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August 11 afternoon.

In the neighborhood around Goodison Park, crowds of blue and red are heading towards Goodison Park.

There are mounted police on the street to maintain law and order to avoid conflicts caused by friction between fans of the two teams.

Everton and Liverpool feel like brothers and sisters during this period.

The fans of the two teams were worried about their beloved teams, and neither had the confidence to laugh and humiliate their rivals.

Everton has lived similar days year after year. In the past four seasons, Everton has gone from 7th and 6th in the league to 5th for two consecutive years.

The failure to hit the Champions League for two consecutive years is enough to disappoint them.

In the new season, the fans originally expected Everton to make further progress. They dare not expect extravagant hopes for the league championship. At least they will bite the championship group and seize the opportunity to enter the Champions League next season in one fell swoop!

This is a slight step forward compared to the past four years, and this step seems as out of reach as Liverpool's impact on the league championship!

The new season has finished 13 league rounds, how many games has Everton lost?

5 games!

The 1-6 bloodbath by Arsenal in the opening game seems to have foreshadowed that this will not be a season that will make Everton fans happy.

Count the 3 games that were tied.

How many games did Everton win in 13 league rounds?

5 games!

Everton, with only 18 points, has been left behind by the BIG4 group with an average gap of about 10 points.

This gap is extremely disappointing.

Although a small number of Liverpool fans still gloat over Everton's recent situation, considering the situation of their own team, this sentiment will be much calmer.

Liverpool, who have not won 5 rounds of the league, is 3 points behind the top team, which seems to be much smaller than Everton's gap in wanting to enter the Champions League.

But the really brutal title race, 3 points?Not to mention 3 points, 1 point may be the dividing line between heaven and hell.

The Liverpool bus drove to Goodison Park, and Qin Xiong sat by the window.He looked calmly at the fans on the street heading towards the stadium.

Torres sat next to him. Torres, dressed in casual clothes, will not play today, but he insisted on going to Goodison Park with the team.

The team is in extraordinary times now, and he needs to be involved instead of watching live TV alone at home.

"The outside world is talking about your importance to the team. When I first heard such voices, I felt very uncomfortable. I think Steven will feel the same emotion, including other players. Is it insulated from winning? Without you, Liverpool can win a lot of games, the difference is that you have won many more championships than Liverpool in the past few years."

Torres was also looking out the window with a calm expression.Qin Xiong turned his head and looked at him calmly, then withdrew his gaze, not intending to respond.

Torres continued as if talking to himself: "When we lost the first game, we were in a terrible mood. You were not in the dressing room, so you didn't understand. I would feel that something was missing. Losing to Lyon. The draw with Manchester United, my heart has become unwilling! Really unwilling! The outside world is right, without you, Liverpool will no longer be in August. Liverpool in September, a team that can hit the championship team.

Looking back, this is actually a fact. Before you came, Liverpool had not won any championship for three years.

Sometimes, admitting the reality is the hardest, but after losing the second league game.The huge pressure of reality has to make us bow our heads and admit, Qin Xiong.We count on you to make the game easy.At least it allows me to give full play to my role as a striker and fully release my abilities.

It is a pity that I am injured and will not be able to fight with you in the next game.

Today you will put on Liverpool's legendary No. 7 jersey, set foot on the territory of the arch-rival, and work hard to reverse the decline that Liverpool has really been unable to decline. I hope you succeed!

Even though your success will show how much you are needed and how important you are without you, I still want you to succeed.

Liverpool need a hero right now, most of the time, I'll be the hero, Steven will be the hero, other players will play that role occasionally, but Liverpool haven't had a hero for the past seven weeks, now everyone wants Liverpool to have one A hero emerges.

And the person who has the most hope of becoming a hero is you! "

Torres was very calm from the beginning to the end. After a long silence after he finished speaking, Qin Xiong turned his head and stared at Torres lightly, and said softly: "Fernando, we are a team, that's all I know."

After saying that, Qin Xiong turned his head away and continued to look out the window.

Torres smiled silently.

Liverpool's bus pulled into Goodison Park.

Qin Xiong and his teammates did warm-up activities on the court, and then returned to the locker room to change into jerseys and get ready to go.

Koeman, who has been under a lot of pressure recently and is about to collapse, delivered an impassioned pre-match speech.

He was mobilizing the morale of the team, but Qin Xiong seemed a bit out of place. He didn't shout loudly with his teammates to boost morale.

For him, now he needs to calm down instead.

He had just recovered from his injury, and his enthusiasm could not make him change the reality.

He needs to be calm, and turn this calmness into a sharp blade that pierces the enemy's heart on the field!

Wearing a neat jersey and walking out of the player tunnel, Qin Xiong stood in line with his teammates and prepared to play with his head held high and his face grim.

After the referee team checked that there were no dangerous objects on the players, the players from both sides walked into Goodison Park.

The noise is deafening, the Merseyside Derby is about to start!

"Welcome to Goodison Park, where the Merseyside Derby, the focus of the 14th round of the Premier League, will be staged here. Everton at home will face their city rivals Liverpool.

Today's game will be commented live by me Martin Taylor and my partner Andy Gray.

David Moyes is having a hard time, with only five wins in 13 games in the new season. Everton seems to have withdrawn from the competition for Champions League tickets early, which is frustrating. "

"It doesn't matter, Everton's cross-city rivals Liverpool are not having a good time. Before the game, Koeman was pressed by the "Guardian" reporter if he would leave get out of class midway and left. The league regained lost ground, and the good news for them is that Qin Xiong is back!

Qin Xiong is in the starting lineup today, but he has just recovered from injury, whether he can dominate the game will be a huge doubt. "

"Hehe, Qin Xiong is back, but Torres is injured. Whether Liverpool can survive this difficult life, no one knows!" (To be continued~^~)