The Ball at Your Feet

Before the game against Chelsea, the outside voices were already very loud. Regarding the grievances between Liverpool and Chelsea, these two days have always been the focus of the hype in the newspapers.

But in Zhao Yaning's view, this is really not a grudge. It was nothing more than hype in the last round of the 02-03 season. Abramovich appeared at Stamford Bridge and said that whoever won and finished fourth, he bought that team as his own investment team.

Zhao Yaning really believed it when he said there were noses and eyes. But now, after the hype about whether Mourinho and Deschamps are in charge of Chelsea, Zhao Yaning also expressed a slight doubt about that matter. Compared with Chelsea in London, where the football market is excellent, Liverpool's market appeal is really not the same.

But this is also the heart of a villain. After all, Abu's brain is not very the same as a normal person. If he cares about making money, he will not invest in football.

Chelsea this season has indeed had extremely outstanding results. After Mourinho took over, Chelsea's playing scene was criticized by many people, but its strength has been recognized by many people. In the past seven games, they have five wins and two draws, with 17 points ranking second in the league, second only to Arsenal, which has six wins and one draw. The season so far has not lost their results, and they have been loved by many people. Think it is the favorite to win the championship.

Another reason why Chelsea has received everyone's attention is that their coach has now received a lot of attention. After this coach arrived at Chelsea, his style of behavior was completely different from that of the traditional coaches. Not only did he work in a high-profile manner, but he also constantly criticized other coaches. This kind of behavior is unique to the Premier League. One copy naturally attracted the attention of the entire Premier League.

In the last game, the draw against Tottenham made the coach blatantly criticize Tottenham’s method of playing. He satirically said that Tottenham had parked the bus in the penalty area. This statement caused problems. Less hot discussion.

In this game, there was no match yet, and everyone began to think of the only match between Mourinho and Zhao Yaning. This gave the media a lot of hot topics.

Zhao Yaning won the Champions League last season, but he won with Chelsea and Mourinho’s Porto. He can be said to have a lot of grievances with Chelsea and Mourinho. Will this meeting with Mourinho be? What to say is also the focus of media attention.

"Today's game, naturally, the better team will win." Mourinho was also confident when he talked about this issue. "I do not comment on the opponent's players. My players are all The best player in the world, I don’t comment on players from other teams."

Mourinho declined to comment on Zhao Yaning, but others are different. At least, when Carvalho was interviewed, he was mad about his foul in the Champions League final.

"This time, he won't have the chance to fall." During the interview, Carvalho opened a rare mouth. He usually doesn't accept media interviews much, but thinking of Porto’s defeat in the Champions League final, it is still difficult for him to remain calm. “The game has only one possible outcome.”

Chelsea's self-confidence still has some truth. Their strength is now very good, at least compared to Liverpool is much stronger, plus they do have the advantage of home games, naturally they are full of confidence.

And in the middle of the week, Liverpool encountered another blow: an away game against Olympiacos, which ended in a 0-1 defeat.

Obviously, Benitez made the wrong idea. He originally thought that even if Zhao Yaning did not come, Kewell and Gerrard were injured, Liverpool would have an absolute advantage in strength. But the problem is that his prediction made some mistakes. Rivaldo, who barely had a chance to play in Milan last season, has clearly exceeded his expectations in Olympiacos this season.

Not only that, but to make matters worse, Liverpool goalkeeper Dudek was injured in the game. It is precisely because of this that Liverpool can only use substitute goalkeeper Kirkland, which also allows the opponent to seize the opportunity to break Liverpool's door.

The Liverpool players who have returned to England are also a little frustrated. After this game, Liverpool fell to the second place in the group. Instead, Olympiacos won and tied first in the group. Liverpool relied on the record advantage with Monaco and got three points with the same score, but it was second in the group. As for Deportivo, they lost to Monaco, and the group was last.

After returning to Liverpool, they didn't have much time to prepare, and the game against Chelsea was already in sight.

After a little preparation, the Liverpool players embarked on the journey to Stamford Bridge. Only in this game, Kewell, Gerrard, Dudek three main injuries, no matter how bad you look at it, they are all bad luck.

"The victory or defeat in this game is of little significance to us." Benitez looked calm when he spoke. "Our team does not have the ability to compete for the championship. Whether it can beat them is important to us. It makes no difference. We don’t need to score points with them. It is much more important to score points on other teams than to score points on them."

"Why do I feel anxious and angry every time the coach speaks?" Carragher couldn't help whispering in the locker room.

In fact, everyone knows that Liverpool has no chance of winning, and it is worthless to beat Chelsea. But at this time, the hard fight is imminent, saying this is really unacceptable.

People who play football, after all, are somewhat bloody. What everyone likes more is head-to-head confrontation, or no retreat in the face of a strong enemy. This kind of strategic retreat is not to admit counsel. This kind of approach naturally makes the players very difficult to be satisfied.

"The strategy is to make every effort to keep the level, if it can not lose the ball is the best, but if."

This made Carragher whisper again, "That's what the last game said..."

But having said that, Carragher listened carefully to Benitez's tactics. After all, Benitez's tactics are indeed very useful, but his words are sometimes ill-considered.

And in this game, Liverpool made a rotation again-anyway, there are not enough people, rotation is already the norm for Liverpool, and everyone is used to it.

In this game, due to Dudek's injury, the goalkeeper was replaced by Kirkland as the starter. At the back line, Traore, Carragher, Hypia and Finnan started. In midfield, Liverpool let Alonso and Dior start at the same time, with Rise on the left, Garcia on the right, Zhao Yaning in the middle, and Baros as the single forward.

After all, Harman is 32 years old, and he couldn't hold on to consecutive away games. As for Liverpool's midfielder, since neither Gerrard nor Harman can play, naturally they can only choose between Biscayne and Dior.

Speaking of, the relationship between Salif Dior and Zhao Yaning is relatively close-he is also a player who transferred from Monaco to Liverpool, and Rise and Zhao Yaning are from the same background. As a black-African midfielder born in French Ligue 1, he was once also known as the "New Vieira", but because of the long-term substitute and defender position in Liverpool, he gradually declined, and is now basically reduced to an iron bench.

But in this game, he still got a chance to start. After all, there is really no one available in Liverpool now.

Chelsea was serious enough to deal with this game at Stamford Bridge. They also deployed a formation that has not changed in these three rounds: the goalkeeper Cech, the defender is Galla, Carvalho, Terry and Ferreira lined up, the midfielder Duff is on the left, and the midfielder is on the left. Medin was on the right, Makelele was behind, and Lampard hit the midfielder. In front, Drogba and Goodjohnson.

Their newly introduced Robben, Kežman, and Thiago did not get a starting opportunity, and Joe Cole and others in the previous lineup were also substitutes.

Among these people, Robben was unable to play because of injuries, while the others were caused by not being in line with Mourinho's style of play. The coach emphasized confrontation, speed, and high efficiency. Kežman and Joe Cole are not players who satisfy him.

Zhao Yaning didn’t know what happened to Chelsea in the summer. He only knew that it seemed that Mourinho’s signing plan was not fully achieved. Abramovich only followed his advice and bought Carvalho, Ferreira and Drogba, and the others. A few signings, according to Abu, or the meaning of his predecessor Ranieri, bought Kežman, Robben and Cech. The so-called 80 million transfer fee is actually more than 50 million at the hands of Mourinho.

But his three signings are indeed good.

Chelsea still pays attention to this game, but the reason is not because Liverpool is very strong, but because in this game, the England national team coach Eriksson also appeared in the stands, Terry, Lampard The internationals waiting for the national team hope to have a good opportunity to show themselves.

When the players from both sides entered the stadium one by one, the surrounding fans also reacted differently. Every Chelsea player received a round of cheers when they entered the field, and when the Liverpool players entered the field, UU reading www.uukanshu.com was booed-in this case, Zhao Yaning had already seen a lot of cheers. I don’t care anymore.

But this time, what surprised him was that when he read his name, there was a burst of huge boos from people around him.

"I really didn't expect that I was the most popular one here..." Zhao Yaning said with a wry smile.

"Last season you played them in the Champions League, so that they failed to win the Champions League, of course they hate you." Garcia next to him laughed.

"It sounds like the Champions League belongs to their family," Zhao Yaning pouted, "They played dirty last year."

But these words didn't mean anything when he knew it. People booed him, after all, it was a matter of position. If he is in the Chelsea lineup now, it would definitely be different. However, is it an honor to be able to get the hatred of the enemy?

With a whistle, the game between the two sides began.

Soon, Chelsea relied on home court advantage to control the situation. In the second minute of the game, Duff, the Irishman, was on the left side of the penalty area. He controlled the football and made an ingenious pass to break through Hypia. Drogba had already rushed in the middle at this time, but Carragher Already in front of Duff, he adjusted his pace and tried to block Duff's cross, but Duff made a move that surprised Zhao Yaning. He barely slowed down, and he turned around to pass while running. The ball was sent into the penalty area.

Carragher stretched out his leg in a hurry and nudged the ball. The course of the ball was off track, and Kirkland, who struck out, took the ball into his arms. Drogba retreated in a bit anxious manner, which also caused Liverpool to make a false alarm.

Looking at Duff, Zhao Yaning also felt a little surprised: This Irishman is really unusual.