Chapter 53: I Must Play This Game! (The second is to ask for a monthly pass!) )
After the match against Blackburn, Liverpool immediately welcomed Anderlecht at home.
The 5-1 win away to Anderlecht made the team relaxed. O'Neill doesn't think there will be any problems with this game either.
I didn't think that I realized something was wrong after the game started. This time, not only the team underestimated the enemy, but even the head coach was a little underestimated this time......
Fortunately, there is one person who has never underestimated the opponent, or never given up the pursuit of goals because of the level of the opponent.
Regardless of whether the team's qualification situation is decided, Chen Yingying will continue to pursue goals.
Because he's going to fight with Messi to score goals.
In the Champions League match two days earlier, Messi scored twice away from home in the game, and the number of goals has increased to five.
Although Messi is still one less than Chen Yingying in terms of goals, Chen Yingying cannot be taken lightly, because Messi is indeed the most powerful player in today's football, and he also has a very powerful team, as long as he is in this team, his goals will continue to appear.
And it was thanks to Chen Yingying's two goals that Liverpool avoided being beaten by Anderlecht at their own home stadium (). In the end, Liverpool drew 2-2 with Anderlecht at home.
Chen scored twice in the game, and with that time he has now scored eight goals in the Europa League this season and continues to lead the scorers' charts.
Back in the league, Liverpool beat Fulham 2-0 at home, Chen Yingying did not score in this game, because he was placed on the bench, and the continuous play had too much impact on the team's fitness. O'Neal continues to stick to his rotation.
With the game on Liverpool's trajectory from the start, the goals were quick to come and Fulham didn't show their tenacious fighting spirit. O'Neill didn't have any intention of letting Chen Yingxing play, and he ended up sitting on the bench for a full 90 minutes.
On November 24, in the 14th round of the league, Liverpool defeated Newcastle 3-0 away, and Chen Yingying started and scored a goal.
He scored 16 goals and three assists in the first 14 rounds of the league, which is a statistic when he was rotated in three games and banned from a red card in one game, so he scored 16 goals in 10 games, which is a remarkable result.
Unfortunately, he didn't carry that great form into the Carabao Cup. In the Carabao Cup quarter-finals on November 30, Liverpool lost 2-0 to Chelsea. Chelsea avenged their defeat last year when Liverpool knocked out of the quarter-finals by the same scoreline.
In fact, Chen Yingxing can't be blamed for his bad state, Chen Yingying was sitting on the bench at the beginning of this game.
It wasn't until the 67th minute that he was substituted, by which time Chelsea had already led Liverpool by two goals.
His presence did not bring any positive changes to the team either. In the end, the reigning champions of the League Cup, Liverpool could only reluctantly accept the fate of being eliminated from the League Cup.
But Martin. O'Neill was not frustrated or chagrined, although he expressed his regret at the post-match press conference () that he was eliminated from the tournament. But that's just for pretending, for others to see.
Martin. O'Neill may have breathed a sigh of relief...... That would leave the team no longer having to think about the Carabao Cup for the next two or three months, and O'Neill would even want to forgo the FA Cup outright if he could.
Now the team's momentum in the league is very good, and if it continues to play like this, it is difficult to say whether it will win the championship, but there is a great possibility of qualifying for the Champions League. Although they were forced to draw at home in the Europa League, it did not affect the team's situation of qualifying.
So Martin. O'Neill felt that he should still focus on the league and then focus a little bit on the Europa League, and as for the two domestic competitions, he gave up for the time being.
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On December 2nd, the fifteenth round of the league, Chen Yingying and Martin. There are five rounds left in the match that O'Neal agreed. Liverpool host Bolton.
The final score was 4:0. Chan, who came off the bench in the Carabao Cup but was unable to help his side beat Chelsea to the semi-finals, put all his energy into the game and scored a hat-trick......
It was his second hat-trick of the season, and with only fifteen rounds of league play, he has already scored nineteen goals......
Such a terrifying goalscoring efficiency has the whole of English football trembling.
With not even half of the league reached, the media has consciously not discussed who will be the top scorer of the season.
Because this is completely unnecessary, the battle for the top scorer is unnecessary in front of the strong Chen Yingying!
It's a good thing for Chen, but it's a very cruel thing for others, especially Robin van Persie......
After losing last season's top scorer in the league, he told his manager and himself that there was still next season.
But now it seems that he may have to hope for next season. Because this season, it will be very difficult for him to surpass Chen Yingying......
At the same time last season, after fifteen league games, he was the top scorer in the league with fifteen goals.
And this season his form is significantly worse than last season, with only 11 goals in 15 league games.
There is a gap of eight balls from Chen Yingying, how can he chase it? Anything is possible, and this does not seem to apply to Chen Yingying.
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After playing in the domestic league, Liverpool rushed to Portugal to challenge Sporting Lisbon away.
Before every Europa League game, Messi's game has ended, so Chen Yingying will have a very clear benchmark and reference.
Messi scored a penalty in the game, and his personal Champions League goal tally in a single season rose to six.
He has scored six goals before the group stage is over, and this performance has been praised by many European sports media, believing that Messi has continued his excellent form last season and may be able to defend the Champions League top scorer this season.
If you continue to play in this state, it is not surprising that Messi's various awards this year will definitely be Messi's.
The Champions League is indeed the most eye-catching stage, also in Europe, Chen Yingying scored eight goals in the Europa League, only the media in England and China are the happiest, promoting it for a while, and the sports media in other countries give significantly less attention than Messi.
So everyone praises a player who has scored six goals, but ignores the person who has scored eight.
Chen Yingying didn't bother with the media, because he knew that he had only scored eight goals, and it was indeed not enough to cause a sensation!
He's going to score more goals ()!
Playing Sporting Lisbon away, Chen Yingying continued to score goals and scored twice!
Helped Liverpool win 2:1 away from Sporting Lisbon, and there is still the last round of the group stage, Liverpool has four wins and one draw to accumulate 13 points, has qualified in advance, and even won the group in advance. Anderlecht and Sporting Lisbon are battling for another qualifying spot.
The date for the final group stage of the Europa League is December 15, and from this day onwards, Liverpool will also be in a very dense competition in the Premier League.
So Martin. O'Neill has already started to think about this last round of group stage for a big rotation, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, the important thing is to rest the main players, as well as train the young players, so that those rotation players can get more opportunities to play, so that they don't get emotional because they play too little.
On the plane back to Liverpool from Portugal, Chen Yingying found Martin. O'Neill, that's exactly what we're talking about.
Chen Yingying is not able to see through other people's minds, but after playing in professional football for so many years, will he still have some experience and common sense. Now the team has qualified from the group ahead of schedule and won the first place in the group. Coach Glicka will certainly rotate at home to the fish belly team in this group in the final round.
Chen Yingying can't control the rotation of others, so he hopes that O'Neal will not rotate him, because he wants to score goals. He has set himself a European goal of 20 goals this season. Although he is confident that he will reach the final with the team, it is still a matter of luck, and he hopes that it does not mean that the team will definitely reach the final. If you don't make it to the final, you may be eliminated somewhere, and what if you are too far away from 20 goals by then?
So it's better to score more goals in games that you're sure you'll be able to play.
In the final round of the group stage, the opponent is a recognized fish belly team, which is simply an excellent object for scoring goals!
How could Chen Yingying miss such an opportunity?
So he went to O'Neill and talked about it.
O'Neill was puzzled by his insistence on participating in the final round of the group stage, he did intend to let Chen Yingxing rest in this game, and the rest was very thorough, not only did not let him start, but also did not let him enter the substitute list. Throw him directly into the stands as a spectator.
Considering the upcoming intensive schedule, O'Neal's arrangement is reasonable and the practice of ordinary coaches.
But Chen Yingying came up to him and told him that he must have someone to participate in the final round of the group stage.
Why is that?
And he also asked himself for leave before, saying that he would return to China to celebrate his father's birthday no matter what......
O'Neill began to reflect - was he too indulgent of this Chen Yingying? Let him start to ignore his authority as a manager?
Then you still have to show your authority as a head coach, lest he be too blind!
So he shook his head and rejected Chen Yingying's suggestion: "I can't promise you, Hero. We've already qualified for the Europa League and the last group game doesn't mean anything to us at all. But the league schedule after the 15th is intense, and the team needs your strength. ”
"I don't have any problems with my fitness, boss. Even if I play one game a day, I can beat it! So please make sure you let me participate in this group stage! ”
Seeing him so resolute, O'Neill felt more and more strange: "Why? Why should I have to start you? ”
Chen Yingying's answer startled O'Neill: "Because I'm going to hit the European goal record in a single season, boss!" I'm going to score at least 20 goals in the Europa League this season! That's why every game counts for me! ”
After hearing Chen Yingying's words, Martin. O'Neill was stupid......!.