The most low-key superstar

Chapter 49
After the game, Nickell caused some controversy.

Some football critics put forward a point of view, "Nickel replaced Carrick last season, from a winger to the most defensive player, showing his comprehensiveness, consolidating Tottenham's defense and making Tottenham's results stable. Well, at that time, Nickle became the core of Tottenham's defense. After Carrick came back, he squeezed Nickle to the wing. Nickle used his outstanding performance to put Tottenham on the fast track. The winning rate was greatly improved and locked Champions League places, looking at those few games, we can clearly see that Nichols almost instigated most of the goals, he has been infinitely close to the core of tactics, after the start of this season, we can directly draw conclusions, although Mr. Hoddle did not admit it, but Nicole is the absolute core of Tottenham. '

This point of view has been recognized by many people. Mr. Hoddle himself did not expect that someone would raise the question of Nichol’s status, but he really didn’t consider who to establish as the core. Now it seems that Nichol himself has already achieved the goal with his outstanding performance. This foundation was laid, so Hoddle, who is kind and kind, admitted this point of view vaguely when he was interviewed, "Every one of us is the core, and Nicole has put in more efforts, and his sense of responsibility is increasing."

The fans have already recognized Nichols, they like Nichols very much, otherwise Nichols' jersey would not be the most sold in Tottenham. Whenever there is a game, the number of fans wearing the No. 21 jersey is the most.

The Tottenham players were noncommittal about this statement. Anyway, Nichol didn't ask for anything, and he was always so low-key and calm, so no one raised any objections.

Amidst the discussions among the experts, Tottenham came to Hamburg and started their Champions League journey.

However, Tottenham's first Champions League game is not easy. This season's Hamburg has gathered players such as van der Vaart, Olic, Sorin, Boateng, etc., and Tottenham, who has been exhausted, and just had a big battle with Manchester United, Therefore, Tottenham entered the state very slowly in this game, and Hamburg, which is at home, launched a large-scale attack on Tottenham from the beginning. Including Nickel, Tottenham fell into a hard defense.

When he came into contact with the German team for the first time, Nikkor felt a big difference. Hamburg gave Nikkor the impression of a well-organized machine, squeezing you everywhere, and Hamburg, who has studied Tottenham seriously, Two people were sent to defend against Nicole, trying to cut off Nicole's line of receiving the ball, so Tottenham's offense was not smooth in the first half, which led to Tottenham falling behind before the end of the first half.

Van der Vaart assisted Olic to use Tottenham to press the attack and scored a goal when the defense was empty.

Facing the team's passive situation, Hoddle had no good solution. He first adjusted the striker and replaced Defoe with Berbatov. Defoe had lost himself in the opponent's muscle forest.

In the next game, facing the opponent's key care, Nickell began to make changes. First, he strengthened his running, retreated his position, increased his position to hold the ball, reduced the breakthrough with the ball, and used fast Play the ball to break Hamburg's multi-person defense, and use long passes to mobilize Hamburg's defense.Nickell's change gradually reversed Tottenham's unfavorable situation.

In the 80th minute of the game, the score was still 1:0, and Tottenham were still behind. Nickel blocked the opponent's attack with a tackle, stood up and passed the ball directly to Lennon. Lennon on the field showed his ferocious fangs, and broke through the defense of the opponent's two players in a row. He didn't use any fancy moves, just moved the ball forward, and then started chasing it. He ran faster than him, so he broke through the opponent's defense, and Nichol followed closely, but his position had already run to the middle. Lennon swung his right leg and passed a ball with a large arc. Berbatov earned a point, but he didn't have a chance to shoot, because the opponent's two defenders were interfering with him. Berbatov had to head back and hoped that his teammates would follow. Although Nichol caught up with his left foot, he had no time to adjust. Nichol had to use his left foot to hit the bottom of the ball. The ball went into the net, and the goalkeeper hardly responded. Nichol was too powerful.

Nickel, who scored the goal, was very happy. He ran to the fans' stands of the visiting team to celebrate the goal with the fans who accompanied the team on the expedition.

In the short time left, the Tottenham players withstood the opponent's indiscriminate bombing and struggled to keep the tie. After the game, Nickel felt very lucky. The spurs don't know if they can hold on.

Nickel, who rushed back to London late at night, was rarely tired. The excitement of scoring in the Champions League was gone. Lying on the bed, Nicole thought about his experience over the past year. Many things made him inexplicable. Since then, the smooth sailing has made me a little carried away. In the first half of the game against Hamburg, I felt helpless in the first half, and I was embarrassed to keep the tie. With this luck, my goal is to be a professional player, and now I have achieved it, but is my pursuit really just to be a professional player?The newspaper says that he is a core, but what should a core be like?

Nicole, unable to sleep, called Paul.

"Damn it, Nicole, do you know what time it is? If there's nothing important, please pray to God that I won't kill you." The distraught Paul complained when he got on the phone.

"Paul, my mind is a little messed up and I want to talk to someone." Although Nickel was also embarrassed, he still said it.

"What's the matter, Nicole, what happened?" Paul could hear Nicole's bad mood.

"Paul, do you think I am successful? Am I a qualified professional player?"

"Nicole, don't think too much, you are already a professional player, and you have a great future, as long as you keep working hard." Paul comforted Nicole.

"The future is great?" Nickel laughed at himself, "Paul, do you know? I feel that all this is so unreal, I am afraid that everything I have may be lost in an instant, I feel like I am floating in the air, I want to grab A something, but there's nothing, and maybe I'll fall and get bruised."

"Nicole, this is life, I can't help you, you need to solve it yourself." Paul seemed to understand what Nicole was worried about? "However, I can talk about some of my views on you, Nichol, you have to admit that no matter what you do, you are not active, and you only change passively when things are in front of your eyes, including my agent. Your life can only be imagined, but you actually live in this world.”

"Maybe, you're right." Nichol seemed to think of something, but he couldn't catch it.

"Nicole, you should embrace life. You can't just live by yourself. Maybe you say there is Yang, but, Nicole, do you know what kind of life Yang needs? How much do you know about her friends, and you Do you have friends?" Paul said happily, "Why don't you try to change, Nicole, your life circle is too small, if you really want to succeed."

"Thank you, Paul, I'm sorry to bother you so late, and apologize to Ruth for me for affecting her rest, good night."

"Good night, Nicole, don't overthink it."

(End of this chapter)