Now that the first stage of the European qualifiers for the World Cup in South Africa has ended, now it’s time to watch the final play-off matches. The play-off matches will soon be announced, Russia vs. Slovenia, Greece vs. Ukraine, and Ireland vs. France.
, Bosnia and Herzegovina vs. Portugal.
The first round of the play-offs is held in two weeks. Now the players of each national team have to return to their respective clubs to participate in the league. Qiu Ze did not return to the national team. He has been in England. During this time, he
I also went to the Melwood base to train and maintain my condition.
Now the players who returned to the national team to participate in the game are back, and now they are all involved in preparations for the league. This weekend Liverpool will face Manchester City at home. Manchester City currently has 20 points and ranks sixth in the Premier League.
Manchester City has some strength, and they also introduced a lot of players this summer and spent a lot of money. Their goal is to qualify for the UEFA Champions League. Now they are just one step away from qualifying for the UEFA Champions League.
The difference is only five points.
Now the morale of Manchester City is high, while Liverpool is distracted by the Champions League. They hope to seize this opportunity and score more points.
In this game, the Liverpool team is playing with all its main players. Although they will have a double match next week in Hungary to play against Debrecen, Debrecen's strength is not particularly outstanding, so here Liverpool will have to
It's better to be less reserved.
However, the Liverpool team really has no intention of underestimating Debrecen. There are too many uncertain factors in the away game. If the Liverpool team is not fully prepared, then the Liverpool team may be careless and lose Jingzhou.
Liverpool thought that they could establish an early lead in this game, so that they could replace all the main players so that they could retain it for Debrecen's game.
The beginning of the game indeed followed the script designed by Liverpool coach Benitez. In the 15th minute of the first half, Qiu Ze sent a through ball in the midfield to assist Spanish forward Fernando Torres to score a single goal.
, Liverpool leads one to zero.
After taking the lead, Liverpool continued to speed up the offensive rhythm. They hoped to get a bigger lead as soon as possible so that they could have enough rest time. And when the first half was about to end, Qiu
Ze, this guy's ball from the wing was directly hit by Maxi Rodriguez from behind and into the Manchester City goal. Liverpool led 2-0.
Fifteen minutes into the second half, Liverpool completely dominated the field. Although they did not score any more goals, they caused a lot of trouble for Manchester City. Manchester City seemed to be tired of being beaten.
At this time, Benitez thought that they had won this game. He immediately took Qiu Ze, Gerrard and Fernando Torres off the field to prepare for the midweek game next week.
However, after these people were replaced, the situation on the court suddenly changed. Manchester City seemed to find their form all of a sudden and began to besiege Liverpool frantically. This shocked Benitez and the Liverpool players.
They never expected that the Manchester City team, which had been in a state of being like a dead rat just now, suddenly became energetic and started to counterattack. This gave Benitez an ominous premonition, and this feeling became stronger and stronger.
Finally, in the 30th minute of the second half, Manchester City's forward Argentinian Tevez rode into Liverpool's penalty area and sent the football into Liverpool's goal. Manchester City got a goal back.
One to two.
Then in the 41st minute of the second half, it was Tevez again. This guy simply became Liverpool's nemesis. He detected a leak in the penalty area and stabbed the football into the Liverpool goal, helping
Manchester City equalized the score, 2-2.
After the goal was scored, Manchester City went crazy. Their crazy attacks frequently threatened Liverpool's goal. If Reina hadn't performed steadily at the last moment, Liverpool would have even been overtaken by Manchester City.
This is something Benitez and the Liverpool people did not expect. They really guessed the beginning but not the ending.
This game was really bad. They should have got three points in this game. But because of their arrogance, the three points instantly turned into one point. This made the Liverpool players feel very sad.
Of course, the most depressing person is Benitez, the head coach of Liverpool.
After this round of games, Chelsea continued to advance rapidly. They have 33 points and continue to lead the standings. Liverpool is closely behind with 30 points, ranking second. In third place is Arsenal.
, they have 28 points, and they lost this round. The fourth ranked team is Manchester United, who also have 28 points.
Tottenham Hotspur are gradually catching up. They have 25 points. It can be seen that Mr. Redknapp is really a good coach, at least better than the guy who called Juande Ramos.
The score is many times higher. If I had known that last year, Tottenham Hotspur's senior management would have appointed Redknapp as their coach. I wonder if Tottenham Hotspur could have qualified for the UEFA Champions League last year.
After the game ended, the Liverpool players were in a very bad mood. They should have got three points, but it was a pity. But now they have to take their minds off these things.
They have to focus on the next European Champions League.
Next, in the middle of the week, the Liverpool team will go to Hungary to participate in the game against Debrecen. The Liverpool team flew to Hungary very early. They have to adapt to the climate and everything there. Now every game
It is very important for the Liverpool team, and this cannot be relaxed at all.
In this round of games, Liverpool will play against Debrecen, and Fiorentina will naturally face Lyon. This round of games is a good opportunity for Liverpool. They hope that the winner will be decided in another game, so that they can win
Tied with the guy in second place in points.
Of course, their premise now is to ensure that they can defeat Debrecen of Hungary. After arriving in Hungary, the Liverpool players felt that this game was definitely not easy. The weather in Hungary was really cold. It was said that not long ago
It snowed just now.
This has posed a big problem for the Liverpool players. The weather is really cold. Under such circumstances, the Liverpool team cannot be careless at all. This weather has created a lot of trouble for the Liverpool team.
The local temperature on the day of the game was also very cold, but the Liverpool players must strive for victory in the game with all their strength, because this is really related to their qualifying from the UEFA Champions League group, and this must be serious.
However, after the game started, the Liverpool players realized how difficult it was for them to win. The weather was very cold, and they couldn't keep up when they made moves, and the turf was also very slippery.
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Really, this situation is really terrible. Throughout the first half of the game, Liverpool was not competing with Debrecen, but with the field. Yes, this field really created too much for them.
Due to the trouble, Qiu Ze fell down many times in the first half of the game.
In the second half of the game, the situation got a little better. Liverpool's players adapted a little bit, and Liverpool's offense gradually improved. But Debrecen's offense was very threatening. For such
They are obviously more adaptable and familiar with the venue conditions than the Liverpool team. They are almost playing as usual, so Debrecen has obviously more opportunities.
This made Benitez, the Liverpool coach on the sidelines, in a very bad mood. At this time, news came from another venue. Fiorentina led Lyon 1-0. This news is very important to Liverpool.
It's important. Now Liverpool should be motivated.
In the following games, the Liverpool players did work harder. Of course, they also hoped to defeat their opponents and win the game. However, the venue was really too weak and none of the Liverpool players were able to do their best.
OK.
In fact, the Liverpool team created quite a lot of opportunities, but they did not handle the most critical moments very well. Take Fernando Torres for example. He got a lot of opportunities, and they were all very good. It is a pity that this guy
At the end, he either stopped the ball too small or too big, and even slipped twice for no reason, missing a very good opportunity.
This is really terrible. Benitez, the head coach of the Liverpool team on the sidelines, is so anxious that he is sweating. It is only a few minutes before the end of the game. If the Liverpool team cannot score a goal,
Then the Liverpool team is really hanging in the balance.
At this time, Qiu Ze stood up, and this guy suddenly shot a cold arrow at the front of the penalty area. Qiu Ze's long-range shot was very good. It was a ball bounce, and it was not the kind of ball that bounced directly in front of the goalkeeper.
, this ball is more like floating on water, bouncing up and down on the ground. The height of the ball's bounce is not good, and the turf is very slippery. Not only does the football not slow down, but the ball speed is getting faster and faster.
, flew into the lower right corner of the goal like a sharp arrow.
It was with Qiu Ze's cold shot that Liverpool defeated Debrecen in a thrilling away game and got three points as they wished. In another game, Fiorentina also used their home court advantage to win 1-0.
Lyon team.
At the end of the five rounds of games, Fiorentina is currently ranked first in the group with four wins and one loss and 12 points, while Lyon is ranked second in the group with three wins and two losses and nine points. Liverpool also has three wins and two losses and nine points.
However, they are behind Lyon in terms of goal difference, and they are temporarily ranked third, while Debrecen has lost all five games and is still their point-giving boy.
After this game, Liverpool's situation is also not optimistic. They are still ranked third, and they are still far behind Lyon on goal difference. In the final round, they will definitely not be able to catch up.
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Now Liverpool can only set its sights on Fiorentina, who currently ranks first in the group. Yes, they are only three points behind Fiorentina, and in this last round of games, Liverpool will face Fiorentina at home. As long as
Liverpool defeated Fiorentina with a score of more than 2-0, and they were still able to qualify from the group.
Because Lyon faced the point-delivering boy Debrezen in the last game, they almost won, and they might even win by a big score, because they also care about the goal difference, so Liverpool wants to kill Lyon.
It's almost impossible.
Then Liverpool can only kill Florence. It is most realistic for them to kill Florence, because as long as they beat Florence with a score of more than 2-0, they will be able to squeeze out Florence and qualify.
If the final result is really like this, the three teams Fiorentina, Lyon and Liverpool will all have 12 points together, but the winning relationship between Liverpool and Lyon is not dominant, they will only have to compete with Florence.
As long as Liverpool beats Fiorentina with a score of more than 2-0, they can defeat Fiorentina in terms of victory and defeat.
Fiorentina and Lyon are tied in terms of victory and defeat. If one person wins a game, both are 1-0, then they have to beat the goal difference. In terms of goal difference, Fiorentina is slightly lower than Lyon, so
, the final ones will be Lyon and Liverpool.
Fortunately, there was no such situation as Lyon defeated Liverpool, Liverpool PK defeated Fiorentina, and Fiorentina PK defeated Lyon. I am really glad that Fiorentina's goal difference was not much, otherwise it would be really difficult to say.