Chapter 18: Manchester United and Liverpool

When Ancelotti saw Li Qingshan appear in front of him with his own eyes, he put down his hanging heart.

Li Qingshan was not injured because of the international break!

That's what Carlo Ancelotti cares about the most.

In the warm-up match between Argentina and Mexico, Di Maria went off in the first half with a hamstring strain, a message that made Ancelotti feel very bad.

Thankfully, with the exception of Angel Di Maria, the rest of the Manchester United players have returned to Carrington in good health.

This gives Carlo Ancelotti a lot of peace of mind about the upcoming game at home to Liverpool.

Liverpool are Manchester United's sworn rivals and it was a game that was watched by all over England. Li Qingshan is undoubtedly the player Ancelotti relies on the most. Seeing that Li Qingshan could play healthy, Ancelotti was relieved.

Among all the Manchester United players today, the most irreplaceable is Li Qingshan. Although strictly speaking, Li Qingshan was not bought by Ancelotti, but in Ancelotti's heart, Manchester United spent a lot of money to successfully buy Li Qingshan, which was a very important factor in his decision to accept Edwardwood's invitation to take over the coaching whip of Manchester United.

In today's Manchester United, if there is anyone who can change the outcome of the game by himself, it is only Li Qingshan.

In this kind of crucial game, without Li Qingshan's appearance, Ancelotti really can't rest assured.

Manchester United and Liverpool, two of the most glorious teams in English football.

If England also has a so-called national derby, then the clash between Liverpool and Manchester United should be a national derby.

However, the hatred between them is not because they are the most successful teams. Or rather, it's not just because of that.

The hatred between the two teams is often related to the two cities.

The regionality of football has brought the contradictions between regions into the stadium.

In Italy, the people of the north look down on the people of the south, so the teams of the south and the teams of the north are always in a fierce battle of all kinds. Also in England, there is such a situation.

The hatred between Manchester United and Liverpool stems from the deep-seated animosity between the two cities. More than 200 years ago, this kind of hostility began to emerge and sprout, and finally took root in the minds of the people of the two cities, becoming towering trees.

Liverpool is a famous port city in the United Kingdom, and many of the UK's maritime trade passes through Liverpool. Liverpool is one of the starting points for the famous maritime triangular trade. British slave traders, who loaded salt, cloth, rum, etc., from their own countries, exchanged them for their efforts in Africa, and then crossed the Atlantic along the central route, and exchanged them for sugar, tobacco, rice, and various industrial raw materials and minerals in the Americas.

At that time, Liverpool was quite brilliant, while Manchester was not famous.

But with the Industrial Revolution, the industrial powerhouse of Manchester rose rapidly. But as an industrial city, one of the big problems they encountered was that all their industrial raw materials had to pass through the port of Liverpool, and the two cities came together for 35 miles, but Liverpool was between Manchester and the ocean, which became a barrier that Manchester could not bypass.

If that's all there is to it, then the two cities are relatively safe.

But until one day, Liverpool began to impose large import duties on Manchester importers, which caused discontent throughout Manchester.

To deal with Liverpool, the Mancunians decided to dig an artificial canal that would allow the transport of raw materials and fleets to bypass Liverpool and reach Manchester directly.

As a result, the canal is the symbol of the city of Manchester, and to this day, Manchester United's crest bears the hallmarks of Manchester – the canal and the sailboats on the canal. The same is true for their city rivals, Manchester City.

However, Manchester United and Liverpool are two of England's most successful teams, and their glory days are different.

The fifties and sixties of the twentieth century belonged to Manchester United. And the next seventies and eighties belonged to Liverpool.

Since the beginning of the Premier League era, it has been basically the world of Manchester United.

The animosity between the two cities alone is not enough to make the animosity between Manchester United and Liverpool so deep.

The fact that the two teams became mortal enemies stemmed from their respective tragedies.

After Manchester United's Munich air disaster, some radical Liverpool fans ridiculed the tragedy and made up a lot of songs to sing during the match between the two sides! In the 80s, Liverpool also suffered the Heathborough massacre, and in retaliation, some radical Manchester United fans retaliated...... This makes the relationship between the two sides more and more stiff and worse.

To what extent is this hatred?

Manchester United and Liverpool, for more than 50 years, have not made any direct player deals!

Even Real Madrid and rivals like Barcelona, AC Milan and Inter Milan often trade players for each other. But Manchester United and Liverpool are really incompatible.

Li Qingshan actually has a good understanding of the hatred between Manchester United and Liverpool, when he played at FC United, after eliminating Liverpool, the fans of Manchester United celebrated wildly, and he is still impressed.

In Manchester United's dressing room, many Manchester United players have scolded Liverpool's players and team.

For professional footballers, each is his own. This hatred is directed at Liverpool, not at any one person. Many professional players are very adept at switching between this hateful gesture.

There is something in the wind. Such a heavyweight match made the training ground full of tension.

Carlo Ancelotti has even stepped up training specifically for Liverpool, and the usually good-tempered assistant coach Ryan Giggs has also grown up when he growls in training.

Ryan Giggs has dedicated his entire career to Manchester United and he understands what this game means to Manchester United and their fans.

The number of fans and reporters gathered around the training base to watch training and interviews gradually increased. Fans chanted various anti-Liverpool slogans, while reporters were concerned about whether Li Qingshan could continue his form of scoring every game in such a major game, and whether the national team match day would affect his feeling of scoring goals.

Such an atmosphere was something Li Qingshan could not feel when he was in Madrid.

Of course, there were also reporters who interviewed him and asked him what he thought of the game against Liverpool.

As a Manchester United player, he also showed his attitude: "I know how important this game is for our team and our fans! We're going to win! ”