Chapter 92
The trailer quickly made headlines in both the UK and the US as soon as it was released. American football fans and the general public received it well, thinking that the trailer was well made: there was linkage, but it did not overshadow the main plot, which was really surprising.
However, the English media and people have criticized Marvel, saying that the trailer made Endrit look too stupid.
"How could our Lion King have such an innocent and confused look in his eyes?"
"Even if we follow Marvel's current template, shouldn't Endrit have raised his head and said, 'Who the hell called me?'"
"I know that those Hollywood movie-makers are all filthy-minded. If we Ritters really like to make cameo appearances in movies, why not go and make Harry Potter movies? In the Harry Potter world, we Ritters are Quidditch star players!"
"Wow! What you said makes a lot of sense!"
The English people were outraged and the media also spread the news. The English players of Chelsea team all looked at Endrit with strange eyes.
"You're not really going to make a cameo appearance in Harry Potter in the future, are you?"
"Nothing else matters. If you go to make a cameo appearance, can you help me pass on a few wands?"
Endrit quickly shook his head and denied that he would film Harry Potter. "That's all just media and fans making a fuss. Besides, if I really want to make a cameo appearance, I'll have to bring back a dragon. Why would I need a magic wand?"
"Besides, I don't like making movies, I just like Iron Man, hehe..."
Seeing Endrit covering his face and giggling again, Lampard turned his head away, "I was about to complain that the trailer made you look a bit stupid, but now it seems that I misunderstood the director. He has tried his best to make you look smart..."
Coach Mourinho came in at this time. He was furious when he saw Endrit's silly smile. He walked up and slapped Endrit on the back of the head. "Why are you smiling silly every day? Have you finished training today?"
Endrit sat up straight, put his hands on his knees and looked up at Mourinho. "Coach, aren't we going to Wembley Stadium to play the League Cup final against Tottenham soon?"
"You still know that we're going to play the League Cup final today?"
Endrit blinked his eyes and thought that after the game today, he must go home and ask Mathilde, and ask Coach Mathilde if he has reached menopause. Why have you been so bad-tempered these days? My memory seems to be failing...
"Since you know today is the EFL Cup final, stop thinking about movies and Iron Man and focus on football. Do you understand?"
Endrit pursed his lips and said nothing, but his eyes wandered between Lampard and Ballack, his meaning was obvious.
Mourinho took a deep breath and wanted to say something but couldn't think of what to say, so he simply turned around and pretended not to see it.
Mourinho felt a little regretful. Before he became Endrit's godfather, Endrit was well-behaved and sensible, and his words were as sweet as honey.
But ever since Endrit acknowledged him as his godfather, he turned from a well-behaved child into a rebellious son, the kind of rebellious son who irritates him every day!
What is this called? Don’t you know how to cherish it after you have it?
Ten minutes later
The Chelsea players boarded the team bus and headed to Wembley Stadium.
Endrit was the last one to board the carriage. He stood there looking around, then walked up to Mourinho and sat down.
"Coach," Endritt nudged Mourinho with his shoulder, and when he saw that the latter didn't respond, he leaned his head closer, "Godfather?"
Mourinho turned his head and glared at Endrit, "What's the matter? Speak."
"Godfather," Endrit leaned his head on Mourinho's shoulder and covered his mouth with one hand to prevent being heard: "I'm going home for dinner today. I want to make some Chinese food myself. Coach, shall we go shopping with Mathilde?"
Mourinho glanced at Endrit and said nothing.
"I'll bring the football with me then, and everything will be ready."
Mourinho opened his mouth and couldn't help but asked, "Why did you bring the football? Aren't we going to buy groceries and cook together?"
"Then the football is the daughter-in-law." Endrit chuckled and bumped Mourinho with his shoulder again, "Bring your girlfriend to meet your parents, isn't that what everyone does?"
Mourinho was so angry that he laughed, "What a joke! Is your girlfriend a football player?"
"Of course," Endrit nodded seriously, "Only football is my true love. Others are just passers-by in my life. I just loved them for a short time. After I finish wandering around outside, I will definitely go home to be with my true love."
Mourinho's eyelids twitched. "If you don't know how to use metaphors, then don't use them randomly! What's the point of talking about true love or not? Are you going to stay with football for the rest of your life?"
"I don't know what the future will be like, but at least now, this is what I think, and nothing will change in the short term." Endrit smiled, "The original script proposed by Marvel was for me and Robert Downey Jr. to play a short scene opposite each other. If the movie sells well at the box office, I will participate in the subsequent filming."
In order to more deeply bind with Endritz, director Jon Favreau originally designed the Easter egg in which, after Stark announced that he was Iron Man, he flew to England and saw Endritz, throwing down a stack of banknotes and arrogantly saying that your name will be mine from now on.
Endrit sneered, stood up from the sofa and stretched out his hand. A football appeared in his hand. "Do you think you are the only superhero in the world?"
Stark was shocked, "Are you in the same group with that black-salted egg?"
Endritt gave a mysterious smile to the camera.
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In short, this is a very irresponsible spoof, an Easter egg that is completely used to promote the movie. The biggest purpose is to arouse the interest of fans and make them think that Endrit really played a role in this movie.
If the market response is good after the filming, then this easter egg may have a follow-up. Marvel officials even said that they are willing to tailor a heroic role for Endrit in the comics.
"I am actually a little tempted, not because of the filming, but because if I play opposite him, I can spend more time with Robert Downey Jr. But coach," Endrit sighed and looked at Mourinho, "as for the tactics you mentioned to me before, I simply don't have time to do these unnecessary things later."
Mourinho raised his eyebrows, "Are you blaming me?"
"No, no, no, coach, what I mean is that for me, football is the most important thing at all times. No one else or anything else will come before football. Football is my true love, so coach, you don't have to worry that I will delay normal training because of people and things outside. I just relax myself, not give up football."
Mourinho didn't say anything. He turned his head and looked outside through the car window. The trees that were constantly retreating looked so beautiful that Mourinho couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
This is ridiculous, cough cough cough, Te has always been his favorite child in their family, even though he was a little naughty sometimes, but his nature has never changed.
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Last season, Chelsea won the League Cup by defeating Arsenal 2-1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
This season, Chelsea will compete with Tottenham for the English League Cup at the newly renovated Wembley Stadium.
In terms of the starting lineup, Mourinho still lined up a 433 formation, with the three forwards being Drogba, Anelka and Wright-Phillips.
The three players formed a triangle on the field, with Drogba in the front and Anelka and Wright-Phillips on the two wings.
The starting midfielders for this game were Lampard, Essien and Mikel.
On the defensive line, Mourinho let Ashley, Carvalho, Terry and Belletti play.
Bridge still did not appear on the starting lineup, but perhaps it was because he did not give up even though he failed in the competition last time, but instead kept insisting on his training attitude that impressed Mourinho. In this game, Bridge appeared on the substitute list.
Bridge was very happy. Although he was not brought by coach Mourinho to attend the pre-match press conference, the smile on his face never faded. Because he already knows that the big promises made by his agent and the sympathy expressed by the media are not important. Only when he focuses all his energy on football can he get good results.
John Terry started in the English League Cup final right after returning from injury. He was specially brought by Mourinho to attend the pre-match press conference. When he found that not many reporters were interested in him, he felt a little unhappy.
So who are the reporters interested in? The man at the top of the list was of course Endrit, but Endrit did not come to the pre-match press conference, so the media's interest turned to Lampard, the man at second on the list.
In the Champions League, when the media saw that Mourinho only let Ballack play, they thought that Mourinho chose the German to be the core of Chelsea's midfield.
After the Champions League game that day, many teams have begun to make offers to Chelsea to see how much it would cost to bring Lampard to their team.
But in today's League Cup final, Lampard started the game while Ballack was on the bench.
What's going on? Is it Lampard's usual performance that impressed coach Mourinho, or is there another reason?
Lampard picked up the microphone and said that this was all decided by coach Mourinho, and if they wanted to know the reason, they could ask coach Mourinho directly.
Mourinho picked up the microphone to answer this question, but the media did not ask Mourinho this question. Instead, they asked him what he thought of Tottenham coach Juande Ramos' evaluation of him?
"What did he say?"
"Coach Juande Ramos said Tottenham will use their best lineup to win this game because they will not only face goalkeeper Endrit, who still has a clean sheet, but also the scheming coach Mourinho."
"Huh?!" Mourinho sneered. "Tottenham Hotspur is ranked 11th in the Premier League. When they played against us, did they still want to use a half-main lineup? Did they not use the main lineup because they wanted to give the victory directly to Chelsea?"
"Do you know why Ballack didn't play in this game? Because we didn't even need Ballack to play to beat Tottenham!"
After the pre-match press conference, Mourinho returned to the locker room angrily and said, "If you continue to make low-level mistakes like in the last game, then you should pack up and leave after the game. You can make some money in the secondary league while you are still young and then retire!"
"If those secondary leagues still want you after seeing your performance!"
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"Dear viewers, dear viewers, welcome to watch the 2007-08 League Cup final. At the renovated Wembley Stadium, Chelsea will compete with Tottenham for the final League Cup title."
"Spaniard Ramos is eager to prove himself. Just from their starting lineup, we can see how much he wants to win the championship."
"Ramos deployed England's traditional 442 formation in this game. Robbie Keane and Berbatov partnered up on the front line, and the combination of these two has always been called the strongest striker partnership of this century by Tottenham fans."
"Jenas and Zokora will play as the double defensive midfielders, while Malbranque and Lennon will be the left and right wingers respectively."
"The four defenders in Tottenham's back line are Chimbonda, Ledley King, Woodgate and Alan Hutton. The goalkeeper of Tottenham is Paul Robinson."
"Before Endrit, Paul Robinson was the starting goalkeeper for the national team and had defended the national team's goal in many big matches."
But these were all things that happened when he was young. In recent seasons, especially in the 2008 European qualifiers, Paul Robinson's performance was not very good.
If Endrit was just an ordinary goalkeeper who played in the qualifiers, the media would definitely hype the duel between the two as the battle of the century before the game for the sake of topic. Anyway, no matter how big the gimmick is, it doesn't matter if the product is not what was advertised, as long as people are tricked into coming to watch.
But now even the commentator only said this and didn't go on, because it was totally unnecessary. Even if some media want to hype this topic now, fans will not accept this kind of attempt.
Not only do the fans not accept this kind of fraud, they even ask what kind of brains the stupid media used to come up with such outrageous rhetoric? Battle of the century? Does he deserve it?
It is still unclear whether this is worthy or not, but the double standards of the fans are extremely obvious. If this really happened, the fans who are now saying that Paul Robinson is unworthy will definitely be the same fans who were crazy about Paul Robinson back then.
There's no way, this is how most fans love. If you win, you get praised; if you lose, you get scolded. When Endrit was in the youth team, he was often kicked out and lost, but since he came to the first team, the worst result in his games was a draw, and he has never lost.
When some media were short of news material, they specially found the players who scored goals when they played against Endrit's Chelsea youth team and interviewed them, asking them what it felt like to kick the ball into the goal guarded by Endrit.
Because of these interviews, many players who have been up and down in the youth teams also got some trial opportunities with the main teams.
"It seems that not only the head coach Amos is eager to win the cup to prove himself, but the Tottenham players also want to win this honor. They played very actively after the start of the game."
Tottenham players played very actively and proactively, while Chelsea players, who were threatened by Mourinho before the game that they'd better not make any mistakes, made a mistake 20 seconds after the start - Belletti made a low-level mistake in his cross from the backcourt, and the ball was directly intercepted by Robbie Keane.
Robbie Keane got the ball and rushed directly to the penalty area and shot with his foot.
John Terry rushed forward and kicked the ball away. The ball was not kicked towards the goal by Robbie Keane, but was kicked out of the baseline by John Terry.
Tottenham got a corner kick opportunity.
John Terry looked back at Endritt and felt a little sorry. If the goalkeeper was not Endrit, the clearance would have been beautiful. Although the ball was kicked out of the baseline and the opponent got a corner kick, the probability of the goalkeeper successfully saving the corner kick after being prepared is obviously greater than the probability of the opponent's player successfully saving a direct shot.
But this is Endrit, if he didn't clear the ball, the ball would have been in Chelsea's hands.
Endrit was a little puzzled when he saw John Terry looking back, but he still gave a thumbs up immediately, "This ball was solved beautifully!"
Lennon took a corner kick, Berbatov rushed forward and headed the ball to his teammate, who received the ball and made a close shot.
Endrit took the initiative and jumped early. The football flew high and was about to fly out, but Endrit grabbed it back directly.
The Tottenham players in the Chelsea penalty area fell silent when they saw this scene: If Endritt didn't get the ball back, the ball would fly out directly and the ball would not enter the goal.
Of course, in that case, the ball would not belong to Chelsea: when one team shoots and attacks, the ball can only be attributed to the goalkeeper after the opponent's goalkeeper successfully saves the ball or the ball hits the goal frame or crossbar. Otherwise, the ball belongs to the attacking team that touched the ball last.
"Oh my god, it turns out that Ritter wanted to get the ball! I was saying that I could see that Ledley King's close shot was obviously too high, so why did Ritter take the initiative to attack?"
"I suddenly remembered that before this, when Ritter saw that the opponent couldn't score, he just stood there motionless. But now he actually took the initiative to attack and grab the ball... Ritter threw the ball to Belletti?!"
"Ritter actually threw the ball to Belletti who just made a mistake? Belletti is really lucky. I hope he will not disappoint Ritter."
Belletti did not disappoint Ritt's expectations, because after receiving the ball, he immediately passed it to his teammates without giving the opponent a chance to intercept the ball, and the football was passed to the frontcourt after several passes.
Before Endritt could catch his breath, the ball was intercepted by Tottenham player Malbranque on the left side in the frontcourt.
Malbranque intercepted the ball and broke through on the left without any pause.
Although this shot was finally kicked out of the baseline by Malbranque himself and never got close to the goal, Endrit still felt a dark cloud hovering over his head: What happened? Will his teammates also make a lot of low-level mistakes in the English League Cup final? Does this debuff last that long?
3 minutes later
Tottenham defender Chimbonda won a corner kick on the left, Lennon took another corner kick, and Chimbonda headed the ball from the far post and hit the crossbar directly and bounced out.
Five minutes later, Tottenham got the ball again and kicked the ball from the left. Berbatov received the ball and headed for the goal in the penalty area, but the ball went wide.
Although Endrit didn't break out in a cold sweat, he looked at the players who still didn't perform well in today's game and shouted, "Can we still play? Do you really want to pack up and go to the secondary league? Wake up!"
Perhaps this roar had some effect. For the next ten minutes or so, Tottenham players were unable to break through the defense and bring the ball into Chelsea's penalty area. Unfortunately, Chelsea was also unable to bring the ball into Tottenham's penalty area, and the game came to a stalemate.
In the 23rd minute of the first half, Tottenham's midfielder, Ivory Coast star Zokora, attempted a long shot, but the ball went high.
But this may be another signal. In the 27th minute, Robbie Keane passed the ball to his teammate Malbranque in the penalty area. The latter followed up in front of the penalty area and shot with his left foot.
Endrit flew up and caught the ball under him, and when he stood up, he threw the ball back to his defender teammate. He didn't say anything else. After all, something as abstract as teammates' game status is not good. Just one sentence is enough. If you say more, your teammates' status may become worse.
Endrit no longer spoke, but Chelsea officially sounded the clarion call for counterattack from now on.
In the 29th minute, Ashley passed the ball back from the left, Lampard received the ball and shot hard outside the penalty area. Although the ball was slightly off target, it was Chelsea's closest attack since the opening of the game.
In the 33rd minute, Chelsea got a free kick opportunity in a good position in front of the penalty area. Chelsea fans at Wembley Stadium couldn't help but cheer for the team.
Amid the cheers of Chelsea fans, Drogba rushed towards the ball and shot it hard. The ball turned a corner on its way to the goal and flew out of the goal.
Some Chelsea fans who were expecting something just now couldn't help but boo: No way? No way? Are you going to let Endritt save the game in this game too? He is just an ordinary and poor goalkeeper!
Amid the growing boos, 5 minutes later, Drogba took another free kick from almost the same position, and this time, the free kick directly knocked into the goal guarded by Robinson!
“The ball goes in!!!”
"Chelsea leads Tottenham 1:0!"
"I can already see the League Cup title waving to Chelsea!"
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