Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 973 Thank you Liverpool
Renewing his contract with Nike is a big event for Chen Yingxiong, and it is also the only thing he does during the two-week league truce.

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

Liverpool's goal this season is the league championship, which Liverpool people have dreamed of for a long time. Since the establishment of the Premier League, Liverpool has never won the championship of this event.Although the UEFA Champions League is the highest honor for a team, for Liverpool people, they have already won the UEFA Champions League, and what they lack most is the league championship.They were once England's top league champions.But now that honor belongs to Manchester United.

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

After all, Liverpool's mortal enemy is Manchester United, and being robbed of this honor by the mortal enemy is an absolutely unacceptable fact for Liverpool people.

But this reality happens to be the Achilles' heel of the Liverpool people. The Manchester United people can use this to laugh at the Liverpool people, but the Liverpool people can't talk back.

Liverpool fans: "We have five Champions Leagues!"

Manchester United fans: "You don't have a Premier League title!"

"We are the kings of the Cup!"

"You don't have a Premier League champion!"

"We are five crowns!"

"You don't have a Premier League champion!"

"Can we not talk about the Premier League champions?"

"You don't have as many top league championship trophies as we do!"

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This is where the Liverpool people suffer the most.

In fact, the league is the most important thing a team should pay attention to.After all, the league is fundamental - why are you able to play in Europe?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 having won one.

However, competing for the league championship is a difficult long-distance race, and the results will not be seen in a short time.But the Liverpool people have endured this tone for a long time, even to the point where they have to vent it.

Now they have a good opportunity-the fourth round of the league, the new season of the Premier League will usher in their first "England National Derby".

Liverpool vs Manchester United at home!

Last season, Liverpool still had a chance to compete for the league title. The key game for them to lose this hope was their away loss to Manchester United.It can even be said that Manchester United's league title was won by rubbing Liverpool's corpse.

So much so that some Manchester United fans put up such a banner to stimulate Liverpool fans in the championship game.

"Thank you Liverpool!"

It is such a simple sentence, but everyone understands it.

For Liverpool fans, this is literally stabbing their wounds and adding salt.

Who can bear this?

It must be unbearable!

So the Liverpool people want revenge, they want to make the Manchester United people pay for their indiscretion!
This game is the best opportunity.

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

On the national team match day this time, the Liverpool club also put forward suggestions and requirements to those national teams, hoping that Liverpool players would only play half of the game and not the full game.

How important is this game?
For Liverpool fans, it's just a battle of revenge.

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

In this way, many people may not be able to understand it, because the league has only started four rounds, so how can it be related to the ownership of the Premier League champion this season?

In Martin O'Neill's view, Liverpool is now very strong. He feels that in the Premier League, Liverpool can compete with any opponent and compete for the league title.

But the league has only started four rounds, and they ran into Manchester United, an old rival.

For Liverpool, this game means a lot - it's a battle of honor, it's a battle of dignity, it's a battle of morale, it's a battle of confidence.If Liverpool are defeated by Manchester United at their own home court, it will cause serious damage to Liverpool's morale, and it will also shake the players he has managed to gather confidence through a season-this is at our home court, if we If we can't beat Manchester United, why should we compete with Manchester United for the league title?
Therefore, this game must be won, not at the tactical level, but at the strategic level, it must be won.

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

The confidence that the Liverpool team can also gain from this completely shatters their fear of Manchester United-maybe some Liverpool players or fans will not believe that they are afraid of Manchester United, but this is the fact.Although every time before the national derby, Liverpool showed great hatred for Manchester United, wishing to tear Manchester United into pieces.This doesn't look like an expression of "fear".

But in fact, deep down in their hearts, 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 can be further alleviated by Liverpool players.

That's the main reason this game has to be won.

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

The so-called FIFA virus is that after the national team match day, the tired players' physical fitness declined, their condition was not good, and there were even injuries, which prevented the players from playing their best in the club's games.

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

Unfortunately, this is a game that cannot be lost at all, and Martin O'Neill is very troubled by this matter now.He asked his scouts and coaches to pay close attention to the national team games where Liverpool players are, and report to him any situation, so that he can respond as soon as he knows the specific situation.

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

At this moment, he especially likes the Chinese Football Association, because although the stubbornness and stupidity of the Chinese Football Association make Chinese fans lose the opportunity to watch Chen Yingxiong play at home, it allows Liverpool to avoid the possibility of Chen Yingxiong being injured.

He can have a healthy and perfect Chen Yingxiong.He will not be affected by flying thousands of miles to participate in the competition, which will affect his fitness and take the risk of injury in the national team game.

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 make up eleven players to play in the starting lineup, he will have the confidence 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 has a complete lineup-to Martin O'Neill's delight, none of his players were injured during the national team match day, although Physical fitness is more or less bad, but it can always fight.It's a big deal not to play the whole game... This makes O'Neill's "grab and attack" tactic even more important-if Liverpool can score first in the game, they can have an advantage psychologically and tactically, and the game will enter Liverpool. rhythm.In this way, he can also change easily.

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.Now this Liverpool team, with their outstanding performance in all fronts, more and more players have been selected for the national team.

Whenever the national team matches, Liverpool's first team will become a "remnant". If Martin O'Neill wants to ensure the normal training of the first team, he has to recruit players from the youth team and the reserve team to supplement.As for tactical training, a training subject that must be assembled by all members, don't even think about it.

This is the case this time, just after playing the national team game, it was the game against Manchester United.Martin O'Neill didn't have much time for tactical training. Fortunately, he practiced hard on this in the summer, so now the players are more or less familiar with it, and there is no need for special training.

Therefore, in the remaining two days, what Liverpool have to do is mainly set-piece practice.

Now that Chen Yingxiong can head the ball, he is naturally the most powerful siege weapon in set-piece tactics.

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When the Liverpool team was training hard for the battle 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 are hiding deep hidden dangers.This hidden danger is like a time bomb, buried in the Liverpool team, and it is unknown what will explode.

But what exactly are the hidden dangers? Gary Neville just doesn't say anything.So everyone started guessing.

Some people guessed that it was the locker room relationship. For example, the relationship between Gareth Bell and Chen Yingxiong and others was not good, and Adam Johnson was dissatisfied with being no longer the main force of the iron fight...

Some people guessed that it was a tactical problem. Martin O'Neill's tactics were flawed...

There is also speculation that the relationship between the club's top management and the team is not harmonious.For example, after Niang monopolized the transfer power, he tried to intervene in more team affairs, which aroused O'Neill's disgust towards Niang. Now the two seem to be in harmony on the surface, but in fact they already know very well in their hearts that they are in the same situation. up!

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It's really a lot of guessing. These guesses are actually wrong, but they can effectively interfere with Liverpool.Because this kind of speculation by the media is actually planting seeds. These seeds may not be useful for a lifetime, but once they sprout, they may be able to play a key role in the next game!

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