Under the night sky, inside the Mestalla Stadium!
A terrifying roar suddenly swept across the stands!
Arsenal's fans were wild with passion,
their deafening cheers completely blanketing the pitch!
4:0!!
Kai was roaming Valencia's box like it was his personal playground!
He had bullied Parejo with sheer power,
pulled off three feints in half a second to toy with and drop Mathieu,
and finally stormed into the penalty area—
fake to the far post, strike near!
A thunderous shot!
Valencia's defenders and goalkeeper had become nothing but background props.
4:0!
Three goals, one assist!
Another hat-trick!
The Arsenal end of the stands was in total uproar!
"King of the Champions League!"
"King of the Champions League!!"
The Gunners' fans roared in unison,
pouring all their passion out toward Kai's figure!
"My God! In the previous six group stage games, Arsenal's super captain racked up 16 goals and 13 assists!"
"And now, in the Champions League knockouts—"
"First game, against a strong La Liga side, another hat-trick to announce himself to the world!"
"Some say La Liga is the center of European football?"
"Arsenal's Gunner King tells you—absolutely not!!"
The cheers rose and swirled into the night sky above the pitch!
Having completed yet another hat-trick, Kai turned toward the stands,
pumping his fist and roaring.
He slid on his knees in celebration,
with his Arsenal teammates sprinting joyfully after him,
forming a magnificent sliding lineup!
Kai stood up,
raised his fist toward the Valencia end of the stands!
At that moment,
the home end of this proud La Liga club fell completely silent.
Every gaze was fixed, conflicted, on that youthful figure—
this young Arsenal captain, wearing the armband with pride!
Nearly 60,000 Valencia supporters could not utter a single word.
With Kai's fourth goal for Arsenal tonight,
the score stood at 4:0!
On the Valencia bench,
Emery stood with arms crossed, silent,
his whole demeanor lost and dazed.
Champions League Round of 16, first leg.
At home.
They had conceded four away goals.
Was there any hope left?
Next leg at the Emirates—
did Valencia still have a chance?
Looking at the Arsenal players celebrating wildly on the sideline,
Kai shone like a blazing star among them.
Emery's mind was blank.
Only tonight, facing Arsenal led by Kai firsthand,
did the Valencia coach finally realize—
This Premier League powerhouse, undefeated for over half a season,
was an existence far more terrifying than he had imagined!
Kai's dominance in the match
was far more frightening than anything Emery had analyzed beforehand.
His absolute influence at both ends of the pitch,
his reading of the game, passing, duels, finishing—
everything, absolutely everything!
Surpassed any player of this era.
"A monster… he's absolutely a monster."
Emery could only raise his arms helplessly,
then turned and slipped back into the dugout,
collapsing onto a seat.
Above his head, the Valencia stands were heavy with despair.
In the remaining time,
Wenger subbed off several starters,
rotating the lineup.
Giroud, replacing Van Persie,
under the desperate eyes of Valencia's supporters,
nearly found another breakthrough from two brilliant passes by Kai!
Parejo, utterly exhausted, was subbed off in the 85th minute.
In his duel with Kai throughout this match,
the Valencia midfielder, a product of Real Madrid's academy,
had been completely dismantled from start to finish.
In the closing stages,
Arsenal, under Kai's orchestration,
unleashed wave after wave of attacks!
The Valencia fans were stunned.
Why, even at this late stage,
did Arsenal's players not seem to suffer any serious drop in stamina?
Amid the never-ending cheers of the Gunners' fans,
Kai once again showcased unstoppable dribbling,
driving forward alone into Valencia's defensive half,
facing the midfielder who had replaced Parejo…
With no other choice, the defender could only grab desperately at Kai's jersey from behind.
The referee blew his whistle.
A foul!
Arsenal were awarded a free kick in the attacking third!
The match had already entered the final two minutes of stoppage time.
Valencia's players let out a breath of relief.
As long as they could hold this one off, the three-goal gap wouldn't continue to widen.
Yet, to their shock, they noticed something unusual.
The moment Arsenal earned this free kick, the away stand of Gunners fans suddenly erupted into wild, thunderous cheers!
Among Valencia's die-hard supporters, a faint sense of dread began to rise.
Was it really just a free kick?
Why were Arsenal's fans this excited?
On the Valencia bench, Emery rubbed his face in despair.
He had studied Kai's match footage before.
This terrifying Arsenal No. 10—his otherworldly free-kick technique was already infamous.
Right now, Emery could only hope that Kai's shot would go astray.
Otherwise…
A fifth away goal?!
That was something Valencia absolutely could not afford!
To be hammered five times on their own turf—this would all but announce that they already had one foot out of the competition!
On the pitch!
Under the gaze of 60,000 at the Mestalla!
The wall was lined up in front of the penalty area.
Kai stood behind the ball.
Tens of thousands of eyes focused on him alone!
Beep!
The referee's whistle blew!
Players from both sides jostled in the box for position.
Kai glanced lightly toward the goal.
His run-up!
The strike!
The ball shot upward in an instant!
Amid the disbelieving eyes of Valencia fans, it soared high into the air!
It climbed rapidly to its peak!
Then dipped sharply—
Sailing over the wall!
And plummeting down with terrifying force!
On the stands, Arsenal fans' eyes lit up in sheer excitement!
Frenzied cheers swept across the terraces!
It was back!
Kai's blood-stirring, battle-axe style knuckleball free kick!
After several matches, they were once again blessed to witness it!
Gasps of disbelief exploded from the crowd!
The Valencia goalkeeper shuddered, leaping instinctively off his line!
But the drop of that knuckleball—
It was still far faster than he could react to!
The ball plunged like an elevator!
In an instant, it tore straight through the keeper's desperate hands—
And roared into the net of the Bats' goal!
GOALLLL!!
The ball once again crashed into the back of the net!
In the dying moments of the match, Kai's merciless free kick shattered Valencia's last hopes!
The score was rewritten yet again—
5:0!!
In the first leg of this Champions League Round of 16 clash,
at Valencia's home ground—
Kai had struck four goals!
He had led Arsenal to a stunning 5:0 conquest of the once-proud Mestalla Stadium!
Under the night sky,
the entire stadium shook with an earth-shattering roar!
"Wooooooahhh!!"
"Gunner King!!"
"Gunner King!!"
"That goal was insane!"
"God!!"
Arsenal fans cheered like mad!
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