Volume 1: Males Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 38 Rotation (Third Update, Please Vote for Me!)
In fact, Liverpool is not fighting on two fronts, but on three fronts. Because they still have the League Cup to play.
The English League Cup starts in early August, but Premier League teams will not start joining until the third round. It was already late September. []
Since there are so many games in England, it is almost impossible not to rotate, otherwise few people from those wealthy teams can survive.
The Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League are all events in which England's top teams must participate. If they are lucky enough to win all the way, they will have to play seventy games a season. Almost every week is a double match, and the players are not tough. Therefore, if there is no change, the players' physical fitness will be exhausted early, they will begin to suffer frequent injuries, and they will collapse in the end.
Rotation is a compulsory course for all wealthy teams in England.
Last season, Liverpool only had domestic matches, so there was not much rotation. But even so, in the second half of the league, players suffered frequent injuries, which also gave Dalglish a headache.
Now in order to prevent such a situation from happening, Martin O'Neal started to rotate early.
The media are right to say that Liverpool are not quite used to this kind of rotation. However, if you rotate early, you will adapt early, and if you rotate late, you will adapt late. The less time you have to adapt, the worse the results will be.
Anyway, Liverpool had an astonishing five-game winning streak before and has accumulated enough "tuition capital". Liverpool can adapt to the rotation as much as possible. Even if they lose a few more games, the team's results will not be too ugly.
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On September 22, in the seventh round of the league, Liverpool welcomed Swansea at home.
In this game, Liverpool continued to rotate, combining the two lineups from the last Fulham game and the last game in the Europa League.
Chen Yingxiong and Klashnic partnered, Sanchez was replaced in the starting lineup by Adam Johnson, and the left side was given to Bellamy. Gerrard and Inler continued to partner in the defensive midfielder position, and the central defender was Skrtel. And Carragher, left back Glen Johnson, right back Enrique, goalkeeper Reina.
This lineup allowed Liverpool to beat Swansea 1:0 at home.
Because it is a brand new starting lineup, the Liverpool players are still not used to it.
But Chen Yingxiong is enough.
He scored the only goal of the game using a free kick to help the team win.
This goal is also his tenth goal of the season.
After only seven rounds of the league, he has scored ten goals, three goals ahead of second-placed Van Persie.
This has just begun, and the competition between the two shooters has already begun.
Last season, Van Persie was finally overturned by Chen Yingxiong and lost his first league golden boot in his career.
Everyone feels pity for him, and some people are not optimistic about Van Persie continuing to chase Chen Yingxiong. Because Van Persie's outstanding performance last season surprised them.
Unexpectedly, perhaps because of competing with Chen Yingxiong, Van Persie is also in very good shape this season. He has scored seven goals in seven league rounds, and his average goal rate of one goal per game is already a new high in his career.
But even so, he still lags behind Chen Yingxiong...
Some London media lamented for Van Persie: "Heroes are the nightmare and public enemy of all forwards! I suggest that the Premier League re-establish a scorer list and only allow heroes to be on the list. Then the current scorer list should be left to ordinary players... Otherwise, for This is so unfair to Van Persie!"
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After the game against Swansea, only three days later, Liverpool ushered in the League Cup game.
They play away to Reading.
Liverpool beat Reading 6-0 at home in the league. Now it's Reading's chance for revenge as Liverpool rotate again.
Liverpool's starting XI hasn't been quite the same since the Europa League.
This time Chen Yingxiong and Suarez started. Kuyt played as the right midfielder, leaving Bellamy on the left. In the middle, Lucas and Inler, who had returned from injury, partnered, and the center back was replaced by Martin Kelly who was born in the 1990s. With Coates, the right back is Flanagan, a teenager born in 1993, and the left back is Jack Robinson from the reserve team. The goalkeeper is still Reina.
It can be seen that Martin O'Neill intends to use the League Cup as a "test field" for him to adapt the team to rotation. It also gives many young players the opportunity to play.
Such a large rotation makes Liverpool players a little uncomfortable, and Reading can take advantage of their home court to take revenge.
Unexpectedly, old grudges have not been avenged, and new grudges have been added...
They lost 2:4 at their home court. Although they scored two goals in the game and once gave them hope of winning, Chen Yingxiong brutally suppressed them.
As the top scorer in the League Cup last season, Chen Yingxiong scored a hat trick in his first League Cup game this season.
He was in really amazing form in September.
He was only named the Premier League Player of the Month in August, and now it seems that he is the best player in September.
Liverpool, which defeated Reading 4:2 in an away game, successfully advanced to the fourth round. Their opponent will be Cardiff City, their opponent in last season's League Cup final...
This seems to be another battle of revenge?
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Due to multi-front operations, Liverpool's away game against Grica on September 29 in the Europa League and the eighth round of the Premier League clashed with Liverpool's away game against Stoke City. Therefore, the match between Liverpool and Stoke City was postponed to October 2.
From this we can see how intensive Liverpool’s schedule is throughout September...
They played four Premier League games in September, two Europa League games - including one away to Grica - and a Carabao Cup tie. Seven games in total. Considering that the first half of September is the national team match day, Liverpool actually only played one league game in the first 15 days, and the remaining six games were all squeezed into the half month after the 15th, with an average of two games. Playing a game in half a day.
With such a dense schedule, it's no wonder that Liverpool's head coach Martin O'Neill would risk the team's performance to perform rotations. Regardless of the change, I'm afraid Christmas hasn't even come yet and the team's physical reserves will be exhausted...
There is nothing to say about Slovenia's guest game against Grica. The strength gap between the two sides is really too big. Even if Grica plays at home, it cannot make up for this gap.
So Liverpool defeated Grica 2:1 in the away game and achieved two consecutive victories.
Sporting Lisbon tied with Anderlecht 1:1 at home. In this way, Liverpool, which has won both games, will come out on top. Currently they are first in the group and their qualifying situation is very optimistic.
Liverpool won and Chen Yingxiong also scored in the game.
After two rounds, he already has three goals in the Europa League and currently ranks first in the Europa League's scorer list, but they are tied.
The strength of the teams in the Europa League is uneven, and it is indeed easy for someone to use it to increase the number of goals. Therefore, it is normal for Chen Yingxiong not to dominate.
Originally, Chen Yingxiong was quite happy with his performance, but a day later he heard the news - Messi scored twice in the Champions League game later. After two Champions League games, he had the same number of goals. , also three.
After hearing the news, Chen Yingxiong's brows wrinkled and his teeth clenched, as if he had a toothache.
The difficulty of the Champions League is different from that of the Europa League. Messi actually scored three goals... In comparison, what value is there to be happy about his three goals?
Compared with others, it is simply a mess! I was happy before, so happy! What a joke! Oh shit! Playing in a less difficult competition than others, he only scored three fucking goals! It’s simply too horrible to look at!
So after returning to Liverpool, reporters praised him for scoring another goal. He ranked first in the Europa League scorer list with three goals. He performed well and was a major contributor to Liverpool's victory. If Liverpool can qualify from the group, Chen Yingxiong will be the most critical. Factors or whatever, Chen Yingxiong was not happy at all.
Apart from training, he was also absent-minded and listless when being interviewed by reporters.
The reporters saw it and felt strange in their hearts.
A reporter asked Chen Yingxiong what was wrong, which made Chen Yingxiong frown even more - he couldn't tell the reporters what he was thinking, so the reporters had no idea why Chen Yingxiong was depressed...
Some people randomly speculated whether Chen Yingxiong had encountered any trouble, and hoped that the matter would not affect Chen Yingxiong's state, so as not to drag down the team's results.
But Chen Yingxiong didn't explain, so there were more speculations. It's all fine in the media, but among the fans, all kinds of weird rumors have spread.
The most widely circulated and most credible rumor is that there is a conflict between Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera. The two have had a quarrel, their relationship has come to an end, and they are about to break up. So Chen Yingxiong was in a low mood.
This theory is the most popular. After all, everyone has always thought that Chen Yingxiong’s relationship is unstable.
After he and Cabrera got together, the betting company launched a betting project like "Guess when Chen Yingxiong and Cabrera will break up."
Cabrera called Chen Yingxiong and asked: "I heard that you are breaking up with me recently, Yingxiong?"
Chen Yingxiong rolled his eyes: "You believe what the media says!"
Sure enough, Cabrera's laughter came from the other end of the phone - she actually knew that it was just a little joke with Chen Yingxiong.
But after laughing, she still said to Chen Yingxiong seriously: "But if you really want to break up with me, I don't want to hear the news from the media."
Chen Yingxiong coughed: "I don't want to break up with you yet, Kristen."
"That's good, because I don't want to either."
Chen Yingxiong hung up the phone and was still thinking - is this a love message from Cabrera?
It’s really not easy to hear this woman say those disgusting words...