Chapter 431: Revenge of the Red Army

dragged back to his home exhausted, said hello to Dai Mengxi, and Li Yi went straight back to his room!

"Whew!" threw himself on the bed heavily, although his head was getting heavier and heavier, Li Yi was very happy.

Because, Li Yi doesn't know what others are like, but as a person, he cherishes and cherishes affection very much. Especially Andy's performance when he dug the first pot of gold for him, Li Yi really took Andy as a brother.

Therefore, after learning that Andy had an incomparable heart in his heart not long ago, Li Yi didn't want to say anything, and directly dragged Andy to the bar and poured the former under the table.

"Hey!" Stretched out his hands and helped himself massage his temples to sober himself up a little, and after solving Andy's matter, Li Yi was worried about the future situation of the Crystal Palace again.

Outsiders may not know, and they can't see the reason for one or two games, but Li Yi, as the team's leading striker, if the team has something wrong in the attack, to be honest, he may know more than Friedman.

Thinking about the state of the team before this, whether it was training or playing, Li Yi was extremely worried about the league against the Reds and Liverpool in a few days.

It's just that worrying is worrying, no matter how good Li Yi is, he can't resist Zhou Gong's call, he lay on the bed in a mess and thought about things for a while, and when Li Yi didn't feel anything, Li Yi was pulled by Zhou Gong to play chess-

There are several flowers, one on each branch.

In other words, for the run-in problem of Crystal Palace's offensive line in the new season, not only Li Yi has a headache, but Friedman actually has a headache!

And his headache is completely inhumane to outsiders.

What is wrong within the team, Friedman knows better than anyone else, not only clear, Friedman knows how to solve it, but unfortunately, because he is reluctant to take Modric, and he does not dare to take Yaya Toure, this directly leads Friedman into a dead end.

Rubbing his temples that were about to be rubbed off by himself in the past few days, and looking at the team's new season schedule hanging on the wall not far away, Friedman muttered, "Forget it, take one step at a time, let's do it first." ”――

On September 13, 2008, Anfield Stadium, the Premier League, ushered in this round, that is, a key battle in the fourth round, Liverpool hosted Crystal Palace.

Didn't you only play 2 rounds of the league before? Why is it the fourth round, and the commentary is wrong?

No, although Crystal Palace has only played 2 league games in the past, it doesn't mean that the Premier League has only played 2 rounds, right?

Since the last round of the league Crystal Palace was originally scheduled on the 30th, and the 29th was an extremely important Champions League group stage draw ceremony, the FA was kind enough to delay the second round of the league of the four Premier League seeded teams participating in the 29th draw ceremony!

Let's get down to business and back to the league itself.

In other words, there are many reasons why this war has attracted so much attention from the world.

First of all, at the beginning of this season, it is true that Crystal Palace introduced a variety of fierce generals, but after the start of the new season, because the run-in between the teams has not yet been in place, the performance of Crystal Palace in the first two rounds of the league is really good.

After 2 rounds, with one win and one draw, they are only in 7th place in the standings. And it is so coincidental that today's opponent of Crystal Palace is really 3 games and 3 wins, scoring 9 goals, 1 goal without conceding, and currently leading the Premier League leader in the standings.

Therefore, the first highlight of this game is whether Crystal Palace can get out of the previous painful period and take out the transcendent level of last season to snipe the Premier League leaders!

The second attraction is related to a data of Liverpool's previous points.

3 games and 3 wins, it sounds imposing, scoring 9 goals without conceding a single goal, and it is also the best start of the league since the Premier League was restructured, and Liverpool wrote history.

Unfortunately, all this scenery of Liverpool cannot hide an unspeakable pain for them, that is, after the end of last season, they were only fifth in the Premier League standings, and for the first time in many years, they were excluded from the Champions League!

As the famous king of European competition in the Premier League, Liverpool's absence is not a loss for the Premier League.

As for Crystal Palace, it can be said that no matter how many places Crystal Palace won in the league last season, but, in the eyes of outsiders, they will not think that Arsenal, which was previously ranked fourth in the standings, squeezed out Liverpool's championship spot, and will think that it is Crystal Palace that robbed Liverpool of European qualification.

The Champions League, it's not just a simple cup competition, but anyone who is familiar with it knows how rich its prize money is.

Each team participating in the Champions League will receive a base prize of at least 8.6 million euros, plus a profit of 1 million euros for each win in the group stage and 500,000 euros for a draw.

In addition, the teams that are lucky enough to emerge from the group stage and reach the round of 16 will receive another 3.5 million euros each, the quarter-finals at 3.9 million euros and the semi-finalists at 4.9 million euros each. Of course, the champion and runner-up teams have more bonuses, but after the Champions League enters the top 8, it is not only the strength of the team, but also a lot of luck, so here for the time being, Liverpool only entered the top 8 of the Champions League. This request is not difficult for this Liverpool.

So, in other words, after Crystal Palace squeezed out Liverpool and replaced the former to participate in the Champions League, it directly made Liverpool lose 8.6 million (fixed bonus) + 4 million (4 wins and 2 losses in the group stage) + 3.5 million euros + 3.9 million euros = 20 million euros!

Moreover, more importantly, this 20 million is only calculated as the official bonus given by UEFA, if Liverpool can really participate in the Champions League, counting the peripherals, the money they can gain from it will definitely be more than the above number.

In terms of returning 10,000 yuan, not counting those peripherals, let's just say 20 million euros, 20 million euros, for Liverpool, which is not financially healthy now, it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to think of it.

It can be said that because the bonus that was originally planned to be put into the pocket could not be put in place, Liverpool had many scheduled arrangements, so it died.

Therefore, on the follow-up side of Crystal Palace, there is no big feeling about the confrontation with Liverpool, but from Liverpool's point of view, this league is not just a league! It has risen to the height of a Champions League final, and it is a revenge battle for Liverpool! ――

"Hello everyone, hello everyone, this is your old friend, JACK of Sky UK. Today, this game that has attracted the attention of the fans is still explained by me.

So, as is customary, when the players from both sides enter the stadium, I will first introduce to you the starting lineups of both sides today.

Today, for the Reds, Benitez did not use those surprising tactics, but played with the 4-4-2 formation that he is best at, and which is best known to the outside world.

Goalkeeper No. 25 Reina.

Left-back No. 17 Arbeloa, right-back No. 12 Aurelio, two central defenders No. 37 Skrtel, No. 23 Carragher.

Next, it's the midfield!

Hey? Just now I also said that Benitez did not plan to win this game by surprise, but to compete with Crystal Palace in a decent way, but what does Benitez think about this lineup? ”