i am a football star

Chapter 162

On the evening of September 9th, Liverpool's away game against the Hammers to help West Ham United came.

Before the game, the London police were on standby.

Liverpool and the Hammers had no major feud, but in the just-concluded English League Cup match, West Ham United defeated Millwall, also from London, 3:1 at home, but there was a lot of riots during the game, which caused the game to be suspended.

The FA is discussing the punishment for West Ham United and Millwall, but soon there will be a match between West Ham United and Liverpool at home. Although there is no hatred between the two teams, Liverpool is the champion of the Champions League. It has always been a phenomenon to fight against strong teams on the football field, especially in a tough league like the Premier League. The London Police also have to be prepared to avoid emergencies.

There are many teams in London, and there are naturally many derbies. The derby between West Ham United and Millwall is called the East London Derby, and it is the bloodiest derby in the history of the English league.

Since West Ham United and Millwall are on the same bank of the Thames, the early fans of the two teams were workers in the factory on the bank of the Thames. Every derby would break out off-field conflicts. If there is no blood, it is not a derby.

West Ham's nickname, the Hammer Gang, is related to the Iron Workers, and it is also a homonym (Ham and hammer, Ham is Ham, and hammer is a hammer). The nickname sounds domineering, but in fact, Millwall was more brutal every time in the early conflicts. At that time, Millwall football hooligans were the most notorious football hooligans in England.

The popularity of the East London Derby in England is probably only comparable to that of the old Scottish Derby involving religion, the Celtics and the Glasgow Rangers.

There is a classic line in the famous movie "Green Street" that describes fan conflicts: "The hatred of their two teams (West Ham United and Millwall) is like the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees? No, it is more like Israel and Palestine." Among the movies describing football hooligans, most of them will talk about the early West Ham United and Millwall.

But that was all in the early days, and the situation has improved now. In addition, West Ham has been in the Premier League for a long time, and Millwall has been in the Championship most of the time. The number of encounters between the two teams has been greatly reduced.

The fans of the Hammers are still grievances and debts. Liverpool's away game against West Ham United went on normally and was not affected.

Liverpool still sent the starting lineup of the last Champions League game.

The fans of the Hammers did not give Liverpool a slap in the face, but the players of the Hammers gave Liverpool a slap in the face at the beginning.

Just 2 minutes into the game, West Ham United striker Hernes intercepted Carragher and made a one-shot. The Liverpool vice-captain gave the opponent a big gift at the beginning of the game. Fortunately, the opponent seemed unprepared for the gift.

As the team's vice-captain, Carragher made such a low-level mistake at the beginning, which made Heynckes on the sidelines very angry.

After the age of 30, Carragher's state seriously declined. The central defender combination of him and Hyypia was ranked first in the whole of Europe, but now it is about to become a colander.

In fact, since the second half of the first half of the season, Heynckes has often arranged for Skrtel and Agger to start the central defender combination and let Carragher play as a substitute.

Although there were no goals, this opening boosted the morale of the West Ham players.

Not to be outdone, Liverpool immediately launched a counterattack.

In the 7th minute, Gerrard and Torres hit the wall continuously and then passed the ball. Liu Ting caught the ball in the penalty area and kicked the goal. In the end, the shot was not strong enough and the goalkeeper Green confiscated the ball.

In the 10th minute, Liu Ting made a through ball, and Torres got rid of the opposing defenders Tomkins and Upson's shot and hit the opponent's Congo full-back Ilunga, but the referee did not say anything about it.

In the 11th minute, Pony scored the ball and Glenn Johnson's shot missed the post.

Soon the game returned to a normal rhythm, and Liverpool suppressed their opponents, but the Hammers at home were not helpless.

However, Liverpool was still stronger and scored quickly.

In the 20th minute, Liu Ting broke through the opponent's full-back Faubert from the left and then passed the ball. Torres caught the ball and passed the opponent's defender Tomkins, and shot the ball into the near corner of the goal.

"Gooooooal!!! TNT!!!"

"In front of TNT, the Hammers only lasted for 20 minutes before being scored. This is a normal game." Alan Hansen was raving happily again.

This goal seems to not only hit the opponent's morale, but also hit the opponent's body.

In the next 25 minutes and 28 minutes, West Ham United's defender Upson and midfielder Behrami were injured and left the field. The Hammers used up two substitutions just halfway through the first half.

Alan Hansen's mocking face appeared again: "Haha! This time it's finally not Liverpool's player who got injured. Now it's the opponent's turn to be injured. Two people were injured in a row within 3 minutes. The next game for Liverpool will become much easier."

Alan Hansen was so depraved that he was immediately slapped in the face.

In the 30th minute, Carragher did not mark the man tightly. Hammer striker Henness received a pass from midfielder Noble and broke into the penalty area. Carragher couldn't keep up and had to foul.

The opponent's midfielder Diamanti came to take the penalty kick. He slipped and fell during the penalty kick, but accidentally hit the ball into the dead corner of the upper left corner of the goal.

Such a goal made the Hammers fans believe that God is still on their side, and the home fans celebrated wildly.

"Hammer...Hammer!!!"

Heynckes on the sidelines went into a frenzy again, standing on the sidelines and directing the team to launch an offensive.

Liverpool's offensive was launched, and West Ham United had to use fouls to stop it. The opposing midfielder Parker and defender Forbert received yellow cards for Liu Ting and Gerrard successively.

Even so, it couldn't be stopped for long, and the goal came again.

In the 41st minute, Torres' shot helped Liverpool earn a corner kick. Xavi Alonso took the corner kick. Gerrard jumped forward and headed the ball forward.

"Goooooooal!!! Beautiful! Liu, beautiful volley! Liverpool took the lead again." Alan Hansen roared out again.

Liu Ting's goal was beautiful, and he ran to the camera to show off his 'powerful King Kong legs' tattoo, and soon the whole Liverpool team came to celebrate together.

The team's players will be divided into offensive players and defensive players, because offense and defense are equally important. A team that keeps scoring goals may not necessarily win the game, and the opponent must not be able to score goals.

Liverpool originally planned to keep the score of 2:1 until the half-time break. On the contrary, West Ham Lenovo looked for an opportunity to equalize the score in the last few minutes, so the Hammers launched an offensive, and Liverpool also planned to hold the last few minutes.

Soon time into stoppage time, West Ham United attacked again, failed but won a corner kick, the referee gave them one last chance to attack.

West Ham United's midfielder Noble took a corner kick from the left, but Liverpool made a mistake in the cooperation of Carragher and Skrtel, and missed the opponent's tall forward Carlton Cole. Carlton Cole scored with a header and West Ham United equalized again.

The equalizer at the buzzer caused the cheers of Helpon Park to break through the ceiling, and Heynckes on the sidelines just calmly said to assistant coach Hermann: "Peter, we need to find a new central defender."

Carragher did decline badly, but he performed particularly poorly in this game. Hammer fans should not thank God, they should thank Carragher.

During the half-time break, the defensive players were basically scolded, only Xiao Ma was not scolded for actively filling his position in the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool did not make a substitution. Heynckes wanted to replace Carragher, but after Agger was injured, Liverpool no longer had a good central defender. Zheng Zhi and Swiss defender Degen, who are currently on the bench, can both play, but they may not perform better than Carragher.

The game in the second half turned into a tug-of-war, with both sides attacking and defending each other, Liverpool's offensive was stronger, and the counterattack of the Hammers also created threats from time to time.

Fortunately, Carragher's performance in the second half was not so bad, and he began to improve.

The defense no longer makes mistakes, and Liverpool is not afraid of opponents when the position is seen.

In the 75th minute, a cross from the right by Didier Dirk, Torres overwhelmed Tomkins and Forbert with a header in the penalty area, Torres scored twice and Liverpool overtook the score again.

Two minutes after this goal, West Ham United also created a threat. The opponent counterattacked and made a long pass from the backcourt to the frontcourt.

Joe Hart's performance through these few games is not very good, at least not as good as the previous Reina, but it also makes everyone realize that he is a capable goalkeeper and a goalkeeper worthy of training.

Hart's flying save was West Ham United's most threatening shot in the second half. Although they launched a counterattack and tried to equalize the score for the third time, Liverpool's two counterattacks almost broke the goal and made them fearful. The score was stalemate until the end.

In the end, Liverpool defeated the Hammers 3:2 with Torres' brace and Liu Ting's volley in the away game, winning two consecutive league victories.

Although Liverpool won, the media still felt that Liverpool's victory was too difficult and there was no champion.

Because Chelsea beat Tottenham 3-0 at home in this round, continued to lead with six consecutive victories in the opening game and also gave rival Tottenham Hotspur a two-game losing streak, this is the performance of the champion.

These are all the rhetoric of the media. If Chelsea do not win the championship at the end of the season, they will definitely have another story.

In the other games of this round, Arsenal beat Wigan Athletic 4-0 at home, which can be regarded as coming out of the shadow of the league's two-game losing streak.

Manchester United defeated Manchester City 4:3 in the Manchester derby at home, and continued to maintain pressure on Chelsea. After Manchester City's high-spirited victory over Arsenal in the last round and shouted the slogan of wanting to compete for the championship, they were immediately hit by their rivals in the same city.

So far, there have been 6 rounds of the Premier League. Chelsea has 6 consecutive victories and 18 points to occupy the top spot, Manchester United is second with 15 points, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester City have 12 points, followed by Liverpool with 10 points.

However, Liverpool missed a game.

(End of this chapter)