After the final two rounds of the World Cup European qualifiers, France defeated the Faroe Islands 5-0 at home and then beat Austria 3-1 at home to qualify for the play-offs.

Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands all qualified directly for the World Cup by topping their groups, while only France fell to the play-offs, and Portugal and Russia were stronger in the play-offs, which France wanted to avoid.

In fact, with the current state of the French team, it is not necessarily easy to play against anyone, and those who can enter the play-offs have two waters.

After the qualifiers, some stars have announced their farewell to next year's World Cup, the biggest name is Barcelona's big Ibrahimovic, his Sweden failed to compete for Portugal, finished third in the group and has been out, in addition to Manchester United's Berbatov, Chelsea's Cech and other big stars.

The issue of Liu Ting's naturalization as a French citizen also spread rapidly during this period.

In China, there are also some people who accuse him of joining the Chinese team, but it is not a big problem for Schiller Wagner and Zhang Qiming to help deal with it.

The national team is back and the league is going to start again.

Liverpool will travel to face the Black Cats Sunderland, who drew away to Manchester United in the last round of the league and are currently level on points with Liverpool in the standings, only behind Liverpool on goal difference.

The reason why Sunderland is nicknamed the Black Cat is because in the 36/37 season, there was a fan who brought a black cat into the stadium to watch the FA Cup final that year, when Sunderland defeated the opponent to win the FA Cup, the fans thought that the black cat brought them good luck, so the black cat became the symbol of the team for a while, and then a stray black cat appeared at Sunderland's old home stadium at Rock Park, and the Sunderland club took the initiative to feed him, and the fame of the black cat spread.

In fact, after Sunderland had the nickname of Black Cat, they only won the FA Cup once in total, and the other championships were won before the nickname of Black Cat, so feudal superstition is unacceptable.

During the international break, Liverpool suffered a big blow, with Torres and Steven Gerrard injured in succession.

At present, Liverpool only have Torres, Gerrard, Gareth Bale and Agger four injured absentees, and the front, middle and back of the field, which also casts a shadow on the upcoming game.

On October 17th, the 9th round of the Premier League arrived, Liverpool went to challenge Sunderland away, most of the media were not optimistic about Liverpool winning, the bookmaker offered the lowest odds for the two teams to draw, followed by Liverpool win, and finally Sunderland won, Liverpool win and Sunderland win The odds are not much different, that is, it is believed that this game is most likely to be a draw.

Except for the four giants in the civil war, most of the other games of Liverpool have the lowest odds to win. This result was mainly due to Sunderland's good form since the start of the season, drawing away to Manchester United in the last round, while Liverpool's key players were injured in succession, and they lost to leaders Chelsea in the last round of the league.

Before the game, Hai's father-in-law meant: We may encounter some difficulties, but we must not lose, and we will never accept two consecutive defeats.

In short, keep the draw and win.

Two consecutive defeats are too big a blow to the team, this league game is followed by the Champions League and Lyon, and then the highlight of the league, the Premier League red derby against Manchester United, if you start this difficult schedule with two consecutive defeats, it will become a four-game losing streak, and then it will be a headache.

Everyone agrees with Heynckes' analysis, but many times reality doesn't advance as imagined.

At Sunderland's Stadium of Light, it was just five minutes into the game.

“Gooooooal！！！ Incredible! Sunderland's opening five-minute win over Liverpool was a fantastic start. The local Sunderland broadcast was cheering.

Just five minutes into the game, Liverpool made a mistake at the back and opposition striker Darren Bent seized the opportunity to score a goal.

It was the last thing Heynckes wanted, but it happened, and he had to direct the defense from the sidelines.

Soon, the commentators found out that Liverpool had actually played a defensive counterattack against a team like Sunderland.

This is also something that can't be helped, Liverpool is plagued by injuries and morale is not high, Sunderland is the opposite, morale is high and there are no injuries, people have to bow their heads under the roof Heynckes does not know, but he understands this truth.

In the first half, the game turned out to be not very good, and the two sides kept strangling the midfield, and neither had too good chances. Sunderland's one-goal lead can be reassured for the time being, but Liverpool is not in a hurry to attack under the instructions of Heynckes, and Hai Lao has already said on the sidelines that he will find a way in the second half.

At half-time, Heynckes said: "Remember, in the second half we had to start the game and we had to score as soon as possible so they could get out of the game, Sunderland have been in good form lately and they definitely want to beat us at home so we have plenty of chances to turn things around. ”

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Liverpool, due to injury, started this game in a 442 formation, Liu Ting and Kuyt partnered up front, and the midfield four were Xavi Alonso, Mascherano, Shinji Kagawa and Lucas.

Carragher's form continued to decline, and he was about to make mistakes from time to time on the field, and Heynckes had lost hope for him, but there was no good defender in the team, so he had to arrange for other players to wipe his ass.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool started to attack, and although Sunderland had some preparations, it still failed to withstand this wave of attacks.

In the 46th minute, Liu Ting broke through with the ball in front, and the Sunderland defenders had to foul because they couldn't prevent it, and Anton Ferdinand received a yellow card for it.

Annon Ferdinand is the younger brother of current Manchester United star defender Rio Ferdinand and Sunderland could have even walked away from Old Trafford had he not scored a late own goal in the last game.

In the 50th minute, Sunderland's attack was broken by Xavi Alonso and Skrtel at the back, and Xavi Alonso showed his true character as a master of long passing.

Liu Ting ran back to the left side of the field to pull, the ball flew in front of him tacitly, so that he could comfortably catch the ball and start immediately, shake off the Sonscottish defender Philip Bardesley who was guarding him, and quickly cut inside the ribs of the penalty area to hit the goal, the ball flew straight to the near corner of the goal, Sunderland goalkeeper Clegg Gordon couldn't save, and could only watch the ball fly into the goal.

“Goooooooal！！！ The ball is in! Beautiful counterattack, Sunderland is at a loss in the face of such a counterattack, even if Torres and Gerrard are injured, we still have Liu! The Liverpool TV commentator shouted.

"That's Liu's response, they scored a goal in the first five minutes of the first half, and now in the first five minutes of the second half, we will return one."

This goal made Sunderland unhappy for this game, and it stands to reason that it would be good to get a draw at home against Liverpool, but then there is enough time for Liverpool to continue to overtake the score, and at that time there may not be a draw.

If that's the case, we might as well attack, anyway, the opponent hasn't been in good form lately. Sunderland manager Steve Bruce thought so from the sidelines.

Steve Bruce was also a well-known star in his playing days, captaining Manchester United and an early pillar of Ferguson's defence, as well as a knife-forward defender who scored 19 goals in a season, more than many strikers.

Bruce left Manchester United after his old age and began to coach the team after retiring, but his results as a coach are not good or too bad, last season he led Wigan Athletic to relegation, this season he turned to Sunderland, as a former Manchester United captain, he naturally wants to lead the team to beat Liverpool.

In fact, Bruce coached Sunderland for a few years, gradually turning the Black Cats into a Red Devils retirement home, and many of Manchester United's lesser-known players switched to Sunderland for retirement after they were old. Fame naturally went to the giants of the European minor leagues to retire, and there were also those who went to the United States, Qatar and other pensions.

The most bizarre thing is that Bruce is also a writer and has written three books, all of which are football.

Sunderland were not willing to be equalised, and began to press out to look for opportunities, and Liverpool also actively sought to attack, and the scene became good-looking.

In the 54th minute, Liu Ting crossed after combining with Aurelio on the left side, and Xavi Alonso put the ball in the stands.

In the 56th minute, Liu Ting's long-range shot from the penalty area line was high past the opposing defender Michael Turner.

In the 62nd minute, Sunderland striker Darren Bent's shot into the box was blocked by Joe Hart with his calf, and the ball was finally cleared by Pony in the scuffle.

In the 66th minute, Sunderland's African striker Kenwayne Jones' long-range shot bounced off the crossbar and was the closest Sunderland had ever come to scoring since the second half.

In the 78th minute, Liverpool finally got another chance.

Liu Ting's middle and Kagawa collided with the wall, and then pedaled a bicycle in front of the penalty area to pass Anton Ferdinand, Liu Ting's continuous passing made the Sunderland defense line frightened, and immediately three people moved closer to Liu Ting's breakthrough route to defend Liu Ting by virtue of the numerical advantage.

Liu Ting slanted to the right side of the penalty area at this time, and Kuyt immediately ran back to receive the ball, which was a single opportunity.

I have been working with Kuyt for more than a year, and the tacit understanding between them has long been cultivated.

Coolie didn't waste the chance either, firing a shot into the far corner and hitting the post, but in the end the ball bounced back into the net and Liverpool took the lead at 2-1.

Zhan Jun said: "It was Kuyt's goal, but this goal should be the main credit of Liu Ting, his breakthrough made Sunderland's defense porous, and another accurate through ball, it can be said that Liu Ting single-handedly helped Liverpool turn the game around." ”

The goal made Sunderland even more uncomfortable, and Steve Bruce on the sidelines was organizing a counter-attack, but fortunately there was not much time left for Sunderland, Liverpool held on for the final ten minutes, and even Owen came on in for Kuyt in the 84th minute and went close to scoring with a single shot.

The away team relied on Liu Ting's pass and shot to help the team reverse Sunderland 2:1, and Liverpool refused to lose two in a row.

Although Liverpool won and reversed the game, it did not receive much recognition, playing a black cat won hard, and the upcoming arrival of Lyon and the Red Devils will make Liverpool even worse, but Liu Ting still received a lot of praise.

"Liverpool Echo" said: "At the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Liu can be said to have single-handedly helped Liverpool reverse the game, Liu's form is excellent, this is the only good news for Liverpool in the case of too many injuries in the recent difficult schedule, before it was Liu's hat trick in Italy to help the team reverse, and now it is Liu's pass and shot to help the team reverse, Liverpool can't rely on Liu's state every time, otherwise it's like the last round against Chelsea, when Liu's state is not so good, Liverpool will have to accept the defeat and we need more people to step up and help the team......