Chapter 488 List of Supplements During Winter Break

In the morning, when Yang Yang came to Melwood, he immediately received the latest news.

Mohamed Sissoko dislocated his right shoulder and is conservatively expected to miss a month.

That was yesterday's game against Birmingham. At the 27th minute, Sissoko fell to the ground after fighting with the opponent's midfielder Nafti. He was then carried off the field and sent directly to the hospital in Birmingham for examination. It was later diagnosed as a dislocation.

"It was an accident."

In the gym, Winston Bogard also said to Yang Yang with a wry smile.

"In football, this type of injury is very rare, like the shoulder, or the eye, but it's weird to say, I checked the case of Sissoko, he had an eye injury last season, and this I hurt my shoulder this season."

After finishing speaking, Winston Bogard himself sighed, and he was unlucky.

Indeed, there is really no explanation for this phenomenon other than bad luck and bad luck.

And what's more terrible is that Liverpool have no candidate for the midfielder now.

"Before, in order to buy you, Liverpool removed several substitutes, and the veteran Haman also left the team. Now Sissoko is injured, and this position is really empty."

Yang Yang just finished a set of bench presses and put the barbell back directly. After listening to Winston Bogard's words, he turned his head and glanced at the Dutchman, "You mean, is it my fault?"

Seeing Yang Yang's malicious eyes, Winston Bogard immediately lost his smile, "Just kidding."

"The grass on the wall." Yang Yang scolded with a smile, "But don't say, Sissoko's injury is really not the right time."

The weekend will usher in the twelfth round of the Premier League, and this time the team's opponent is Arsenal.

This season, Liverpool have already beaten Chelsea and Manchester United, the two formidable opponents. It stands to reason that Arsenal is the weakest among the semi-finals. It is not difficult for Liverpool to win the opponent, and everyone is determined to win.

But Sissoko's injury, the midfielder triangle is missing a corner, a big blow to Liverpool.

In the past period of time, Sissoko has always undertaken the task of midfield defense and interception. If he is absent, the midfield is bound to become weak, no longer strong, and loses a strong midfield for support , is bound to affect the team's combat effectiveness.

"Liverpool's first winter was not easy!" Yang Yang sighed inwardly.

He's just a player and all he can do is do his best to play and score goals for Liverpool.

This is all he can do.

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Yang Yang's ideas almost represent the ideas of Liverpool.

Nowadays, the importance of midfield to a team does not need to be said at all, and Sissoko's retirement has caused a painful blow to Liverpool's midfield.

At the weekend, in the twelfth round of the Premier League, Liverpool played away to Arsenal.

The match was scheduled to take place at 16:00 pm, and it was a prime-time duel.

With Sissoko out due to injury, the Liverpool midfielder used Zenden to partner Xavi Alonso and Steven Gerrard.

The reason is simple, in the league game against Birmingham, Zenden performed very well.

But it turns out that the League Cup is just the League Cup in the end.

The start of the game started with Liverpool's counterattack as the main attack. In the 11th minute, after receiving a big kick from Reina, Yang Yang dribbled the ball into the penalty area on the left side of the penalty area and hit the curve ball in the far corner. Liverpool opened the scoring.

This is also Yang Yang's tenth Premier League goal for Liverpool.

But before the end of the first half, Arsenal successfully equalized the score.

French midfielder Flamini plugged in in the back row and stabbed in front of the goal. This was Flamini's first Premier League goal in his career.

After changing sides in the second half, Arsenal quickly took advantage of their own advantages to control the game, firmly suppressing Liverpool, and in the 67th minute, Gallas scored Liverpool's goal with a corner kick and successfully reversed score.

In the end, Liverpool came away with a one-to-two hatred.

Although Yang Yang scored a goal in this game, but then under the joint care of Eboue and Gilberto Silva, his performance was not very satisfactory, especially when the midfield lost.

After this round of games, Arsenal caught up with Liverpool, and both teams had 24 points.

Chelsea climbed to second place in the league with 25 points, while Manchester United led the Premier League table with 28 points.

On the scorer list, Drogba once again chased after Yang Yang with a hat-trick in this round.

The Ivorian Elephant King has scored eight league goals this season, and he is only two goals away from Yang Yang's ten goals.

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A week later, the thirteenth round of the Premier League.

Liverpool suffered another away blow, a 0-0 draw with Middlesbrough.

Unlike other teams who were distracted by the mid-week European war, the Red Army had already qualified ahead of schedule and tried their best to play, but still failed to win on the road.

Losing to Arsenal in the last round, Benitez decided to change this round, using a formation similar to 442.

Yang Yang and Pennant serve as the two wings, Kuyt and Krause play as double forwards, and Gerrard and Xavi Alonso are in the middle.

Although it is a wing, Benitez made Yang Yang more close to the opponent's defense.

But in the face of Middlesbrough's iron barrel formation, Liverpool's attack failed again and again, and finally failed to score.

The other top three teams also didn't play well.

Manchester United struggled with Rooney's brace to reverse Sheffield United 2-1 away.

Arsenal, with Henry's goal, equalized Newcastle 1-1 at home.

Chelsea's goal came from substitute Gremi, and they beat West Ham 1-0 at home.

As for Liverpool's performance in the past two rounds, the British media felt that Sissoko's absence was a big blow to the team, but it was also related to the Premier League's best curse of the month.

Liverpool's coaching staff is also intensively formulating a winter break signing strategy, especially when Mohamed Sissoko's injury is not clear, it is also necessary to make plans in advance.

The two positions that are most likely to be introduced at the moment are the midfielder and the right back.

According to news from within Liverpool, the candidate for the right back has been determined, and Benitez hopes to introduce La Coruna player Abeloa.

This player debuted in the Real Madrid youth training camp and has performed very well in La Liga this season. Benitez hopes to introduce him to Liverpool to compete with Finnan, who is over 30 years old. The transfer fee is also expected to be 300. million euros.

As for the signing of the midfielder behind the position, this is indeed a big problem, because the difficulty of finding a midfielder is a problem in the entire European football.

Yang Yang heard the news that the number one candidate for Benitez's signing was the Argentine midfielder Javier Mascherano who played for West Ham United, but since this player joined the Premier League, he has yet to prove himself.

He was seriously injured in March this year and rested for half a year. After his transfer to West Ham United, he has not been pleased by the head coach Alan Pardue. So far, he has only played four times in the Premier League, two of which are still garbage. Time to come off the bench, the rest of the game did not even enter the roster.

It can be said that such a player, apart from being cheap, really has nothing worthy of Liverpool.

Everyone in the team, including everyone in the team, is wondering, what exactly did Benitez take a fancy to Mascherano?

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Although the team's performance in the Premier League has slumped, it is still very powerful in the Champions League.

Yang Yang only came off the bench in the second half, but immediately after he played, he contributed two assists to the team and helped Liverpool beat PSV Eindhoven 2-0. The goalscorers were Gerrard and Crouch.

Among them, Crouch's goal time is still in stoppage time.

It can be said that this victory has established Liverpool's group top, and even the theoretical possibility is gone.

And Eindhoven must do their best to compete for second place in the group.

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Back to the Premier League.

In the fourteenth round, the Premier League ushered in a focus battle again.

Manchester United host Chelsea at home.

The Red Devils have been unsatisfactory in their home court dialogue this season. They lost first to Arsenal and then to Liverpool. Now they are facing Chelsea. Everyone is in a cold sweat for Ferguson.

And Liverpool is sitting at home to ushered in Manchester City.

Finally ushered in a Chinese derby in the new season. Yang Yang started, but Sun Jihai, who played for Manchester City, sat on the bench. The starting right back became Yang Yang's teammate in Ajax, Trabelsi.

The Tunisian international did not perform well after switching to Juventus for two seasons. With the relegation of Juventus this season, he also left the Bianconeri and chose to come to the Premier League and join Manchester City.

In this game, he was responsible for marking Yang Yang, but in the end, Yang Yang seized a chance and assisted Gerrard to score.

It was the only goal of the game.

Liverpool beat Manchester City 1-0.

Manchester United suffered a 1-1 draw at home by Chelsea, while Arsenal lost a humiliating 3-1 away defeat to Bolton.

The brutality of the Premier League is evident from this round.

Even if it is the traditional top four, as long as you are not careful, there is an immediate danger of capsize.

After this round, Liverpool returned to third place in the league, three points ahead of Arsenal, only one point behind Chelsea, but five points behind league leaders Manchester United.

The first half of the league isn't over yet, and being five points behind isn't an unattainable gap.

Even the British media treated Liverpool's current situation with understanding, because Sissoko's absence was indeed a big blow to the Red Army, but everyone agreed that Liverpool must make adjustments as soon as possible.

Many celebrities, including Alan Hansen, also believe that in the 442 formation, restricting Yang Yang to the left is a luxury, and it also greatly weakens his attacking power.

"Perhaps, Benitez can consider making Yang Yang more advanced, such as striker!"

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A week later, the fifteenth round of the Premier League.

Liverpool were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Portsmouth again.

Benitez is still in a four-four-two formation, and the offense is still not much improved.

And this time, the Liverpool manager finally couldn't sit still.

The day after playing Portsmouth, he directly called Yang Yang to the head coach's office, not only admitting that there was a problem with his formation, but also saying, "I need you to take on more of the next. Attack mission!"