25. The Champions League group stage begins
After this game, the Portuguese national team immediately returned to Lisbon, Portugal, and they had to prepare for the next home game, this time their opponent was Denmark, although their strength was not particularly strong, but this opponent was really not to be underestimated.
The Danish team's performance in the first game of the qualifiers was not particularly good, and the outside media believed that the Danish team still could not cause too much trouble for the Portuguese national team, and the Portuguese national team would definitely win this game easily.
The Portuguese national team is also very confident in this game, and Queiroz also believes that the Danish team will not be able to prevent the Portuguese national team from winning, but he himself is still very careful and cautious.
It's a Zuihou game of the international break, and after this game, the players will be leaving the national team club to report, and at the end of the week, the leagues across Europe will be back in action, so some guys have already flown their minds to the club.
In this case, the match between the Portuguese national team and the Danish team officially began. After the start of the game, the Portuguese national team had a very big advantage, and the Danish team was unable to fight back, and the Portuguese national team took the lead in the 21st minute of the first half.
Qiu Ze suddenly sent a traditional through ball after winning the ball in the midfield, Nuno 61 Gomez was very timely and inserted, successfully countered offside, went to the meeting alone, and sent the football directly into the goal of the Danish team, and the Portuguese national team led by one goal.
Towards the end of the first half, Cristiano 61 Ronaldo also seized the opportunity and scored in front of the goal to make the score 2-0.
At this time, everyone thought that the Portuguese national team had won a solid victory, so at halftime, Queiroz replaced Cristiano 61 Ronaldo and Qiu Ze at the same time to give the newcomer some chances.
Because of the relationship between Queiroz and Alex 61 Ferguson, Queiroz in order to ensure the interests of Manchester United's club, so let Cristiano 61 Ronaldo go down first, so as to maintain his strength and go back to participate in the weekend league, which was reminded by Alex 61 Ferguson.
But who would have thought that in the second half of the game, the situation suddenly changed, and the Danish team seemed to have a convulsion. Just five minutes into the second half, Denmark had a chance to take a corner. Denmark's number five centre-back leaped high and smashed the ball into the Portuguese national team's goal, and Denmark pulled one back.
In the sixteenth minute of the second half, the Danish striker suddenly entered the penalty area of the Portuguese national team. Pepe, the central defender of the Portuguese national team, made a reckless mistake and kicked the Danish team's No. 9 striker to the ground, and the referee gave Pepe a yellow card and a penalty for the Danish team without any reason.
Denmark's No. 9 center forward personally went into action to take the penalty into the goal of the Portuguese national team, and the Danish team equalized, and suddenly the whole Portugal was quiet, no one expected that the Danish team would suddenly break out and equalize the score.
What is even more unexpected is that the Danish team scored another goal in the 39th minute of the second half of the game, overtaking the score, and the goal was still the Danish team's No. 9 center forward, who scored a cold shot outside the penalty area to help the team reverse the Portuguese national team and win.
The fans of the Portuguese national team were stunned, no one expected that the Danish team would steal their victory in the Zuihou moment, which is simply astonishing and unbelievable, it is really unbelievable.
After the game, Queiroz received a lot of skepticism, and those media wrote articles saying that the Portuguese Football Federation's choice of Queiroz to take over the Portuguese national team was the biggest mistake of the century. If you look at the resume of this guy, you can see that Queiroz's coaching results are very scummy.
And there are also a lot of Portuguese fans who question the choice of the Portuguese Football Federation, and they also believe that Queiroz is not the best choice in Portugal. Judging from the current situation, Queiroz can't even handle a small Denmark, so it is very likely that the Portuguese national team will not even be able to pass the qualifiers.
The fans of the Portuguese national team were very angry, and some fans even stood up directly and called on the Portuguese Football Federation to quickly change the coach and replace Queiroz.
At this time, the pressure on Queiroz was huge, and he was a little out of breath.
The other two matches in the second round of the group ended with Sweden winning their first qualifying match with a 2-1 home win over Hungary. And Albania also beat Malta 3-0 at their home stadium, this Malta is really the role of accompanying the prince to study, even Albania can easily be 3-0, this Malta can be called a boy who gives points.
After these two rounds, the Portuguese national team has a group of points, with four teams now tied on four points: Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and Albania. Of course, the Portuguese national team has the largest goal difference, but in terms of winning and losing, the Portuguese national team has lost to Denmark.
So now Denmark is top of the group, Portugal is second in the group, Albania is third in the group, Sweden is fourth in the group, Hungary is fifth in the group, and Malta is in the group.
Albania finished third in the group, which was beyond everyone's expectations, and it seems that Albania are in good luck. Of course, if Albania continues to have this kind of luck in the future, it is not impossible for Albania to qualify from the group.
Therefore, this group is not as simple as everyone thinks, and the Portuguese national team is not guaranteed to qualify.
There is a lot of pressure on Queiroz at the moment, but it doesn't matter what happens to the Portuguese national team players, who have left the Portuguese national team and are returning to the club because the club league was back in action at the weekend.
After the national team match, Qiu Ze went back to his home in Lisbon to visit his parents, and then didn't sit for long, just waiting for the plane to return to Liverpool.
Actually, now that Qiu Ze is still suspended, he can go back later. However, Qiu Ze did not do that, he was now in the penalty stage, not enjoying the holiday, so he hurried back to Liverpool.
After returning to Liverpool, three days later, Liverpool had a game. But it's not the Premier League, it's the Champions League. Yes, the UEFA Champions League group stage of the new season has officially begun, and Liverpool will travel to Marseille in the first round, while PSV Eindhoven will face Atletico Madrid at their home stadium.
In this game, Qiu Ze continued to be suspended and could not play, so he did not go to France with the team. Marseille were in the same group as Liverpool last season, beating Liverpool 1-0 at home last season.
So, this time Liverpool was very careful, and they also went for revenge. Even without Qiu Ze, Liverpool is better than Marseille, although Liverpool also encountered some trouble in this game, but Zuihou they still won the game without danger.
2-1, Liverpool defeated Marseille by one goal away from home, and the two new signings teamed up to finish Marseille and let Liverpool return with a full load, which shows the success of Liverpool's recruitment this summer.
After this game, PSV Eindhoven were blinded by three shots from Spain's Atletico Madrid at their home stadium. The strength shown by Atletico Madrid in this game made Liverpool, who yearn for the air, feel extremely pressured.
This Atletico Madrid is really a dark horse hidden in the fourth gear, in such a group, Liverpool can't be careless at all, otherwise it will be careless.
Immediately after the game, Liverpool returned to England for the weekend's league fixture. This is the fifth round of the English Premier League, and Liverpool's opponent is Stoke City, which is also a Zuihou game suspended by Qiu Ze.
After this game, Qiu Ze can return to the Liverpool team to play for Liverpool. However, the day before this game, Qiu Ze was injured while training with the reserve team, and according to Liverpool's team doctor, Qiu Ze should rest for at least two weeks.
This news is really not good news for Liverpool, and Benitez also sighed with a wry smile at God's tricks. Against Stoke City, Liverpool did well, taking 20 shots on goal but failing to score a single goal and eventually drawing at home to their opponents.
After this week, Qiu Ze should have paid at the end of the suspension, but he was injured and he was unable to play in the Moseyside derby at the weekend.
Yes, in the seventh round of the Premier League, the first Moseyside derby of the season is about to be staged, but unfortunately, Qiu Ze is injured again and will miss this game.
Liverpool won both of last season's Moseyside derbies and now they will certainly want to continue winning, albeit without Qiu Ze. But as soon as the game began, Liverpool launched a ferocious attack, and in the 31st minute of the first half, Liverpool broke the deadlock on the pitch.
The goal was scored by Spanish striker Fernando 61 Torres, Fernando 61 Torres this guy has not scored in a few games, and now he has finally found the feeling of scoring again, which is good news for Liverpool.
In the thirtieth minute of the second half, Liverpool broke through Everton's goal again, and the goal was scored by Liverpool's central defender Daniel 61 Ag. In this way, Liverpool won the Moseyside derby with a comfortable 2-0 win over Everton.
After this week, Liverpool will play a double game next week, but Qiu Ze will have to recover from an injury and he will still not be able to play.
The second round of the UEFA Champions League group kicks off in midweek, with Liverpool hosting Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven. In the first round, PSV Eindhoven performed very poorly, and was defeated by Atletico Madrid by three goals at their home stadium, losing a bit badly.
Now they are coming to Liverpool again, and before the game has been played, they feel that there is a lot of bad luck. After the start of the game, Liverpool completely dominated the field, and in the second half, Liverpool scored two goals in a row to beat PSV Eindhoven 2-0 to make it two consecutive wins in the group stage. Their rivals, Atletico Madrid, also won two in a row with a 2-1 win over Marseille at their home stadium.