After defeating AC Milan, Fly successfully completed the system mission and bonus mission, directly earning 300 intermediate soft rice points and 100 advanced soft rice points.
In addition, Fly also obtained a skill and a Champions League limited item card.
[Professional Face Slapping for a Hundred Years: When the opponent engages in pre-match provocations, contempt, predicting victory, and a series of behaviors that look down on the host or the host's team, the host's shooting accuracy in the next match increases by 30%, dribbling success rate increases by 30%, passing success rate increases by 30%, aerial duel success rate increases by 30%, and confrontation success rate increases by 30%. There is also a 30% chance that the abilities of the opposing player who engaged in the contemptuous behavior will be halved in this match, and their error rate will increase by 50%.]
[PS. If the person engaging in the contemptuous behavior is not a player, then the opponent's star player's abilities will be defaulted to being halved, and their error rate will increase by 50%.]
When Fly saw this skill, he was speechless, his mouth gaping as if he had stuffed an egg in it...
Because this skill was simply too awesome!
It directly made Fly stronger on a probabilistic level.
And it could also cause the opposing players to suffer a backlash, which was simply too exaggerated...
Fly now hoped that in future matches, especially important ones, the opposing team's players, preferably their star players, would stand up and belittle him, Fly, or Arsenal a few times.
Only then could Fly's skill be triggered.
Of course, if it was some mouthpiece, coach, executive, agent, or the like who came out to provoke, Fly would welcome it even more...
After all, the skill clearly stated that if a player did not personally come out to provoke, it would default to directly halving the opponent's star player's abilities.
What kind of concept was this?
Just think about it...
Assuming Arsenal played a match against Real Madrid, and then Real Madrid's famous die-hard fan Roncero came out with his foul mouth before the match, the consequence would be that Cristiano Ronaldo would be directly rendered useless in that match...
You have to know, this was halving a player's abilities.
For example, Cristiano Ronaldo's shooting stat was around 95, so after being halved, it would directly be only a little over 40.
What kind of concept was a shooting stat of a little over 40?
To put it bluntly, it was the level of a semi-professional player...
Directly taking the shooting attribute of a superstar who was among the best in the world football today and reducing it to that of a semi-professional player, this level of weakening could be said to directly render Cristiano Ronaldo useless...
Similarly, if Arsenal played against Barcelona, and the media in Catalonia provoked, then Messi would also be directly rendered useless during the match against Arsenal.
If it weren't for the 30% probability limitation on this premise, Fly could directly predict that all future championships would be his.
After all, directly disabling the opponent's strongest player was simply too abnormal...
You must know one thing: top clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona will definitely launch a media offensive before a match.
And to conduct a media offensive, it is inevitable that they will belittle Arsenal or Arsenal's players.
That is to say, [Professional Face Slapping for a Hundred Years] will be triggered almost 100%.
Unless Arsenal plays against some weak teams, in which case there might indeed be no pre-match predictions or belittling.
But here's the problem... Arsenal doesn't need this skill when playing against these weak teams!
Therefore, the strength of the skill [Professional Face Slapping for a Hundred Years] lies in the fact that it almost only works in matches where Arsenal is not guaranteed to win, and Fly only needs to use this skill in those matches.
This directly formed a repeating cycle, which was also the BUG of this skill.
At the same time, Fly also obtained a Champions League limited item card—
[Item Name: Champions League Champion Killer]
[Item Restriction: Only effective when facing a team that has previously won the Champions League.]
[Item Effect: When facing a team against which this item can be used, one's own strength is greatly enhanced, and a goal is guaranteed to be scored within 180 minutes.]
Fly was quite satisfied with the effect of this item card...
After all, Fly had always adhered to the principle of "the more the better" for items and skills that could directly enhance his own abilities.
Especially since this item directly involved a conceptual level domain, which was a guaranteed goal within 180 minutes.
This meant that except for the final, a goal was guaranteed in all other knockout matches.
Of course, that special knockout stage in 2019-2020 was another matter...
Except for that knockout stage, Fly basically had a guaranteed goal when playing against Champions League strong teams at other times.
After all, among the teams that could become strong teams in the Champions League, how many had not won the Champions League?
Atletico Madrid under Simeone counts as one.
Guardiola's Manchester City before 2023 counts as one.
Paris Saint-Germain after the oil tycoons took over counts as one.
Today's Arsenal and Chelsea also count as one...
All in all, it was just these teams.
And among the teams Fly was currently facing, only today's Blues, Chelsea, were not within the scope of this item card's applicability.
The others, whether it was Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, or Paris, had not yet risen today.
Thinking of this, Fly increasingly felt that this year's Champions League, who else but him?
...
February 24th.
Arsenal welcomed the rescheduled match of the eighteenth round of the Premier League, hosting the visiting Stoke City at their home ground, Emirates Stadium.
Perhaps it was the one-week gap since the last match that caused Arsenal's players to be a bit cold-footed in this game.
Apart from Fly's curling shot from inside the small box in the 8th minute, which resulted in a goal, Arsenal had no further achievements in this match.
1:0, Arsenal played a very economical and practical match.
After this match, Fly's total number of goals reached 48, just two steps away from the 50-goal mark.
And after this match, Fly would usher in the first final of his professional career.
That is, the English League Cup final against Birmingham at Wembley Stadium on February 28th.
Fly had never played in any English League Cup match in his professional career.
It was equivalent to purely relying on his teammates to reach the final.
But when it came to the final, Wenger would definitely go for the trophy.
So Fly, the team's ultimate weapon, was also put into the starting lineup.
After all, there were still 5 days until the next Premier League match in the 29th round, so Fly had ample time to adjust and rest.
Since this match was the first final of Fly's professional career, and he would likely lift the trophy at Wembley Stadium,
Taylor postponed her trip back to the United States, preparing to witness her boyfriend's first career title in person.
After all, the opponent in the English League Cup final was the relatively unknown Birmingham, and even Taylor, who didn't understand football, thought Arsenal had basically guaranteed this championship.
Regarding this, Fly muttered in his heart:
"Luckily I'm not a Birmingham player, otherwise Arsenal might really not be able to win this match..."
Fly no longer remembered the result of this match in his previous life, but that wasn't important, because no matter what the result of this match was in his previous life, with his presence in this life, Arsenal winning against Birmingham and securing the English League Cup championship was completely effortless!
...
February 28th.
Fly and his teammates rode the team bus and drove into Wembley Stadium.
Looking at this largest stadium in the United Kingdom, which could accommodate a full ninety thousand people, Fly couldn't help but think in his heart:
"If nothing unexpected happens... I will be visiting this stadium frequently in the future."
Fly knew very well that the stadium before him was the home ground of the England National Team.
After Fly joined the England National Team, this stadium would also be considered his half-home ground.
He glanced at Walcott and Wilshere beside him, and from their accustomed eyes, it could be seen that they didn't have any special feelings for this world-famous stadium...
After all, these two were important members of the current England National Team, and the number of times they had been to Wembley was probably second only to Emirates Stadium.
No matter how good a place was, if you came too many times, you wouldn't feel much anymore.
Looking at the roaring sea of fans around him, Fly secretly swore in his heart:
"The first championship in my life starts here..."
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