1:4, losing at home with such a huge point difference is something that cannot be tolerated by a giant club like Liverpool no matter what. ◎ Top novel, x. As a wealthy family, there will never be a shortage of people who are jealous of them when they enjoy better treatment and higher attention. So it can be said that whenever a wealthy family is in trouble or in a downturn, there will be someone who will come to them and laugh at them wantonly.

In this regard, Liverpool naturally cannot escape. But for them, it is not without good news. Perhaps in the closing stages of the game, their attacking wave led by Steven Gerrard made a good impression on Liverpool fans. So after the game, at least Liverpool got more tolerant and encouraging voices in the team's fan base, and it didn't make them feel the cold that made it worse. This leads to the fact that their own mouthpiece did not criticize them again, but unexpectedly called on fans and the outside world to give the team more time to prove themselves. Such a situation is already a blessing in misfortune for Liverpool, and it may also become the basis for Liverpool's resurgence.

However, these things have nothing to do with Lao Leike. After all, this Liverpool team will regain the top four positions in the Premier League at best, and will not be a major title rival for Chelsea, at least this season. In such a situation, no matter how much Lao Lei takes precautions, he will not go back to pay more attention to Liverpool this season.

What's more, his focus now is not on the club, but on returning to the national team. After the league game against Liverpool, world football once again ushered in two weeks of international matches. In the meantime. Portugal have two final World Qualifiers to play, Liechtenstein and Latvia.

But. For Portugal now, the weight of these two world preliminaries is almost nothing. Because with the excellent record of 9 wins and 1 draw in the previous 10 world preliminaries. Portugal have already secured top spot in this group, successfully securing a place in the finals of the '06 World Cup in Germany. Therefore, these two games are more about training and grinding the team for Portugal.

And this is precisely the main task that Lao Lei wants to complete in this national team trip. Because of the injury in the Champions League final, Lao Lei missed 4 world preliminaries and several warm-up games. For the national team, which already has the opportunity to train together, the absence of such a schedule is enough to make Lao Lei's tacit understanding with the national team have some problems. Despite the help of the guò system, Lao Lei can do a lot better in this aspect than the average person who has just returned to the team. But after all, there has been no actual combat run-in for a while, and some rustiness is inevitable. This may not have much impact on the strength of the team, but it certainly cannot go straight back to peak form as soon as it returns.

Other than that. After the World Preliminary Tournament reached this stage, the framework of Portugal's main squad for Germany in 06 has basically been decided. As the absolute core and vice-captain of Portugal today, Lao Lei naturally has the obligation to coordinate the relationship between the players in the team. During this period of joint practice and competition, we should not seek to make everyone like brothers, but at least we should become ordinary friends and unite this group of players. Such a mission is Scolari's, it is the captain Figo's, and Old Ray can't escape.

But for Lao Lei, these tasks are one of the main sources of headaches he has been feeling a little bit like lately. If we talk about the first task. If it was almost as easy for him as eating, then the second task would be to reach Cheng Dù, who made him restless.

Although Lao Lei has always been the absolute core and brain of the team since his debut, he has never been a locker room leader. In such a way. He has always formed his leadership position with his superior strength and personal charisma. To put it more vividly, Lao Lei has always been a person like Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu. And not Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao. The various prickly actions he made on the pitch due to his personality and kicking were destined to prevent him from being a calm spiritual leader.

Of course. It's not that he will never be able to make it, but it should be before that. He never had that idea. Whether it's in Leiria, Porto or Chelsea on the pitch, all he needs to do is lead the team on the pitch. As for the work off the field, there are naturally good captains to do. These actions have nothing to do with football, but more of a means of communication to unite the team, and Lao Lei is the most impatient to do this.

Moreover, he was not required to do it before, Costa or Terry and others could do it on their own. Therefore, behind Lao Lei's reputation as a good leader, these captains also have a lot of credit. And Lao Lei himself is very satisfied with this situation, for him, this is perhaps the most relaxed and comfortable state to play.

But this qiē is about to change after that. At club level, he may continue to be in the same form, but in the national team he has to start taking on that burden. Because Figo's withdrawal from the national team after the World Cup in Germany can be said to be almost a foregone conclusion. Because he was 34 years old at the time, he might not be retiring yet, but it was certain that he would choose to focus solely on club games and enjoy the final days of his career.

And this also means that the Portuguese national team is about to start a new era and officially bid farewell to the golden generation. At this time, as the current vice captain and the core and brain of the team, Lao Lei naturally became the most highly anticipated and most convincing candidate for the next captain. In general, Lao Lei, the Portuguese "prince", is about to start making final preparations for ascending the throne.

In this regard, Ronaldo may be a little reluctant in his heart. But even he knew that at this time, he could not compete with Lao Lei in any way. Therefore, after the most promising threat to Lao Lei has self-consciously withdrawn from the competition, the matter of Lao Lei becoming the next captain of Portugal is basically a foregone conclusion.

But, to be honest, Lao Lei's attitude towards this matter is unclear. Maybe he will be very happy to become the captain, after all, this is the first time he can become the captain of the official team after his debut. But correspondingly. He had a headache at the thought of what Figo had to do and do on the phone to teach the captain by example. He is not a person who likes to go out and have fun off the field after the game. Never been a good social relationship with his teammates. He can be so close to Mourinho because he is his mentor. As for the others. To be honest, it's just good teammates and good friends on the field. It's not the same thing off the field, Terry and the others are the core and leaders here.

However, even if this is the case, Lao Lei can only bite the bullet, because he is already difficult to ride a tiger. Fortunately, Portugal's two games are home games, so when Lao Lei wants to have a relationship with his teammates and do activities off the field, at least he will not face the embarrassing situation of being unfamiliar with life.

The Lisbon training base is one of the best in Europe. During this national team break, it was once again the training ground of the Portuguese national team. Lao Lei is no stranger to this. Although he has never been a player for Sporting Lisbon, as a common training ground for the Portuguese national team, he is no stranger to Lao Lei since he became the absolute main force of the Portuguese national team.

However, when Lao Lei came here again this time, his mood was not as relaxed as before. At the entrance to the training base, he saw from a distance that he was already standing there, ready to greet his Figo and Scolari. And the reason why he welcomed them so grandly was also clear, and when he thought about it, he couldn't help but secretly cry out a headache.

In the evening of the day of Lao Lei's arrival. He was invited to Scolari's room by Scolari and Figo for a conversation. During the conversation, they told Lao Lei in detail about the few things they hoped Lao Lei could do well or do during this training camp. Among them, Figo taught by word and deed, and completely passed on some of his experience as a captain to Lao Lei. They may not be expecting Old Ray to become a qualified Portuguese captain right away. But they hope that Lao Lei can at least try to be a good captain immediately.

In this way, it was not until 11 o'clock in the middle of the night that Lao Lei, whose brain was already confused, was let go by the two of them and let him go to rest first. After walking out of Scolari's room. Lao Lei immediately looked like a person who was about to suffocate to death, with a greedy look. I took a few hard breaths of air. Then, he showed a most sincere happy smile. He made himself look like a slave who had just been freed.

Then, it occurred to him that he was still at the mouth of the Tiger Cave. Afraid that Scolari and Figo would change their minds, he immediately walked quickly to his room with a stern expression, as if he was being chased by some demon. It wasn't until he entered his room that he really relaxed, with a happy smile on his face that was hard to hide.

looked at Lao Lei who fell on the bed like soft mud, and this time Ronaldo, who was in the same room with him, showed an uneven sneer full of envy, jealousy and hatred. In his eyes, Lao Lei at this time was a "slut" who was cheap and tired. He has coveted the position of the Portuguese captain for a long time, and he can't accept Lao Lei's attitude at all, and his face is full of disgust that can't be hidden.

However, before he could make a sarcastic speech, Lao Lei took the lead in speaking. "Go pour me a glass of water." Pointing to the teapot with his hand, Lao Lei said as if he was commanding a great man.

In this regard, the very proud Ronaldo is naturally difficult to accept. But when he thought of the gamble he lost last time, he could only snort coldly, turn his head, and walk towards the teapot. What he didn't know was that at this time, in Lao Lei's eyes, his back was the back of a living child daughter-in-law. Thinking of this, Lao Lei suddenly felt a kind of cocking Erlang's legs, humming a song, and letting Ronaldo rush to beat his feet.

However, in view of the fact that he was about to become the captain of Portugal, Lao Lei still resisted the temptation and dispelled this idea of destroying the unity of the team with great difficulty. But even so, it doesn't mean that Lao Lei has given up his plan to let Ronaldo do some less strict chores.

The matter of molesting Ronaldo made Lao Lei temporarily happy and forgot about the troublesome things before.

However, it was only temporary, and soon the problem took over his brain again.

"What makes a good captain?" (To be continued......)

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