Revive Liverpool

Chapter 229 Ashley

For Newcastle United fans, perhaps the only right thing Ashley did in Newcastle was to invite Benitez in the future-this may be one of Newcastle's most reliable coaches in more than a decade.

Newcastle United was later reduced by Ashley from the second-tier Premier League team to the Premier League relegation team, but this is not over yet.

In the 2015-16 season, Newcastle United failed to relegation and fell into the English Championship.

Then, Ashley did the only right thing after he bought Newcastle United, and invited Benitez.

Then in the 2016-17 season, Benitez worked hard to bring Newcastle United from the Championship to the Premier League.

Ashley was overjoyed, saying "Benitez can use every shilling in our account".

Benitez checked the account and almost cried - the balance in the card: negative £1800 million.

Then Benitez can only use the players who played in the British Championship last season to continue playing in the Premier League this season.

To cheat the team like this, Ashley is unprecedented.

In the list of the management performance of the 20 Premier League teams that the British media talk sports counted the most in recent years, Arsenal owner Kroenke can only be ranked second to last, and Newcastle's owner Ashley is the last.

Even Kroenke, who is already "heinous" in the eyes of Arsenal fans, is not as good as Ashley in the eyes of Newcastle United fans, so you can know how much Ashley disgusts Newcastle United fans.

In addition to not throwing money into the team, Ashley also renamed Newcastle United's 120-year-old "St. James' Park" stadium as the "Sporting Goods Direct" stadium.

It was the name of Ashley's own company.

This is much more disgusting to fans than what Kroenke did.

Arsenal had to sell the naming rights of the team's home stadium because the team had to repay the debts of the new stadium.

The most annoying thing about Kroenke is that he does not invest money in Arsenal and uses Arsenal's money for other purposes.

And Ashley is much more than Kroenke.

Changing the name of the club's home stadium without giving the team a penny is not the most serious thing he did, and the most disgusting thing for Newcastle United fans.

What disgusted Newcastle United fans the most was that in 2015, a Newcastle fan found some "garbage" in the rubbish bin outside the club's stadium, which made fans extremely angry, including family photos from the team's 2001-02 heyday and some precious historical photos.

The club only responded that they were updating the stadium decorations, which were too old to be of much use.

Clearly, the club's tradition is as worthless as rubbish in front of Ashley.

In addition, in the last round of the 2014-15 season, Newcastle defeated West Ham United [-]-[-] with one pass and one shot by Gutierrez to avoid relegation.

You must know that Gutierrez was just diagnosed with testicular cancer a year ago. After undergoing painful chemotherapy surgery, the Argentine finally succeeded in fighting cancer and returned to the court.

As a meritorious veteran who has played for the team for 7 years, everyone believes that Newcastle is about to renew the long-term contract with Gutierrez.

However, the reality is that Gutierrez was ruthlessly abandoned by Newcastle, and even the call to terminate the contract was not made to Gutierrez himself.

Newcastle called to inform another player that Taylor would not renew his contract and asked him to call Gutierrez, then informed Gutierrez that he had been sent out.

As soon as the news came out, Ashley became the target of everyone shouting and beating, and Newcastle was also rated as the most impersonal club by the media.

In a word, Ashley is the boss that no club wants.

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Going back to the match against Liverpool, Newcastle United had seven French players on the field.

For a Premier League team, more than half of the players in the starting lineup for this game are French players.

A Premier League team more like a Ligue [-] team than a Ligue [-] team.

Although Newcastle United fans protested against Ashley before the game, Newcastle United's home court in this game is still Newcastle United's home court.

Newcastle United took the lead in the 23rd minute, Tiot passed the ball, and Cabaye volleyed the ball back from 30 yards into the net.

Newcastle United lead Liverpool [-]-[-].

In the 25th minute, Suarez received a corner kick from a far point, and the unguarded Manolas headed wide from the edge of the penalty area.

In the 33rd minute, Suarez took a corner kick and Kolo Touré missed the goal with a header.

Four minutes later, Moussa Sissoko shot in front of the penalty area and was saved by Navas.

In the 39th minute, Lewandowski passed the ball, and Suarez's shot from the right side of the penalty area was saved by Krul.

Liverpool got a chance to equalize in the 42nd minute. Suarez was pulled down by Mbiwa on the right side of the penalty area. The latter was sent off with a red card. Newcastle United will face Liverpool with ten players next.

Gerrard scored his 100th Premier League goal when he scored from the penalty spot.

Gerrard, who only scored his 99th goal in the last game, probably did not expect to be able to score again so quickly in the next game, completing his milestone of [-] goals in the Premier League.

Gerrard became the 24th player to score 13 goals in the Premier League and the [-]th for a single club.

He became the third Liverpool player to score 128 Premier League goals after Fowler (118 goals) and Owen (3 goals).

In stoppage time in the first half, Gerrard was given a yellow card for a foul on Cabaye.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. In the 48th minute, Henderson made a diagonal pass. Glenn Johnson shot from the right side of the penalty area and was saved by Krul.

In the 55th minute, Glenn Johnson passed the ball and Griezmann shot high.

Liverpool overtook the score in the 72nd minute, Moses Griezmann passed the ball, Suarez made a pass from the left side of the penalty area, Krul failed to block the front point, and Lewandowski headed into the empty goal from close range, one to two.

He scored 13 goals in the last 13 league games and scored 6 consecutive Premier League away goals.

Lewandowski continued his magical performance, but Suarez did not score today.

Liverpool once again won the game and maintained their top position in the Premier League.

It's just that compared with Liverpool's small goal difference victory, Arsenal defeated Norwich [-]-[-] in this game.

Between the two teams, Liverpool's goal difference advantage is not much more than Arsenal.

This time there is not much left.

However, this goal difference advantage is not very important at the beginning of the season, it still depends on the league points.

Now the number of league rounds is only in single digits, and there is still a long way to go.

No one can guarantee that he will be able to win the game at home.

So taking all three points is the most important thing, goal difference is just icing on the cake.

(End of this chapter)