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"Let’s hope Averro can go into the next game with a light heart and perform well."

Lu Yang’s encouragement might be the strongest motivation for Sporting Lisbon to continue their journey in the Champions League.

After all, Lu Yang is the kind of person who dares to challenge French Football and the Golden Ball Award.

You could say he’s rather reckless.

Yet, in his eyes, there’s room for Averro, which is quite comforting, isn’t it?

Regarding this match, perhaps no one expected that the media would find a way to criticize Lu Yang!

To be fair, French Football has gone mad.

"French Football": "High-Order Data fails completely! Lu Yang’s goals are a detriment to the team!"

With that statement, countless football fans were stunned.

Has it finally come to this?

The theory of goals harming the team?

This... looks like a Ph.D. in Golden Ball Law is confirmed!

Who knows how much kickbacks the French football journalist who wrote that article received.

But surely it wasn’t a small amount.

After all, when your opponent is performing exceptionally well, it’s better to be discreet rather than trying to malign them at the peak of the wave.

Because the dirt thrown at that time will only serve to clean the opponent.

But to be fair, the core analysis in the article isn’t entirely wrong.

In terms of high-order data, Lu Yang is indeed on a slight decline.

Sounds absurd, but the overall level of San Remo recent matches, except for Lu Yang, has been declining.

If everyone else drops by one point, Lu Yang’s status rises by one and a half points, making the team seem stronger than before.

The scores and results can indeed prove this point.

So, the article isn’t entirely nonsense after all.

But, alas... San Remo won the match!

Lu Yang even scored a hat trick!

Winning is innocent!

Scoring is innocent!

This is the iron law in football.

No matter how high you tout your data, it doesn’t change anything.

If data could decide everything, then why would anyone bother playing at all?

Just compare the data of each player and team, assign them scores, and why waste ninety minutes and countless sweats?

Faced with such accusations from French Football, San Remo’s official response was rather gracious.

They directly plastered a huge banner on the homepage of their official website.

It read: Champions League Round Five, Lu Yang in poor form, only managed a hat trick!

The fans followed suit in droves.

"Brother Lu isn’t up to it, only scored three?"

"To be frank, can Lu Yang hack it or not? If not, head to the bench to chill; who does three goals humble?"

"Can’t even secure a minimum of four goals anymore? Is he tired? If tired, take a couple of days off!"

"Quickly check, is Sofia back now?"

"Three matches now, after Lu Yang missed the consecutive grand slam record, he’s now missing the hat trick of hat tricks!"

"Indeed, three matches with twelve goals, the reason Lu Yang didn’t achieve the hat trick of hat tricks is because he scored three extra goals!"

"A hat trick more than the hat trick of hat tricks? Hahaha!"

Not realizing it at first, but after summing up, Lu Yang has scored twelve goals in three matches.

Average of four goals per game!

My God!

Insane efficiency.

This is in the Champions League and Serie A!

These are the highest level matches among cups and leagues.

Lu Yang is making it look like chopping veggies.

Is this the aftermath of playing too much in Italian D and Italian Third Division?

Can’t stop now?

Such a frenzied goal performance has drawn the eyes of fans all over Europe.

Now, the European Football circles are circulating a saying: never provoke Lu Yang, or he will shame his opponents into oblivion with goals.

Amidst this backdrop, there’s gossip that Lu Yang’s name has entered the soon-to-be-announced list of thirty players.

But there are also rumors that Lu Yang has been completely banned from the Golden Ball Award and didn’t make the thirty-man shortlist.

Both claims have some truth to them.

Because there’s internal debate on how to deal with Lu Yang at the Golden Ball Award.

Some committee members who value the credibility of the award argue that even with support from big sponsors, Lu Yang shouldn’t be treated that way.

And after Nike and Ah Ke offered more "personal sponsorships" to those opposed, these members stated that Lu Yang’s improper attitude violates the original jest of the Golden Ball Award to honor players.

They aim to choose players of both excellent skill and character, as merely having professional ability isn’t convincing enough; quality character is also needed.

To resist HXLT’s expansion and LY7’s rise, Nike and Ah Ke have poured a lot into public relations funds this year.

The Golden Ball Award judges are earning more this year than in the past five years combined.

At that point, who cares about credibility?

Five years later, they may not even be on the judging panel.

They’re finding theoretical reasons to exclude Lu Yang for this huge sum.

You have good data, I compare honors.

You have good honors, I compare data.

You have good both, I bring sentiments.

You excel in all three, I debate character!

In short, they just want to keep Lu Yang off the thirty-player list.

Let it be.

Three hundred percent profit is enough for capital to trample over all human laws.

Not to mention that the Golden Ball Award’s selection has nothing to do with the law.

They ignore things as fundamental as law, let alone restrictions at a higher moral level?

Morality is only strongly binding in the East.

How naive.

What do twelve goals over three matches matter?

I just refuse to see!

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November 26th, Serie A Round 14.

Lu Yang’s mad performance finally came to an end.

But not in the manner French Football imagined.