i am a football star

Chapter 105 Triple kill Everton in the same city derby
In the end, Owen has to wait until the end of the season to decide where to go. At that time, his contract with Newcastle United expires and he can join any team for free. Owen can also watch which team is more capable of winning the championship.

Shinji Kagawa's transfer was much simpler, and it was finalized quickly, with a transfer fee of only £100 million, but he had to be loaned to Kagawa's original team Osaka Sakura for free for half a year, and then reported to Liverpool in the summer.

It is generally difficult to buy good players during the winter transfer period. Stars have to pay enough attention to transfers in the most influential summer. Liverpool has no chance to introduce good immediate combat power to strengthen the lineup.

On January 1, the third round of the English FA Cup came. Premier League teams began to join the FA Cup in the third round. Liverpool’s opponent was the English Championship team Preston. Heynckes sent most of the substitute lineup to beat Preston 2:2 in the away game to advance to the next round.

Zheng Zhi also got the start in this game. Torres sat on the bench. After being injured for so long, he finally recovered from his injury. Torres, who came off the bench in the second half, scored a goal and seemed to be in good condition.

But Heynckes still got bad news. After all, this was the first game of the new year. Heynckes still wanted to win, so he sent midfielders Harvey Alonso and Gerrard to start. Harvey Alonso suffered a knee sprain in the 43rd minute of the game.

Fortunately, the injury was not serious after the game, but at least the first league game in 09 will not be played.

At present, the two main players in the team, Harvey Alonso and Arbeloa, are injured. Gerrard is still not in good condition. He played almost no performance for 90 minutes in the FA Cup just now. He is still inevitably affected by the beating incident.

In addition, Torres has just recovered from his injury, and four of Liverpool's main players may be in bad condition.Although Torres scored a goal in the game against Preston, it was after all a second-tier Championship team. It is still unknown how Torres will be in the Premier League.

January 1 is the League Cup match day, Liverpool League Cup has been eliminated.

On January 1, the first league game since 10 will come, and Liverpool will challenge Stoke City, the city of the sky, away.

The focus of this round is Manchester United vs. Chelsea. Although Chelsea are ahead of Manchester United in the standings and Chelsea are closer to Liverpool, Heynckes is praying for Chelsea to win because he is more afraid of Manchester United and hopes that Manchester United can stop the pursuit.

The most perfect thing is that the two teams draw, which is a situation where both sides suffer, and it is cheaper for Liverpool.

Before the game, Heynckes was a bit uncertain about Liverpool's game. After all, Xavi Alonso and Arbeloa were injured, and Gerrard and Torres were not in good condition. He has seen that Torres is not in good condition during the two days of training. Torres will not be arranged to start this game.

When the 90 minutes of the game ended, Heynckes looked at the scoreboard helplessly. It was 0:0. Liverpool was tied by Stoke City. Without Harvey Alonso and Gerrard's poor form, Liverpool's midfield organization ability was greatly reduced. Liu Ting and Gareth Bale on the left were in good condition, but their condition was not good enough to change the game alone. Facing the strict defense of Stoke City, Liverpool had no choice but to draw.

In the 60th minute of the second half, he replaced Torres, but this time TNT did not show explosive power, and Torres missed a single goal instead.

Liverpool was tied, and there was news that Heynckes didn't want to hear from the other side. Manchester United beat the blue team Chelsea 3-0 at home.

Liverpool is still unbeaten. This Chelsea loss has widened the gap between Liverpool and Chelsea to 5 points, but Manchester United has already caught up. There is a 6-point gap between Liverpool and Liverpool in two games.

Immediately after 3 days, Manchester United will play the first make-up match. All Liverpool fans are praying that Wigan Athletic can cause trouble for Manchester United at Old Trafford, but the results are often not satisfactory. Manchester United relied on Wayne Rooney's goal to score 1-0 in the first make-up match. The points are only 3 points away from Liverpool.

Manchester United won the supplementary match, and the third round of the FA Cup was completely over. Immediately, the results of the draw for the top 32 came out, and Liverpool received bad news again.

Maybe the fans are happy to see Liverpool beat their rivals in the same city, but Heynckes absolutely hates this result.

Immediately the next round of the 22nd round of the Premier League is Liverpool's home game against Everton, and there will be another FA Cup. The same city derby is the most likely to cause injuries. What if any core player has a problem?
Even if you encounter a deadly enemy in an unimportant cup match, you are not allowed to give up. You must fight hard against your deadly opponent at any time. If the head coach sends a bunch of substitutes to fool people, you will definitely be scolded by the fans. Of course, if the substitutes can win the game, then you will pass the test.

A famous saying of Liverpool's meritorious coach Bill Shankly is: Coaching Liverpool is actually very simple, double-kill Everton every year and then don't be relegated, then you can secure the position of Liverpool's head coach.

Although this is an exaggeration, it can also be seen how important the same-city derby with the deadly enemy is.

Now Heynckes really regrets that he didn't directly send a bunch of fringe players or youth team players to lose in the third round of the FA Cup, so he won't face this situation now.

Liverpool will have two games against Everton in January, one league game on January 1, and one FA Cup game on January 1. Fortunately, both games are at Liverpool's home court.

The same-city derby is a game that is not surprising regardless of the strength of the game. Barcelona will sometimes be tied or even lost when facing its weak rival Espanyol. Last season, Manchester United won the Champions League and the Premier League.

Liverpool is in trouble, and Manchester United must be happy. Ferguson came out to speak again: "Even if Liverpool is unbeaten this season, I am not surprised, because they will become the only unbeaten league team that cannot win the league championship."

Ferguson also emphasized: "I said at the beginning that my greatest glory is to pull Liverpool off his throne. As long as we win the league championship this year, we will equal Liverpool's top league championship record."

At present, Liverpool has 18 top league championship records, all of which were champions in the previous League One period. Since the establishment of the Premier League, Liverpool has never won a league championship, while Manchester United has won 7 league championships in the League One era.

Heynckes is a good old man, and he is not very good at talking with people. Even if he fights him, he is not at all an opponent of an old fritter like Ferguson.

Liu Ting said in an interview with reporters: "Even if Manchester United won the league title this season, I am not surprised. They are very strong and Liverpool are in trouble. I think Ferguson can retire after the end of the season."

Reporter: "Why?"

Liu Ting: "This year Ferguson's league titles equaled Liverpool's number of top league titles, but he will never have the chance to surpass Liverpool's number of titles in the future. Why don't he retire this year and end his coaching career with three consecutive Premier League titles and a Champions League title? This is his perfect ending, and he will never have such a good opportunity again."

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Some moralists came out and said that Liu Ting didn't respect Ferguson enough, but who the hell cares about him.

On January 1th, the Merseyside Derby between Liverpool and Everton in the 19nd round of the Premier League will come, or the Liverpool Derby will be fine.

Liverpool's game was put at the end of this round. In the previous game, the other three giants all won. Manchester United has temporarily caught up with Liverpool in the standings. Liverpool is bound to win this game.

In the first round of the Liverpool derby, Liu Ting had just transferred and did not participate at all. This was his first Liverpool derby.

In fact, Liu Ting also failed to participate in the first round of the England derby against Manchester United.

On the day of the game, there are only two colors in the whole city of Liverpool, red and blue.

The red-blue confrontation of the Premier League is the mainstream, the red of the Gunners Arsenal and the blue of the Blues Chelsea, the red of the Red Army Liverpool and the blue of Toffee Everton, the red of the Red Devils Manchester United and the blue of Blue Moon Manchester City.

Even the cars on the road were mostly red and blue on this day, and there were more fans wearing two-color jerseys.

Two hours before the start of the game, "You'll Never Walk Alone" resounded in Anfield Stadium, and Liu Ting heard thunderous cheers when he entered the field for training.

"TNT...TNT...TNT!!!"

The team of Torres and Liu Ting failed to lead the team to victory in the last game, but the fans will not be disappointed. Everyone still believes that TNT can lead the team to defeat the rivals in the same city.

Liu Ting saw a lot of big banners on the stands of the fans, and the banners read: Triple kill Everton! ! !

Triple kill Everton! ! !
In the first round of the Liverpool derby, Liverpool have already defeated Everton 2-0 in the away game. If they can beat Everton in the next two consecutive games, they will kill Everton three times during the season. For Liverpool fans, it is no worse than winning a championship.

Of course, that is what the fans think. For the head coach Heynckes, winning the championship is what he wants. If Ferguson was double-killed by his rivals in the same city last year but won the double crown, Heynckes would be very happy to accept it.

(End of this chapter)