On August 24, just the day before the second round of the CSKA with Sophia, Liverpool ushered in bad news - Gerald was injured. This article was first released by...

Gerrard suffered a calf injury during training, and he could only watch tomorrow's game. Fortunately, Liverpool has already confirmed the UEFA Champions League qualification with a large score. The impact of Gerrard's injury is not big, but because he has to rest for a week, Gerrard will definitely miss the European Super Cup three days later.

For England, Gerald's injury was very bad news.

Gerrard's importance in England is unquestionable. In early September, it will be the World Cup qualifiers for England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It is hard to say whether they can participate at that time. England's national team coach Erikson has a headache because Benitez does not allow Gerrard to participate in this national team game. His reason is that it will be very dangerous to play for the national team directly after missing the club event.

"If he can't recover within two or three days, I'll talk to the England head coach."

The last time Gerald was in England and Denmark, Gerald was arranged for 84 minutes by Erikson. Benitez and other Anfielders were already quite dissatisfied. "If Steve had not played so many games, it was hard to say whether he would be injured. Carragher played every game, every minute last season, and was still healthy. But for Gerald, we must be careful. I want him to play on Friday, and he himself wants to play, but he must cooperate with the medical team. We have other players available, so be cautious with him."

Gerrard is Liverpool's "baby". Benitez cannot make him dangerous easily. Moreover, England's qualifiers are not a major match. In fact, even without Gerrard, England can win easily. This is also the reason why Benitez is dissatisfied with Eriksen.

In addition to Gerald, before the match against CSKA, Liverpool also had heavyweight news, that is, Barroche's departure.

Zhang Tiehan's arrival has almost no place for Barroche. He cannot accept his current position in Liverpool - because Zhang Tiehan is too strong. In the eyes of Liverpool players, Zhang Tiehan is much stronger than the Bulls. He and Carragher are simply two iron men in the team. If Barroche stays in Liverpool, he will be pitifully fewer of his appearances this season, so he is naturally very dissatisfied.

So Liverpool sold Barroche.

Aston Villa has confirmed that he has officially signed Liverpool's Czech scorer Barroche, with a transfer fee of 6.5 million pounds. Barroche is only 23 years old and has a very strong strength. There are many buyers. Aston Villa gives him a good treatment - a four-year contract and an annual salary of 2 million pounds.

Barroche's departure influence is more than just leaving.

Many Liverpool people think that when Barroche leaves, the team will have Irving's position. Soon this is not just a 'think'. According to the team's 'internal news', they clearly informed Benitez that Liverpool needed Irving, CEO Pali and club chairman Morse were both persuading Benitez.

Benitez's tone also loosened during an interview.

"We have funds and more goals," Benitez said. "We need a central defender, and the money we sell Barroche will be used in this regard, but we are sure we can make it to the Champions League group stage and the money we get can be used in other goals."

If you want to introduce a forward, Irving is obviously the first choice.

Irving's transfer has been going on for more than three months. Because Irving stated that he would return to the Premier League, Real Madrid also intends to let him go. However, many Premier League clubs are interested in Irving. Of course, for Irving, it is best to join the four Premier League giants - Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal.

Other clubs, including Newcastle United, and Everton, who likes to compete with Liverpool, want to introduce Irving, but their appeal is not enough. Everton coach Moyes publicly admitted that Irving rejected Everton's invitation.

"We have been in contact with Irving and his agent, but Irving doesn't want to consider Everton. We bid £10 million on August 1 to buy Kuyt, but was rejected by Feyenoord. However, we will still work hard to bring in the famous players."

At the same time, many Liverpool players are looking forward to Irving.

Especially some Liverpool's elderly people, such as Gerrard, have a very good relationship with Irving. They cooperate with each other and have a tacit understanding when they are at Liverpool. He has been talking about Irving in the team, but it is Benitez who really decides whether to introduce Irving. Compared to a striker, Benitez hopes to bring a central defender and strengthen Liverpool's defense. After all, Cice and Morientes perform well on the front line, and Pangler has not played yet, but his strength is certain. Although Barroche is gone, Liverpool still has Zhang Tiehan.

In short, Liverpool's forward line is not short of people.

Of course, what Liverpool needs to consider at the moment is the game. Their schedule is really a bit intensive. Due to the influence of the Champions League qualifiers and the UEFA Super Cup, Liverpool's third round of league time has been postponed.

Liverpool welcomed Sofia CSKA on that day.

The two teams have a big gap in scores, and it is hard to say how the result of this game is, but it is obvious that CSKA has a chance. It is worth mentioning before the game that CSKA did not have a good life on the night when CSKA came to Liverpool. Liverpool fans obviously remember how CSKA treated their players at home.

So the revenge of Liverpool fans began.

It is said that that night, there were always huge gunfires near the hotel where Sofia CSKA was stationed. It was like the New Year outside. All kinds of dazzling fireworks were set off all night. Thousands of fans gathered together and shouted various slogans and made noise until the early morning.

For this reason, CSKA Sofia complained to the Liverpool City Government before the game.

But Liverpool Police Department said, "Public gatherings are not illegal, we have no right to prevent them from gathering normally. Sofia CSKA players were affected? I think that's just a coincidence, they were unlucky and encountered a fan gathering. Liverpool is a football city and we can't stop fans from supporting the team."

These words made Sophia's CSKA coach almost vomit blood.

But he obviously knew that this was a revenge from Liverpool fans. After all, how did his fans treat Liverpool in the last game, and even the most serious of them was racial discrimination. He knew that Liverpool fans did this to retaliate against the team. But he had no good idea.

As a result, Sofia's CSKA was in poor overall condition that day.

At Anfield Stadium, facing Liverpool, which has a home advantage, is not in strength, is in good shape, is in good condition, is in good time, place, and people. Sofia CSKA has no advantage at all. The final result can be imagined.

Five to zero.

Zhang Tiehan 'vented' his depression in the league in the game. He scored three goals by himself and performed very well in the whole game.

In this game, Benitez did not give Zhang Tiehan any free fire. Liverpool completely regarded the game as training and used the new tactics that Benitez had made for Zhang Tiehan. Although Gerard was gone, he played well with Alonso and Luis Garcia on the wing. In the second half, Alonso came out and Zhang Tiehan also assisted Cice to score a goal.

With three goals and one assist, Zhang Tiehan's gorgeous performance won applause from Liverpool fans.

But the media did not praise Zhang Tiehan for his performance, just report it. After all, the Champions League qualifiers are not a game that attracts attention, not to mention that they were "prepared for Zhang Tiehan and Sophia's CSKA match. After all, Zhang Tiehan scored four goals away before, and after seeing this, it was nothing to score three at home.

Manchester Sports even sarcastically said, "Zhang always performs well when playing against other national teams. If he goes to Bulgaria and the Czech team, he will definitely sweep the league there."

Although Manchester Sports will never say anything good about Liverpool or Liverpool players, the media is indeed not surprised that Zhang Tiehan completed the hat trick.

Perhaps their "surprise" at Zhang Tiehan's performance was too high.

This is a good thing for Zhang Tiehan. The media and fans have greater expectations for him. This shows that his performance last season conquered many people, but it is also a bad thing. Now he is playing against the small team and completing a hat trick is considered normal by the media. Fans.

Of course, this may also be related to his performance in the league.

In any case, winning this game means Liverpool enters the Champions League group stage. They easily passed the qualifiers and became one of the 32 teams in the Champions League group stage and joined as the defending champion.

But Liverpool didn't think about this actually, they had too many games.

Two days later they ushered in the European Super Cup.

Since 1972, the European Super Cup has been established. The competition is played by the European Champions League champions and the UEFA Champions League champions. Before 1998, two-round matches were held in the home and away game. Since 1998, the event will be held every year at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco.

The Super Cup was reorganized before 1999, with the UEFA UEFA UEFA UEFA UEFA Champions and Champions League champions competing for this honor. Since 2000, the European Cup Winners Cup was cancelled, and the UEFA Champions League champions competed for the event.

The League Cup champion last season was CSKA Moscow. As the Champions League champion, Liverpool competed with this Russian giant.

In this honor, Liverpool has a historical advantage. The team won the European Super Cup twice in 1977 and 2001, while the League Cup champion CSKA was the first Russian team to enter the Super Cup.

Liverpool's victory is very high.

The English media naturally support Liverpool. After all, Liverpool is an English team. They analyzed that Liverpool is "it is difficult to lose". However, when the game started, the performance of CSKA Moscow was shocking. They used one angle to gain an advantage in the first two minutes.

But that's all.

Next, it was Liverpool's turn to perform. Benitez boldly adopted new tactics. The continuous cooperation between Zhang Tiehan, Alonso and Harman in the midfield made Moscow CSKA feel powerless for a moment. Soon, he took advantage of a delicate cooperation opportunity. Zhang Tiehan threw away the defensive player and found an opportunity on the left side of the penalty area, and shot hard with his right foot to score.

In the second half, Liverpool still achieved suppression on the field. Zhang Tiehan made a pass in the 67th minute and assisted Alonso to score. Just five minutes later, Zhang Tiehan scored twice and scored again, helping Liverpool gain a two-goal advantage.

In the last time, Morientes scored another goal, adding icing on the cake to the team.

The game also ended 4:1, with Liverpool winning the first championship of the season - the European Super Cup.

This is a good sign. After the game, Liverpool were very happy, and Zhang Tiehan was also very excited... You know, this is the first honor he won after winning the League Cup and League One championship at Wigan Athletics. He failed to get any club honors in Rome last season. And now he has just transferred to Liverpool and won a championship.

Although this champion is a bit useless... but he is better than nothing.

After this game, Liverpool fans are more confident about Zhang Tiehan. Although many media reported that Zhang Tiehan has not yet proved himself in the Premier League, he scored seven goals in two rounds with CSKA and scored two goals with CSKA Moscow. There were two assists during the period. Such gorgeous data in three games cannot be covered by media comments.

Zhang Tiehan was in the mood to pay attention to the media, what the fans said, and what they thought about him. In fact, as a member of Liverpool and the main player of the team, he has been busy these days and has not even had time to train. After playing in the European Super Cup, he had not had time to enjoy the glory of the championship. Liverpool had already ushered in a new game - the fourth round of the Premier League, with Liverpool playing against Portsmouth at home.

Since Liverpool will participate in the Champions League qualifiers and will participate in the Super Cup again, the third round of the Premier League match against Charlton has been postponed until February next year. So they directly ushered in the fourth round.

The final result of this game was 2:1, Liverpool won, and Zhang Tiehan scored the first goal, which was also his first goal in the Premier League.

Many fans have imagined Zhang Tiehan's first goal, but no one expected that Zhang Tiehan's first goal would come so dull. It was a corner kick opportunity. Zhang Tiehan grabbed the spot in the penalty area and beat the Portsmouth defender to score the ball.

This is the first ball.

The arrival was a bit unexpected and a little too dull. Even Zhang Tiehan was not very excited after scoring the goal. The goal was too dull. Fortunately, it was at Anfield Stadium, but after the football flew into the goal, applause still sounded in the stands. Liverpool fans congratulated Zhang Tiehan on his first goal.

The second ball is also very related to Zhang Tiehan, which was scored by Alonso, but Zhang Tiehan's pass to the side is also crucial. When he attracted the defense in the middle and got the ball, Zhang Tiehan suddenly made a breakthrough, and then passed the ball to Garcia on the baseline. Garcia calmly passed the ball without anyone defending. Xavi Alonso inserted it and grabbed the ball and scored it.

However, no one mentioned Zhang Tiehan's role in this ball. The media prefers to mention players who score goals. Perhaps there will be one player who assists, but the indirect assists...there is a bit worse.

In short, the second goal seems to have nothing to do with Zhang Tiehan.

The media also reported Zhang Tiehan's first goal after the game, and many media praised Zhang Tiehan's performance, but the public opinion was still, "Zhang's performance did not meet expectations."

This is also a common view of the English media and fans.

In fact, when Zhang Tiehan transferred to Liverpool, the English media, fans' expectations for Zhang Tiehan were much higher, just because last season Zhang Tiehan broke the Serie A single-season individual goal record and far exceeded the record with a score of 43 goals. They expect Zhang Tiehan to break the record even if he comes to the Premier League.

Although this expectation is a bit big, many people are still looking forward to it.

The Premier League single-season goal record is Andy Cole and Alan Shearer, who just retired at Newcastle United last season. They scored 34 goals in the 94-94 season and 94-95 season respectively. If they want to score 34 goals in 38 league games, they must keep all the goals in the games they appear. One goal is the most basic.

In the match against Portsmouth, Zhang Tiehan scored a goal, which was just the beginning, and the beginning was not very good. After all, Portsmouth's strength was average. It was not very difficult to defeat them and score a goal in the game. It was amazing. Compared with the single-season goal record, Zhang Tiehan scored in the game. It was nothing great. Alonso also scored a goal, so the English media's evaluation of Zhang Tiehan's performance was still very average.

But some media still came out to speak for Zhang Tiehan.

"Are we looking forward to it too high?" The Sun said that when Zhang Tiehan was in Wigan Athletics, the Sun was a media that supported Zhang Tiehan. It should be said that their reports on Zhang Tiehan were from a neutral perspective. After all, they are newspapers with great influence in Europe, and Zhang Tiehan also did not conflict with their perspectives in Wigan Athletics.

Now they are talking to Zhang Tiehan again.

"After three league games, we can see that Zhang's performance in the league has been getting better. We should look forward to how far he can go with Liverpool, rather than whether Zhang can continue his crazy performance in Serie A. After all, he is only twenty years old and has only participated in the Premier League for the first time."

This is a fair word.

But some media are refuting, such as Manchester media, saying that they have no expectations for Zhang Tiehan. "His value is 30 million pounds? But obviously his performance is not worth 30 million pounds. Perhaps Liverpool just bought Dream with a championship, otherwise Sir Ferguson would not let him go..."

After the Manchester media made remarks, other media joined in. Soon the discussion about Zhang Tiehan's first goal in the league became whether Zhang Tiehan is worth 30 million pounds, whether he can perform well in Liverpool, and even whether Liverpool is qualified to compete for the league championship this season.

At the same time, Liverpool was not in the mood to care about what the media said.

The day after the match with Portsmouth, Zhang Tiehan had already rushed to Monaco with Gerald, Alonso and others, as well as head coach Benitez, where the Champions League group draw ceremony will be held. Importantly, at the ceremony, UEFA will announce a series of awards from last season, including the best defender, best forward, best midfielder, best goalkeeper and best coach, etc.

At this time last year, Zhang Tiehan could only watch it in front of the TV.

Now he can also participate. With his performance as the Champions League top scorer, he has also become a candidate for the best striker. Other candidates for this award include Shepchenko of AC Milan and Ronaldinho of Barcelona.

Zhang Tiehan is still looking forward to this award.

After all, this is a great personal honor. The biggest honor he has won before is the scorer king. That was not selected, but was directly won by himself with his own efforts to score goals. If he could win the best striker selected by UEFA in Monaco... that would be good.
Chapter completed!