[Football] Bad Boy Batty

After 30 minutes of the game, the score was still 0-0.

"What is Lingard doing? No one told me he was a BTB midfielder!" After Lingard and Herrera broke his pass for the third time, Batistuta complained to David Silva, "One second I saw him fighting with Niko (Otamendi), and the next second he was behind me. How could this happen!"

"Maybe because Pogba is not here today, he wants to help him complete the task." Sterling on the right took the opportunity to switch positions with Jesus to the middle and replied to Batistuta jokingly, "He has been in good form recently, scoring 2 goals in 3 games."

Batistuta didn't expect anyone to respond to his complaints, but Guardiola shouted at them to get into position and control the ball, so he rolled his eyes, waved his hands, and continued to focus on the game.

In fact, it was not Lingard who annoyed Batty, but De Gea who really made him angry.

Lingard was indeed very active today. He could be seen on both the defensive and offensive ends, but this was far from threatening Batistuta. For example, Manchester City had an opportunity 7 or 8 minutes ago. Batistuta and Silva played a wonderful combination on the left flank to perfectly pass Herrera and Smalling and break into the penalty area. He resisted Lingard and completed a high-quality shot, but De Gea made a miraculous flying save to grab the ball.

David De Gea, a goalkeeper who is not even among the top 5 in the world in Batistuta's opinion, used his superb goal-line skills to make him doubt his life in the past half hour.

To borrow the words of Manchester United fans before, the current Manchester United’s frontcourt is not as beautiful as a painting, and the backcourt is still De Gea.

"Bati! You go to the middle and let Jesus go to the side!" Guardiola waved his hands and said on the sidelines, "They (Manchester United) are man-marking, disrupt them!"

Batistuta couldn't help but roll his eyes at the head coach.

He did not deny Guardiola's ability to arrange tactics, but sometimes he really wanted to know what was going on in his mind. It would be fine if he switched positions between the two sides, but now he was asked to move to the middle to play as a midfielder and center forward. They had only hypothetically raised this possibility on the training ground and had not even done a few more training sessions together.

But Batty listened to him.

Firstly, he is not willing to disobey the coach on the field as the fans have been saying. Guardiola was the core of Barcelona's midfield during the Dream Team I period. He knows what it is like to play on the field and he has predicted many things. For example, he can almost predict every key point on the field.

And then there is——

Batistuta really wanted to know what new tactics his head coach could come up with.

But before he changed position, Manchester City launched an attack from the backcourt. In the 35th minute, Kyle Walker dribbled the ball through the midfield and made a long pass. Batistuta jumped up and stopped the ball with his thigh, then quickly observed the situation on the field, and after cooperating with David Silva through the wall, he passed Herrera and accelerated.

Unfortunately, due to the heavy snow, the grass near the sideline became very slippery. Under the pursuit of Herrera, Valencia and Smalling, Batistuta lost his balance and fell to the ground. Unlike in the past, today he slid a short distance on the grass before stopping. If someone hadn't pulled his jersey with a small gesture while defending, he might have slid even farther.

Batistuta got up and brushed off the grass in disgust. He looked down and saw his jersey was torn. He snorted and said to Valencia and Herrera not far away, "My jersey is 90 pounds. If you want to buy it, you can go to the gift shop. Are you trying to rob me? Sorry, that's not an option."

Herrera was a little angry and wanted to go to Batistuta to argue, but Valencia stopped him. Lingard, who was running all over the field, also came to join in the fun. He pushed his teammates to the field and then looked at Batistuta: "I'm sorry your jersey is torn, but this is the intensity of Manchester United and the Premier League. You should understand."

This ridicule is meaningless. Everyone knows that he conquered the Premier League last season. What kind of strength is that? How dare you talk about strength just because you were knocked over a few times?
Batistuta narrowed his eyes and looked at Lingard. Fortunately, the referee urged him to take the penalty kick, so he didn't continue to make trouble with Lingard.

In the 39th minute, Manchester City kicked the ball out of bounds. David Silva held off Smalling and passed the ball to Fernandinho. Fernandinho took the ball and turned around, deceived Herrera with a fake move, and then passed the ball directly back to Batistuta. Batistuta broke through the encirclement and quickly went to the bottom. Rashford came back to assist in defense and fortunately cleared the ball out of the baseline.

Manchester City gets a corner kick.

Damn it, he should have dribbled the ball inside. If he had, the ball would have definitely gone past. Batistuta kicked the grass in frustration, then walked towards the corner flagpole with the ball in his arms.

"This way, Barty!"

Kompany gestured for him to look at the back post. Batistuta looked up and his eyes met De Bruyne. The Belgian was wandering around Rojo and Ashley Young, looking ready to run.

Oh, I got it.

Batistuta naturally retracted his gaze, then pretended to raise his finger to point forward to disrupt the vision of the Manchester United players, and then unexpectedly kicked the ball with his left foot. The ball came to the back point, De Bruyne drew the attention of the defensive players, Otamendi headed the ball over Kaku, and David Silva shot into the goal in the small penalty area!
1-0! Manchester City leads away from home.

【Beautiful tactical coordination! Before the end of the first half, David Silva stepped up and shot from a close angle. De Gea had no choice. I didn't expect that a team that is good at passing the ball would score from a corner kick, while Manchester United, with a clear advantage in average height, let the opponent take the lead. 】

"Look, this is what Manchester City's intensity is." Batistuta raised his eyebrows at Lingard not far away, gave him a thumbs down, and showed his full sarcasm. Then he shook his hair and ran to his teammates to celebrate.

Lingard looked at the cheerful figure and his face darkened.

However, Manchester City players were happy for less than two minutes as the unreliable defense made a mistake.

In the 46th minute of the first half stoppage time, Manchester United launched a long pass attack from the backcourt. Otamendi headed the ball and it just stopped in Manchester City's penalty area. Delph reacted half a beat slow and failed to control the ball. Rashford inserted at high speed from behind him and faced Ederson, he easily pushed the ball into the far corner.

1-1, Manchester United equalized the score.

Now it was Batty's turn to be embarrassed.

……

The team was tied less than 10 minutes into the lead, or even equalized before the end of the first half. It's easy to imagine what would happen in the locker room during the halftime break. Especially when the goal was related to two mistakes, frustration is certain, and the more serious thing is that a small explosive barrel will explode.

Relatively speaking, Otamendi's mistake was more serious. Delph, who played as a left-back today, did not expect the ball to float in front of him, and he did not have time to expand his defensive area.

After quickly sorting out the cause and effect, Aguero rushed into the locker room and took the lead to drag his fellow Argentine to a less conspicuous position. Otamendi was reluctant. He was already very angry about his mistake and didn't need a child to remind him, but before he could complain to Aguero, Batistuta stormed in.

"Why did you have to head the ball like that, Nico!" Manchester City's Brazilian Rose slammed the door and walked into the locker room. After searching for half a minute, she walked directly in front of Otamendi and started to scold him, not giving Aguero a chance to speak. "Do you think you are a center forward? You feel uncomfortable if you don't head the ball in front of the goal?!"

Otamendi frowned and shook his hands: "I'm trying to clear the ball. It shouldn't be a threatening ball. I want to head it forward and not give a corner kick opportunity."

"You also know that shouldn't be a threatening ball!" Batty's eyes widened. "If you can't handle this kind of overhead ball, just leave it alone. Ederson will handle it. It will be better than what we have now!"

"That's my job, I have to do it!" Otamendi replied angrily, and he took two steps forward. "Take care of yourself, don't come to command the defense, this is not your responsibility, boy."

"But it looks like you didn't do your job, Nico," Batistuta sneered, "and I did it perfectly. You know how our first goal came about."

At this time, De Bruyne also returned to the locker room. Among the players, except Aguero, he was the only one who could calm down the furious Batistuta.

However, De Bruyne did not try to resolve the quarrel between the two. He walked to his seat, drank a few sips of water, then walked over calmly and handed a bottle of water to Batistuta.

Sterling was a little anxious. He pulled De Bruyne over and whispered, "Kevin, aren't you going to do something?"

De Bruyne was unmoved. He saw the whole process of Manchester United's goal. To be honest, Otamendi and Delph should both be held responsible.

In the end, it was Guardiola who returned to the locker room to calm Batistuta down.

"There is no time for quarrels. We are breaking the football record. We have tied the 14-game winning streak held by Arsenal (in the league). If we win this derby, we will become a legend that surpasses Arsenal, a legend!" Guardiola stood in the middle and gave an impassioned speech, "We have to use real football, offensive football to win the game. Hang in there, everyone! It's far from the worst moment. Do you want to be the champion? If you want, you must win this game!"

Batty sat in his seat, head slightly lowered, playing with the edge of his socks while feeling his heartbeat.

He wants to win, he wants to trust his teammates, but...

At this moment, Aguero next to him suddenly reached out and patted Batistuta on the back of his head. The warm feeling pulled him back from the bad vortex in a second. Batistuta turned his head to look at Aguero, who gave him a warm smile.

"I know Nico's mistake was stupid and shouldn't have happened, but what the team needs most at this time is stability." He whispered, "It won't do any good to provoke him. Keep calm, my friend. We are not afraid of Manchester United. We will score in the second half. I believe in you."

Batistuta looked at Aguero for a long time, and finally smiled understandingly. He took Aguero's hand from the back of his neck and patted it, as if to reassure him.

Loach brought him clean socks. "I want to see you do my celebration moves, boss." He teased softly, then raised his fist. "Half-time is over, don't make me wait for another round."

"What celebration?" Aguero asked puzzledly.

Batistuta smiled, bumped fists with Loach, then turned and winked at Aguero.

"You'll find out soon enough," he said. "Don't worry, I don't plan to fight Nico the whole game. I'll score in the second half and let us overtake."

Guardiola saw all of this and his lips curled up with satisfaction.

I really like this kid Batty more and more.

"Come on, everyone! Control the ball, control the situation!" Guardiola clapped his hands to encourage his disciples, "All or nothing, let our neighbors see our true strength!"

……

At the beginning of the second half, the scene became more heated, and the speed of offense and defense conversion was obviously faster than in the first half.

In the 48th minute, Manchester United launched an attack from the backcourt. Ashley Young sent a long pass, again targeting the space behind Otamendi. However, this time Otamendi did not make a mistake. He blocked his position and cooperated with Kompany to take the ball. Lingard wanted to counter-grab it, but Kompany was still experienced and calmly kicked the ball to the frontcourt.

Three minutes later, Manchester City faced the first crisis created by the opponent in this game. De Bruyne was surrounded when he was in control of the ball and accidentally handballed. The referee gave Manchester United a free kick in the frontcourt.

"Don't think about it Kevin, concentrate." Batty squeezed De Bruyne with his elbow when lining up the wall. The Belgian looked quite annoyed by the free kick. "We all know you didn't mean it."

"You didn't say so much when I made so many mistakes in the first half," Otamendi squeezed next to him and teased.

"Shut up, people who make mistakes have no right to speak." Batty ordered in a joking tone, "And Kevin didn't cause the goal."

Otamendi muttered something disdainful, then pinched Batistuta's waist with a vengeance.

Batty: "Hey! You rascal!"

"Come on, stop it, it's a free kick." Kompany stepped forward to stop them. In order to prevent the ball from rolling, the Manchester City captain asked Delph to lie behind the human wall. "Get nervous, we haven't got 3 points yet."

Herrera took the free kick, and he seemed to want to shoot directly, so he stepped back several steps and volleyed the ball with great force. The ball failed to pass through the wall, and bounced off Batistuta's shoulder. Lingard grabbed the ball and tried a long shot from outside the penalty area, but the ball flew over the goal range and into the audience.

"Handball! Sir, he blocked it with his hand!" The Manchester United players surrounded the referee and gave feedback, "That was a foul, you should have given him a card!"

Batty sneered: "That's my fucking shoulder. You didn't kick it, so you blame me?"

Of course, the referee ultimately ignored the Manchester United players' request.

In the 58th minute, the score remained 0-0.

Manchester City's midfielder intercepted the ball and launched an attack. David Silva and De Bruyne cooperated to pull the defense line. De Bruyne passed the ball to Walker who came in. Walker dribbled the ball to the bottom and made a wall pass with Sterling. Sterling dribbled the ball but failed to break through Ashley Young's defense.

The ball came to Manchester United.

But just then, the referee blew the timeout whistle and someone was injured.

"What's wrong?" Batistuta came back from the center position and pulled Jesus to ask. He saw someone in red clothes lying on the ground, "Did anyone commit a foul?"

Jesus shook his head: "No, Herrera hurt himself, it has nothing to do with us."

In the 61st minute, Manchester United midfielder Herrera suffered a knee injury and Mourinho was forced to make an early substitution.

Batistuta went to the sidelines to get a bottle of water to moisten his mouth, and listened to Guardiola's tactical instructions to D-Si. But before he had listened for a few seconds, he saw a familiar figure walking down from Manchester United's bench and starting to warm up urgently.

Oh shit.

The figure quickly noticed Batistuta. Augustus, wearing the No. 17 jersey of Manchester United, grinned at him and waved: "Hi, long time no see."

Barty rolled his eyes.

Is Manchester United out of people? Why let a guy from the youth training camp, who has never played in the Premier League, come on as a substitute on Derby Day? What is Mourinho thinking?

Obviously Guardiola did not guess what his old rival was thinking. He put his hands in his pockets and started a heated discussion with Arteta. The focus of the discussion was naturally the player whose ability information did not even fill up an entire A4 paper.

"Honestly, I'm not surprised at all that he showed up, but I didn't expect him to make his debut in this game," Arteta said, spreading his hands. "He's the boss of Manchester United now, at least in name, and he's done well in the youth team. Even if Mourinho is crazy and doesn't like to use new players, he will treat him a little bit better."

“This is just nonsense.” Guardiola exhaled, and then told Jesus to tell them not to panic, and to follow our rehearsal. Retract the defensive moves and test first.”

[…It’s really unexpected. Mourinho took a risky move. This is Augustus de Rothschild’s first-team debut. Although there is no suitable substitute for Herrera on the bench at Manchester United, the score is 1-1 and there are nearly 30 minutes left. Anything can happen. Substitute a new player…]

A wave of puzzled questioning rang out over Old Trafford.

Of course, Mourinho didn't care about them. He asked Augustus to come to his side to make arrangements. Half a minute later, the ball was dead, and the fourth official raised the sign for substitutions. No. 17 Augustus replaced No. 21 Herrera and started his debut at the Theatre of Dreams.

"Don't hesitate when scrambling for the ball, that guy likes to use force." Batty found De Bruyne, "I met him in the World Youth Championship. His footwork is okay, but he's not fast and doesn't do many fake moves. If he wants to break through, just kick and intercept him."

"understood."

……

But it seemed that this Augustus came onto the field with the aura of a savior.

In the 67th minute, he made a fierce tackle on David Silva in the backcourt to regain the ball. The referee did not think it was a foul. Manchester United launched a quick counterattack. Batistuta returned all the way from the front midfielder to the front of the penalty area. Then, he watched Augustus turn around in front of him and hook the ball away, then stopped to adjust, and the ball flew towards the blind corner of Manchester City's goal.

[2-1! Oh my god, I can't believe it, Marseille turn! Manchester United's new boss helped the team overtake the score in the 8th minute of his debut! ] Old Trafford was boiling, and the fans cheered and celebrated.

Maybe some people thought they would score a goal, but no one expected it to be scored in this way, at this time, by a newcomer in a solo performance.

"See? I told you I worked hard to catch up with you." After scoring the goal, Augustus did not celebrate with his teammates. He walked directly to Batistuta and raised his chin to show off, "I doubt what you said now. Isn't that how football works?"

Is that it?
Batti almost couldn't control himself. Just as he clenched his back teeth, he saw the figure of Loach over Augustus' shoulder.

His good friend and follower seemed to have snatched a flag from Manchester City fans and was waving it vigorously at him. On the flag was a corner of the Manchester City logo, and in the middle was an illustration of all the players waving their arms and shouting, with a sentence written next to it: Together, we are invincible.

Batistuta raised a smile and looked into the eyes of Manchester United's No. 17 again. "You will never understand football, Augustus." This was the first time he called him by his name seriously. "You don't love it. You just want to use football to trample me under your feet. I tell you, your goal will never be achieved."

How can a guy who doesn't love football at all, who doesn't get excited about every pass and every confrontation and whose blood boils and heart beats wildly, win the game?

Batty looked at the loach from a distance, and the black boy was still waving it hard.

What's more, he still owes a promise.

……

Augustus didn't understand what Batistuta said, or rather, he didn't care. In his opinion, football was like a precision instrument, and as long as he studied it carefully, he would eventually understand it thoroughly.

So in the 75th minute, Augustus wanted to repeat the same trick, but this time his savior halo didn't work, and he underestimated his opponent.

Batistuta retreated to defend and Kompany double-teamed him. Augustus didn't want to pass the ball, so in a one-on-one situation with Batistuta, he was fooled by Batistuta's fake defensive move to the left. When he got the ball and turned around to spin, Batistuta blocked his position and Kompany kicked him to disrupt his move.

"Kevin!"

Before Manchester United's defense could get in place, Batistuta dribbled the ball with his left foot to create distance between himself and Augustus, and then without wasting a second, he passed the ball accurately to De Bruyne in the front rib. De Bruyne observed the situation and chose to shoot directly.

De Gea has excellent goal-line skills, but he could do nothing about this world-class goal. He jumped a step too late and could only watch the ball with regret.

In the 76th minute of the second half, De Bruyne scored a wonderful world wave from 23 yards to help Manchester City equalize the score.

2-2, both sides are back to the same starting line.

"Look, you'll never catch up with me."

The strong will always be strong, but football is always a team sport. Batistuta gave the stunned Augustus a fake smile, then turned around with disdain and ran towards his goal scorer.

"Nice shot Kevin! I can't think of any adjective other than perfect!" Batistuta hugged De Bruyne's face and gave him a big kiss on the forehead, then raised his right arm and shouted to his teammates who came to celebrate: "Come on! Keep going! We - don't accept - a draw!"

……

In the last 10 minutes of the game, the game reached a white-hot stage. Players on both sides were a little impatient and conflicts of varying sizes continued. The fans in the stands were not idle either. After singing "Glory Glory Man United" at home, Manchester City fans sang the sarcastic "Bus Song", and it eventually escalated into throwing things at each other.

By the 81st minute, the derby atmosphere reached its climax.

Lingard fell down after a steal in the penalty area. The referee determined that he was diving and showed him a yellow card, but Lingard was particularly dissatisfied. He followed the referee and tried to explain that he fell to the ground because Otamendi tripped him.

"Diving! Fake fall! Your yellow card is not unjustified!" Batistuta took the opportunity to add insult to injury. He gave the referee a thumbs up and said, "I take back what I said in the first half. You are a fair referee. You must not tolerate such performance-oriented things!"

No matter what the truth is, the referee has the final say on the field.

Batistuta shrugged and raised his eyebrows at the jumping Lingard, then returned to his position. He still had to score goals and fulfill his promise to the team.

In the 84th minute, the opportunity came.

Ashley Young brought down Jesus on the edge of the penalty area and Manchester City got a free kick.

The location is excellent and anyone can come and have a try.

Several people gathered in front of the penalty spot.

De Bruyne wiped the snow off the surface of the ball with his jersey and asked, "Who wants to come?"

"I feel good." Batty licked the corner of his mouth, "Let me do it."

No one raised any objections, and De Bruyne nodded, but just as he was about to pass the ball to Batistuta, Batistuta refused. He had a brilliant idea for this free kick. Although the head coach might not agree, after all, it was the end of the game, and he shouldn't treat it so lightly, but -

"What's wrong?" De Bruyne asked. "Do you want to play mind games?"

Batty nodded.

"Don't let them know who's going to take the free throws. Let's do a little movie." He said, "Kevin, David, can you guys pretend to have an internal conflict in front of me, a dispute over the right to take free throws?"

Seat D:?

"I really feel great, this ball will definitely go in." Batty assured, "If you guys act more realistically, I will enjoy watching it and my accuracy will be higher."

Seat D: ???

"Just playing." De Bruyne tapped his forehead, "Okay, I can pretend to be dissatisfied and help you attract the defense's attention."

David Silva looked over in disbelief: "Kevin!"

"It's okay, if Batistuta feels good, let him do it." De Bruyne said and called Jesus again, intending to put on a wonderful show, and then he cleared his throat, "The bet is on you, Batistuta, if you don't score this goal, we will be on a funny highlight, so--"

"Got it, it won't go wrong."

……

The atmosphere in Manchester United's wall was tense at this time. This angle was really bad for them. If they were not careful, they would concede a goal.

"Keep an eye on Kevin. I know him. If he takes this ball, it will be a big trouble." Lukaku and Valencia next to him linked their arms and tried their best to make the first barrier in front of their own goal stronger. "And he just scored a goal--"

"No, no, I think it will be Silva," Matic said. "Have you forgotten how he scored against us when we were at Chelsea a few years ago? Silva is a killer in this position."

"I think they might give that kid a try," Rojo chimed in. "Bati's got a pretty good curveball, doesn't he?"

"Yes, he is good at this." Augustus praised.

"No way, it's almost over, they will take the risk?" Matic retorted, "I don't think so."

[beep——]
When the penalty whistle sounded, Manchester United players instantly focused their attention on the penalty spot in front of them, but what they didn't expect was that Manchester City seemed to have a dispute over who would take the penalty.

De Bruyne and Silva yelled at each other, then Jesus joined in and the three of them started pushing each other.

Lukaku: “They are…”

However, the next second, the three people who were fighting suddenly dispersed, and Batistuta shot at the same time.

Manchester United Wall: !!!
At this moment, everyone (except the three people who were arguing with each other and Batty) roared in unison in their hearts.

It’s already this time, and you still dare to play this game!

however--

【The ball went in! Manchester City staged a wonderful internal strife drama to confuse the audience. Batistuta scored directly from the free kick, and De Gea didn't even have time to make a save! 3-2! This is a decisive victory! 】

Guardiola, who was about to get angry on the sidelines, changed his expression in a second. The speed of his expression change was amazing. He did not hide his excitement at all and jumped up to celebrate with his assistant coach.

"Hahaha, see! What did I say?"

After scoring the goal, Batistuta ran to the sidelines with his arms open, not caring about the pain from the snowflakes hitting his face. He fell on the grass by inertia and then on the grass, he once again surprised everyone with a, uh... strange celebration.

[What is Batistuta going to do? Has he come up with some new and novel way to celebrate? ] the commentator joked.

The fans in front of the TV and the fans at the scene are equally looking forward to it.

Then they saw Batty motionless, as if time had stopped, lying straight on the grass. Just when people were puzzled, he first arched his waist, knelt on the ground, brought his knees and elbows as close as possible, and then used his back muscles to drive his upper limbs forward, and then repeated the process.

The whole set of movements is just like a bug crawling in a cartoon.

"That's me! See? It's me!" Loach was extremely excited. He waved a flag and loudly introduced Batistuta's celebration to the people around him. "That belongs to me! Loach, my logo! See? That's the best boss in the world!"

Amid the boos of Manchester United fans, Batistuta stood up and gave a thumbs up to the loach in the stands with half of his face red from the cold grass.

See, I did it.

……

Thanks to Batistuta's winning goal, Manchester City defeated Manchester United 3-2 away and won the derby, widening the points gap with the second place to 15 points, ending Manchester United's 40-game unbeaten streak at home across the season and breaking Arsenal's 14-game winning streak in the Premier League.

What they are going to challenge next is the 19-game winning streak in football held by Bayern Munich. Of course, this was also set when Guardiola was in charge.

Manchester City fans sang again, they sang Batistuta's song over and over again. Against this background, the losing Manchester United players looked a little lonely.

And in the box at Old Trafford, there was an unexpected VIP.

"Is it really okay to let Augustus lose like this, sir?" A man in a suit who looked to be in his thirties handed a cup of tea to the old man next to him. "Although he is not the heir to the family, his public appearance is bound to cause controversy."

The old man took the tea and drank it slowly.

He is the current head of the Rothschild family and Augustus’ grandfather.

"I think this is a good idea," he said. "Augustus has been arrogant since he was young. He has no rivals in anything he does. Now there is finally someone who can always surpass him in a field he is not familiar with. Why should we stop him?"

"but……"

"Stop talking, that's it." The old man put down his teacup and resolutely ended the topic. "Let's go back to France. Don't let the media know that I was here."

"Yes, sir."

……

At the same time, there was a crazy celebration in the Manchester City locker room. Ederson opened a bottle of champagne and sprinkled it on everyone, but most of the bottle fell on himself. A group of people, together with the coaching staff, almost turned the away locker room of the Theatre of Dreams into a night party.

"Change the song, change the song!" Batty, wearing sunglasses that he had snatched from someone, holding a half-carton of milk, jumped all the way to the speakers at the door. "Someone sent me a demo a few days ago, and it sounded great!"

As the scorer, naturally no one stopped him, so Brazilian music played at a very loud volume in the locker room.

Ederson's eyes lit up, he jumped off the table and squeezed next to Batistuta, but before he opened his mouth to ask which musician's masterpiece it was, the door of the locker room was opened forcefully.

Unfortunately, the metal handle hit Batistuta's waist, and he stumbled and fell into Ederson's arms, smelling of champagne.

"Hey, watch out!"

Batty steadied the milk and turned around to complain. He thought it was some overly excited staff member, but when he turned around, he saw an unexpected face -

"Mourinho? What are you doing here?"

Mourinho, who is known as a madman, had a dark face and looked at Batistuta with gritted teeth.

No, he looked at everyone with gritted teeth.

"Turn off your noisy speakers! I can hear them from down the hall!" the madman yelled, "You won, but this is our home court, show some respect! Otherwise I'll smash that stupid speaker!"

Batty raised an eyebrow.

What? Are you unwilling to come and mess things up?
(End of this chapter)