In the end, Owen will have to wait until the end of the season to decide where to go, when his contract with Newcastle United expires and he can join any team for free, and Owen can watch which team is more capable of winning the title.

Shinji Kagawa's transfer was much simpler, and was quickly finalized for a transfer fee of just £1 million, but he had to be loaned to Kagawa's original team Osaka Sakura for free for half a year, and then reported to Liverpool in the summer.

It is generally difficult to buy good players in the winter transfer period, stars have to pay attention to the most influential summer transfers, and Liverpool has no chance to bring in good immediate reinforcement squads.

On January 2, the third round of the English FA Cup arrived, and the Premier League teams began to join the FA Cup in the third round, and Liverpool drew the opponent of the Championship team Preston, and Heynckes sent most of the substitutes to beat Preston North End 2-0 away to advance to the next round.

Zheng Zhi also got the start in this game, Torres sat on the bench, and finally recovered from the injury after so long, and Torres, who came off the bench in the second half, scored a goal and looked in good shape.

However, Heynckes still got the bad news, after all, this was the first game of the new year, Heynckes still wanted to win, so he sent out midfielders Xavi Alonso and Gerrard to start, Xavi Alonso went off with a sprained knee in the 43rd minute.

Fortunately, the injury was not very serious after the game, but at least the first league game in '09 was not playable.

At present, Xavi Alonso and Arbeloa are injured, Gerrard is still not in good form, and he has played almost no performance for the full 90 minutes in the FA Cup just now, and he is still inevitably affected by the beating incident.

Coupled with the fact that Torres has only just recovered from injury, four of Liverpool's main players may not be in good shape. Although Torres scored a goal against Preston North End, it was a second-tier Championship team and it is unclear how Torres will be in form when he returns to the Premier League.

January 7 is the Carabao Cup matchday and Liverpool have already been eliminated from the Carabao Cup.

On January 10, the first league game from the start of '09 arrived, and Liverpool will take on Stoke City away from home.

The highlight of the game is Manchester United's home game against Chelsea, and although Chelsea are now ahead of Manchester United in the table and Chelsea are closer to Liverpool, Heynckes is praying for Chelsea to win, as he fears more about Manchester United and wants them to stop the pursuit.

The perfect thing is a draw between the two teams, so it's a lose-lose situation, cheap Liverpool.

Before the game, Heynckes was a little bottomless for Liverpool's game, after all, Xavi Alonso and Arbeloa were injured, Gerrard and Torres were not in good shape, and he had already seen that Torres was not in good shape in the past two days of training, and Torres would not be scheduled to start this game.

When the 90 minutes of the game ended, Heynckes looked at the scoreboard helplessly, 0:0, Liverpool was forced to draw by Stoke City, missing Xavi Alonso and Gerrard's poor state of Liverpool, the midfield organization ability was greatly reduced, Liu Ting and Gareth Bale on the left side were in good shape, but their state was not good enough to change the game alone, facing the heavily defended Stoke City, Liverpool could only be forced to draw.

In the 60th minute of the second half, he replaced Torres, but this TNT did not show explosiveness, Torres missed a one-on-one goal.

Liverpool were held to a draw and there was news from Heynckes on the other side as Manchester United thrashed the Blues 3-0 at home.

Liverpool is still unbeaten, this Chelsea loss Liverpool and Chelsea gap has opened to 5 points, but Manchester United has caught up, two less rounds and Liverpool has a 6-point gap, as long as all the supplementary games are won, it will tie Liverpool in the score, fortunately, Liverpool has more than Manchester United 6 goal difference.

Immediately 3 days later, Manchester United had the first rematch match, all Liverpool fans were praying that Wigan Athletic could cause problems for Manchester United at Old Trafford, but the result was often not satisfactory, Manchester United relied on Rooney's goal at home to get 1:0 three points in the first replay, and Liverpool points are only 3 points, Manchester United has one less round.

Manchester United won the supplementary game, the third round of the FA Cup was completely over, and the draw for the round of 32 was coming out, and Liverpool once again got bad news, Liverpool's opponent in the round of 32 of the FA Cup was the city rival Everton.

Fans may love to see Liverpool beat their local rivals, but Heynckes absolutely hates the result.

Liverpool is at home to Everton in the 22nd round of the next round of the Premier League, and there will be one more FA Cup, and the city derby is the most injury-prone game.

Even if you meet a mortal enemy in an unimportant cup match, it is not allowed to give up, you must have a hard fight with a mortal enemy at any time, if the manager sends a group of substitutes to fool people, you will definitely be scolded by the fans, of course, if the substitutes can win, then you will pass.

Liverpool's meritorious coach Bill Shankly famously said: Coaching Liverpool is actually very simple, beat Everton twice a year and then don't be relegated, then you can sit in the position of Liverpool's manager.

This is an exaggeration, but it also shows how important a local derby is with a sworn enemy.

Now Heynckes really regrets that he didn't send a bunch of fringe players or youth team players to lose in the third round of the FA Cup, so he wouldn't be in this situation now.

Liverpool will have two games against Everton in January, one in the league on 19 January and one in the FA Cup on 25 January, both of which are home to Liverpool.

The city derby is not a surprise game that does not look at the strength of what kind of result is played, Barcelona will be forced to draw or even lose from time to time in the face of their weak rival Espanyol, last season's Manchester United was the Champions League Premier League double, but in the league was killed by the city rival Manchester City, last season's Manchester City did not have an oil daddy.

Manchester United must have been happy that Liverpool were in trouble, and Ferguson spoke again: "I wouldn't be surprised if Liverpool are unbeaten this season, because they will be the only team unbeaten in the league but not winning the league title. ”

Ferguson also emphasised: "I said earlier that my greatest glory would be to pull Liverpool off the throne and we would have equalled Liverpool's top-flight record by winning the league this year. ”

At present, Liverpool has 18 top league championship records, all of which are champions in the previous English League One period, Liverpool has never won the league championship since the establishment of the Premier League, and Manchester United has won 7 league titles in the English One era, Ferguson has led Manchester United to 10 Premier League titles after the arrival of the Premier League, and this year will win the Premier League title, Manchester United will equal Liverpool's top league championships.

Heynckes is a good old man, not very good at fighting with people, and even if he does, he is not an opponent of an old fritter like Ferguson.

Liu Ting said in an interview with reporters: "Even if Manchester United win the league title this season, I am not surprised, they are very strong and Liverpool is in trouble, I think Ferguson can retire at the end of the season." ”

Reporter: "Why?" ”

Liu Ting: "This year, Ferguson won the league to tie Liverpool's top league championships, but he will not have the opportunity to surpass Liverpool's number of championships in the future, it is better to retire this year and end his coaching career with a Premier League three consecutive championships plus the Champions League, this is his most perfect ending, and it is impossible to have such a good opportunity in the future." ”

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A defender came out and said that Liu Ting didn't have enough respect for Ferguson, but who cares about him.

On January 19, the 22nd round of the Premier League Liverpool's home stadium and Everton's Merseyside derby arrived, or the Liverpool derby.

Liverpool's game was played at the end of this round, and the other three giants won all the previous games, and Manchester United has temporarily caught up with Liverpool in the standings, and Liverpool is bound to win this game.

In the first leg of the Liverpool derby, Liu Ting had just transferred and did not participate at all, this was his first Liverpool derby.

In fact, Liu Ting was not able to participate in the first leg of the English derby and Manchester United.

On the day of the game, there were only two colours in the entire city of Liverpool, red and blue.

The Red-Blue confrontation in the Premier League is mainstream, with the Gunners Arsenal's red and Blues Chelsea's blue, the Reds' Liverpool's red and the Toffees' Everton's blue, the Red Devils' Manchester United's red and the Blues of Manchester City's.

Even the cars on the road were mostly red and blue on this day, and there were more fans wearing two-color jerseys.

Two hours before the start of the game, Anfield Stadium resounded "You Will Never Walk Alone", and Liu Ting heard thunderous cheers when he entered the training session.

“TNT…… TNT…… TNT！！！ ”

The partnership of Torres and Liu Ting failed to lead the team to win the last game, but it did not disappoint the fans, and everyone still believed that TNT could lead the team to defeat the sworn rivals in the same city.

Liu Ting saw a lot of large banners in the fan stands, and the banners all read: Triple kill Everton!!

Triple kill Everton!!

Liverpool have beaten Everton 2-0 away in the first leg of the Liverpool derby, and if they can beat Everton in the next two games in a row, that is, they will beat Everton three times in the season, which is no worse for Liverpool fans than winning a title.

Of course, that's what the fans think, and for head coach Heynckes, winning the title is what he wants, and if he wins the double after being beaten by his city rivals like Alex Ferguson did last year, Heynckes will certainly be happy to accept it.