Chapter 175: Manchester United's Bitter Master

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On October 25, the 10th round of the English Premier League arrived, and England's eyes shifted to Liverpool in this round, and the first leg of this season's Premier League red derby will be played in Liverpool, and Liverpool will host the Red Devils Manchester United.

Manchester United is currently at the top of the Premier League with 22 points, while Liverpool is in sixth place in the standings with 16 points, a gap of 6 points from Manchester United.

Speaking to reporters, Carlo Ancelotti said: "I believe Liverpool can beat Manchester United, they have that quality, it's just a little bit of trouble for the time being. ”

Carlo Ancelotti certainly wants Liverpool to beat Manchester United so they can get back to the top of the table.

Liverpool's problem is injuries, especially the successive injuries of core players such as Gerrard and Torres, which affects the results very much, if it were not for Liu Ting's recent efforts to lead the team forward, maybe Liverpool has lost the Champions League on both fronts.

Liverpool is like this in history, Xavi Alonso was sold by Benitez, Gerrard and Torres continued to be injured, Liverpool's results plummeted, the Champions League group stage was out, the league fell out of the top four and missed the Champions League next season, and Liverpool has been in decline since then.

But now that Liverpool have changed, none of these things will happen again.

Bad things had already happened to Liverpool ahead of the red derby, and Steven Gerrard was sure to miss the game. In the last Champions League game, Steven Gerrard returned in time to help Livers win the game at home, but he should have rested for two more days before returning, and now that the game has been won, his original minor injury has been repeated, and he has to return to the injury list.

This time it was Torres, Torres' injury was not completely healed, but he also planned to return to play for this important game, which is his own will, and the coaching staff can only respect it.

When he came out of the locker room to warm up, Liu Ting saw balloons everywhere on the court, and the stadium security and other staff were busy cleaning up the balloons.

Liu Ting also wondered how there were so many balloons, this kind of thing had never happened before, could this be a new way to celebrate before the game?

So Liu Ting asked Carragher: "What's the situation?" ”

Carragher replied: "It's all done by the Mancans, it's their revenge." ”

Through Carragher's explanation, Liu Ting knew what happened.

Fifteen years ago, in the 93/94 season of the Premier League, Manchester United under the leadership of Eric Cantona, was looking to defend the Premier League title, and in the league Liverpool hosted Manchester United, the final score of the red derby was 3:3, because the Manchester United fans unfurled the banner of 'The first team to defend the Premier League title', and the Liverpool fans shouted at the end of the game: "Goodbye, Cantona and Manchester United, come back when you have won 18 trophies." ”

That season was the second season of the Premier League, and Manchester United did become the first team to defend the Premier League title, but even with that title, Manchester United only had 9 top-flight titles, far from Liverpool's 18 titles, so Liverpool fans were full of confidence to provoke their opponents.

No one expected that after 15 years, Manchester United would win nine more league titles under the leadership of Alex Ferguson, and have already collected 18 trophies, and now it is time to respond to Liverpool at Anfield.

Manchester United fans came up with a way to bring a large number of balloons with Cantona's face on them, inflate the balloons before the game and throw them into the pitch before the game started, as a taunt to Liverpool, and also responded that they had won 18 top league trophies, and 'Cantona' was also there, and there were many away fans in the stands wearing Manchester United shirts with 18 on them, indicating that they were back.

Looking at a balloon blowing up next to him, the head of Cantona on the top looks a little funny after the balloon is inflated, if you don't say it, you really can't tell it's Cantona.

It took a lot of time for the staff to clean up the balloons and the game to start as normal.

Liverpool's starting lineup is goalkeeper Joe Hart, four defenders Aurelio, Agger, Skrtel and Glen Johnson, three midfielders Xavi Alonso, Mascherano and Shinji Kagawa, strikers Liu Ting, Torres and Kuyt, Kagawa came to Liverpool in two months has been recognized by Heynckes as Liverpool's first midfield substitute, replacing Modric's position last year.

Manchester United started the regular 442, with goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, a back four of Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and O'Shea, a midfield quartet of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick and Valencia, and Wayne Rooney and Berbatov in the attack.

In the summer, Manchester United lost two important players in succession, Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez, and their strength dropped significantly.

Ecuadorian Antonio Valencia was introduced by Ferguson from Wigan Athletic after Ronaldo's departure in the summer, is a good right midfielder, the old man tried to replace Ronaldo's position with him, Valencia is obviously not as good as Ronaldo, but also occasionally outstanding performances, the last Champions League was relied on by his goal, Manchester United was able to retreat from Russia, away 1:0 away to CSKA Moscow to win three consecutive Champions League group stage wins.

At present, Manchester United already has Nani and Valencia in the team, and with Nabu Pass and Wa Bu Shot, only Yang and Bei Bujin can collect the 'Four Heavenly Kings'.

This Manchester United's Park Ji-sung is injured, which makes the South Korean media stupid, this season after Ronaldo left, Park Ji-sung got more opportunities, basically occupied a starting position in Manchester United, this game is known as the 'East Asian Three Kingdoms War', Manchester United has South Korea's Park Ji-sung, Liverpool has Japan's Kagawa, China's Zheng Zhi.

Manchester United came down at the start of the game, and in the opening two minutes, Valencia steals a pass from Aurerio in front, and Wayne Rooney scores the ball, but unfortunately the linesman signals offside.

After Ronaldo left, Rooney was holding back his strength to prove his ability, and he used to 'sacrifice' himself for winning. This season's Lu Xiaopang's number of shots has increased greatly, last season he averaged 2.9 shots per game, and this season it has risen directly to an average of 5.9 shots per game, more than doubled, but unfortunately the number of goals has not increased significantly.

Liu Ting knew that Lu Xiaopang would not be confident when he shot him in the future, and the number of shots would also decrease.

United's opening three didn't work and the game was back on track.

In the 5th minute, before Liu Ting broke through O'Shea on the left side and passed back to the penalty area, Xavi Alonso's long-range shot was blocked by Ferdinand.

Liu Ting thought that Torres was injured and should take more responsibility, but he didn't expect Torres to be quite active.

Torres broke through the opponent in a row for more than 10 minutes in the opening game, Evra couldn't prevent it and tripped Torres continuously, and only in the 16th minute Evra received a yellow card, Xavi Alonso's direct free-kick was confiscated by Van der Sar.

Torres is also stimulated by Liu Ting's close form, recently there have been media saying that Liu Ting is Liverpool's real thigh, Gerrard is a midfielder and Liu Ting has no direct competition and can not care about this, Torres and Liu Ting are both forwards, he wants to prove his status as Liverpool's first star, so he returned from injury in this important game.

Liverpool had the home advantage, Liu Ting and Torres were in good form again, and Liverpool began to control the field advantage.

In the 18th minute, Mascherano made a steal in the midfield, Kagawa's through pass, and Kuyt's low shot from inside the box was slightly wide.

In the 20th minute, Liu Ting faced O'Shea and got another easy chance, but Manchester United was obviously very well prepared for his defense, Liu Ting had to pick up a cross into the box before Ferdinand made up the defense, Torres pressed Vidic's header and smashed it on the crossbar, causing Anfield to sigh.

Manchester United's counter-attack was also threatening.

In the 27th minute, Valencia quickly dribbled forward, just as Liverpool's defence was weak, but Rooney's final header lacked power and was confiscated by Joe Hart.

However, Liverpool quickly opened up the situation, and it was Liu Ting who stood up first.

In the 33rd minute, Liu Ting broke through O'Shea again on the left side, and now everyone can see that O'Shea obviously can't prevent Liu Ting, just like a highway that Liu Ting casually crosses.

After the breakthrough, Liu Ting faced the combination of Vidic and Ferdinand, and had to return the ball to the penalty area line again, Xavi Alonso appeared in that position, Xavi Alonso had a long shot, he appeared in this position to attract the attention of the other party, Liu Ting took this opportunity to slip into the penalty area, Alonso did not stop the ball and stuffed the ball directly, and the ball just arrived.

Liu Ting knew that the opportunity was fleeting, if he stopped the ball and adjusted and then hit the goal, although the probability of scoring was greater, Ferdinand and Vidic would come over to stop him the moment he stopped the ball, and it was difficult to say whether there was a chance to shoot at that time, so Liu Ting did not adjust to the incoming ball and volleyed directly.

"Bang ......"

It was the sound of a football hitting a post, and Anfield already had sporadic sighs, but then it quickly turned into a loud cheer as the ball hit the post and bounced into the goal.

“gooooooooal!!! Pretty! It's Liu again! He's got the back of the net again, he's a real Manchester United killer! Alan Hansen roared.

Liu Ting and his teammates celebrated wildly on the sidelines, and also bent their index fingers at the camera to compare the number 7.

Zhan Jun said: "This is Liu Ting's seventh goal for Manchester United, this is his fifth game with Manchester United, but he has already scored seven goals for Manchester United, and it is foreseeable that he will likely become the player who has scored the most goals against Manchester United in the future." ”

"Liu Ting's first time facing Manchester United was in last season's UEFA Super Cup, when he scored three goals to complete a hat-trick, and after coming to the Premier League, he missed the first leg of last season's red derby, but scored one goal in each of the three games in the second leg of the red derby and the Champions League semi-final, helping Liverpool beat Manchester United in the league and eliminated the Red Devils in the Champions League semi-finals."

"After last season, Liu Ting has scored Manchester United goals 6 times, he is already the second player who has scored Manchester United goals in history, and Alan Shearer is tied for second with 6 goals, the first is Thierry Henry, who has played for Barcelona, he has scored Manchester United goals a total of 10, and now Liu Ting's goal makes him the second and the second bitter master of Manchester United."

Liu Ting's goal made the whole Manchester United team pay more attention to defending Liu Ting, they don't want Liu Ting to become the player who has scored the most goals for Manchester United early, Henry can break Manchester United goals 10 times, that is in the Premier League for 8 seasons to complete, if Liu Ting only spent two or three seasons to score 10 goals, it would be a big shame.

Increasing the defense of Liu Ting, Torres naturally got more chances, but Liverpool failed to seize the opportunity, and the score of 1:0 remained until the end of the first half.