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Chapter 558 Miserable Leeds United
On September 9, at 22:15 London time, Liverpool ushered in their opponents in the sixth round of the Premier League at Anfield Stadium, Leeds United, which ranked fifth in the Premier League standings last season.

Now the league has played 5 rounds, but Leeds United, which has lost its meritorious coach Bielsa and many core players, has been very miserable in these five games.

In the first game of the new season, Leeds United played 0-0 with the newly promoted Burnley who returned to the Premier League.

But as long as you watch that game, you will know that the reason why Leeds United did not lose is that luck favored them.

In the second round against Everton, Leeds United ushered in the consequences of cleaning Bielsa and wantonly selling core players to collect funds.

After the game, Everton sent Leeds United 4-0.

This score cast the shadow of relegation on the minds of countless White Rose fans.

Sure enough, in the third round of the Premier League, Leeds United ran into the more powerful Leicester City, and once again suffered a bloodbath, losing 6-0.

Perhaps bottoming out, Leeds United ushered in their first victory in the fourth round, beating Crystal Palace 1-0, and drew Brighton 2-2 in the fifth round.

Leeds United currently ranks 4th in the standings with 14 points.

But both the fans and the media have already foreseen that among the three teams relegated this season, there is a high probability that Leeds United will be.

Because after Bielsa left, the Leeds United Club has been completely in crisis, and scandals broke out in the locker room every three days.

And the 36-year-old young marshal recruited by Leeds United boss Andre Radrizzani from League One couldn't hold back Leeds United's locker room at all, and was completely a temporary head coach.

Coupled with the fact that Bielsa's philosophy is still used in tactics, the team's offensive and defensive thinking is not unified, it is chaotic, and people's hearts are floating.

In this game, Klopp took a rotation for the opening game of the Carabao Cup in four days.

Moyang, Mane, Salah, Van Dijk and others were collectively rotated.

At the beginning, Mo Yang felt that Klopp was a bit arrogant and risky, but after the game started, Mo Yang no longer had this idea.

In the 4th minute of the game, Jota received a direct pass from Chamberlain's ribs, and then cut inward laterally, causing confusion in the Leeds defense line, and then pushed a far corner, successfully rewriting the score to 1-0.

In less than 3 minutes, Firmino won the ball by successfully pressing Phillips, and then went straight to the right rib.

After Shaqiri got the ball on the right side of the penalty area, he quickly swept across the goal, directly causing chaos and allowing Cork to score an own goal.

Seeing Leeds United's chaotic offensive and defensive rhythm, Mo Yang felt very uncomfortable.

A good team, just let a businessman make it to pieces.

A few days ago, Bamford and Phillips and others called him to complain, and he also thought that things might not be so bad.

But now it seems that only worse!
Now he can understand why Bamford, Phillips, Cork and others had the idea of ​​leaving Leeds United.

Because no player wants to stay on such a team because you don't see any hope.

Mo Yang felt that if Leeds United continued to develop like this, relegation was a certainty.

At the beginning, Moyang thought that Leeds United would only sell Bai Lele, Maguire and Madison, but he never expected that Andre Radrizzani would even sell Dembele and Saint-Maximin. Sold.

Now that Leeds United has become like this, he can be said to have suffered the consequences of himself.

On the sidelines, seeing this team without old friends become like this, Klopp was also quite embarrassed.

In the end, Klopp gave Leeds United a 4-0 score.

这还是克洛普嘱咐球员放点水的情况下，否则天知道会不会出线6-0，7-0，8-0的大比分。

Later, the media focused on the chaos of Leeds United, and even blatantly criticized Andre Radrizzani for affecting Leeds United due to his personal financial crisis.

The Times was even more ruthless, and directly opened a column based on this case, analyzing in detail the pros and cons of sole proprietorship and control of the club.

Even the fans of Leeds United made a fuss, but in front of the capital, most of the time, the fans can only be intentional but powerless.

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On September 9, in accordance with the regulations of the English League Cup, Liverpool officially joined the competition from the third round.

Like the Champions League, Liverpool's luck in the League Cup draw this year is also not good, and it can even be said to be extremely bad.

Because Liverpool drew Chelsea, who are also Premier League giants, in the first game of the League Cup, they were really lucky.

Chelsea's biggest signings in this summer transfer window are 8000 million Kepa and 5130 million midfielder Jorginho, who are suspected of being taken advantage of.

Both signings were reached at the request and auspices of new Chelsea coach Sarri.

As for Conte, this guy directly bombarded Chelsea's top management at the media press conference after losing 1-2 to Arsenal in the League Cup last season.

He nakedly vented his dissatisfaction to the media, declaring that every signing he made after taking over Chelsea was actually arranged by Chelsea's top management, and he had no right to speak.

These remarks coupled with Chelsea's failure to compete for the top four last season and the loss of the Champions League place, Abramovich fired him directly, and invited another Italian coach, Maurizio Sarri.

In the first six rounds of this season, under the leadership of Maurizio Sarri, Chelsea swept away the decline in the second half of last season. They were extremely strong and achieved 6 consecutive victories.

In these six league rounds, Chelsea's opponents are not weak, but they scored a total of 16 goals and only conceded two goals in the game against Arsenal.

Chelsea is also the team that has conceded the fewest goals among the 20 Premier League teams so far, none of them, which shows how strong its defensive ability is.

Therefore, this caused Klopp quite a headache.

Because after playing against Chelsea in the Carabao Cup, Liverpool's opponent in the seventh round of the Premier League was Chelsea again four days later, and Liverpool still played away.

So this made Klopp hesitate a bit, should he give up the League Cup.

Klopp doesn't want to be overtaken by Manchester City or other giants like last season, and then they can only passively chase him. He doesn't want to experience that kind of suffering for the second time.

As for the build-up at the beginning of the season, what Klopp said to strive for every championship is just a goal and an encouragement.

In the end, Klopp still adopted a half-rotation strategy, and he chose the league.

As a result, when the game started, Klopp found that he and Maurizio Sarri wanted to go together, and Chelsea also rotated most of the lineup.

Kanter, Jorginho, Kepa and others were all absent. Klopp, who wanted to take a closer look at Jorginho, who was recently called by the English media as a world-class midfielder, was disappointed.

In this game, Mo Yang was still put on the bench by Klopp. Lallana, Fabinho and Milner were the starters.

On the front line, Klopp only left Mane alone, and the center position is the team's oldest brother Sturridge.

Since Liverpool won the Champions League, this guy has made up his mind to stay in Liverpool and retire.

On the defensive line, there are Matip and Lovren, as well as Klein and Moreno.

In the first half, although the two sides played vigorously, whether it was Chelsea or Liverpool, they only saw blossoms but no results.

The most eye-catching is Buffon, who has repeatedly saved Chelsea's wonderful shots.

In the second half, in the 58th minute, the goal that the fans hoped to see finally arrived.

Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas and Azpilicueta played with fire on the left side of the penalty area.

Faced with Milner's pressing, Azpilicueta turned around and took the ball, but directly gave the ball to Mane on the left side of the penalty area.

Then Mane quickly handed the ball to Chamberlain on the sideline of the penalty area in front of him.

Chamberlain quickly cut inside and let Caballero put the ball in the back post, just behind Sturridge, who was missed by Chelsea.

Veteran Sturridge did not miss this god-given opportunity, and immediately caught a barb with his back and kicked the ball into the goal.

After this goal was born, it was not until the 80th minute that Chelsea used the positioning on the outside of the right side of the penalty area to allow Emerson to score one.

Then Mo Yang appeared on the stage, and Chelsea reacted quickly, quickly replaced Kanter, and strictly guarded Mo Yang.

Under Kanter's stalking, Mo Yang still sent out a few wonderful offensive organization and a very penetrating through ball.

But Shaqiri and Mane couldn't hold back and staged happy football in turn.

Then the law of retribution will come into effect for wasting opportunities.

In stoppage time of the game, Chelsea replaced Eden Hazard.

As a result, Chamberlain and Moreno, who made great contributions in the second half, were broken by Hazard's left and right tumblers outside the left penalty area, and finally broke through the gate guarded by Buffon again with a strong shot.

Since then, Liverpool lost 1-2 to Chelsea, and the Carabao Cup begins and ends.

(End of this chapter)