Istanbul International Airport was already full of fans who came to pick up the airport, and the Istanbul police tried their best to control it, but there were still more than a thousand fans gathered in the airport, and many more fans were in the small square outside the airport, just to get a glimpse from afar.

The first of the Liverpool team to walk out of the airport was Sami Lee, followed by Benitez, one by one the players lined up to follow behind, and then the other staff, the 'sheep football training team' was also in the ranks of the 'other staff', Shen Yang was no exception, he had been talking and laughing with Wang Minghao in the back.

In the entire team, Shen Yang was very inconspicuous.

But when Shen Yang walked out of the airport, he was still recognized by reporters who came to interview on both sides, and several reporters called Shen Yang's name, they knew that Liverpool coaches and players would definitely not be interviewed at the airport, but Shen Yang was not a 'Liverpool person', and he could still be interviewed.

Shen Yang just greeted them with a smile.

Now, as a member of the Liverpool team, he is also asked not to give interviews, otherwise the time to go to the hotel will be delayed, and everyone will not be able to wait for him alone.

Several journalists were slightly disappointed.

The whole Liverpool team took the bus, went directly to the booked hotel, and after packing up, Liverpool borrowed the hotel lobby and held an impromptu press conference, which means 'announcing that we are coming', and then said some morale-boosting words, and the manager Benitez also attended the meeting, he talked about the technical problems of the game against Chelsea, such as Chelsea's advantage, Liverpool's advantage, etc., but in the end Benitez did not express absolute confidence to beat Chelsea.

Rafael Benitez's reticence was a bit of a disappointment for Liverpool's pro-media media, even though they knew that was the Spaniard's character.

Shen Yang, who was interviewed temporarily, encouraged Liverpool's support media, "I think it will be Liverpool who will win, I have confidence in Liverpool, in the past week, we have carried out the most scientific and rigorous training, and the state of each player has been adjusted to the best level, and when it comes to the game, I believe that Liverpool's performance will be much better than Chelsea's, so the winner will definitely be us." ”

One question that the media is concerned about is, 'Are Liverpool ready for penalties?' ”

Shen Yang hesitated, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Should you go and ask Benitez, or other Liverpool coaches, or players?" I'm only in charge of tactical training, and it's not my job to do the game. ”

The reporter was slightly disappointed.

However, they then spoke to Liverpool's key player Steven Gerrard, who didn't think there would be too many goals in the game, "Both teams defended very well and I don't believe it would be 3-3, 2-2 or 3-2. I think one goal can make the difference between winning and losing. I hope Liverpool will score in 90 minutes and we don't want to see a late penalty. That's not good for anyone. ”

At half past nine in the evening, the Chelsea squad arrived in Istanbul and checked into another hotel.

After the arrival of Liverpool and Chelsea, the media throughout Europe began to analyze the final, and various media analysed the possible situation of the game from various angles, such as whether there were penalties, what the score would be, which player would score, which player would be the key, and so on.

These pre-match analyses are very interesting, and when summed together, they may be viewed as a whole, but they don't have much meaning for the real game.

Meanwhile, Liverpool are making their final pre-match preparations.

Due to the tight schedule, the 'state training' of the 'Sheep Football Training Team' completely replaced the daily training and became the main training conducted by Liverpool, and the two assistant coaches who came with the team, Sami Lee and Mlins, were so sad that they could only assist the 'Sheep Football Training Team' and train the players.

Rafa Benitez is supportive and the players are happy with it, and Sami Lee and Mlins have no choice but to work like this.

Both were at a loss for the future.

Now there is only one 'sheep and sheep football training group' in the world, but like the inevitable development of many things, new and useful things will always develop rapidly, if there are more 'sheep and sheep football training groups' in a few years, they may be able to consider early retirement?

Shen Yang didn't know Sami Lee and Mlins' 'magical' ideas.

The inexplicable hostility between the two made Shen Yang feel a little inexplicable, thinking that the 'Sheep Football Training Group' was destined to leave Liverpool, and there was no direct competition with them, so why should the other party be hostile? Because of this, Shen Yang didn't think too much about it, just led the team and did his job - to help the whole Liverpool team be in the best position before the game.

Until the start of the game, both teams were working hard to prepare for the game, and both sides were much more low-key.

On the day of the game, Liverpool did their last training session, after which Benitez had their final tactical meeting, which was attended by all the players, in which Benitez explained in detail what to expect in the game and how to deal with it.

Shen Yang also attended the meeting.

If you had just met Benitez, you would not have had a good impression of him.

This Spaniard is too old-fashioned.

After a period of contact, Shen Yang also had to admit that Benitez is a genius of football tactics, he deserves the name of 'master tactics', just the explanation of various tactics and routines, its complexity is a bit scratching, and Benitez meticulously describes the tactics to what each player should do, what situation each player encounters, how to run, defend, etc., the tactics are so meticulous that it even makes people feel that the process of the game is in Benitez's hands.

This is the best professional football in the world?

It was the first time that Shen Yang realized that the world of football is also very attractive.

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Istanbul Ataturk Stadium.

The crowd was already packed, with fans wearing Liverpool and Chelsea shirts lining up on either side of the pitch, with the Ataturk Stadium officially dividing the two teams into separate zones, with Turkish fans in the middle.

The scene was filled with shouts.

The Turkish fans were the hosts, but the match was a contest between two English teams, with half of the English fans in number, and the crowd in the audience was full of cheering and cheering, and as neutral Turkish fans, most of them were silent.

Most Turkish fans don't know which team to support, because both are England fans.

Turkish fans don't have any good feelings about English football, whether it's Chelsea or Liverpool, they can be said to be their 'enemies'.

The two enemies fought each other on Turkish soil, and it has to be said that it was really a bit dramatic.

In the cheers of the fans at the scene, the two teams took to the final field under the leadership of their respective coaches, and after a series of pre-match degrees, with the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, with his left leg on his right leg and his toes on his toes, has a smile on his lips.

The BBS radio interpreted this as, "Mourinho is very confident in the game! ”

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez was sitting on his back with no expression on his face.

BBS radio interpreted this as "Benitez looks serious, he may be worried about the game. ”

As the game officially began, the media was in no mood to ridicule the manager, the screen camera began to chase the football back and forth, the names of the players were mentioned by the commentator, and the two sides entered a fierce state at the beginning.

It's all too familiar between Chelsea and Liverpool.

It is often like a major competition, the two sides will have a tentative encounter, but Chelsea and Liverpool do not, their style is fixed, the tactical style of play is on the surface, neither team will have a sudden change, and the familiarity of the two sides also makes the game quickly enter the white heat.

In the third, fifth and eleventh minutes, Chelsea and Liverpool each threatened to shoot.

Chelsea have once, Liverpool twice.

Although neither side scored, there were three threats in 11 minutes, so you can imagine what the game was like.

This situation of the game was very surprising to all the media.

No matter how you analyze it before the game, almost all opinions agree that the two teams will play very well, and national media such as Italy, Germany, France and Spain all think that 'this will be the most boring final', and it is very good to have a goal between two conservative English teams, and the game scene will also make people drowsy.

But the fierceness of the game lifted everyone's spirits.

The commentator of Milan TV in Italy was surprised, "Both teams are playing very open, so far Liverpool have two threatening shots, just now Gerrard on the periphery, almost broke the door of the Petr Cech, Chelsea also threatened once, the intensity of the game was unexpected, it seems that both teams are not conservative......"

As it turns out, the media's analysis actually makes a lot of sense.

After the opening period, it was time for both sides to adjust, with both teams starting to focus on defence, and from the fifteenth minute, there was more defence than attack, and both Chelsea and Liverpool realized that it was very dangerous to continue playing like this, and the players on the pitch wanted to be steady.

The game went on, but the tempo was a little slower than it started, but it was much better than the pre-match analysis, and the attack of both sides was very threatening, but it was more solid defensively.

Soon thirty minutes passed.

At this time, many people were surprised to find the fact that the two sides seemed to be evenly matched, but in fact Liverpool performed better than Chelsea.

Is Liverpool better than Chelsea?

No one will believe it before the game, even Liverpool fans have to admit that the current team is weaker than Chelsea, and there are some gaps in the overall squad and the strength of the starters.

On three fronts, the Chelsea forward led by Drogba is obviously strong, and Liverpool's forward goals have always been a problem, otherwise the season would not have created an embarrassing record of '431 consecutive minutes without scoring'; Not to mention the back line, Liverpool's defense is good, but it relies more on a few veterans, Chelsea's Carvalho and Terry's central defender combination, which cannot be said to be the world's No. 1 for sure, but it can definitely be ranked in the top three.

In short, Liverpool has a big gap with Chelsea in terms of staffing.

The comparison of the results of the two teams throughout the season also proves this, with the two sides meeting three times directly, with Liverpool drawing just one at home and 'incidentally' dropping the English League Cup trophy.

When the Champions League final matchup was decided, the vast majority thought Chelsea would win.

Even if it's just on the pitch, it's only Chelsea who suppress Liverpool, not the other way around.

Now that the two sides are evenly matched, it is already surprising.

Statistically, Liverpool have the upper hand, as the Milan TV commentator said, "In the last 30 minutes, Liverpool have had six shots on goal, five of which hit the woodwork, and Chelsea have five shots on goal, only two of which hit the woodwork." ”

'Liverpool had 109 passes and Chelsea had 81, Liverpool had five wrong passes and Chelsea had 11.

'Liverpool had 54 per cent of the ball and Chelsea 46 per cent.'

'The stats show that Liverpool are doing better than Chelsea......

It's hard to see the difference in stats because Liverpool didn't have an absolute press, Chelsea also had shots, they threatened, and there wasn't much difference in possession, but Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho still saw something, and just a little Chelsea didn't have an advantage, which has proven something.

"Liverpool are doing better?"

Jose Mourinho is reluctant to believe that fact, but it is clear that Chelsea have no advantage.

Liverpool are no worse than Chelsea in attack or defense, and Liverpool have significantly fewer mistakes than Chelsea.

Mourinho's 'Erlang leg' moved, and he couldn't help but change one leg to put on the other, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Now that both teams have not scored, there is no need to worry too much, but if it continues like this, Chelsea's chances of winning are a little smaller, and there is no good way to do it, the first half is not over yet, there are no players on the pitch who are too bad, he can't make adjustments.

But what is certain is that Mourinho is already starting to worry about the situation.

At this time, Mourinho couldn't help but think of the young Chinese, he didn't believe in any 'form training', but he had to admit that the Liverpool team on the pitch was indeed better than Chelsea.

Is it really the gap caused by 'state training'?

Liverpool thought there was 'form training' and every player was doing better, while Chelsea were playing at a mediocre level and the gap between the two sides was bridged because of this?

Mourinho was amused by his thoughts.

He may have thought too much.

It's normal for a team to perform well for a while, after all, it's a Champions League final, not an ordinary league game, and Liverpool has made a lot of preparations for this, so it's not a big deal to perform well for a while...... Let's ??