709, a diet pill
April 20th.
Liverpool ushered in a make-up match:
The 27th round of the league was supposed to start at Anfield on 27 February.
Their opponent is none other than their city rivals, Everton.
- Why...... Will there be two 27s?
Perhaps influenced by the commemoration, the Merseyside derby, once known as "England's hottest derby", also has a little less gunpowder smell and adds a bit of warmth.
The two teams held a very solemn and warm moment of silence before the game, with players from both sides standing side by side to send their deepest condolences to the 96 fans who lost their lives.
Liverpool and Everton share the same roots, in the same city, and although they claim to be mortal enemies, they have never really been hostile.
In a family, it is very likely that the two brothers will support opposite teams, but this will definitely not affect the relationship between them, but will only add a little rare spice to each other's peaceful lives.
As captain of the team and de facto controller of the club, Lonsette was very grateful for the support that Everton had sent at this time, so he also put some water in place.
According to his fine tradition of "every crucial game is bound to explode", he did not go crazy in this derby.
With a hat-trick and an assist, he ended the game with such a mediocre, unbright report card.
Liverpool beat Everton 6-2 at their home stadium!
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By beating their local rivals and winning their first replayal game, Liverpool also managed to extend their lead over Leicester City from three points to six points, continuing to maintain the initiative in the title race, and the advantage was even greater.
I have to say that in the half season of 2016, Liverpool's schedule was so dense that it was really unbearable.
If you keep an eye on the timing, you'll see that, with the exception of a few moments, they're almost always going through a double race of the week.
And...... They've already had their worst fixtures – five rounds in two weeks against the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United!
The Premier League is already the best in Europe, not because of how high their level is, but because the gap between them is too small, and no two teams can turn the league into a two-man like Real Madrid and Barcelona, let alone Bayern, Juventus or Paris, where one team dominates the entire league.
Even against a mid-to-lower team like Bournemouth, Lonshette and Rodgers, who were sitting on the bench, had to break out in a cold sweat.
If it was at Bayern, since he accepted the rotation rest, then Lonshit would probably sit directly in the stands to guide the country, but during the Liverpool and AC Milan periods, he could not get a complete relaxation and rest - because he was worried that his team would be equalized or even reversed by weak opponents in minutes, and once such signs appeared, he had to step up and put on the line.
Of course, the more worried people are, the easier it is to feel tired, even a recognized iron man like Long Shute can't bear this kind of pressure, not to mention that he has to always care about the Chinese team thousands of miles away, and his heart is completely broken......
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With the strength of Ronshit's nerves, he felt that he was on the verge of limiting, and the rest of the Liverpool team certainly wouldn't be much easier.
Although most people get proper rest and rotation, the mental stress does not subside completely.
As a manager, Brendan Rodgers also shows irritability and anxiety on a lot of the time, which also affects the players under him.
Even though the club is equipped with a professional mental stress mediator, the mental thing is ...... How can it be so easy to adjust?
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An American Air Force captain once said an old saying:
"If you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen."
Or it can be summed up as "what will go wrong will always go wrong", "the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come".
You can also call it "Murphy's Law".
While the whole Liverpool was praying that their team would be safe through this devilish fixture, a headache finally happened.
Liverpool's main defender, Mamadou Sako, was charged by the UEFA Anti-Doping Association, and the French defender tested positive for urine after the Europa League match - he was suspected of doping!
During Platini's tenure at UEFA, they have long been committed to suppressing Premier League teams, and they have achieved remarkable results, but with the sudden rise of La Liga, the fierce infighting of the Premier League has gradually declined, and Platini no longer deliberately targets them.
What's more, Platini has stepped down with Blatter, and the bald Infantino has not yet succeeded in running for UEFA president, so no one should deliberately deal with Liverpool, a declining giant.
- Of course, this is just the naïve thinking of the fans.
They could not have imagined how terrible they would be treated in this Europa League......
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Immediately after receiving UEFA allegations, Liverpool FC launched an internal investigation.
Sacco certainly won't admit that he was doping, only explaining that he had taken a diet pill.
Not only was his explanation unforgivable, but it provoked another stir.
For professional players, they are not allowed to take medicine or receive treatment without authorization during the league, and for more serious injuries, they are often diagnosed and treated by the club team doctor and professional attending physicians, and the drugs that players usually take must also be approved by the team doctor, otherwise it is easy to violate the ban rules of UEFA or the domestic football association.
After all, it is impossible for ordinary people to specifically study whether there are few chemicals that can cause nervous excitement in this cold medicine or diet pill - just like drinking Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid can also be detected drunk driving.
What's more, the cultural level of most professional players can only calculate addition and subtraction within 20......
So Sacco was faced with another problem:
Taking medicine without the approval of the team doctor!
Ahead of UEFA's specific sanctions, Rodgers first imposed a two-match intra-squad ban on the main player for not following the club's internal rules.
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If you're a Liverpool fan, or if you've followed Sako in the past, you might have a little impression of what came after.
The less educated Sako has not even asked for a re-appeal – which could delay UEFA's decision for a while and even allow him to finish the season.
But instead of doing so, he admitted to taking banned drugs and was banned by UEFA for a month.
He missed the Europa League final, while Liverpool suffered a heavy defeat to Sevilla in that controversial game.
He then went on to be omitted from France's squad for the European Championships.
Then he fell quickly, was repeatedly late for the warm-up games of the new season, and was kicked back to his hometown by Klopp, and then he went from Liverpool's main central defender to a regular in the U23 echelon.
Sacko, who did not reflect, became more and more dissatisfied, and he even publicly bombarded the head coach for being jealous, nepotistic, and a liar, and this brainless remark finally completely angered the bearded Klopp......
Sako, who wore the armband of the Paris Saint-Germain captain at the age of 18, is definitely a figure who became famous at a young age - although the big Paris in 2008 was not the super tycoon who blew up the European market at every turn, it was also a big man.
In the summer of 2013, Rodgers bought the 22-year-old Frenchman from Paris for £18 million, and they went through a dreamlike but regrettable runners-up season together.
Although Nicolas Sacco is not an absolute mainstay, he has gradually become an indispensable part of the team - of course, in Gerrard's shocking slide, there is also his shadow......
In the Liverpool team, Sako is not an unsociable guy, but rather a very cheerful comicperson, probably like Bayern's Muller.
Merely...... His position at Liverpool is not at all a tenth of Muller's at Bayern, so some jokes about Muller can be made, but he can't.
In addition to a good relationship with teammates, Sako is also quite friendly to ordinary fans, and has a lot of affection among Liverpool fans, of course, it is certainly not as good as Gerrard, Carragher or other local players.
His technical and tactical ability has advantages and many disadvantages, but in the current Liverpool, he is still the main force of the iron, and without this doping scandal, he can not only continue to be the main force of Liverpool, but even get a place in the main squad of the French team.
But reality is always crueler than imagined.
He completely ruined his entire career because of a diet pill.
Longshute heartily reminded the fans:
Don't lose weight if you have nothing to do!