For Liverpool, the biggest test of the first half of the new season is coming.

The test is an intensive schedule.

The League Cup is underway.

The Champions League is also underway.

Fighting on three fronts is a test of Liverpool's bench depth.

Koeman's decision at the start of the season to purge the part of the squad not to count on the last players was not much of a problem.

But he doesn't really know how much strength the bench players like Degen really have, and it's also a huge question of whether the overall strength of the starting lineup made up of most of the substitutes is also huge.

In the third round of the League Cup, Liverpool challenged Leeds United as a guest, Coman used most of the substitutes to rotate the main players, originally thought that Leeds United could not cause trouble for Liverpool, but at Elland Road Stadium, Liverpool was like a plate of loose sand on the field, and the run-in between the substitutes was really not flattering.

2:1

Leeds United defeated Liverpool at home, which not only gave Liverpool their first defeat of the new season, but also led to the embarrassing result of Liverpool's exit from the League Cup as soon as they first stepped onto the competition.

Koeman's face was ugly after the game, and he didn't see what he wanted for the full 90 minutes.

The strength of many substitute players is too different from the main team!

This is also the reason why Liverpool has always been a little less competitive than the top giants in the past few years.

It's not like 20 60-point benches are the same as 10 80-point substitutes, and Liverpool lack a sufficient number of players to be ready to play and have high expectations.

Reds fans were a little disappointed, even though the League Cup was a chicken rib. But as soon as he stepped on the field, he was eliminated. This makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

However, in the context of the league and the Champions League. The fans weren't too Koeman.

Only Fleet Street finally seized the opportunity to fall into the well against Koman, and he praised him enough some time ago, and now he can start to depreciate!

Koeman didn't bother to pay attention to the criticism from the outside world, what he "has no one in his eyes" and "carelessness" and the like, he knows very well in his heart that if he is given Chelsea's bench lineup, the result will definitely be different!

In the 7th round of the Premier League, Liverpool sat at Anfield to welcome the challenge of Hull City.

In the time period leading up to the game. Manchester United and Chelsea in BIG4 will be the first to play.

Manchester United beat Stoke City 2-0 away and Alex Ferguson's side have signalled their ambition to defend the league title on a five-game winning streak after losing to Burnley.

Chelsea were upset at Wigan Athletic!

The game was fine until the second half, with the score 1-1, but in the 51st minute, Cech was shown a red card for a foul in the box and a penalty was awarded to Wigan Athletic, leaving Chelsea in a position to be on the back foot and scored again in stoppage time.

3:1

Chelsea suffer their first defeat of the new season!

Wigan Athletic made new history: they won for the first time against a big BIG4 team!

Liverpool's game won't start until half an hour after Chelsea's game.

In the Anfield dressing room, Steven Gerrard pushed the door open. He yelled at his team-mates: 'Good news for you, Chelsea just lost this round of the league!' Now they are still on the same page as us. But when we race, we'll be at the top of the standings! ”

"Yay!"

The shouts of excitement from his team-mates in the dressing room were good news and it's hard to say it would put more pressure on Liverpool.

After all, a loss for the Blues was clearly a better outcome than a Chelsea win.

Koeman made no mention of the Chelsea and Manchester United match in his pre-match remarks.

He told everyone to go to the game step by step, and he didn't say a word about the Carabao Cup defeat in midweek, and let it go in the past, and there is nothing to sum up.

Liverpool made their debut at Anfield with a formidable aura of the past.

Hull City came to Anfield on a fragile side.

Qin Xiong, Torres, Gerrard, and Kuyt's attacking group was full of might, and in the process of constantly bombarding Hull City's defense repeatedly, Hull City goalkeeper McHill was humiliated again and again.

He picked the ball out of the goal seven times!

7:0！

Fernando Torres scored a hat-trick, Qin scored twice and Steven Gerrard and Kuyt scored a goal each.

Anfield swept away the gloom of the Carabao Cup exit, and Koeman also looked extremely confident on the sidelines.

Was the Carabao Cup exit an accident?

Even if it isn't, it has nothing to do with Liverpool's true strength.

On the battlefield of the league, the fire set off by Liverpool shows no signs of being extinguished, and the fire is still staining the sky.

After beating Hull City, Liverpool dominated the Premier League table after the seventh round of the new season, planting the flag of the Reds on the highest point in the world of England's greenery.

In the other game played a little later, Arsenal beat local derby rivals Fulham 1-0 away to make it two wins in a row after two straight defeats.

Within the BIG4 group, Liverpool is 3 points ahead of Manchester United and Chelsea, and 6 points ahead of Arsenal!

After the league game, Liverpool moved to European competition, and the team flew to Italy to face Fiorentina away.

Fiorentina have a good group of players with good quality and potential this season, and they are seen as potential dark horses in the Champions League.

Koeman never dared to underestimate such a team, because he knew that the more easily underestimated the team, the more likely it was to create miracles!

After the 8-0 slaughter of Di Biseni in the first round, Liverpool looked unstoppable, but in his pre-match press conference, Koeman stressed that the team had forgotten about the big win in the first round.

"There are six games in the group stage, the two teams with the most points qualify for the knockout round, and whether they win 1-0 or 5-0 in one game, they only have three points, and now Liverpool have three points, that's all.

Fiorentina are a strong opponent and we will be under a lot of pressure away from home, but I have confidence in the players, as we have in the league, to show our true level and we have enough quality to take the win. ”

An Italian reporter ridiculed him and deliberately tried to suppress Liverpool's momentum, saying: "Why won't Liverpool behave like in the League Cup? That's Liverpool too. ”

Koeman nodded after hearing this: "Well, what you said makes sense, I will tell the players in the dressing room, whether they are like Liverpool on the day of Elland Road stadium, or Liverpool in the last seven league games, your question is very cautionary, thank you." ”

The Italian journalist choked on Koeman's answer, as if he was motivating Liverpool instead! (To be continued.) )