Chapter 38 Rotation (The third update, ask for a monthly pass!) )
In fact, Liverpool is not a two-front battle, but a three-front battle (). Because they still have the Carabao Cup to play.
The main round of the English League Cup starts at the beginning of August, although Premier League teams will not start joining until the third round. By this time, it was already late September.
Due to the large number of competitions in England, it is almost impossible not to rotate, otherwise few of those big teams will be able to survive.
The Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League, all of which are played by England's biggest teams, and if they're lucky enough to win all the way, they'll play 70 games a season. It's a double game a week almost every week, and the players aren't iron-clad. So if you don't change it, the players will run out of energy early, start to have frequent injuries, and eventually collapse.
Rotation is a must for all big teams in England.
Last season's Liverpool did not rotate much because they only had domestic competitions, but even so, in the second half of the league, the frequent injuries of the players also gave Dalglish a headache.
Now in order to prevent such a situation from happening, Martin. O'Neal started the rotation early.
The media are right to say that Liverpool are not quite comfortable with this rotation (). However, the early rotation will be early to adapt, and the late rotation will be late to adapt, and the time to adapt will be less, and the result will be worse.
Anyway, Liverpool has won an astonishing five-game winning streak before, and has accumulated enough "tuition capital", Liverpool can adapt to the rotation to the fullest, even if it loses a few more games, the team's results will not be too ugly.
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On September 22, in the seventh round of the league, Liverpool hosted Swansea.
In this game, Liverpool continued to rotate, combining the two sets of lineups from the last game against Fulham and the last time to play in the Europa League.
Chen Yingying and Krasnic partnered, and Sanchez was replaced by Adam. Johnson replaced the starters, while Bellamy was ceded on the left, and Gerrard and Inle continued to partner in the midfield position, while Skrtel and Carragher in central defenders and Glenn Glenn in left wing-backs. Johnson, right wing-back Enrique, goalkeeper Reina.
This line-up gave Liverpool a narrow 1-0 win at home to Swansea.
Because it is a new starting line-up, the Liverpool players are still not very comfortable.
But it's enough to have Chen Yingxing.
He scored the only goal of the game from a free-kick in the game to help his side to victory.
It was also his 10th goal of the season.
With only seven league games to play, he has scored 10 goals, three ahead of second-placed Robin van Persie.
This has just begun, and the battle between the two shooters has already begun.
Last season, Robin van Persie was eventually overturned by Chen Yingying, who lost the first league Golden Boot of his career.
Everyone is feeling sorry for him, and some people are not optimistic that Van Persie will continue to chase Chen Yingying (). Because Van Persie played so well last season, they were already surprised.
Who thought that maybe it was because he had to compete with Chen Yingying, Van Persie was also in good form this season, scoring seven goals in seven league games, and the average goal rate of one goal per game was already a new high in his personal career.
It's just that even so, he still lags behind Chen Yingying......
Some London media lamented for Van Persie: "Heroes are the nightmare and public enemy of all strikers!" I suggest that the Premier League re-establish a scorer list, let only heroes be on the list, and then leave this scorer list to the average player for now...... Otherwise, it would be too unfair for Van Persie! ”
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After playing the match against Swansea, only three days later, Liverpool ushered in the League Cup.
They take on Reading away.
In the league, Liverpool beat Reading 6-0 at home. Now it's Reading's chance to get revenge as Liverpool rotate again.
Liverpool's starting line-up hasn't been exactly the same since playing in the Europa League.
This time, Chen Yingying and Suarez started, Kuyt played the right midfield, the left side was conceded to Bellamy, the middle was Lucas and Inle who returned from injury, and the central defender was replaced by Martin after 90s. Kelly and Coates, right-back is 1993-born teenager Flanagant, and left-back is Jack of the reserve team. Robinson. The goalkeeper is still Reina.
It can be seen that Martin. O'Neill intends to use the League Cup as a "testing ground" for him to adapt to the rotation of the team, and has also given many young players the opportunity to play.
Such a large rotation has made the Liverpool players a little uncomfortable, and Reading can take advantage of their home advantage to take revenge.
How can you think that the old revenge has not been avenged, and a new hatred is added......
They lost 2:4 (2) at their home stadium. Although they scored two goals in the game, which once gave them hope of winning, Chen Yingying brutally suppressed them.
As last season's top scorer in the League Cup, Chen scored a hat-trick in his first League Cup game of the season.
He was really in amazing shape in September.
He was named Premier League Player of the Month in August, and now it looks like he is the best player of the month in September.
Liverpool, who beat Reading 4-2 away, progressed to the fourth round and will face Cardiff City, opponents in last season's Carabao Cup final......
This seems to be another battle for revenge?
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Due to the multi-front battle, Liverpool played away to Glicka in the eighth round of the Europa League and the English Premier League on September 29, and Liverpool away to Stoke City clashed. As a result, the match between Liverpool and Stoke City has been postponed to October 2.
You can see how dense Liverpool's schedule is throughout September......
They played four Premier League games in September, two in the Europa League – one away at Glicka and one in the Carabao Cup. A total of seven games. Considering that the first half of September was the national team break, Liverpool actually only played one league game in the first fifteen days, and the remaining six games were all squeezed into the half month after the fifteenth, an average of two and a half days to play one game.
With such a packed schedule, it's no wonder that Liverpool's manager Martin Brown. O'Neal will risk a drop in the team's performance to rotate. No matter how you change it, I'm afraid that before Christmas, the team's physical reserves will be exhausted......
There is nothing to say about the game against Glicka in Slovenia, the difference in quality between the two sides is too big, even if Glicka is playing at home, it will not be able to make up for the gap.
So Liverpool beat Glicka 2-1 away to make it two wins in a row ().
Sporting Lisbon drew 1-1 at home to Anderlecht. In this way, Liverpool, who have won both games, will take the lead. At the moment they are top of the group and are very optimistic about qualifying.
Liverpool won, and Chen Yingying also scored in the game.
After two rounds, he has scored three goals in the Europa League and is currently the top scorer in the Europa League, albeit a tie.
The level of strength of the teams in the Europa League is uneven, and it is indeed easy to be used to score goals. So it's normal that Chen Yingying didn't take the lead.
Originally, Chen Yingying was quite happy with his performance, but a day later he heard the news - Messi scored twice in the Champions League later in the game, and after two Champions League games, the number of goals was the same as him, also three.
After hearing the news, Chen Yingying's brows furrowed at that time, his teeth were also clenched, and his whole expression was as if he had a toothache.
The difficulty of the Champions League is not the same as that of the Europa League, and Messi actually scored three goals...... In such a comparison, what is the value of his three balls to be happy about?
Compared to others, it's just a mess! I was happy before, happy fart! It's a joke! Damn it! Playing a less difficult event than others, and only scoring three goals! It's miserable!
So after returning to Liverpool, reporters praised him for scoring again, ranking first in the Europa League scorer list with three goals, performing well, and being the hero of Liverpool's victory.
In addition to training, I was also absent-minded and listless when I was interviewed by reporters.
The reporters saw it in their eyes and wondered in their hearts.
A reporter asked Chen Yingying what was wrong, which made Chen Yingying's brows furrow even tighter - he couldn't tell the reporters what he thought in his heart, and the reporters didn't know why Chen Yingying was depressed......
Some people speculated wildly about whether Chen Yingying had encountered any trouble, and hoped that things would not affect Chen Yingying's state, so as not to drag down the team's results ().
But Chen Yingying didn't explain, so there were more such speculations. It's okay in the media, and among the fans, all kinds of bizarre rumors have spread.
The most widely circulated and most credible rumor is that there is a conflict between Chen Yingying and Cabriella, the two have quarreled, the relationship has come to an end, and the breakup is imminent. So Chen Yingying was in a low mood.
This statement is the most popular, after all, Chen Yingying's relationship has always been unstable for everyone, and after he and Cabriela were together, the bookmaker opened a betting project such as "guess when Chen Yingying and Cabriela broke up".
Cabriela called over and asked Chen Yingying, "I heard that you are going to break up with me recently, Hero?" ”
Chen Yingying rolled his eyes: "You also believe what the media says!" ”
Sure enough, Cabriella's laughter came from the other end of the phone—she actually knew that it was just a little joke with Chen Yingying.
But after laughing, she still said to Chen Yingying very seriously: "But if you really want to break up with me, I don't want to learn about this news in the media." ”
Chen Yingying coughed: "I don't want to break up with you now, Christine." ”
"That's good, because I don't want to."
Chen Yingying hung up the phone and was still thinking - is this Cabrera's love story?
It's not easy to hear this woman say those sensual words...... ro!。