Revive Liverpool

Chapter 108 The first game of the Champions League

This is the end of Liverpool's three-game winning streak at the start. The only teams that still maintain a winning streak after four rounds of league matches are Manchester City duo Manchester United and Manchester City.

And because of the loss of this game, Liverpool is also behind Chelsea, which has three wins and one draw, and is now ranked fourth in the league standings.

However, the next round of the Premier League will come to an end temporarily, and Liverpool will soon usher in their first game of the Champions League in the new season.

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Li Nan, who visited London for more than 10 days, flew directly from London to watch the team's first UEFA Champions League game of the new season.

The live broadcast footage was also given to Li Nan, the chairman of Liverpool who came to the scene. Although the Premier League broadcasters were no strangers to Li Nan appearing in the stands when they broadcast Liverpool games, they still got a lot of shots from the live broadcasters for Li Nan who appeared in the stands of the UEFA Champions League for the first time.

Because Liverpool bought Lewandowski from Borussia Dortmund in this summer's transfer.

After Dortmund sold Lewandowski, they knew that their current head striker Lucas Barrios was injured in the Copa America and could not participate in the team's next games.

In this case, Dortmund can only choose to introduce a striker from the outside to fill the gap in the team.

As the head coach of the team, Klopp fell in love with Royce of Borussia Mönchengladbach, who is also in the Bundesliga. Dortmund also introduced Royce as the team's forward this summer.

Although this signing has long been within the scope of Dortmund's investigation, Dortmund has not yet made up its mind whether to introduce Royce now, and wants to continue to observe and observe.

But what is different from the original time and space is that Liverpool stepped in and took away Lewandowski, which caused tension in the Dortmund team's striker, so Dortmund advanced the plan to introduce Royce.

They did not bring in during the transfer period in the summer of 2012 like the original time and space did. Instead, they made a decisive move to take down Royce this summer and cultivated them as the team's next striker core.

Of course, Royce, as the future potential star of Borussia Mönchengladbach, is not cheap, but Dortmund has the 1000 million euros that Liverpool paid a premium to buy Lewandowski.

The current Dortmund is not the one who is short of money. They are very proud to add 1000 million euros on top of the 200 million euros they received from Lewandowski.

Back to Liverpool's lineup sent by Pochettino for this game: Navas, who is unshakable in the goalkeeper position.

At the back are David Luiz and Agger, and the two full-backs are Carragher and Glenn Johnson.

Skrtel sat on the bench.

In the midfield position are Gerrard, Meireles, Kanter.

On the forward line are Griezmann, Dirk, Suarez.

In this game, Pochettino did not let any of the players introduced in the summer transfer appear.

Danny Rose, De Bruyne, Henderson, Lewandowski all watched from the sidelines.

In the away game, Liverpool fought aggressively after the opening game, and Griezmann and Suarez were very active on the two wings.

In the 6th minute, Suarez missed an excellent shot.Dortmund made a defensive error in the penalty area, and Suarez succeeded in stealing in the penalty area, but he was a little slow when facing goalkeeper Weidenfeller, and the ball was stabbed away by the defender first!
Just 1 minute later, Dortmund also played a quick counterattack. Shinji Kagawa was assigned to the neutral position on the left, and Royce shot the ball high!
In the 12th minute, Dortmund almost broke the deadlock. Royce broke into the penalty area and hit the goal on the right side and was cleared by Sagna's goal line!

In the 22nd minute, Liverpool quickly counterattacked, and Griezmann was knocked down by Hummels in the penalty area, but the referee signaled the game to continue.

In the 32nd minute, Glen Johnson hit the Dortmund player with a pass in the penalty area, but the referee indicated that it was an unintentional handball and the game continued.

Then Gerrard cleverly picked a pass to Dirk, but Meirelles volleyed the goal on the left side of the penalty area and was saved by Weidenfeller!
In the 38th minute, a shot from outside the penalty area was blocked by the Dortmund defender, and Shinji Kagawa made a pass along the right and the ball was obtained by Navas.

Two minutes later, Glenn Johnson made a cross and Lewandowski's header was hugged by Weidenfeller.

Liverpool broke the deadlock in the 42nd minute of the game. Kyle passed the ball carelessly in midfield. Kanter quickly launched an attack after a tackle.

After halftime, Liverpool led Dortmund [-]-[-].

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. In the 55th minute, Schmelzer shot slightly higher from a small angle.Liverpool then got a free kick, but Gerrard's shot hit the wall.

In the 59th minute, Dortmund got a corner kick and Hummels knocked down Meireles with a header. Meireles' ear was hit by Hummels and bled.

In the 62nd minute, Liverpool made a long pass to the frontcourt. Suarez got a single chance after getting the ball, but the final shot was poorly handled and was blocked by Weidenfeller!

In the 68th minute, Kyle won any chance for Dortmund in the frontcourt, and then Klopp changed two people in a row. Perisic and Bwaszczykowski replaced Gross Kreutz and Kyle respectively.

After seeing Klopp's adjustments, Pochettino also made substitution adjustments, and Lewandowski replaced Dirk to maintain the offensive firepower.

At the same time, it also allows Lewandowski to fight against his old master Dortmund, to see if he can have a miraculous effect after staying in Dortmund for a year, and seal the victory for Liverpool.

In the 81st minute, Dortmund got consecutive corner kicks, and Subotic's shot was bravely resolved by Navas.

Three minutes later, Perisic dribbled the ball away from the defender and knocked it across the middle. As a result, Gotze's shot missed the ball!

In the final stage of the game, the two sides deployed troops. Klopp replaced Shinji Kagawa with Egyptian striker Zidan, while Pochettino replaced Agger and Carragher with Skrtel and Danny Rose.

After a long attack, Dortmund finally equalized the score in the 89th minute. Dortmund sent a free kick into the penalty area. David Luiz headed the ball to make a clearance. Perisic volleyed the ball from the top of the penalty area. The ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal. Navas did not respond.The score became one to one!

At the end of the game, Liverpool drew with Dortmund away.

(End of this chapter)