The sky was gray, and outside the riverside stadium under the rolling thick clouds, a long queue of cars was discharged.

The driver's anxious honking sounded one after another, causing the anti-theft of the old second-hand cars in the second-hand car warehouse on the side of the road to follow suit, and the entire Duke Road became very lively.

To the north is the dock of Middlesborough, where large cargo ships are leaning against the dock and sucking containers, and the rumbling machinery can be heard very clearly even on the congested road.

The riverside stadium was just in front of it, separated by a fence, but the team's bus was blocked at the gate.

"You guys immediately arrange for someone to come over and clear it, we have arrived at the stadium, we must enter the locker room as soon as possible, otherwise, if there is any accident, you will be responsible!" Dalglish called the reception staff at Middlesbrough, and the voice was a little unfriendly.

Stadium congestion, this is a very common occurrence, especially in England, many fans come to the scene by car, it is strange not to be stuck in traffic, and even a week ago the Community Shield, outside the Millennium Stadium, after the game, Liverpool was blocked for more than 2 hours, you can imagine how serious it is.

"Don't be impatient, it's still early!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

It's just over an hour before the start of the game.

"It's also an old city, developed from villages and towns, and the roads are congested, unplanned, and congested at critical moments." Israshi looked out the window and said with a smile.

Middlesbrough are an old team, but in the more than 100-year history of this team, they have never won the league title, their best result in history is third in the league, and they have fallen into the lower leagues many times.

Even with such a team, in a city with only 10,000 people, the attendance at Riverside Stadium is still very good.

Seeing the group of fans flocking to the Riverside Stadium below, everyone will be convinced that there really is such a kind of fan in this world, and they support the team not because of the championship, not because of honor, but because of faith.

"This season, Middlesbrough has made a lot of reinforcements, Barcelona's Roshenbach, Portsmouth's Yakub, Leverkusen's Bogates, of which Yakub spent McLaren's high price of 10,000 euros, I believe he will use Yakub and Hasselbaink to form a double striker this season. ”

The current Middlesbrough squad is strong, with strikers such as Hasselbaink and Viduka, midfielders such as Downing, Parloer, Bouaten and Mendieta, stars at the back such as Gareth Southgate, Essiogu and Reziger, and Australian international Mark Bludze in goal.

It should be said that from the overall strength point of view, Middlesbrough is definitely not bad, the reason why they were able to enter the European qualification zone last season is that this group of players are very experienced, and the strength is also very strong, the only shortcoming is that in the second half of the season, the physical problems are highlighted, and the results have dropped a lot.

But as the opponent in the first round of the league, Liverpool does not dare to underestimate this team.

"Reina, Reese, Hyypia, Carragher, Glenn, Johnson, Gerrard, Carrick, Essien, Rowe Jr., Larson, Rolai...

In the home dressing room at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium, McClaren's first reaction when he picked up Liverpool's squad was surprise as he had guessed Liverpool's squad correctly and there was not a single mistake, as the most difficult forward position to guess was also most evident when Didier Drogba sprained his foot.

"It seems that he really wants to press and attack on the Riverside Stadium!" McLaren said with a laugh.

The assistant on the side also smiled, "I'm afraid he will regret it, because this is the riverside court!" ”

McClaren laughed, "Liverpool are really strong, but the two wings are too attacking and defending, just like I said before, as long as we can limit Liverpool in midfield and cut off the link between their front and back courts, we can freeze their attack, just like Chelsea did." ”

Jose Mourinho's side has given other teams a lot to learn from when it comes to limiting Liverpool's attack, at least he has given all teams hope to limit Liverpool's attack. …,

'We are not as good as Chelsea in terms of quality, so we fill it with numbers and we have been preparing for this game for a long time!' McLaren felt his blood boiling, at least he was looking forward to fighting Yang Cheng.

Defeating Yang Cheng is undoubtedly the best shortcut to the sky, no matter who can beat him, he will be able to make his name on the front page of tomorrow's major newspapers, so that fans all over the world will recognize themselves, how many people's dreams are?

The assistant couldn't stop nodding, "We deliberately put on a forging tactic that followed last season's strategy in the previous warm-up game, which made many people think that our overall tactics have not changed, and if we suddenly change the formation, we will definitely be able to catch Liverpool off guard!" ”

McLaren got Liverpool's lineup, and Yang Cheng also got McLaren's lineup.

'Something wasn't quite right, McClaren had five midfielders in his squad in one go. When Paul and Bayer saw the list, their eyelids jumped, and there was a big difference with Liverpool's speculation.

"I'll see!" Yang Cheng took a look, and the surrounding Benitez also came over.

Schwarzer, Reziger, Southgate, Esiogu, Downing, Boaten, Roshenbach, Parloer, Mendieta, Hasselbaink, Yakubu.

"What the hell is this guy playing? Sudden change of formation? Benitez was also a little surprised.

But this surprise is not obvious, because to be honest, in terms of overall strength, Liverpool have an absolute advantage.

"Do you think the formation change has an effect?" Yang Cheng asked rhetorically.

When the assistants heard this, they all laughed in unison.

Middlesbrough's squad is a notch behind Chelsea's, a gap that cannot be filled, and if you want to make up for it with numbers, it's a risk, which can work, but it can also lead to players being confused on the pitch and the team as a whole becoming more chaotic.

"Perhaps, we should give McLaren a wake-up call to wake up and stop dreaming!"

McLaren is indeed dreaming, so from the beginning, he stood on the side of the court, waving at the players with a very famous and handsome hand, making a series of adjustments, and looked more like a world famous coach than Yang Cheng.

On the contrary, it was Yang Cheng in front of the coach's seat of the away team who watched him perform with interest.

In the 3rd minute, Xiao Xiaoluo cut inside on the left side and fired a low shot that was confiscated by the goalkeeper.

In the 5th minute, it was Xiao Xiaoluo who broke through on the left side and crossed, and Larsson's shot was blocked.

In the 7th minute, Liverpool's free-kick in front of the field was headed high by Hyypia

Although Liverpool have the initiative, Middlesbrough are still strengthening their defence.

"It seems that Liverpool don't have a good way to take Middlesbrough!" Andy was a little puzzled that although Liverpool played well on both flanks, Middlesbrough's defense was not bad.

Especially after seeing McLaren's shouting and actions on the sidelines, Andy Gray couldn't help but believe that this guy had a play, "McLaren seems to be determined to win this game!" ”。

But as soon as these words came out, I saw that after adapting to Middlesbrough's defense, Liverpool began to exert strength.

First, the bell, Xiao Xiao Luo reached the bottom line after a quick personal breakthrough on the left side, and passed the ball to the right side of the front of the Middlesbrough penalty area after the emergency stop, and saw Robben inserted in the back row, facing the incoming ball, without the slightest adjustment, directly picked up his left foot, which was a volley.

The ball crossed an arc, past Schwarzer's hands, and into the Middlesbrough goal.

After the goal, Robben rushed up and knocked down Xiaoxiao and Luo, which was also Liverpool's first goal of the season.

But just two minutes later, it was Ronaldo who broke through on the left and picked up a cross at the front post, Larsson's header flicked back, and Gerrard, who was inserted in the back row, smashed the ground with a close-range header to break through the Middlesbrough goal again.

"Oh my God, conceding two goals in three minutes, it's dangerous, McClaren has to make adjustments as soon as possible!" Andy Thunder couldn't help but exclaim, no one thought that Liverpool's goal momentum would come so fiercely.

McLaren's so-called half-time limit turned out to be a joke. …,

His tragic discovery was that Liverpool were more likely to put Ronaldo and Robben on the left and right wings, and then use Carrick and Gerrard to transfer the ball to their feet, and they would attack.

The back 3 has always suffered from the wide defense, and Middlesbrough has a large number of midfielders, but it has not formed an advantage, but it gives people a sense of confusion, so even if McClaren makes adjustments, Liverpool's offensive has not stopped.

In the first flying minute, Robben advanced with the ball on the right side and cut inside, and in the front of the penalty area straight behind Sesosgate, Larsson successfully countered offside and pushed from close range, Schwarzer could only watch the ball roll into the goal again, A lead

After a period of attack, Liverpool completely dominated the situation on the pitch, McClaren sadly found that his team could not even organize an effective defense, because Liverpool's attacking methods were very diverse, and without Derog, they played all the ground with routines, passed and received the ball very fast, dazzling, Middlesbrough simply could not keep up.

Old, is a characteristic of Middlesbrough's backline, the youngest Reziger is also old, Esio Gusho is old, captain Southgate is old, and the players who are piled up in the middle are also not the kind of midfield defenders who can stand up the backbone of a team.

Coupled with the large number of people, the gap in the team is too large, and the impact of Liverpool's sharp attack immediately collapses, but Liverpool, the more they play, the more they play, the more threatening they are, and the players are more and more skilled in cooperating with each other.

After a sigh of relief, Liverpool broke Middlesbrough again in the first minute to rewrite the score to A4, this time it was Gerrard who scored, Robben broke through on the right side and crossed, Larsson deliberately missed, Gerrard pushed the empty goal.

But in stoppage time in the first half, Xiao Xiaoluo burst into the left side of the penalty area, received Larsson's knockback, and volleyed vigorously to rewrite the score to A5!

Middlesbrough had completely collapsed, but at half-time, McClaren did not make any substitutions, only made changes to the team, because he simply couldn't think of how to adjust to stabilize the situation.

But at the beginning of the second half, Gerrard's hat-trick made Middlesbrough dizzy.

The Liverpool captain scored his first hat-trick of the season with a long-range shot from the edge of the box that went straight past Schwarzer's goal.

Gerrard looked extremely excited after scoring the goal, and he even ran around the stadium in one breath, so that Yang Cheng, who originally wanted him to play a little longer, replaced him with Arshavin in the first minute.

After the Russian came on, Liverpool's attack did not slow down at all, but played more sharply, and the Russian was very penetrating in his passing, and his position was more forward, echoing Carrick's forward and backward. It was Arshavin who played Robben's offside position in the 73rd minute, dribbled past the goalkeeper and scored an empty goal, and the Dutchman also scored his second goal of the game.

In the end, Liverpool thrashed Middlesbrough 70 away.

After the referee half-blew the whistle for the end of the game, Yang Cheng walked to the home team's coach's seat with a smile.

McClaren was still stunned in the dugout, it was definitely the most painful defeat of his coaching career, and he didn't even understand where he had failed.

"Thank you, Steve, it's been a great fight!" Yang Cheng politely stretched out his hand.

McLaren was like a walking corpse, smiling bitterly, not knowing how to answer, could he say, yes, it's wonderful? Or like, oh no, it's not wonderful at all!

No matter how he answered, he simply didn't speak.

"Come on!" Seeing him like this, Yang Cheng didn't want to continue to bully honest people, patted him on the shoulder to show encouragement, and then left, except for a few opponents, he rarely did that kind of thing.

Liverpool's 70-thrashing away at Middlesbrough immediately became the most eye-catching game of the Premier League's first round.

The Reds led by Yang Cheng have always given people a sharp attacking feeling, but playing such a strong score in the first game of the new season also made everyone feel terrified of Liverpool's attack. …,

As Yang Cheng said to his assistant group in the boot room, Liverpool's fast-playing whirlwind tactics are definitely a weapon to grab points when facing middle and lower teams, because the opponent's defensive system is simply difficult to be as rigorous as Chelsea and Juventus, which will give Liverpool enough space to move and the gap in player strength, resulting in Liverpool will get a lot of scoring opportunities.

Against Middlesbrough, Liverpool created 33 shots on goal, and if it weren't for the slightly worse ability of the players to take advantage of the chances, it is estimated that the score would have doubled.

With this big victory, Liverpool took the lead in the Premier League in the first round of the new season.

But the rest of the rivals were not to be outdone, with United beating Everton 20 away in the opener, while Arsenal did not at home. Beat Newcastle to beat Chelsea 10 minutes away and beat promoted Mawigan.

In the top four of the Premier League, except for Chelsea's unconvincing victory, the other three games, the top four teams have shown a higher level of strength than their opponents and overwhelmed their league opponents as a whole.

This also made many football critics comment in the column after the end of this round of games, believing that the top four in the new season have been determined, and they must be Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, and the key is the question of ranking.

"It's hard for other teams to shake the Champions League qualification for these four teams!"

As if to confirm this reality, the second round of the Premier League, first with Manchester United,:. A home win over Aston Villa kicked off the game, followed by Liverpool's home four. A big win over promoted Sunderland entered the climax, and Chelsea beat the Gunners 1-0 in a strong conversation with Arsenal to continue their pursuit of Liverpool.

Three days later, Liverpool beat Charlton Athletic again on 5 away games to win the opening three in a row, although Manchester United beat Wigan 4-0 and Chelsea Hill. A big win over West Bromwich Albion, a big win over Arsenal Hill and a big win over Fulham, but none of the three rivals could shake Liverpool's grip on the Premier League leaders.

Xianlun League, scoring old goals, conceding, goals, such an excellent record, not only makes Liverpool occupy the leading position in the Premier League, but also makes the entire European football world marvel at the strong attacking power of this Liverpool team.

Of course, there are also many people who believe that the three teams Liverpool have faced are not strong and have not experienced a real test, so the big score can only say that they have a solid score against the weak team, but it does not mean that they will continue to maintain this advantage, after all, Manchester United and Chelsea are also close behind with three consecutive wins.

It is worth mentioning that Chelsea, the new striker Torres who has been introduced this season has completely exploded against West Bromwich Albion after adjustments, scoring two goals, an assist, and an indirect instigation "The Spanish golden boy directed this big win for Chelsea, and proved that his strength is worthy of any team to pay a sky-high price for him."

The game was also interpreted as a sign of an all-round improvement in Chelsea's attack.

Just two days later, Chelsea challenged Tottenham away to Hotspur, and it was goals from Torres and Del and Orno, two new league stars, who helped Chelsea to lose. Retreat from White Hart Lane Stadium.

Manchester United beat Newcastle 20 away to make it four wins in a row.

Due to Liverpool's participation in the UEFA Super Cup, Liverpool's home game against Arsenal was postponed to February of the year to make up the match, and due to the lack of a round, Liverpool relinquished the league leader.

But it's not that Chelsea and Manchester United are on a winning streak, it's that both teams have kept clean sheets so far, and while not as many goals as Liverpool, it's impressive enough.

Anyone with a modicum of analytical skills knows that the Premier League title for the new season has begun, whether it is Manchester United, Chelsea or Liverpool, who have a game in hand, they have already sounded the clarion call to attack the league title in advance.

The Premier League title race for the new season. ）