Volume 1: Males Come and Go, People Pay Attention. Chapter 37: Killing a Chicken with a Knife (Second Update, Please Vote for Me)
After a year, Liverpool returned to the European war family. Their first European war this season was at their home court against Sporting Lisbon from the Portuguese Super League.
Sporting Lisbon is Portugal's traditional giant, alongside Porto and Benfica. However, the Portuguese League is a small league in Europe, and there are only two places to participate in the Champions League, so even if Sporting Lisbon can finish third in the league, they still have to play in the Europa League. Not to mention that Sporting Lisbon only finished fifth in the league last season? It almost didn't even qualify for the Europa League. []
In this group, perhaps Sporting Lisbon is the stronger team and the team that can threaten Liverpool the most.
Anderlecht is slightly inferior. As for Slovenia's Grica, it is purely for soy sauce and points.
Liverpool must defeat Sporting Lisbon at home to gain an advantage in qualifying for the group stage.
Liverpool values Sporting Lisbon very much, and Sporting Lisbon also values Liverpool. After all, Liverpool has superstars like Gerrard and Chen Yingxiong, and Suarez and Sanchez cannot be ignored.
In terms of strength, Liverpool is the strongest team in this group, followed by Sporting Lisbon, Anderlecht is slightly inferior, and Grica is the worst.
In addition, it is an away game, so Sporting Lisbon's strategy is to defend and counterattack. If you have a chance, counterattack and score. If you don't have a chance, just hold on and not score. Even if the last goal is not scored, as long as we can get a draw, that's fine. This is a very good result on the road.
But if Sporting Lisbon draws, where will Liverpool's interests be placed?
Liverpool certainly can't stand being tied by their opponents at home.
Therefore, in this game, Liverpool must attack and attack again!
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"Hero!!! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Hero!"
The old commentator at the Liverpool scene shouted excitedly.
Just as excited as he was were the tens of thousands of Liverpool fans at Anfield.
Everyone stood up from their seats, raised their arms and shouted: "Hero——!!"
What made them so excited was definitely not that Chen Yingxiong had a beautiful dribble or something, but that he scored a goal!
Only six minutes into the game, Chen Yingxiong opened the scoring for Liverpool!
"What a wonderful start! Liverpool leads Sporting Lisbon by one goal at home! The hero seems to be in good shape today!"
"I always think that it is a loss for the hero to participate in the Europa League. He should go to the Champions League. In the Europa League, he was completely overkill. In the Europa League, he is very comfortable!"
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After scoring the goal, Chen Yingxiong ran to the sidelines with open arms, then rushed to pull up the corner flag, holding it high and waving it in his hands.
His teammates quickly ran up, surrounded him, and cheered to celebrate the goal.
Martin O'Neill applauded with a smile on his face. Chen Yingxiong was in such good condition and had such high fighting spirit, which made him full of confidence in the team's qualifying for the group stage.
He didn't know that Chen Yingxiong scored so quickly because he not only wanted to help the team win the final championship, but also wanted to try his skills in the Europa League. Messi scored eighteen goals in the Champions League. The opponents in the Europa League are not as strong as those in the Champions League, and there are two more games. After the Champions League group stage, it is the top 16, but after the Europa League group stage, it is the top 32. Strong - In this case, how can I score fewer goals than him?
Therefore, Chen Yingxiong plans to score goals like crazy in the Europa League and surpass Messi's 18 goals. He wants the whole of Europe and the world to see that what Messi can do, I can do too, and Do better than him!
So he scored in the sixth minute of this game.
At that time, Sanchez passed the ball, which was not a particularly good opportunity. However, Chen Yingxiong used his body to squeeze away the Sporting Lisbon defender who was defending him, and then used the head bone of his calf to knock the football into the goal. An unconventional shooting action, but the effect is very good.
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Chen Yingxiong's goal opened the door to victory for Liverpool.
Gerrard scored in the 59th minute, extending the score to 2:0. Although Sporting Lisbon forward Ricky Wolfswinkel pulled a goal back for Lisbon in the 71st minute.
But this still couldn't change their defeat.
In the 88th minute, Chen Yingxiong suddenly shot a cold arrow from outside the penalty area, and the football ran into the lower right corner of the goal against the turf, scoring twice!
After scoring the goal, Chen Yingxiong lifted up the right leg of his football pants, revealing his strong and thick thigh muscles, and then he made a motion of pulling the bolt of a gun. In order to show off his powerful right leg, he hit this long shot with his right foot.
In the end, relying on his two goals and one from Gerrard, Liverpool defeated the invading Sporting Lisbon 3:1 at their home court. Give yourself a good start in the Europa League this season.
There was no suspense in the game at another stadium. Belgium's Anderlecht, playing at home, defeated Grica 2:0. Now in the group standings, Liverpool has the advantage of one more goal than Anderlecht, beating the Belgian team and ranking first in the group.
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After the game, the Liverpool media praised Chen Yingxiong's two goals for making Europe hear the voice of Liverpool again.
"The hero's brace is the strongest message Liverpool has made in the European arena! He told Europe that the Red Army is back!!"
Liverpool fans are also excited. Although it’s only the Europa League, it’s better than not even playing in the Europa League, right?
Last season, Manchester United and Manchester City were both eliminated from the Champions League to the Europa League. As a result, they were both eliminated in the first round of the knockout rounds. They were really brothers in distress. At that time, many fans of other English teams were laughing at these two unpopular teams. Liverpool fans do not, because they are not even qualified to laugh at others.
No matter what others say, he has participated in the Champions League and Europa League, but he can only hang out at home.
Well now, Liverpool fans are also a little proud.
The most important thing is that this outstanding performance in the first game gave Liverpool fans hope. Maybe Liverpool really has something to play this time?
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After playing in the Europa League, Liverpool only had two days of rest before entering the sixth round of the league.
Liverpool challenged Southampton away because the two games were too close. Martin O'Neill made a rotation. He put many main players, including Chen Yingxiong, on the bench. The result of this was that Liverpool was tied 0:0 by Southampton in the away game.
Although his five-game winning streak ended, O'Neal was not heartbroken. In an interview after the game, he said that rotation is necessary because Liverpool is facing a two-front battle this season. In order to reasonably distribute physical fitness and avoid being exhausted before Christmas, the team must rotate. He also said that there is no absolute main force in the team, and people like Chen Yingxiong can sit on the bench.
O'Neal is not trying to deal with the media, what he says is true. If the team does not rotate highly, I am afraid that even if they qualify for the Europa League group, the situation in the league will not be very good.
The top four in the league this season must be strived for. In order to get the top four in the league, the results in the first half of the league are very important. Even if we can't get the top four in the first half, we can't fall too far behind the top four.
In order to perform well on both fronts, rotation is necessary.
Some media also intend to sow discord between Chen Yingxiong and Martin O'Neill. These media are basically media from Manchester.
They thought that Chen Yingxiong sat on the bench for a full ninety minutes in this game, and they must be very unhappy with Martin O'Neal. So as long as they use words to provoke him, the relationship between the two people might collapse. If the generals are not at odds, Liverpool will not be able to threaten either Manchester City or Manchester United.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yingxiong said that it didn't matter if he was on the bench.
"Whether it's Kuyt or Klasnic, they are both outstanding players. I don't think I have to be the main starter. A draw? We just had bad luck. It doesn't mean that the rotation policy is bad."
This answer surprised the reporters - when did Chen Yingxiong become so easy to talk to? You know, his temper used to be very fucked...
They didn't know that Chen Yingxiong was in the league and the Europa League and didn't want to give up. He wanted the top four in the league and the Europa League championship. In this case, he would naturally agree with the head coach's rotation policy. After all, he also knows that rotation is a strategy that the team must adopt when facing multi-line operations.
Without rotation, the team will never go that far.
He absolutely does not want the team to lose momentum and be eliminated after reaching the knockout stage of the Europa League.
To this end, he also plans to continue to instill in his teammates in the locker room that "the Europa League is very important, and we need a championship of sufficient weight to arouse the enthusiasm and hope of the fans"... and other remarks.
It is to prevent teammates from losing motivation and fighting spirit in the knockout stages of the Europa League.
The Manchester media were disappointed when they failed to sow discord.
However, the rotation policy has allowed Liverpool to end its winning streak, which is also good news.
This is their first rotation this season, and it can be seen that Liverpool are not quite used to the rotation yet. Otherwise, they could actually beat Fulham away from home.
Now these media can only hope that Liverpool will continue to be so uncomfortable...
If we lose a few more games, maybe due to pressure, Martin O'Neal will return the team to the state before the rotation, desperately squeezing the main lineup, and then when the Christmas schedule comes, it will completely collapse... Even if you, Chen Yingxiong, are physically fit Okay, you are in good health, you won't be exhausted or injured, but you can't control other people. The other players in the Liverpool team are not ironclad!