320 Champions League Hat
After the third round of the Premier League, the next half month is the national team match day.
The issue between Li Chenglong and the FA has not been clarified, so he has no plans to participate in the national team competition.
At present, England is only participating in the European Cup qualifiers. There will not be any important games in two years, so everyone is not in a hurry.
Although this is the case, Lee Chenglong did not participate in the England game, and was still heavily reported by the European media.
After all, he is currently a popular traffic star, and his every move will attract great attention.
And this time, the rumors of the feud between Jackie Chan and Rooney are known throughout Europe.
But Li Chenglong doesn't care, this kind of thing will be revealed sooner or later.
On September 8th, England's European Cup qualifiers started.
With Welbeck's brace, England won Switzerland 2-0 in the away game and made a good start.
At present, the group where England is in, that is, Switzerland is a little more competitive, and they defeated the opponent in an away game. It should not be a big problem for England to qualify for the main match.
What's more, according to the rules of the European Cup qualifiers, the top two in the group can advance to the main match.
But there is bad news for Liverpool, Sturridge strained his thigh during the national team training.
The Champions League game is about to start soon, but Sturridge is injured at this time, which will definitely have a certain impact on Liverpool.
But Sturridge has always been a brittle bone. Although he is really good when he is healthy, he belongs to the type that charges for two hours and talks for five minutes.
He was able to represent Liverpool in 33 games in all competitions last season, which is already very miraculous.
This is the normal situation for him now.
The only thing Rogers can do now is to pray that Sturridge can recover from his injury as soon as possible, and he will not continue to be injured after he recovers.
The kind of players who are often injured are very prone to repeated injuries.
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After the national team game, the Premier League and Champions League games are coming one after another.
On September 13, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Liverpool played against Aston Villa at home.
This is Jackie Chan's home debut after joining Liverpool, and the Anfield stadium was once again full.
However, the result of the game was not ideal, very unsatisfactory.
In this game, Sturridge was injured. At the same time, Sterling, Henderson, Coutinho and other players who participated in the national team game also rotated. Rogers obviously wanted to prepare for the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week.
So Li Chenglong served as the lone striker, and Liverpool changed to a 4231 formation.
However, Liverpool bombed at home for a while, but they still couldn't knock on Villa's goal.
Instead, the opponent scored the lore in the 82nd minute by Abanglaho, successfully taking away three points.
Li Chenglong felt that Rogers was a little too nervous when he led the team to play in the Champions League for the first time.
Although it will be his Champions League debut next, the team's opponent is not strong, only Bulgaria's Ludogorets, and Liverpool has the advantage of playing at home, so it is necessary to make such a big move.
However, Liverpool's luck is indeed not very good. They completely took the initiative against Villa at home.
The number of shots was 20 to 5, and the number of shots on target was 5 to 1, but the opponent won the game 1:0.
A lot of the time, football games are like that.
After losing this game, Liverpool's ranking dropped sharply, falling directly to 7th.
It is also worth mentioning that Manchester United finally won this round of the league, beating the newly promoted Queens Park Rangers 4-0 at home.
If he doesn't win again, maybe Van Gaal will be in danger of dismissing get out of class.
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On September 16th, the Champions League group stage of the season will officially start.
Liverpool's opponent is Ludogorets, the top team in the Bulgarian league. Although it is a top team, a team from a small league like Bulgaria should not have too much combat effectiveness.
In fact, in the analysis of the English media, Ludogorets is the weakest in this group, and he is also the opponent that Liverpool should score steadily.
In the home game, Rodgers arranged the strongest lineup. Jackie Chan and Sterling played double forwards, and the team changed to a 442 formation.
In the sea of red at Anfield, Liverpool once again boarded the big stage of the Champions League after five years.
The fans sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" in unison, held up red scarves, and cheered for the team together.
However, after the game started, the situation on the court reminded the fans of the league a few days ago.
Liverpool had the advantage at home, but could not complete the goal.
In the 11th minute, Lee Jackie broke through the frontcourt and then made a cross pass and transferred the ball to Sterling, who was in a better position, but this guy kicked the ball into the stands with a standard pancake posture.
In the 23rd minute, Coutinho sent a beautiful through ball, but Sterling wasted this semi-single chance again.
Obviously, Sterling became happy in this game.
Seeing this guy, he just wanted to be a happy boy, so Li Chenglong had to try his best to find opportunities.
In the 39th minute, Li Chenglong received a pass from Gerrard in the penalty area, turned around after receiving the ball coherently, and after avoiding the opponent's pressing, he swung his leg and volleyed vigorously with his right foot.
Ludogorets' Canadian goalkeeper Bojan couldn't react in time, watching the ball fly from his feet into the net.
"Goooooooooooal~~~~~~~~"
"Bruce~~~~Very beautiful turning around and volleying~~~ This shot is clean and neat!!"
"In the deadlocked situation, Bruce stood up and broke the deadlock. This goal is very critical. I believe this will be the beginning of Liverpool winning the game, and it will also be a good start for Liverpool to enter the Champions League again after five years."
Li Chenglong completed the opening goal, but the defense was not worried.
In stoppage time in the first half, Ludogorets tried to see if he could equalize before the end of the first half.
And then they really hit it off.
The opponent's Dutch forward Misidian made a cross from the wing. Leoflen passed the ball even though he could get the clearance. Then push and break the goal.
In this way, the lead that was finally established was sent back by the defense team.
During the intermission, Rogers just kept emphasizing offense and asked the whole team to continue to strengthen offense.
This guy seems to only be able to arrange offense, and he doesn't have any tactics in defense at all.
Fortunately, Ludogorets' strength is indeed not strong, they really cannot withstand Liverpool's offense.
In the 59th minute of the second half, Henderson sent a good cross from the side. Lee Chenglong withstood the opponent's defender Aleksandrov in the penalty area, then raised his left foot and put the ball into the opponent's goal.
Immediately after the 74th minute, Li Chenglong made a two-for-one cooperation with the happy boy in front of the penalty area, and then kicked a long shot.
This long-range shot was of high quality. The ball went straight to the lower left corner of the goal, bounced off the ground and flew into the goal after rubbing against the post.
"Goooooooooooal~~~~~~~~"
"Super Blues~~~~ Very accurate long-range shot~~~ He completed a hat trick!!!"
"Bruce scored a hat-trick in his first Champions League game after joining Liverpool, which is absolutely phenomenal."
After completing the hat-trick, Li Chenglong excitedly rushed to the sidelines and accepted the cheers of the fans with open arms.
Although he only played three games for Liverpool and lost one of them, Lee's performance has completely conquered Liverpool fans.
Among the excited cheers of the fans at the scene, the shouts of King Bruce have already appeared.
I believe that it will not be long before Jackie Lee will become the new king of Anfield.