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While training in space, Liverpool also need to prepare for a new round of games.

The mid-week game is still the League Cup game.Liverpool's opponent this time is Middlesbrough.Because they don't pay much attention to the League Cup, Liverpool still did not send their main players to participate in the League Cup.

But fortunately, in this game, Middlesbrough also did not pay enough attention to this game.Both sides sent substitute players to play, and Liverpool, relying on two goals from Milito, defeated the defending champion Middlesbrough of the League Cup with a score of 2-0.

After this game, Liverpool's opponent is Crystal Palace.This is not a strong enemy at all.But another thing caused Liverpool to be greatly affected in this game: Liverpool star Emlyn Hughes, known as "Crazy Horse", passed away before the game.Therefore, in this game, the team was also notified before the game, requiring that even if they scored a goal during the game, they were not allowed to celebrate.

Before the game, Zhao Yaning still received special attention: after all, he had teammates from the national team who played for Crystal Palace and was also the captain.What's more interesting is that the most eye-catching game played by General Fan during his time at Crystal Palace was to defend Owen against Liverpool.These things were also turned up by the media, and there was a burst of hype. [

But no matter how hyped it is, it can't change the fact that Crystal Palace is just an underdog.

After the opening 10 minutes, Liverpool stabilized their position under the dispatch of Alonso and organized a decent offensive.In the 23rd minute, after receiving a pass from Biscayne, Alonso turned around on the spot and made a counterattack, but knocked the ball to Zhao Yaning in the penalty area with a backheel.After receiving the ball, Zhao Yaning accelerated and passed the defender Vivici who was defending him, and then hit the far corner with his left foot, opening the scoring for Liverpool.

"It seems that Zhao Yaning is in good condition. In these few games, he has scored in almost every game." The performance of each game will more and more affect the evaluation of the Golden Globe Awards.Now Liverpool, relying on Zhao Yaning’s performance, ranks fourth in the league. Although it is not high, considering Liverpool’s injuries, such a result is still in the past, and how he performs depends entirely on him. own efforts.

This goal gave Liverpool a great advantage. After taking the lead, Zhao Yaning was not in a hurry to attack, but kept trying to run back and forth in the frontcourt.Liverpool's style of play is quite good, but the problem is that the few players in the frontcourt are not full-time forwards, and their shooting ability is not particularly good. Therefore, although there are good opportunities in the game, but are all missed.

And 2 minutes before the end of the first half, Crystal Palace's Finnish midfielder Korka made a strong shot from the corner of the penalty area to equalize the score.

This goal made the Crystal Palace team excited immediately.Although they don't expect to win the game at Anfield, they still hope to get a draw.

But the joy of the Crystal Palace team lasted only 1 minute. Immediately, in a breakthrough by Kewell, Korka was shown a yellow card for his one.This penalty made Korka extremely dissatisfied. He even performed Kewell's fall process on the sidelines to prove that he did not foul-but such an explanation is really meaningless.

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

After the side change, the Crystal Palace's offensive still did not improve.Korca tried to launch two attacks, but he was successfully intercepted by Finnan on one occasion, and on the other time, he himself fell into the offside trap set by Liverpool.

In the 90th minute, a wonderful pass from Kewell was sent to the feet of Zhao Yaning in the penalty area.

There is nothing to say, a penalty.

"You come." Kewell looked at the penalty, but still patted Zhao Yaning.He has not scored a goal for Liverpool in 26 rounds, and the pressure he faces is actually no less than anyone else.But he also knew very well that at this time, Zhao Yaning had already scored two goals. In order to complete his teammates’ hat-trick, Zhao Yaning had to be punished.

But for this, Zhao Yaning smiled wryly in his heart. He himself was insensitive to penalties.

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

Step up, left!

The goalkeeper made a mistake in his judgment, Zhao Yaning scored a penalty kick and successfully broke through the net!

"gooool!!!!!! Zhao Yaning's hat-trick!!!!!! This is Liverpool's 20th hat-trick since the Premier League!!!"

Since the Premier League, Liverpool has not had a few good shots, but of their first 19 hat-tricks, 7 were scored by Irving, and 7 were scored by Fowler.

This goal made the Liverpool fans sing even louder-who said that without Irving, no one would score in Liverpool? ——[

After a 3-1 victory against Crystal Palace, Liverpool also ushered in new good news: Gerrard will return to participate in the reserve team game on Monday, and his injury has almost recovered.

And as Gerrard recovered from his injury, there was another news: Abramovich was encouraged by Mourinho and decided to invest in Gerrard again.And the conditions he set out, in addition to the transfer fee of 3000 million pounds, he also said that he would give Gerrard a contract with a weekly salary of 12 pounds.

In the current Premier League, the highest salary is Lampard's £9.Arsenal's highest weekly salary is Campbell's 8, Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy and Keane's 9, and Liverpool's 56. His salary is on par with Owen.And Gerrard is even slightly lower, now only 12.The salary that Abu gave him was more than doubled all at once. The weekly salary of 600 can basically be converted into nearly [-] million, which is not far from Zidane.

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

"Stephen will never leave." Carragher was the only one in the locker room, insisting that Gerrard would not leave.

It can only be said to hope so.Although Liverpool has now stabilized the fourth place in the league, everyone knows that this result must be unreliable.After all, Manchester United has just caught up to fifth in the league, and Manchester United has never fallen out of the top three in the Premier League over the years.They will definitely work hard in the second half, and Liverpool's lineup is not thick enough, and it is uncertain what will happen in the future. It is a great thing for Liverpool to have one more player come back.And it would be great if he would stay.

And the next week, it happened to be the national team match.With this period of recovery, Gerrard should be almost ready to play against Middlesbrough.

And this time for the national team competition, there are not many people with competition tasks.Zhao Yaning should have a game originally, and he was going to return to China to play against Hong Kong, China, but Zhao Yaning felt that it was unnecessary to play in this kind of game. The season is determined and you will definitely win the game. What's the point of playing?

In addition, there is another thing, that is, the award ceremony of the Asian Footballer, which also needs to invite him to attend.

This time the selection is less suspenseful than the last time. Last year, some people dared to compete with Zhao Yaning, but this year, it is an inevitable event that everyone knows that Zhao Yaning won the award.

As for this matter, Zhao Yaning's attitude is also uninterested, not going.

He thought it was too tiring to travel all the way back to Asia for an award.It's not that he hasn't won this award, and more importantly, this award can be received in absentia, so he naturally doesn't take it to heart.

But after the awards were presented, the two news announced by the AFC still made Zhao Yaning a little at a loss as to what to say.

The first news is that the AFC has made a regulation: From this session onwards, no one will be allowed to miss the award ceremony of the Asian Footballer of the Year. In the future, only those present will be considered as candidates Those who are absent, and those who are not present, will be treated as waiver.

"This is also a clause that someone started specifically for you." Zhang Yuan in China also found it funny. It was the first time he heard of an award with such a nonsense clause. When they play in the national team, when they are happy, they will come back and go around, and there will be a few quarrels in the news, and they will even have a headache."

This is just a smile, and the next thing will be discussed later.Anyway, the Asian Footballer is not a big award, and one less one will not kill anyone.

"And what's more, it's the grouping of the World Preliminaries." When it comes to this question, Zhang Yuan's words are a little louder, "We are in the same group as Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Uzbekistan."

For these teams, Zhao Yaning was relieved.

Since they are divided into two groups, if you don't meet South Korea, you have to meet R Ben, which is definitely not a matter of running away.Zhao Yaning has played r-ben several times since he played football, and it is impossible to meet r-ben all the time. It is normal to meet South Korea once.

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

Of course, this grouping certainly doesn’t look as good as the other group’s picks. The other group is R, Iran, Bahrain, and North Korea. Basically, R and Iran are guaranteed to advance.

After all, the AFC is West Asia, and the two powers of R and South Korea each account for half.Their idea is probably to allow Saudi Arabia to advance with the help of Uzbekistan, South Korea to advance at the same time, and Japan and Iran to advance, and Bahrain does not have to think too much-if it is changed, it may become Japan and Iran. And China squeezed out the top two in the group. [

Of course, even if they are eliminated, it is not impossible to survive.After all, it is just Bahrain or North Korea playing a play-off, and then playing a rematch with the Central American team to decide who can advance.

It's just... Zhao Yaning doesn't want to play two more games.Since you think South Korea and Saudi Arabia can yn me, then we might as well try.