The "eternally young" Arsenal can't hold up in the devil's schedule either.

In a London derby, Arsenal headed home from Koscielny, but Van Persie couldn't open the scoring account and Fulham staged a comeback in the 92nd minute.

2:1

Fulham beat Arsenal at home.

Chelsea, on the other hand, struggled to pick up three points from Wolves and finally secured a win in a recent slump of form.

20 rounds of Premier League matches.

Liverpool lead the table with 47 points.

Manchester City are two points behind at 45 points.

Manchester United missed out on a two-game losing streak with 44 points to reach the top.

Chelsea 37 points.

Arsenal 36 points.

The competitive landscape in the Premier League seems to have become polarised.

The top three teams are vying for the title, while the next two London giants are battling it out for a place in the Champions League.

Although there will be a two-week break from the league, it does not mean that Liverpool can fully rest.

On the weekend after the league ended, Liverpool hosted Oldham at Anfield.

The Reds are in the FA Cup!

Koeman gave his main players as much rest as possible, sending out plenty of substitutes and young players.

This is not Liverpool's contempt, but the strength of the opponent is not yet worth Liverpool's big move to send all the elite.

Even with the substitute lineup, Liverpool still beat the opponent 5:1 at home and successfully advanced to the fourth round.

After this match, Qin Xiong began to prepare to go to Zurich to participate in the FIFA Golden Ball Awards ceremony.

Compared to last year, Qin Xiong's behind-the-scenes team built momentum for him, this year it is completely unnecessary.

led the team to successfully defend the Champions League, the Premier League also defended successfully, and with the brilliant achievement of scoring 86 goals in the year, Qin Xiong has no suspense in winning the Golden Ball Award.

On the evening of January 9.

Outside the Zurich Opera House, Qin Xiong arrived here by car, the red carpet was rolled out to the side of the road, there were reporters and fans from all over the world on both sides, Qin Xiong in a suit and leather shoes got out of the car, he squatted down facing the back seat of the car before he greeted everyone, Qin Ye in a children's suit got out of the car and threw himself directly into Qin Xiong's arms and was picked up by Qin Xiong.

Qin Xiong, who was holding his son in one hand, straightened up, and Sylvia, who was dressed in a black evening dress, was radiant, she stood beside Qin Xiong, and Qin Xiong waved to the reporters and fans on both sides with his other hand, and then went to Sylvia's hand together, and then walked towards the opera house together.

After walking into the Zurich Opera House, a staff member took Qin Xiong's family of three to the lounge and waited for admission.

Freddie is here one step ahead of the necessary PR exchanges with people from all walks of life in football.

Qin Xiong just came here, and Freddie said that he would casually talk to reporters.

So Qin Xiong sat alone on the sofa in the corner of the lounge to be interviewed by reporters.

"You're going to defend the Ballon d'Or this year, right?"

"Hahahaha! What do you want me to say? To be modest, I said that the results are not out yet, I don't know. I don't have to be a saint to pretend to be like a saint, when others perform better than me, I will admit it, and sincerely congratulate others on winning the award, such as Kaka in 2007 and Messi in 2009, I was present, and I was not uncomfortable at all, competition, it doesn't mean that I will always win, I will also lose, but after I should win but didn't win, I think many people will be dissatisfied, this is human nature. ”

The reporter also smiled, and then asked: "Do you know that Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo, who is a shortlisted candidate for the Ballon d'Or this time, announced that they will not attend the Ballon d'Or ceremony?" ”

Qin Xiong smiled: "I heard about it." ”

"Is there anything you'd like to say about that?"

Qin Xiong's eyes rolled, and then he spread his hands and said, "Should I say something?" Maybe they're busy, maybe for some other reason, I don't know, I don't care, Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the focus of your journalists, sorry, but they don't play any important role in my world, we don't have any friendship, and we don't have any intersection now, unless we meet in the Champions League, other than that, I can't think of why I should pay attention to them. ”

The reporter smiled, and then chatted with Qin Xiong about Liverpool and his personal career plan before the interview ended.

There were already a lot of people in the lounge.

When Qin Xiong returned to Sylvia, he saw Qin Ye sitting on the sofa with his eyes staring at a person, he turned his head to Qin Xiong and said, "Dad, look, that person, the person who often appears on TV." ”

Qin Xiong followed Qin Ye's gaze, and he saw Messi in a dark red suit!

Yes, the top players in this era are often the talk of football shows.

It is not a day or two for Qin Xiong to compare Messi.

It is not uncommon for Qin Ye to be able to see Messi often when watching TV now.

Messi happened to be looking over here, Qin Xiong patted Qin Ye on the back and said, "Go and say hello to that uncle." ”

Qin Ye obediently jumped off the sofa and walked towards Messi, who also walked towards this side, with a smile on his face.

"Hello, uncle."

Qin Ye was in English, and Messi also bent down and said to him in English: "Hi, little guy, hello." ”

Messi looked very kind, touched Qin Ye's head and walked to Qin Xiong's side, Qin Xiong put Qin Ye on his lap, and stretched out his hand to ask Messi to sit down.

The two superstars sat together, and the reporters in the lounge immediately came over to take pictures.

Qin Xiong leaned towards Messi and whispered: "I'm tired of the media saying that there is a secret contradiction between me and you, so please, you smile sincerely." ”

Messi laughed, and immediately said to Qin Xiong with a smile: "In comparison, I think your smile is more stiff, and I need you to be more sincere than what you said." ”

"Why?"

"Look, that's what you hate, you know why!"

Qin Xiong laughed.

Because Qin Xiong is a big winner!

Because Qin Xiong already has three Golden Ball awards and five Champions League trophies!

If the media wants to create a topic, most of them must be Messi who is not convinced by Qin Xiong, and only a very few are Qin Xiong who is not convinced by Messi.

There's no need for it!

Qin Xiong is the king, Messi is the challenger!

It's as simple as that.

After the group photo, Qin Xiong smiled at Messi: "I heard that Barcelona is not in a good situation in the league, and Real Madrid led by Mourinho is very strong this season." ”

Messi shrugged and said: "Liverpool are not as strong as they have been in the past two years, and the pressure on the Manchester team is also very high. ”

"Oh, each other, by the way, a reporter just asked me why Mourinho and Ronaldo didn't come, you know?"

Messi thought for a while and said, "Because they won't accept the award, why are they coming?" ”

Qin Xiong nodded matter-of-fact and said, "That's true, uh-huh, then what are you doing here?" ”

Messi Huo Ran got up and said to Qin Xiong: "I have a demeanor that you don't have." ”

Qin Xiong looked at Messi and was about to leave, and said, "You're doing something ungraceful now." ”

Messi sneered, turned his head and said: "I'm going to accompany my woman, I can't leave her over there alone, see you in the Champions League!" ”

Qin Xiong waved his hand at him and smiled: "See you in the Champions League!" (To be continued.) )