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Chapter 230: Trident of Chaos
Cavani.

This person who was directly ignored in this game is also a world-class striker.

Before Neymar came, Cavani worked diligently for Paris Saint-Germain and led the team to dominate the French Ligue 1.

But Paris Saint-Germain's appetite is obviously bigger, and the French Ligue 1 alone is not enough to satisfy them.

So, a deal that shocked the football world happened, and Neymar came.

While Cavani was squatting on the sidelines adjusting his socks, the broadcast camera was greedily licking the wounds of the dispute between Neymar and Mbappe.

The Uruguayan striker has Suarez's mobile phone number scribbled in marker on his white ankle brace. Three days ago, the Barcelona striker, whose front teeth were broken by Song Wen on the beach in Montevideo, came to him with whiskey and said, "Edinson, at least let him taste the goalpost!"

Zhan Jun's tactical board suddenly stopped at Cavani's running heat map: "The data doesn't lie! Cavani ran 7.8 kilometers in the first half, the most in the team, but he only touched the ball a pitiful 9 times!"

The screen switched to the Paris locker room corridor, where Cavani was tearing the energy gel bag with his teeth. His ferocious expression was made into a "Fatal Fury" emoticon package and went viral in the live broadcast room.

Fan Zhiyi slammed the table and sighed: "I tell you, Cavani is now like the Concubine Jing in "The Legend of Zhen Huan"! He is obviously the most experienced, but Neymar is Zhen Huan and Mbappe is Concubine Hua. He can only count bricks to make a living!"

Zhan Jun said:
"The dispute between Mbappe and Neymar seems very intense. Locker room conflicts have always been the club's biggest headache, but obviously, Paris Saint-Germain did not handle this problem well. This can be said to be a fatal problem for the team."

Compared with the players' abilities, locker room conflicts are often the most critical factor affecting the club's performance.

A good locker room environment will enable players to have better collaboration and more desire to win.

Once there is a problem in the locker room, the team’s performance will have unpredictable huge problems!

In fact, although those truly top clubs occasionally have some locker room conflicts, they are always able to suppress them relatively quickly.

This is due to the strong foundation of these top clubs themselves, and the fact that there is often a top superstar in these clubs that no one else can match.

But Paris Saint-Germain, which is spending a lot of money, obviously does not have such foundation.

The fans of their club itself cannot become the public pressure they use to check and balance the players.

And buying all those stars in a rush made them dissatisfied with each other after they came to Paris.

Once a major setback occurs, this contradiction will be exposed instantly.

Zhan Jun's commentary caused a stir in the live broadcast room: "The double-edged sword of locker room conflicts has brought down countless dynasties!"

The data screen behind him suddenly popped up a list of the top five famous internal conflicts in football, with the top of the list being Chelsea's "Mourinho and Shevchenko dispute" in 2005.

Fan Zhiyi slammed the table and added: "Let me tell you, Mourinho made a collection of Sheva's shots into a PPT titled "How to Waste Abramovich's Oil Dollars", which made the Ukrainian nuclear warhead so angry that he poured vodka into the locker!"

In addition, there are countless conflicts in the locker room in football.

The Manchester United "flying boot gate" in 2003 caused the cracks that led to the collapse of the dynasty.

As Ferguson's grass-stained sneakers slid across the locker room, the blood oozing from Beckham's brow solidified under the spotlight into the most expensive scar in Premier League history.

The dispute caused by the loss to Arsenal in the Champions League split the Manchester United dressing room into the "British Gang" and the "Continental Gang".

Keane wrote in his autobiography: "The floor of the dressing room that day was not tiles, but scattered fragments of the Red Devils' soul."

Manchester United, which had been expected to win the Champions League for the third time in a row, failed to win any of the four major titles that season. Beckham left for the Bernabeu at a price 1200 million pounds lower than the market valuation - the difference was just enough to buy the limited edition Falcon boots that hit him in the eyebrow.

The 2015 Chelsea doctor scandal was a battleground between science and power.

The sound of Eva's medical kit hitting the grass at Cobham training base is still a negative example of Premier League manager training.

Mourinho accused the team doctor of being a "betrayer" at a press conference because he entered the field without permission to treat Hazard, triggering a century-long battle between the medical and tactical factions in the locker room.

Terry revealed in an exclusive interview with 442: "During that period, our medical examination report was thicker than the tactical manual, and Courtois even brought his own personal physiotherapist to the court."

Defending champions Chelsea eventually finished tenth, and on the day Mourinho was sacked, thirty boxes of champagne were opened in the Stamford Bridge medical room.

The "slap gate" of Barcelona in 2017 is considered to be the biggest reason why Neymar left for Paris.

The locker room surveillance video of Neymar on the eve of his transfer to Paris remains the top secret of Camp Nou.

The Brazilian was pushed by Suarez for a penalty kick, and Messi's hand-shaking action when trying to stop the fight was interpreted frame by frame as a "silent judgment."

Robert, then sports director, revealed in his memoirs: "That day Messi's No. 10 jersey was hanging in the locker room, like a sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's head."

The MSN combination was eliminated by Juventus in the quarterfinals of the Champions League that season. Behind the expected goal value (xG) of 4.7 was the cruel reality that the number of passes between the three of them plummeted by 63% year-on-year.

Fan Zhiyi pointed at the real-time data screen and shook his head: "Paris is now like using Lego blocks to build an aircraft carrier - Mbappe wants to be the captain, Neymar wants to change the course, and Cavani is silently patching the leak in the bottom warehouse, but the most terrible thing is" he deliberately paused for three seconds, "Emery sitting in the captain's room is holding a sightseeing cruise ship driver's license in his hand!"

The broadcast camera suddenly cut to the Atletico Madrid bench, where Simeone was drawing a tactical roadmap on Song Wen's back with a marker.

This most united "gang" in the history of the Champions League projects a terrifying chemical reaction index on the data screen - and this is precisely the championship gene that is most difficult to print with banknotes in money-driven football.

Let’s go back to the summer of 2013.

When Cavani landed in Paris for a sky-high price of 6400 million euros, the fireworks at the Parc des Princes burned the words "The King has arrived" on the surface of the Seine.

This Uruguayan butcher, who scored 38 goals in a single season for Naples, won the Ligue Golden Boot four times in five years and engraved the Paris Saint-Germain team logo on the top of France.

Until August 2017, 8, when the propeller of Neymar's helicopter landed in Paris blew away the captain's armband that had been accumulated in Cavani's locker for four years.

The famous "penalty goal" incident was replayed in the Douyin live broadcast room: when Neymar reached out for the ball, Cavani walked directly to the penalty spot with the ball in his arms.

The Brazilian cursed in Portuguese as "country bumpkin", and the Uruguayan responded with "nouveau riche kid".

When Mbappe was pretending to mediate the fight between the two men, the broadcast camera clearly captured him secretly stepping on the penalty spot turf three inches more.

At this moment, Cavani is putting on the patellar strap in front of the locker room mirror.

He suddenly remembered Suarez's broken front teeth - that night the Barcelona striker drunkenly held up a CT scan and said, "Do you know how fast Song Wen hit me? 34.2 kilometers per hour! 0.3 faster than Mbappe's fastest sprint this season!"

A sudden burst of boos from the South Stand pierced the wall.

Cavani pushed aside a gap in the blinds and saw Song Wen teaching the ball boy how to use the rainbow pass to trick the security guards on the sidelines.

30 seconds before the opening whistle of the second half.

Cavani suddenly ripped open his jersey to reveal the custom-made vest underneath. On the front was a photoshopped photo of Suarez's complete front teeth, and on the back was a map of Atletico's goal coordinates.

The broadcast director was so scared that he cut to an empty shot for five seconds, but the topic of "Uruguayan Avengers" rushed to the top of Twitter's trending list. Zhan Jun's commentary was trembling: "Cavani's operation was comparable to the Normandy Landing! He just deliberately rubbed the referee's earpiece to adjust his shin guards, and dominated the screen for eight seconds!"

Fan Zhiyi pulled out the data board and added: "This season, Cavani's success rate in counterattacking immediately after being fouled is 92%, but the refereeing team has not yet given him the 'Oscar Award for Injustice'!"

“I suggest that Paris Saint-Germain give Cavani the ‘Best Background Board Award’!”

“Cavani’s movement proves the existence of quantum entanglement – ​​he always appears at the edge of the camera!”

Feeling the commotion at the moment of seeing his vest, Cavani smiled.

He knew his mission was accomplished.

Yes, this is the greatest help he can do for Suarez.

Let people remember that the hateful No. 17 once used his head to smash Suarez's front teeth.

What else could he do?

Now Paris Saint-Germain has Mbappe and Neymar.

He has long ceased to be the team's tactical core.

After the penalty incident, Cavani was sprayed by Neymar's fans.

Even the club's top management was not on his side.

Cavani knows that his Paris career has come to an end.

For a player who has already decided to leave, how heroic can you expect him to do for your club?
What's more, he can't deal with that kid Song Wen.

By the time Cavani reached his age, he already had a clear understanding of these things.

Even after the first half of the game, Cavani discovered that Neymar had actually awakened and no longer dreamed of those fairy tales.

Only Mbappe is still fantasizing about how to defeat Song Wen.

For a man as smart as him, it would be enough for him to finish this game without any achievement or mistake.

When the referee blew the whistle to start the second half, there was a strange silence in the noise of the Parc des Princes.

Neymar, Mbappe and Cavani stood in a triangle in the center circle, and the air between them seemed to be frozen by the Antarctic cold current.

The broadcast camera swept across the faces of three people: Neymar chewed gum and stared at the cracks in the grass, Mbappe repeatedly adjusted the position of his shin guards, and only Cavani looked calmer, but he also did not look away.

Fan Zhiyi smiled and said: "Let me tell you, the relationship between these three people is even more incompatible than Iberian ham and pineapple pizza!"

When the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Paris Saint-Germain's three forwards rushed out almost at the same time.

At the same time, they raised their hands at the same time, signaling the midfielder to pass the ball to them.

This instantly made the midfielder suffer from a dilemma in making a decision.

Fifty-first minute.

The moment Alves threw the ball from the sideline, the football world witnessed the most absurd offensive aesthetic.

Neymar made a diagonal run to the left rib, Mbappe rushed to the empty space on the right like a rocket, and Cavani circled back to the top of the small penalty area like a ghost - the three of them raised their hands to ask for the ball at the same time, like three Desert Eagles pointing towards the midfield.

Verratti's pupils trembled as he held the ball. The Italian midfielder, who was hailed as "Pirlo's successor", was like a lamb thrown into a pack of wolves.

"Pass it!" Emery's roar was captured by the camera.

Verratti ultimately chose to kick the ball towards the advertising board, a decision that defied the laws of physics and caused his expected pass success rate (xP) to plummet from 87% to 0%.

The broadcast camera accurately captured Cavani's rolling eyes and Neymar's curse in Portuguese as "ballless pasta".

63 minutes.

The moment Mbappe scored against Juanfran on the right, the north stands were already celebrating.

But when the French prodigy spotted Neymar raising his hand for the ball at the far end, he suddenly used his heel to knock the ball towards the bottom line - a move that paid tribute to Song Wen's rainbow dribbling, and ended with the ball hitting the corner flagpole.

Neymar spread his arms so wide that he could hug the entire French region, while Cavani completed a textbook offside run towards the air, but unfortunately the only person who noticed him was the ball boy holding an ice cream on the sidelines.

Facing the chaotic Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid seemed to start watching the show directly after scoring three goals in the first half.

Song Wen started walking.

Atletico Madrid's defense can easily deal with a Paris like this.

Cavani finally intercepted Griezmann in the midfield.

The Uruguayan's ferocious expression as he dribbled the ball reminded people of his golden days when he broke through the defense alone in Naples.

Suarez's flying dentures seemed to be leading the way, and Cavani suddenly shot an arrow 30 meters away from the goal - the trajectory of the ball was exactly the same as the world wave that shattered Nantes' goal three years ago, but when it was about to fall, Oblak lifted it over the crossbar with one hand.

"Fuck you!" Cavani's curse in Spanish was clearly heard through the microphone on the sidelines.

The broadcast replay showed that when he kicked the ball, Neymar was walking slowly to block the passing line, while Mbappe was standing in an offside position to fix his hair.

Fan Zhiyi pulled out the data board: "Cavani's shot had an expected goal value (xG) of 0.02, but its emotional lethality is comparable to a cruise missile!"

83 minutes.

Song Wen lightly passed Verratti in the center circle. This move, which netizens called "Tai Chi Push Hands 2.0", made the Paris midfielder fall in an arc like a ballerina.

The Atletico Madrid core player raised his eyes and looked towards the front court, and suddenly found Griezmann with a rainbow pass spanning 30 meters - the ball landed in the exact same place as Cavani's ghost run in the first half, except that this time it was Atletico Madrid's No. 7 who received the ball.

"GOALLLLLLL!" Amid Zhan Jun's roar, the three marks left by Griezmann's sliding knees were like knife wounds cutting into the heart of Paris.

The broadcast camera swept meaningfully over the slumped Emery, the sneering Simeone, and the Paris trident who were still gesturing to each other "who is to blame for this ball".

When the score was fixed at 0-4, deafening boos rang out at the Parc des Princes.

Mbappe completely collapsed.

(End of this chapter)