Chapter 2128 - 549: Money Talks
But at this moment, Huang Kaiwen suddenly pulled the ball and spun counterclockwise, fooling everyone.
After only spinning a few dozen degrees, before fully facing the goal, Huang Kaiwen had already sent the ball out with his right foot.
This concealed pass made the ball roll quickly toward the center, close to Huang Kaiwen’s left foot tip, even Koscielny standing nearby couldn’t react.
Inzaghi, who had already maneuvered to the center, successfully took the ball.
Sagna’s sliding tackle made Inzaghi stumble a few steps, leaving no time to adjust his balance.
Inzaghi’s right foot dropped, not to stabilize, but awkwardly pushed at the back right of the ball.
This shot action fooled almost everyone, even with insufficient strength, Szczesny misjudged the direction as he fell, and could only watch the ball roll into the left side of the net.
Having performed a hat trick, Inzaghi turned and ran.
He hadn’t played such a comfortable game in a long time.
Inzaghi stuck out his tongue and sprinted, mimicking Pirlo’s movements.
He was still shouting words that were incomprehensible.
And just like that, he dashed all the way back to his own penalty area.
"Hey, hey, Inzaghi huh, performing a hat trick today, he’s really excited."
"Yeah, Inzaghi hasn’t scored much in the past two years, and his appearances are limited. But I’ve noticed, whenever Huang Kaiwen plays alongside him, he keeps assisting him, so their relationship must be really good."
"I still remember after the 04-05 UEFA Champions League final, Inzaghi said Huang Kaiwen’s shooting was learned from him. Now it seems it might actually be true, haha. Otherwise, why would Huang Kaiwen keep assisting Inzaghi for no reason?"
"Even if he learned from Inzaghi, he has surpassed the master. Huang Kaiwen’s shooting ability is surely the best among all players now, with power, angle, and absurd distance; he’s scored a considerable number of midfield goals since he started playing."
"Second leg 3:3, aggregate score 9:4, Arsenal doesn’t stand much chance. Huang Kaiwen’s entry successfully secured the win for AC Milan, truly living up to the title King of San Siro."
Buffon looked at Inzaghi with some disdain.
The guy was practically spitting everywhere.
However, Buffon was still curious about something. He walked over and asked, "Pippo, why does Kevin care for you so much?"
"Caring for me? It’s because my ability to seize opportunities is good!"
Inzaghi said, sticking his neck out.
"Don’t give me that crap! Kevin just bypassed the goalkeeper earlier and specifically didn’t shoot and passed to you, tell me how that has anything to do with your ability to seize opportunities?"
Buffon said with annoyance.
That outside-foot goal might be brushed off as lucky.
But Huang Kaiwen dribbled past four players and had an open goal, yet chose to pass horizontally.
Anyone with eyes could see it was intentionally feeding Inzaghi.
"Haha, that’s because Kevin and I have a good relationship."
Inzaghi said with a mischievous grin.
"I just want to know, how can anyone get close to Kevin."
Buffon continued to ask.
"Want to know?"
Inzaghi asked, chuckling.
Buffon nodded vigorously.
"Give me ten million euros and I’ll tell you!"
Inzaghi said.
Buffon promptly gave him the finger.
Damn!
His salary for two years isn’t even that much, he even took a pay cut to come to Milan.
Inzaghi this bastard is really damn greedy.
Buffon decided to spend more time with Huang Kaiwen outside.
Inzaghi wasn’t the only one good with girls; he, Gianluigi Buffon, was too.
Despite being married to Seredova, tabloids always featured him in scandals.
He’d been caught several times messing around with other women, but because of Milan’s good relationship with media, they settled these incidents with money, hence his affairs didn’t make it to mainstream newspapers.
"Five minutes!"
Old Maldini walked over to Guardiola and said.
He’s not reporting to the team every day, but he tries to be with the team on match days.
Being with these youngsters, Old Maldini always feels as though the world’s peak is within reach.
Guardiola nodded with a smile and said, "Five minutes for three assists, for Kevin, it’s not yet the limit, though considering the shooter is not Kevin, this might be the best result."
"Such a frightening kid, every time I see a Kevin like this, I am grateful he didn’t go to Inter, or I couldn’t even imagine how miserable we’d be."
Cesare Maldini sighed.
Other players had been struggling for over 50 minutes without scoring.
Huang Kaiwen came on for 5 minutes and made a hat-trick of assists.
They really didn’t see Arsenal as worthy competition!
"History always has its inevitability."
Guardiola said with a smile, "Even if Kevin went to Inter, Mr. Moratti’s practices might not make Kevin comfortable, he might never rejoin Inter again."
Guardiola was referring to the wiretap scandal.
Moratti was afraid to lose his exceptional players.
Isn’t Huang Kaiwen far better than Vieri?
So he’d definitely be afraid of Huang Kaiwen leaving the team.
Even without another wiretap scandal, hiring a detective would surely ensue.
Exposure of such matters would definitely be unpleasant.
Cesare nodded; it was true.
Rossoneri, no, the entire Italian football should bow to Barbara.
Without Barbara, with Bei’s manner, Kevin may never have returned to Milan City.
Without Huang Kaiwen, there wouldn’t be this Serie A glory.
After winning this season, Serie A can secure the lead in European competition points.
If not for such a strong Milan, other teams’ poor performance couldn’t recover the points.
Both economically and competitively, Huang Kaiwen is immensely important for all of Serie A.
Cesare Maldini thought.
The very decision to sign Huang Kaiwen places Ancelotti among Milan’s greatest coaches in history.
On the field, Arsenal once again launched an attack.
Wenger was also making Park Joung warm up on the sidelines.
He truly had no players available.
Walcott was still pushing up on the right.
This time the young Tiger learned his lesson, started cutting inside early.
However, Ambrosini and Van Bommel were no pushovers.
Ambrosini immediately went for the steal, while Van Bommel didn’t rush to double-team but had positioned himself to block Walcott’s passing route.
Antonini had already lunged forward.
Walcott had no choice but to force a cross into the box.
The ball went right into the penalty area.
After turning, Godin realized it was difficult to deal with and quickly used his arms to block Chamakh behind him, allowing Buffon to come and get the ball.
Godin handled this carefully.
Specifically avoided touching the ball.
Otherwise, with the opponent already in the penalty area, using feet could be dangerous for Buffon.
Buffon bent down to hold the ball, then quickly sprinted to an open area and booted it with a long kick.
The ball from the backfield soared toward the left side of the front field.
The pass wasn’t precisely placed, but it didn’t matter.
Huang Kaiwen sped up and successfully reached the ball in front of Alex Song.
Immediately starting a rapid dribble.
This time, Sagna had learned, started running back early.
He did indeed keep pace with Huang Kaiwen, nearly just half a body behind.
But even this slight gap became decisive.
With an early lead, Huang Kaiwen put his left foot on the ball’s side, swiftly swung his right foot around from behind the left leg.
Swoosh—
Performed a rabona pass.
This pass didn’t curve much but was fast and high enough, skimming past the front goal and toward the far post, with Szczesny unable to adjust his position, watching as Inzaghi jumped at the far post to head the ball into the empty net.
Boom—
"Saint Kevin!!!"
"Saint Kevin!!!"
"Saint Kevin!!!"
San Siro Stadium erupted entirely.
Seven minutes and four assists.
Huang Kaiwen showcased the word efficiency to its fullest.
Even scoring this quickly on a basketball court isn’t easy.
Huang Kaiwen signaled a substitution to the sidelines with both hands.
The goal-scoring Inzaghi didn’t celebrate, but went to Huang Kaiwen and said, "Kevin, truly impressive."
"It’s alright."
Huang Kaiwen said with a smile.
"So, what’s the deal with that goal?"
Inzaghi asked.
Huang Kaiwen casually waved his hand and said, "Consider it gifted, buy three get one free."