The Ball at Your Feet

While training in the space is underway, Liverpool also needs to prepare for a new round of competition.

The midweek game is still the League Cup game. This time Liverpool's opponent is Middlesbrough. Because they do not pay much attention to the League Cup games, Liverpool still has not sent the main players to participate in the League Cup.

But fortunately, in this game, Middlesbrough did not pay enough attention to this game. Both sides dispatched substitute players to play, and Liverpool, relying on Milito's two goals, defeated the defending champion of the League Cup Middlesbrough with a score of 2-0.

After this game, the opponent Liverpool ushered in was Crystal Palace. This was not a strong enemy at all. But there was another thing that affected Liverpool quite a bit in this game: Liverpool's famous Emlyn Hughes, known as the "crazy horse", passed away before the game. Therefore, in this game, the team was notified before the game, requiring that in the game, even if they scored a goal, they were not allowed to celebrate.

Before the game, Zhao Yaning received special attention: after all, he had a national teammate who played for Crystal Palace, and he was also the captain. What's more interesting is that the most eye-catching game that General Fan played in Crystal Palace was the game against Liverpool and he defended Irving. These things were also turned over by the media, and there was a lot of hype.

But no matter how hot it is, it can't change the fact that Crystal Palace is just a weak group.

After the opening 10 minutes, Liverpool stabilized its position under Alonso's scheduling and organized a decent offensive. In the 23rd minute, after Alonso received a pass from Biscayne, Alonso turned around and did it back, but knocked the ball to Zhao Yaning of Liman in the penalty area with a back heel. After receiving the ball, Zhao Yaning accelerated past Popovich who was defending him, and then pushed his left foot into the far corner with an outside instep, setting the record for Liverpool.

"It seems that Zhao Yaning is in good condition. In these few games, he has scored in almost every game." The commentator's admiration for Zhao Yaning's condition is naturally due to some reasons: time has entered November, Zhao Yaning The performance of each game will increasingly affect the evaluation of the Golden Globe Awards. Now Liverpool, relying on Zhao Yaning's performance, ranks fourth in the league. Although it is not high, but considering Liverpool's injury situation, this kind of performance can be regarded as the past, and his performance depends on him. It’s my own effort.

This goal gave Liverpool a great advantage. After taking the lead, Zhao Yaning was not in a hurry to attack, but tried to run back and forth in the frontcourt. Liverpool’s style of play is quite good. The problem is that none of the people in the front court are full-time forwards and their shooting ability is not particularly good. Therefore, although there are good opportunities to appear in the game, they are all. Was missed.

And 2 minutes before the end of the first half, Crystal Palace's Finnish midfielder Korka shot from the corner of the penalty area to tie the score.

This goal immediately excited the Crystal Palace team. Although they don't expect to win the game at Anfield, they still hope to get a draw.

But the joy of the Crystal Palace only lasted for one minute. Immediately, in one of Kewell's breakthroughs, Korka was shown a yellow card for his one. This sentence made Kelka extremely dissatisfied. He was even on the sidelines. The former performed Cowell's fall to prove that he did not foul-but this explanation is really meaningless.

At this time, Zhao Yaning also seized this opportunity. He didn't kick the deciduous ball again this time, but directly took a big arc and sent the ball into the goal.

After changing sides, the offensive of the Crystal Palace still did not improve. Korka tried to launch two attacks, but was still successfully blocked by Finnan once, and the other time, he himself fell into an offside trap set by Liverpool.

In the 90th minute, Kewell's wonderful pass was sent to the feet of Zhao Yaning in the penalty area. Zhao Yaning turned around, and when he was about to shoot, he was knocked down by Popovich.

There is nothing to say, penalty kick.

"Come on." Kewell looked at the penalty and patted Zhao Yaning. He has not scored for Liverpool in 26 rounds, and the pressure he faces is actually no less than anyone else. But he also knew very well that at this time, Zhao Yaning had already scored two goals. In order to complete the hat trick of his teammates, Zhao Yaning had to punish him.

However, Zhao Yaning had a wry smile in his heart for this. He himself was not sensitive to penalty kicks, but he was very insensitive to penalty kicks.

But at this time, even if you let it go, you can't let it go. Zhao Yaning stood on the penalty spot. For him, any penalty kick is a misfortune. This time, he can only hope that the opponent's goalkeeper has judged the wrong position.

Kick, left side!

The goalkeeper's judgment made a mistake, Zhao Yaning made a penalty kick and successfully broke the net!

"Al!!! Zhao Yaning's hat trick!!! This is Liverpool's 20th hat trick since the Premier League!!!"

After a 3-1 win against Crystal Palace, Liverpool also ushered in new good news: Gerrard will return to play in the reserve team on Monday, and his injury has almost recovered.

And as Gerrard recovered from his injury, there was another news: Abramovich was inspired by Mourinho and decided to invest in Gerrard again. In addition to the unexpected transfer fee of 30 million pounds, he also stated that he would give Gerrard a contract with a weekly salary of 120,000 pounds.

In the current Premier League, the highest salary is Lampard's 90,000 pounds. Arsenal’s highest weekly salary is Campbell’s 80,000, Manchester United’s Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Keane’s 90,000. As for Liverpool, it is Zhao Yaning’s 60,000-his salary is on par with Owen. Gerrard is even lower, now only 56,000. The salary that Abu gave him was more than doubled. A weekly salary of 120,000 can basically be converted into nearly 6 million, which is not far from Zidane.

Such a price makes transfer rumors raging for a while, even Liverpool transfer manager Parry said that he does not rule out any possibility.

"Stephen will never leave." Carragher was the only one in the locker room, insisting that Gerrard would not leave.

I can only say that I hope so. Although Liverpool has secured the fourth place in the league, everyone knows that this result is definitely not reliable. After all, Manchester United has just caught up to fifth in the league, and in the Premier League over the years, Manchester United has never fallen out of the top three. They will definitely work hard in the second half, and Liverpool's lineup is not thick enough, there is still something going on in the future, it is a great thing for Liverpool to be able to come back with one more person. And if he was willing to stay, that would be great.

And the next week, it happens to be the national team game day. With this period of recovery, Gerrard should almost be able to play against Middlesbrough.

And this time the national team competition, there are not many people with competition tasks. Zhao Yaning was supposed to have a game to go back to China to play against Hong Kong, China, but for this kind of game, Zhao Yaning himself felt that it was unnecessary to play, let alone the group has already qualified, even if he did not qualify, he didn't bother to play: The season is determined to win the game, what's the point of playing?

And there is one more thing, that is, the Asian Footballer’s award ceremony, which also needs to be invited to attend.

There is no suspense in the selection this time. Last year, some people dared to compete with Zhao Yaning, but this year, Zhao Yaning's award is already an inevitable event that everyone knows.

As for this matter, Zhao Yaning's attitude is also the same-not interested, don't go.

For an award, he went all the way back to Asia, but he was too tired. He is not without this award, and more importantly, this award can be received on behalf of absent, so he naturally doesn't care about it.

However, after the awards, the two announcements made by the AFC still made Zhao Yaning a little bit unaware of what to say.

The first news is that the AFC has made a regulation: from this edition, no one will be allowed to be absent from the Asian Footballer’s awards ceremony. In the days to come, only those present will be regarded as candidates. , Other people who are not present will be handled as abstention.

"This can be considered as a special clause for you." Zhang Yuan, who is in China, also feels funny about this. The first time I heard that there was such a nonsense clause for awards, "Don't pay attention to him, anyway, the days of awards are all On the national team match day, when will I be happy in the future, I will come back and go around ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are two noisy words in the news, and they are even more troublesome."

This is just a smile, and I'll talk about things in the future. Anyway, the Asian Footballer is not a big deal, and no one can die if one less is won.

"And again, it's this world preliminaries grouping." When it comes to this question, Zhang Yuan's words are not loud, "We are divided into a group with Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Uzbekistan."

For these teams, Zhao Yaning was relieved.

Since it is divided into two groups, if you don't meet South Korea, you have to meet Japan. This is definitely something you didn't run. Zhao Yaning has played in Japan several times since he played, and it is impossible to meet Japan all the time. It is normal to meet South Korea once.

It is normal for Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan to be grouped together. There are many countries in West Asia, and it is normal that there are two West Asia countries in the group.

Of course, this group certainly does not seem to be as good as the other group's picks. The other group is Japan, Iran, Bahrain and North Korea-basically Japan and Iran are recommended for promotion.

After all, the AFC is in West Asia, and Japan and South Korea are equally divided. Their idea is probably to let Saudi Arabia rely on Uzbekistan to help advance, South Korea advances at the same time, and Japan and Iran advance, Bahrain does not have to think too much-if you change, maybe it will become Japan by Iran and China. Squeezed out of the top two in the group.

Of course, even if we are eliminated, there is still a way to survive. After all, it's just Bahrain or North Korea playing a play-off, and then another playoff with the Central American team, and then decide who can advance.

It's just... Zhao Yaning doesn't want to play two more games. Since you think South Korea and Saudi Arabia can shame me, let's try it.