i am a football star

Chapter 87 Ideal and Reality

In the 71st minute, taking advantage of a dead ball, Liverpool made substitution adjustments. On the 25th, on the 7th, Liu Ting replaced Robbie Keane.

When Liu Ting played, there were a lot of boos from the stands.

But this is not for Liu Ting, this is for Robbie Keane who was replaced. He is the second most expensive player in Liverpool this summer, but he performed poorly at Anfield. Even Liverpool fans think this is a bad transfer. Robbie Keane is a parallel importer.

Liu Ting and Robbie Keane gave a symbolic hug and ran on the court, while Keane left the court with a dark face.

Liu Ting knew that if he could not perform well for a long time, he would definitely become the second Robbie Keane, and it would definitely be uncomfortable to be booed by the home fans.

Liu Ting played with Torres and Dirk Dirk, Torres was in the center, Dirk was on the right, and Liu Ting was on the left.

Zhan Jun said: "Liu Ting is finally playing. This is his first Premier League game and the first time representing Liverpool. Fans and friends, from this moment on, Liu Ting is a real Red Army fighter and a real Liverpool man. Maybe many years later, we will be proud to say that we have witnessed that moment."

Liverpool fans just can't afford to be hurt, and start dropping book bags when they are happy.

The high-spirited Liu Ting entered the stage, imagining that he would go through the barrier alone and beg the Lord or something.

Reality quickly made him bow his head. Stoke City's defense was very tight. Liu Ting faced double-teaming as soon as he took the ball and dribbled the ball. Moreover, the refereeing system in the Premier League was loose. Many actions that Ligue [-] would brag about were normal physical contact here.

In the past few days of training, Liu Ting still felt that he could perform well under the defense of his teammates. Only now did he know that it was training, and his teammates did not go all out to defend him.

In short, in the defense of Stoke City, Liu Ting was lost just like Robbie Keane when he was constantly confronted by muscles and interfered with the ball.

Seeing that Liu Ting had no effect, Heynckes had to make substitutions again.

The game time soon reached the 90th minute, and the fourth official on the sidelines raised a sign, and there were 3 minutes of stoppage time.

For this game, the British sports TV station is Alan Hansen and Vox Lawrence. One of them is a Liverpool fan and the other is a Manchester United fan. European commentators like to use this kind of mortal enemy configuration. Now Liverpool's deputy Carragher and Manchester United's Neville will be partner commentators after retirement, and they are still very popular in England.

Alan Hansen is a former Liverpool player. After retiring as a commentator, he has been biased towards Liverpool. His most famous incident is that he said a famous saying in the summer of 95: "With a group of children, he can't win anything."

This is what Alan Hansen said about the class of 92 formed by Ferguson. Now it should be called the golden generation of Manchester United 92. The class of 92 has David Beckham, the Neville brothers, Ryan Giggs, Scholes and Butt.

But in 95, it was really just a group of children. Alan Hansen satirized Ferguson saying that he could not win anything with a group of children. In the summer of 99, Ferguson won the Triple Crown with this group of children. Hansen was beaten in the face not too badly.

Although his face was swollen, Hansen took advantage of this to become famous and his career flourished, becoming a famous British commentator.

Vox Lawrence is a native of Manchester. He only played amateur games but worked as a commentator. He has always supported Manchester United since he was a commentator.

Vox Lawrence said: "Alan, maybe you are going to be sad. Although Liverpool has changed to a rich owner, it is obvious that the Chinese don't understand football, and the ones who paid a lot of money are all parallel imports. Now this Chinese kid seems to be a parallel importer. Liverpool's dream of winning the Premier League seems to be far away."

Alan Hansen immediately countered: "This is only his first game. You can't judge anything just because of one game. When Ronaldo first came to Manchester United, he was also a kid who only knew how to cry. He is not necessarily better than Liu."

Lawrence: "Do you think he can be compared to Ronaldo? He only needs to have a performance worthy of his worth, and Liverpool should thank God. If Liverpool's two biggest transfers in a season are parallel imports, maybe Liverpool should ask you to manage the team."

Entering stoppage time, Stoke City's defense was more determined and tighter, and Liu Ting also knew that the game was basically like this.

Soon the game time ended, the referee blew his whistle, and the Stoke City team cheered. They had reason to cheer happily if they could take away a point at Anfield.

The whole Liverpool team walked back in despair, Liu Ting suddenly felt someone patting him on the shoulder, and he saw that it was Gerrard.

Gerrard said: "Don't take this game seriously. No one will blame you when you play for the first time."

"I almost scored an own goal in my first Premier League appearance, but I quickly adjusted myself to the next challenge."

Liu Ting saw that it was Mascherano who came to talk. This pony brother is usually quiet, but he helped the team defend very well when he played. Typical people don't talk too much, but he came out to comfort others at this time. Liu Ting was quite touched.

Before playing, Liu Ting was imagining that he would lead the team out of the predicament by himself, but now the reality gave him a blow.

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

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Liverpool's draw at home is not a big or small news. After all, Liverpool has been in turmoil this summer, and it is normal for their results to fluctuate.

Many British media still reported on the game. Liu Ting and Robbie Keane were the focus of attention. Robbie Keane had been labeled as a parallel importer, and Liu Ting reported that he was probably also a parallel importer.

Liu Ting can only turn a blind eye to these tabloids, and train with peace of mind to adapt to the Premier League style.

The cup match in midweek is not a major event, but there are many Chinese reporters here, because Zheng Zhi will start the match between Liverpool, the top 32 of the League Cup, and League One team Crewe.

In fact, Heynckes arranged for all substitute players to play in this game. Heynckes, who coached Liverpool in his first year, obviously did not want to fight on multiple fronts. He has already expressed in the dressing room his willingness to only focus on the Champions League and the Premier League. He will play as a substitute in the League Cup and FA Cup.

In the end, Liverpool defeated this third-tier team in England 2:1 at home. Zheng Zhi's performance was quite satisfactory, and he did nothing. The Chinese reporters were satisfied and thought about how to go back to report. Zheng Zhi's first game in Liverpool's career.

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The week after the fifth round of the league is the arrival of the sixth round of the league.

This round is the Liverpool derby, or the Merseyside derby, where Liverpool challenged Everton away.

On September 9th, when the match between Liverpool and Everton came, Liu Ting was still sitting on the bench. Liverpool won the first leg of the Liverpool derby 27-2 in an away game, and Torres scored twice.

In the middle of the week, October 10, in the second game of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Liverpool beat PSV Eindhoven 1:2 at home. Robbie Keane scored his first goal in Liverpool's official game. In addition, Dirk Dirk and Gerrard also scored.

Liu Ting came off the bench in the 82nd minute. This was his first Champions League game. Unfortunately, he also had no goals and assists. After all, his playing time was too short.

On October 10th, Liverpool played Manchester City away. This is another game suitable for domestic fans to watch, at 5:22 BJ time.

Liverpool is now a giant with a Chinese player. Manchester City had Sun Jihai before, and it is another giant against an upstart.

In order to attract Chinese audiences, Heynckes accepted the opinions of Liverpool's upper management. Zheng Zhi sat on the bench and watched the game with Liu Ting.

The game was indeed ups and downs. In the first half, Manchester City led 2:0. In the second half, Liverpool began to counterattack, and Torres scored twice to equalize the score.

Torres deserves to be Liverpool's leading star, scoring twice in two consecutive rounds.

After that, the game became stalemate. In the 78th minute, Liu Ting came on the field. Heynckes hoped that he would go up to break the situation. Liverpool did break the situation, but it was planned by Xavi Alonso. In the 90th minute, Dirk Dirk scored a low shot in the penalty area. Liverpool reversed the score 3:2.

Zheng Zhi also came off the bench during stoppage time. His purpose of playing was to delay the time and to strengthen the defense by the way.

The Chinese fans watched this game very happily. Some stars scored goals and some came back to win. Both Liu Ting and Zheng Zhi appeared on the stage, but neither of them performed very well, which is also a fly in the ointment.

The end of this game is the national team match day, and the national team players have all gone to participate in the national team match.

Liu Ting, who did not play for the national team, stayed in Liverpool. He has been in Liverpool for 2 months. Liverpool played 7 games, and he came off the bench in 3 games, but he did nothing.

This also made Liu Ting feel a little bit of pressure. Even though he was adapting as soon as possible, it still had a great impact not to prepare for the training with Liverpool. Now that the season has started, he can only train in the time between games, which still has a great impact.

Speaking of which, Liu Ting joined Bordeaux last season and did not prepare for the game together. It took more than a month to integrate into the team after arriving in Bordeaux. But at that time, Ligue 1 was similar to Spain in offensive football.

Now that he is in the Premier League, he still delays the preparation training. The style here is different and there are new coaches and new teammates. It took Liu Ting two months to start to feel a little bit about playing in the Premier League.

Liu Ting believes that after the national team game is over, he will be able to perform.

(End of this chapter)