Sturridge sent Zhang Yuan back to the hotel, and Zhang Yuan complained: "It's not a good thing for you to be famous, if you want to get together with friends, you can only hide a little place!

Sturridge smiled and said: "It's not that scary, in fact, because you don't go often, if you go often, everyone will be familiar with it and there won't be so much trouble, every time you are surrounded by their praise!"

"Oh, what do you mean by that?!"

"Haha, there are so many bars here! Every bar basically has a regular group of customers! Well, that is, the bars here are not very crowded! If you go a few times, you'll definitely find those people drinking, not many strangers!" Sturridge explained with a laugh. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the bar culture in England, Zhang Yuan rarely goes to bars, and he doesn't know the situation in England very well.

However, the paparazzi thing is very annoying, and the next day, Zhang Yuan and Sturridge's whereabouts are brilliantly presented to readers by the paparazzi's photos.

This kind of thing is commonplace for Zhang Yuan, anyway, just ignore it, today's training is arranged twice, the morning is a routine training, and in the afternoon, Rodgers specially arranged a targeted tactical training, against whom, against Manchester City!

Manchester City is a difficult opponent to deal with, money is a universal thing that makes sense everywhere, the Manchester City team is piled up by money, the same is true of Chelsea in the past, Chelsea is a strong team in the Bates era, but Manchester City is not at all, it has been bullied by Manchester City, the rival of the same city, talking about a strong team, but after such a team became the owner of Thaksin and the Middle East consortium, everything changed.

In just a few years, they have won two league titles in the league, and it is true that they are seeking to buy Zhang Yuan this summer, and they always have too many good players, but Zhang Yuan finally chose Liverpool, Manchester City has not made any big moves in the transfer market, the midfielder has signed Fernando, Zucurini, the goalkeeper position has signed Caballero, and the defender has been exempted from signing Sagna.

Unabated, they are clearly the biggest threat to Liverpool!

Of course, Rodgers takes it seriously, and Liverpool exposed a lot of problems in the last game, such as problems in the defensive end, which is also their old problem.

Liverpool have conceded more than 40 goals in recent seasons, and last season their offensive performance was completely paid for by the defense, scoring as many goals as Manchester City, Liverpool had 101, while Manchester City had 102, but defensively Liverpool conceded 50 goals, compared to 37 for Manchester City.

This is the Premier League, and those who concede fewer goals like Chelsea are different, but your 50 goals are too much, and it is not for nothing that Manchester City won the title in the end.

In fact, the balance between attack and defense has always been a difficult problem for Liverpool coaches to solve, at least Grealish and Rodgers have not been able to solve it, Grealish is conservative, Liverpool even has relegation worries when accepting Liverpool, he is also a conservative coach, and pays more attention to defense in team adjustment, but the defense has improved, but the attack has not gone up, why Suarez has generally performed in Liverpool in the first two seasons has a lot to do with Grealish's coaching ideas.

After Rodgers came to power, if he wanted to score points, he could only strengthen Liverpool's support in attack, so the team scored more goals, but the defense was much worse than in the Grealish era, conceding 43 in the first year, 50 in the second year, and maybe 60 in the third year.

Last season, at least in the eyes of many people, it was not Manchester City but Liverpool who were lucky, because they were able to finish second, and at the beginning of this season, the celebrities of various teams have commented on the trend of the new season of the Premier League in the media, and it is also a bright spot for these celebrities to join the media after retiring.

Arsenal's defensive stalwart Keown said: "Manchester City will easily win the championship this season! Liverpool?! They don't play, there are too many gaps between Manchester City, what if they have Zhang Yuan?! This can't change their bad defense end!"

Before the words fell, Liverpool was scored a goal by Southampton at home!

Then the main central defender of the "snap" team, Degan, was injured, and it was a question of who to replace.

In this tactical drill session, Rodgers chose a combination of Skrtel and Toure, Kolo Toure was a substitute bought by Liverpool at the time, his career was basically spent in the Premier League, experienced, Liverpool's Ague said that it didn't start this year, it was already said last year, and the purchase of Toure was to fill the role of Agger as a substitute.

Last season he got 20 appearances under Rodgers, Rodgers still values his experience, of course, as an absolute main force is not possible, after all, he is older, Toure does not care, peace of mind to accept the fate of the substitute.

This time in practice, Rodgers combined him with Skrtel, which clearly meant that he wanted to pair him with Skrtel instead of Lovren.

Judging from the effect of the exercise, it is not bad, of course, it is difficult to say what it will look like in actual combat!

In addition to the special drills and arrangements on defense, Rodgers also gave a small stove to several forwards alone, mainly to explain the mistakes that may occur in the defensive system of the Manchester City team, and also told everyone who will play in the next game, Zhang Yuan and Sturridge will play, and Sterling has no play!

Rodgers will adopt a different tactic, 4312, Zhang Yuan and Sturridge play double center forwards, both of whom have a certain ability to impact, and they are both the kind of players who can break through with the ball, which is not bad at all compared to Manchester City's striker.

Of course, Sterling was not happy to hear such an arrangement, after all, he also wanted to play more, but in Rodgers's heart, he still has relative trust in Sturridge, who has a relatively high goal scoring rate.

Rodgers is a person who is more kind to the players, and is willing to communicate with the players, Zhang Yuan They left Rodgers comforted Sterling again, saying that the reason why he used a double striker, after his observation Zhang Yuan is not the kind of pure point grabbing striker, he is good at grabbing points, but there is a gap with Suarez at this point, but he still has a relatively high goal efficiency, the reason is that he has good shooting skills, a fairly high shooting rate, and the ability to get rid of the ball is much stronger than Suarez, and he can often create opportunities to shoot.

Sterling's passing also needs someone to grab points, Sterling tried in the last game, either his pass was unreliable, or the tacit understanding was not enough, Zhang Yuan failed to run to the required position.

Brendan Rodgers is not a blind coach, and Manchester City's centre-backs are not easy to deal with, so it is not wrong to increase the number of players.

The second round of fixtures in the Premier League officially kicked off at the weekend, with teams playing one after another, while Liverpool continued to train as usual.

Everton sat at home in this round of the game, facing the London giants Arsenal, kick-off time was half past five in the afternoon, Liverpool city turned blue again, Zhang Yuan from the Melwood training ground in the afternoon when returning to the hotel, passing through the city just in time to see a lot of fans heading to Goodison Park.

"There are a lot of Everton fans!" Zhang Yuan sighed, and the driver who was driving next to him said: "Well, they do have a lot of fans!"

Liverpool had two mixed teams in the Premier League, but in the beginning Everton and Liverpool were the same family, Everton used Anfield Stadium at the time, and then the owner of the stadium Holding fell out with the Everton club, Everton moved to Goodison Park, and Holding and his supporters started to build Liverpool.

This is the origin of Liverpool, because it was founded later than Everton, so the number of Everton fans is very large, far more than Liverpool fans, and then with Liverpool's excellent results, the number of fans in the city gradually increased.

But the inheritance of Premier League fans is relatively strong, for example, Lao Tzu likes Everton, and his son has a high probability that he will not like Liverpool, if nothing else, Gerrard's family, who have been Liverpool fans for generations.

Therefore, the number of Everton fans in Liverpool City is also very large, and the attendance rate of Goodison Park is also relatively high.

Many fans are die-hard fans of their respective teams, and they hate their sworn enemies, just like the enemy, the players of the sworn enemies are also the objects they hate, and the driver advised Zhang Yuan not to go out at night if he has something to do, in case he encounters the drunks of his sworn enemies, it is possible to beat you.

After listening to the driver's story, Zhang Yuancai sighed, this is England's football culture, very profound, unlike domestic clubs that may change their owners and change places, it is difficult to take root in one place, and the inability of Chinese football to rise is not related to this? !