Chapter 168: The whole team is worth it
Liu Ting shouted the slogan of winning the league, which was supported by the vast majority of fans, because Liverpool really hasn't won the league championship for too long.
The last time Liverpool won the league was in the 89/90 season, exactly 20 years into this year.
Once in 20 years, 20 teams in the Premier League, one team is changed every year, and it is time to change to Liverpool, right?
For now, most fans are even more hungry for a league title than the Champions League.
On this day, when Liu Ting came out after training as usual, he heard fans shouting at him on the sidelines, and it was a strange trio.
Liu Ting walked over, and Humpty Dumpty Bill said loudly: "Liu, do you think we can win the league championship this year?" ”
Liu Ting replied without hesitation: "Of course we can, we are European champions." ”
After Liu Ting finished speaking, he turned around and left, and there was a muttering sound behind him: "But we have won three European championships, and we have not seen the hope of winning the league yet." ”
Then he responded: "Damn Arsenal, damn Arshavin, if it wasn't for that 4-4 draw in the second half of last season, we would have won the league title last season, and this year it's not very good, and now we're eight points behind Chelsea......
Since Liverpool won the last league championship, they have won the UEFA Cup once, the Champions League twice, but they have not won a league title, which is also strange enough.
However, Liu Ting is not too worried about Chelsea's good form now, he clearly knows what trouble Chelsea will encounter in the second half of the schedule, and what Liverpool has to do is to bite the score and take advantage of it in one fell swoop.
The league has to be slow, and the Champions League is coming soon.
Bad things happened the day before the game, Bale injured his left ankle in the warm-up, and Agger had friends to play with.
The successive injuries gave Heynckes a headache, and the media also used this to hype that Liverpool was going to end.
On the evening of September 16, the first game of the Champions League group stage of the 09/10 season came, and Liverpool played Hungarian side Debrecen at home.
Debrecen is a new rising team in Hungary, only won the domestic top league championship for the first time in the 04\/05 season, and this is also the first time Debrecen has entered the Champions League group stage, and a player worth more than 3 million euros in the team can not be found, and the total value of the whole team is not as valuable as Torres alone, and even slightly lower than Liu Ting's value.
Liu Ting's current transfer market is valued at €40 million, which is similar to Steven Gerrard, with Torres valued at €50 million.
However, the valuation is the valuation, and when it really flows into the transfer market, the price will definitely go up a lot. Last year, Cristiano Ronaldo was valued at only 55 million euros, but Real Madrid spent more than 90 million euros to buy him.
Debrecen is such a newcomer that no one thinks he can cause problems for defending champions Liverpool.
In fact, for a team like Debrezen, it is a good result to be in a group with the defending champions, anyway, no matter who they are with, they are in the first round of the group stage, and they are together with the defending champions, at least in the two games with Liverpool, there will be no fewer TV stations that will be watched and broadcast, and the broadcast fee can be divided more when they pack home after six games in the group stage.
With Gareth Bale injured, Brazilian Aurelio started at left-back, with Skrtel and Carragher partnering at centre-back, Glen Johnson at right-back, Mascherano, Xavi Alonso and Gerrard in midfield, and Liu Ting, Fernando Torres and Kuyt up front.
The Hungarian team also kept their profile low when they came to Anfield, with their head coach saying before the game: "Our goal is to get points at Anfield, whether it's one point or three points, and if we don't get points in the end, then we have to play with dignity." ”
And they did, and they defended the whole game.
In the end, thanks to Torres' assist for Kuyt's goal before the end of the first half, Liverpool still beat the opponent 1-0 at home and won the three points.
Debresen barely managed to retain their dignity, at least they weren't slaughtered, and the loss against the defending champions wasn't ugly.
As the defending champions, they couldn't win the game cleanly against a weak new team at home, which made the English media out again.
The Times said: "Liverpool have not been going well since the start of the season, the gradual increase in injuries has made Liverpool eight points behind Chelsea at the top of the league, and the Champions League is not too good, facing a weak team, Liverpool has not shown the strength of the defending champions, this season may have to return to the previous goal of competing for a Champions League place......
In the face of questions, Liu Ting's answer in front of reporters was: "Our first goal this season is the league championship, and then the other championships, this is the goal predetermined before the start of the season, we will not be easily defeated, and now the league has just begun, not to mention 8 points behind, even 18 points have enough time to catch up." ”
At the end of this round of the Champions League, there are basically no upsets.
The Premier League semi-finals all won, and in the same group match with Liverpool, Lyon defeated Fiorentina 1-0 at home, which was also an expected result.
At the same time, the most watched war between Mourinho and Barcelona ended in a draw, Oto'o and Ibrahimovic turned against each other's old clubs, the most expensive duel in the Champions League, the final result was a blank exchange, Inter Milan drew 0:0 with Barcelona at home, and the coaches of the two sides also calmly did not come out to spray each other, the scene was once very harmonious, a focus battle was neither scored nor controversial, I think UEFA and Platini will not be too satisfied with this result.
In the summer, Barcelona exchanged Oto's money for Inter Milan's Ibrahimovic, and now it is immediately a group of Barcelona and Inter Milan in the Champions League, and the Champions League gimmick will never be less.
Barcelona and Inter Milan are also the two most expensive teams in Europe, and their matchup is known as the most expensive matchup in Europe. The most expensive team in the whole team is naturally Real Madrid, and the Spanish national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona should be the most expensive matchup, but at least two games per season in Spain, fans may have aesthetic fatigue, but the matchup in the Champions League is more concerned.
Liverpool are currently the fifth most valuable team in Europe, with Manchester United in third place in addition to Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan. Chelsea are narrowly behind Liverpool, and in the last two years, Abousa's money has decreased, and the value of Chelsea's entire team is also falling, while Liverpool's Champions League victory last year has increased the value of the whole team a lot, so as to surpass Chelsea.
The much-talked-about Real Madrid, which is considered to be the strongest and the most valuable, defeated Zurich 5-2 away, which seems to prove that the prediction of the 'bricks' is correct, Real Madrid has strong firepower and is deservedly the strongest team in Europe.
In this game, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice with two direct free kicks and was the best star in the first round of the Champions League.
Overall, the first round of the Champions League group stage ended in turmoil, and it is time for Liverpool to return to the league.
Liverpool have to travel to London for the weekend's league fixture.
London occupies 5 of the 20 teams in the Premier League this season, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Fulham, and this time Liverpool's opponent is West Ham United.