Chapter 108: Halfway Champion

Liu Ting knows the difference between playing for a wealthy team and an ordinary team.

I have been playing in Bordeaux last year and think that his performance is much better than Manchester United's Anderson, but the mass media think that he and Anderson are close opponents for the Golden Boy Award, and now in Liverpool for half a year, he immediately got rid of Anderson and turned into a huge advantage to win.

Liu Ting's birthday is December 25th, but there will be a game on the 26th, so Liu Ting had to advance his birthday and invite his teammates to play at home and exchange feelings by the way.

LÊa Seydoux has been busy making movies recently and has no time to come, so Liu Ting invited Lena Gelker to be her female companion.

Due to the tight schedule recently, everyone didn't drink, just played poker games together.

The winter break of other European leagues is coming, but the Premier League is the arrival of a dense schedule, Liverpool will play on the 26th, 28th, and 3rd of next month, this is still in the case of the League Cup being eliminated, if the League Cup is not eliminated, it will be more intensive.

Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas will be out for at least two months due to injury, but Arsene Wenger has turned his attention to Xavi Alonso for an upcoming winter transfer offer.

Wenger still thought it was the Benitez period, and Alonso and Benitez had a conflict and were sold? When Benitez was there, Arsenal asked for Alonso for ÂŖ14 million, and Benitez asked for ÂŖ17 million at the time, but Wenger thought it was too expensive and gave it up.

Only Liu Ting knows how miserable Liverpool is without Alonso, the midfield's organizational ability has greatly declined, and the record is poor and cannot be squeezed into the top four every year.

This also reminded Liu Ting that now Alonso is not so valued in the team, and soon Real Madrid's Florentino will be restored, and then it is to seduce Alonso, Liverpool must make Alonso feel valued, after all, he has a good memory here, he has lived here for 5 years, and he has completed a shocking reversal like the Istanbul miracle to win the Champions League together, I believe that he would not have left if it were not for the conflict with Benitez.

Now that Benitez has been ousted, Liu Ting believes Alonso will stay.

So recently Liverpool FC notified Alonso's agent to renew his contract and raise his salary, and the current highest salary in the team is Gerrard's weekly salary of 120,000 pounds, followed by Torres's 110,000 pounds, and Liu Ting and Alonso are both 80,000 pounds per week.

Liu Ting and Xu Zhengxin discussed to increase Alonso's weekly salary to 100,000 pounds, which is already a high weekly salary in the current Premier League.

On December 26, the 19th round of the Premier League arrives, and Liverpool will host Bolton.

Before the game, Franky, the editor of the Torino Sports newspaper, presented Liu Ting with the 08 European Golden Boy Award trophy, which is actually a football look.

Liu Ting brought the trophy to the stadium to show the fans, and immediately attracted cheers from the audience.

"Golden Boy...... Golden Boy ......"

"Golden Boy !!"

In the cheers, Liu Ting threw a few flying kisses at the fans and went back to the locker room to prepare for the next game.

"Liu, bring it over and I'll take a look!"

"This is the trophy of the Golden Boy Award?"

"It looks like a soccer ball and a pedestal."

"Is it golden? It seems to be copper. ”

Everyone happily watched in the locker room, and the atmosphere was quite good.

Heynckes, who was on the side, watched, knowing in his heart that this game could be easily won.

In this game, Heynckes is still in a 433 formation, and Mascherano, who had a round of flu in the midfield, is still resting on the bench and replaced with Modric to start, facing a team like Bolton, or at home, and the defense can be easily won if it is a little loose.

"Liu's breakthrough!! Diagonal pass penalty area!! ”

In the 21st minute, Liu Ting broke through the opponent's midfielder McCann on the left side, crossed the penalty area diagonally at 45 degrees, and Modric stepped in and kicked the ball into the goal.

'Luka Modric, this Croatian kid hasn't had many opportunities to perform since he came to Liverpool, but he always takes the opportunity to perform.

With Liverpool's midfielders Steven Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and Mascherano all in their prime, Modric can only be used as a substitute but often performs well.

This goal was Liu Ting's assist, and the whole stadium was shouting "Golden Boy...... Golden Boy !! ”

Today, Liverpool fans recognized this slogan and snubbed Modric who scored goals.

"Liu!! He's breaking in!! ”

In the 34th minute, Liu Ting's through ball in the street in front of the penalty area, Kevin Nolan, who came up, directly entered the penalty area, and faced Gary Cahill stepped on a bicycle to shake off the position and hit the goal directly.

Jascoleneen ...... Kuyt!! ”

The shot was brilliantly saved by Bolton goalkeeper Jascolainen, and coolie striker Kuyt's run seized the opportunity and immediately rushed up to tackle the ball into the back of the net.

Kuyt was cheering and celebrating, but Liu Ting shook his head helplessly, he won the Golden Boy Award before this game, and he felt in good shape, he wanted a goal but this happened, the shot just now was already very good, but it was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper, but it was the achievement of Kuyt.

Sometimes the more you want a goal, the more luck plays against you.

Liverpool returned to the dressing room with a 2-0 scoreline, and the fans at Anfield Stadium were celebrating Christmas, and today's Anfield belonged to the Christmas song, and "You Will Never Go Alone" had to be avoided for the time being.

At the start of the second half, Liverpool continued to attack.

Keane...... Strike!! ”

In the 59th minute, Liu Ting made a cross from the left side, and Robbie Keane made a leap to top the ball into the opponent's goal, and scored a rare goal.

The British commentator said: "This is Keane's third goal for Liverpool, what a poor boy, he has no big luck at all, his performance since joining Liverpool is really not worthy of his value, and Keane is on the list of this year's parallel goods selected by the European media just on Christmas." ”

Robbie Keane is ranked third on the parallel list, the first and second are occupied by Inter Milan, and Mourinho, who just moved into Inter Milan this year, spent 40 million euros to buy two strikers, and only scored 1 goal in the past six months, which is more water than Robbie Keane.

This goal killed the game, Heynckes began to make substitutions, Liu Ting was the first to be replaced, Hai Gonggong was really afraid that Liu Ting would be injured unexpectedly or something, and the recent schedule was tight to give him more rest.

In the 64th minute, a dead ball, Heynckes replaced Liu Ting with Zheng Zhi, which can be regarded as completing the task assigned by the club and giving Zheng Zhi some opportunities to play.

Liu Ting, who wanted to score a goal to celebrate the Golden Boy Award, still failed to do so, but it was not bad to receive two assists.

The scoreline was maintained until the end, with Liverpool beating Bolton Wanderers 3-0 at home.

At the end of the game, Anfield was shouting: "Liverpool!! 1st in the league!! Champion!!! ”

This is the last game of the first half of the Premier League schedule, and the winning Liverpool won the Premier League half title, which Benitez has not done, the last time Liverpool won the half title was in the 96/97 season, after a full 12 years, and even Liverpool fans can expect the Premier League title at the end of the season, Liverpool have not won the top flight title for 19 years.

In the first season of coming to Liverpool, he won the halfway championship, or remained unbeaten in the halfway, Heynckes's coaching was recognized, and now Liverpool fans have begun to forget Benitez.

At the end of the 19th round, Manchester United and Chelsea both won, but Arsenal dropped the chain to draw 2-2 away to Villa.

At the end of the Premier League halfway, Liverpool won the halfway championship with 19 rounds, 12 wins, 7 draws and 43 points, followed by Chelsea with 12 wins, 5 draws and 41 points, Manchester United ranked 3rd with 10 wins, 5 draws and 35 points in two rounds of less, and Aston Villa with 35 points with Manchester United in 4th, Arsenal fell to 5th with 32 points after two consecutive rounds of draws.

In fact, from this standings, Liverpool does not have much advantage, only 2 points ahead of second-placed Chelsea, and Manchester United has two games less, as long as they win the supplementary game, they will catch up with Chelsea on the same points.

However, it is always a joy to win the half-marathon, and the media has covered it.

"Nineteen years of waiting, Liverpool is finally expected to win the championship!" 》

"Half champion and undefeated, Liverpool points to Arsenal's undefeated championship record? 》

One report after another has come out, touting Liverpool, Heynckes, Gerrard, Liu Ting, all kinds of debuts.

However, United are determined to come out and speak out against the tune, which is a must.

Ferguson came out first and told the media: "We are actually only two points away from them, with 19 league games to go, they are even further away from the title than Europe or Asia. ”

Manchester United's mouthpiece reporter Mike Keegan wrote in the Daily Mail: "Historically, it may be difficult for Liverpool to win the title, in the history of the English top flight, only 49 of the 109 titles produced are halfway titles in the current season, accounting for only 41.28%, if you only count the last 20 seasons, this proportion will drop to a little more than 30%." In the Premier League era alone, there were 16 half-way champions in the past, only seven of them won the title. ”

This means that most of the half-time titles have not been won in the league, with Liverpool's last half-time title coming in the 96/97 season, when Liverpool finished fourth in the Premier League and were snatched away by Manchester United. At the end of the 95/96 season, Newcastle United won the halfway lead by 12 points over Manchester United, and it was thought that Newcastle would win the top flight again after 70 years, but at the end of the season, the Red Devils were four points ahead of Newcastle United. In the 97/98 season, Manchester United was also the halfway champion, at one point leading the Gunners, but in the end Wenger led Arsenal to overturn and steal the Premier League title. In 02/03, Arsenal were the halfway winners, nine points ahead of Manchester United, but the Red Devils finished the season five points clear of the Gunners. ”

"Liverpool are the halfway champions, only two points ahead of Chelsea and Manchester United, so it's too early to say champions."