super storm

Chapter 570 Unspoken Rules

As the first strong dialogue of the season, Liverpool's home game against Chelsea has attracted the attention of media reporters and fans from all over the world, and it has also aroused huge repercussions in British and European football.

Surprisingly, it was surprisingly calm before the game.

The day before the game, when Chelsea held a press conference to announce the team's squad for the Liverpool game, Mourinho excused his lack of time to attend, and assistant coach Villas-Boas attended on his behalf.

But in fact, according to the inside story obtained by the media afterwards, Mourinho was at the Cobham training base at the time.

Instead, at Melwood in Liverpool, Benitez participated in the pre-match press conference and announced the match squad. At the same time, he publicly stated in an interview with the media that in recent years, the person who has made the most contributions to Chelsea is Abramovich.

That seems like an odd statement, doesn't it?
But in fact, it was Benitez who was making things difficult for Mourinho.

Because everyone knows that Mourinho and Abramovich are at odds, and the two sides have not even spoken for a long time. During the transfer during the winter break last season, the two also held their own opinions on the choice between Alex and Ben Haim.

No one knows what's going on inside Chelsea, but Benitez doesn't mind distracting Mourinho before the game, but he didn't expect that Mourinho would be uncharacteristically, he didn't have a big fight, and he didn't even attend the pre-match press conference, which made Benitez's punch seem to hit the cotton.

For Carvalho missed this game, Benitez said that this is good news.

"According to the data, without Carvalho, Chelsea's probability of winning is reduced by 30.00%"

For the next game, the Spanish coach said that the team will try their best to score three points.

"Yang Yang will still be the key to our victory in the game. I feel that his condition is better than ever. He is almost unstoppable. I have a hunch that he will score goals in the game, but don't forget, we have others."

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Although Mourinho did not come forward to accept the move, the atmosphere in the whole of Britain became very tense before the war.

The city of Liverpool is even more smoky.

Everyone is full of expectations for the upcoming match, which is hailed by the media reporters as the key matchup of the championship skirmish. At the same time, they are very apprehensive. They don't know whether Liverpool, who are playing at home, will win, or Chelsea, who will be playing away, will retreat unscathed.

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Liverpool was still the night before the game, and everyone checked into the Hope Street Hotel on time.

But just as everyone was paying attention to this upcoming crucial decisive battle, FIFA quietly occupied the pages of major media around the world on the morning of the game.

Although there are still four months to go until the FIFA Awards Ceremony in December, FIFA has already begun to warm up for this grand event four months later, and has taken the lead in announcing the list of 30 candidates for the World Footballer of the Year.

Yang Yang's name appeared on this list for the third consecutive year, while Messi appeared for the first time.

In addition, Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney and Giggs, Chelsea also have Drogba, Petr Cech and Essien shortlisted, but Shevchenko has no chance for this list.

Although it is normal to enter and leave the list with the ups and downs of players' performance, Shevchenko fell out of the big list this time. The speed is indeed a bit fast, especially in his current situation, it may be even more difficult to return to this list.

Last season's Champions League champion Liverpool only had two players shortlisted, that is, Yang Yang and Gerrard. On the contrary, AC Milan shortlisted six players, namely Kaka, Pirlo, Seedorf, Maldini, Inzaghi and Gattuso.

AC Milan is also the team with the most shortlisted players, which makes many people wonder about this list. After all, AC Milan did not perform well last season, especially in the Champions League. They failed to beat Liverpool to win the championship in the end. How come so many people were shortlisted?
However, considering that FIFA's selection has always been a tradition of emphasizing fame and underestimating actual performance, it is also relieved of this list.

It's just that there is a heated discussion all over the world about who will be the final World Footballer.

Yang Yang is undoubtedly the number one candidate. Let’s not talk about his wonderful hat-trick performance in the Premier League just now. Let’s just say that last season, he single-handedly won the Premier League’s top scorer, assists, and the Champions League top scorer and assists.

It can be said that if he does not take it, who is eligible to take it?

But there are also many people who believe that Yang Yang was born in a weak football country. Although there were no major national team matches in [-] and more refer to the Champions League, the overall strength of Yang Yang's Liverpool is slightly stronger than that of AC Milan. Many people think that Yang Yang still relies more on the whole.

From the perspective of personal performance, Kaka is even more difficult, because he almost dragged AC Milan to the final alone, and he was born in Brazil. As we all know, Brazilian players are more favored in this selection, which is also a tradition.

After FIFA announced the 30-man squad, major European gaming companies have also issued odds for the first round.

Judging from the odds announced first, Kaka surpassed Yang Yang and became the number one candidate to win the World Footballer of the Year. This has to be said to be a very surprising thing.

Yang Yang is the second favorite to win the award, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Didier Drogba.

The odds offered by the gaming company have once again sparked heated discussions.

Who is more likely to win the award among Yang Yang, Kaka and Ronaldinho? This will undoubtedly become the focus of attention and discussion among fans and media reporters all over the world in the next four months.

And that's clearly what FIFA is aiming for.

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Liverpool players only read the news from the papers provided by the Hope Street Hotel while they were dining on match-morning mornings.

For Yang Yang to lose to Kaka in the odds of the gaming company, Liverpool felt unbelievable.

"Those who bet on Kaka must be crazy. We are the champions. Yang Yang has won all the Premier League awards by himself, and also won the Champions League top scorer and assists. Besides him, who else?"

"Who says it's not? Even if you're not blind, you know you should vote for Yang Yang."

"But don't say it, it's really not easy for players from weak football countries to win this award."

"Let's not talk about the World Footballer. Before Shevchenko won the European Ballon d'Or, it was thanks to Berlusconi who personally called the headquarters of the French football magazine to deal with it?"

"Yeah, there is no way. It is really difficult for Asian and African players to win awards."

Teammates, you talked with me one by one.

Yang Yang, however, kept eating in silence, as if he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

Gerald was sitting opposite him, looked up at him, and comforted him: "Don't take it too seriously, this kind of thing is like this sometimes, no matter what others think, in my eyes, you are the strongest in the world."

Yang Yang nodded and smiled at the captain, "Thank you."

"The odds of the gaming companies are changing at any time. Judging from the current situation, it can only mean that they are more optimistic about Kaka for the time being. That's all. But who knows what will happen next?"

Gerrard's words made Yang Yang nod repeatedly.

"I know, so I never took it too seriously. I will continue to do my best to perform and show my best state to prove myself. As for whether I can get it, I will leave it to fate."

Gerald nodded with a smile, "The better you perform, the less they dare not award it to you. Otherwise, this award will lose its credibility sooner or later. It will depend on who will praise them."

Yang Yang smiled faintly. He admired Kaka very much. To a certain extent, he and Kaka were far closer than Ronaldinho and Messi, because they were not only competitors, but also friends.

From the first time he participated in UEFA's draw and awards ceremony, he knew Kaka, and exchanged phone numbers and contact information with each other, and then communicated several times.

But there is only one award, and everyone wants to win it, including Yang Yang.

Therefore, we can only fight for each according to our ability.

Yang Yang is not surprised that the so-called weak football countries are more difficult to win prizes, because it is the truth.

It is recognized by all that players from football powerhouses are more likely to win this award.

In other words, this can be regarded as an unspoken rule of professional football.

But knowing doesn't mean approval, it doesn't mean surrendering.

Yang Yang doesn't care what others think, but he must be determined to the end.

Regardless of whether he can win the award in the end, at least he has a clear conscience.

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FIFA's announcement of the 30-man roster somewhat affected Yang Yang's mind, but it did not affect his preparations.

On the day of the match, everyone in Liverpool was also preparing in an orderly manner according to the plan arranged by the coaching staff. Everyone clearly felt that the battle against Chelsea would be the team's first test in the new season.

On the day of the game, Liverpool also continued to receive news from their opponents.

That afternoon, the coaching staff announced at the last tactical meeting that John Terry would play with injuries.

The coaching staff did not disclose where the news came from, but there must be Liverpool scouts spying on Chelsea's military situation.

This is a war without gunpowder, but in any war, food and intelligence are the most important.

Benitez started for John Terry and fine-tuned the team's offense appropriately, but there is still not much change overall. Yang Yang will continue to play the starting role, and Crouch and Dirk will partner with him.

In the past two rounds of matches, the Spanish coach has successively rotated many players. The purpose is to make the team's main lineup be in the best condition to play Chelsea at Anfield.

And now, it's time to test the team's preparations throughout the summer and the results of the rotation during this period of the season.

(End of this chapter)