The Midfield Master

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On July 30, 2015, the Premier League powerhouse Everton was on an away game. When they played against the little-known Danish team Midtjylland, they were beaten passively and lost 1-2.

Such news shocked the entire English football world, and the media criticized Everton one after another, and various criticisms followed.

In recent years, the English team has performed poorly in the European arena, and the points in the European war have almost been caught up by the fourth-ranked Italian team.

If the European War points drop to fourth, the Premier League's Champions League seats will be reduced from four to three. This is undoubtedly a huge loss for the commercialized Premier League.

The Premier League teams Liverpool and West Ham United, who are in the Europa League qualifying match like Everton, both won the first round of this round of competition, so the spearhead of the entire public opinion is directed at Everton .

Especially the local newspapers and media in Liverpool, those who tend to the Liverpool team, even criticize Everton, picking out Everton players one by one and criticizing them. In their mouths, there is almost no Everton Players deserve such a high salary.

Under the guidance of public opinion, officials of the Football Association also came out to make remarks, hoping that the teams representing England in the European arena can show a serious attitude and perform well enough.

The spearhead of this kind of talk is obviously directed at Everton, because of the three Premier League teams in this round, Everton lost.

When these public opinions emerged, the Everton players were still on the return plane.

In the eyes of Everton's players and coaches, although they lost the game, they at least scored an away goal. And the strength of the opponent is not very strong, but the Everton players are a little bit at a loss when facing the fireworks in the opponent's stadium, which makes the opponent score two consecutive goals in the first half.

After returning to their home court, they have enough confidence to reverse the game and eliminate their opponents.

So although the players are unhappy, they will not be very pessimistic.

After returning to the UK, the team gave the players a day off to relax a little and relieve the pressure of the game.

Because Wang Xiaolin is still in China, Xia Ze can only go to the supermarket to buy food by himself.

When he appeared in the supermarket in plain clothes, he found that the advert for Nike endorsement outside the supermarket was surrounded by a group of workers trying to unload it.

"Uncle, didn't this ad just go up last week, why did it get removed?" Xia Ze was wearing a hat and mask, not worried about being recognized by the other party.

The uncle who was instructing the workers to replace the advertisement glanced at Xia Ze, curled his lips and said, "It's not that Everton lost the game. Now the whole of England is criticizing them. If they still put their advertisements, it will only arouse people's disgust." , so our manager asked us to change quickly.”

After talking to Xia Ze, he replaced the ad with Liverpool's new captain Jordan Henderson.

Seeing that his ad was replaced by a rival player, Xia Ze felt quite uncomfortable, so he could only curl his lips and walk into the supermarket.

After buying something casually, the cashier stared at Xia Ze with wide eyes at the checkout, making Xia Ze uncomfortable.

"Are you Xia Ze?" the young cashier asked.

"Please pay the bill." Xia Ze didn't respond, and urged the other party to pay the bill.

If it was normal, Xia Ze would generously admit his identity. He knew that most of the people in this supermarket were Everton fans, so he didn't have to worry about meeting Liverpool fans and being ridiculed by them.

But today I don't know why, but Xia Ze didn't choose to admit it, but talked about other things.

"You are Xia Ze!" The young cashier opened his eyes wide and gave himself the answer.

Without waiting for Xia Ze to speak, he continued: "I heard that you were all threatened by the opponent, that's why you played so badly. Is it true?"

In his eyes, there was a great longing for Xia Ze to nod and admit.

But Xia Ze knew that things like being threatened for safety and eating the wrong food were all fabricated by the media. There was only one reason for their loss, the inability to adapt to the away game environment, and being defeated by the opponent who was more focused on dealing with the game.

Xia Ze didn't want to deceive himself, but he also didn't want to just leave in silence.

"At home we will win the game and eliminate them."

Xia Ze just left such a sentence indifferently, and left the supermarket with the items.

On the way back, Xia Ze also passed a newsstand. At this time, there were posters on the newsstand, all of which were posters of Liverpool players celebrating, and on the other side were dejected photos of Everton players.

Among the newspapers on newsstands, many newspaper headlines are shocking, basically related to Liverpool and Everton.

"Liverpool slaughtered the underdogs at home, and the promotion is certain!"

"Succeeding Gerrard, Henderson will become the soul of Liverpool's new team!"

"Everton lost to Denmark and lost to a kid's team!"

"What kind of team is this? I've never heard of it, but Everton lost!"

"Day of shame! Everton players don't deserve to play in the Premier League."

"It's more embarrassing than losing to an amateur team. Will Everton fight for relegation this year?"

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Seeing these headlines, if Xia Ze wasn't the person involved, I'm afraid he would also want to scold the Everton players.

What kind of stuff is this? It's a shame to throw it abroad.

...

During the training the next day, Xia Ze drove to the training base. After half a year, he finally passed the license plate test and could drive to the training by himself.

When he appeared outside the training base, he found that both sides of the road were surrounded by reporters. Once a luxury car passed by, he would keep pressing the shutter to capture the expression of every player.

In their opinion, what should Everton feel after their humiliating defeat (in fact, they only lost by one goal).

If some exception is caught, then that's news.

But when Xia Ze drove by, those reporters took the initiative to get out of the way and let Xia Ze pass by. None of them picked up their cameras and pressed the shutter.

Maybe they didn't notice that the person sitting in this ordinary family car turned out to be Everton's popular fried chicken last season, the super popular Xia Ze from China.

In their eyes, those who drive such an ordinary car to the training base are either ordinary coaches, or middle- and low-level team managers. In short, they cannot be Premier League players with extremely high salaries.

Xia Ze escaped a catastrophe because of this.

But the next day, he was found to be the headline in the newspaper.

"Infighting! Xia Ze is absent from training!"

The "Sun" broke a big news with this headline.

And the reason why there was such news was because Xia Ze did not appear in their reporter's camera.

Looking at this dumbfounding news headline, Xia Ze could only smile wryly.

What kind of stuff is this British media all about?