Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 871 Season debut ([-])

Zhang Yuan and the others arrived at Anfield Stadium an hour and a half earlier. Along the way, many fans wearing red jerseys have already walked towards the stadium one after another. In fact, Anfield Stadium is usually full of fans two hours ago. Here It's like a big bazaar, selling everything.

Zhang Yuan and his teammates got off the bus through a special passage and entered the locker room directly. Liverpool's locker room is very large, and there are some record posters of past classic games on the wall. The players' positions in the locker room are said to be based on Shankly's era. Arranged, the goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, and forward are displayed in order, and Zhang Yuan and Sturridge are in the same position.

Sturridge and Suarez formed the famous sas combination in the Premier League last season. The two teamed up and scored a lot of goals. However, he suffered a slight injury earlier and could only sit on the bench for this game. .

Although it was the first match for the newly joined team, Zhang Yuan also had a lot of expectations in his heart, but he was not nervous, and he believed that he could do well.

After changing their jerseys, the players first went to the court to warm up. They had to go through the well-known player tunnel. The player tunnel at Anfield Stadium is very characteristic because it is very narrow. It is said that this design is to give the visiting team some sense of oppression. , When Zhang Yuan came out today, he asked Gerald, and Gerald said it was probably like this.

Anfield Stadium was established earlier, and Zhang Yuan didn't know if it was designed like this at the beginning, but he thought it was not the reason, it just felt strange, and he didn't say that he felt uncomfortable after passing by.

When the players warmed up on the field, there were not many fans in the stands. They were usually drunk outside and entered the field more than ten minutes earlier. This is also a characteristic of many English fans.

England is rich in football hooligans. Zhang Yuan once watched a movie starring Elijah Wood that was written about football hooligans in England. He feels that football is like everything about them.

After a while, the away Southampton players also came out to warm up. They basically didn’t know Zhang Yuan. They had Wanyama and Borucs as their opponents. Wanyama used to be in Kyle Specialist, Boluci had a conversation with Zhang Yuan when he was in Fiorentina.

But these two people are not familiar with each other. Zhang Yuan only knew when he was looking at the other party's list. He is now seriously warming up. Who is going to say hello? !

The warm-up was over, and Zhang Yuan returned to the locker room. Zhang Yuan felt hungry and had to eat a banana to satisfy his hunger. He couldn’t eat too much before the game, but he had to replenish the energy that should be replenished. He didn’t feel nervous, but in fact Just because he was a little nervous, he was hungry.

Rodgers began to explain the tactical arrangement to everyone. In fact, it has not changed much compared to last season. Without Suarez, Zhang Yuan joined. Rodgers used more double strikers in pre-season training. Zhang Yuan and Sturridge are the main candidates. forward.

However, in this game Rogers had to change to 433. To be precise, it is not a big deal. Sturridge played a relatively active position last season. Coutinho played as a midfielder and he played as a forward, but Coutinho Ao and him are often involved in the wing, incarnating the role of winger.

In this game, Sturridge's position was replaced by Sterling. Sterling was a young player single-handedly promoted by Rogers. When Rogers was in power, he gradually got opportunities. He has a strong breakthrough ability, fast and flexible.

Liverpool's starting lineup is like this.

Goalkeeper: Mignolet

Defender: Johnson Diganshke Telmanquilo
Midfielder: Lucas Gerrard Henderson
Forward: Coutinho, Zhang Yuan, Sterling
In this lineup, apart from Mankilo and Zhang Yuan, the others are the old men of the team. Mankilo is a player who was loaned by Liverpool from Atletico Madrid.

On the other side, Southampton Koeman formed a 451 formation.

Goalkeeper: Foster
Defender: Maya Klein Yoshida Fonte Bertrand
Midfielder: Tadi Chiwanyama Schneiderlin Davis-Prowse

Forward: Pellet

Three new aids were unveiled. Pellet also stayed in Serie A before, and also played against Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan has obviously forgotten that he used to play in Parma, but he only stayed for one season before going to Feyenoord , and then moved to Southampton. It is said that Koeman's poaching this summer is basically in the Eredivisie League, and Tadic is also from the Eredivisie.

After Rodgers' tactics were arranged, he applauded and said: "Today is the first day of the new season. I hope we leave Anfield and go home with joy. I think you think so too?! So work hard to get Let's play this game!"

A group of players responded aggressively. In fact, they did not play for two months, and everyone really missed the game a little bit.

Under the leadership of the referee Clattenburg, the players from both sides walked to the court through the narrow player channel.

The stands at Anfield Stadium are divided into four parts. The stand where Zhang Yuan and his team are playing is the main stand, the TV broadcast room, the press box, the VIP box, the players' lounge and the stand where the bench is located, which can accommodate about [-] spectators.

On the right is the famous kop stand. This stand was to commemorate the British soldiers who died in the Battle of Spionkop in the Second Boer War. In fact, the British are used to doing this. There are so many war-related memorial buildings. The glory of the past is gone, as if to miss the old days like this, there are not a few stands with the same name in the UK, but later evolved into the only one like Liverpool, this stand can accommodate about 3 at the beginning, all standing seats, Later, due to safety reasons, it was changed to seats, which could only accommodate more than 1 fans.

Opposite the main stand is the Centennial Stand, which was built by Liverpool on the nearby Camlyn Road. It was called the Centennial Stand at the time when Liverpool was founded for a hundred years, and it can accommodate more than 1 people.

On the left side of the main stand is the Anfield Road Stand, which can accommodate about [-] spectators. This is also the stand of the visiting team, and the seats allocated to the fans of the visiting team are all here.

When passing through that narrow passage, every Liverpool player would reach out and touch Shankly's famous quote, this is Anfield, and Zhang Yuan touched it too, sorry, I really didn't absorb much energy, saying that he is a Liverpool fan , but he couldn't say how dead he was.

The pre-match ceremony is over, and with a whistle from Clattenburg, the game officially begins.

Liverpool kicked off first, and Southampton did not fear Liverpool at all. This is the characteristic of the Premier League. The few at the top went up to press crazily, and then forced Liverpool players to open their feet. Players can't pass a few kicks in the frontcourt, and they start to open their feet under pressure. The safest thing is to open their feet to keep the ball away from their own penalty area.

Shiktel swung his big foot directly to the frontcourt. Zhang Yuan ran and ran, standing still and fighting for the top. Feng Te ran after him, and pressed Zhang Yuan firmly below him with a shoulder pressing action, not letting him go. He took off and pushed the ball back with his strength.

I'm sorry Clattenburg didn't respond, the other players didn't respond, and the game continued.

Zhang Yuan cursed inwardly, what the hell are you not bragging about so obviously? !
But he was not angry at all. He knew that the referees in the Premier League were like this.

Rodgers has always hoped that the team will use the ground to attack the frontcourt, that is to say, mainly short passes, but he has trained Liverpool for a long time, and the effect is not great, so he reused Coutinho, and then started Joe. Allen, Joe Allen is his favorite son at Swansea.

That Gerrard and Henderson are actually a bit similar in size, a typical English midfielder, with hardness and long pass, but short pass, hehe, it’s a little bit less interesting. For rhythm control, it’s easy to get rid of others. Not very good at it, so many sensible people in the outside world know that the real decline of Liverpool is after Alonso's departure.

Southampton's frenzy at the beginning is also like a slap in the face. The Premier League team is no longer what it used to be, and Koeman is not a local sect in England. He knows how to master offense and defense.

Zhang Yuan is looked down upon very much, and Koeman attaches great importance to him. As long as Zhang Yuan is active in the middle, Feng Te, who did not say anything, will follow him closely. Even if you go to the midfield, I will follow you.

(End of this chapter)