Chapter 174: The Strange Domenech
The 9th round of the Premier League is over, among the other giants, Arsenal defeated promoted Birmingham City 3-1 at home, Manchester United beat Bolton Wanderers 2-1 at home, and only Chelsea was affected by the national team competition and lost 1-2 away to Aston Villa.
Chelsea's defeat made Manchester United top of the table for the first time, and after 9 rounds of the Premier League, Manchester United is at the top of the table with 7 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss and 22 points, Chelsea and Arsenal are both 7 wins, 2 losses and 21 points, Liverpool is in 6th place in the standings with 5 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses and 16 points in one round less, and Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City are in 4th and 5th place, with 19 and 17 points respectively.
At the end of this weekend's league season, UEFA also organised a draw-off for the World Cup European qualifiers, with France drawing against Ireland, avoiding Portugal and Russia.
This result made the French Football Association and the national team coach very satisfied, after the draw ended, the head coach of the French team, known as the little prince of the constellation, Domenech said to Liu Ting in front of reporters: "I will call up Liu in the play-offs, the French team needs his help." ”
"As for whether he will start or not, it depends on the situation."
However, most people speculate that Liu Ting is likely not to get the chance to start, and the biggest possibility is to make an appearance, the reason for this speculation is that the French team is much stronger than Ireland, and it can be promoted without Liu Ting, and the most important thing is that Liu Ting is Capricorn, which is not quite compatible with Domenech's Aquarius.
Domenech's horoscope mania is well known in Europe, because Leo and Aquarius are completely opposed, Aquarius Domenech rarely calls up Leo players in the national team, even top defenders like former Arsenal captain William Gala rarely get opportunities because they are Leo.
Liu Ting's Capricorn and Aquarius are not opposites, but they are not suitable either, Domenech may not let him start, if Liu Ting is Libra, he will definitely be able to start (Libra and Aquarius are the best pairing).
There are superstitious people everywhere in world football, and Domenech is definitely the best of them.
Before the 06 World Cup, the French team and the Chinese team had a warm-up match, although Zheng Zhi shoveled Cisse's leg in that warm-up game, but the French team reached the final in the 06 World Cup, Domenech therefore thinks that warming up with the Chinese team will bring good luck, and now the World Cup is approaching, it is said that Domenech is in contact with the Chinese team before the World Cup.
In the 08 European Cup, the French team first drew 0:0 with Romania, then lost to the Netherlands 1:5, and finally lost 0:2 to Italy, a winless ended the European Championship journey, but Domenech lost to Italy in the last post-match press conference, under the attention of the world, he did not talk about football but love, and publicly proposed to his girlfriend through the broadcast, as if the French team's fiasco had nothing to do with him, and the reporters present thought they were in the wrong place.
It is said that the reason why he did such crazy things was because he calculated that the time of day was his lucky time according to the horoscope, and he could not miss this good opportunity.
Speaking of strange head coaches, no one can be out of Domenech's right, no wonder it will be mixed up to the extent that no one wants to recommend himself to coach in the Chinese Super League.
However, the national team will not start until November, with Liverpool immediately hosting Lyon in the Champions League group stage in midweek.
At present, Liverpool and Lyon are both on six points from two consecutive wins in the group, and the next two legs against each other are likely to determine who will finish first in the group.
Liverpool has good news, Gerrard and Agger will both return in this game, Gerrard's injury in the national team is not too serious, Ager has been out of injury for so long and finally returned at a critical time, and only Gareth Bale and Torres are still on the injury list in Liverpool's main lineup.
On October 20, the third round of the Champions League group stage arrived, and Liverpool hosted Lyon.
This time, Liverpool returned to the previous 433 formation, goalkeeper Joe Hart, the back four are Aurelio, Skrtel, Aager and Glen Johnson, the three midfielders Mascherano, Xavi Alonso and Gerrard, and the forward line is Liu Ting, Owen and Kuyt.
Liverpool's former twin stars Steven Gerrard and Owen started together again after many years.
Heynckes sent a 433 attack formation to win the opponent cleanly at home, and strive to have an advantage in each other's records, so that even if they are on the same score as Lyon, they can rely on each other's records to rank ahead of Lyon.
Once the game began, Liverpool took advantage of home advantage to attack aggressively.
In the 2nd minute of the opening game, Glen Johnson crossed from the right, Liu Ting pushed the opponent when he was competing for the position with the opponent's central defender Tulalang, and Tulalang accidentally put himself on his own, but the referee ruled that the pusher was invalid for the first goal, and Liu Ting was also warned by the referee.
In the 5th minute, Liverpool's free kick in front, Xavi Alonso drove the ball out, and Gerrard's long-range shot was saved by the opposing goalkeeper Lloris.
In the 6th minute, Lyon counter-attacked with a cross from the wing, and striker Govu's header went high.
There are some exchanges on the scene, but it is still developing in the direction of Liverpool's advantage.
In the 21st minute, Liu Ting cooperated with Aurelio on the left side of the front field and cut inside with the ball, and took a step to shoot from the line of the penalty area of Reviere, which was snatched, and the shot flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal, and Lyon goalkeeper Lloris jumped hard and could not do anything.
“goooooooooal!!! The ball is in! Liu, it's him again! It was his eighth goal in his last six games and his form couldn't have been better. ”
Liu Ting's goal made Anfield boil, his goals have been away from home, Liverpool fans can only watch on TV, and now they have to make up for all the cheers at once.
Liu ...... Good job! ”
"Kill the French and let them know where this is!"
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Liu Ting's goal and the frenzied atmosphere at Liverpool's home stadium made Lyon choose to retreat appropriately, while Liverpool took advantage of the situation to attack.
In the 35th minute, Owen received Gerrard's midfield through ball against offside, and easily pushed the far corner to break the goal, and Liverpool expanded the score.
The England commentary began to show feelings: "Gerrard's pass, Owen's goal, it seems to take us back to the 00/01 season, the same stadium, but the legs of the once galloping golden boy are no longer flexible, and Gerrard's face is no longer green......"
Goals from Liu Ting and Owen gave Liverpool a 2-0 lead over Lyon, and the score remained until the end of the first half.
At the beginning of the second half, Lyon tried to launch a counterattack, but Liverpool seized the opportunity to beat one behind.
In the 47th minute, Lyon pressed the attack and failed, Glen Johnson on the right side quickly counterattacked with the ball, and Liu Ting immediately started to follow up, and the two went straight into Lyon's half like two sharp arrows.
When it came to the front court, Lyon players came to intercept, Johnson passed the ball to Liu Ting, Lyon's empty half was like a leisurely walk for Liu Ting, Lyon had to have more people to stop him, Liu Ting was not greedy to return the ball to Glen Johnson, Glen Johnson easily got a one-on-one opportunity in the penalty area, he accelerated to shake off the defense of his Tulalang kicked the goal, Lloris once again fell weakly on the grass.
The score became 3:0, which made the next game not much suspense.
But by the end of the game, it was 3-2 on the scoreboard, and Liverpool won the game, but they were still scored twice by Lyon.
With Lyon down by three goals, their manager gambled on a striker and almost gambled on it, scoring a goal in the 73rd and 86th minutes and a goal in stoppage time, but it was offside.
Lyon's frantic comeback and Liverpool's carelessness after a three-goal lead were the two main reasons for the ups and downs of the second half, and a big win turned into a narrow victory, which made Heynckes unhappy, but fortunately got the three points.
In another game of Group E at the same time, Fiorentina defeated Debrecen 4:3 away without accident, and after this round, Liverpool ranked first in Group E with 9 points, Lyon ranked second with 6 points, Fiorentina was third with 3 points, and Debrecen was at the bottom with 0 points.
The focus of this round of the Champions League is in Spain, Real Madrid hosts AC Milan, the team with the most Champions League wins and the team with the second most titles, Real Madrid with 9 crowns and Milan with 7 crowns, at the same time, this is also Kaka facing the old master, and finally AC Milan captured the Bernabeu, AC Milan defeated Real Madrid 3:2 away, and the Brazilian teenager Pato who scored twice to help AC Milan win at the Bernabeu was out of the limelight.
Not to be outdone, Real Madrid was not to be outdone, as they lost 2-1 at home to the little-known Kazan Ruby in a way that the Catalans had lost for the first time of the season, their biggest upset in the Champions League so far.
In the Premier League semi-finals, Manchester United and Chelsea also won this round, Chelsea still beat Atletico Madrid 4-0 at home, Atletico Madrid was the only team that could get a point from Liverpool in the Champions League group stage last season, it really fell too fast, this battle also made Atletico Madrid's Champions League qualifying situation crisis, and Atletico Madrid coach Mosino, who returned to Spain, was fired.
Only Arsenal failed to win in the Premier League semi-finals, drawing 1-1 away at Dutch side AZ Alkmaar.
Although Liverpool won, the media just like to pick thorns, and the young goalkeeper Joe Hart, who was driven to the shelf, became the focus of media criticism.
In the recent Liverpool games, in addition to the unimportant English League Cup, Liverpool has conceded goals in 4 league games, 2 Champions League games, 6 games, and 10 goals in 6 games, but fortunately, Liverpool's offensive firepower is still strong, scoring 17 goals in 6 games, Liu Ting alone occupies 8 of these 17 goals, and Liverpool has achieved 5 wins and 1 loss in 6 games.
In fact, conceding the ball is a problem for the entire backline, although Joe Hart has an unstable performance, but Carragher should bear the biggest pot, but Joe Hart is a newcomer who is easy to bully, and it is difficult for Carragher's old fritters to be approved, so the media avoids the importance and criticizes Joe Hart.
The red derby is coming soon, and with the help of the media to provoke the war, Ferguson will naturally not be polite.
Speaking to reporters, Ferguson said: "It's going to be a tough game against Liverpool, I'm not worried at all, they're suffering from injuries, the defence is like fishnets and the young goalkeeper is definitely conceding again. ”