Because the draw in the Champions League drew Liverpool, which is not weak, Parma did not play well in the league during this period of time. After the hasty victory against Bologna, they also began to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the preparation of the Champions League match, since Li Bin has the idea of killing the opponent twice, then he must be fully prepared.

Liverpool's team has been a rather strange team in recent years - they have played very well in the cup, and the results of the two Champions League finals are admirable, but in the league, the results are relatively average, and they often compete with Arsenal for the fourth place in the league, and the record of falling out of the top four, which is not something to be proud of. Moreover, this team is famous for robbing the rich and helping the poor, and when they meet a strong team, they can play extremely strong, but when they encounter a weak team, they are all kinds of deflated. They can be inseparable from Barcelona and Chelsea, and even have the upper hand, but they can also lose to the relegation team, and some of the losing battles are even funny to watch.

And the reasons for this situation are two: one is that Liverpool's bench thickness is not enough, they don't have many personnel to rotate, so naturally they can't play well in the league, the Premier League schedule is tight, there are many injuries, and after dozens of games, they can't stand it, and the results are poor. The second is that Liverpool's wide players are not good, playing in the Premier League, there is no wing, and the width cannot be pulled, that is to say, there is no way to pull the opponent's defender away, and once the defender can't pull away, he naturally can't break the iron bucket formation - the weak team meets the strong team, and they always have to put the iron bucket formation, if the strong team can't break this tactic, they can't win against the weak team.

These two have caused Liverpool to play in the league without being able to play at all, but Liverpool's excellent central axis has led to their repeated wins against strong teams.

Torres, Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano, plus a Reina, and their slightly weaker, but barely passable defender Carragher, the strength of the central axis of this team can be ranked in the top three in the entire Premier League and even the whole of Europe. This kind of strength makes them always have a good performance in the strong dialogue, and it also makes Li Bin, who drew them, feel that it is necessary to prepare seriously.

Although Li Bin himself sacrificed the league to play in the Champions League, he seems to be very serious, but he knows very well that the coach opposite Benitez is similar to himself in this regard. He also likes to sacrifice the league results and go all out to fight for the Champions League, whether it is against Chelsea or Milan, he has done similar things to give up the league and play in the Champions League with all his might. In the 07-08 season, Liverpool's current morality is the same, and it seems that there is almost no possibility in the league, Li Bin estimates that they will still focus on the Champions League, so these two games are still fierce battles.

And in this game, Li Bin also made up his mind to fight with Liverpool well: Liverpool is a very strong team, Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano The midfield composed of three people can almost be said to be the most perfect midfield trio in theory. It is precisely because the opponent has such an excellent midfield combination that Li Bin also wants to know whether the combination of Yaya Toure, Motta, De Jong, and Arshavin on his side can beat them.

On the other hand, Torres is now in his prime, he played quite well in Liverpool for half a season, at this time he has not had surgery, so he has not degenerated to the point of Toniu in the future, and now his terrible explosiveness and excellent shooting skills make him a perfect counter-attacking weapon - it is scary enough for a team to have him, not to mention that Liverpool also has another master of counter-attacking football, Alonso. These two guys, plus Mascherano, who is extremely capable of sweeping in the midfield, and Gerrard, who can play the back row to the extreme, is quite difficult in this game.

It's a difficult game, but Parma can't afford to lose confidence because of that. Their players are good, but Parma's players aren't bad either. Although De Jong's interception is not as good as Mascherano's skills, his running spares no physical strength, and his defense is tough enough, although Motta's long ball is far worse than Alonso's, but his skills are more comprehensive, and in the midfield, his individual attacking ability is outstanding. Yaya Toure's speed and explosiveness are not as good as Gerrard's, and there is still a gap in the ability to support forward, but his skills are more delicate, and the level of control of the rhythm in the midfield is also higher - Toure and Motta, if you talk about one alone, the strength is not as good as Gerrard and Alonso, but they have everything together, with De Jong behind them to guide the defense, and Arshavin in front of them to lead the attack, their strength is no worse than their opponents.

Looking at the lineups of the two sides, Li Bin also had a burst of ambition: playing with such a team is the time to really see real kung fu.

In this year's Champions League, the warm-up has ended, and the main match has officially begun! ——

This is Anfield - standing in the players' tunnel, the players can look up and you can see the line - that line is famous in the world, everyone knows it, it is Liverpool written in the players' tunnel, to the visiting team's players.

"I remember when I passed through here, in order to show my contempt, many people had to spit twice, should we also spit two mouthfuls to show our fearless courage?"

The Parma players were still joking quietly, and Motta was obviously remembering the story of the Crazy Gang, Lalaya Toure, and joking with him.

Toure didn't speak, but when he looked up, he looked at the line with some eager thoughts.

"No, the ball is kicked, not spitted." Li Bin stood next to them, heard their words, and also stopped their thoughts.

When standing in the player's tunnel and looking at the words in front of him, Li Bin was also in a trance, as if he saw the arrogance of Liverpool when he wrote this sentence here in the past. It's easy to spit on here, but it's hard to stride forward without caring about the spirit in these words.

However, looking at their players, who have already walked on the pitch and are still in the mood to joke with each other, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Milito, Cavani, Arshavin, Toure, Motta, De Jong, Grosso, Ager, Thuram, Zabaleta, Frei – none of these people are bad breeds, and my team is no worse than the opposition.

Looking at the other side, Li Bin found that in this game, the opponent's lineup was also a little unexpected.

Liverpool is still a 433 formation: at the back, they are goalkeeper Reina, the back line is Reese, Hyypia, Carragher, Arbeloa, the midfield line is Mascherano, Alonso, Gerrard, and on the forward line, they use Torres on the strongest side, Babel on the left and Kuyt on the right.

Surprisingly, it was Babel who used it on the left midfielder. In Li Bin's opinion, Babbel City is more suitable for a player as a center forward, and he can't play well on the left wing. However, when you think about Liverpool's squad, they don't seem to have the right players in the wide positions either. With Babbel it seems to be their best player.

Compared with the two sides, Parma's lineup is better, which also makes Li Bin's confidence greater.

"The game between Parma and Liverpool is on. We can see that from the first minute of the game, both sides put in heavy equipment in the midfield and carried out fierce scrambles. Without even a little warm-up and preparation, the two sides have already begun to fight each other. ”

As soon as the whistle blew, the match between the two sides began. Lineker, who was the commentator of the game, saw the state after the game began, and quickly exclaimed: This kind of game is like a confrontation between two strong teams.

Parma and Liverpool did not shy away from each other in the slightest, and the two sides were strangling each other back and forth in midfield. Parma's midfield three midfielders, all of which are tall and strong men with strong body and fighting ability, while Liverpool's three midfielders, including their right winger Kuyt, are also very strong counter-attacking players. From the beginning of the game, the two sides disrupted each other's ball path in the middle and did not allow the opponent to form an attack smoothly. Every half-ball is a desperate scramble, every pass will face the opponent's interception, and every breakthrough can be directly brought down by the opponent - the two sides began a full-scale collision from the moment the whistle blew.

"Now we can see that Parma and Liverpool are not able to form a particularly effective attack. It's easier to destroy than to organize, as soon as they come up, they are thinking about how to destroy the opponent's ball, their midfield, from the beginning of the game, is determined that I can't play, but you don't want to play down, under such a guiding idea, both of them, but it is difficult to form opportunities. ”

Looking at the game, Lineker also admired the hardness of the Parma team's midfield: there are few teams that can compete with Chelsea and Liverpool in the midfield hardness, and their players are accustomed to relying on their strong bodies to directly launch counter-robberies in the front court and directly launch counterattacks, so that kicking can always form a huge pressure on the opponent. And such a collision of comparable hardness is generally only visible when playing between local teams in the Premier League. In other leagues, teams may have an advantage in terms of technique, but they must not be able to compete with the Premier League physically, so they are always unable to gain an advantage on the field and rely on passing - they can't control the ball in the opponent's impact, so what is the stability? Even Barcelona, which is known as the best skill in the world, has encountered teams like Liverpool and Chelsea, and sometimes they have empty possession, no scenes, and have the experience of being pressed by opponents. But now, Parma withstood Liverpool's ferocious frontcourt counter-attack, and they can fight on par with them, and their physical hardness is not lost to Liverpool at all, which is naturally admirable.

However, Lineker is not particularly worried: this is Anfield, and Liverpool, playing at home, should not be in danger. Although both sides did not pass the ball smoothly in the midfield, Liverpool's main policy is to defend and counterattack, even if a hundred passes are not smooth, there is only one chance for Alonso to pass the ball over the top and find Torres, maybe it is a time to score. However, Parma mainly play on the ground and attack, they can't play fluent and have much more trouble than Liverpool.

So, what did Li Bin think about it, so that he could think of playing this kind of war of attrition with Liverpool in the midfield? Just for a good look? Probably not, right? But if it's not for the spectacle, what is their purpose? How are they going to fend off Torres? How will they break down Liverpool's door? Lineker watched Parma in hand-to-hand combat on the field, and was also confused.