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Although Tony Pulis is not well-known, he was called as a player and assistant coach by Bristol Rovers Football Club (then England's second-tier league team) as early as 1982.

He was promoted in 1992 and began to serve as the head coach of Bournemouth. In terms of qualifications, he is one of the few old bones in English football.

Therefore, he pretended to be a senior in front of Li Wei, and no one could say that he was not.

But Li Wei's counterattack was equally sharp. "Respect is based on the fact that the other party has something worth learning from you. It may be success in a certain field, or it may be in dealing with people. But unfortunately, I haven't found anything worth learning from Mr. Tony!"

"In the field of football, has Mr. Tony won any championships? As far as I know, no!"

A reporter in the audience said: "No! Li Wei, you are wrong. Mr. Tony Pulis once led the team to win the English Football League C League Championship in the 1995-1996 season!"

Li Wei laughed loudly, shook his head, and said with a touch of sarcasm: "I have two of these things, and I don't mean the things in the crotch."

Tony Pulis couldn't stay any longer, and he left the conference room angrily.

He knew what Levi was talking about - the Champions League!
Although only European clubs participate in the UEFA Champions League, even looking at the whole world, he is the cup champion with the highest gold content at the club level.

What does Tony Pulis, who has won a League C league title, make Levi respect him?

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Three days later, Liverpool started the journey again. The current schedule is very dense for Liverpool, this time against West Bromwich Albion.

Recently, West Bromwich Albion's performance is quite good. They won two consecutive victories before the match against Liverpool. If the record is extended to the last four rounds, they are unbeaten for four consecutive rounds.

The previous performance between West Bromwich Albion and the giants can also be regarded as a glorious defeat. They lost 1:2 in the first round against Manchester United. The second round against Chelsea was also 1:2. Losing, not being defeated by the opponent by a big score, and being able to score goals on the giants.

And the game against Manchester United was not overtaken until the No.801 minute, and the game against Chelsea was also very late, and the No.803 minute was overtaken.In other words, if West Bromwich Albion is stronger defensively, they can definitely score points against Manchester United and Chelsea.

However, Liverpool also has a very good record against West Bromwich Albion. Liverpool have won all fourteen games against West Bromwich Albion before, and they have won all the previous ten times at the Hawthorns at West Bromwich Albion!

Last season, Li Wei gave West Bromwich Albion a 4:0 at the Hawthorns.

And last season's West Bromwich Albion coach Di Matteo was also fired at the end of the season, one of which was because of a big loss to Liverpool.

The current head coach is Huo Taigong Hodgson.

Hodgson was very low-key when he played against Levi. He didn't say that he would break Liverpool's winning streak like Di Matteo did last season. Hodgson said low-key: "Liverpool is a strong team, and they are the only ones who can beat them. Own."

Although Hodgson was very low-key, Levi did not care about it.

In view of the fact that he will go to Belgium to play Genk Football Club in the middle of the week, Levi will continue to rotate.

Fortunately, the opponent in the UEFA Champions League group stage was Genk Football Club. If it was the Eastern European clubs in Russia, Li Weike would be forced to do it. He had to fly thousands of kilometers to the match in a double match a week.

But Belgium and the UK are very close, and the relationship between the two countries is very close. They have a famous traffic line - Eurostar, which is a high-speed railway connecting the UK, France and Belgium, from London to Brussels (the capital of Belgium). Just 2 hours and 20 minutes.

It can even be said that if you don't consider the need to change trains, it is a pretty good choice to take the Eurostar to race in Belgium.

Goalkeeper Neuer returned to the starting position. Although Levi has not avoided saying who is the first goalkeeper in Liverpool, it is well known that although Levi values ​​​​the potential of the teenager Mattia Palin, he prefers the atypical player who likes to run out of the penalty area. Goalkeeper Neuer.

Right back Stefan Lichtsteiner, left back Danny Rose.

The starting of the central defender made Li Wei feel uncomfortable as always. In the end, Li Wei chose Varane to partner with Papastathopoulos. He was going to temporarily set them to form a fixed central defender partner.

Central defenders are very particular about tacit understanding and experience. It does not mean that whoever performs well will be replaced.There has never been a shortage of top central defenders in football who have just transferred and performed very poorly.This is not to say that this top central defender is a parallel import, but that his partner may not be able to keep up with his rhythm, thus giving the opponent a chance to break the defense.Of course, there are also tactical changes. The central defender needs a period of time to adapt to the new tactics. It is normal for the central defender to perform poorly during the adaptation period.

And this is why compared with other positions, central defenders and goalkeepers are relatively less transferred. On the one hand, buyers are also worried about buying the wrong players. It took a lot of pain to find a suitable central defender partner.

Now for the entanglement in the defense line, Li Wei is much more relaxed in other positions.

The midfielders are Gerrard, Vidal and Lallana.

Strikers Bell, Lewandowski, Suarez.

In the 9th minute of the first half, Liverpool took the lead.

Suarez and West Bromwich Albion Thomas fell to the ground while fighting in the penalty area. The referee hesitated. After discussing with the linesman, he was awarded a foul by West Bromwich Albion and gave Liverpool a penalty.

This penalty Gerrard did not take the penalty, but handed it to Suarez, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Come on, our Premier League Golden Boot!"

Everyone knows that Suarez's goal this season is to hit the Premier League Golden Boot, and Suarez's performance is also quite good.In the ten rounds of the league, Suarez has scored five goals. Although his performance is not very good, in fact Suarez has rested many games because of the Champions League, otherwise he would definitely score more goals.

"Thank you, Stephen!" Suarez was a little moved.

Gerald smiled and stepped aside.

Suarez did not waste the opportunity given by Gerrard, and scored a penalty kick to help Liverpool break the deadlock.Expand the number of individual league goals to six!

In the stoppage time of the first half, Liverpool seized the opportunity of West Bromwich Albion to relax their attention. Lallana intercepted the ball in the midfield and sent a scalpel-like through ball at the first time. Suarez was offside on the right. It was successful, but Suarez knew that his position was not good, so he did not force the goal. Get in between your legs.

In the first half of the game, Liverpool was already 2:0 West Bromwich Albion.

During the intermission, Li Wei made two substitution adjustments. Gerrard went off and Pirlo came off the bench.Suarez went off and Moussa Sissoko came off the bench.Liverpool switched to playing 4-4-2, which was also a defensive counterattack tactically, but there was a fast winger like Bell in front.

West Bromwich Albion once tried to equalize the score in the second half, but in the 603rd minute of the game, they suffered a blitz from Bell.

Sean Lang's shot was saved by Neuer, and then Neuer quickly kicked his big foot. The football crossed half of the field. Bell succeeded in countering offside. Although goalkeeper Foster attacked at the first time, he rushed out of the penalty area.

But Bell was faster. As soon as he caught up with the football and poked it, the football accelerated and slipped away from Foster's feet.The rest was very simple. Bell ran wildly to catch up with the football, and still had time to make some adjustments, slowing down both himself and the football, and then shot the empty goal from a small angle.

Liverpool 3:0 West Bromwich Albion!
Seeing this goal and seeing this score, West Bromwich Albion decided to tie the game and put more attention on defense.

3：0的比分已经让霍奇森的心情相当糟糕了，他可不想出现4：0，乃至于5：0这样的屠杀比分。

At the end of the game, West Bromwich Albion failed to score a face-saving goal, but they also gained something. Liverpool did not have many opportunities to counterattack, nor could they continue to score.

The final score was fixed at the number 3:0.

Li Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Liverpool's recent results in the league have put a lot of pressure on Li Wei.Frequently, they win in the cup, only to stumble in the league, either drawn or defeated.

Even counting this defeat of West Bromwich Albion, after ten league rounds, Liverpool has only won five games!The winning rate is only 50.00%, which can be said to be the worst start for Levi since he coached the team professionally.

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In the middle of the week, in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool was a guest at the Phoenix Stadium.

Li Wei just came back with the breath of Panasonic, Liverpool was upset at the Phoenix Stadium and was tied 1:1 by Genk Football Club!

You must know that the difference between Liverpool and No.2 Leverkusen in the group stage is only one point!

Fortunately, Valencia, Leverkusen's opponent in this round, defeated Leverkusen 3:1 at home, avoiding Liverpool being overtaken by Leverkusen.

It's just that this doesn't mean that Liverpool's Champions League group stage situation will be easy.

Liverpool still ranks first in the group stage, with two wins and two draws, accumulating eight points.

Leverkusen ranked second in the group stage, with two wins and two losses, with six points, and the difference with Liverpool is very small.

No.3 is Valencia. He has one win, two draws and one loss, accumulating five points. The point difference between him and Liverpool is also relatively small. Assuming Liverpool loses and Valencia wins, then the Bats may overwhelm Liverpool won No.1 in the group stage.

The last place is Genk Football Club. The Belgian team has two losses and two draws, with two points.But relying on tenacious defense, this Belgian strong team now has many hopes of qualifying for the Europa League. They are three points away from No.3 Valencia.

There are still two rounds of the Champions League group competition, and no one knows whether something surprising will happen in the future.Just like the European Cup in 2004, who would have thought that Greece would become a dark horse and win this European Cup?
Liverpool's Group E also gradually gained the attention of a lot of media by virtue of fierce competition.After all, compared to other groups whose qualifying has been clear, Liverpool's Group E has more suspense. Liverpool is now the first in the group stage, and they have to put a question mark on whether they can even guarantee their appearance in the group stage.

Some media believe that the reason why Liverpool's results are unstable, often winning a game or losing a game, and the state fluctuates, is mainly because of Levi's large-scale rotation.

In addition to Liverpool's defensive problems, the media generally believed that Levi made a bad transfer and traded Boateng for Thomas Muller.

What Liverpool lacks now is not an attacker, but a defender.

The press criticized Levy for trading Liverpool's necessities for a flashy luxury.