The first leg of the second round of UEFA Champions League qualifying has kicked off with Liverpool hosting the Welsh TNS all-network team at Anfield.

At the start of this game, other Premier League teams were still doing pre-season training, and the teams from other leagues had not even gathered, but Liverpool had already started such an important game.

Meanwhile, their arch-rivals Everton are also in action for the second leg.

Everton finished fourth in the league last season and are qualified for third and fourth place according to the Premier League's rules for entering the Champions League, so Everton will have to play the second leg as well.

The two city rivals are the same in Europe.

The whole city of Liverpool is in the atmosphere of Champions League qualifying, but fortunately the fans of both teams do not think that the team will lose in the game, after all, there are few strong teams in the Champions League qualifiers, such as Liverpool met the Welsh team, although the TNS network team has a good record in the Welsh league, it would be good for them to enter the Premier League in England.

That's the difference between the big leagues and the minor leagues.

So there are not many people who really pay attention to the game, for the game without suspense, the big media still don't care, and only Liverpool reporters pay attention to the game, but they look at the team's pre-season preparation and the team's state, not the result of the team and the opponent's game.

Outcome? Do you still need to think about it?

If the reigning champions of the Champions League fall in the Champions League qualifying round, it will be the Istanbul miracle created by Liverpool...... More miraculous.

But there were still a lot of fans who came to Anfield to watch the game on that day.

In the reporter's pre-match interview, Liverpool fans answered the reason for watching the game, one is to support the team, want to see the team's game, and care about the team's state, and the other is to see how the star list of the new team is.

Needless to say, the former is self-explanatory. The latter naturally refers to Zhang Tiehan.

Zhang Tiehan is a star that Liverpool spent a Champions League title for, 30 million pounds, not to mention Liverpool, even Manchester United and Chelsea are quite a huge transfer figures, this price can buy a small club that can be qualified to upgrade the Premier League, but it is only Zhang Tiehan's value.

A player of such value. Naturally, the fans are concerned.

Zhang Tiehan is not a newcomer in England, he once played for Wigan Athletic, so that many English fans know him, he was also the top scorer in League One that season, and now the former top scorer in League One, the top scorer in Serie A and the Champions League in the Champions League just finished the season came to Liverpool, Liverpool fans are still quite happy, they hope that Zhang Tiehan can continue to get the honor of top scorer in Liverpool.

It's a pity that at the pre-match press conference, Benitez announced the game squad. Zhang Tiehan is just a substitute player.

Benitez did not let Zhang Tiehan appear in the starting lineup, probably considering that Zhang Tiehan has not been in the team for a long time, it is better to watch other people's games first, and then participate in it, after all, this is his first appearance at Anfield Stadium, and it is still quite important to him.

Before the game, TNS coach McKenna and a group of players expressed their anticipation for the game.

For most players in the TNS network, Liverpool are a behemoth, and the gap between them and Liverpool is too big. It was also an honour to be at Anfield as Liverpool's opponent. Many of them are Liverpool supporters, with left-back John Rolls Lawris being one of them.

On the night of 25 May, he and his childhood friend witnessed a comeback in Istanbul from his beloved team, but the friend died of meningitis in Bulgaria.

In the pre-match tunnel, Rohres Lawris said: "It was a tragedy. I hope to get the shirts of Steven Gerrard and Zhang after the game against Liverpool and I can auction them. Raise money for his family. ”

The experience of Rohres Lawris is somewhat tragic, but his thoughts and opinions also represent the majority of TNS, who can only look up to Liverpool, and can only look up to players like Zhang Tiehan and Gerrard. The gap between the two teams is too great.

This is also a manifestation of Xiàn in the competition.

When the match between the two teams began, despite the hard work of the TNS team team, the gap between them and Liverpool was too great, and after only five minutes, they were unable to keep attacking and had to defend passively.

Gerrard then scored in the 16th and 31st minutes to make it 2-0.

It's hard to get a chance on the TNS all-network team.

It's boring, there's no suspense at all, it's just a training session for Liverpool and Benitez, and it's a good pre-season warm-up game, so the players are very active.

Ten minutes into the second half, Benitez replaced Zhang Tiehan.

Zhang Tiehan came out after warming up on the sidelines, and when he came on, the stands around Anfield Stadium burst into applause, as Liverpool fans welcomed Zhang Tiehan.

When Zhang Tiehan came to Liverpool, due to the rush of time, the club did not prepare any welcome ceremony for him, and no one introduced him to Liverpool fans, but now Zhang Tiehan's fame has been quite large, and few Liverpool fans do not know Zhang Tiehan and his appearance, it doesn't matter if the welcome ceremony is not, but Liverpool fans still use applause to express their welcome to Zhang Tiehan.

Zhang Tiehan happily looked around and raised his hand to the fans in the stands.

He's like a king.

Not only the fans, but the moment Zhang Tiehan stepped on the court, all the players of the TNS network team, including their coach and various substitute players, looked over.

"That's Zhang!"

"He's the top scorer in Serie A and the Champions League."

"I was looking forward to playing with him, but now I want him not ......to play," the TNS players discussed privately, but their opinions could not influence whether Zhang Tiehan would play or not.

After Zhang Tiehan came on the field, he replaced Barosh's position as a high striker.

He thought that his game would be very smooth, but in fact it was not, Baroshe's position was a high school striker, and in Benitez's tactics, he was a tactical center forward, and he received the ball very few times. Last season, Baros only got the ball thirteen times when he played 90 minutes, which is a pitiful number.

Liverpool players are used to this style of play.

After Zhang Tiehan came out, his running style was different from Barosh, but his positioning was the same as Barosh. So he didn't receive the ball very often, and he found that a lot of the time he went to the front to fight for the ball, but Liverpool's wide flanks were not very strong, the crosses were quite unthreatening, and his header ability was difficult to play.

In the ten minutes on the field, Zhang Tiehan only received four passes, and there was almost no appearance, which made him somewhat depressed.

He had to communicate with Gerald. "Pass me more! Steven! ”

"Okay, I will." Gerald said helplessly.

Gerrard can understand Zhang Tiehan's feelings, but Liverpool's wing is really not powerful, and more passes are directly chosen to attack from the middle, so Gerrard and Alonso pass and receive the ball a lot of times, and it is not easy for them to pass the ball from the middle to the front, so they can only advance slowly.

In the 75th minute, Steven Gerrard took advantage of a combined chance to add another goal. rewrote the score to 3:0, but this has nothing to do with Zhang Tiehan.

The last ten minutes. Zhang Tiehan had to run back and forth, and the constant back and forth movement made Liverpool's formation a little chaotic, but he used his personal ability to force two TNS players to score the ball.

The score was also fixed at 4:0.

Liverpool won the big game, Steven Gerrard scored a hat-trick and Zhang Tiehan scored a goal on his debut at Anfield. But after the game, the media and fans commented on him in general.

'He hasn't adapted to Liverpool yet. This is popular opinion.

But no one doubts Zhang Tiehan's personal ability, his ability has come out in the last goal, not to mention, without the ability and cannot become the double scorer king of Serie A and the Champions League.

No matter what the fans and the media think, Zhang Tiehan didn't feel very good about the game. There wasn't a lot of passing, it was completely different from the feeling in Rome, when he was in Rome, he was the only one point in the front of the team, everybody, yes, every teammate would pass the ball, even if the opponent defended him tightly, he still had a lot of chances, but now it's different, in the game, the new teammates will play their own game, and he's just one of them, oh no, not even one of them, and it's very difficult to get a chance.

Zhang Tiehan's face could see that he was not in a good mood.

Gerrard was quite excited at the end of the game, he scored three goals and scored a hat-trick, although it was only against the TNS all-network team, the opponent's strength was very different from Liverpool, but it was also good to have a hat, but Gerrard still noticed Zhang Tiehan.

He walked up to Zhang Tiehan and patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "It's nothing, Zhang, you scored a goal!" ”

"It was the first goal at Anfield, you should be happy!"

"Yes, Zhang!" Alonso laughed, "You know, I came to Anfield and it took me more than two months to score the first goal, and you were only the first! ”

Zhang Tiehan smiled.

But that smile was a little stiff no matter how you looked at it, and of course he didn't want to do it, but it was a really bad feeling during the game, so he couldn't laugh, he thanked him anyway, "Thank you, Steven, Harvey, thank you." I'll do my best to get used to it. ”

Gerald laughed too.

Hearing Zhang Tiehan's words, Gerald was happy from the bottom of his heart. I wasn't satisfied with scoring a goal in the first game, because I wasn't happy if I didn't do a good job in coordination and other reasons, and such teammates ...... The requirements are really high, even if he transfers to other clubs, he will not ask for the first game to show how it is, after all, everyone has to adapt, in his opinion, Zhang Tiehan's requirements are really too high!

But that's what makes him happier.

In the past, Liverpool didn't have any outstanding teammates, and what Gerrard wanted to see most was that he had good teammates, so that the team could be stronger and fight for various championships together.

They won the Champions League in May.

But Gerrard knew there was some luck involved, and maybe God was behind Liverpool, and that wasn't Liverpool's real strength, as the media said - it was a miracle.

Normally, Liverpool would not have the strength to compete for the title.

And now there is hope.

Everyone has to have hope, every team has to have hope, Gerrard's hope is to pursue the title, and Liverpool is the team he likes, he likes to stay here, he likes the fans here, he hopes to achieve glory in Liverpool, Zhang Tiehan's arrival makes hope even greater.

Only such teammates can make Liverpool's strength stronger! (To be continued......)