Football System: Penalty Zone Hero

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When Chen Yingxiong saw that his experience bar on the webpage had been refreshed, he couldn't help but burst out laughing - He finally got a level up!

Yes, after training day and night, he finally levelled up. In the early stage, there were no games and no goals, so he could only rely on training to gain experience. He could only use this method that made Advocaat feel danger.

But all the hard work and the exhaustion of being tortured by Yesenin every night were worth it.

He clicked on the talent simulator page and, following Yesenin's instructions saw a familiar number "1" in the "distributable talents" column.

This means that he had one point to allocate, and he could choose to add these talent points to his favourite talents.

What talent to add to?

Choosing is not a problem at all!

Chen Yingxiong moved the mouse directly to the "knock down" icon.

The talent skill description then floated next to the mouse gesture: "Knock your opponent to the ground during the attack, with a 5/10/15/20/25% chance of not committing a foul."

A 5% chance might not be high. It would be even better if it could be accumulated to 15%, but who blamed Chen Yingxiong for being so naughty before?

"Are you sure you want to order this?" Yesenin asked.

Chen Yingxiong nodded. "Of course!"

"Are you sure you're not seeking revenge against your teammates?"

"Of course! But it's not just that simple." Chen Yingxiong replied. "That's just incidental, the main purpose is to score goals. Now when I compete for the ball in the air, I often knock down my opponents, and many of them will be called for fouls. If I can reduce this probability, my goal rate will increase. So the main purpose is to score goals."

Seeing that Chen Yingxiong had his own ideas, Yesenin stopped talking.

Chen Yingxiong took a deep breath and then gently pressed the left button of the mouse.

With a click, a red light flashed over the talent icon, and then the number "1" appeared in the lower right corner. This meant that Chen Yingxiong had learned the first level of this talent skill.

Chen Yingxiong stood up from his chair, shook his muscles, and was eager to find someone to test it right now...

The next upgrade requires 60,000 experience points. Chen Yingxiong now felt that training alone was too tiring and boring. He asked Yesenin, "Didn't you say there is a mission system? Why have I never received any missions? I don't see a yellow exclamation mark above your head..."

"You have already started the mission. The main mission."

Chen Yingxiong was a little surprised. "I have already started? Why didn't I receive a task reminder? There is no task description... How did it start? What is the goal?"

"Playing in the first team, of course."

"This..." Chen Yingxiong didn't know what to say. After a pause, he asked, "That's it? There's no mission description or anything? Like, tell me what I should do?"

"Don't you know how to get a chance to play in the first team? Train hard, win the favor of the head coach in training, and then with a little luck, you will have a chance to be selected for the game roster. In fact, you have already won the favour of the head coach in training. Only a blind person would not see that you train so hard."

"Well, what is luck?"

"How should I know?"

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Although he didn't know how to be selected by Advocaat for the league, Chen Yingxiong still worked very hard in the training on the second day.

There was nothing he could do except to train hard. First of all, he was not one of the three Korean direct descendants of Advocaat, so he had no natural advantages. Secondly, he was not a veteran who had played for Zenit St. Petersburg for many years, and the team could definitely do without him. What else could he do?

However, there was one thing in the training that he was looking forward to - he planned to test whether the talent he had activated yesterday really had an immediate effect.

The subject of the experiment was of course the Korean man Li Hao, whom he disliked anyway.

There were no set-piece tactical drills such as corner kicks arranged today, but an intra-squad competition was happening, like always.

Chen Yingxiong was assigned to the substitute team, while the three Koreans all wore yellow vests symbolizing the main force.

When Chen Yingxiong and Li Hao's eyes met, they could still feel the disdain and sarcasm in each other's eyes.

After the competition started, Chen Yingxiong and Li Hao did not play against each other, because one was a forward and the other was a midfielder, and the two rarely met.

Until the substitutes got a corner kick that was.

Chen Yingxiong stood in the penalty area.

In such an informal game, the head coach will not ask him to act as a feint, he could do whatever he wanted.

Chen Yingxiong was originally standing in front of the goal, which was the position a centre forward should be in. But when he saw Li Hao in the outer area, he pulled out from in front of the goal and stood on the periphery.

The central defender Krizanachi on his team saw Chen Yingxiong running out, and while shouting his name, motioned for him to go in - if a centre forward doesn't press the opponent's central defender inside, the space for him to head the ball from behind will be much smaller.

Chen Yingxiong explained to the Croatian international. "They must all know that I am just feinting. You are the main attacker. Let's switch positions so that we can have a chance to score."

Krizanachi thought about it and felt that what Chen Yingxiong said seemed to be right. In training, Chen Yingxiong had always played the role of feint attack, and everyone was familiar with this.

Maybe changing it up would help.

Chen Yingxiong patted Krizanachi on the shoulder and said, "Go inside, Ivica."

Krizanachi took over Chen Yingxiong's task and ran to the door.

Chen Yingxiong was not afraid that his teammates would not pass the ball to him, because according to the previous tactical drills, the main purpose of this corner kick was to allow the teammates in front of the goal to attract the attention of the opponent's defenders, and then the football would be kicked in an outer arc, bypassing the front point and directly to the periphery, where the players outside would attack the goal from behind.

After everything was ready, Ilya Maximov kicked the football. Just as Chen Yingxiong thought, the football drew an outer arc and went straight to the penalty spot!

Just as Maximov brought the ball out, Chen Yingxiong also started and rushed towards Li Hao who was assisting in defence in the middle.

Li Hao was turning his head to look at the ball. When he saw the football flying towards him, he jumped up and prepared to head it.

At this moment, his centre of gravity suddenly tilted, and before he could react, he was thrown out...

When he fell, he saw that the place where he was originally standing was occupied by a huge monster!

Chen Yingxiong didn't open his arms, he just used his body to hit him. As expected, the 1.82 meter tall, 75 kg Korean international was knocked away.

Then he headed the ball!

The ball went into the net, and the main goalkeeper Kontefalski did not make any saves. He just watched Chen Yingxiong head the ball into the goal - perhaps he did not expect that even when there was someone blocking Chen Yingxiong, he could still head the ball so smoothly and accurately...

After scoring the goal, Chen Yingxiong was not as excited as before - he didn't really care whether the goal went in or not, he only cared about how assistant coach Porter, who served as the temporary referee, would make the decision.

The whistle sounded and Porter pointed to the center circle!

The goal is valid!

There was even applause from the sidelines for this goal!

No one thought it was a foul!

Chen Yingxiong was secretly shocked - the power of this talent is so strong!

Although this kind of collision is a possible foul, the referee may or may not call a foul. In football matches, there are many similar situations where the opponent is knocked over in a header and the ball is headed in. Sometimes the referee will call a foul on the attacking side, and sometimes the referee will not call anything.

But in the past, whenever Chen Yingxiong did this, there was a high chance that he would be called for a foul. Unexpectedly, this time, there was no problem at all!

Li Hao was knocked to the ground by Chen Yingxiong, and he got up in annoyance. The fall was not severe, but it was very embarrassing.

Seeing Li Hao's embarrassed look, Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes at Li Hao.

You roll your eyes at me, and I roll my eyes at you too! I'll let you also feel the taste of being laughed at and ridiculed!

The abused had become the abuser and the cycle of life continued...

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Chen Yingxiong's goal earned him congratulations from his teammates, and Chen Yingxiong was very happy. He could feel that he was gradually gaining attention and respect from his teammates, not because of the goal, but because of his training attitude.

Because before this goal, he had already begun to integrate into the locker room.

A player who trains hard always deserves respect.

In the following games, Chen Yingxiong began to use his headers frequently, and his opponents all looked for Li Hao - he seemed to want to knock Li Hao down completely.

They had a total of five direct confrontations, and Chen Yingxiong won all five battles with an overwhelming advantage - Li Hao got up from the ground five times.

However, Chen Yingxiong was called for a foul twice for hitting someone, and the other three times were not fouls, but he only scored one goal - he focused all his energy on teaching the Korean Li Hao a lesson...

Although only one goal was scored, after the game, Chen Yingxiong was particularly happy to see that Li Hao's yellow vest had been smashed into brown and blue and had long lost the lustre of the main player's vest.

Don't think that you are awesome just because you are the main player and I am the substitute!

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Seeing Li Hao being abused by Chen Yingxiong time and time again, Advocaat shook his head. Li Hao's header and bounce were not very good, but his strength was excellent. He didn't expect that he would be suppressed by Chen Yingxiong without any ability to fight back. Although the height difference between the two is ten centimetres, they are actually competing in strength, not height...

I didn't expect that Li Hao, who had World Cup experience and had long been famous in the Korean domestic league, would play so miserably against a rookie.

Advocaat now wondering if perhaps all that desperate extra training had worked.

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