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The players readily agreed.

So in the end, the useful information the reporter could interview was just from Lu Yang.

Reporter: Lu Yang, how do you view Portugal’s golden right wing? Many people believe that Madeira, still in his prime, can completely crush Praxedes, who is already declining!

Right winger against left back, it’s a perfect matchup.

To be fair, this might be the strongest spear against the strongest shield in this European Cup.

France Team’s Robben, after all, is a left winger.

Lu Yang: Madeira is an excellent forward, but Praxedes is also one of the strongest left-backs I’ve ever seen. Before the match, no one knows what the result will be.

Reporter: So who do you think is stronger?

Lu Yang: I don’t know who’s stronger between Madeira and Praxedes, but I do know that between me and Laveran, I’m stronger!

The reporter’s eyes twinkled, there’s a story here!

No gossip about Praxedes, but got some on Lu Yang, that’s not bad.

Reporter: So are you saying you’re definitely going to score in the next match?

Lu Yang shook his head.

The reporter felt disappointed.

But Lu Yang added: I will score under Laveran’s defense, so everyone will know that I’m not just boasting.

The reporter excitedly ran off with the recorder.

This conversation will definitely become the most talked-about topic before the next showdown.

The current European Cup top scorer, a monster player who has scored over seventy goals in a single season across three competitions, being confident in his scoring ability is quite normal.

But on the other side, Laveran is the starting central defender for the Galaxy Battleship!

To hold a stable central defender position in the Galaxy Battleship at the age of twenty-six, without major personal honors or high praise, is no small feat.

Laveran’s abilities are undeniable.

A showdown between a top La Liga defensive player and probably the strongest attacker in Serie B history is a full-on spectacle!

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Lu Yang’s response to Laveran’s challenge also highlighted his unique role and status on this Italy Team.

Over in Portugal, everyone has something to say.

Even Barça’s right-back Canisell claimed he would help Madeira easily defeat Praxedes.

However, on Italy Team’s side, only Lu Yang came forward to respond.

The other players remained largely silent.

Only Lu Yang could express ”freedom of speech.”

”So why do you want to provoke their central defender? As an attacking midfielder, your forward chances are precious, but if the opposing central defender pays too much attention to you, those chances will greatly diminish.”

Morici was doing push-ups while watching Lu Yang on the sofa, along with a red-haired woman beside him.

”It was her idea.” Lu Yang pointed to the red-haired woman, who is Lola.

”Her?” Morici turned to sit on the yoga mat, ”Does she understand football?”

Lola sneered, this guy must have a dead straight male attitude, surely he won’t have a girlfriend?

”You’re Morici, height one seventy-four, weight... I won’t go into the basic details, let’s talk about something ordinary people don’t know.” Lola looked at Morici and said, ”Your dribbling, passing, and shooting are excellent, although you’re a bit short, you can be used as an All-Purpose Midfielder.”

Morici muttered to himself about Manchester United MMP, could you stop emphasizing height?

Don’t I know I’m short?

I’m not shorter than Kaint, am I?

If you want the ball, just say it!

”Of course, truly using you as an All-Purpose Midfielder would be the greatest waste.” Lola continued with her expertise, ”Considering the performance over the past two seasons, your average pass success rate is as high as eighty-nine percent.”

”Average key passes of two point three times, creating chances nearly zero point eight times, dribbling past opponents two point one times, fouled one point five times, intercepting one point two times, tackling one point one times, breakouts zero point five times, shooting one point two times, shots on target zero point six times, regaining possession five point one times.”

”In various statistics, you’re among the leading levels in both the team and the league for players in the same position!”

”Despite certain physical shortcomings, you’ve managed to achieve such balanced statistics, which is quite incredible.”

”All along, people have emphasized Lu Yang’s versatility and effort while neglecting the talent and effort of a player like you. Defense isn’t your specialty, but you still manage to achieve such defensive stats, proving your intelligence and hard work on the field.”

To be honest, when Lola said all this, Morici realized he had encountered a data expert.

These insights are currently available within many teams, but how to effectively use this data, no one has proposed particularly convincing analyses.

It’s just that the data exists.

But to read data, to draw player profiles based on data, no team excels at this, nor does anyone particularly trust and focus on it yet.

Some small clubs in Ligue 1, Bundesliga, and Portuguese Super League are engaged in this kind of research, but without significant results.

Interpreting data is always more difficult than collecting it.

Shot count, shots on target, these seem to reflect an attacking player’s strength and performance, but Lu Yang’s previous introduction of expected goals deeply analyzed these stats, leading to vastly different evaluations of certain players.

This is just shooting data.

With so much data for a player, what’s useful and what signifies what is still a big mystery to everyone.

But this Lola here seems to have already deciphered the core functions of some data.