Back at Liverpool, the squad is ready to take on Middlesbrough.

This is the sixteenth round of the Premier League.

In 1876, some members of the Middlesbrough Cricket Club set up the club with the aim of turning to football for recreation and entertainment when cricket could no longer be played in the cold winter.

Middlesbrough joined the English league in 1892 and have been playing in the top flight for the next 50 years.

In 1954, Middlesbrough were relegated to the second division and could not afford to sink for the next 20 years. In 1973, former England star Jack Charlton (Bobby's brother) took over and led the team back to the top flight. Middlesbrough experienced ups and downs and almost went bankrupt in 1986, but a wealthy fan, Steve Gibson, came to the rescue and helped Middlesbrough move to its current Riverside Stadium in '95.

That's the simple history of Middlesbrough.

Under manager McClaren, Middlesbrough have risen steadily in recent years, beating Bolton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup final last season to win the club's first major competition in history.

This season, McClaren has continued to strengthen Middlesbrough.

McClaren is still strengthening the forward line, bringing in Portsmouth's Yakubu for a not low price of 7.5 million, so that he will no longer worry about Hasselbaink's age (33 years old) and Viduka's injury, plus the return of Macaroone (returning from loan) and Christie (returning from injury), Myburgh's forward line has initially reached a certain scale, enough to compete with strong teams.

However, Myburgh lost last season's best Zenden, and bringing in Pogatez was even more of a failure, after joining the team. First of all, you have to sit as a ball supervisor for 6 months.

McLaren was really not very well informed before making a decision.

Overall, however, Middlesbrough's forward line has strengthened, with the English media believing in the summer that Middlesbrough will keep them in the top of the table and have good hopes of attacking the UEFA Cup.

Now fifteen rounds into the league, Middlesbrough's table is not as good as the media expected, and they are now 13th in the Premier League. It's just out of the relegation zone, and there is no danger of relegation, but it's still a little difficult to hit for any good results.

Now that they have met Liverpool, McClaren praised Zhang Tiehan's hat at Stamford Bridge before the game, "He's pretty good, he can score three goals at Stamford Bridge, I can't think of anyone else but him," McClaren said.

It can be seen that he has a good impression of Zhang Tiehan.

In fact, Middlesbrough also joined the battle for Zhang Tiehan in the summer. It's just that their strength is too poor, and the offer is not conspicuous, and they are simply ignored, McClellan has always wanted to get Zhang Tiehan, but now Zhang Tiehan's value is just a fantasy for a team like Middlesbrough after all.

'It's no surprise that he scored a hat-trick. In fact, he has done it twice in two years. I'm well aware that I've been keeping an eye on his game. ”

'In 2002 I almost became England manager and a lot of times I think if I were England manager I would have put him in the team. Eriksen did a good job, he did what I wanted to do. ”

It is not surprising that McLaren said this, all of England, nay, all of Europe knew it. McClaren really wants to be England manager, but he still lacks qualifications, so he is only now in charge of Middlesbrough, and if he has the chance, he will definitely fight for the England manager position.

Liverpool didn't say anything before the game, Middlesbrough is not a special opponent for them, just an ordinary league, and Benitez also said about the team's recent situation.

The media all know that in the last game against Chelsea in the Champions League, Liverpool were all substitutes, so this game should be the main lineup, and it is not easy for McClaren's team to take away points from Anfield.

In such an atmosphere, soon the game began.

The first half of the game was nothing unexpected for Liverpool fans, or for England as a whole, and at Anfield, Liverpool's performance was quite good, as they swept away the passive style of play against Chelsea in the last game, and continued to destroy the Middlesbrough defence with a series of indiscriminate attacks.

Soon they had a catch.

It was Zhang Tiehan's shot on the right side of the penalty area, the ball went into the net, there was no suspense at all, scoring such a goal, Zhang Tiehan didn't have any excitement on his face, and he simply hugged his teammates to celebrate the goal.

By the time the game started again, Liverpool's attacking frenzy was still very fast.

In the 39th minute, taking advantage of a corner kick opportunity, Zhang Tiehan scored twice with a header to help the team lead the opponent 2-0.

With two goals in the half, Zhang Tiehan's table was quite perfect.

Anfield Stadium was plunged into a sea of cheers, although Zhang Tiehan felt that the goal was nothing, but in the eyes of ordinary Liverpool fans, Zhang Tiehan's table was quite perfect, plus these two goals, Zhang Tiehan's goal number has reached thirteen, he and Henry, who is the top scorer in the list, is only one goal away, to find Henry has played three more games than him.

Maybe this is nothing in Zhang Tiehan's opinion, as long as the game is normal, he doesn't think that the Frenchman is his opponent who 'brushes the goal'.

But Liverpool fans are still quite happy.

And what team wouldn't want the league's top scorer to come from their favourite team? As for the top scorer in the Champions League, even the most pessimistic Liverpool fans will not think about anyone else, Zhang Tiehan has scored eight goals in the Champions League and eight goals in six group games, a figure that is estimated to collapse many players who want to compete for the top scorer in the Champions League.

In the summer, there were also European bookmakers betting on the top scorers in the Champions League.

At that time, Zhang Tiehan and Inter Milan's Adriano were tied for first place, and their odds were only 2.5 to 1, the lowest among all players, and after five rounds of the group stage, the bookmaker had closed down for betting on Zhang Tiehan.

Although Adriano scored three goals in the final round, no one is optimistic that he and Zhang Tiehan will compete for the top scorer, and the goal numbers of the two are already three goals apart, and how many will be missing in the round of 16?

Nobody knows.

But this can also be imagined, with Zhang Tiehan's goal efficiency, it is really possible to throw off the rival Eight Streets.

The Premier League's top scorer is still in suspense. From the beginning of the season to the present, Henry has always occupied the first position in the scorer list, with Vanney, Zhang Tiehan, and Bendtner below him, and now it seems that only Henry and Zhang Tiehan can compete for the top spot, and Vanney has only ten goals. He's been pulled apart.

Many people who pay attention to the scorer list are waiting for the day when Zhang Tiehan surpasses Henry.

It's not far off.

Liverpool fans preferred this game, but at the beginning of the second half, Zhang Tiehan was replaced, and Cisse replaced him, Benitez was considering that Zhang Tiehan had played too many times in a row, although he seemed to be in good shape, and then from the League Cup against Manchester United, the games were too frequent and intensive. He must ensure that Zhang Tiehan is in shape.

After Zhang Tiehan left the field, Middlesbrough took a long breath.

They can easily get down.

It was a surprising half in the second half, with Middlesbrough pulling a goal back at the start, which gave Middlesbrough fans renewed hope, but there was hope, but it was often disappointment, and in the 72nd minute, Gerrard split the ball on the right. Luis Garcia crosses and Gerrard misses the ball in front of the post. Morientes fired a low shot into the bottom left corner from fifteen yards to help Liverpool open the gap.

Just four minutes later, Gerrard played a long ball from the back, Kudru missed the header and Morientes managed to spot Schwarzer in front of him for offside, curling the ball over the top into the back of the net.

Four minutes. Two balls!

Morientes!

The Anfield fans all shouted Morientes' name, and after Zhang Tiehan left the field, they thought that there would be nothing exciting about the game, but they didn't expect Morientes to break out and score two goals. For Zhang Tiehan, it may be ordinary, but for other strikers, especially players like Morientes, who are not even in the main position, it is quite difficult.

Liverpool have five strikers – Zhang Tiehan, Morientes, Cisse, Pongele and Melo, but there are only three who can compete for the main position and have a solid chance to play, Zhang Tiehan, Cisse and Morientes.

Among the three, only Zhang Tiehan really has a watch.

Cisse has not scored in seven rounds, Morientes has scored intermittently, but since the start of the season, he has only scored five goals in three competitions, which is less than Cice's six, and as a striker, five goals in half a season should be unqualified.

It's normal in Liverpool, Zhang Tiehan has taken too many chances and goals

In addition to Zhang Tiehan, Liverpool's midfield is also stronger than the front, Gerrard has seven goals, Alonso has four, Garcia has three, such as Reese, Hamann, Finnan and others have also scored their own goals, all of them add up, just looking at the number of goals, it really can't be seen that Cisse and Morientes are strikers.

The number of goals scored by the two is a bit unmatched.

But Benitez is very patient, or Zhang Tiehan will inevitably have this result when he plays, everyone believes in Zhang Tiehan, he can get more opportunities, and others will have a lot fewer opportunities, such as Cisse, when he partners with Zhang Tiehan, he completely becomes a tactical center, and Morientes can only be used as a shadow striker, the second point of the goal.

Morientes has been working hard and now the effort has paid off, he has scored two goals.

Morientes scored, the happiest is Benitez, in his opinion, in fact, it is not good to focus all the goals on Zhang Tiehan, which means that when Zhang Tiehan cannot play, the team's state will be greatly affected, and he hopes that everyone can find a feeling, and the benefit is the whole team.

'Morientes is a good goalscorer and he shot really well. Morientes confirmed the manager's words with two touches, the first of which he swept into the bottom corner with ease, and the second with a precise pick, both in a simple and practical style.

'For a striker, scoring goals is good for his confidence.

Benitez said that he can continue to play like this, and now his biggest concern is actually Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan's goal efficiency is too high, if there is an important game, Zhang Tiehan can not play, then Liverpool will definitely be quite passive.

Everybody else can score, that's a guarantee.

Liverpool's 4-1 win over McClaren's Middlesbrough thanks to goals from Zhang Tiehan and Morientes to win another league game is good news, but there is also bad news that there is an injury problem in the game.

Cendon was injured during the game.

He didn't look too strict when he came off the pitch, but an examination confirmed that the cruciate ligament injury had worsened, which would have prevented him from playing for the rest of the season.

It's obviously a very big blow, both for Zenden himself and for the team as a whole.

At present, Zenden is the main player of the team, and his inability to play means that Liverpool has one less main full-back, and Liverpool's wing is already weak.

The day after the game against Middlesbrough, Zenden flew to the United States to undergo surgery by specialist Richard Steerman, and when he returned to the continent three days later, he also brought back a doctor's medical certificate stating that Zenden's injury would not be able to recover until the end of the season.

This is the worst injury of any player since Liverpool started.

Cenden may be worthy of sympathy, but this also serves as a wake-up call for the whole Liverpool team, which is prone to injuries and a busy schedule of December, is still very likely if one is accidentally injured, Benitez is glad that he replaced Zhang Tiehan in the game, otherwise it would be unimaginable if Zhang Tiehan was injured.

Zhang Tiehan was also a little worried.

Although he has ancient strength and is much stronger physically than others, it doesn't mean that he is superhuman, he can also be injured, and if he is injured, his state will also be affected.

He decided that he would definitely pay attention to his physical condition in the future.

In addition, I usually have to practice more family hard qigong. After practicing for a period of time, Zhang Tiehan found that this kind of hard qigong was still very effective, and after regular practice, he was able to make a lot of movements that could not be done normally, which felt like forcibly stretching the muscles and bones of the body, and the flexibility and strength of the body increased a lot.

But it's also a cautionary tale

Zhang Tiehan still remembers that his great-grandfather said on his deathbed that he had not been able to cultivate qi after cultivating all his life, because the strong practice of this set of hard qigong also caused physical damage.

Obviously, the benefits are not so good.

While the strength, flexibility, and muscles and bones of the body have become better, hard qigong will definitely cause some kind of dark damage to the body, so the only way is to cultivate the so-called 'qi'.

There is no other option. (To be continued......)