While training in the space is underway, Liverpool also needs to prepare to face a new round of games.

The mid-week match is still the League Cup. Liverpool's opponent in this match is Middlesbrough. Because he does not attach much importance to the League Cup, Liverpool still has not sent his main players to participate in the League Cup.

But fortunately, Middlesbrough did not pay enough attention to this game in this game. Both sides sent substitutes to play, while Liverpool defeated the defending champion of the League Cup Middlesbrough with two goals from Milito.

After this game, Liverpool's opponent was Crystal Palace. This was not a strong enemy. But another thing affected Liverpool in this game: Liverpool's legendary Emlin Hughes, known as the "crazy horse", died before the game. Therefore, the team was notified before this game, requiring that even if they scored goals in the game, they were not allowed to celebrate.

Zhao Yaning received special attention before the game: after all, he once played for Crystal Palace with a national teammate and also served as the captain. What's more interesting is that General Fan played the most eye-catching game against Liverpool, which was to defend Irving in the game against Liverpool. These things were also revealed by the media and were hotly hyped.

But no matter how popular it is, it cannot change the fact that Crystal Palace is just a weak team.

Ten minutes after the opening game, Liverpool stabilized his position under Alonso's dispatch and organized a decent offensive. In the 23rd minute, Alonso flew forward and received a pass from Biscan, and turned around and made a move back, but heeled the ball to Zhao Yaning in Liman's penalty area. After receiving the ball, Zhao Yaning accelerated over to the **Vic who was defending him, and then pushed the ball with an outside instep into the far corner with his left foot, opening the first record for Liverpool.

"It seems that Zhao Yaning is in good shape. He scored goals in almost every game in these games." The commentator's praise of Zhao Yaning's condition is naturally due to some reasons: it has entered November, and Zhao Yaning's performance in every game will increasingly affect the evaluation of the Golden Ball Award. Liverpool is now ranked fourth in the league with Zhao Yaning's performance. Although it is not high, considering Liverpool's injury situation, such results are still a thing of the past, and how he performs depends entirely on his own efforts.

This goal gave Liverpool a great advantage. After leading, Zhao Yaning was not in a hurry to attack, but tried running back and forth in the frontcourt. Liverpool's style of play is quite good, but the problem is that the few people in the frontcourt are not full-time strikers, and their shooting ability is not particularly good. Therefore, although there are good opportunities to appear in the game, they are all missed.

Two minutes before the end of the first half, Crystal Palace's Finnish midfielder Korka scored a strong shot from the corner of the penalty area to tie the score.

This goal immediately made Crystal Palace excited. Although they didn't expect to win the game at Anfield, they still hoped to get a draw.

But the joy of Crystal Palace lasted for only 1 minute. Immediately, during a breakthrough by Cowell, Colca was shown a yellow card for one of his. This penalty made Colca extremely dissatisfied. He even performed Cowell's fall process on the sidelines to prove that he did not make a foul - but such an explanation really doesn't make much sense.

At this time, Zhao Yaning also seized the opportunity. This time he did not kick the fallen leaf ball again, but directly made a big arc and sent the ball into the goal.

After the change of sides, Crystal Palace's offensive still did not improve. Colca tried to launch two attacks, but was successfully blocked by Finan, and the other time, he himself fell into the offside trap set by Liverpool.

In the 90th minute, Kowell's wonderful pass was sent to Zhao Yaning in the penalty area. Zhao Yaning turned around and was about to shoot, but was pushed down by **Vic.

There is nothing to say, penalty kick.

"Come on." Kewell looked at the penalty kick and still patted Zhao Yaning. He had not scored for Liverpool for 26 rounds of games, and the pressure he faced was actually not smaller than anyone else. But he also knew very well that at this time, Zhao Yaning had already scored two goals. In order to help his teammates' hat-trick, Zhao Yaning must be given the penalty.

However, Zhao Yaning smiled bitterly in his heart. He respected the penalty kick himself, but thanked him for not being able to do so.

But at this time, even if he gave up, he couldn't get out. Zhao Yaning stood on the free throw point. For him, the penalty kick was a fool anyway. This time, he could only hope that the opponent's goalkeeper would judge the wrong position.

Raise your feet, left side!

The goalkeeper's judgment was wrong, and Zhao Yaning's penalty kick successfully broke the net!

"gooooal!!!!! Zhao Yaning's hat trick!!! This is Liverpool's 20th hat trick since the Premier League!!!"

Since the Premier League, Liverpool has not scored several good scorers, and their first 19 hat-tricks were scored by Irving and Fowler 7 times.

This goal made Liverpool fans sing louder - who said that without Liverpool Irving, no one would score?

After a 3-1 victory against Crystal Palace, Liverpool also received new good news: Gerald will return to the reserve team on Monday, and his injury has almost recovered.

As Gerald recovered from his injury, there was another news: Abu was encouraged by Mourinho and decided to invest in the purchase of Gerald again. The conditions he offered were, in addition to the transfer fee of 30 million pounds, he also said that he would give Gerald a contract of 120,000 pounds a weekly salary.

The highest salary in the Premier League is Lampard's 90,000 pounds. Arsenal's highest weekly salary is Campbell's 80,000, Manchester United's 90,000 pounds. As for Liverpool, it's Zhao Yaning's 60,000 - his salary is comparable to Irving. Gerrard is still slightly lower, only 56,000 now. The salary Abraham gave him is equivalent to more than tripling. A weekly salary of 120,000 can basically be converted into nearly six million, which is not far from Zidane.

Such a price tag has made transfer rumors rampant for a while, and even Liverpool's transfer manager Parry said that no possibility is ruled out.

"Stephen will never leave." Carragher was the only one in the locker room, insisting that Gerald will not leave.

I can only say that I hope so. Although Liverpool has stabilized its fourth-ranked record in the league, everyone knows that this result is definitely unreliable. After all, Manchester United has just reached the fifth in the league, and in the past few years, Manchester United has never fallen out of the top three. They will definitely make a strong effort in the second half, and Liverpool's lineup is not thick enough, and there may be something in the future. Being able to return with one more person is a great thing for Liverpool. And if he is willing to stay, it would be better.

And the next week will be the national team match day. With this period of recovery, Gerald should be able to play against Middlesbrough.

Moreover, there are not many people who have the task of playing in this national team competition. Zhao Yaning should have had a game that he would return to China to play against Hong Kong, China. However, in this kind of game, Zhao Yaning himself felt that it was unnecessary to play. Not to mention that the group had already qualified, even if he did not qualify, he would not bother to play: the season was confirmed and he would definitely win the game. What's the point of playing?

And there is another thing, that is, the Asian Footballer Awards Ceremony, which also requires him to attend.

There is no suspense about this selection compared to the last time. Last year, someone dared to compete with Zhao Yaning, but this year, Zhao Yaning won the award is an inevitable event that everyone knows.

Zhao Yaning's attitude towards this matter is the same - he is not interested and will not go.

For an award, he ran back to Asia from a long distance, and he thought it was too tiring. He had not had this award, and more importantly, this award could be received by absent, so he naturally didn't care about it.

However, after the award ceremony, the two news announced by the AFC still made Zhao Yaning feel a little confused about what to say.

The first news is that the AFC has made regulations: From this session, no one will be allowed to absent from the Asian Footballer Awards Ceremony. In the days to come, only those present will be considered as candidates, and other those who are not present will be handled as abstention.

"This is also the terms that have been specially started for you." Zhang Yuan, who is in China, also found it funny. The first time he heard of such nonsense awards, "I don't have to pay attention to him. Anyway, the awards are on the national team's game day. When will you be happy in the future, come back and take a walk. There are a few quarrels in the news, which makes them even more troublesome."

This is just a smile. Let’s talk about things in the future. Anyway, Asian footballers are not a big prize, and even if you win less, you won’t die.

"And there is the World Cup qualifiers this time." Speaking of this issue, Zhang Yuan's words were a little loud, "We were assigned to the same group as Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Uzbekistan."

Zhao Yaning breathed a sigh of relief for these teams.

Since it is divided into two groups, if you don’t meet South Korea, you have to meet Japan. This is definitely not a matter of not running away. Zhao Yaning has played Japan several times since he played football, and it is impossible for him to meet Japan all the time. It is normal to meet South Korea once.

It is normal for Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan to be separated. There are many West Asian countries, and it is normal for two West Asian countries in the group to be included.

Of course, this group certainly doesn't look better than the signing position of another group, and the other group is Japan, Iran, Bahrain and North Korea - basically Japan and Iran are going to advance.

After all, the AFC is West Asia, and Japan and South Korea each have half of the forces. Their ideas are probably to let Saudi Arabia rely on Uzbekistan to help advance, South Korea advances at the same time, and Japan and Iran advance, so Bahrain doesn't have to think too much about it - if it changes, it might become Japan being squeezed out of the top two in the group by Iran and China.

Of course, even if you are eliminated, there is no way out. After all, it is just Bahrain or North Korea who plays the playoffs, then plays against the teams in Central America, and then decides who can advance.
Chapter completed!