Ferguson will not miss any opportunity to hit the opponent, and when Liverpool is in trouble at this critical time, he really stood up and said: "The situation is good for us now, we have the advantage in the league, and we have every chance to end the suspense of promotion away from home in the Champions League, so it must be the best." ”

There is also Ferguson's usual approach, he always looked for an important player in the opponent's squad before the game to say that he had considered bringing him in, and this time he found Liu Ting: "Liu Ting is a very talented player, our scouts have been following him since he was in Bordeaux, and then Manchester United also tried to join the battle for him, but unfortunately he ended up choosing Liverpool. ”

'I think it only took one season for him to realise that he had made the wrong choice, he could win a lot of trophies at Manchester United and go to Liverpool empty-handed.

This has raised questions about why Liu Ting chose Liverpool instead of Manchester United, Arsenal, Barcelona, etc.

Liu Ting responded: "Ferguson and Arsene Wenger? I'm glad they took a fancy to me, and honestly, I've done three-quarters of what a professional footballing career would have to go through. ”

Reporter: "What is a professional footballer's career? ”

Liu Ting: "What any professional player has to go through is to start his career, he was almost signed by Arsene Wenger, he was raised by Manchester United, and he ended his career in four steps, and I have completed the first three steps. ”

Liu Ting's sneer made the reporter black, but this answer still appeared in the newspaper the next day, cleverly avoiding Ferguson's wavering military spirit.

Soon, Liverpool's Carragher, Gerrard, Ager, etc., and Manchester United's Gary Neville, Ferdinand, etc., began to spew spat, and the tabloids happily reported these unnutritious spats to attract fans to pay, and then stir up the fire from time to time.

Heynckes didn't have time to talk and was discussing the game with his assistant coach.

Peter Herman asked, "Joseph, do we have a chance for tomorrow's game?" ”

Torres's sudden injury, Gerrard began to resume training, and did not meet the requirements to play, although Gerrard repeatedly said that he could play in the game against Manchester United, but the coaching staff still did not give him an accurate answer, just released the news that Gerrard may play, hoping to interfere with Manchester United's arrangements as a smoke bomb.

In such a situation, even the coaching staff did not think that Liverpool could be better than Manchester United.

Heynckes said: "Only God knows, we just have to do what we have to do and play tomorrow as we did in these two days of training, the good thing is that we have played two games against Manchester United this season and beat them both, our players are familiar with Manchester United and have a better psychological advantage. ”

"I hope Liu can continue to maintain his form, he has been able to score or assist in every game recently, this is a kind of continuous endurance, continue to help the team, although there is no such situation of a big explosion, but it is what any coach likes, there are such players in the team often do not suffer sudden defeats, Liu can maintain this state and we can also achieve a good result at home."

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On the evening of April 29, the Champions League semi-final Liverpool played at home against rival Manchester United.

The Champions League is in the final stage, is the focus of attention throughout Europe, and the game between Liverpool and Manchester United has also attracted much attention in Asia, with an Asian on each team, Manchester United's Park Ji-sung and Liverpool's Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi has recovered from injury and has also entered the squad for this game, which is considered an Asian derby in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

China and South Korea are focusing on this knockout round, and Liverpool have brought in Japanese player Shinji Kagawa, but he is still playing in Japan, but it has also made this game a lot of attention in Japan. Shinji Kagawa also made overtures in Japan to his new club, whom he has not yet met: "Liverpool can knock out Manchester United, they have beaten Manchester United twice in the league, and Liverpool will be the team to qualify for the Champions League final." ”

So in the past two days, Liverpool has seen people with East Asian faces everywhere, mostly Asian journalists who have come to cover this Champions League semi-final.

Before the start of the game, Zhan Jun was introducing the starters of the two teams: "The starting formation of the two teams in this game seems to be reversed, Manchester United's starting formation has become a 433, which is the formation that Liverpool often plays this season, Manchester United's starting goalkeeper Van der Sar, four defenders Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic and O'Shea, O'Shea is the starting agent for the injured Manchester United captain Gary Neville, the three midfielders are Anderson, Carrick and Fletcher, and the forward line is Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo, Alex Ferguson has reverted to the attacking combination that United were unbeatable from last season. ”

"Liverpool's side played a 442 formation at home due to injury, which is the most commonly used formation for Manchester United, Liverpool's starting goalkeeper Reina, the back four are Gareth Bale, Carragher, Ager and Arbeloa, the four midfielders are Mascherano, Lucas, Xavi Alonso and Modric, Gerrard, who said before the game that he might play, sat on the bench, and Liu Ting and Kuyt partnered in the front.

"I don't know if Zheng Zhi will have a chance to play this time, no matter what, he has entered the squad, he is the first Chinese player to participate in the Champions League semi-finals, and if he plays, he will become the first Chinese player to play in the Champions League semi-finals."

It was clear from United's starting that Ferguson intends to get the lead on the road, or at least get enough away goals.

The absence of Torres and Gerrard on Liverpool's side made Heynckes more conservative, and the Liverpool fans who came to Anfield did not play exaggerated slogans, you must know that when Liverpool was in good shape two weeks ago, many fans shouted the slogan of 'four kills Manchester United', and it is not enough to kill Manchester United in the league, and they want to kill Manchester United in the Champions League.

Now that Liverpool's major injury is coming, Liverpool fans have finally calmed down, and the slogans on the scene are some 'we are going to Rome' and 'knocking out Manchester United'.

This season's Champions League final will be held in Rome, Italy, but the Italian team was wiped out in the round of 16 of the Champions League, which is also an 'accident' in the Champions League.

In this game, there were also many celebrities in the stands, UEFA President Platini, Argentina's football king coach Maradona, Liverpool Dalglish, Ian Rush and other celebrities, Liverpool's former golden boy Owen also appeared in the stands, and the discord was that a small number of fans were shouting traitors when the camera swept to him.

There are also a lot of entertainment stars, British Hollywood star and 007 actor Daniel Craig also appeared in the stands as a loyal Liverpool fan, as well as Liu Ting's German rumored girlfriend Lena Gelk, in addition to other British stars.

At 19:45 in the evening, the Champions League semi-finals between Liverpool and Manchester United began.

In the opening game, Manchester United was a 'taking advantage of his illness to kill him', and launched a big attack on Liverpool.

In the first minute, Fletcher accelerated on the right to shake off Arbeloa's cross, and Rooney almost broke the goal with a header from Carragher, and the ball was close to the bottom line of the crossbar.

Liverpool is naturally not to be outdone, this is at their home stadium, although Heynckes asked to play more steadily, but it is not to let the opponent attack.

In the 5th minute, Liu Ting smashed the ball on the left side and beat O'Sheechech vigorously, which was from a good angle and allowed Van der Sar to make a beautiful flying save.

In the opening period, both teams played a threatening ball each, which immediately ignited the atmosphere on the pitch.

In the 9th minute, Rooney crossed from the left, Mascherano blocked the ball in front of Tevez to clear the ball, Tevez signaled to the referee that the little pony had a foul, the referee ignored it, and the two Argentines had a quarrel on the field.

When something like this happened on the field, the camera was very good at finding the Argentine coach Maradona who was watching the game at the scene, both of them were Maradona's favorite players, and the little horse was especially valued by Maradona, and the old horse was expressionless and didn't know what he was thinking.

In the 12th minute, Kuyt returned the pass, and Xavi Alonso fired a long-range shot wide of the bottom line.

With more than 10 minutes played, Liu Ting found himself in the middle of Manchester United's bag, O'Shea followed him at all times, Ferdinand and Carrick often came to chase him when he had the ball, and it became difficult for him to get chances.

Grandpa Hai also noticed this on the sidelines, and he knew what the reason was, and Ferguson was completely unaffected by Gerrard's smoke bombs before the game.

In the past, Liverpool had Liu Ting, Torres and Gerrard three attack points, and it was impossible to block the three points together by chasing and intercepting the defense, not to mention that there was a pseudo-striker Kuyt who was also half an attack point, if the main defensive energy was to cover a certain attack point would be beaten into a sieve by other attack points, they all have good passing ability.

Now that Torres is absent with Steven Gerrard, United can safely chase and intercept Liu Tingwei, which is why Ferguson dared to arrange an attacking formation at Anfield.

In the following time, it looked like Liverpool and Manchester United were playing a big game on the sidelines, but Manchester United's attack was very threatening, while Liverpool's attack was a bit prodigal.

In the 17th minute, Ronaldo's cross from the right, Tevez shot twice in a row, the first time was blocked by Agger flying to block the ball, and the second time was saved by Reina.

In the 20th minute, Liu Ting broke through Anderson in the middle and immediately hit the wall formed by Vidic and Ferdinand, Liu Ting distributed the ball to Modric, who saw that he did not have a good chance to shoot a long shot into an anti-aircraft gun.

In the 24th minute, Modric's pick-up pass, Kuyt did it back, and Liu Ting shot a powerful low shot from outside the penalty area, but the foot was still confiscated by Van der Sar's quick reaction.

Alan Hansen said: "The tactics arranged by Ferguson have limited Liu to a certain extent, but Liu's form is good and he has not been completely limited by Ferguson, and Liverpool have only had two shots on target so far, and if he was facing an ordinary goalkeeper, those two shots could have become two goals. ”

At this time, Liu Ting prefers that his teammates are in good shape, Manchester United restricts him like this, as long as someone can turn his pass after attracting the defense into a goal, Manchester United's tactics will be self-defeating, but so far, Liu Ting feels that his teammates can only say that they are in average condition, there are no obvious mistakes but there is no flash of performance, in short, it is decent, then he can only rely on himself This game will become a hard battle.

Fortunately, Liverpool still has a good form, and that is goalkeeper Reina.

In the 29th minute, Tevez broke through on the right and crossed, and Ronaldo's close-range header from the back point jumped high to beat Ager, which was miraculously saved by Reina.

Then Manchester United controlled the ball, and Ronaldo once again fired a long-range shot from outside the box into the bottom left corner, but it was brilliantly saved by Reina.