Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions

20 minutes, four goals scored, Bony's brain started to feel dizzy!

He even began to see illusions in front of him.

At this moment, images appeared before his eyes of when he was 5, in the poor village of Côte d'Ivoire, playing soccer with friends on the uneven, muddy land scattered with puddles at the village entrance.

Back then, Bony was definitely the star of the village, no child in the village could beat him at soccer.

"Bony, you will definitely be able to play soccer in Europe in the future, earn big money, and provide for your family!"

The words of the old village chief, who often watched the boys play soccer with a cane, echoed once again in Bony's ears.

This sentence, like a seed, deeply rooted itself in Bony's young mind, taking root, sprouting, and growing strong.

When Bony's consciousness was pulled back to reality, the green turf of the Etihad Stadium came into view. He almost instinctively wanted to repeat that familiar celebration – the shirtless sprint.

During Bony's childhood, the only black-and-white television set in the village was placed in the yard of the village chief's house. Whenever there was a match, the children would always gather around it. Despite the snowflake spots on the screen, they couldn't be stopped from loving soccer.

Once, by chance, amid the snowy television screen, he saw Brazilian star Rivaldo celebrating a goal by taking off his shirt, and he remembered the move ever since.

Whenever he scored three goals in a match with his playmates, he'd happily take off his shirt to celebrate, then he'd take off his shirt every time he scored another.

Because of this, Bony was scolded by his mother quite often, as he was too excited when taking off his shirt, often making his already patch-covered clothes even more ragged!

Eventually, Bony's mother told him to go play soccer without his shirt whenever he went out;

5-year-old Bony could only take off his pants.

Later, Bony's mother wouldn't let him wear pants either, so Bony had to play soccer at the village entrance completely naked.

His playmates ridiculed him, "Look, there's Bony with a bare bottom again!"

The nickname "Bare-bottom Bony" spread far and wide.

One day on the field, faced with the teasing, Bony lost his temper and reached out to grab someone else's clothes, getting into a fight with the village children and ended up being pinned down on the muddy ground, even getting stepped on in the private parts.

He covered his groin, face bruised and swollen, and returned home, crying to his mother asking why other kids could play soccer with clothes on and he couldn't.

Facing his son's confusion and grievances, the mother's gaze was full of helplessness and sorrow.

His mother cupped Bony's face, glanced around the small, simple shack where the other six skinny children were, and choked up as she said words Bony would remember for a lifetime:

"Child, because I really can't find more patches to mend your torn clothes."

From that moment, Bony vowed to become a professional soccer player in the future. He immediately told his mother, once I earn big money, I will buy lots and lots of patches, then we won't have to worry about not having patches to fix the clothes.

…

Tang Long rushed over and held onto Bony's jersey that had been pulled up to his chest with a firm grip.

"Stop taking it off, you already have a yellow card, if you take it off again you'll be sent off with a red card!"

Bony was still dazed, and he mistook Tang Long for a village playmate, reaching out to take off Tang Long's jersey.

Bony had been doing farm work for his family since childhood, his grip strong and his fingers as solid as chestnut shells, Tang Long couldn't overtake him, watched as his own jersey was pulled over his neck, covering his face, about to be taken off.

Tang Long lamented helplessly in his heart, I assisted you three times, and you actually want to take my jersey off, causing me to unjustly get a yellow card~

Understanding Bony's background, Kolarov realized Bony was overly excited, and he quickly rushed over to slap Bony!

"Wake up, Bony! You're not dreaming, you actually scored 4 goals, snap out of it!"

Bony came to his senses, staring at Tang Long in a daze, then hugged him and cried aloud in front of more than 50,000 spectators.

Just like how he sobbed while lying on Tang Long in the passenger seat a few days ago.

The fans within the Etihad Stadium were quite surprised by Bony's overly emotional breakdown;

Still, they immediately gave a tide of applause to the hero of today's match.

Many fans did not understand the context of Bony's background, they just thought scoring 4 goals was certainly worth celebrating, but hugging a teammate and crying seemed a bit excessive, didn't it?

89 minutes, 4:0, the match was already decided, even a legendary figure couldn't overturn it now.

Due to Bony's previous attempt to take off Tang Long's jersey, and his subsequent intense sobbing appearance, Pellegrini found it somewhat strange;

He felt Bony's emotions were a bit out of control, unwilling to keep him on the field, immediately substituting him with Agüero.

"Sergio, just run and move a little, it's for warming up before next week's Manchester Derby."

Pellegrini's original intention was unintentional, merely hoping Agüero could get some activity to maintain form;

Unexpectedly, he spoke without thinking, but Agüero took it to heart!

Bony scored 4 goals in 20 minutes, almost 90 minutes now, and you sub me in just to say to run a little?

Thus, a seed of resentment towards Bony was planted in Agüero, the leader of the Spanish Language Gang, deepening hostilities with the entire French Language Gang.

…

Manchester City triumphed 4:0 at home against Aston Villa, continuing to lead at the top of the Premier League standings.

Ecstatic Bony took away the match ball from the referee;

Rated the best player of the match, he was in a great mood and attended the post-match press conference with manager Pellegrini.

At the conference, a journalist compared Bony with Bayern's center forward Lewandowski.

Bony humbly waved his hand, indicating that he couldn't compare to him!

Lewandowski scored 5 goals in 9 minutes, while he only scored 4 in 20 minutes. Regardless of the efficiency or number of goals, he couldn't compete with the Polish player.

But to Agüero, this sounded like pure show-off!

Since joining Manchester City in 2011, Agüero had never felt like today in these four years that his position as the main striker might not be as secure as he imagined!

After this match, Bony had already scored 6 league goals;

surpassing Agüero, becoming the team's top scorer.

Some comments stated that Bony's strong rise made the race for Premier League's top scorer this season full of suspense.

Various bookmakers also raised the odds of Bony winning the Premier League Golden Boot this season.

Although in terms of odds, he was far behind top forwards like Agüero, Icardi, and Kane;

but it's worth noting that at the start of the season, Bony's odds of winning the Premier League Golden Boot were outside the top 40, and no one could believe he could score 4 goals in a single match!

Of course, as Bony stunned the Premier League with his four-goal performance, people didn't forget who orchestrated it all.

In the first half when Silva had control of the ball, Bony struggled hard with frequent mistakes;

Manchester City, facing the bottom-ranked Villa at home, couldn't break their goal even after a long while.

But after Tang Long came on at the 60th minute in the second half, Bony scored in just 8 minutes and performed a four-goal show within 20 minutes!

Three of those assists came from Tang Long, with Kolarov's cross on the wing, and the second-to-last goal also came from Tang Long passing the ball under pressure.

It could be said that all of Bony's 4 goals involved Tang Long.

A funny phenomenon was that previously teased by Tang Long in Chinese, the Daily Telegraph was like an ugly fly throughout the match, constantly hovering over Manchester City, eager to find flaws, criticizing Tang Long.

Even when Tang Long had just come on and barely touched the ball, as Manchester City still hadn't scored, they continued to publish real-time news, emphasizing Agüero's importance.

But when Tang Long assisted Bony to break the deadlock with the first goal, the Daily Telegraph's real-time news stopped updating.

After this, Tang Long continued to direct Bony's impressive four-goal play within 20 minutes.

Other media followed suit, even going as far as producing lengthy reports post-match describing this phenomenal game;

but notably absent was the participation of the traditional right-wing newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.

They even brought out a retrospective feature the next day on their front page, rehashing Agüero's 2012 last-minute goal against Queens Park Rangers helping Manchester City win their first league title.

This deliberate attempt to obscure the event made many in the UK laugh.

People flocked to the Daily Telegraph's website and social media, mocking them for burying their heads in the sand.

Many pranksters purchased the latest version of the Daily Telegraph, wanting to keep this newspaper as a souvenir~

This also led to a surge in the paper's popularity in the UK, with all papers selling out that day.

This bizarre phenomenon made their traditional left-wing newspaper rival, The Guardian, laugh uncontrollably!

They capitalized on the buzz, publishing a piece of black humor news.

[Daily Telegraph sales surge, heartwarming reason behind it!]

"19-year-old Chinese player Tang, after Manchester City's match against Juventus, declared to the media in his native language that some people always say he's finished, but he can always be their daddy!"

"Our renowned media, the Daily Telegraph, due to not understanding Chinese, mistakenly thought this was Tang Long's subsequent English speech, reflecting his oriental introverted character."

"They must have thought this player was easy to manipulate, shamelessly promoting the so-called British gentleman spirit, claiming it was the result of foreign players being civilized in the UK."

"But take a look at those drunken harassing drunks on the streets at night, and the endless hooligan fights at stadiums!"

"The old-timers of the Daily Telegraph might still be living in the Victorian era, not realizing that British gentleman spirit has vanished with the steam engine, gone forever!"

"They still advocate for the public to vote for Brexit today, with such a closed mindset leading to the continued decline of British civilization, diminishing international status, eventually becoming an insignificant European small country."

"Publishing alliance data shows that since the beginning of the year, Daily Telegraph's domestic sales have consistently declined, surpassed by us, The Guardian, for 6 consecutive months."

"This also worried our peer, as the decline in sales led to shrinking advertising fees, resulting in employee wages dropping, and grievances abound."

"Reportedly, they are searching everywhere for big advertising sponsors!"

"However, according to the latest statistics, the new version of the Daily Telegraph released today topped the UK newspaper sales ranking, far exceeding ours!"

"Among them, Manchester City player Tang's contribution is indispensable!"

"He used a stunning face-slapping counterattack, harshly reminded the conservatives led by the Daily Telegraph: my one match can triple newspaper sales, I am your daddy!"

After training that day.

On the way to send Tang Long home, Bony took out a bracelet made of stones from his bag and gave it to Tang Long.

"Tang, thank you for your help, this is a treasure I got from the village chief's prayer to the wizard before leaving Côte d'Ivoire to play in Europe, said to bring luck, I've kept it with me for ten years, now I want to give it to you, bless you with lifelong good fortune."

Tang Long couldn't refuse and wore it on his hand.

Returning home, he casually took it off and placed it on the desk.

Preparing to enter the AI Cloud Training Ground for a while.

The simple bracelet made of rough string and stones jumped on the table...