Chapter 31: This is Anfield! (The first update of the guarantee, ask for a monthly pass!) )

Chen Yingying, who returned to Naples, did not have time to fulfill his promise to take the eating, drinking and entertainment group to relax, because the team will soon be leaving for the away team ().

This time they flew farther, not in Italy, but in England.

Target Liverpool!

This is the first group stage of Group E of the UEFA Champions League, with Liverpool hosting Napoli.

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Liverpool was once known as a heavy industry base and port for the British Empire. It was once a glorious city during the Industrial Revolution, and as the British Empire expanded overseas, Liverpool became a world-famous city.

After the New World was incorporated into the territory of British explorers, many British colonists set out from Liverpool and headed to Africa, South America and Asia. The ships departing here were loaded with all kinds of guns, firearms, and textiles, which were the specialties of England, as well as glassware and other goods that could be mass-produced in the early days of the industrial revolution. In Africa, while expanding their territory, the colonizers engaged in a large number of criminal slave trades, exchanging these cheap products with local chiefs for black slaves, and then transporting the plundered slaves to the Americas, making another trade with the American colonists, and then exchanging raw materials such as cotton, sugar, and tobacco back to the European continent as raw materials for large-scale industrial production.

This large triangular trade across the world soon made Liverpool the second largest port in the United Kingdom, after the Port of London. By the 19th century, the invention of the steam engine had changed the way people transported, and the steamship had multiplied the efficiency of shipping, and shipping in Liverpool became busier. Shipments sold finished products from Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield around the world, and then brought back slaves and production materials from Africa and the Americas. Passenger traffic was also thriving, with nearly 10 million people travelling from Liverpool to North America and Africa from the early 19th century until the eve of the Second World War. Many British and Irish people also used this place as a port of departure to settle in North America.

At that time, the city of Liverpool was filled with the roar of machines every day, the sky was thick with black smoke from the chimneys, the mouth of the Mersey River was filled with industrial sewage, and the mooring of Albert Wharf was full of people from all over the world and ships about to sail to the world.

Today, the factory has been transformed into a museum and a place for concerts. Many factories have been abandoned. Instead of the bustling scene, Albert Pier has become the centre of Liverpool's tourist service. It's no longer known for its industry, it's about music and culture, and it's about football.

The "Beatles", also known as the "Beatles", which influenced the world's cultural trends in the last century, were born here, and every popular song can be popular all over the world, breaking through the boundaries of hell, culture and race, and becoming the universal language of the world.

There are also two teams that are renowned in England and around the world – Liverpool and Everton.

In fact, Chen Yingying is not a stranger to Liverpool, because he came to Liverpool to play when he played for Zenit St. Petersburg, but their opponent at that time was Everton, who was not as famous as Liverpool.

This time, he is here again, and the opponent is replaced by the stronger and more famous Liverpool.

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Chen Yingying is no stranger to the city of Liverpool, and Liverpool is no stranger to him.

As early as when he was still playing for Zenit, the game against Everton had already made many Liverpudders know him, and after the game, Liverpool's newspaper also wrote an article to introduce the Chinese player who performed well in the game against Everton.

Tell everyone: "Be careful, bear infested!" ”

Now that the giant bear is back, how can Liverpool remain indifferent?

At the airport, Chen Yingying is the Napoli player who has been interviewed by the local media the most, as if he were Napoli's number one star at Liverpool.

Chen Yingying first said that he is no stranger to Liverpool ().

'Because I've been here before, Liverpool is a very special city, it's great, I love it.'

Many Liverpool reporters laughed at this, and their opponents were impressed by the charm of their city...... This gives them a sense of pride.

But how can Chen Yingying be the kind of person who wants him to be what others want him to be?

So after praising Liverpool, he changed his words sharply: "But I won't show mercy!" ”

A group of Liverpool reporters were stunned, but the Italian and Chinese reporters next to them were smiling and struggling.

"Liverpool is not Everton!" Finally, a reporter for a Liverpool fan retorted.

"I'm not the same person I used to be." Chen Yingying's answer was very natural.

The Chinese reporters who came with him laughed.

That's true in the literal sense of the word.

Liverpool is certainly not Everton, the strength looks stronger than Everton, but Chen Yingying is no longer the original Chen Yingxing, he is now more mature than before, and he is also getting stronger.

Napoli's strength is also stronger than the original Zenit St. Petersburg, Arshavin, Cassano, Hamsik, De Jong are all well-known and powerful stars.

Liverpool's reporters were unanimous about this answer.

Because what people say is normal, it is impossible that Chen Yingying has not made progress in the past two years. Otherwise, it is impossible for people to get the top scorer in Serie A, let alone get the Golden Boot of the Russian Premier League in eleven rounds of the league.

But this is still very unpleasant to listen to ()!

It's crazy!

In front of England's century-old giants, what qualifications do you, a twenty-one-year-old boy, have to be so arrogant and reckless?

You know, you're going to a different course than any other stadium in the world.

Because that's Anfield!

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"This is Anfield (this_is_anfield)!"

Before Chen Yingying stepped on the court, he looked up at a nameplate directly above the lintel, which was engraved with this sentence.

It is said that this phrase is particularly famous, and it was Liverpool's legendary manager Shankly who asked the workers to put it up, to remind every visiting player who enters the stadium from here - this is Anfield, and you are playing against the great Liverpool!

But Chen Yingying just glanced at it, and lowered his head - he was afraid of knocking his head.

On this past day, the local media in Liverpool can be said to have portrayed his arrogance and arrogance vividly. His affection and praise for the city of Liverpool? That is naturally to be erased.

Chen Yingying believes that he will definitely receive "special treatment" from the opposing fans in this game.

But he's used to it.

Napoli's home stadium, the Stadio São Paulo, is known as Italy's most terrifying home stadium, and countless teams have experienced hell everywhere.

But they only have to feel it once a season, Chen Yingying has been fighting in hell for all his home games for a whole season, and the frenzy of Napoli fans has not been able to overwhelm him, let alone Anfield?

When the players from both sides began to enter, there was a loud singing outside ().

The singing is not as impassioned as the songs of other clubs, full of dynamic rhythms, like good pop music. The song is tactful, low, and majestic.

This is Liverpool's famous team song "You Will Never Walk Alone" (youll_never_bsp; "When you walk through the storm, hold your head high and do not be afraid of the darkness, for after the storm there is a brilliant sky...... You will never walk alone, never alone! ”

Although Napoli had as many as 18,000 fans who followed the team to the away stadium this time, only 5,000 lucky people were able to enter the stadium in the end, and many more could only cheer for the team in the park and square outside the stadium.

Their cheering voices can't be heard by Napoli players, and naturally they can't suppress the singing of Liverpool fans.

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Chen Yingying guessed well, and when he got the ball, he would hear boos from the stands.

The fans have put down their scarves and stopped chanting "You Never Walk Alone" and instead used swear words and boos to distract visiting players such as Chen Yingying.

That's the England fans, and you don't want them to be quiet for even a minute during the game. They were always singing, clapping and shouting. Because that's how they fight.

In the KOP stands, which can accommodate more than 10,000 people, although all plastic seats have been installed, the fans here still choose to stand and watch the game. They are the hardest working group and almost all of the momentum that has led the Anfield fans has been built from here.

Of course, they are also the main force of the Hero of Boo.

When Chen Yingying shot the goal but hit the plane, there was a burst of schadenfreude whistles in the stands ().

In today's game, Napoli did not play well.

Maybe it was the first Champions League group game, and many people were nervous, their bodies were stiff, their brains were blank, and they didn't know what to do.

It was even worse than their performance at the Stadio Ferraris, home of Genoa.

In the first Champions League game, I always want to perform better, but the more I do this, the more I can't play at a normal level.

Chen Yingying has no psychological burden, but he needs the support of his teammates, so when the whole team does not play at a normal level, his performance is naturally not much better......

In comparison, Liverpool's performance is much more composure.

Although the performance in the Premier League is not very good, but the giants who have only won the Champions League for a few years have a very good tradition in the Champions League, just like Real Madrid. No matter how they are suppressed by others in the domestic league, as soon as they beat those stars in the Champions League, they will be energetic.

Liverpool are now the team with the most Champions League titles in history after Real Madrid.

What's more, their head coach is the Spanish tactician Rafael who is known as the "cup expert". Rafa Benitez (rafael_benitez_maudes), it's not hard to deal with a group stage.

Liverpool, playing at home, showed good form from the start as they laid siege to the Napoli goal.

And what about Naples? shrank in his own half, looking pitiful and helpless with his head beaten and powerless.

Liverpool's commentator scoffed: "Yes, yes, of course Liverpool is not Everton, how can Everton be compared to Liverpool? But in my opinion, Naples is not the original Zenit St. Petersburg, as for Chen Yingying? Sorry, I didn't see him, did he play? ”