After four rounds, Manchester City won all of them and got 12 points, Liverpool won 3 and drew 10 points, which is the top two in the standings, and behind Liverpool is Arsenal, Arsenal has 7 points.

Manchester City are always winning, causing Zhang Yuan to be strongly dissatisfied, and he complained: "Why are they always winning!"

"Look! I can't hold my breath at this beginning?!" Deegan scoffed.

Anyway, Liverpool failed to do anything big last season, Zhang Yuanxin is a little anxious now, he still thinks that the team is playing very well, but he still falls behind Manchester City.

"Don't worry, they're always going to lose, as long as we do our best!" Degan patted Zhang Yuan's shoulder like a big brother.

Once this round is over, it's time for the Liverpool players to take part in the international break.

The first game to participate in returning to China was a home game against Hong Kong, China, the strength of Hong Kong, China is also a fish belly team in Asia, after Zhang Yuan returned to China, he participated in training, something happened during the period, not Zhang Yuan's business, but someone else, a striker who partnered with Zhang Yuan in the national football team, the strength is not bad, but I don't know why I have a bad relationship with Peilan.

Zhang Yuan later asked his partner what was going on, and it turned out that Perrin questioned his attitude towards the game, thinking that the striker was a little out of standard in the national team game, and his performance in the national team was not as good as in the club.

As a result, when playing against the weak team Hong Kong, China, Perrin temporarily changed the formation, let Zhang Yuan play as a single striker, and strictly limited Zhang Yuan's tactical role, he hoped to have a point in the penalty area.

But the result was that there was a point, but there was no ball for Zhang Yuan to pass, coupled with the long-distance travel, Zhang Yuan's performance in this game was also a little sluggish, and he failed to seize the only two opportunities, resulting in the Chinese team being forced to draw by Hong Kong, China at home!

It is said that after Perrin won the Asian Cup, his momentum did come up, and at the end of the game, he criticized the attitude of the players, thinking that the players did not have a positive and enterprising heart in this game, and Zhang Yuan was very unhappy after listening to it.

Peilan's requirement for him is not to respond to the center position, but to ask him to stand in the penalty area and receive the pass from his teammates, but what is the level of the Chinese team's passing? ! In the face of Hong Kong, China, the poor quality of the past passes had no effect at all, and Zhang Yuan also fell into the sea surrounded by the enemy!

No wonder a Hong Kong player said after the game: "Zhang Yuan is just like that, he was defended by us to death!"

These words also made Zhang Yuan hate it so much!

Peilan's current status is very important in the minds of the Football Association and fans, everyone thinks that he has two brushes, and now he says what he is, after the Asian Cup, he dislikes the accommodation of forgiveness, and asks the Football Association to change to better accommodation, and the Football Association will do it, and now criticize their players after the game, Zhang Yuan They still have to swallow their anger, at least in Zhang Yuan's opinion, his tactics are problematic, why do you put a 451 in the face of the weak team, why don't you insist on two centers, let Lao Tzu be alone!

The Chinese team then played the Maldives in Shenyang on September 8.

The Maldives is a very strange team, the game played in Shenyang is not the home of the Chinese team but the home of the Maldives, and it is indeed too rare to use the opponent's home stadium as the home field, and it is generally arranged in a third-party playing venue.

When Zhang Yuan was in Juventus, Cagliari's home stadium was wonderful, moving from Sardinia to northeastern Italy, making the home fans run more than the away fans!

Maldives this time to give up their home stadium is also a last resort, their football situation is relatively poor, after all, the country is small and weak, the national team can only be called a semi-professional team, and the place is small They can meet the AFC's requirements for the home field There are very few venues, the original home of the World Preliminaries

It was only because the Maldives celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the country some time ago, and the founding celebration happened to be held at the home stadium of the country's World Preliminary Championships, and the result can be imagined, the event caused serious damage to the turf of the stadium. After an on-site inspection, the AFC concluded that the current state of the Maldives' home turf could not meet the needs of the World Preliminary Tournament. As a result, the Maldives had no choice but to request the Chinese Football Association to switch the home stadium.

In the face of such a request, the Chinese Football Association did not agree. The reason is that in addition to the fact that the bidding for the home of the Chinese team in the World Preliminary Tournament has long ended, more importantly, once the home and away games are reversed, it will cause the Chinese team to make the schedule of the World Preliminary Tournament even worse. For this reason, the Maldives had to resort to the second move, announcing that it would give up its home stadium and put the battle between China and Malaysia in a third-party competition venue, but this trick still did not work, and finally the Maldives simply negotiated with China and moved its home stadium to Shenyang.

It's not too late to give away the home team, the strange Maldives temporarily changed the lineup list, and actually recruited four goalkeepers, but gave up the two main central defenders.

From this point of view, the Maldives is quite a good person to do the spirit of sending Buddha to the West!

Even if there are some hints of general contradictions within the Chinese team now, but in the face of the Maldives who give away so many points, how can they not take all three points, the same tactics, the weak back line of the Maldives can not stop Zhang Yuan a single striker, in this game Zhang Yuan kicked his head and scored 5 goals, helping the Chinese team beat the Maldives 7-0.

After three rounds, the Chinese team only got 7 points in the standings due to a draw with Hong Kong, China, which is not very ideal, not only with Qatar, but also with the same points as the Chinese team.

But the domestic media and fans are still very optimistic, after all, the Chinese team has not yet competed directly with Qatar, everyone is very confident that they will kill Qatar and then ascend to the first place, and the contradictions within the national team have also been temporarily calmed down because of this situation.

Returning to Liverpool from China, Zhang Yuan concentrated on joining the preparation for Manchester United, the upcoming double red meeting is another challenge to Liverpool, after the national team break, for the major giants, it is undoubtedly painful, everyone has contributed a lot of national football, physical and mental fatigue is undoubted, but after such a game, Liverpool still has to play the Champions League, but also an away game, against Dinamo Zagreb, if you don't deal with it carelessly, it may announce the beginning of the collapse of the whole season.

Of course, Manchester United's current form is not particularly good, their attack is always a problem, Van Gaal spent a lot of money on reinforcements this summer, but the current effect, there is still no big improvement, they have ups and downs in the first four rounds, the first round of Tottenham Hotspur, the second round of a small victory over Villa, but the third round they suffered two games without a win, and the opponents are not the kind of relegation team, draw Newcastle, lost to Swansea, Van Gaal has suffered a lot of criticism, saying that staying in the position of Manchester United is a role on the fire。

In the season of Alex Ferguson's departure, United won the title and expectations were high, and neither David Moyes nor Louis van Gaal could have made progress for the Reds, and of course they were met with considerable criticism.

Manchester United is not like Liverpool at all, Liverpool has not won a championship for a long time, and the strength on paper is not as good as Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, the three giants, Rodgers has been criticized far less fiercely than Moyes and Van Gaal, until now there are many media that Rodgers is the backer of Liverpool's poor results, the real reason is that the team's injuries have affected Liverpool's record.

In short, Van Gaal's position is a bit difficult to sit on, on the occasion of this double red meeting, Van Gaal must hope to make a comeback with this game, they swept Liverpool at home last season, why can't they do it this season?!

Win against Liverpool and Louis van Gaal's side could be on the road!

Of course, Klopp wants to win, Manchester City's start is very strong, Klopp doesn't want his team to be pulled down too much by Manchester City, he has to show something, and in the first five rounds of this season, Liverpool has to face two old giants, one is Arsenal, has played, Liverpool is not very good, the other is Manchester United, Klopp hopes that Liverpool can make a difference in this game.