six finger demon

Chapter 420 Two Curses
Two to one!

According to the headlines in The Times the next day, some fans who hadn't watched the game the day before learned of the score of the Community Shield.

In the 93rd minute of the game, Chelsea took advantage of Crespo's anti-offside and successfully pulled back a goal.

It is not so much Joe Cole's precise passing or Crespo's strong forward awareness, but the Liverpool players' intentional or unintentional laxity at the last minute, which caused the Argentine striker to easily single-handedly beat the Spanish goalkeeper.

For Liverpool, it may be a "magnanimity of the rich", but for the poor Reina, in his debut for the Red Army in just 10 minutes, he handed over his first time.

When celebrating after the game, fans could easily see a bit of bitterness on the face of this big bald man.

Maybe this is life!

In the photo on the cover, Gerrard held up the community shield "shield" with a distorted smiling face, and around him were the same group of Liverpool players who laughed out of shape.

The Community Shield championship is not very meaningful, and most of the game prize money is donated by the team and players.

But in any case, this champion has made a good start to the new season.

Counting the championship won last season, Liverpool can also be counted as a veritable "quadruple champion".

Liverpool won the No.15 Community Shield in team history as they wished, and Tang Wu, the hero who won the championship this time, has once again become a topic that fans talk about.

"L'Equipe" reported: "Heavy artillery for the league champions!"

"There is no denying that Tom is a phenomenal goalkeeper. After yesterday, his definition will change."

"Assists and goals are not easy for some midfielders and forwards. But yesterday, TOM contracted these two as a goalkeeper."

"It's hard to imagine how a goalkeeper attacks, and it's even harder to imagine how a goalkeeper scores goals."

"Tom's answer is very simple, he just needs to use his hands or Gerrard's feet to lift the damn ball in the air. Then sweep it across the body, it's that simple!"

"God bless, I hope the goal is scored by TOM. Otherwise, this season's goalkeeper will focus on how to save free kicks!"

"Echo" reported: "The amazing Tom cat, he once again broke our cognition!"

"Without a doubt, our TOM has 'evolved'."

"To capture the league title named 'JERRY', our 'TOM' has once again outfitted himself with a new 'equipment'."

"Free kick!"

"This is no ordinary free kick!"

"It's a cannon condensed with God Particles!"

"It's hard for you to imagine that kind of free kick from the feet of a person on earth. If you were at the Cardiff Stadium yesterday, congratulations, you may have seen the most classic free kick of the season."

"A free kick that jumps straight from start to finish!"

"Let us predict how many free kicks Liverpool will take in the new season and how many goals TOM will score for Liverpool in the new season."

"Fans please log in to XXX, XXX, COM, or write to us, and cast your precious vote. We will draw three lucky ones from the fans who participated in the voting, and give away a pair of shoes of the same style as TOM."

The "Sun", which has always had a "relationship" with the Red Army, speculated about Liverpool's championship from another aspect, but the statistics it cited are beyond doubt.

"The Sun" reported: "Liverpool crowned four times, I wonder if they can break the curse of the community shield."

Is the Community Shield really a magic spell?

When excited fans open the newspaper, they will see the data listed by The Sun at a glance.

Since 97, it is difficult for anyone who wins the championship in the same season to win the league championship.Since then, the saying that those who win the Community Shield must lose the league has become popular.

Among the eight Community Shield champions, Liverpool won one, Chelsea one, Manchester United two and Arsenal four.However, none of the league champions in the same year were the above-mentioned teams. Whether it was Manchester United's four crowns or Arsenal's triple crown, they did not match the Community Shield champions at the beginning of the season.

While the "Sun" proposed the Community Shield curse, it also proposed another "Liverpool curse".

Counting from 1976, whenever the former red dynasty Liverpool won the championship, the champion for the 17th year thereafter must belong to Manchester United;

利物浦在76、77、79、80、82、83、84、86赛季分别获得了冠军，17年后，曼联则在93、94、96、97、99、00、01、03赛季获得了英超冠军。

However, the "Sun" also pointed out that according to the law of Liverpool winning the championship in the 88 season, the Premier League champion last season should still be Manchester United.

But this mysterious law that has lasted for 28 years has been contributed by a touch of blue. The "Sun" claimed that if it were not for the sudden emergence of Chelsea, Manchester United might have been the champion of last season.

But whether it is the Community Shield spell or the Liverpool spell, fans suddenly discovered that Liverpool has been away from the league title for too long.

For this, Benitez was a little low-key in an interview with the BBC.

"I should feel fortunate that we were able to renew the contracts of Gerrard and Tom when the club got a lot of money to make up. In my opinion, this is the biggest achievement of the club in the new season."

"The Premier League has always been an endurance game and few teams laugh it off."

"In the history of the Premier League, we have also seen countless teams leading the way, but lost a good game because of several consecutive defeats; there are also teams that were not well-known at the beginning of the season, but at the last moment they flourished and finally won the league championship. .”

"There are many new players joining the team in the new season, and we still need time to adjust. What I hope now is that our players will not always get injured. To be honest, last season's injuries have had a great impact on this season, and we still have a lot of trouble. There are many wounded lying in Liverpool hospitals."

"As for the championship, of course we yearn for it. However, we have to wait until New Year's Day, because that is the most critical moment to win the championship!"

Beitu's speech was quite satisfactory, but on the other side, the madman Mourinho made it clear: "Defending Syndrome" will plague the Blues.

In the new season, will Chelsea stand out, or will they fall into the quagmire of the championship?

Take a look at the schedule, away to Liverpool on October 10, away to Manchester United on November 2, and away to Arsenal on December 11.Any game that is hit hard by the opponent will be a severe test for Chelsea.Can they get up right after they fall, and take off right after landing?
What's more, the defense itself is already a big test for this team.It's easy to get to the top, but hard to stay.

In the past season, Magic Bird made good use of the concept of "honor hunger" to knead the team together.But now that the championship has been won, will this group of young people continue to unite closely and make persistent efforts?
In addition, after one season has passed, the Premier League coach has a better understanding of Magic Bird's style of play and his team, and has more countermeasures.Can Magic Bird replicate the magic of last season?
After the Community Shield, Magic Bird made it clear in an interview on Sky TV: His biggest opponent in the new season is not Wenger and Ferguson, but Benitez.

"To a certain extent, he is very similar to me. They both pay special attention to defense and advocate quick counterattacks."

"I hate Italian teams because they tend to defend well and exploit their opponents' weaknesses in attack. Now having such an 'Italian team' in the Premier League does give me a headache."

"As for Tom, I know what you want to ask."

"He is an amazing young man, and his performance has greatly exceeded our perception of him!"

"Believe me, even if you were sitting in my position, you would miss this talented young man."

"No Premier League manager can tell where he's going; I don't think even coaches around the world can see where he's going."

"He's a young man with no roof and he's still growing. We have to keep him and Liverpool's old tactics in check before he brings new ones to the team."

(End of this chapter)