i am a football star

Chapter 160 The Crazy Adebayor

Liu Ting is lying in his home in Liverpool, enjoying a massage from a German sweetheart.

Gerke asked, "How is it? Is my new massage okay?"

Liu Ting closed his eyes and said with enjoyment: "Not bad."

"This is something I learned from others on purpose, and it can help you relax your muscles."

"Okay, I'm almost relaxed, now it's time for me to help you relax."

Soon the two were relaxing on the sofa.

On September 9, the fifth round of the Premier League is coming. Liverpool will face newly promoted Burnley at home.

Burnley previously defeated Manchester United 2-1 at home in the second round of the league, and also defeated Everton at home in the third round. They have now won two victories and scored 0 points more than Liverpool.

But no one is optimistic about Burnley winning. Burnley's two victories are at home. Even if the opponents are Manchester United and Everton, they are not weak teams, but this is Anfield after all. Liverpool has not lost at home since last season.

Since the week immediately after this game is the first group match of the Champions League, Heynckes is preparing to make some adjustments.

At present, Agger is injured. Although Skrtel has no problem with the post-match inspection, Heynckes does not plan to let him play in this game. Skrtel will wait until the Champions League game before returning.

So Liverpool's starting lineup became, the goalkeeper Hart, the back four are Gareth Bale, Carragher, Zheng Zhi and Glenn Johnson, the midfield three are Harvey Alonso, Mascherano and Shinji Kagawa, and Liu Ting is on the front line.Owen and Dirk.

This starting change is not small. Agger and Skrtel are absent on the back line. Zheng Zhicai got the chance to start. The changes in the midfield and striker line are to rest Gerrard and Torres. Kagawa Shinji has performed well in training recently.

In the pre-match commentary, Liu Jianhong said: "Zheng Zhi won the starting game in this game. This is his first Premier League start since he transferred to Liverpool. Zheng Zhi also started in previous games, but they were all in England's domestic cup games."

The Japanese commentator also said happily: "This is Kagawa-kun's first start on behalf of Liverpool. This is very important to him. This is also the first Japanese player who can start for a European giant."

The European giants mentioned by the Japanese commentator naturally refer to the giants of the five major leagues. For the giants of the small leagues, Japan has Shunsuke Nakamura playing for the Celtics of the Scottish Super League giants. In the two UEFA Champions League group matches between Celtic and Manchester United, they scored a direct free kick against Manchester United. The second time was a decisive goal.

Although there is one round less, Liverpool is really not looking good in the league standings. At Anfield, Liverpool showed strong offensive firepower at the beginning.

In the first minute of the opening, Liverpool launched a blitz.

After the kick-off, Liverpool passed the ball back to the backcourt. Hart kicked the ball out with a big kick. Bell stepped forward to the midfield and received the ball.

Liverpool's blitz caught Burnley off guard. Their right back Tyrone Mills saw Liu Ting hitting the goal, so he had to raise his foot to block it symbolically, but the ball hit his calf and refracted into the goal.

"Goooooooooal!!! Only 1 minute into the game, Liverpool scored the opponent's goal. This is a wonderful start!" Hansen roared, Liverpool's situation is not very good, and he is also worried.

After scoring the goal, Liu Ting was preparing to celebrate, but saw that the referee had indeed ruled that the goal was valid, but the gesture was an own goal.

Liu Ting, who thought he had scored a goal, immediately went to explain to the referee that it was a deflected goal, not an own goal, but the referee insisted on his penalty.

The field captain Carragher came to persuade Liu Ting away from the referee, and Liu Ting had to leave angrily.

It is really difficult to judge the refracted goal and own goal on the court. According to the rules, if the ball itself flies into the goal, even if someone touches it in the middle, it is considered a refracted goal, and the goal is still recorded in the name of the shooter.

Although the rules are very clear, the referee's eye recognition is not so high. In many cases, the position of the referee will affect his judgment, and it is common to confuse refraction with own goal.

Therefore, referees often judge based on experience, that is, if the shot is hit by the opponent's defensive goal and the referee can't tell whether it is an own goal or a refraction, then it depends on the player who is good at long-range shots.

Lampard has been criticized a lot by the media in other European countries. He is called a master of refraction and often has refraction goals. But in fact, according to the replays, many of those refraction goals should be own goals. However, Lampard is famous for his long-range shots.

A well-refracted goal was called an own goal. Fortunately, Liverpool took the lead, and Liu Ting had to admit that he was unlucky.

The game restarted, and Liverpool continued to attack with the morale of scoring goals.

In the 8th minute, Liu Ting passed the ball from the left side of the penalty area. Owen took the ball and tried to shake off the Cameroon defender Andre Biki who was defending him. Unfortunately, he failed and the shot was blocked by the opponent.

Owen is only 30 years old this year, but long-term injuries have made his legs no longer flexible, and it is difficult to get up to speed.

In the 12th minute, Dirk Didier made a successful steal in the frontcourt, Xavi Alonso passed the ball through, and Kagawa succeeded in countering offside, but he hesitated a little in the final kick, and the ball was destroyed by the opponent's goalkeeper Jensen.

Kagawa's first start was not bad, but maybe a little nervous.

The commentary on Liverpool's local TV station said: "Liverpool can always find some young players with potential. Now Bell and Johnson in the team, Modric who has gone to Real Madrid, etc., and now the Japanese is also a good midfielder. He should be able to quickly fill the vacancy left by Modric."

Burnley was overwhelmed by Liverpool's continuous offensive, and Liverpool seized the opportunity again.

In the 25th minute, Liu Ting dribbled the ball from the side to attract the opponent's defense and then transferred the ball to the center. Kagawa passed the ball overhead, and Owen shot the ball into the lower left corner of the goal.

"Michael...Owen! After five years, the golden boy who is no longer young scored again at Anfield!" The commentator was recalling fondly.

Most of the fans at the scene applauded Irving's goal, but there was no such scene as when the golden boy scored a goal and the crowd cheered.

Such a scene also let Owen know that this is no longer his Anfield. He is now just a substitute striker for Liverpool. Fans will cheer for him when he scores goals, but no one will be crazy about his goals.

The 2:0 lead made Liverpool fans very happy, and the live "You'll Never Walk Alone" was sung impassionedly.

On the sidelines, Burnley coach Coyle couldn't get excited at all. He anxiously directed the team to recover the defense. If this continues, the first half of the game will lose suspense.

In fact, there is not much suspense now, but Coyle just wants to keep a little hope of making a comeback.

Burnley eventually held on for the remainder of the first half as Liverpool returned to the dressing room with a 2-0 score.

At the beginning of the second half, Burnley paid the price of two yellow cards within 10 minutes to make Liverpool's opening offensive ineffective. Then Burnley first made substitutions and actively sought changes.

Changes did happen, but not very Burnley-friendly changes.

Just 3 minutes after Burnley's substitution, that is, in the 59th minute, Liu Ting made a cross from the left.

For Liverpool, this goal just made the game completely lose suspense, but for Kagawa, this was his first goal in an official game in Europe, which made the slightly reserved Japanese run and cheer on the sidelines to celebrate.

Naturally, the Japanese TV broadcast will not be stingy with words of praise: "Kagawa-kun scored an important goal in the first starting game. This is the first goal of a Japanese player for a European giant. I think Takeshi Okada should consider giving Kagawa more opportunities in the national team."

Takeshi Okada is now the head coach of the Japanese national team.

With a score of 3:0, this game was won firmly, and Heynckes also began to think about the next game.

Starting from the 80th minute, Eunuch Hai replaced Liu Ting, Harvey Alonso and Didier three times in succession to prepare for the next Champions League game.

In the 86th minute, Babel, who came on as a substitute for Kevin Dirk, also scored a goal, and the score expanded to 4:0 again, which was also the final score of the game.

Liverpool beat Burnley 4-0 at home, which is also an expected game. After all, Burnley is just a newly promoted team, even if they beat Manchester United and Everton.

Liverpool had 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in one less match, and their results began to pick up.

At the end of this round of the league, both Manchester United and Chelsea have won. Since Manchester United defeated Tottenham Hotspur in an away game, ending Tottenham's four-game winning streak at the beginning, White Hart Lane really deserves to be Manchester United's three-point lane.

Arsenal lost 2:4 away to Manchester City in this round, and lost to the Manchester duo in two consecutive league rounds. Professor Wen started to lose the chain just after being praised, and the "bricks" who were optimistic about Arsenal's championship disappeared for a while.

The most interesting thing about this game is that the "little monster" Adebayor turned into a mad dog. Adebayor stomped on his former teammate Van Persie during the game, which made Van Persie's face covered in blood.

Maybe he was reminded by his agent. At the post-match press conference, Adebayor suddenly said that "his mother was insulted" that caused him to make such a crazy and irrational action. In fact, after five years, Adebayor would dislike his 60-year-old mother and drive him out of the house without paying alimony.

In fact, the root cause of this incident is the contradiction caused by Adebayor’s salary increase requirements during his time at Arsenal. Even though he was in the Arsenal team, Adebayor’s salary was higher than that of the head star Cesc Fabregas.

This is also a common problem of many poor players who have never read a book. After becoming famous, they only see money. For them, fame, friendship, championship honors are nothing.

If there's anything else they see in their eyes, it's women.

It was Manchester City coach Mark Hughes who seemed very happy after defeating Arsenal and shouted the slogan of 'the goal of this season is the league championship' in front of reporters.

Liu Ting can only "hehe" about this. He spends an average of 2 million pounds per year, but he can't make the top six in leading the team. Mr. Hughes, don't you think that sitting in that position will burn your ass?How long do you think you can stay in that position?

However, Liu Ting also said in front of the reporter: "Our goal this season is the league championship. Liverpool has not touched that trophy for too long. This is not the treatment that a giant that has won the Champions League six times should have."

(End of this chapter)