i am a football star

Chapter 123 Manchester United Killer Murphy

The 28th round of the Premier League is all over. Liverpool beat Manchester United in an away game. After 7 years, they double-killed Manchester United again. The last time they double-killed Manchester United was in the 01/02 season. At that time, it was the era of the golden boy Owen.

With this result, Heynckes has completely secured his position as the head coach. Liverpool fans are very satisfied with this result. They beat Chelsea twice, Manchester United twice, Everton three times, and Real Madrid twice. This is the happiest season for Liverpool fans since they won the Champions League in 05.

Of course, it would be perfect if we can win a championship this season.

In other games, Arsenal beat Blackburn 4:0 at home, and Chelsea beat Manchester City 1:0 at home. Because Aston Villa lost 1:2 to Tottenham in this round, Arsenal relied on the advantage of goal difference to return to the fourth position. Tottenham helped their rivals in the same city.

With this big victory over Manchester United, Liverpool is only 1 point behind Manchester United in points, but Manchester United has one less game, and Chelsea still lags behind Liverpool by 3 points.

In this way, the suspense of the Premier League championship this season is back. Manchester United only leads by 1 point. If they are not careful, they will be overtaken by Liverpool. However, Manchester United still has a make-up match, but the make-up match does not mean getting three points.

Moreover, they lost a big score at home to their mortal enemy and championship opponent. If Ferguson fails to adjust the team's state, there may be problems in the future.

There are currently 9 rounds left in the league, and Liverpool’s remaining opponents who may cause trouble are Aston Villa, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur; Manchester United’s next opponents who may cause them trouble are also Villa, Arsenal and Tottenham, but Manchester United has one more opponent, Manchester City, and Manchester United still has a city derby to play.

Although Manchester City has signed a lot of signings this season, their results are not good, but Manchester City still has a 3:0 home victory over Arsenal and a 2:0 victory over Aston Villa.

The English media are busy again, and they have come out to predict the ownership of the Premier League championship this season, mainly Manchester United or Liverpool, who has a better chance.

Gerrard has performed well in the last two games. In the last game against Real Madrid, he scored twice as the best player in the game. In this game against Manchester United, he scored a goal and made a free kick. His teammate scored and his opponent was sent off with a red card. Gerrard has become the most popular player in the Premier League recently. Zidane stood up and said: "Gerrard is the best midfielder in world football today."

Although Zidane's words may not be widely accepted, they are still very influential. This season, Liverpool double-killed Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Gerrard has performed at a very high level.

Why Zidane said such a thing, soon there is a reason.

There are rumors from Spain that Real Madrid wants to pack Liverpool's attacking combination and plans to pack Gerrard, Liu Ting and Harvey Alonso with 1 million pounds.

Among them, the transfer fee is estimated to be 8000 million pounds for Gerrard, 5000 million pounds for Liu Ting, and 2000 million pounds for Harvey Alonso. If Torres is not from Atletico Madrid and has no interest in Real Madrid, it may also be included in the package.

Although this is still just speculation, it is definitely big news.But only the tabloids kept spreading the news, and the decent media didn't report much about it.After all, the current Real Madrid doesn't even have an official chairman. Even if they publicly announce which players they want to introduce, the new chairman will have to overthrow and start over when the new chairman takes office in the summer.

Although Real Madrid has ended the season early and was eliminated by a big score in the top [-] of the Champions League, they will always have a way to occupy the headlines.

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There was a week off after Liverpool and Manchester United and Heynckes gave everyone a day off.

Liu Ting received a notice from his agent that a reporter from the Liverpool Echo wanted to interview him.

Liu Ting soon met the reporter who wanted to interview him, the beautiful reporter who came to help him 'clarify' the incident of cursing referees in Chinese last time.

Seeing her this time, Liu Ting finally remembered that he had seen this beauty there. Last year, the Europa League final went to Manchester. This beauty was reporting on the side of the road. Liu Ting even joked about her with his teammates in Bordeaux.

Liu Ting asked: "Before I start the interview, can I ask you a question first, did you report on the UEFA Cup final last year?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" the beauty returned.

"It's nothing, I just seem to have seen you at the time."

The interview officially started, and some routine questions were asked.

"How much do you think Liverpool's chances of winning the league this season are?"

"This is not very clear, but at least it is bigger than Chelsea and Arsenal, and it is much bigger than some unknown teams ranked sixth in the league. Of course, our chances of winning the championship are not smaller than Manchester United, that is for sure."

"What about the Champions League?"

"Our probability of winning the Champions League is the greatest among all teams. You can refer to all the teams that have not been eliminated in the Champions League. Who is the team that has won the most championships? Also, who is the team that ranks first in the club's current European Championship points?"

"So you're saying Liverpool can win the double this season?"

"The double crown is our goal. As for whether we can get it or not, we need a certain amount of luck."

"There were many teams interested in you at the beginning, why did you choose Liverpool in the end?"

"I went to watch the Champions League final in 05, and then..."

After spending a lot of time, I finally managed to deal with this beautiful reporter, and got the phone number by the way.

Well, it's just asking for a phone number, absolutely nothing else.

The next day, the entire Liverpool team had to train as usual to prepare for the next round of the league match against Aston Villa. At the same time, Liu Ting's interview had already appeared in the newspapers, and half of Liverpool cheered and half cursed.

In the three wonderful Liverpool fan bars, Dumpty is happily dancing while reading the newspaper.

"Of course our chances of winning the championship are better than those unknown teams who are ranked sixth in the league..."

"Yes, Liu said well, of course we have a better chance of winning the championship than those unknown teams."

Currently ranked 6th in the league, Everton, Liverpool's rival in the same city, Liu Ting's sarcasm made the short and fat Bill very happy. You must know that Everton fans laughed a lot when Liverpool was thrown away by Manchester United-the Manchester team is now at the top of the list.

"Liverpool are of course the favorites to win the Champions League..."

Liu Ting also secretly changed the concept. Liverpool did rank first in the European War points list. At the same time, Liverpool is also the team that has won the most Champions League titles in the current Champions League quarter-finals.

Real Madrid, which has won the most European Champions League titles, has been eliminated by Liverpool, and AC Milan, which has the second most, has not played in the Champions League at all this season.

However, a high number of championships in the European War does not necessarily mean winning the championship.

"Hey, look, Liu actually has a signed photo of Gerald."

"What's so strange about this? They are teammates, so they can get it by the way."

"No, this is the autographed photo taken on the day of winning the Champions League. Steven Gerrard was too busy that day, so none of us got such a photo."

Immediately, the three weirdos gathered together to look at the photo in the newspaper.

This was Liu Ting's big move on purpose. Liu Ting naturally went to the finals back then, and it took a little effort after the game to get a signed photo of Gerrard, which was specially used as a souvenir.

At that time, Liu Ting was only 16 years old. Gerrard, who led the team to reverse that day, was the busiest person. He might not remember that such a person had signed a photo with him.

This group photo came out, and it really attracted the attention of many people.

On Liu Ting's head, the title of "born Liverpool man" was added.

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The 30th round of the Premier League is coming one after another. This round of Liverpool's game is scheduled to be the last, and the other teams will play first.

Chelsea, who played the first game, lost 0:1 away to Tottenham Hotspur in a London derby. This is a little good news for Liverpool, because Chelsea lost and chased less closely behind.

As the London media said after the game, a London team killed the last hope of another London team competing for the championship. This season's league championship is doomed to miss London.

Then Arsenal, which started the competition for four mode, defeated Newcastle United 3:1 away. Arsenal sent Newcastle deep into the relegation zone while ensuring their fourth place.

What Liverpool care about most is Manchester United's game. As long as Manchester United can't win, Liverpool can overtake and return to the top of the list.

If Manchester United loses and Liverpool wins, Liverpool will overtake Manchester United by 2 points, and if Manchester United draws and Liverpool wins, they will overtake by 1 point. Now it has reached the stage of intense competition between the two teams.

Manchester United's opponent in this round is Fulham. Fulham is in the 10th place in the standings. Most people think that it is difficult for the farmer to cause trouble for Manchester United.

Familiar Liu Ting and Alonso went to Gerrard's house to watch Manchester United's away game against Fulham. Soon after the game started, everyone cheered.

"Great job, Danny!!"

"Get rid of Manchester!"

In the 18th minute, Fulham had a corner kick. Fulham's Zamora headed straight. Ginger Skrtel actually hit the ball with his hands on the goal line, so he was sent off with a red card.

Former Liverpool player and current Fulham captain Danny Murphy personally scored a penalty kick, and Fulham led Manchester United 1-0.

In the following time, Manchester United with one less player was almost crushed by Fulham. Ferguson was originally in this partial rotation. Rooney replaced Berbatov immediately at the beginning of the second half. Then Tevez replaced O'Shea to play the back three desperately in 70 minutes, but it didn't help. On the contrary, in the 87th minute, Fulham's Guerra broke the Manchester United goal again with a beautiful barb shot, and Fulham sealed the victory.

In the 88th minute, Rooney, who was furious after the loss, threw the ball and hit someone and got a yellow card because the opponent delayed the kick-off. Two yellows turned one red and he was sent off.

The match between Fulham and Manchester United ended. The ratio of shots between Fulham and Manchester United was 19:11. Fulham had a clear advantage. Manchester United was completely suppressed away. Fulham captain Murphy became the biggest contributor to defeating Manchester United.

Although Danny Murphy did not come from Liverpool’s youth training, he has been a Red Army fan since he was a child. Murphy, who is a kop, started his career in Liverpool. He has played for Liverpool for 7 seasons and has always been the team’s core midfielder and important penalty shooter.

In the summer of 04, the arrival of Benitez also introduced Harvey Alonso, so Danny Murphy chose to leave Anfield.

Murphy's reputation during Liverpool was no less than that of the golden boy Owen at the same time, because Murphy has a nickname-Manchester United killer.

In the 00/01 season, Murphy scored a direct free kick at Old Trafford, and Liverpool beat Manchester United 1-0 away;

In the 01/02 season, at Old Trafford again, Murphy kicked the world wave outside the penalty area, and Liverpool once again defeated the Red Devils 1:0 away;

In the 03/04 season, Murphy's last season in Liverpool, or at Old Trafford, Murphy scored a penalty, and the Red Army once again defeated Manchester United 1-0 away.This is also the last time Liverpool beat Manchester United in the league before this season. After Murphy left, Liverpool fell into the era of Benitez who had not won Manchester United for 4 years and was double-killed in 2 years.

Now, it was Murphy's goal again, this time leading Fulham to defeat Manchester United. Murphy is a well-deserved Manchester United killer.

The media had a topic of hype, and Murphy was promoted as a real Liverpool man, helping Liverpool to attack Manchester United, and then it was time for Liverpool to surpass Manchester United and return to the top of the standings.

Of course, the premise is that Liverpool can beat rival Aston Villa at home.

Although a tie can also rely on goal difference to rank first, but such a good opportunity to overtake Manchester United, Liverpool will not let it go.

Manchester United killer Murphy finally created opportunities for Liverpool, and Liverpool must not just waste them like this.

(End of this chapter)