Green Dragon

Chapter 685

When Long Shute scored his first goal of the game in the 27th minute, he took off his jersey.

The white close-fitting short sleeves are like the team logo, with a burning torch on the left and right sides, and black numbers in the middle:

96.

This is not the first time Long Shute celebrated by taking off his clothes. When he and Emma were in love, he had shown his love through celebration many times, but it was indeed the first time in his career to celebrate for someone who had nothing to do with him. Second-rate.

There was no arrogant expression on his face, nor did he speak domineering words. He just knelt down on his knees, facing the west, and quietly pointed to the sky with both hands.

Although he had been with Kaka day and night for a year, he was never a Christian, but today he used the most common way in the West to send his memorial service to 96 of Liverpool's most loyal fans.
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In the commentary hall, Carragher, the special guest, had already fallen into silence. The former vice-captain of Liverpool, a man known as a tough guy, couldn't help but sniffed hard, then turned his head and secretly wiped the corners of his eyes.

The commentator Alan Smith said with emotion:
"This may be the best way to commemorate those fans. After 27 years, the current captain of Liverpool scored a goal in the 27th minute of the game. At this moment, God seemed to be on Longshut's side..."
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Although Long Shute’s way of celebrating was very touching and historically significant, the referee still showed him a yellow card without hesitation, but he also explained to Long Shute with regret:
"I'm sorry, Dragon, but rules are rules."

Long Shute seldom expressed his dissatisfaction to the referee, and it was the same this time.

He just nodded:
"I know, there is no problem with your penalty."

The reason why he doesn't care about yellow cards is because since last season, the cumulative rules of yellow cards in the Europa League are only counted after the quarter-finals, so today's yellow cards will not affect his participation in the semi-finals at all.
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There is not much to describe in this game. The score of the first round made the game lose its suspense prematurely.

For Dortmund, although they also want to fight back in the away game, Tuchel backed down again considering the possibility of the league championship.

After all, scoring 6 goals at Anfield and keeping Liverpool from scoring... This difficulty is much greater than overtaking Bayern in the Bundesliga!
Long Shute once again completed a hat-trick and an assist, Firmino and Coutinho each had a pass, and Royce scored a face-saving goal for the visiting team.

The score of 5-1 is probably not particularly cruel for Dortmund, which does not have much hope.

After bidding farewell to their opponents from Germany, Liverpool's players and coaches returned to the stadium.

More than 4 red figures swayed in the night at Anfield.

More than 4 quiet voices rang far in the night sky of Anfield.

"Walk on, walk on,

With hope in your heart...

And you'll never walk alone.
You'll never walk alone..."
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On the second day, on the periphery of Anfield Stadium, the Liverpool Club set up two torch stands, and in the middle was a blue and black memorial stone engraved with the names of 96 victims for the public to express their condolences.

The torch adopts technology similar to the Olympic torch, and special personnel take turns guarding it to ensure that it does not go out day and night. It will not be replaced with a lamppost until the end of the hearing.

Long Shute not only donated [-] pounds of condolences to the Hillsborough Victims' Families Foundation in his own name, but also commanded the staff of the "Retired Players Life Security Foundation" to unite various foundations and players, The fan organization carried out a series of activities, which also expanded the influence of the foundation in society.

After half a year of operation, in the name of the foundation, Long Shute's investment company has acquired two small commercial lands by the Merseyside River, and plans to develop a residential area and a commercial area.

In Liverpool, a dilapidated small fishing village, although the surrounding real estate market is not too prosperous, but in the peaceful era without financial crisis, this industry is still very profitable...

Of course, it is definitely not as profitable as the Chinese market.
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Massive commemorative activities were held quickly among the general public. More than a dozen other clubs in the Premier League also expressed their support for Liverpool in various ways. Even Liverpool's city rival Everton also launched their own fans came to support Liverpool's event.

Of course, commemorative activities must be carried out, but Liverpool's coaches and players cannot delay the game because of this.

Three days after beating Dortmund, they headed to England's south coast to draw with Bournemouth.

The Cherry Legion ranked 33th in the standings after 14 rounds, more than 10 points away from the relegation zone, and basically completed the task of relegation, so they are not afraid of Liverpool at all!

The big deal is to lose!

With such optimism, Bournemouth lost a clean 0-2 at home.

See, a positive person never loses too badly!
Probably due to the impact of the commemorative activities, most Liverpool players were not particularly emotional, and even Long Shute played mediocrely.

Just look at his dismal stats:
0进球、0助攻、0射门、0传球、0拦截、0抢断、0犯规、甚至连跑动距离都是0！

Oh yes, this game...he didn't play.
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Long Shute, who sat on the bench for 90 minutes, was not idle. He even watched a lottery ceremony thousands of miles away through the system function.

The Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup, commonly known as the top 12 draw ceremony, were held at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

According to the latest world ranking announced in April, the Chinese team can only be ranked in the fourth tier-because in the past two years, they have slipped from 4th in the world at their peak to 18st.

The first tier is Iran and Australia.

South Korea and Japan are both in the second tier.

Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan are third.

China and the United Arab Emirates are fourth.

Qatar and Iraq are fifth.

Syria and Thailand are sixth.

Forget about other teams, it is a bit surprising that Thailand can advance to the final 12 matches. No wonder in the past, their second-tier team can use a 5-1 victory to wash the blood of the Chinese team...

The 12 teams are divided into two groups, each group is of course 6 teams.

In this competition system, of course, there is no principle of avoidance in the same group or in the same region, and Chinese fans do not need to rack their brains to find the weakest group for the national team, because no matter how they are allocated, for the Chinese team It is said that there will be no escort team...

The results were revealed soon.

Group A: Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, China, Qatar, Thailand.

Group B: Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Syria.

Seeing this slightly different grouping situation from history, Long Shute let out a "heh" laugh.

Among other things, at least 4 games and 12 points between South Korea and Thailand, he has already booked in advance!

(End of this chapter)