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Chapter 2092: Chapter 542: Our Club Has Collapsed

The Ibrahimovic who’d been singled out by Guardiola in the previous tactical meeting delivered a hat-trick, Messi grabbed both a goal and an assist, and Milan thrashed the home side 5–0.

Huang Kaiwen noticed a problem.

In the past, Guardiola didn’t take him to away games.

Now, Guardiola still didn’t take him to away games.

Messi was being used by Guardiola as a "small-sized" Yellow Ball King.

It’s just that he wasn’t being used quite so cautiously.

Thinking that Messi probably also wanted to play more, Huang Kaiwen decided not to tell Messi about this.

Guardiola was happy, Messi was happy—wasn’t that a win–win? The Yellow Ball King, who didn’t even need to go to away games to win matches, had actually won twice!

In the second leg that had the whole world watching.

Milan, back at home, cruised to a 3–0 win over Barca and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

At this point all the teams in the last eight had been decided; they were: Real Madrid, Marseille, Chelsea, Milan, Benfica, Apoel from Greece, Bayern and Arsenal.

The discussion in the dressing room about the draw was pretty heated.

But Huang Kaiwen figured the next opponent would either be Real Madrid or Chelsea—it had to be one of his two former clubs.

What he didn’t expect was that Milan actually drew Arsenal.

van Persie’s old club.

He really had no idea what the Professor would be thinking.

Seeing Fabregas and Barca knocked out, the Professor was probably a bit comforted.

But after drawing Milan, you had to believe the Professor’s mood wouldn’t stay good.

A few days later back at home, Huang Kaiwen came on as a substitute and scored a hat-trick in five minutes, as Milan smashed Lecce by six at home.

Parma, up next, couldn’t stop Milan’s march either.

Because of the UEFA Champions League, Guardiola made a pretty heavy rotation for the match against Rome on the 24th.

De Bruyne, handed a place in the starting lineup, lit up the pitch, directly creating two goals to help Milan edge Rome 2–1 at home.

Guardiola had already shifted his main focus to the UEFA Champions League.

Arsenal had also been preparing in advance for this match.

At the post-match press conference after playing Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arsenal manager Wenger said: "We’re all very happy Robin is coming back to London, I think he’ll get the applause he deserves. But once the whistle blows, we’re enemies, we won’t show any mercy, we’ll do everything we can to beat him and his team.

"In the 07/08 season we faced AC Milan, they were a very strong team and we were eliminated. Now, times have changed, both teams have improved a lot, and for us, tomorrow night is a great chance for revenge. I hope the players don’t fall into their rhythm, they have to play our own style. As long as the lads perform well, we can beat any team in the world."

While they were eating in the hotel room, Ramos watched the Professor’s comments on TV and said with a laugh, "Wenger seems to say this kind of thing every time."

"What else can he do?"

Huang Kaiwen explained, "Of course he knows it’s going to be tough, but a coach can’t say that kind of thing. Mr. Wenger built Arsenal a stadium, and still keeping this level of competitiveness is already not easy."

"I’m not trying to put him down, it just feels like whenever he faces a strong team, what he says is always about the same."

Ramos curled his lip as he spoke.

Huang Kaiwen smiled and shook his head.

The Professor really did have a nature that refused to admit defeat.

If he truly was satisfied with just fighting for fourth, Arsenal could never have stayed competitive this long.

You could only say that finishing fourth every season was a bit of a coincidence, and another thing was that Arsenal’s squad depth was what it was—fourth place was already their limit.

Other aspects also involved a bit of luck.

Like in Leicester City’s title-winning season, you couldn’t exactly say their squad depth was great either.

But injuries and all kinds of on- and off-field factors were crucial.

If, midway through the season, a key player got himself involved in a lawsuit—that kind of thing happens all the time.

In Leicester City’s title season there really weren’t many surprises.

"Kevin!"

"Kevin!"

"Kevin!"

The fans outside kept shouting at the top of their lungs.

Huang Kaiwen stood by the window and took a look.

Ramos said worriedly, "You’d better not go out there, who knows what they might do."

"Relax, they’re just fans, not terrorists."

Huang Kaiwen said.

The number of fans outside the hotel kept growing.

If nobody calmed them down, their enthusiasm would end up affecting the Milan players’ rest.

With the Golden Prison Award, he wasn’t afraid of any problems at all.

Seeing that Huang Kaiwen wouldn’t listen to his advice, Ramos had no choice but to go out with him.

Boom—

As the two of them walked out of the hotel, the fans instantly erupted.

Early spring in London was still below zero, but even that couldn’t dampen their passion.

"Saint Kevin!!!"

"Saint Kevin!!!"

"Saint Kevin!!!"

The fans were crazily shouting his name.

Huang Kaiwen also noticed a few young fans holding up hand-written signs that read: Thank you for saving my life.

One look and he knew these were the kids from that school bus.

Thinking about it was kind of funny.

London had previously been a city with a whole lot of Manchester United fans.

Even Carragher had joked about this on a show.

Now there was also a huge number of Milan Fans in London.

Maybe it was because this city had so many rich people from all over the world.

Huang Kaiwen’s appearance had the hotel’s security on edge, afraid the fans would suddenly surge up the steps and tackle him.

Fortunately, they were still fairly rational.

Without any loudspeakers, Huang Kaiwen just shouted, "Thank you all so much for your passion, it’s made March in London no longer cold. Over the next few days we all have to prepare for the match against Arsenal, so I hope you can head home early for dinner, and then support us at the stadium or in front of your TVs."