Shao Jiayi, Li Yin, Li Weifeng, Xie Hui and Qi Hong all came, and everyone had a meal together, and everyone wanted to witness Fan Zhiyi being able to help Liverpool win this year's UEFA Cup.

Soon, the leagues in various European countries will end, but the Italian league will end at the latest, because at that time, in order to make time for the Italian Olympic team to play the Olympics, the start of the Serie A league was postponed by a month. Serie A doesn't end until 6 June, while the other leagues end at the end of May.

During the dinner, everyone talked about the Champions Cup final next Wednesday.

"Zheng Zhi, I'm about to win two Champions Leagues."

"You're only 21 years old."

Li Weifeng was envious, "You said that if you continue to stay in Frankfurt, does Frankfurt have any hope of winning the Champions Cup?" ”

"The brothers are also stained, tsk."

Zheng Zhi shook his head, "It's unlikely, if you stay in Frankfurt, unless there is a world-class player in every position, there is hope." The Champions Cup is too difficult to win, you have to have a certain amount of luck, and I was also lucky, I took a group of awesome teammates, just those teammates at Bayer Leverkusen last year, Ronaldinho, Ribery, Emerson and Lucio, etc., they will definitely be world-class stars in the future, the world's top. Many years later, everyone recalled, I grass, it turns out that they are so awesome! It's all at the Golden Globe level. ”

After thinking about it, he said: "Actually, we are the same, many years later, Chinese fans are old and recall, our Chinese team was very powerful, Fan Zhiyi, Shao Jiayi, Li Yin, Li Weifeng...... grabbed a lot of awesome players, beat Japan and South Korea to cry dad and mother, and Asia was the first. Well, the fans will be happy and we will be happy. This is our happy football years. ”

"So, let's cherish the days of playing, next month we will play the Confederations Cup, and next year we will play the World Cup, this is just the beginning!"

"Oh, by the way, big head, there's something I want to ask you about." Zheng Zhi suddenly changed the subject, bent down and lifted a white bag from under his feet.

"You have to hand over this bag to Ou Chuliang personally, but don't break it halfway!"

He deliberately accentuated his tone.

"What's that? Is it valuable? Li Weifeng's gaze fell on the bag.

"It's very valuable, this is a video tape for Ou Chuliang." Zheng Zhi nodded, "This is not an ordinary videotape, it is a training tape of Buffon and Kahn, ordinary people can't get it, I made a special call to ask them what they wanted, and the level of our national team goalkeeper must also be improved, there can be no shortcomings." ”

"I'm not going back late, you go back first, and you'll have two more weeks. You remember, I gave it to Ou Chuliang, not anyone else. ”

"Ou Chuliang still wants to go abroad. The Confederations Cup, the World Cup qualifiers are a good test for him. ”

"Don't worry, I'll give it to him myself." Li Weifeng nodded seriously.

"You too, learn more from your teammates. You see, now many media say that Fan Zhiyi is a world-class central defender, how awesome, you can too. ”

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Germany, Dortmund, West** Stadium.

The 2000/2001 UEFA Cup final kicks off at 8pm.

Liverpool have already won the FA Cup and League Cup, and if they can win the League Cup, they can achieve a small treble.

Facing Spain's Alaves, who are competing in Europe for the first time, they have become the biggest dark horses in the UEFA Cup, making it all the way to the final, and they will certainly hope to continue to pull off miracles.

Liverpool, who reached their first final since 1984, were hungry and thirsty.

Liverpool wore the traditional red jersey, and Alaves' specially designed shirt was an all-blue and yellow chest stripe, similar to Boca Juniors' home kit.

Sure enough, Fan Zhiyi, the captain of the Chinese national team, started in the No. 4 jersey!

Liverpool (4-4-2): Westerved; Babbel, Fan Zhiyi, Hyypia, Carragher; Gerald, Harman, McAllister, Murphy; Husky, Irving.

Alaves: Herrera, Conterra , Carmona, Telles, Egan, 7-Jerry, Tomic, Desio, Cruyff Jr., Astudillo, Moreno.

Alaves' formation is 541, and it seems that they want to defend tightly.

But just four minutes into the game, Liverpool took the lead, Heskey won a free-kick on the right, McAllister took the penalty, and Babel got ahead of Astudedillo to score his sixth goal of the season in his home country, and the crowd of about 20,000 Liverpool fans was excited.

Neither team was very fast in midfield, with Liverpool looking more solid at the back, with Fan Zhiyi's backline doing a good job.

The Liverpool team expanded the score to 2:0 in the 16th minute, after transferring through the front, Owen took the ball in the middle and made a clever direct pass, Gerrard inserted into the penalty area, and formed a one-on-one with goalkeeper Herrera, Gerrard shot vigorously, although Herrera made a save, the ball still flew into the door.

It seems that Liverpool's victory is a foregone conclusion. Houllier began to instruct the team to slow down the pace of attack, start focusing on defense, and play defensive counter-attacks.

But because of this change, it was Alaves who fought back wildly.

Alaves coach Sadio Mane was decisive when he was two goals down, replacing Norwegian defender Egan with Uruguayan striker Ivan Alonso.

The coach was indeed very decisive, only more than 20 minutes into the first half, he added a striker and replaced a defender. The effect is obvious.

In the 26th minute, La Liga's top scorer Moreno passed back to Romanian defender Contera, Contra crossed from the right, Babel did not look at Alonso, who had just come on the field, and was pulled back a point by Alonso's header.

For this conceded goal, although Fan Zhiyi was not the captain, he still walked to Babbel's side and angrily reprimanded Babbel.

I think he doesn't focus enough on defense, and his defense is so amateurish. Although Babbel scored the first goal, his most important responsibility was to defend!

Fan Zhiyi mixed up, and he is also a very high-status figure in Liverpool, otherwise he would not have reprimanded Babel.

Alaves was demoralised and had a succession of chances since then. In the 32nd minute, Telles took a free kick, Moreno received it in the penalty area, but Fan Zhiyi shoveled the ball out of the bottom line first, and after a corner kick on the left side, Telles turned and shot, and the ball was saved by Westerved.

In the 36th minute, Moreno missed a golden opportunity, he received a direct pass from his companion in the penalty area, cleverly deducted Babbel, but he was too hesitant to shoot, Fan Zhiyi, who rushed to make up for the defense, shoveled out the bottom line, after the left corner kick, Tomic fired a powerful low shot at the edge of the box, and Westerved saved the ball again.

"Awesome Fan Zhiyi!"

"I'm grass, if it wasn't for him, I think I would have conceded just now."

"Babbel is a big colander, and he always asks Fan Zhiyi to help fill in the position."

Liverpool's defence is relatively recyclable, the scene looks more passive, and if the defense is not focused enough, it is indeed quite dangerous.

And Fan Zhiyi's excellent performance is not only in defense.

40th minute!

Fan Zhiyi's highlight moment came again, Alaves failed to attack, Fan Zhiyi rushed out of the big penalty area, and after getting the ball, he immediately sent a long pass over the top!

Looking for Wonder Boy Owen, I don't need to talk about it. The ball landed in excellent place, Owen took advantage of the situation to unload the ball, rushed to the edge of the penalty area, and the defenders around him did not pull it. Alaves goalkeeper Herrera struck to the edge of the box, only to be swept past by Owen.

Herrera had to turn around to bring Owen down, and the referee didn't hesitate to point to the penalty spot, and McAllister took the spot-kick and smashed it into the bottom right corner of the net to give Liverpool a two-goal lead for the second time.

"Awesome, Fan Zhiyi!"

"This penalty can also be regarded as Fan Zhiyi's assist, right? Without him, Owen wouldn't have had a chance to score a penalty, right? ”

"I think the best performer right now is Fan Zhiyi!"

At half-time, Liverpool led Alaves 3-1.

In the second half, Mane brought on another striker: Magno from Brazil!

Terrible manager! Decisive manager!

When Liverpool fans thought the victory was in their hands, the Alaves did not give up, they were going to keep fighting, they were going to burst all their energy like crazy.

As a result, a miracle really happened.

In just seven minutes, Alaves miraculously equalised. In the 48th minute, Contra on the right flank swayed left and right, got rid of the defense of teenager Carragher, and passed the ball to the penalty area, and Moreno still put the ball into the net under the defense of Gerrard.

For this lost goal, Fan Zhiyi once again looked very helpless.

They're all pig teammates......

Three minutes later, Gerrard pulled down Moreno in front of the penalty area, and Alaves got a free kick opportunity 25 meters in front of the goal.

The situation changed abruptly, and the overall situation of winning the championship became a draw.

Even Zheng Zhi in the stands was quite crazy, and they really couldn't think of such a plot.

"Feel like Liverpool are going to lose?"

"Damn, I didn't take the opportunity twice, two firsts and two goals, alas!"

"It's a final, it's too relaxed, it's too casual, isn't it? Except for Fan Zhiyi, everyone else is not very reliable. ”

……

……

Houllier made his first substitution, Czech striker Smitchell replaced Babel, and he wanted to further compete with Alaves for attacking firepower!

The attack intensified and Owen immediately allowed Carmona to get a yellow card. But when the defense weakened, the defense also faltered.

Soon, Fan Zhiyi's brilliant tackle again defused Moreno's attack.

The two sides continued to make personnel changes, and Husky was replaced by Fowler. Sadio Mane brought off injured man Moreno and replaced him with midfielder Pablo.

Fowler came on and looked more active, and in the 72nd minute the Liverpool team overtook again, and the Alaves team still showed a hole in the middle, Fowler received a through ball from McAllister and fired a shot from 16 meters in front of the goal, which hit the bottom right corner of the goal.

4:3, crazy League Cup final!

Houllier made a third substitution, with Owen replaced by Czech midfielder Borg, who didn't want to let the lead go down the drain.

But he miscalculated again! The Alaves were not so easy to fall, and in the 89th minute, the Araves team took a corner kick from the right side, and Cruyff Jr. scored with a header in the crowd of defenders, and the score was tied at 4:4.

Both sides had to go into extra time, and the substitutions were all used up by this time.

It's so exciting.

The offense on both sides in extra time was much quieter, after all, everyone was exhausted, unable to play a decent attack, and the decline in fitness also increased fouls and set-pieces.

In the 98th minute, Hamann's free-kick went wide of the left post. A minute later, Magno tackled Steven Gerrard on the way back and was sent off for accumulating two yellow cards.

Liverpool ushered in the dawn of victory again, one more person, the army is pressed again!

In the 101st minute, Borg's long-range shot was saved by Herrera, and when Fowler tried to make a follow-up shot, it was cleared by Carmona's header, and the first half of extra-time was scoreless.

In the second half of extra time, Houllier still wanted to score, Liverpool continued to attack, but the 10-man Alaves recovered all the way, and even the strikers ran back into the big box, although Liverpool kept crossing from the side, but no one could grab the header.

Then Gerrard, Hamann, and Borg continued to bombard the goal outside the penalty area, but they still couldn't solve the goal.

Time flies, and the second half of extra time is coming to an end, and if it is still a draw, the most brutal penalty shoot-out will be played.

In the 117th minute, Alaves made matters worse, Carmona pulled down Smitchell outside the penalty area, and Alaves only had nine men left on the field!

And Fan Zhiyi, who had been defending in the backfield in this game, finally rushed into the Alaves penalty area to participate in the attack.

McAllister took a free kick from the left side, Fan Zhi rushed forward angrily, pressed Cruyff Jr., and threw his head to the left!

Boom!

The ball went straight to the far side of the goal, the Alaves goalkeeper was out of reach, there was no movement at all, and the ball flew into the top left corner of the goal!

"I'm grass!"

"I'm grass!"

"I'm grass!"

"Fan Zhiyi !!!!!!!!!!"

Zheng Zhi in the stands immediately went crazy.

Fan Zhiyi's header is a lore ball!

The score became 5:4, and as extra time was about to end, Fan Zhiyi allowed Liverpool to regain the lead.

There are only nine people, what else can Alaves jump on?

They couldn't organise the attack in the last three minutes, and if they could get through those three minutes, they still had hope, but for now?

At the end of the game, Liverpool defeated Alaves 5-4 and lifted the UEFA Cup trophy in the 00/01 season! Fan is destined to go down in the history of football in Liverpool and Europe.

And he won the title of the best player in the league finals!

CCBV5's Huang Jianxiang even shouted:

"After Zheng Zhi, another world-class star of the Chinese national team, Fan Zhiyi!"

"After Zheng Zhi, Fan Zhiyi also became the second Chinese player to win the European championship!"

"After Zheng Zhi, Fan Zhiyi also became the best player in the European final!"

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