Chapter 206: The Battle of St. Petersburg

After Chen Yingxing's hat-trick, the match has completely lost all suspense (). No one has any illusions about Bayern Munich anymore, and they are absolutely unlikely to turn the tables around in such a situation.

Even the referee thought so, so he didn't make up for a minute of at least three minutes of injury time, and blew the whistle for the end of the game just after the 90th minute.

"It's game over! Zenit St. Petersburg defeated Bayern Munich 4:o at home! They made it to the finals! ”

"Manchester, we're coming!!" Hilgaevsky let out a cry of excitement. "Rejoice! It's a night of Russian football, it's a night of St. Petersburg football! ”

"This is the most memorable moment in the history of Zenit St. Petersburg – they reached the final of a European competition for the first time!"

The Petrovsky Stadium, the home of Zenit, became a sea of joy at this moment.

Everyone jumped up from their seats, raised their arms and shouted. There are even many people with tears in their eyes, and no matter who the people around them are, they turn their heads and hug them. There are also people who hug the women around them and kiss passionately, and they are shocked after the kiss. But the women didn't squirm so much, but quickly returned with a more passionate kiss.

I really don't know how many couples will be born on this happy night, and how many hotels will fill up their rooms......

The Zenit fans celebrated wildly in the stands, and the Zenit players celebrated wildly on the pitch.

Chen Yingying took off his jersey and hugged his teammates to celebrate the team's victory and advance to the finals.

The camera lens follows him firmly, no matter where he is. To be treated like this shows that he is the best player in the game.

In fact, for the best single game, Chen Yingying has relented, in this season's Russian League, the best player in every league game is him, and in the best team in each round, he has firmly occupied a place as a striker.

In this game, he scored three goals alone, not only scored a hat-trick against Kahn, but also helped the team completely destroy Bayern Munich and advance to the final. It could even be said that it was his goal in the fourth minute that opened the door for the team to win.

If it weren't for the quick goals, Bayern Munich wouldn't have collapsed so easily, and with their quality, once the game fell into their control, Zenit would have been lucky at home.

And Chen Yingying's goal told all Zenit players that Bayern Munich is not scary, they will also panic, and they will also behave amateurishly.

Everyone's hearts were settled.

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While the Zenit St. Petersburg players were frantically celebrating the victory, the Bayern Munich players had already left the pitch with their heads bowed and returned to the dressing room. It was a humiliating night for them that they will never forget.

When they set foot on St. Petersburg soil, they never thought they would leave as a loser.

It's really a land that's hard to conquer...... The French came, and they returned defeated. Now the Germans have come, and they have returned with the same defeat.

It is not only Shirgeyevsky, a local St. Petersburg commentator, who is excited about St. Petersburg's advance to the finals, but also Yuri. Petrov is such a commentator on Russian national television.

However, he focuses on a slightly different angle than Hilgeevsky.

While everyone was cheering for Zenit St. Petersburg, he set his sights on the failed Bayern Munich players.

"The Germans failed again, and they left in disgrace! Great St. Petersburg! Great Leningrad! ”

After the collapse of the USSR, the name was rarely mentioned already. But today when Yuri. When Petrov shouted this name again, it brought tears to the eyes of many old St. Petersburgers, and even old Russians. Because that name means the most difficult, darkest, and saddest period of the 300-year history of the city of St. Petersburg, but also the most glorious, the most indomitable, and the greatest time.

During Soviet times, the city of St. Petersburg was renamed "Leningrad" as a memorial to the cradle of the October Revolution.

During World War II, the city endured an 882-day siege by German troops. When Hitler launched the Barbarossa Project, he threatened to "wipe the city of Petersburg off the map."

The result? The Battle of Leningrad, which was supposed to end on September 1, 1941, was fought until the end of January 1944. Leningrad paid the price of more than 1.5 million deaths, 3,200 buildings destroyed, the city unrecognizable, and the streets turned into piles of rubble, not only defending its own city, but also pinning down the main forces of the German Army of the North, creating conditions for victory in other theaters, and finally successfully counterattacking, defeating the German army to flee 200 kilometers. Thus won the battle for the defense of Leningrad.

Rather than erase the heroic city from the map, Hitler brought about his own demise, and from this battle, his Third Reich began to fall gradually.

"It's not St. Petersburg that is afraid of failure, it's that failure is afraid of St. Petersburg!!" Petrov changed the famous words of Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov, which was surprisingly suitable for the occasion.

During the Battle of Leningrad, Zhukov succeeded Marshal Voroshilov, who was ineffective in command, and became the commander-in-chief of the Leningrad campaign, and his slogan was "It's not Leningrad that is afraid of death, but death that is afraid of Leningrad." This phrase inspired countless soldiers and workers of Leningrad during the defense of Leningrad and became their creed in the battle against the Germans, hunger, and cold.

Now Petrov has slightly modified this sentence, which really aptly illustrates the tenacity and heroism of Zenit St. Petersburg.

"From now on...... Let's counterattack to - Manchester!! ”

"U-Ra ——!"

"U-——!!"

The Zenit St. Petersburg fans at the scene burst into loud cheers at this time, as if they were enthusiastically responding to Petrov's call.

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On the streets of St. Petersburg the next day, any newspapers about yesterday's game were snapped up as soon as they came out. Everyone rushed to circulate the newspapers and relive that exciting evening.

Spurred on by the victory, the media in St. Petersburg put their creativity and pen to the brim.

In the past, newspapers had previously published "This is the second battle of Leningrad" calling for everyone's attention to focus on the competition itself, but this time it was a big deal. Before, no one cared about the report, but now it's different, and the newspaper has just been put on the newsstand and bookstall, and it is sold out.

The newspaper produced a visually striking and imaginative front page modelled on the model of the former Soviet Union.

They painted a Soviet-style propaganda poster of Zenit St. Petersburg players flexing their muscles and clenching their fists into the sky, and the most striking feature was of course Chen Yingying, the number one contributor to the hat-trick. Their eyes were wide open, their expressions resolute, full of power, exactly like the righteous people of the past. Behind them is the hunting flying red flag. This front page will not be unfamiliar to Chinese at all, because the early Chinese propaganda posters are also like this, and the style of the big brother and the younger brother of socialism is in the same vein......

Underneath the poster is a bold subheadline:

Warmly celebrate the victory in the Second Battle of Leningrad ()!

Subheading:

Long live the invincible Zenit St. Petersburg! Banzai! Hooray!

All the media were enthusiastically praising this great victory.

"Although we are used to Zenit doing miracles, I still didn't expect them to beat Bayern Munich 4:o on their home turf! Such a great achievement can be compared with the defense of Leningrad in those years! ”

"Russian football has really risen! In 2oo5, the 6th Central Army of Moscow from the capital won the League Cup. Can Zenit do it this time? ”

"At this moment, put aside the strife between Moscow and St. Petersburg and cheer together for this great victory! Zenit St. Petersburg they did something that many of the top giants couldn't do - beat Bayern Munich 4:o! ”

Everybody's talking about something related to this game. They were chatting excitedly about Chen Yingying's hat trick and his "**". The sentence that Chen Yingying said in an interview after the game was also regarded as a classic by them and repeatedly hung on his lips -

"Look, I'm right, right? I'm sorry for Bayern Munich, unfortunately they met us early in the semi-finals......"

In Munich, Germany, there was a wail.

Many German media have used words such as "shame" and "shame" to describe Bayern Munich's fiasco.

“…… O: 4 defeat to Zenit St. Petersburg, if it had been before the game, I wouldn't have believed that it would have been the result. But the harsh reality gave me a slap in the face! ”

"Bayern Munich's dream of a treble this season has been shattered. Before, everyone thought that they would have an easy time winning the UEFA Cup. What do you think...... Now it seems that maybe it was this mentality that hurt them......"

"There is no more painful way for Kahn to say goodbye to European competition...... In the second half of the game, the 'Lion King' did not even roar at his backline. I think he's probably losing faith in this game, right? ”

“…… Hopefully this game will give Klinsmann a good look at the team he is about to take over! Such a team, even if they win the league early, can't hide their incompetence last night! ”

Even Bayern Munich's head coach Heathfield admitted it was a humiliating defeat.

“…… We conceded at the start of the game and that put us in a very bad situation...... But that's not an excuse, our players don't have the confidence and the fighting spirit to win this game, that's the key! It's not that Bayern Munich can't lose, but they can't lose in this way! It's a shame! ”

In the post-match interview, the coach looked very excited.

originally thought that he would lead the team to win the treble, and even if he left, he would leave Bayern Munich a huge fortune. Create a brilliant season. When he was in charge of Bayern Munich, he also created the great feat of the treble, when Bayern Munich won the European championship.

Unexpectedly, he would lose in the semi-finals. What made him feel more ashamed than losing the semi-finals was that his team was poured four goals by the opponent!

It is estimated that many years from now, he will still remember this game, the No. 99 hero who scored a hat-trick in the game and allowed "The Lion" Kahn to pick up the ball three times in the goal.

This game will become an indelible part of many people's memories, but some people will talk about it, and some people will not want to mention it again, and the past is unbearable......

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