i am a football star

Chapter 163 Banana
The league is over, and the next week will be the domestic cup match, and the English League Cup will start.

On September 9, in the round of 22 in the English League Cup, Liverpool's opponent was Leeds United.

Today's Leeds United is no longer the former Rose Corps and Young Guards. Leeds United has been sinking in the League One for two consecutive years, which is the third-level league in England. Such a game between Leeds United and Liverpool is still attracting attention.

Football is always inseparable from the support of money, especially in places like the English League where the commercial atmosphere is the strongest. Leeds United began to decline due to financial problems back then, and has become the current depression and deep quagmire.

Now that Leeds United has been in League One all year round, it is difficult to cause trouble for Liverpool. Heynckes also sent a substitute lineup to play.

At Elland Road Stadium, Liverpool, who came off the bench, beat their opponents 1-0 to advance to the next round.

Leeds United has never had much animosity with Liverpool, and the games between the two teams are naturally not very angry. Speaking of which, the two teams once had a common enemy-Manchester United.Leeds United's biggest rival team is Manchester United. Although Leeds United and Manchester United have a lot of hatred, Leeds United has Cantona, Rio Ferdinand, Alan Smith and other stars switch to Manchester United. Cantona and Rio Ferdinand have become Manchester United stars.

For the League Cup match against Leeds United, Liu Ting did not go to Leeds, but stayed in Liverpool to rest.

Schiller Wagner is talking to Liu Ting: "You are almost ready to join the French team, you just need to wait for the time to announce it."

Wagner continued: "Liu, among the major awards selections this year, the agency's plan for you is to make you as famous as possible this year, and it will be the time for you to reap the rewards later."

Liu Ting has long been mentally prepared for this. Compared with Ronaldo, Messi, Kaka and others, his reputation is not small, and he still needs to accumulate slowly.

On September 9, in the seventh round of the Premier League, Liverpool played against Hull City at home.

Although the Champions League game is coming soon, Liverpool's main focus this season is on the league, and this game is naturally the best.

Hull City is currently ranked second to last with only 6 win and 1 tie after 1 rounds. I am afraid it will be difficult to resist Liverpool at Anfield.

Portsmouth, which has lost six games in a row at the bottom of the Premier League, and the Pompeii Corps encountered financial problems last season. This summer, they picked out all the good players and sold them to make up for the financial loopholes. Glenn Johnson came to Liverpool, and Crouch went to Tottenham.

Sure enough, Hull City had no resistance at Anfield.

In the 12th minute, Torres broke into the penalty area and scored with a low shot, Liverpool took the lead.

In the 28th minute, Torres scored with a header from a corner kick, and Liverpool expanded the score.

Hull City was still a little unwilling to admit defeat, and pulled back a goal in the 35th minute, but in the second half, Hull City was beaten directly to the ground.

At the beginning of the second half, in the 47th minute, Liu Ting received a through pass from Xavi Alonso to counter offside, and then swayed past Hull City goalkeeper Boaz Mihir to push an empty goal.

In the 58th minute, Gerrard's long-range shot knocked on the opponent's goal again.

In the 69th minute, Liu Ting volleyed in the restricted area after receiving a cross from the right-hand side of Dirk Drivet and scored twice.

In the 83rd minute, Torres made another shot, received a pass from Glenn Johnson and easily pushed the far corner. Torres also completed his first hat-trick of the season.

Torres hat-trick, Liu Ting scored twice, and Gerrard scored, Liverpool beat Hull City 6:1 at home.

This is Liverpool's biggest win so far this season, and the most popular stars in the game have scored goals. It is a favorite game for fans, and it is enough for them to be happy for several days.

There is only one flaw in this game, that is, Xiao Ma felt unwell before the end of the game and was replaced. The specific situation still needs to be observed.

After this victory, Liverpool's league points reached 13 points. At the same time, in the other games of this round, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City all won, but Chelsea turned away and lost to Wigan Athletic 1:3.

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A big victory made the fans very happy, and the media also began to say that 'Liverpool has recovered its form' and 'TNT has started to show off', etc., but Liverpool must rush to Italy, and the second round of the Champions League group stage is coming soon.

After coming out of Florence's Peretola Airport, the whole Liverpool team felt the "warm welcome" from the Italian fans. The airport was full of slogans such as "Get off the Brits" and "Down with those drunks".

In the UEFA Champions League, the group stage is not a key match. The team usually flies to the away game on the morning of the game. The key battles and knockout matches of the group stage usually go to the away game one day in advance.

Liverpool also came to Italy in the morning for this game, stepped on the field in the afternoon to adapt, and played in the evening.

Going to the pitch in the afternoon, Liverpool were more 'welcome'.

Liverpool is the defending champion of the Champions League, and all teams hope to beat them. In addition, Fiorentina had already lost to Lyon in the last round.

When the game started at night, Liu Ting saw racially discriminatory slogans on the sidelines such as "tackling the legs of those niggers" and "killing the yellow-skinned monkey team".

Liu Ting has long heard that the racial discrimination in Serie A is the worst in Europe, and he realized it today.

Serie A has always been the hardest hit area of ​​racial discrimination in Europe, and such things happen every year, especially those black players who transfer to Serie A from other leagues often complain about it.

The former Arsenal captain, and the black star Vieira who played for Juventus, AC Milan, and Inter Milan after he transferred to Serie A, said: "The managers of Serie A have no intention of managing (racial discrimination) at all. Black players can only be abused when they play for Serie A."

Rudiger, a black German player who will play for Roma in the future, was racially abused by fans in a Serie A game. He went to the referee, and the referee said directly: "You don't care about them, this is a very common thing." Rudiger repeatedly asked the referee to stop the fans, but was shown a yellow card.

AC Milan even had a team strike (warm-up match) because the black player Boateng was racially discriminated against.

All these make the proportion of black players in Italy the lowest among the five major leagues. Even in European football as a whole, the proportion of black players in Serie A is also ranked very low.

Take Fiorentina, Liverpool's opponent today, for example. From the starting lineup to the substitutes and even the youth team, you can't see a black person. This situation is rare in other European leagues, but in Serie A, there are many such teams.

Of course, Fiorentina and Lazio are the two clubs with the most racial discrimination incidents in Serie A, and Lazio is the most ruthless. So far, the black players who have joined the Lazio team in history can be counted on one hand.

Either they were disturbed by the Fiorentina fans, or the big victory at the weekend made Liverpool weak after venting their energy. At the beginning of this game, Liverpool seemed to be out of shape.

After the start of the game, Liverpool was fully suppressed by Fiorentina, and it seemed that Fiorentina was more like the defending champion of the Champions League.

When the 45-minute game ended in the first half, the scoreboard was 2:0. The home team was behind the former visiting team. Fiorentina's Montenegrin teenager Jovetic scored twice to help Fiorentina lead Liverpool by two goals.

This score made the entire Liverpool team downcast, and Liu Ting also walked back in despair.

Throughout the first half of the Liverpool team, only Gerrard's long-range shot was within the goal range. In addition, all five shots were missed, and Fiorentina had eight shots and four shots on goal.

Liu Ting was also dissatisfied with his performance in the first half. At the same time, he was also worried that Liverpool's loss might affect their qualifying. Without Liu Ting's changes, Liverpool would have been kicked out of the group stage by Fiorentina this season.

He bowed his head and walked back to the locker room. When he was on the sidelines and approaching the player tunnel, Liu Ting suddenly heard a noise. Looking up, a fan wearing a Fiorentina jersey jumped from the stands and rushed towards Liu Ting, which caused a lot of noise from other fans.

Although Liu Ting didn't know what was going on, he knew it wasn't an assassination or a terrorist attack, so he didn't hide.

That guy ran up to Liu Ting, grabbed his hand and put something in his hand, turned around and ran back.

Liu Ting looked down and saw a bunch of bananas, which made Liu Ting stunned.

Soon Liu Ting understood that they were using this method to express racial discrimination, which made him look very ugly.

Glenn Johnson, who was walking beside Liu Ting, also understood what this meant, and immediately became angry and wanted to catch up with him and beat him, but was stopped by Harvey Alonso and Carragher.

Mascherano took a break in this game, and Lucas started instead of him. Liverpool started only Liu Ting, a yellow man, and Glenn Johnson, a black man. The other black players were sitting on the bench, which made Glenn Johnson appear so angry.

This little episode made the fans stand up. Liverpool fans are blaming each other, while Fiorentina fans think this is a Serie A tradition. They are still laughing and praising the guy who came up with this idea.

The teammates comforted Liu Ting, and everyone went back to the locker room, but Liu Ting did not throw away the bunch of bananas.

As Liu Ting walked to the locker room, he tore off the banana, peeled off the skin, and ate it mouthful by mouthful.

Noticing that Glenn Johnson turned his head with strange eyes, Liu Ting tore off a banana and handed it to him, asking, "Do you want to eat it?"

Johnson froze for a moment, then took the banana and started to eat it. The two walked back to the locker room while eating.

The reporters were busy taking pictures on the sidelines, which will be the headlines tomorrow morning.

The Fiorentina fans on the sidelines didn't know what to do, they had never encountered such a situation.Before provoking the other party so much, the other party would either swallow his anger or get angry, and he had never encountered such a calm and calm situation.

Before returning to the locker room, Liu Ting heard laughter and applause from the sidelines, but Liu Ting took these as ridicule.

Just wait, you guys will have a better time in the second half!
(End of this chapter)