Chapter 045: Challenging Anfield (Part I)

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Speaking of Liverpool, it is inevitable to mention one person, and that is Bill Shankley, who single-handedly turned Liverpool from a second division team into the supremacy of English football. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoWithout Shankly, Liverpool would not have been able to rise to dominate English football and sweep Europe in the seventies and eighties, completing the feat of winning the Champions League three times in five years.

Although the Liverpool dynasty established by Shankly has long since faded over time, and the boot room culture he pioneered has been weakened by Dalglish's sudden retirement, and Liverpool have not even tasted the English top flight title for 13 years, the Reds are still able to be regarded as a top club and join the G14, an organisation that only the top giants are eligible to participate in. As the founder and founder of the Liverpool dynasty, Bill Shankly naturally contributed a lot.

Now, George is leading Tottenham Hotspur to challenge the most successful club in English football history at Anfield, Liverpool's home stadium!

"This is Anfield?" George pouted disdainfully as he looked at the sign that was said to have been erected by Bill Shankly himself at the top of the stairs of the Anfield Players' Tunnel. Five years at Manchester United have made George's attitude towards Liverpool very different from his previous life: "Nonsense, of course I know this is Anfield. It is the home of Liverpool, who has not even won a Premier League title, but dares to shamelessly call itself a top giant. ”

George's voice is not small, and the distance between the Liverpool players and him is not too far, so George's words reached their ears word for word, which naturally caused strong dissatisfaction among the Liverpool players!

"What were you kid talking about? Kind of repeatedly!" Hearing George's words, Gerrard and Carragher, who were Liverpool's captains and vice-captains, were immediately furious. The latter walked up to George with wide eyes, as if he wanted to eat him alive. And Gerald's expression on the side was also extremely angry at the moment, and his eyes kept glancing at George, as if he was thinking about where to start for a while.

You must know that for George, who has the brand of Manchester United and led Manchester United to win the Premier League trophy last season, the Liverpool players have a grudge against him. Not to mention that now George dares to mock in front of Liverpool players, which will naturally cause strong dissatisfaction from Gerrard and others.

"Hehe, what's the matter? Liverpool players are like you," George sneered at the two who rushed in front of him. Although not a professional player, George's physical qualities are not much worse than Gerrard and Carragher. With a height of 1.88 meters and muscles that he has developed over the years, as well as the fighting moves he learned from his friend Bear Grylls, George is not afraid of the current one-on-two situation at all. In other words, even if Liverpool rushes up a few more people, George is fully confident that he will beat them all over the ground here.

"Hey, Cristiano (Ronaldo), if you don't go over to help, forget it, why are you still dragging me?" Seeing that his coach was caught in a disadvantageous situation of playing more with less, Ledley King Kong, who was selected by George as the captain of the team this season, wanted to come forward to help, but he didn't want to be dragged by Ronaldo next to him, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"Captain, don't worry, this time you will listen to me. Ronaldo secretly glanced at George, who was confronting the Liverpool players, and then whispered in Kim's ear, "Don't say that Gerrard and Carragher are idle, even if Liverpool has a few more, they will just go to deliver food." ”

On this point, Ronaldo is the most vocal. Because five years ago in Madeira, he witnessed how George, who was only 18 years old at the time, knocked down the five big men opposite him with his bare hands, so this time, Ronaldo did not take Gerrard and Carragher to heart at all. In the eyes of Ronaldo, who has admired George since he was a child, the whole Liverpool team is put together, and I am afraid it is not enough for his George brother to play alone.

"Guys, if you still want to play normally, then please stay calm and don't cause anything before the game starts. At this time, Nell Barry, who was the referee of the game, also found out about the situation and hurriedly ran over to mediate, "Otherwise, I would have to choose to suspend this game and report the matter to the disciplinary committee, who will make additional punishments." ”

"Okay, no problem. Seeing the referee intervene in the matter, although George felt very sorry for the Liverpool players not to do it, he immediately agreed, "No matter what, you two are good, I like it very much." So, I will apologize to you for my previous offensive remarks...... However, I don't apologize to that guy for not saying anything. By the way, the guy wearing the number 10 shirt is your Liverpool player?"

"Michael (Owen), you actually ......" Hearing George say this, Gerrard and Carragher realized that Owen, who was also from Liverpool, had just not attacked George with them, but leaned his body against the wall as before, as if it was none of his business.

It's no wonder that Irving was not treated by the fans of his team wherever he went, with his emotional intelligence, tsk, he was really hopeless. Glancing at Gerrard and Carragher, who were dissatisfied with Owen, George smiled and turned to walk in the direction of his own players.

"Chief, you were so risky!" Ridley King was the first to rush over and say worriedly as George retreated from Gerald and Carragher unscathed. He was really worried that George would start a fight over his disrespectful remarks to Liverpool.

After all, this is Liverpool's territory. No matter how hard George could fight, he couldn't get out of Anfield single-handedly. If this had happened in White Hart Lane, Ridley King wouldn't have thought about what the Liverpudlians thought – dare they yell at our manager?

"Don't worry, it's okay. George smiled, first comforted his captain, and then glared in the direction of Ronaldo covertly, and said in his heart, "You kid know that I can fight, do you dare to come to help?"

The small turmoil that occurred in the players' tunnel was revealed, but this incident still left a seed in the hearts of the players on both sides. George's tough approach against the Liverpool players has convinced the Tottenham players of their own manager, as they feel that playing under such a manager will certainly be more secure, while the morale of the Reds has taken a toll on Liverpool. After all, even Owen, Liverpool's leading star, is on the sidelines, and the emotions of the other players will definitely be negatively affected by this.

Although he doesn't want to admit it, George knows in his heart that Tottenham Hotspur is still not as hard as Liverpool at the moment. If you want to score points from the Reds fighting at home, you have to be doubly careful. After all, although Owen has now begun to be plagued by injuries and the speed and explosiveness that made him famous have declined, he is still at the tail end of his prime, and his power should not be underestimated. While his striker partner Heskey has been criticised for his goalscoring inefficiency, the blue-collar centre-forward has played a tactical role in this Liverpool team that no other striker can replace. Coupled with stars such as Gerrard, Hamann, Colwill, Reese, Carragher, Dudek and other stars in the midfield, Houllier's Liverpool team is not as good as Manchester United and Arsenal in terms of overall strength, and it can be in the first group in the Premier League.

Therefore, George's deliberate taunts in the tunnel before the game, as well as those actions afterwards, also have the consideration of demoralizing Liverpool and undermining the trust between opposing players. In addition, when submitting the squad for the game, George also made some changes to the team's lineup.

Goalkeeper Petr Cech, the back four from left to right, Heinze, Nemanja Vidic, Ledley King and Stephen Carr, Speed and Mascherano in the back two, Carrick in the middle, leaving Bierovka alone on the wing, and Didier Drogba and Robbie Keane in front. Obviously, against Liverpool, who are good at defending and counter-attacking, George decided to tie up the fence at Anfield and lure the opponent to take the initiative before playing the Reds' counter-attack - after all, Houllier's side are much weaker in terms of attacking and can defend against counter-attacks than they can easily defend and counter-attack

With Tottenham Hotspur out of the way, let's take a look at Liverpool. Although Tottenham have won one and drawn one in the first two rounds, Liverpool boss Houllier has not taken this opponent to heart. In the French boss's view, Tottenham's success was largely due to the fact that they had not faced strong opponents in the first two rounds...... Birmingham City, Leeds United, if these two teams meet Liverpool, there is no pressure to get a two-game winning streak!

Therefore, the confident Houllier did not make any targeted adjustments and directly put the strongest team into the starting lineup.

If George knew that Houllier was thinking so, then he would definitely complain about this strange view of the French - if Tottenham, who even got four points from two rounds, is not strong, then what about Liverpool, who was drawn at home by Aston Villa (16th in the Premier League last season) in the last round and only drew one and lost one in the first two rounds?

That's it, when Nell Barry blew the whistle in his mouth, the battle between Tottenham and Liverpool officially began at this moment!