The third round is four days after the second round of the league, and the schedule is relatively tight.

Liverpool will also be at home in the third round and will face a visit from Aston Villa.

Villa finished fifth in the league last season, and although they let go of their star Gareth Barry this season, they still have stars such as James Milner and Ashley Young in the team, and they are still a team with the ability to cause problems for Liverpool.

In fact, the result was the same, Liu Ting's goal in the first half gave Liverpool the lead, but in the second half Villa scored twice in a row to overtake the score, and Torres received Gerrard's second-time pass in the 81st minute to help the team equalize.

In the end, Liverpool drew 2-2 at home to Villa, which was also the first draw in the Premier League this season.

Liverpool had an all-round numerical advantage in this game, but were held to a draw at home, and goalkeeper Cavalieri became the sinner. Two goals, the first was Cavalieri's unexpectedly unexpectedly unstruck shot into the net by the opposition, and the second was not a must-score, Cavalieri's positioning error caused him to be unable to save the goal.

Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all took all three points in this round, and the three London teams Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea won three in a row, and Liverpool is five points behind the top of the table after three rounds.

The draw gave the media something to say.

The Daily Mail said: "Everyone knows that Reina's departure will have a big impact on Liverpool, but I didn't expect it to show up so quickly, I think what Liverpool have to do now is to find a better goalkeeper to come back before the transfer market closes, but the summer transfer deadline is less than a week, Liverpool may be difficult to bring back a good goalkeeper in this little time, then they can only find a good target first, and then bring in the winter transfer period." If Brazilian Cavalieri had relied on him to keep the goal, Liverpool would have been out of contention for the league title by the time a new goalkeeper arrived......

The Daily Mail is exaggerating, but it's true that Cavalieri is useless, and Heynckes is also struggling with it.

Heynckes is talking to his assistant coach about the next game.

Herman said: "Why don't you start Joe Hart in the next game? The next game is not a big game anyway. ”

Father-in-law Hai said: "Okay, that's the only way, the remaining time is not enough for us to find a good goalkeeper to come back." ”

Liverpool's next game is not a league game, but a UEFA Super Cup, and Liverpool's fourth round of the league will have to be postponed for a later date.

If it is for those teams that have not won the Super Cup, like Bordeaux where Liu Ting used to stay, then they must go all out to prepare for the war to win the game and add a different trophy to the team's honor room.

For the European giants, the European Super Cup is just a warm-up game with trophies, Liverpool has participated in five European Super Cups before, won three, this is Liverpool's sixth participation in the European Super Cup, Liverpool's most recent Super Cup victory was won under Benitez in 05.

Liverpool has won the Champions League five times and the UEFA Cup three times, but during Liverpool's first two Europa League wins, the Super Cup was won by the Champions League winner against the Cup Winners' Cup, and then the Cup Winners' Cup and the League Cup merged to become the Champions League Champions League Champions League Cup winners, Liverpool should have participated in six Super Cups in history, but in 81 Liverpool did not participate on the grounds that the domestic league was tight and could not arrange time.

On August 29, the rest of the Premier League was busy preparing for the fourth round of the league, and the whole Liverpool team boarded a plane to France to Monaco for the UEFA Super Cup.

Liverpool followed the predetermined route to Nice, France, and then by helicopter to Monaco.

This is the second year in a row that Liu Ting has played in the UEFA Super Cup, having won the UEFA Super Cup for Liverpool last year with a hat-trick against Manchester United, and now he is representing Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup.

At Monaco's small airport, Liu Ting was once again welcomed by local fans.

Heynckes intends to make some rotations in this game, mainly against defensive players, and Liu Ting, Torres and Gerrard in the attacking line will not rest, so they will also give UEFA a face.

Even if you don't pay attention to the UEFA Super Cup, but send a bunch of substitutes to it, it will be a slap in the face of UEFA.

Liverpool's opponent in the UEFA Super Cup is the Ukrainian team Shakhtar Donetsk, and in last season's Europa League, the Ukrainian team defeated the German team Werder Bremen in the final.

The Ukrainian team does have a few good players in the team, mainly their Brazilian attacking combination, the midfielder Fernandinho who will go to Manchester City in the future, the wide player Willian who will go to Chelsea, the striker Luis Adriano who will play for AC Milan for a short time, and the defender Ziglinski, who has been bought by Barcelona and will report to Barcelona after the Super Cup, except for Ziglinski, the other three are all Brazilian players.

The foreign aid policy of the Ukrainian league makes it possible for rich Ukrainian teams to bring in a large number of Brazilian talents, and after these talents are cultivated, they will be sold to the five major leagues to recover the cost or even make a small profit, so the Ukrainian league has become a two-man turn between Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.

The UEFA Super Cup is dispensable for Liverpool, but it is important for Shakhtar Donetsk, who are desperate to win their first ever UEFA Super Cup, and the Shakhtar squad will want to attract the attention of the European giants.

At 19:45 in the evening, the UEFA Super Cup started on time.

More than ten minutes into the game, Heynckes on the sidelines began to frown slightly.

The miners are completely stubborn to the end, blocking the door first, and then seeking a counterattack when they have the opportunity.

This style of play is really a headache, and breaking down dense defense is an eternal problem in football.

Most of the Liverpool fans who came to watch the game gave a huge boo for Shakhtar Donetsk's tactics, but it didn't allow Shakhtar to attack.

To be fair, this is not too much for the miners to play.

In the new season, Liverpool's Liu Ting, Torres and Gerrard's attacking combination ranked third, which means that Liverpool's attacking power is recognized as the third strongest in Europe.

At the top of the list is the Barcelona attacking combination with Messi, Thierry Henry, Ibrahimovic and Andres Iniesta and Xavi, and the second is the Real Madrid attacking combination that includes Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Raul and Benzema.

This ranking is actually based on fame, Liu Ting believes that Barcelona's attack combination is not inferior to Liverpool, but Real Madrid's attack combination has just been formed, and the official game has not been played twice, just because this combination has Ronaldo and Kaka, the first two world footballers, it is ranked in front of Liverpool.

In the face of Liverpool, one of the top three attacking combinations in Europe, Shakhtar chose to defend to the death, and if they were lucky enough to survive the penalty shootout, it would be difficult to say who would win and who would lose.

Shakhtar stuck to their stubborn tactics, and Liverpool had to look for opportunities slowly, but time passed quickly, and the score was still 0-0 at the end of the first half.

This score can not make Heynckes satisfied, although he does not pay much attention to the Super Cup, but he does not want to play such an aggrieved game, if he plays to the end of the extra time and then loses in the penalty shootout, it is more than worth the loss, not to win the championship and to make the players tired.

"In the second half we continued to attack and we had to finish the game in 90 minutes, there are still a lot of games waiting for us in the league and we can't spend too much time on a Ukrainian team," Heynckes said. ”

Heynckes' arrangement actually has another purpose, if the attack can't break the opponent's goal, then the long-term pressure is likely to give the opponent a chance, so Heynckes is crazy attack and is attacked by the opponent and loses the game, in short, don't play extra time, either win in 90 minutes, or lose in 90 minutes, Liverpool's situation in the league does not allow them to fight with people here.

Hai Gonggong turned to the goalkeeper Joe Hart, who started this time, and said: "Joe, you did a good job in the first half and continued to do so in the second half. ”

In fact, Joe Hart's performance in the first half can only be said to be decent, and the Shakhtars have two counterattacks that are not much of a threat, but Joe Hart did not make low-level mistakes, which is what makes Heynckes happy, although the European Super Cup is not rich in gold, but it is also a game that people all over the world watch, Joe Hart did not show nervousness and mistakes, which is the most basic performance of a good goalkeeper.

Heynckes also knew that young players needed encouragement, so he praised him by the way.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool attacked according to Heynckes' arrangement, but Liverpool was hit first before they could score.

In the 57th minute, Agger collided with the knee of the opponent's defender Guy in the scramble, and Ag fell on the grass and could not get up.

Liverpool's starting centre-back pairing was Aager and Skrtel, just to give the veteran Carragher a little more rest. Fortunately, Heynckes still brought Carragher to Monaco, and now he has to let Carragher play.

But just five minutes later, Skrtel strained his thigh in a back-and-forth defence and Liverpool had to make a second passive substitution.

Zhan Jun said: "Liverpool are so unlucky, both of their starting centre-backs were injured in five minutes, I think it is a big blow for Liverpool, hopefully they can hold on. ”

Heynckes on the sidelines was considering who to change.

There are seven substitutions for a game (there were only five in the Premier League, and there have been seven since 08), except for the substitute goalkeeper who must occupy one, there are only six places left, and these six places are arranged with forwards, midfielders and defenders, usually two substitutions for each.

In this game, Heynckes arranged the defender substitutes Carragher and Gareth Bale, a full-back and a central defender, this arrangement is generally enough to cope with most situations, who knows that the two central defenders have been injured one after another, Bale is a typical attacking full-back, let him play the central defender does not know how many goals to miss, Heynckes has to think about others.

Heynckes glanced at the bench and said, "Zizi, hurry up like a warm-up." ”

This choice is also reasonable, now there is no central defender available, Zheng Zhi is originally a versatile player in the backfield, he can play defensive back or defender, but he has more time playing back waist.

When Zheng Zhi came on the pitch, Zhan Jun was saying: "Zheng Zhi got the opportunity to play, he set another record, he became the first Chinese player to play in the UEFA Super Cup, if Liverpool can win at the end of the game, he will also become the first Chinese player to win the UEFA Super Cup." ”

With two injuries in quick succession, it took more than ten minutes for Liverpool to finally recover from the blow and lay siege to Shakhtar Donetsk again.

With only about ten minutes left in regulation time, the Shakhtars were even more determined to stay the course.

Seeing that the situation was going in the direction that Heynckes didn't want to go in the last way, Liverpool finally created an opportunity.

In the 86th minute, Torres and Gerrard made a continuous collision with the wall on the right side, and then Torres swept the ball into the penalty area, Liu Ting tacitly appeared in the right position, and rolled the ball into the lower left corner of the goal.

This was the only goal of the game, and Liverpool also relied on Liu Ting's goal to beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0 to win the fourth UEFA Super Cup in the team's history.