Chapter 51: The Problem (The Third Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass!) )
The players of the England team are perhaps the busiest professional football mobilizer on the planet.
The match against Arsenal was only played on October 28, ending two consecutive weeks of double matches, and after a week's rest, there will be another week of double matches.
At this time, the players' fitness has started to have problems.
Krasnic's injury was due to fitness.
The only reassuring thing is Chen Yingying, he has no physical problems. Whether it's training or competing, or flying to Italy for a holiday, he's full of energy, but recently he's been giving Martin and O'Neill a problem.
He asked Martin O'Neill for a leave of absence two months in advance.
"What did you say?" O'Neill frowned, he didn't hear Chen Yingying's words, he was just a reflex rhetorical question, the effect was to strengthen the tone, express his doubts or other emotions ().
"I want to take two days off after the 20th round of the league and come back on the night of January 1st, boss." Chen Yingying repeated what he had just said.
"But the match between us and Wigan Athletic was on the night of January 3," Martin O'Neill thought that Chen Yingying did not know about it, or forgot the specific time, thinking that the game was still a week away.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yingying nodded: "I know, boss." ”
Martin O'Neill was: "You know? You know you're taking two days off, we don't have a day off after the game against Manchester City, but you have to take two days off, what is your reason, hero? "Even if you usually want to have a good relationship with Chen Yingying, you have to distinguish the occasion, in this case, O'Neill must maintain the team's disciplinary requirements, not to mention the impact of Chen Yingxing's two-day leave on the team's preparation at this juncture, just say that if he agrees to Chen Yingying's request, wouldn't anyone be able to ask for leave from him? Is this worth it?
"Reason? I'm going back to my dad for his birthday. Chen Yingying replied.
He said it rightly, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with that reason.
His father's birthday is January 1 every year, which is a very special day1 because New Year's Day is celebrated with his father's birthday every year. But in fact, Chen Yingying hardly remembers how many birthdays his father had at home when he was a child, and for a long time he only remembered that January 1 was the New Year and New Year's Day.
When I was a child, I was not sensible, I only knew that I had fun, I wanted new clothes for the New Year, I wanted to eat delicious food, and I wanted to go out to play.
But now that he has grown up and is sensible, he has begun to understand that January 1st is not just the first day of the year, not just a globally recognized holiday, in fact, whether it is New Year's Day or anything does not mean much to him, and the most important thing is that this day is his father's birthday.
And January 1, 2013, is his father's fiftieth birthday ().
"Birthday?" Martin O'Neill was stunned for a moment. This reason is not good, it is really a reason, after all, it is a birthday for his father, which shows that people are family people and will treat their father well. You can't say, "What's so good about Daddy's birthday?" "Aren't you looking for a fight? People have a deep relationship between father and son, how can others talk nonsense?
But if you want to say that this is a reason, in order to celebrate your father's birthday, you have to take two days off to fly back to China, and I always feel that there is a bit of a fuss......
If you want to say that, whose dad is not a dad? So when everyone's dad celebrates his birthday, do they all take leave to go home?
Martin O'Neill frowned and said, "Your father's birthday?" You can bring him to England......"
Chen Yingying shook his head: "No... My dad has a 50th birthday, and I, as his son, celebrate his birthday and invite his relatives and friends, so this birthday must be spent in his hometown............... "In fact, you can also invite your father's friends to the UK, Chen Yingying is not unable to afford this money, but his father Chen Tao disagrees, as a traditional ordinary Chinese, such an important birthday at the age of 50 is naturally to be done in his hometown, why go to the UK to do it? It's completely nondescript!
Therefore, his father Chen Tao would not agree to the idea of leaving Chengdu to hold a birthday banquet, even if he did not leave China, he would not be willing to let him hold it in Shanghai.
Therefore, this trip, if Chen Yingying still wants to hold a birthday banquet for his father, he must return to China.
In fact, Chen Tao once said to him that he didn't want him to celebrate his birthday, he and his mother would invite some relatives and friends or something, just do it.
But Chen Yingying felt that if it was his fifty-first birthday or something, it didn't matter if he went back or not, he had come out to play football for so many years, and he hadn't seen him return to China to celebrate his father's birthday. I have to go back this time, just because I am fifty years old, how many fifty years does a person have in this life? It's just one, and it's gone after that, so it's not that he's hypocritical.
In fact, my father's real age this year is forty-nine years old, but the tradition of the Chinese people is that men should be too close in life, and women should be too full in life. That is to say, whether a forty-nine-year-old man is talking to others or celebrating his birthday, he is said to be fifty years old, while a woman is forty-nine years old, and fifty years old is fifty years old.
Chen Yingying wants to show his filial piety, he is ignorant when he is a child, relying on his father to be in business, the family has a little money, and he is tall and big, and often fights with people.
Causing fault has not been a worry for parents.
But at that time, he never felt that there was anything wrong with him.
Anyway, if you hurt someone, there will be parents who will come forward to compensate for the medical expenses or something.
He has never apologized to his parents for the trouble he caused, even if he was beaten by his father, he has never softened and seems to have developed such a hard temper since he was a child. Of course, now he is afraid of his father, not afraid, but obedient, that is, after that trip to Europe, his feelings for his father have changed.
Now Chen Yingying is twenty-four years old, although in the eyes of many people, this young man who often makes mistakes from time to time still looks like a child who has not grown up, but compared to before, he is really much more mature.
At least he knew how to be grateful.
He owed his parents so much that he felt that even if he flew back to celebrate his father's birthday, he would not be able to repay one percent of the debt.
The problem is that Martin O'Neill doesn't know this, so he doesn't believe in or accept Chen Yingying's reason.
"I can't agree to your request, hero. After all, we have a very busy schedule, and since mid-December, it has been two races a week. In such a dense competition, we need you, and you will also consume too much physical strength, at this time, you have to fly back to the [China] country, which will only increase the physical exertion......"
He is going to refuse Chen Yingying's request for leave, but refusal needs to pay attention to methods, and refusal will only break the relationship between the two people, so Martin O'Neal used a joking way of refusing ().
"Unless ......"
Chen Yingying also knew his request, the head coach would not agree to him very happily, and he was also very clear about the situation of the team at that time. So when he heard that there was a twist, he hurriedly asked.
"Unless what?"
"Unless you score against Manchester City" Martin O'Neill was about to say at first, "unless you score a hat-trick against Manchester City", but he quickly reacted, a hat-trick seemed too simple for Chen Yingying? So he was going to change his words and say that the phrase "four goals alone" was just about to be spoken, and he suddenly remembered that just last season, Chen Yingying really scored four goals in the game against Manchester City! He has a criminal record! The four-ball requirement is also too unsafe......
So, at the end of the day, what Martin O'Neill said was: "Score five goals!" I'll give you leave! ”
Chen Yingying was stunned for a moment.
Martin O'Neill saw Chen Yingying's expression, and he was very proud, are you dumbfounded now? You see, I don't really disagree with your leave, but you have to complete the task and complete it, I will definitely agree with you to return home! But if you can't do it, then you're embarrassed!
Scoring five goals in one game, Martin O'Neill really thinks Chen Yingying can't do it. Let's not talk about how difficult it is to score five goals in any one game, let's just talk about this game, Liverpool is away to Manchester City, and it is as difficult to score five goals at Manchester City's home stadium as it is to climb to the sky!
Martin O'Neill felt that Chen Yingying would definitely not be able to accomplish this goal.
If you give me a problem, then I'll give you a problem, that's fair.
No matter how hard I mean to make things difficult for you, hero. You're so good at scoring goals, I'm afraid you'll be able to finish it easily if you don't put the numbers high! Liverpool really can't live without you! I hope you understand my painstaking efforts......
Thinking about this, he heard Chen Yingying say, "This is true, boss? ”
"Huh?" O'Neill didn't react for a moment.
"I ask you what you say, boss? Is it true that as long as I can score five goals in the game, you will let me go home? Chen Yingying stared at O'Neill tightly, and there seemed to be a light in his eyes.........
This time it was O'Neill's turn to be stunned.
Is he serious? Does he really want to score five goals against Manchester City?!
"Hey hero, you're crazy, aren't you?" His voice trembled.
"No, boss. I'm serious! ”
"But five goals in a game........."
"Since Messi can score five goals in one game in the Champions League, I think I can also score five goals in one game in the league!" Chen Yingying said confidently.
When he was stunned just now, he was not frightened by the task of scoring five goals in a single game, but suddenly thought that Messi also scored five goals in the game against Bayer Leverkusen last season, and Messi could do it, so why can't I do it?
As soon as he thought of this, Chen Yingying felt that he should do it for granted!
So no matter how difficult it is, he's got these five goals!
Chen Yingying slapped his face: "Then it's decided!" Boss, I scored five goals against Manchester City and then you let me go home! ”
Martin O'Neill nodded almost subconsciously, but in his heart, he always felt that something was wrong!