Chapter 135: Li Qingshan's grievances with Liverpool

After stabilizing the situation in the league, Atletico Madrid will soon have a second round of group stage matches at home, with English giants Liverpool coming to the Calderón Stadium to take on Atletico Madrid.

Due to the two-week FIFA international break in September, all five matches in September were played in the second half of the month. With five games to play in 15 days, the schedule is quite tight.

Although the second round of the Champions League group stage is on October 2, Atletico Madrid is not destined to be an easy match due to a La Liga match just four days ago.

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Liverpool is a relatively familiar team for Atletico Madrid. The two sides have not played each other many times, even if you count the friendlies, they have only played each other five times. But these five times are not too far away from now. The first meeting between the two sides was in the UEFA Champions League, and in the 2008-2009 season, the two sides were drawn in a group group, and both sides drew 1-1 home and away. This was followed by a friendly match at Anfield on 8 August 2009 in the summer warm-up match that ended that season, where Liverpool lost 2-1 at home to Atletico Madrid. Then in the 2009-2010 Europa League, the two sides met in the semi-finals, Atletico Madrid won 1-0 at home, and then away, at Anfield, Liverpool led Atletico Madrid 1-0 in regulation time, and went into extra-time 1-1 on aggregate, in which Benayoun scored but Forlan then equalised. The two sides drew 2-2 on aggregate and Atletico advanced to the final thanks to an away goal advantage. If you don't count the friendly match, in the official match, the two sides have played each other four times, with two wins and two losses.

But time has passed, a few years later, in the semi-finals of the League Cup, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid encountered very different, Simeone's team has been steadily improving in the past two or three years, winning the Europa League, the Copa del Rey, La Liga, and finally even the Champions League, while Liverpool continues to sink in the fifth and sixth place positions in the Premier League, difficult to participate in the Champions League, and finally last season, Brendan Rodgers' side would have been in hope of lifting Liverpool's first-ever Premier League trophy if it hadn't been for Steven Gerrard's slip..........

Regardless, despite losing the title, Liverpool at least qualified for the Champions League, and last season was not a complete failure.

But this season's Premier League has played six rounds, Liverpool has not been able to regain the form of last season, they lost 1-3 to Manchester City, 0-1 to Aston Villa, 1-3 to West Ham United in six rounds, and also drew 1-1 with Everton in the latest round of Premier League games, only two wins in the first six rounds of the season, and seven points are ranked 14th in the Premier League, the state is quite bad.

Now it seems that the loss of their star Suarez is indeed very difficult for Liverpool........ Of course, even if Suarez did not leave Liverpool, the Uruguayan star would not be able to play for Liverpool, and at the World Cup, Suarez gnawed on the Chiellini affair, which led to a six-month ban from FIFA.

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Li Qingshan is no stranger to the Liverpool team, and Liverpool is no stranger to him.

More than two years ago, it was in the FA Cup that FC United led by Li Qingshan defeated Liverpool in one fell swoop to advance, and FC United was able to appear at Old Trafford. At that time, Li Qingshan was just a nobody, an amateur player playing for an amateur team, and now, he has become the leading striker of La Liga giants Atletico Madrid.

Before the game, the Liverpool media dug up this grievance between Li Qingshan and Liverpool, warned the Liverpudlians, and told everyone that the Atletico Madrid striker had killed Liverpool more than two years ago.

The Madrid media are also happy to report on such things, and the story of an amateur team fighting a century-old English giant, the hero's dragon slaying story will always be loved by the audience, whether it is an English audience or a Spanish audience.

When the whole Liverpool team walked off the airport in Madrid, Liverpool's players and coaches were frequently asked about Li Qingshan's story.

In the three years since Rodgers took office, almost the entire Liverpool has been replaced, and the Liverpool players who played in that game are only Sturridge, Gerrard, Henderson, and Lucas in Liverpool's Champions League squad this time.

Speaking to the media in Madrid, Gerrard said: "We underestimated the threat that this big man posed to our defence. But at the time, I could not have imagined that in less than three years, that humble amateur player would grow into a striker worthy of any accolades. ”

And Liverpool's coach Brendan Rodgers also mentioned Li Qingshan in the interview: "At that time, I thought this young man had great potential, but when I learned that he was 19 years old at that time, I hesitated. This is probably one of the biggest regrets I've had in my years at Liverpool. Rodgers' mood doesn't look like it's been affected by Liverpool's poor record in the league, he joked with reporters.

Of course, there are also Liverpool media who took Rodgers' words to interview Li Qingshan.

The current Li Qingshan is no longer the nobody he used to be, and for Liverpool, such a center forward may still be difficult for them to climb. If Atletico Madrid puts Li Qingshan on the transfer market, it will be difficult for Liverpool's financial resources to compete with Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, and even Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1. Now Li Qingshan has become a player that only the top club with the most abundant capital in the world is capable of competing for.

But Liverpool's reporters don't think so, they think that Liverpool is also a super giant in England, so when they say Rodgers's words in a somewhat superior tone, Li Qingshan can easily feel the superiority of the "old aristocrats" of the group of Liverpool reporters in front of him.

So he made a long story short with a smile: "Ha, I'm grateful to Mr Brenders for his compliment, but I was an FC United player at the time, and if Karl had known that I had been involved with Liverpool, I would have been locked in the underground garage of Gig Lane the next day." ”

After saying this, Li Qingshan turned around and left, leaving the confused Liverpool reporters looking at each other.

Who is Carl?

What the hell is Gig Lane Stadium?

The Liverpool sports journalists are not interested in learning about an amateur team that is currently struggling in the sixth tier.......