When Liverpool meet Chelsea......

Neither Benitez nor Jose Mourinho looked good, Liverpool eliminated Chelsea last season, but the game between the two teams was very difficult, although Chelsea seemed to be stronger and stronger in the league, but the real battle between the two teams was not easy to play.

Zhang Tiehan drew a stinky pick by himself.

In the face of many eyes, he laughed and snatched the host's microphone, "Chelsea, a good opponent, I like it very much." After that, he glanced at Mourinho defiantly, and then returned the microphone to the beautiful host, and then walked off the stage.

There was an immediate buzz from the audience.

Almost everyone is talking about Liverpool and Chelsea's grouping, which is a once-in-a-century experience, both teams are England teams, and the same group is unusual enough in itself, and Liverpool eliminated Chelsea last season, and the two teams are league rivals, which means they will meet four times this season...... Four times!

Only Ferguson smiled.

For Manchester United, this is the best result, the two opponents are going to fight to the death, they just have to stand on the side and sit on the side to collect the fisherman's strength, Wenger also has a smile on his face, maybe the French are also scared, you must know that Chelsea can also meet Arsenal, fortunately they meet Liverpool.

Mourinho had a black face and glared at Zhang Tiehan, who stepped down.

Others didn't care, he cared very much, Zhang Tiehan just said Chelsea, and glared at him fiercely, he had also seen such a 'thorny' player, "fortunately I didn't bring him to Chelsea", Mourinho thought, but he also had a headache with Liverpool in a group.

Liverpool are a little worse than Chelsea, that's for sure.

But Mourinho would rather face the likes of AC Milan, Inter Milan and Barcelona than Liverpool. This is because the two teams are so familiar with each other, even if Chelsea are stronger, the game between them can only be five or five, after all, Liverpool is not a weak team, especially this season has brought in heavyweight stars such as Zhang Tiehan.

OK...... Zhang Tiehan's current appearance is not good.

This is the only thing Mourinho is happy about, and he wishes that Zhang Tiehan is completely unable to adapt to Liverpool. Not being able to adapt to the Premier League, so that Liverpool will not be much stronger, can also prove his vision, at least to Abramovich, that it is important, after all, the Russian talent is Chelsea's NO.1.

With Zhang Tiehan's current appearance in Liverpool, he is not worthy of the high value of 29 million pounds.

No matter what everyone said, the results were already out and could not be modified, and then other draws and awards began. In the end, the much-talked-about award for the best player went to Steven Gerrard.

Steven Gerrard was the backbone of Liverpool's Champions League triumph.

Gerrard was a standout performer in last season's Champions League, having a crucial strike against Olympiacos in the group stage last December that would have taken the team to the knockout stages or Liverpool would have been eliminated from the group. Then, in the adversity of falling behind 0-3 in the final, it was Gerrard who scored with a header and sounded the horn of a counterattack.

With this expression, Gerrard deservedly won the title of best player in Europe.

Furthermore. The Champion Coach Award was awarded to Rafael Benitez and Gazaev, who led the team to the Champions Cup and the League Cup respectively.

At the same time as the award is presented. The grouping of each group has also come out, and the other two teams in Group G where Liverpool is located are Anderlecht and Betis, but fortunately, these two teams are not strong teams, and Group G cannot be regarded as the group of death.

On the night after the draw, William Hill, a well-known European bookmaker, immediately adjusted the odds to win the championship.

Chelsea remain the top favourites to win the tournament.

Chelsea have always been favourites because of their quality. It is also because there is a championship coach Mourinho, and in second and third place are Barcelona and AC Milan, these two teams are quite strong, Rijkaard's Barcelona is called the dream team, and Real Madrid, which is suppressed in La Liga, is out of breath. AC Milan, on the other hand, have been a strong contender for the title, having won last season's Champions League and finished runners-up in last season's Champions League.

Defending champions Liverpool are only in 11th place.

Real Madrid, Juventus, Arsenal, Manchester United, Lyon, Inter Milan, Juventus, Bayern Munich and other teams are all lower than Liverpool's odds, which shows that although Liverpool created a zào miracle last season and has greatly strengthened its strength this season, European fans are still not optimistic about Liverpool, they are after all a 'declining' giant.

After the group draw, the Champions League schedule is also out, and the first round of the Champions League group stage will be played on September 13, and Liverpool's opponent is Real Betis.

A lot of the media was talking about the Champions League grouping, discussing the possible teams that might qualify, and discussing the possible collision of the Champions League, but the Liverpool group did not stay in Monaco and flew back that night.

They look quite busy.

But in fact, other people may be very busy, Zhang Tiehan is quite idle, after participating in the group draw, it is a half-month international break, Liverpool FC has no games, and Zhang Tiehan has no national team games to play, if he is still very idle.

This is also where Zhang Tiehan has some troubles.

Klinsmann's new round of German team is not in the list of his name, this is two days ago, Klinsmann called the German team players for a week of training, and a warm-up match with Denmark, but there is no Zhang Tiehan in the game list.

Many media outlets were surprised.

Many German media believe that Zhang Tiehan did not report to the national team last time, and Klinsmann clarified the rumors and claimed, "No, it has nothing to do with that, Zhang and I took leave before that." ”

"Zhang's ability is for sure, but I need to observe his game more......"

Many people understand this.

Klinsmann thinks that Zhang Tiehan has been very average in Liverpool recently, so he has not been called up for the national team, but most media are still noncommittal to this statement, after all, Zhang Tiehan's so-called 'average' has also scored a lot of goals in the games against CSKA Sofia and CSKA Moscow, compared to other German strikers. Including Klose on the list, the table is not as good as Zhang Tiehan at all.

Perhaps the advantage is that they play for teams in Germany, which is relatively close to Klinsmann.

After all, Zhang Tiehan still failed to enter the national team, that is, at the same time, but the English media also got the news. Their reaction to this news was not an analytical judgment, but a happy one, after all, Zhang Tiehan has not joined the national team until now, and the national team he can choose is not only the German team, but also the England team.

The English media hope that Zhang Tiehan can join the England team, so that they will not have to worry about the forward line for ten years - Owen, Rooney, Zhang Tiehan, plus Crouch and other forwards to add, the England team's forward line is too luxurious.

Zhang Tiehan also received a lot of media interviews, and many English media asked him about the national team.

"I still want to be in the German team. I was born in Munich and grew up in Munich, Germany is my hometown,......" says Zhang.

That's what he thinks in his heart.

If he had a choice, he would choose to join the Chinese team, after all, he was a pure Chinese in his previous life, which is almost impossible for him now, and the Chinese team is too weak to play in the World Cup. And if he chooses between Germany and England, he will still choose Germany. After all, joining the German team was the dream of the former owner of the body.

But if you want to say that you will definitely join Germany, Zhang Tiehan will not think so.

But in the end, he must participate in the next World Cup, and if he is not on the list of the German team for the World Cup, then he will definitely choose other teams, after all, the World Cup is too important for a player. And he didn't have much affection for Germany either.

It's best to take the idea as the premise, but when the idea can't be realized, Zhang Tiehan naturally has to make a choice that is beneficial to his career.

Of course, that's for later.

At least for now, Zhang Tiehan is idle, but he didn't waste time. During the club's week-long break, he only spent the first two days in Manchester to visit Lola, and the two lingered together for two days, before Zhang Tiehan returned to Liverpool to start a new round of training.

He approached Benitez and specifically asked for help finding an assistant coach to train with.

Benitez can only smile bitterly at this request, even if he wants the players to train hard, but like Zhang Tiehan's desperate training method, he also feels that it is a bit too much, after all, it may hurt the body, Benitez is still a little worried about Zhang Tiehan's body, but after consulting the team doctor, he gave up worrying.

"Zhang's body is completely fine, even if he trains 24 hours in a row, as long as he eats and sleeps, he will be in very good shape, I am very sure." So says the team doctor.

Benitez was relieved.

He then approached the Liverpool youth team manager and asked Zhang Tiehan to participate in the youth team's training. Liverpool's first team has a lot of players who have to take a break from international competitions, and the youth team doesn't do that, so the youth team still trains normally.

It is not bad to have many young players of the same age training together, although there is a gap between their skills and first-team teammates, but in Zhang Tiehan's view, this is very suitable for him, he trains himself in terms of personal skills and some personal consciousness ability, and there is no similar project in first-team training, and he can only slowly improve in tactical training.

The youth team is different.

In the training content of the youth team, many of them are dedicated to cultivating the skills and personal abilities of young players, and there is very little tactical training and physical training, so Zhang Tiehan can focus on the training of his own skills, and does not have to participate in the training that is useless to him.

This is good.

So Zhang Tiehan trained with the youth team for a week.

When Liverpool regrouped, they followed the training again, and at this time, many Liverpool players found that Zhang Tiehan had improved very much this week, and they could only be stunned by this progress.

"Zhang, what did you do?"

"Are you really Zhang?"

"Oh my God! That pass was awesome, I thought it was from Xavi......"

"Zhang, when did you learn to run empty seats?"

Many teammates are a little surprised, Zhang Tiehan is really a little amazing, he not only has made great progress in passing, but also in his personal running, there will be no mistakes that coincide with his teammates' running positions, and occasionally suddenly plugged in, and he can also run a good position for himself, others can easily pass the ball over without worrying about anything, such a table is really hard to see A month ago, he often made some low-level mistakes and made all kinds of useless passes...... In short, everyone was surprised.

Zhang Tiehan is hehe smiled, although it was only a week of training, he felt that he could already go out of the division, and he should have gone early if he knew that the youth team training was so good for him.

And now he's looking forward to the next game.

It was three days later, in the fifth round of the Premier League, Liverpool will host Chelsea to officially open the first leg of the meeting between the two teams.

This is the first big game that Liverpool will experience this season, and it is also the prelude to the four battles between Liverpool and Chelsea.

At Anfield, waiting for Chelsea to arrive and slap that pesky Portuguese cheek is what Zhang Tiehan is looking forward to doing.

Just wait. (To be continued......)