Xiao Xiaoluo is in a bad mood, which everyone can see, and his recent performance on the field is indeed not very good, and it can even be said that it is relatively poor, for example, in this game against Tottenham, he was not put into the lineup by Yang Cheng, but let him sit on the bench, and let Ribery, who has performed well recently, take the role.

There is the idea of Yang Cheng to stay for the midweek Champions Cup, and more importantly, he hopes that Xiao Xiaoluo will have a good rest.

In this game, Xiao Xiaoluo felt as if he was a foil to make up the numbers.

But he didn't blame anyone for this, including head coach Yang Cheng, on the contrary, although he usually doesn't talk much, he respects Yang Cheng very much, because in the past two years, it is Yang Cheng's continuous improvement and cultivation that has created his progress today.

He will never complain about such a benefactor, he is not the kind of person who is ungrateful.

What's more, Yang Cheng did this for no reason.

His father has been in the best hospital in London for a month, he has liver and kidney problems, and it is very serious, the doctor even issued a critical illness notice, which is the root cause of his condition and performance, he himself knows, Yang Cheng also knows, and even on the afternoon of the team's arrival in London, Yang Cheng also specially took the three captains of the team and the management to visit the hospital in person.

This makes him feel a restless fear at all times, worried about hearing something bad.

"Are you all ready?" Gerald asked loudly as he packed up his things.

The players are all packed.

Gerald looked at Xiao Luo in a daze, "Cristiano, how's it going?" ”

"That's it!" Xiao Xiaoluo replied that he had nothing to pack, he didn't participate in the competition, and the clothes on his body were dry, "Wait a minute, I'll stop the taxi outside, I'll go to the hospital, and I'll return to Liverpool later." ”

It's not surprising that the teammates know about Xiao Xiaoluo.

"Greet your father for me!" Gerard walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

"I'm going to recover!" Hyypia said.

"Be strong!"

The teammates comforted and encouraged one after another, Xiao Xiaoluo kept nodding, and he kept telling himself to be strong.

At this moment, the door of the locker room was pushed open directly, and as soon as Yang Cheng walked into the locker room, he immediately searched the crowd, and then landed on Xiao Xiaoluo.

This made the Portuguese panic for no reason, and he had been afraid all along.

Everyone was startled by Yang Cheng's push on the door, and then they all looked strangely at the head coach who slowly walked towards Xiao Xiaoluo.

"I'm sorry, Cristiano!" Yang Cheng shook his head and sighed.

Just one sentence, Xiao Xiaoluo's whole person was frozen, the whole person was like a deflated balloon that couldn't think, his brain was buzzing, and it was a mess, like a pot of paste, and he couldn't tell what was what.

Yang Cheng gently put his arm on Xiao Xiaoluo's shoulder and patted his face gently, "Man, you can cry if you want to, but when you go out, you have to be strong, from now on, you will be the pillar of your family, you have to be strong!" ”

Tears rolled in Xiao Xiaoluo's eyes, he clenched his teeth, clenched his hands into fists, took a deep breath, and nodded.

"Go ahead, stay with your family well, wait until everything is settled and taken care of, and then come back, the time is up to you!"

Xiao Xiaoluo slowly pulled up his travel bag, didn't say a word from beginning to end, just nodded slightly towards Yang Cheng, and left the locker room.

Yang Cheng has asked Norman = Gade to help him deal with some things, for example, he wants to airlift his father's body back to Portugal, which requires some formalities, with Norman = Gade here, things will be much easier, saving them from having to do everything by Xiao Xiaoluo, causing them trouble.

Watching Xiao Xiaoluo leave, Yang Cheng was also a little emotional, and after greeting the players, he walked out of the locker room directly.

Although the Portuguese has a good Ribery in his position, the next few games will be hard-hitting, and with Didier Drogba out injured, it may have an impact on Liverpool's fighting power.

But who would have expected this to happen?

The news was published on Liverpool's official website for the first time, which immediately caused a lot of repercussions among Liverpool fans. ..., you know, since Xiao Luo came to Liverpool, his performance in the team has been very popular with fans, he is handsome and has good football skills, so he is naturally liked by fans, especially female fans, he is recognized as the most popular person among female fans in the Liverpool team except for Yang Cheng.

In the last two seasons, Ronaldo has been one of the team's back-to-back champions, which has made the KOPs send their comfort and encouragement to the Portuguese after hearing the bad news.

Faced with this sudden change, it did disrupt Yang Cheng's set-up, if he had known in advance, Ribery would not have played the whole league game, at least he would have been prepared, because it was Villarreal who faced in the middle of the week.

Manuel Pellegrini's yellow submarine is not ordinary, especially since they also have a very good tradition, which is that in European competitions, whether it is the League Cup or the Champions Cup, they have never lost to an English team, mind you, all the teams in England, the whole British Isles.

It's hard to say if it had a psychological effect, but at least it was a rush back to Liverpool from London and from Liverpool to Spain, where Liverpool played Villarreal with a 22 at the Love Song Stadium

Ribery, who replaced Xiao Xiaoluo on the left side, performed very averagely, first in the national team game, and then in the Premier League, Ribery's physical fitness was indeed a little unbearable, which made Villarreal have a way to freeze Liverpool's attack, and then Yang Cheng replaced Ribery with Murphy and began to try to change the formation, and the effect was not very good.

In the end, Liverpool achieved Villarreal's unbeaten European record against an English team, and also suffered a dark start to the Champions League.

A 22-22 draw away at Villarreal was not an unacceptable scoreline, but Juventus beat Portugal's Benfica 21 away to give the Bianconeri a hard-fought and even unconvincing win to top their group.

Returning to England from the Love Song Stadium, Liverpool drew 1-1 away to Manchester United in the first league game.

This made Yang Cheng spray directly in front of Ferguson at the post-match press conference.

'He's always doing things that hurt others and he's always feeling like he's taking advantage of him, but he's actually miscalculated, and lo and behold, Chelsea won away at Charlton Athletic and they continue to go on a run in the Premier League. Yang Cheng scolded with a smile.

Ferguson was also happy, "Why do I think it's Liverpool pulling us back? At least we're closer to Chelsea in the league than Liverpool! ”

"yes, with one less round of our game!" Yang Cheng sarcastically mocked him again.

A group of reporters saw the conversation between the old and the young, laughing frequently, no matter how you look at these two people, they look like old friends are sarcastic and ridiculing each other, there is no feeling of sworn enemies at all, but the fans of both sides attack each other very badly.

However, Yang Cheng also said bluntly about the draw in this game, "This will make the next game even more difficult." ”

'Some people say that if you want to challenge Chelsea, you have to stay unbeaten in the league and try to keep draws to a minimum, because Chelsea will be stronger than ever this season – so as a competitor there are fewer opportunities to make mistakes than ever before, and I don't want to say whether that is right or wrong.

Chelsea's start to the season has been spectacular, with six wins in a row and clean sheets, which is not just the top of England, but even the whole of Europe.

'I think Chelsea may be doing well, very good, but we're not bad either, yes, we're four points behind Chelsea for the time being, but don't forget, there are still two games in the season that we can control directly, and that's when we play home and away against Chelsea, and if we win both, then we'll be ahead of Chelsea in turn.'

After a pause, Yang Cheng smiled, "It's too early to talk about anything, the battle for the league championship has just started, Chelsea's start is faster than ours, but the league is a marathon, real marathon runners will not rush to speed at the start, they like to come from behind!" ”

'I believe as long as we beat Chelsea in the league and it will be a completely different situation!'

As for a reporter asked about Xiao Xiaoluo's situation, Yang Cheng said, "He is busy with his father's aftermath in Portugal, I won't put pressure on him, I hope he can adjust his emotions well, and wait until he feels that he can play, and then return to the team." Yang Cheng, the replacement of Xiao Xiao Luo, chose Ribery, he said that the French will take on the burden of attacking on the left during Xiao Xiao Luo's absence, and he believes that the French have enough strength to deal with this challenge.

However, Ferguson said that he firmly believes that his former protégé, Steve = Bruce, will be able to snipe Liverpool at St Andrews and get out of the shadow of three consecutive defeats.

Unfortunately, Liverpool's away game against Birmingham City was scheduled to kick off at 12.45pm.

As if affected by the early start time, Liverpool was slow to enter the game.

Throughout the first half, Liverpool created enough advantages, but there was always a feeling of slowness, especially in front of goal, Drogba who returned from injury never took his chances, plus Ribery on the left and Robben on the right, the front trident was still sharp, but not lethal enough.

Of course, this can also be seen as Steve = Bruce's restraint on Liverpool.

But in the second half, Liverpool began to wake up.

It was captain Steven Gerrard who was the first to sound the team's attacking horn, and his position in the second half was moved by Yang Cheng to the front, and even gave him the power to be active behind Drogba, which gave the Liverpool captain a rare performance at the beginning, and he volleyed wide after passing two players in a row on the edge of the box.

Although the shot did not score, it sounded the horn of Liverpool's attack.

Then it was Gerrard's brilliant pass, which assisted Glenn = Johnson to reach into the box, but the shot was saved by the opposing goalkeeper.

As soon as Gerrard lived, Liverpool's attack also came alive, and began to play wave after wave of attacks, which overwhelmed Birmingham a little breathlessly.

In the 68th minute, Essien broke the ball and handed it to Carrick, who knocked the ball to Gerrard with a touch, and the Liverpool captain took advantage of the situation to pass the ball between the two opposing centre-backs and behind him.

Robben cut in quickly from the right, and the Dutchman's speed stopped all the defenders behind him in an instant, and after winning the ball, he entered the penalty area, and in the face of the attacking goalkeeper Taylor, Robben calmly deceived the opponent with a fake move and sent the ball directly into the Birmingham goal to open the scoring for Liverpool.

Just three minutes later, it was Steven Gerrard who cut in the middle and found an opportunity to cross the ball diagonally to the right side of the Birmingham defence, where Robben cut in and crossed the ball into the middle of the line.

Deba was already poised to head home from close range, and goalkeeper Taylor reacted quickly. The ball saved, but Ribery, who was on the back row, stretched out his foot and poked the ball into the Birmingham goal, 0:2

After scoring two goals in a row, Liverpool also began to breathe a sigh of relief and grind with Birmingham City slowly.

In the end, the game ended at 20 and Liverpool picked up a valuable three points from away.

After the end of the league, the situation of the entire Premier League has gradually become clearer.

Chelsea made it seven wins in a row in a run in the Premier League thanks to two goals at home to Aston Villa 20, but what is even more surprising is that the Blues have not conceded a single goal so far this season.

While everyone was amazed by Chelsea's near-impregnable defence, they also noticed Chelsea's improvement, such as Jose Mourinho's side, who beat Wigan and Arsenal 1-0 in the first two rounds of the season, and West Bromwich Albion 0 in the league, all four games this season have been 2-0

So much so that when Yang Cheng was interviewed by reporters, he joked with a smile: "Yes, in the future, we can't say that Mourinho pursued a 1:0 doctrine at Chelsea, because that is a great disrespect to him, at least he has changed to 20 now!" ”

With 14 goals scored and 0 conceded against the Premier League, the record is truly outstanding and impeccable, and Jose Mourinho's Chelsea are impressive, at least they are enough to please every Blues fan in both attack and defence.

Third in the league is Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, and after suffering a run of four wins in a row, the Red Devils suffered some incredible losses in the following slump of two draws and one defeat, with three games without a win, two of which were drawn at home to Manchester City and Liverpool, and the defeat was the first league defeat to Blackburn.

As Yang Cheng said before the season, although Ferguson has brought in a number of players, neither Ashley = Young nor Park Ji-sung can become the perfect piece of the puzzle for Manchester United's midfield, at least they will not have such strength for a year or two. ..., so after the defeat to Blackburn, Ferguson had to admit that the league had just started, but Manchester United had lost the right to fight for the title.

'It's a shame but I have to say that this season's title will be between Chelsea and Liverpool, and I'm personally more optimistic about Chelsea because they have a luxury squad that any manager in the world will covet.

After all, after a winless game, Manchester United has been pulled out of the five-point gap by Chelsea, which is almost a difficult point for the title race, especially when Chelsea is in such good form.

As for the other team in the top four of the Premier League, Arsenal, they are the first to fall behind, although due to the game with Liverpool was postponed to February, Arsenal played 6 games, but the record of 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses is definitely not a report card that should be taken out to create an impact on the league championship, if the loss to Chelsea is understandable, then the away loss to Middlesbrough is definitely a mistake, plus 00 draw West Ham United, the Gunners have basically announced their withdrawal from the title race.

The race for the Premier League title this season is extremely fierce, with Chelsea leading the way with seven consecutive wins, followed by Liverpool with an unbeaten record of five wins and one draw with one game less.

The clash between these two teams will be decided at Anfield Stadium, and this game is also hailed as a game that has the potential to affect the trend of the league this season.

The Sun even published a comment on its front page directly after the end of the league that whoever wins the battle at Anfield between Liverpool and Chelsea will become the Premier League champions this season.

The newspaper, which is still blocked by Yang Cheng and Liverpool, is clearly more optimistic about Chelsea, and in their interview with Jose Mourinho, they specifically mentioned the upcoming game at Anfield, with the Portuguese madman saying he would pick up three points at Anfield.

'Yes, I feel that the team has improved from last season, we are stronger defensively and more threatening in attack than last season, but more importantly we are starting to try to create more scoring chances and that will help us win the game better.

'We didn't do well enough in attack last season and we drew a lot of games, which is why we won the title so spectacularly, but this season I told my players not to make the same mistakes again, we have to try for three points every game and I'm happy that we've done well so far.'

"It's only seven wins in a row, we don't have the slightest leverage to be proud of, and I'd rather hear about eight wins in a row, or even more."

Mourinho said this and smiled, "Liverpool are in a bad situation now, they want to continue to bite us and chase, they can't make mistakes, but they have to be distracted by the Champions League, they will welcome Juventus in midweek, and they will play away, it will definitely be a bad game, Juventus will not let them go." ”

'Yes, they are more disadvantaged in terms of fixtures, but I don't mind falling into the trap because for me the best outcome is that we step on Liverpool's shoulders and win the league!'

"It doesn't get any better than this!" Mourinho said with a smile. To be continued.