i am a football star

Chapter 168
On October 10th, the 25th round of the Premier League came. This round of England's attention has shifted to Liverpool. The first round of the Premier League red derby this season will start in Liverpool. Liverpool will face the Red Devils Manchester United at home.

At present, Manchester United temporarily ranks first in the Premier League with 22 points, while Liverpool ranks sixth in the standings with 16 points. There is a 6-point gap from Manchester United. Although Liverpool has one round less, this is not a small gap.

Ancelotti said in an interview with reporters: "I believe Liverpool can beat Manchester United. They have that strength, but they are just in a little trouble temporarily."

Of course Ancelotti wants Liverpool to beat Manchester United so that they can get back to the top of the table by taking down their opponents.

Liverpool's problem is injuries, especially the successive injuries of core players like Gerrard and Torres, which have affected their performance. If it weren't for Liu Ting's efforts to lead the team forward recently, Liverpool might have lost the league and the Champions League.

This is the case of Liverpool in history. Xavi Alonso was sold by Benitez, Gerrard and Torres were injured one after another, Liverpool's performance plummeted, the Champions League group stage was eliminated, the league fell out of the top four and missed the next season's Champions League, and Liverpool began to decline.

But now that Liverpool has changed, none of these things will happen again.

Bad things happened to Liverpool before the red derby started, and Gerrard will definitely miss this game.In the last Champions League game, Gerrard came back in time to help Liverpool win the game at home, but he should have rested for two more days before returning. Now that the game is won, his original minor injuries have been repeated, and he has to return to the injured list.

This time it was replaced by Torres. Torres' injury was not completely healed, but he also planned to come back to play for this important game. This is his own wish, and the coaching staff can only respect it.

When he came out of the locker room to warm up, Liu Ting saw balloons everywhere on the court, and the court security and other staff were busy packing up those balloons.

Liu Ting was also very surprised why there were so many balloons. This kind of thing had never happened before. Is this a new way to celebrate before the game?

So Liu Ting asked Carragher, "What's going on?"

Carragher replied: "It's all done by Manchester people, it's their revenge."

Through Carragher's explanation, Liu Ting knew the whole story.

In the Premier League 15/93 season 94 years ago, under the leadership of Eric Cantona, Manchester United was on the verge of defending the Premier League title. In the match between Liverpool and Manchester United at home in the league, the final score of the red derby was 3:3, because Manchester United fans played the banner of "the first team to defend the Premier League champion".

That season was the second season of the establishment of the Premier League. Manchester United did become the first team to defend the Premier League champions, but even with that champion, Manchester United's top league titles were only 9, which was far from Liverpool's 18 titles, so Liverpool fans were full of confidence to provoke their opponents.

No one would have thought that 15 years later, under the leadership of Ferguson, Manchester United won another 9 league titles, and has collected 18 championship trophies, and now it happens to be at Anfield to respond to Liverpool.

Manchester United fans figured out a way to bring a lot of balloons with Cantona's head to Anfield. They inflated the balloons before the game and threw them into the field to mock Liverpool. They also responded that they had won 18 top league championship trophies.

Looking at an inflated balloon beside him, the portrait of Cantona on it looks a little funny after the balloon is inflated. If you don't say it, you really can't tell that it is Cantona.

The staff cleaned up the balloons after a mess, and the game started normally.

Liverpool's starting lineup is goalkeeper Joe Hart, four defenders Aurelio, Agger, Skrtel and Glenn Johnson, three midfielders Harvey Alonso, Mascherano and Shinji Kagawa, strikers Liu Ting, Torres and Dirk.

Manchester United's starting lineup is a regular 442, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, back four Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Ferdinand and O'Shea, the midfield four are Giggs, Scholes, Carrick and Valencia, Rooney and Berbatov partner double strikers.

In the summer, Manchester United lost two important players, Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, and their strength declined significantly.

Ecuadorian Antonio Valencia was introduced by Ferguson from Wigan Athletic in the summer after Cristiano Ronaldo left. He is a good right midfielder. Ferguson tried to replace Ronaldo with him. Valencia is obviously not as good as Ronaldo, but he occasionally performed well. It was his goal in the last Champions League game that allowed Manchester United to retreat from the away game in Russia.

At present, Manchester United already has Nani and Valencia in the team. With Nabuchuan and Wabushe, it is only a matter of Yang Kebu and Bei Bujin to gather the "Four Kings".

The absence of Manchester United's Park Ji-sung made the South Korean media resentful. After Ronaldo left this season, Park Ji-sung got more opportunities and basically occupied a starting position for Manchester United. This game is known as the "East Asian Three Kingdoms War".

At the beginning of the game, Manchester United made a big mistake. In the opening 2 minutes, Valencia intercepted Aurelio's pass in the frontcourt. Rooney scored the ball, but unfortunately the linesman signaled offside first.

After Ronaldo left, Rooney was holding back his energy to prove his ability. He used to 'sacrifice' himself to win.This season, Lu Xiaopang's shots have increased significantly. Last season, he averaged 2.9 shots per game. This season, he averaged 5.9 shots per game, more than doubled directly. Unfortunately, the increase in the number of goals is not obvious.

Liu Ting knew that Lu Xiaopang would lose confidence when he shot and shot, and the number of shots would drop.

Manchester United's opening three tricks failed to work, and the game returned to normal track.

In the 5th minute, before Liu Ting broke through O'Shea's return pass from the left, Harvey Alonso's long shot was blocked by Ferdinand.

Liu Ting originally thought that Torres played with an injury and he should take more responsibility, but he didn't expect Torres to be quite active.

Torres broke through his opponents continuously in the opening 10 minutes. Evra couldn't prevent him and tripped Torres continuously. In the 16th minute, Evra received a yellow card. Harvey Alonso's direct free kick was confiscated by Van der Sar.

Torres was also stimulated by Liu Ting's braveness in catching up with the state. Recently, some media have said that Liu Ting is Liverpool's real thigh. Gerrard is a midfielder and Liu Ting has no direct competition, so he can ignore this. Torres and Liu Ting are both forwards.

Liverpool has the home court advantage, and the two forwards Liu Ting and Torres are in good condition. Liverpool began to control the field advantage.

In the 18th minute, Javier Mascherano made a steal in midfield, Kagawa made a straight pass, and a low shot from inside the restricted area of ​​Kevin Dirk was slightly wide.

In the 20th minute, Liu Ting faced O'Shea and got another chance easily. However, Manchester United was obviously well prepared for his defense. Liu Ting had to pick a pass from the penalty area before Ferdinand's defense. Torres overwhelmed Vidic's header and hit the crossbar.

Manchester United's counterattack is also very threatening.

In the 27th minute, Valencia quickly dribbled the ball forward. At this time, Liverpool's defense was weak, but Rooney's final header lacked strength and was confiscated by Joe Hart.

However, Liverpool quickly opened up the situation, and it was Liu Ting who stood up first.

In the 33rd minute, Liu Ting broke through O'Shea again from the left. By now, everyone could see that O'Shea was obviously unable to guard Liu Ting, and Liu Ting passed it casually like a highway.

After breaking through, facing the combination of Vidic and Ferdinand, Liu Ting had to return the ball to the penalty area line again. Harvey Alonso appeared in that position. Harvey Alonso had a long shot. He appeared in this position to attract the attention of the opponent.

Liu Ting knew that the opportunity was fleeting. If he stopped the ball and made adjustments to hit the goal, although the probability of scoring was higher, Ferdinand and Vidic would come to stop him the moment he stopped the ball. It was hard to say whether he would have a chance to shoot, so Liu Ting volleyed the ball without making adjustments.

"boom……"

This was the sound of a football hitting the post. There were already sporadic sighs at Anfield, but then it turned into a huge cheer, because the ball hit the post and bounced into the goal.

"Goooooooooal!!! Beautiful! It's Liu again! He scored another Manchester United goal, he is a real Manchester United killer!" Alan Hansen roared loudly.

Liu Ting and his teammates celebrated crazily on the sidelines, gesticulating with the number 7 with their index fingers bent at the camera.

Zhan Jun said: "This is Liu Ting's seventh goal for Manchester United. This is his fifth match against Manchester United, but he has already scored seven goals for Manchester United. It can be predicted that he will probably become the player who has scored the most goals for Manchester United in the future."

"Liu Ting faced Manchester United for the first time in the European Super Cup last season. In that game, he scored three goals and completed a hat-trick. After coming to the Premier League, he missed the red derby in the first round of the league last season, but scored a goal in the second round of the red derby and the semi-finals of the Champions League. He scored a goal in each of the three games, helping Liverpool double-beat Manchester United in the league and eliminate the Red Devils in the semi-finals of the Champions League."

"Liu Ting has scored 6 goals for Manchester United since last season. He is already the second player with the most goals scored for Manchester United in history. He is tied for second with Alan Shearer with 6 goals. The first is Henry who has played for Barcelona. He has scored 10 goals for Manchester United. Now Liu Ting's goal allows him to occupy the second place and become Manchester United's No. [-] sufferer."

Liu Ting's goal made the Manchester United team pay more attention to defending Liu Ting. They didn't want Liu Ting to become the player who scored the most goals for Manchester United early on. Henry scored 10 goals for Manchester United. It took 8 seasons in the Premier League to complete it. If Liu Ting scored 10 goals in only two or three seasons, it would be a shame.

Increasing the defense against Liu Ting, Torres naturally got more opportunities, but Liverpool failed to seize the opportunity, and the score of 1:0 remained until the end of the first half.

(End of this chapter)