The league is over, and the following week is the domestic cup competition, and the English League Cup begins.

On September 22, in the round of 32 of the English League Cup, Liverpool's opponent was Leeds United.

Today's Leeds United is no longer the original Roses, the Young Guard, Leeds United has been sinking in the English League for two years and cannot extricate itself, that is, the third tier of the English league, such a game between Leeds United and Liverpool is still concerned, after all, Leeds United was also a strong competitor of Liverpool more than ten years ago, and there have been many deeds of squeezing Liverpool out of the Champions League qualification area.

Football is always about money, especially in a place like the English league, where the business atmosphere is strongest, and Leeds United started to decline from financial problems to the quagmire they are now.

Now that Leeds United are perennially in League One, it will be difficult for Liverpool to cause problems, and Heynckes has also sent a substitute line-up to play.

At Elland Road Stadium, substitute Liverpool beat their opponents 1-0 away to advance to the next round, and the game was played peacefully, with the two teams going 0-0 in the first half and Liverpool scoring a goal in the second half to beat their opponents.

Leeds United has never had much hatred with Liverpool, and the game between the two teams naturally did not have much anger, speaking of which, both teams once had a common enemy - Manchester United. Leeds United's biggest rival team is Manchester United, although Leeds United and Manchester United have a lot of hatred, but Leeds United has Cantona, Rio Ferdinand, Alan Smith and other stars to Manchester United, Cantona, Rio Ferdinand has become Manchester United celebrities.

In the League Cup match with Leeds United, Liu Ting did not go to Leeds and stayed in Liverpool to rest.

Schiller Wagner was talking to Liu Ting: "Your preparations for joining the French team are almost complete, you just need to wait for the time to be announced." ”

Wagner continued: "Liu, in this year's major awards, the plan prepared by the agency for you is to make you as famous as possible this year, and then it will be your time to reap. ”

Liu Ting has long been mentally prepared for these, and he is currently not far behind Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka and others in terms of fame, and he still needs to accumulate slowly.

On September 26, in the 7th round of the Premier League, Liverpool played Hull City at home.

Although the Champions League is coming soon, Liverpool's main focus this season is on the league, and this game is naturally at the best of its best.

Hull City are currently second from bottom with only one win and one draw after six rounds, and it may be difficult to stand against Liverpool at Anfield.

Portsmouth, who are currently at the bottom of the Premier League with six consecutive defeats, Pompeii suffered financial problems last season, and this summer they singled out all the good players and sold them to make up for the financial holes, Glenn Johnson came to Liverpool, Crouch went to Tottenham, in short, the players who were willing to ask for a little strength were sold, and a group of young players were loaned around, and it was difficult for the Pompey Army to avoid relegation this season.

Hull City was powerless at Anfield.

In the 12th minute, Fernando Torres burst into the box and fired a low shot into the net to give Liverpool the lead.

In the 28th minute, Fernando Torres scored with a header from a corner kick and Liverpool doubled.

Hull City was a bit reluctant to admit defeat and pulled a goal back in the 35th minute, but in the second half, Hull City were directly knocked down.

At the beginning of the second half, in the 47th minute, Liu Ting received Xavi Alonso's through plug against offside, and then shook Hull City goalkeeper Boaz Mihir to push the empty goal.

In the 58th minute, Gerrard's long-range shot knocked on the opponent's goal again.

In the 69th minute, Liu Ting received a cross from Kuyt on the right side and scored a powerful volley in the penalty area, completing his personal brace.

In the 83rd minute, Torres made another slash and easily pushed the far corner after receiving a pass from Glenn Johnson, and Torres also completed his first hat-trick of the season.

Torres scored a hat-trick, Liu Ting scored twice, and Gerrard scored a goal, and Liverpool beat Hull City 6-1 at home.

It was Liverpool's biggest win of the season so far, and with the most popular stars of the game on the scoresheet, it was a fan-favourite game that would keep them happy for days.

There was only one flaw in this game, that is, Xiao Ma felt unwell before the end of the game and was substituted, and the specific situation needs to be observed.

After this win, Liverpool's league points reached 13 points, and in other games in this round, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City all won, but Chelsea actually overturned away, losing 1:3 to Wigan Athletic, the opening six consecutive wins were ended by a weak team, then now Manchester United and Chelsea have 18 points in the standings, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City 15 points, Liverpool 13 points in 6th place, the difference from the top of the table narrowed to 5 points, and Liverpool has one less round.

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A big win made the fans happy, and the media began to say that 'Liverpool is back in form', 'TNT is starting to exert its power', etc., but Liverpool must rush to Italy, and the second round of the Champions League group stage is just around the corner.

Coming out of Florence's Peretola Airport, the whole Liverpool team felt a 'warm welcome' from the Italian fans, and the airport was full of slogans such as 'British' and 'Down with those drunks'.

In the Champions League, the group stage is not a key game, and the team usually flies to the away game on the morning of the game, and the key battles and knockout rounds of the group stage are generally away from home one day in advance.

Liverpool also came to Italy in the morning for this game, went to the field in the afternoon to adapt, and played in the evening.

When it came time to step on the pitch in the afternoon, Liverpool were 'welcomed' more.

Liverpool are the reigning champions of the Champions League, and all teams will want to beat them, plus Fiorentina have already lost away to Lyon in the last round, and if they lose again, their hopes of qualifying will be drastically reduced, which makes Liverpool so 'popular' to play away from home.

At the beginning of the game in the evening, Liu Ting saw racist slogans on the sidelines such as 'Shovel those' and 'Kill the team of the yellow monkeys'.

Liu Ting has long heard that racial discrimination in Serie A is the most serious in Europe, and today he can be regarded as realizing.

Serie A has always been the hardest hit area of racism in Europe, and this happens every year, especially when black players who transfer to Serie A from other leagues often complain about it.

Vieira, a former Arsenal captain who later transferred to Serie A and played for Juventus, AC Milan, and Inter Milan, said: "The managers of Serie A don't intend to care about (racial discrimination) at all, and black players can only be abused when they play in Serie A." ”

Rudiger, a black German player who will be effective in the future, was racially abused by fans in Serie A matches, and he went to the referee, who directly said: "You leave them alone, it's very common." Rudiger repeatedly asked the referee to stop the fans, but was shown a yellow card, which made Rudiger leave the game in anger.

AC Milan even had a team boycott (warm-up match) because of racial discrimination against Boateng, a black player in the team.

All these make the proportion of black players in Italy the smallest among the five major leagues, and even in the entire European football world, the proportion of black players in Serie A is also very low, only a few strong teams in Serie A can find a few black players, and the middle and lower teams of Serie A rarely see black players.

Take Liverpool's opponent today, Fiorentina, for example, the whole Purple Lily team, from the starters to the substitutes and even to the youth team, you can't see a single black man, which is rare in other European leagues, but in Serie A, there are many such teams.

Of course, Fiorentina and Lazio are the two clubs with the most racism in Serie A, and the most ruthless is Lazio, so far, the black players who have joined the Lazio team in the history of the team can be counted on one hand.

Either it was disturbed by the Fiorentina fans, or it was the weekend's big win that made Liverpool weak after venting their energy, and Liverpool looked out of shape at the start of this game.

After the start of the game, Liverpool were overwhelmed by Fiorentina, who looked more like the reigning champions of the Champions League.

By the end of the 45th minute of the first half, the scoreboard was 2-0, with the home team in front and the visitors behind, and Fiorentina's Montenegrin teenager Jovetic scored twice to give Fiorentina a two-goal lead over Liverpool.

This score made the whole Liverpool team depressed, and Liu Ting also followed the gray back.

In the entire first half, only Steven Gerrard had one long-range shot on target, while all five shots were off target, while Fiorentina had eight shots, four on target and two goals.

Liu Ting was also not satisfied with his performance in the first half, and he was also worried that Liverpool's loss could affect qualification, and if it were not for Liu Ting's changes, Liverpool would have been kicked out of the group stage by Fiorentina this season.

Bowing his head and walking back to the locker room, when he reached the sideline and was about to reach the players' tunnel, Liu Ting suddenly heard a noise, and looked up to see that a fan wearing a Fiorentina jersey jumped down from the stands and rushed directly towards Liu Ting, which caused a commotion from other fans.

Although Liu Ting didn't know what was going on, he knew that this should not be an assassination or terrorist attack, so he didn't hide.

The guy ran up to Liu Ting, grabbed his hand and put something in his hand, turned around and ran back.

Liu Ting looked down and saw that it was a bunch of bananas, which made Liu Ting stunned.

Liu Ting soon understood that they were using this method to show racial discrimination, which made him look very ugly.

Glenn Johnson, who was walking beside Liu Ting, also understood what this meant, and immediately became angry and wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Xavi Alonso and Carragher.

In this game, Mascherano was temporarily rested, Lucas started in his place, and Liverpool started with only Liu Ting, a yellow and Glenn Johnson, a black man, and the other black players were sitting on the bench, which made Glenn Johnson also in the opponent's attack range, so he would be so angry.

The hiccup caused a commotion in the stands, with Liverpool fans blaming each other and Fiorentina fans believing it to be a Serie A tradition, laughing and praising the guy who came up with the idea for being smart.

The teammates comforted Liu Ting, and everyone continued to go back to the locker room, but Liu Ting did not throw away the bunch of bananas.

Liu Ting walked towards the locker room while tearing off the banana, peeling the skin, and eating it one bite at a time.

Noticing that Glenn Johnson turned his head to look at him with strange eyes, Liu Ting tore off a banana and handed it to him, asking, "Do you eat it?" ”

Johnson paused for a moment, took the banana and ate it, and the two walked back to the locker room while eating.

Reporters are busy taking pictures on the sidelines, which will be the headlines of tomorrow morning.

Fiorentina fans on the sidelines didn't know what to do, they had never been in such a situation. In the past, when the other party was so stimulated, the other party either swallowed his anger or got angry, and he had never encountered such a calm and calm situation.

Before returning to the locker room, Liu Ting heard laughter and applause on the sidelines, but Liu Ting regarded these as mockery.

Wait, you're in for the second half!