Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 173 Thank You Liverpool (First Update, Please Vote for Me!)

Renewing his contract with Nike is a big deal for Chen Yingxiong, and micro is his only thing during the two-week league truce.

After dealing with the contract extension, he flew directly back to Liverpool and devoted himself to the team's training.

Liverpool's goal this season is the league championship. This championship has been dreamed of by Liverpool people for a long time. Since the establishment of the Premier League, Liverpool has never won this championship. Although the Champions League is the highest honor for a team, for Liverpool people, they have already won the Champions League, and what they lack most is the league championship.

They were once England's top flight title winners. But now this honor belongs to Manchester United.

If this honor now belongs to teams like Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham, maybe Liverpool is not so entangled yet.

After all, Liverpool's mortal enemy is Manchester United, and having this honor taken away by their mortal enemy is a fact that Liverpool people absolutely cannot accept.

But this reality is the death of Liverpool people. Manchester United people can use this to laugh at Liverpool people, but Liverpool people cannot talk back.

Liverpool footballer: "We have five Champions League titles!" Manchester United footballer: "You don't have a Premier League title"...

"We are the kings of the cup!" "You don't have a Premier League title!" "We are the five-time champions!"

"You don't have the Premier League championship!" "Can we not talk about the Premier League championship?" "You don't have as many top league championship trophies as we do!" "…………"

This is the hardest part for Liverpool people.

In fact, the league is what a team should pay most attention to. After all, the league is fundamental - why can you participate in the European war? Isn’t it just because of your excellent results in the league?

Liverpool now need a Premier League title to break their embarrassing record of never winning a Premier League title.

However, competing for the league championship is a difficult long-distance race, and the results cannot be seen in a short time. But the people of Liverpool have been holding on to this tone for a long time, and it has even reached the point where they have to vent it out.

Now they have a good chance in the fourth round of the league. The new Premier League season will usher in their first "English National Derby".

Liverpool vs. Manchester United at home!

Liverpool still had a chance to compete for the league title last season, but the key game when they lost this hope was their loss to Manchester United away from home. It can even be said that Manchester United won the league championship by wiping Liverpool's corpse.

So much so that some Manchester United fans displayed such a banner during the championship game to stimulate Liverpool fans.

"Thank you Liverpool!"

It’s such a simple sentence, but everyone understands it.

For Liverpool fans, this is simply stabbing a knife in their wound and removing the salt.

Who can bear this?

It must be intolerable!

So the Liverpool people want revenge, they want Manchester United to pay for their slight!

This game is the best opportunity.

This is why Chen Yingxiong hurried back to Liverpool and trained with the team as soon as he finished his business activities in the United States.

On this national team match day, Liverpool Club also made suggestions and requests to those national teams, hoping that Liverpool players would only play half the game and not play the full game.

How important is this game?

For the Liverpool fans, it is just a battle of revenge.

But for Martin O'Neill, the head coach of Liverpool, this is the focus of the battle that is directly related to the championship this season!

Maybe many people can't understand this, because the league has only started four rounds, how can it be related to the ownership of the Premier League championship this season?

In Martin O'Neill's view, Liverpool is already very strong today. He feels that in the Premier League, Liverpool can compete with any opponent to compete for the league championship.

But four rounds into the league, they ran into an old rival, Manchester United.

For Liverpool, this game means a lot - it is a battle of honor, a battle of dignity, a battle of morale, and a battle of confidence. If Liverpool is defeated by Manchester United at their home court, it will cause serious damage to Liverpool's morale and will also shake the players who have finally built up confidence through a season - this is our home court. If we all If we can't beat Manchester United, why should we compete with Manchester United for the league championship?

Therefore, this game must be won, not from a tactical level, but from a strategic level. It must be won.

If Liverpool can beat Manchester United at home, it will have an advantage in the clash between the two teams.

The confidence that the entire Liverpool team can gain from this will completely shatter their fear of Manchester United. Maybe some Liverpool players or fans will not believe that they are afraid of Manchester United, but that is the fact. Although before every El Clasico, Liverpool hates Manchester United and wants to tear Manchester United into pieces. This doesn't look like a sign of "fear" at all.

But in fact, deep down in their hearts, the Liverpool players felt a little guilty when they met Manchester United. It's just that some people don't realize it, and some people realize it but don't want to admit it...

As long as Manchester United can be defeated, the fear of Manchester United among Liverpool players can be further reduced.

This is the main reason why this game must be won.

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This game is so important, but Martin O'Neill has to face a headache that is the FIFA virus.

The so-called FIFA virus means that after the national team match day, the tired players' physical fitness declines, their condition is not good, and they even suffer from injuries, which prevents the players from performing their best in club games.

If the game after the national team game is an ordinary league game and the opponent is not strong, that's fine. They can also rotate.

Unfortunately, this is a game that cannot be lost at all, and Martin O'Neal is having a headache right now. He asked his scouts and coaches to pay close attention to the national team games in which Liverpool players were playing, and to report any situation to him so that he could respond as soon as possible after knowing the specific situation.

At the same time, he also prayed that no players would be injured during the national team match day.

At this moment, he especially likes the [Chinese] National Football Association, because the [Chinese] National Football Association’s stubbornness and stupidity have caused the [Chinese] national football fans to lose the opportunity to see Chen Yingxiong play at home, but it has prevented Liverpool from doing so. The possibility of Chen Yingxiong being injured.

He can have a healthy and perfect Chen Yingxiong. He will not fly thousands of miles to participate in competitions, which will affect his physical fitness and risk injuries during the national team competition.

A healthy Chen Yingxiong is the biggest guarantee for Liverpool to win.

To put it bluntly, even if other players are injured, as long as Chen Yingxiong is not injured, as long as Liverpool can still gather eleven people to appear in the starting lineup, he will be confident to fight Manchester United!

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With the end of the national team competition, everyone returned to the club. Martin O'Neill finally had a complete lineup. What made Martin O'Neill happy was that none of his players were injured during the national team match day. Although their physical fitness was more or less Anything less is not good, but you can always fight. The worst thing is not to play the whole game. This makes O'Neill's "attack" tactics even more important. If Liverpool can score first in the game, it will have a psychological and tactical advantage, and the game will enter Liverpool's rhythm. This way he can make substitutions calmly.

From the perspective of the national team, Dalglish is much happier than Martin O'Neill. Because there were not many international players in Liverpool at that time. Nowadays, with the outstanding performance of this Liverpool team on all fronts, more and more players have been selected for the national team.

Whenever there is a national team match day, Liverpool's first team will become a "remnant team." If Martin O'Neill wants to ensure the normal training of the first team, he has to recruit players from the youth team and reserve team to supplement it. As for tactical training, a training subject that requires all members to gather together, don't even think about it.

This is the case this time. I just finished playing the national team game, which was the game against Manchester United. Martin O'Neal doesn't have much time to conduct tactical training. Fortunately, he practiced this hard in the summer, so now the players are more or less familiar with it and don't need special training.

Therefore, in the remaining two days, Liverpool mainly conducts set-piece exercises.

Since Chen Yingxiong can now header the ball, he is naturally the most powerful siege weapon in set-piece tactics.

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While the entire Liverpool team was training hard for the match against Manchester United, the media also began to warm up the game with a war of words.

This time it was not the players and coaches of both sides who came out to spit at each other, but the celebrities of both sides.

Gary Neville said that although Liverpool has been very strong recently, they have deep hidden dangers. This hidden danger is like a time bomb, buried in the Liverpool team, and there is no telling what will explode.

But what the specific hidden danger is, Gary Neville will not tell whether he will live or die. So everyone started speculating.

Some people speculated that it was due to locker room relations, such as the bad relationship between Gareth Bale and Chen Yingxiong and others, or Adam and Johnson being dissatisfied that he was no longer the main force...

Some people speculate that it is a tactical problem. Martin O'Neill's tactics are flawed. Some people also speculate that the relationship between the club's senior management and the team is not harmonious. For example, after Niang took over the transfer power, he tried to intervene in more team affairs, which aroused O'Neill's resentment towards Niang. Now the two people seem to be in harmony on the surface, but in fact they know very well in their hearts that they are in the same boat. Got it!

You can really guess anything. In fact, these guesses are not correct, but they can effectively interfere with Liverpool.

Because this kind of speculation by the media is actually burying seeds. These seeds may not be used in a lifetime, but if they sprout, they may play a key role in the next game! ! .