While training in the space is underway, Liverpool also need to prepare for a new round of competition. //.//

The midweek game is still the Carabao Cup. Liverpool's opponent in this game is Middlesbrough. Because the League Cup competition is not very important, Liverpool still did not send the main team to participate in the League Cup.

But fortunately, this game, Middlesbrough, too, did not pay enough attention to this game. Both sides sent substitutes on the bench, while Liverpool, on the back of two goals from Milito, beat defending League Cup champions Middlesbrough 2-0.

After this game, Liverpool ushered in the opponent of Crystal Palace. This is not a formidable enemy. But there was another thing that affected Liverpool a lot in this game: Liverpool legend, Emlyn Hughes, known as the 'Crazy Horse', passed away before the game. Therefore, in this game, the team was also notified before the game, asking that during the game, even if they scored a goal, they were not allowed to celebrate.

And Zhao Yaning still received special attention before the game: after all, he once had a national team teammate who played for Crystal Palace and was also the captain. What's even more interesting is that the most high-profile game played by the general during his time at Crystal Palace was against Liverpool, where he defended Owen. These things have also been turned over by the media, and there is a burst of hype.

But no matter how much hype is hot, it can't change the fact that Crystal Palace is only a weak team.

After the opening 10 minutes, Liverpool steadied themselves under Alonso's command and organised a decent attack. In the 23rd minute, Alonso cut forward to receive a pass from Biscayne, turned and made a gesture on the spot, but knocked the ball to Zhao Yaning in the box with a backheel. After receiving the ball, Zhao Yaning accelerated past the defender of his ** vic, and then pushed the far corner with the outside of his left foot to open the scoring for Liverpool.

"It seems that Zhao Yaning is in good shape, and he has scored in almost every game in these games." The commentator's admiration for Zhao Yaning's state naturally has some reasons: the time has entered November, and Zhao Yaning's performance in every game will affect the evaluation of the Golden Ball Award more and more. The current Liverpool, relying on Zhao Yaning's play, ranks fourth in the league, although it is not high, but considering Liverpool's injury situation, such a result is still in the past, and how he plays depends on his own efforts.

This goal gave Liverpool a great advantage, and after taking the lead, Zhao Yaning was not in a hurry to attack, but kept trying to run back and forth in the front. Liverpool's style of play is quite good, but the problem is that several people in the front field are not full-time strikers, and their shooting ability is not particularly good, so although there are good opportunities in the game, they are all missed.

Two minutes before half-time, Crystal Palace's Finnish midfielder Kolka equalised with a powerful shot from the corner of the box.

This goal made the Crystal Palace team immediately excited. They are not expecting to win at Anfield, but they are hoping for a draw.

But Crystal Palace's joy lasted only one minute, and immediately, after Colwill's breach, Kolka was shown a yellow card for one of his breakaways. The decision made Colca so unhappy that he even showed Colwill a fall on the sidelines to prove that he had not committed a foul – but such an explanation really didn't make much sense.

At this time, Zhao Yaning also seized this opportunity. This time, he didn't kick the ball again, but directly took a big arc and sent the ball into the goal.

After the change of sides, Crystal Palace's offensive still did not improve. Kolka tried to launch two attacks, but one was successfully blocked by Finnan, and the other he fell into an offside trap set by Liverpool.

And in the 90th minute, a wonderful pass from Colwill was sent to the feet of Zhao Yaning in the penalty area, Zhao Yaning turned around and was about to shoot, but was pushed down by **vic.

There is nothing to say, penalties.

"Come on." Colwill looked at the penalty and patted Zhao Yaning. He has not scored for Liverpool in 26 rounds, and the pressure he faces is actually no less than anyone else's. But he also knows very well that at this time, Zhao Yaning has already scored two goals, and in order to complete his teammate's hat trick, Zhao Yaning must be punished.

But in this regard, Zhao Yaning smiled bitterly in his heart, he himself was not sensitive to the penalty.

But at this time, even if you let it go, you can't go out. Zhao Yaning stood on the penalty spot. For him, the penalty kick is Meng anyway, and this time, he can only hope that the opponent's goalkeeper has misjudged the direction.

Kick up, left!

The goalkeeper's judgment was wrong, and Zhao Yaning's penalty kick successfully broke through the net!

“gooooal！！！！！！ Zhao Yaning's hat-trick !!!!! It was Liverpool's 20th hat-trick since the Premier League!! ”

Liverpool have not produced a few good goalscorers since the Premier League, and seven of their first 19 hat-tricks were scored by Owen and seven by Fowler.

This goal made Liverpool fans sing even louder - who said that no one would score goals without Owen in Liverpool? ——

Liverpool have good news after a 3-1 win against Crystal Palace: Steven Gerrard will return to the development squad on Monday and is almost back from injury.

And with Gerrard's recovery from injury came another piece of news: Abu was encouraged by Mourinho to decide to buy Gerrard again. And the conditions he offered, in addition to the transfer fee of 30 million pounds, also said that Gerrard was given a contract with a weekly salary of 120,000 pounds.

In the current Premier League, the highest salary is Frank Lampard's £90,000. Arsenal's highest weekly salary is Campbell's 80,000, Manchester United's is 90,000 for Ruud van Nistelrooy and Keane, and as for Liverpool, it is Zhao Yaning's 60,000 - his salary is on par with Owen. And Gerrard is even lower, now only 56,000. Abu's salary for him was more than tripled all at once. The weekly salary of 120,000 can basically be converted into nearly 6 million, which is not far from Zidane.

Such a price made transfer rumors rampant for a while, and even Liverpool's transfer manager Parry said that he did not rule out any possibility.

"Stephen is definitely not leaving." Carragher was alone in the dressing room, insisting that Gerrard would not leave.

I can only say that I hope so. Although Liverpool is now stable in the fourth place in the league, everyone knows that this result is definitely unreliable. After all, Manchester United has just finished fifth in the league, and the Premier League has never dropped out of the top three over the years. They will definitely make a force in the second half, and Liverpool's squad is not thick enough, and there may be something in the future, and it is a great thing for Liverpool to be able to make a comeback with one more person. And if he was willing to stay, it would be great.

And the following week, it was the day of the national team break. With this period of recovery, Steven Gerrard should be almost ready to play against Middlesbrough.

And this time in the national team competition, there are not many people who have the task of playing. Zhao Yaning was supposed to have a game, he was going to return to China to play the game with Hong Kong, China, but in this kind of game, Zhao Yaning himself felt that it was not necessary to play, not to mention that the group had already qualified, even if he didn't qualify, he didn't bother to play: the season was determined to definitely win the game, what is the point of playing?

And there is another thing, that is, the award ceremony of the Asian Footballer of the Year, which also needs to be invited to attend.

There is no suspense in this selection compared to the last time, last year, there were still people who dared to compete with Zhao Yaning, but this year, Zhao Yaning won the award, which is already an inevitable event that everyone knows.

And Zhao Yaning's attitude towards this matter is the same - no interest, no go.

For an award, he went all the way back to Asia, and he was too tired. It's not that he hasn't had this award, and more importantly, this award can be received in absentia, so he naturally doesn't care about it.

But after the awards, the two news announced by the AFC still made Zhao Yaning a little unsure of what to say.

The first news is that the AFC has made a rule: from this session onwards, no one will be allowed to be absent from the award ceremony of the Asian Footballer of the Year, and in the days to come, only those who are present will be regarded as candidates, and others who do not show up will be treated as abstentions.

"That's who started the terms specifically for you." In this regard, Zhang Yuan, who is in China, also feels funny, the first time he heard that there is such a nonsense clause in the award, "Don't pay attention to him, anyway, the day of the award is on the day of the national team competition, when you are happy in the future, come back and take a turn, there are two sentences of noise in the news, and they have a headache." ”

It's just a joke, and I'll talk about it later. Anyway, the Asian Footballer of the Year award is not a big deal, and you can't die if you win one less.

"And again, it's the World Preliminary Championship grouping." Speaking of this question, Zhang Yuan's words were a little unspeakable, "We are in a group with Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Uzbekistan. ”

For these teams, Zhao Yaning breathed a sigh of relief.

Since it is divided into two groups, if you don't meet Korea, you have to meet Japan, which is definitely not a thing. Zhao Yaning has played Japan several times since he started playing, and it is impossible to meet Japan all the time, and it is normal to meet South Korea once.

It is also normal for Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan to be together, and there are many West Asian countries, and it is normal for two West Asian countries in the group.

Of course, this group certainly doesn't look as good as the other group, which is Japan, Iran, Bahrain and North Korea – which are basically guaranteed to qualify.

After all, the AFC is West Asia, and Japan and South Korea each have half of the forces. Their idea is probably to let Saudi Arabia rely on Uzbekistan to help advance, South Korea to advance at the same time, and Japan and Iran to advance, Bahrain does not have to think too much - if it is changed, it may become Japan squeezed out of the top two in the group by Iran and China.

Of course, even if it is eliminated, it is not without a way to live. After all, it's just Bahrain or North Korea playing the play-offs, and then playing an extra match against the Central American team to decide who will qualify.

It's just that...... Zhao Yan'd rather not want to play two more games. Since you think that South Korea and Saudi Arabia can overshadow me, then, ω· u(8) Update the fastest reading network