reported on the contradictions in the Napoli dressing room. said that Chen Yingying and the Argentine Gang did not speak at all in the locker room and did not communicate. Each other is like air to each other.
The Argentine gang is not the only Argentine, in addition to the two Argentine players, there is also a Uruguayan Gargano. They all hated Chen Yingying because of his bad remarks about Maradona - they were all fanatics of Maradona.
Chen Yingying is a person who eats soft rather than hard, and since the Argentine Gang wants to fight him to the end, then he will not back down. During this period, Chen Yingying rented a house and moved to invite his teammates to come as guests, but did not invite Lavezi, Navarro and Gargano.
They are unhappy with Chen Yingying, and Chen Yingying has no need to use his hot face to stick to other people's coldness.
However, in this locker room "war", Chen Yingying is generally at a disadvantage, after all, Lavezzi has the support of his Argentine countryman Navarro and teammate Gargano, and he came to the team a season earlier than Chen Yingying, and his connections here are more solid than Chen Yingying.
Hamsik, as the team's number one star and the main core, although the relationship with Chen Yingying is okay. But in this matter, he can only be neutral. After all, he has a good relationship with Lavezi, and it doesn't matter who he helps or doesn't help.
He could only take the initiative to hug Chen Yingying after he scored. And after Chen Yingying's goal, no one in the Argentine gang would go up to hug Chen Yingying and celebrate.
This locker room conflict will naturally affect the team's performance on the pitch as well. Although the subjective will of both sides may not be willing to cause such a result, the objective fact is that if a team is not united enough, it is impossible to talk about any fighting power. This has happened to many teams, even the giants. In the years when Real Madrid's internal gang struggles continued, their results plummeted, and when Serona was infighting, their country was also ceded. There are also factions such as the "Argentine Gang", "Brazilian Gang" and "Italian Gang" within Inter Milan, and even AC Milan, a club that gives the image of a big family to the outside world, has internal contradictions.
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On 27 November, Napoli played their third game in the group stage of the UEFA Cup. They take on Greek side Olympiacos away from home.
With Napoli drawing one and losing one, qualification is in jeopardy, so they must win this game away from home to keep their hopes of qualifying from the group stage.
Olympiacos aren't a strong team – at least in the eyes of Napoli fans, a win is something to expect.
Rhea also sensed the impact of the contradictions within the team on the results, so for the sake of safety, he didn't take Chen Yingying to the away stadium at all. In his opinion, even if Chen Yingying has just scored two goals in the league, he is still an unstable factor in the team, which will only intensify the conflict.
In such an important match, it is better to keep him in Napoli for the sake of safety......
The reason, of course, is still - "we want to rotate" ().
In addition to Chen Yingying, Rhea sent the strongest team he could send to challenge Olympiacos.
As a result, the game was not what the Napolins expected from the first minute.
They were behind in the first minute.
In the sixteenth minute, two goals were down.
In the twenty-third minute, it was already three goals behind.
Despite the fact that in the 32nd minute it was played by central defender and captain Paul. Cannavaro scored a goal from a corner to pull one back. But ten minutes later, Olympiacos scored again, 4:1!
The suspense of the game has been completely killed.
After losing this game, Napoli have one last game left. With only one point, they have basically said goodbye to the knockout stage of the UEFA Cup early.
And all this has nothing to do with Chen Yingying......
While his teammates suffered a crushing defeat in Piraeus, Greece, he was sweating through the dungeon. He is almost thirty-one years old, and he will soon be able to get another one of today's points.
To this end, he is very motivated.
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ps, I forgot to say, Chapter 24 is the second update of the guarantee~
I wish you all a pleasant reading, and later, chapter 26 will be presented.
In addition, Chen Yingying's depressed days are coming to an end......