[Football] Crown of Thorns

Time always flies by fast, and in a blink of an eye the summer break is over, and the new season is here again.

Gama was still busy throughout the summer break, first the Portuguese national team's European preliminaries, then shooting commercials to attend sponsor activities, and playing with his daughter (when Monet was busy at work)...

Gama (seriously): Really really hard work!

Monet (cold): Get out of the way, you are in the way!

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Now little Amy can already speak a lot of words, walks quite steadily, and her personality can be clearly seen, more like Monet.

In Agostinho's words, she will definitely be a royal sister-type queen in the future.

Jia Ma was heartbroken: My daughter should be a cute girl! ! !

Joanna: I think little Emmy is very nice like Mademoiselle Monet.

Of course, since Gama was her younger brother anyway, Joanna still comforted him, "You were pretty cool before, and little Amy was like you."

The point is: before, before, before...

Gama's mind circled countless underlines.

Furtado, who ran over to play with him and Little Amy, "Xiko, your personality has changed too much, but you are quite cute..."

He was kicked away by Jia Ma.

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Perhaps, this is the change that only those who live a happy life will have!

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At the beginning of the new season, Liverpool's team as a whole has not changed much, and Gama doesn't think it is bad-err, no, the changes are actually very big.

Gerrard retired! ! !

Gerrard once said that he would choose to enjoy a period of easy football somewhere after leaving the Red Army, but a week after the Champions League final, Gerrard announced his retirement.

Countless people were shocked, but Gerrard said frankly: he has enjoyed all the happiness.

The captain of the Red Army spent 17 years in Liverpool. He became the captain of the Red Army in 2003 and chose to leave in the summer of 2015.

Gerrard said in a statement: "I hereby confirm that I am retiring from professional football.I've had a very successful career and I'm grateful for every minute, every second I've spent with Liverpool and the England national team.I'm at Liverpool and I've won almost all the trophies I want and I'm very satisfied.Thank you Liverpool, England fans for supporting me throughout my career.Your loyalty and support means everything to me.

At the end of the 2014-15 season, Red Army legend Steven Gerrard officially announced his retirement.

For the Red Army Liverpool club, an era is over.

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"The next step, I'm still thinking about it, but I don't have any plans for the time being. I want to spend time with my family first."

When Gama called to greet Gerrard, when Gama asked him if he was going back to Liverpool as a coach, Gerrard replied like this.

"Okay, remember you owe me~~"

Gama, who has never given up (?) said so on the phone.

Although I can't see Gerald's expression over there, I believe he must be very dark, "...I treated you to dinner."

"No, that's for everyone to eat together, Steven, I haven't seen the luxurious meal you promised."

Gama is determined not to forget the debts that Gerrard promised to treat guests back then, and he will never allow anyone to dare to rely on his debts.

"I said Hiko..."

"If you owe money again, I will reveal to the outside world that your words don't count."

"...wait for me to come back!"

Gerald said feebly—I was really afraid of him.

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At the beginning of the new season, Liverpool played six friendly matches from July 7 to August 14, winning four and drawing one.

Next is the 2015 UEFA Super Cup Liverpool vs Sevilla. Since the UEFA Cup became the Sevilla Cup, the Champions League champions have played against Sevilla every year in the Super Cup, and they are often ridiculed as the champions of the UEFA Champions League. The hard-hitting Europa League Sevilla.

In the end, Liverpool and Sevilla drew 90-1 in 1 minutes of the main match. Neither side made any achievements in stoppage time. In the end, the two sides decided the championship with penalty kicks, and Liverpool won 5-4 on penalties.Finally completed the title of the junior triple crown.

The UEFA Super Cup is over, followed by the British domestic Super Cup, which is actually the British Community Shield, which is the match between the league champions and the FA Cup champions, the league champions Chelsea and the FA Cup champions Liverpool.

Liverpool won 1-0 in the Community Shield, which can be regarded as their fourth championship within a year.

However, after the start of the league, Liverpool did not play very well in the first five league games, with two wins, two draws and one loss. After five games, they only accumulated eight points.

Then there was the first round of the Champions League group stage. They won the Ligue [-] Bordeaux away, which was barely a good start.

It's just that after the first round of the Champions League, Liverpool's game seems to have fallen into a vicious circle. From the fifth round to the tenth round of the league, Liverpool scored five consecutive draws in the league. Cup and three UEFA Champions League group matches, that is nine consecutive draws.

In this way, at the end of October, there was news that the Liverpool club would change coaches.

In addition, as the core midfielder Gama, his life is not easy.

There are so many criticisms from the outside world that he is no longer willing to read the contents of those newspapers and Twitter.

For example, in the newspapers in the UK, the evaluation of Gama has been declining all the way.

At the beginning, it was relatively polite, such as Gama didn't seem to have recovered from the fierce competition at the end of last season, but later it turned into various speculations or nonsense.

The "Times" with a little bit of integrity: Da Gama lacks physical fitness, or he has consumed too much in the national team.

"Guardian": The Liverpool club protested against the frequent recruitment of Du Gama by the national team.

Things like this are pretty polite, like "Daily Telegraph": How to ensure that players put their energy into the game.

"Independent": What is the problem with Vasco da Gama's weak physical fitness?

As for the famous British tabloids, "The Sun": the reunion with Monet caused Gama to lose energy.

"Mirror": Gama, who goes to nightclubs, has he fallen?

"Daily Mail": Da Gama, who keeps appearing in advertisements, where is his energy?

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Even the more reliable professional magazine "442" in the UK published a special topic: those players who made people sigh and failed to reach the top.

In addition, many well-known European media have also published various attention-grabbing headlines, discussing why da Gama is weak in physical fitness and lack of energy.

France's "L'Equipe" talked about the national team call-up.

Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport mentioned the problem of players being overused by clubs.

Spain's "Marca" said the transfer interfered with the player's attitude.

The German "Bild" directly said whether Gama lost the will to win.

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In these days, Ronaldo called Gama almost every other day or two, and would send some text messages from time to time, with comfort and persuasion, and some chicken soup for the soul, in short, it was all words of concern.

Agostinho was very nervous about Gama's situation, so he specially contacted a professional medical institution and even a psychologist to provide Gama with rationalization training and psychological solutions.

Even Cristiano Ronaldo was close to directly saying whether to use my professional medical team to see what's going on.

Gama himself also felt a little strange. In fact, he still feels good about himself, but for some reason, after the start of this season, he always couldn’t cooperate with his teammates during the game. There may be new and old teammates in one or two games. If there is a problem, and if it is not right after more than a dozen games, then there is something wrong with him.

"I see that your national team game is not bad!"

It was Monet's sentence that reminded Gama.

If there is no problem in the national team - in the national team's several European preliminaries, Gama's performance is still stable, the Portuguese national team has played smoothly and won all the games, and the place in the European Cup finals has been successfully obtained. In the next three games, only the question of how to train soldiers remains.

So, is it the club's problem?

Gama considered carefully.

Last season, the Liverpool club can be said to have lavishly swayed the checks in their hands, introducing 9 new aids in one go.

However, 9 of the 4 people who transferred after one season left the team this season.

The result of this signing has been criticized by countless professionals as a very failed signing result.

In the new season, Liverpool's signings may be more targeted. If the striker is weak, then the striker is good, so the club bought Benteke, Firmino and Ince.

In need of a stable right back, Klein was snatched from Manchester United to replace the departed veteran Johnson.

He also signed a young defender Gomez from Charlton, who can play both central defenders and two full-backs.

To find a suitable substitute for Gerrard who left the team, Milner joined from Manchester City for free.

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Generally speaking, these signings are very targeted supplements, and the new signings not only have potential, but many of them are players who have already gained a foothold in the five major leagues.

So where is the problem?

Looking back at the previous games, it can be seen that coach Rodgers has made a lot of tactical changes to the team.

In the new season, the 4 formation was used in 4231 games, and the 433 formation was used in two games. In these two games, one was against Manchester United and the other was against Arsenal, both of which were tied 1-1.

From the results point of view, the game scene with 4231 is ugly and all draws, but the two games with 433 are also draws, but the scene has improved.

Looking at it this way, it can be said that Rogers' tactical transformation has failed, perhaps indicating that he has not fully grasped the combination of these people at hand.

The summer signings are successful on paper, but how to play these cards well is what Rogers has troubled with.

"So, the unlucky one is me!"

After spending a lot of time watching the game to find out the reason, Jiama rubbed his forehead and laughed wryly.

433 is the team's mature tactical formation, and Gama is also used to the command routine in which he is in it.

It's not that changing formations is not possible, every team can't use only one formation to win the world, but, after changing the new formation of most of the players, from running-in to foot style, they want to blend together smoothly, It's not that easy.

Don't look at Jiama who seems to be able to play against opponents of any formation in the game. In fact, it is not only his hard work, but also teammates who can cooperate with him skillfully. , If you think about it, it's not so easy.

Coupled with the ever-changing formation, Gama smiled bitterly, and said a little arrogantly, if it weren't for his hard work, the team would have a greater chance of losing.

A draw is already a pretty good situation.

"You can discuss it with Rogers."

Afterwards, Agostinho said this after hearing Gama's introspection.

"This one……"

Gama scratched his head.

Maybe he was a little paranoid. He felt that since the new season, Rogers didn't like to see him talk to him very much.

"He's crossing the river and tearing down the bridge!"

Hearing Gama's hesitant guess, Agostinho jumped up violently.

Jia Ma's poor performance means that his worth is low, which means that various endorsements and sponsorships have decreased. This involves their interests, and they must not make concessions.

Then Furtado murmured to Gama in private, "Isn't it because the outside world's report that he won the lie made him a little unhappy!"

Gama was silent.

Could it be that this is the original intention of his change.

or……

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PS: Xiko blinked his innocent eyes, I am such an honest and reliable genius, why am I so unlucky? ? ?