Chapter 342: Slapping the Universe Country in the Face, Barcelona Lost Surprisingly
The hype of the Universe Country was not recognized by the outside world. In the eyes of all parties, however, Lin Quan and Son Heung-min's strength is not at the same level at all.
Comparing these two players who are not on the same level is a shameless hype.
Japanese media reported that Son Heung-min is just a self-proclaimed Asian star by Koreans, but Lim Quan is a real world-class star.
The gap between the two is like that between a firefly and the bright moon.
I really don't know where Koreans get the courage to compare the two together.
Japan and South Korea are two football powerhouses in East Asia, and both countries have a large number of players playing in European leagues.
Among them, Japanese star Honda Keisuke even wears the No. 10 jersey in AC Milan. Isn't this much higher than Son Heung-min's status in Leverkusen? So, if we talk about who is most disgusted by the hype of Koreans, it must be the Japanese.
As for domestic fans, there are too few Chinese players studying abroad, and their strength is far behind the top level in Asia.
So under this kind of topic, everyone just acts as a spectator and makes fun of the arrogant Koreans.
"Haha, it's not like Son Heung-min hasn't played against Lin Huang before. When he was at Werder Bremen, Lin Huang led his team to a double win over Hamburg, where Son Heung-min was!"
"That's right. They couldn't even beat the Emperor Lin two years ago. How dare the Koreans challenge the current Emperor Lin?"
"To be honest, Son Heung-min is quite capable and still very young. He may be able to make a name for himself in the future. But if he is as arrogant as the Korean media and fans, then I think his ceiling will not be too high!"
"I still hope he can make it. Asian football needs a top star to promote football and make more children fall in love with the sport..."
Lin Quan was not aware of the Korean media reports, but before the game Son Heung-min took the initiative to come over and apologize to him.
"Lin, I'm sorry that the reports from our national media have caused you trouble. I'm very sorry!"
Son Heung-min came to Europe for training a long time ago and was greatly influenced by Europe. His way of behaving is actually quite different from that of his compatriots.
Lin Quan was not aware of the media reports, but based on his understanding of the Korean media, he thought it would not be a good thing.
But he was not angry at the person, and did not vent his anger on Son Heung-min.
So after hearing Son Heung-min's apology, Lin Quan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile:
"It's okay, just play well in this game and give everyone a wonderful performance!"
Encouraged by Lin Quan, Sun Xingmin nodded heavily: "Well, I will learn a lot from you in this game!"
As a winger, Son Heung-min has great admiration for Lin Quan.
He has collected many highlights of Lin Quan's games. When he has nothing to do, he likes to study Lin Quan's dribbling and shooting techniques in order to improve his own abilities.
A big part of the reason why he has made such rapid progress in the past few seasons is due to his diligence and eagerness to learn!
After the game started, Leverkusen took advantage of its home advantage and launched a fierce attack on Manchester City, trying to catch Manchester City off guard by starting the game with a gun.
In Leverkusen's attack, Son Heung-min performed very well. In the 10th minute, his breakthrough on the wing resulted in a yellow card.
Seeing Son Heung-min's outstanding performance, the Korean fans who came to the scene cheered excitedly.
"Our Heung-min suppressed Lin Quan. Heung-min is indeed the best!"
Now, they are looking forward to Son Heung-min scoring a goal in the game, so that he can firmly surpass Lin Quan.
However, although Leverkusen's attack was powerful, it did not pose much threat.
Manchester City had been prepared for this, with several lines of defense maintaining a reasonable distance. They played steadily after the start, countering Leverkusen's attacks one by one.
After fifteen minutes, Leverkusen's attack gradually slowed down, and Manchester City players began to exert their strength.
After a fierce battle, the dominance of the midfield changed hands first.
After losing control of the midfield, Manchester City, under the calm command of Kroos, frequently used both flanks to launch attacks on Leverkusen.
In this game, Leverkusen attached great importance to Lin Quan's defense. After all, he is the core of Manchester City. Various data and performances on the field have proved that he is the most threatening player in Manchester City.
Leverkusen thought that as long as they could defend Lin Quan, they could greatly weaken Manchester City's offensive ability.
However, they were proven to be extremely wrong.
In this game, Lin Quan did not force himself to improve his statistics just because of the hype from the Korean media.
On the contrary, he changed his playing style from a blaster to a playmaker.
With Lin Quan's assist, Jovetic and David Silva scored goals in the first half.
The coach of Leverkusen was stunned. He had been guarding against Lin Quan's breakthrough into the penalty area and his shot.
As a result, the opponent didn't even enter the penalty area, but helped the team take the lead by passing the ball from the outside.
And they were leading by two goals!
Such a huge gap made everyone in Leverkusen feel very desperate.
It felt like the other team didn't even try hard, and they were about to collapse! Is the gap in strength between the two teams really that big? Although Leverkusen was at an absolute disadvantage, Korean fans turned a blind eye to it.
In their opinion, although Son Heung-min did not score a goal, didn’t Lin Quan on the opposite side also fail to score a goal?
Since neither of them scored a goal, it cannot be proved that Son Heung-min is inferior to Lin Quan.
Even because Lin Quan changed his playing style, he did not complete many successful dribbling attempts on the wing in the entire first half, while Son Heung-min succeeded three times in this regard.
So, Korean fans seized on this point and started to brag about it.
Soon, they couldn't even blow that.
In the 65th minute of the second half, Lin Quan used a long shot from outside the penalty area to penetrate Leverkusen's goal for the third time and scored his first goal of the game.
This time, the Koreans couldn't brag anymore.
They couldn't say that the winger's passing was more important than the goal, right? However, at the end of the game, when Lin Quan received the ball from the middle, passed four defenders in a row, inspected the Leverkusen back line, and successfully scored the ball, they couldn't even say that.
Son Heung-min completed three dribbles among many attempts, while Lin Quan dribbled past four people in just one chance and scored twice.
Unless you are really blind to the ball, you really can't blow it at this time.
In the end, Manchester City defeated Leverkusen 4-0 away from home without any bloodshed.
After the game, Son Heung-min took the initiative to find Lin Quan and asked to exchange jerseys.
Lin Quan happily agreed to his request.
When the Korean fans in the stands saw Lim Quan and Son Heung-min exchanging jerseys, their faces changed one by one and they started praising them again.
"Our Heung-min has been recognized by the best player in the world. Heung-min is really great!"
However, they didn't seem to notice that when they praised Son Heung-min, they also praised Lin Quan.
Although the title of the strongest player at that time was very likely true, at least in Europe, no one had said so yet, at least not so bluntly.
When European media describe Lin Quan, they usually add the word "one of" at the end.
After the Korean media reported the game extensively, especially focusing on the exchange of jerseys between Lin Quan and Son Heung-min.
Many Korean fans have transformed themselves and become fans of Lin Quan.
"As expected of the strongest person of the contemporary era, Lin Quan is truly amazing!"
"Yes, he can not only break through the wing, but also organize attacks in the middle and assist his teammates to score goals. His style of play is becoming more and more like Maradona's style of play!"
"I wonder when our Heung-min will be able to reach the level of Lin Quan!"
Because Lin Quan showed such strong strength, after this game, the Koreans finally faced reality.
However, although they no longer hype the competition between Son Heung-min and Lin Quan, they have begun to take a different approach and try to find evidence of whether Lin Quan has the bloodline of the Great Cold Netherworld.
It is worthy of being the universe country where all things originated!
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No one cared about the reports in the Korean media, and Lin Quan did not know Korean, so it was impossible for him to go out of his way to pay attention to the news of such a tiny country.
Compared with these, Manchester City players are more concerned about qualifying for the group and the score rankings of other groups.
After defeating Leverkusen, Manchester City has won both games and currently ranks first in the group with 6 points.
The other two teams in the same group, Monaco and Zenit, drew in this round, which led to Manchester City's lead extending to 2 points.
Among the four teams in Group C, Manchester City ranks first with 6 points, Monaco ranks second with 4 points, Zenit ranks third with 1 point, and Leverkusen lost both games and is at the bottom of the group with 0 points.
Judging from the qualifying situation, Manchester City has the best situation.
Monaco will challenge Manchester City next time, and their hopes of winning are slim, but considering that they have an advantage in points, their situation for qualifying is better than that of third-placed Zenit.
If Zenit, third in the group, wants to catch up with Monaco in points, they must win the next game against Leverkusen.
As for Leverkusen, if they don't want to be eliminated early, they must try their best to get three points in the next game.
In other groups, in the focus battle between Atletico Madrid and Juventus in Group A, Atletico Madrid, who had just lost to Olympiacos in the previous round, defeated the Old Lady 1:0 at home and got the precious three points.
Olympiacos unexpectedly lost to Malmö in this round.
This resulted in four 3-point teams qualifying from Group A, and the promotion situation was in chaos, with all four teams looking likely to have a chance.
In Group B, Real Madrid won two consecutive games and is leading the standings, with a very good situation for qualifying.
Liverpool unexpectedly lost the away game in this round, which made their qualifying situation somewhat grim.
In the next game, Liverpool will face the challenge of Real Madrid at home. Given the current state and strength of the two teams, the possibility of Liverpool winning at home is very low.
If they lose, they will likely fall behind Basel, who have the same points as them.
So in addition to praying that they can defend their home court, Liverpool also has to pray that Basel loses.
In Group D, Arsenal, playing at home, achieved a big victory that made the Gunners fans very excited.
They swept Turkish Super League team Galatasaray 4:1 at home and got three valuable points.
Arsenal's attack was smooth in this game, Welbeck scored a hat-trick and Sanchez also scored a goal.
The only drawback was that their goalkeeper Szczesny received a red card for a foul in the second half, which meant that they had to use a substitute goalkeeper in their next away game.
In Group E, Bayern won 1-0 against CSKA Moscow away from home, not only getting 3 points, but also avoiding the embarrassing schedule of visiting Moscow in winter.
Group F experienced a big upset in this round of competition.
In the match between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, which was more favored by the outside world, unfortunately lost to the opponent with a score of 2:3 away from home.
Lin Quan was a little surprised after learning that Barcelona lost to Paris Saint-Germain.
If he remembered correctly, Barcelona seemed to have won the Champions League this season.
Who wouldn't tremble when watching the trident of Enrique's era? After watching the game, I found that Suarez had not yet appeared.
The MSN group hasn't shown their strength yet, no wonder they lost the game.
Both Messi and Neymar scored in this game, but still failed to help the team win.
This defeat made the outside world somewhat pessimistic about Barcelona's Champions League prospects this season.
Considering that Suarez is still suspended, and even if he returns after the ban, if he cannot integrate into the team as soon as possible, Barcelona may not be able to get first place in the group.
Once they qualify as the second in the group, they will most likely be drawn against strong teams like Manchester City, Real Madrid and Bayern in the knockout stage.
This is definitely not good news for Barcelona!
Fortunately, the situation is not that pessimistic, Barcelona still has a chance to regain the top spot in the group! However, given Paris Saint-Germain's current state, it will be difficult to reverse them.
After Paris Saint-Germain defeated Barcelona, the whole team was extremely excited.
Many of their players even said that this was their best chance to qualify for the Champions League.
Especially for their team's top star Ibrahimovic, not winning the Champions League has always been a pain in his heart.
Before Lin Quan's rise, Ibrahimovic always regarded himself as the best player, and the outside world often ranked him below Messi and Ronaldo, considering him to be the third best player in active service.
However, compared with the two great players, Ibrahimovic has an embarrassing point: he has no Champions League title! Ibrahimovic has changed many teams, and he has changed four or five top clubs, including Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, and AC Milan.
But his luck was very bad and he missed the Champions League every time.
Especially this time from Inter Milan to Barcelona, and then from Barcelona to AC Milan, he missed two Champions League titles.
Now, Ibrahimovic is older, and at the age of 33, he has undoubtedly entered the twilight of his career.
Therefore, for him, Paris Saint-Germain may be his last hope to win the Champions League.
After several consecutive seasons of crazy spending, Paris Saint-Germain's lineup has improved unprecedentedly.
This season, Paris Saint-Germain looks strong and even defeated the powerful Barcelona.
This seems to be their best time to win the championship!
Since Manchester City, which also played money-driven football, was able to win the championship last season, there is no reason why Paris Saint-Germain, which invested more, cannot do the same.
(End of this chapter)