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Chapter 136 The silence is deafening

The ball was finally passed to Wang Lie, but because Sofo United's defense was well positioned, when Wang Lie received the ball, there was no space for shooting.

He turned his back to the goal and passed the ball back.

This time it was Sonny Dean who received his pass outside the penalty area, who was inwards.

He swung his left foot directly towards the football.

He rubbed the football into an arc and headed straight for the far post of the goal.

Sofia United goalkeeper Jimmy Dog leapt for the ball but failed to touch it.

Of course, the football did not hit the goal frame, but instead made an arc and went directly out of the outside of the back post!
"Dean—it's off! What a shame!"

A huge sigh was heard from the stands of Lize Park Stadium.

Although he didn't score a goal, Wang Lie still shouted Dean's name, gave him a thumbs up, and praised him for his good shot.

Seeing this scene on the sidelines, Tyne's assistant coach Cesar Varo said to head coach Sam McNeill beside him:
"I was really impressed by his speech before the game... I thought this game would be a revenge match for him alone, but he kept emphasizing teamwork and collectiveness..."

McNeill laughed and said, "That's your prejudice against him."

Varro rolled his eyes at him.

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Although Tyne's first attack did not result in a goal, it still made many Sofia United fans break out in a cold sweat.

When Dean's shot hit the post, many people's hearts were in their throats.

Only after seeing that the ball did not go in did they sit back in their chairs and patted their chests with their hands to calm their panicked hearts.

Some people looked up at the big screen, which showed the time of the game.

02:46
The game had only been going on for less than three minutes.

They suddenly felt that this game might become a long one...

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Tyne's attack neither resulted in a goal nor a corner kick, and the ball was transferred to Sofia United, and it was their turn to attack.

The two wingers, Stanley Harris and Adel Degert, moved from the half-space to the wing when attacking, leaving the half-space to two midfielders, one being the attacking midfielder Aaron Schouten and the other Omar Jenkinson.

The latter is a young player trained by Sofia United's own youth training camp and has a local household registration. However, on the one hand, he is young, and on the other hand, he is slightly lacking in strength, so he is currently used as a versatile rotation player in Sofia United.

The good thing about young players is that they can play whatever position they are asked to play. Without top-level talent, they dare not bargain with the head coach.

Today, according to the team's tactical requirements, Helden let Jenkinson start the game, ready to make full use of his youth, good physical fitness and tirelessness to increase Sofo United's ability to strangle in the midfield.

The same strengths can be used to help the team on offense.

Therefore, Helden required Jenkinson to catch up quickly and in time when the team was attacking, so as to form a numerical advantage in local areas.

Heldon repeatedly reminded Jenkinson of his importance and encouraged his fighting spirit and courage.

When Sofollow did attack, Jenkinson did rush forward first.

However, Schouten did not pass the ball to him, but to center Rich Weddle who was retreating to receive the ball.

When the latter received the ball, he carried Tyne centre-back Hugo Guendouzi and passed the ball again, this time to Jenkinson.

As the 24-year-old Jenkinson watched the ball fly over to him, he had the idea of ​​being a hero:
In such an important game, if I can help the team score the first goal, wouldn’t I become famous with one goal?
So he pretended to shoot as the ball rolled towards him.

But when the ball rolled to his feet, he feinted, swung his left foot and pushed the ball to the outside, trying to shake off the Tyne center back Katic who was rushing towards him.

As long as he can shake off Katic, he can create a threat whether he shoots, passes the ball, or dribbles into the penalty area!
Little did he know that his move had already been seen through by the experienced Katic - he made a long shot from more than 30 meters away from the goal. He bet that Jenkinson's move was a fake, so he took a step sideways and blocked Jenkinson's route to break through.

Even if he bet wrong and Jenkinson really made a long shot, he would not be afraid. Due to his interference, the quality of Jenkinson's long shot would not be very high.

But if my bet is right, I can directly steal the ball from this kid and then launch a counterattack!

Jenkinson didn't expect that his fake shot didn't fool Katic. He panicked for a moment, not knowing whether he should just shoot directly or try to protect the ball.

After a brief hesitation, he chose to protect the football.

But just as he turned around and tried to use his body to separate Katic, the former world's No. 1 central defender stretched out his foot and kicked the ball away!
At the same time, he hit Jenkinson hard from behind, causing him to stagger and lose his balance.

Seeing that he could not keep his balance, Jenkinson simply fell to the ground with a scream.

He tried to attract the referee's attention - he thought Katic had committed a foul!

But the referee did not make any comment, turned around and ran up following Tyne's switch from defense to offense.

"Katic's neat steal! Tyne is counterattacking!"

Amid the huge cheers at Leeds Park, Katic jumped over Jenkinson who was lying on the ground, caught up with the ball, and passed it to Vitini who was retreating to defend.

Vitini ran towards the football and pretended to catch it, but when the ball rolled in front of him, he suddenly let it slip between his legs and turned around immediately!
SofaSport right-back Jose Gomes, who was following behind him, was caught off guard by Vitini and did not have time to "close the door" before the football slipped out from under his crotch.

He hurriedly turned around to chase him, but the agile Brazilian boy had already left him behind by almost a body length!
"Vitini! Beautiful!"

"Sofo United's defense is in danger!"

The cheers at Lize Park grew even louder.

Vitini's breakthrough caused a chain reaction - Sofa's midfielder Felipe Mejia, who was originally following Wang Lie, immediately left Wang Lie and went to pounce on Vitini.

Although Wang Lie is very dangerous, it is Vitini who has the ball now, and Vitini is also very dangerous!
In this case, the defensive player must of course give priority to the player with the ball.

As for Wang Lie, he could only count on other teammates to help...

As Vitini turned around to catch up with the football, the Tyne players in front rushed forward collectively.

Sonny Dean took the lead and rushed to the front, cutting diagonally from the wing to the middle. He attracted two defensive players, Sofolian left back Pablo Castin and center back Pablo Vitali.

Wang Lie was on the left flank, facing Taylor Murphy, and a little further behind him was attacking midfielder Matisse van Ginkel.

Vitini did not wait for Sofa United midfielder Mega to rush to him, but when Mega was halfway, he passed the ball horizontally to Van Ginkel who came up to meet him.

So Mejia turned back and ran to pounce on Van Ginkel.

At the same time when the football was passed to Van Ginkel, Wang Lie, who was originally on the left rib, suddenly changed direction and moved sideways to the middle.

Taylor Murphy could only run sideways following Wang Lie.

Just as Van Ginkel caught the ball, he heard Wang Lie calling him, “Mathis!”

Van Ginkel knew that it was Wang Lie asking him for the ball.

He looked up, passed the ball to Wang Lie, and immediately accelerated and sprinted towards Wang Lie.

He pretended to cooperate with Wang Lie in a one-two move.

This indeed made Taylor Murphy, who was defending Wang Lie, hesitate.

Logically speaking, there would be nothing wrong with hesitating before Wang Lie caught the ball.

He can wait for Wang Lie to receive the ball and then press forward immediately.

That was what he planned - he pointed at Mega and asked him to follow Van Ginkel who was advancing, while he himself prepared to go up and stick to Wang Lie.

But just as he took the first step, he saw Wang Lie move the football in front of him and swung his right leg!

"king--!"

Connor Cowley in the commentary booth saw Wang Lie swinging his right leg and excitedly stretched out his voice.

Marvin Block exclaimed, "Watch out!"

Luke Milne said nothing, but just stared at the field with wide eyes and held his breath.

Thirty meters away from the goal, Wang Lie shot directly without stopping the ball!
"Wang Lie shoots--!"

Even if Taylor Murphy wanted to use his body to block it, it was too late. He could only watch the ball fly past him. To be exact, he didn't see the ball, he only saw a streak of white light...

When he turned his head to look at the goal, he saw goalkeeper Jimmy Dogteng in the air, stretching his arms as hard as he could, trying to catch the flying football. But he didn't touch the football!

The football flew past his fingers, dived into the goal, and rolled up the net!
“Ahhhhh!” Connor Cowley screamed like crazy, “Wang! Wang!! Wang!!! Ahhhhhh! Wang! In the fourth minute of the game! Wang scored the first goal for Tyne, he scored!”

Luo Jin was also very excited: "Wang Lie! Wang Lie! Beautiful!! Beautiful! A world wave!! So beautiful!! Everyone knew he would score, but no one expected his goal to come so early! So fast!"

The entire Lize Park Stadium was filled with unprecedented cheers, louder than any before!

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The cheers at Leeds Park were deafening, literally, because the entire stadium was shaking.

I don’t know how many people in the stands jumped up, then they landed, jumped up again, and landed again.

This huge reinforced concrete structure began to vibrate as if it was coming alive.

And this deafening cry is just its groan before waking up.

The Lize Park stadium in the mobile phone camera was shaking more violently. Outside the camera, Zhao Zhou, holding his mobile phone, jumped and yelled:
“Ahhhhhh! Awesome! Brother Wang is awesome! Awesome!! Brother Wang scored a goal, Brother Wang! The game has just started! Brother Wang scored a goal! Beautiful, Brother Wang! Shut up those haters! Let them say that you are not good at this and that! They are just a bunch of wild dogs barking! Hahahaha!”

Zhao Zhou's voice became hoarse and he lost his voice from yelling, but he was still laughing out loud.

When he turned the camera over, the picture was still shaking, but he could still see the reflection on his cheeks - those were the traces of tears reflecting the lights of the stadium.

As a die-hard fan of Wang Lie, he continued to fight to the death with the haters online when Wang Lie was in the most difficult time. As a result, he suffered a lot of cyber violence and was also under tremendous pressure.

Now, he wants to vent all the pressure and emotions and sweep them away!

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The live broadcast of the game was being played on the 120-inch TV screen, but Zhou Hong's attention was not on it. She saw her elder sister "nodding" frequently.

She knew her elder sister couldn't bear it anymore...

After all, her eldest sister is already 79 years old this year. When everyone in the family group suggested watching Wang Lie's game together, she didn't expect that her eldest sister would come.

At first she advised her elder sister to go home and rest, but she insisted on staying.

They had been waiting since they finished dinner, and finally the game started.

But the eldest sister was about to fall asleep, and even though the game had already started, she seemed unable to stop feeling sleepy.

So Zhou Hong reached out and pushed her elder sister, then said to her sleepy elder sister: "Sister, why don't you go to sleep?"

"It's okay..." The eldest sister waved her hands and tried to hold on.

At this moment, the commentator Luo Jin suddenly shouted excitedly from the TV: "Van Ginkel passed the ball to Wang Lie! Wang Lie! Wang Lie——!!"

When the two of them turned their eyes to the TV again, they saw the football flying into the goal of Sofo United!

Wang Ziqi screamed, jumped off the sofa, ran all the way from the living room to the kitchen, and ran back from the kitchen, continuing to scream.

No one cared about his reckless behavior; everyone in the living room was cheering, screaming and clapping, and their attention was not on the child at all.

The eldest sister was still a little confused. She turned around and asked her younger sister: "This ball... this ball went in?"

Zhou Hong nodded excitedly: "Goal! That's right, a goal!"

"Hi!" the eldest sister exclaimed, then laughed, "Good! Good! Good entry!"

Zhou Hong clapped her hands hard, but her elder sister quickly came up and hugged her.

Behind them, other people were clapping, cheering and hugging.

They are Wang Lie's relatives, and they are holding the same grudge as Wang Lie!
At the same time, in a mansion in Northumberland, Newcastle, Tang Lingfeng's face flushed and he was waving his fist at the TV screen, on which was Heldon's dull face.

Tang Xingmei hugged her mother Wei Qin, laughing and shouting excitedly.

No matter how successful Wang Lie was in Tyne and how many goals he scored, in the eyes of those around him, it could not be considered as a real end to his feud with Sofia United.

They will be happy for every victory and every goal Wang Lie scores in Tyne, but that doesn't mean they think Wang Lie should forgive Sofia United and Heldon.

The reason is simple - before Helden and Hall receive real punishment and retribution, no matter how well Wang Lie lives now, it cannot completely make up for the harm he suffered in Sofo League.

These relatives and family members would never do anything like persuading Wang Lie to be magnanimous.

On the contrary, they have been looking forward to Wang Lie's revenge.

Wang Lie has been in Sofia for ten years. Perhaps he has cultivated a large number of Sofia fans in China, who have developed feelings for the club.

But they are Wang Lie's family, and their feelings for Sofu Lian certainly cannot be deeper than their feelings for Wang Lie.

Seeing Wang Lie break through the goal of his former club within four minutes of the start of the game, they not only did not sigh or lament, but instead just cheered and even hoped that Wang Lie could celebrate the goal as well. It would be even better if he ran to Helden to celebrate!

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Wang Lie did not celebrate after scoring the goal.

Even though everyone in the stadium went crazy, he didn't celebrate.

After completing the shot, he continued to run forward and ran into the Sofia United goal amid cheers.

At this time, Sofia goalkeeper Jimmy Doge had just gotten up from the ground when he saw Wang Lie rush into the goal, pick up the football that was already on the ground, and turn around and run back...

Then he collided with the Tyne players who rushed up to celebrate with him.

Those people wanted to hug Wang Lie, but Wang Lie waved his hand to stop them: "The game is still going on!"

Then he lowered his head and ran towards the center circle.

The Tyne players didn't react for a while and still went up to try to hug Wang Lie, but were pushed away by Wang Lie.

Only then did some people realize that perhaps Wang Lie chose not to celebrate because he had scored against his former club and did not want to hurt those Sofia fans...

So they no longer insisted on hugging Wang Lie, but instead surrounded Wang Lie and ran back, waving their fists and cheering around Wang Lie, echoing the cheering Tyne fans in the stands.

Seeing that Wang Lie did not celebrate but chose to run back with the ball, Luke Milne glanced at Marvin Brock who was standing there in a daze, and then said: "Although Wang did not choose to celebrate after scoring the goal, I think this game will be very difficult for all Sofia fans..."

Marvin Block did not respond. He seemed to have not yet recovered from the blow of Wang Lie's goal less than five minutes into the game.

Responding to Milne was commentator Connor Cowley: "After the last round of the league, Wang said he was ready. Now it seems that he was not lying, he was quite well prepared! So will this goal vent some of the anger in Wang's heart?"

Milne did not answer this question, but Brock seemed to have just woken up. He shook his head and said, "No, of course not. Wang is not the kind of person who can be satisfied with a goal... Luke is right, this game will be very tormenting and long for every Sofia supporter..."

Afterwards, both commentators stopped talking, and only Connor Cowley continued to perform his duties as commentator.

He said, referring to the close-up of Helden on the monitor:

"Herden looked like he was hit directly in the face by Wang's ball. He was completely stunned... He has not made any physical movements since the goal was conceded, nor did he go to the assistant coach to discuss anything. He just stood on the sidelines like a wax figure. I don't know if Heden expected his team to lose the ball at the beginning of the game, and whether he made targeted deployments... The good news is that the game has just begun, and he and his team still have time to change everything..."

The TV broadcast replayed Wang Lie's goal, with slow motion shots from various angles.

After the football was kicked out by Wang Lie, it flew across the sky like a flying arrow, firmly nailing into the hearts of all Sofia fans.

The Sofia United fans at Lize Park Stadium watched in silence as Wang Lie was surrounded by his teammates and ran back to the center circle.

They knew what this move meant.

But they couldn't boo him.

Wang Lie's last appearance for Sofia United was in that FA Cup match.

When Wang Lie came on as a substitute, he was booed in the Red Stone Stadium.

As incredible as it is, the Sofia legend was booed by his own fans...

I don’t know how many Sofia fans regretted it afterwards, but it’s too late to regret now.

Now Wang Lie, as an opponent, broke through the goal of Sofo United, and the fans of Sofo United could not boo.

Can only be silent.

Their silence was as deafening as the cheers of the Tyne fans.

(End of this chapter)