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Chapter 208 Three Fingers
Two rounds of Champions League group matches.

Liverpool won both games easily - especially since they were both away games.

This means that if Liverpool wins the next home game against Maribor, it will be three consecutive wins in the group stage.

In the next three games of the second round of the group stage, Liverpool will play two at home, while Maribor, who will play away, basically has no strength to threaten Liverpool.

Some media believe.

Liverpool's place in the first group is already a foregone conclusion.

This means that Liverpool can focus most of their energy on league games.

But back to the Premier League.

After returning from a tiring away trip to Russia.

Liverpool has no time to rest. In less than three days, they will have to play the seventh round of the Premier League.

The opponent in the seventh round is Newcastle, and they will play this game at St. James' Park.

St James' Park is definitely one of the most difficult away grounds to play in the Premier League.

Even so, Klopp still made a lot of rotations.

Liverpool lost the ball early at St. James' Park.

In the third minute of the game, Newcastle's cross hit Matip's shin bone and bounced into the goal.

Own goals!
Facing this ball, goalkeeper Karius had no way to deal with it.

Since ancient times, there have been magical balls coming out of the oolong.

And because we took the lead early.

Newcastle's morale and confidence have been greatly boosted.

They built an extremely tight defense at home.

Until the eightieth minute of the game.

Newcastle still maintains a one-to-nil lead at home.

In the stands at St James' Park.

The fans have already started preparing to celebrate.

But with the 84th minute of the game.

Yangguang's powerful long shot from outside the penalty area was saved by the goalkeeper, and Mane, who broke into the penalty area, made a quick follow-up shot to equalize the score.

Liverpool finally avoided their first league defeat of the season.

Bring back 1 point from St James' Park.

Liverpool's winning streak in the league this season has stopped at six consecutive wins.

Sunshine failed to score in two consecutive league games.

After the game, many English media began to discuss Sunshine's condition.

[Sky Sports]: "Before the Red Devils' derby, Sunshine suffered a goal drought in two games. This is definitely not a good thing for Liverpool!"

[Daily Mail]: "Perhaps Manchester United fans will be happy about this. Before the eighth round of the league, Liverpool's top star Sunshine also failed to score in two consecutive league games!"

After the seventh round of the league.

The eighth round of the league.

It is a heavyweight showdown in the Premier League.

Liverpool face Manchester United at home!

This is the game known as the "England National Derby".

There is no need to elaborate on the feud between the two teams.

The clash between these two teams is one of the most important games in the Premier League.

As the two most successful teams in the history of the English professional league, the match between them has attracted much attention.

In recent seasons.

Liverpool's record against Manchester United is not good.

In the two rounds of league matches last season, both home and away games ended in draws.

But in the two seasons that Van Gaal coached Manchester United in the 14-15 season and the 15-16 season.

The two sides have met four times in the league.

Manchester United won both.

That is to say, in the six encounters between the two sides in the last three seasons.

Liverpool has two draws and four losses, without a single win.

And in this season.

Manchester United started the league season in excellent form.

After seven rounds of league matches.

Manchester United and Liverpool are the only two teams that remain unbeaten.

Both teams have seven wins and one draw, with 22 points, ranking in the top two of the league standings - Liverpool ranks first with the advantage of goal difference.

This has been the case in recent seasons.

This was the highest "average ranking" in the league between two of England's top clubs.

Taking into account the historical records of the two sides in recent seasons, Liverpool was tied by Newcastle, and Sunshine's consecutive scoring streak came to an abrupt end.

Many media believe that even when playing away.

Manchester United are more likely to take points away from Anfield.

As for Liverpool, that seems to be their only advantage.

It's sunshine.

because
Sunshine is the player who has scored the most goals against Manchester United in this Liverpool team.

This dates back to the 15-16 season, the Europa League round of knockout stage.

Monaco played against Manchester United in two rounds, and Sunshine scored six goals in these two games.

A year and a half later.

Sunshine faces Manchester United again.

This time, he represents Liverpool.

How the game will turn out.

No one can predict.

Mourinho knows exactly who the key players in this game are.

This season, Mourinho's Manchester United had a very smooth start.

This rekindled Mourinho's ambitions.

But he is not so arrogant as to think that Manchester United can easily beat Liverpool at Anfield.

Especially when Liverpool's offensive trident is so powerful.

Mane and Salah are already quite a headache for players.

The presence of sunshine has raised Liverpool's offensive firepower to more than a level.

Does sunlight have any weaknesses?

Mourinho studied for a long time but was unable to find any obvious weaknesses in Sunshine from the numerous game videos.

He has comprehensive skills, is strong, has a high attendance rate, runs actively and has good physical fitness.

That’s all.

His mental state is still very stable.

Get stronger when facing stronger opponents - Mourinho has studied Sunshine's games over the past two seasons.

He found that the stronger the opponent.

The Chinese man became more and more excited.

This is a player who can't find loopholes.

Mourinho later abandoned the idea of freezing the sun completely.

He felt that when facing Liverpool away from home, he still had to base himself on the overall situation of the Liverpool team and their tactical system.

In Mourinho's view.

Klopp's tactical system has a very obvious flaw - that is, when this team presses forward to attack, their offensive strategy is too aggressive.

When Liverpool launched their attack.

Both full-backs almost became wingers.

Both Mane and Salah will press into the penalty area and become inside forwards.

at the same time.

The overall formation will press across half the court.

Once the ball is in possession, quick passes are made to create opportunities to pass the ball to the middle.

Once they lost the ball, they immediately launched a frantic counterattack.

This tactic requires extremely high physical fitness.

Once the defender passes the ball quickly and breaks Liverpool's pressing, their back line can be said to be smooth sailing!
before this.

Both Arsenal and Manchester City were defeated by Liverpool's powerful attack.

In Mourinho's view.

His team has stronger defensive capabilities than Arsenal or Manchester City - in other words, Mourinho is now confident that he can withstand Liverpool's attack, at least for a period of time.

Of course.

Mourinho does not put all his hopes on the team's defense.

He also knew that defending for 90 minutes was unrealistic.

Hope lies in the team's counterattack!
If Manchester United can score a goal on a counterattack, it will undermine the confidence of Liverpool players and make them doubt their own tactics.

In this way, it is not impossible to take a victory away from Anfield.

In Mourinho's mind
He can accept an average away game. When Mourinho is determined to keep the tie, there are not many teams that can beat him.

In a tactical meeting at Manchester United.

Mourinho constantly emphasizes defense.

"We can't give them any space in this area. Both wingers have to come back, Paul, and you have to come back in the midfield to participate in the defense!"

The Manchester United players looked at Mourinho.

Due to the continuous victories since the start of this season.

Mourinho's prestige in the Manchester United locker room has reached its highest peak since he coached Manchester United - last season Mourinho led Manchester United to win the Europa League and League Cup.

This season they spent money to buy Lukaku.

Manchester United fans and players are full of expectations for this season.

Everyone was quite convinced of this Portuguese man.

Even Pogba, who had some doubts about parking the bus in away games, did not show any dissatisfaction on his face.

Instead, he grinned and nodded as he listened, seeming to approve of Mourinho's tactics.

To some extent.

The relationship between Mourinho and his players today.
It's the honeymoon period.

Looking at his players.

Mourinho is more confident about this Manchester derby.

During media opening hours.

Yangguang was interviewed by the media on the sidelines of the training ground.

When mentioning this game.

Yangguang didn't say anything harsh.

“I am looking forward to this game, I think it will be a very exciting event”

He said.

Honestly.

Such low-key sunshine is rare.

This surprised many reporters.

"Why didn't he say anything harsh?"

"Such a gentle, modest and cautious Yang...it's really surprising."

Reporters discussed.

Originally, they liked interviewing Yangguang the most.

Because the big mouth of sunshine is here.

Any big talk he makes can provide the media with a lot of material for hype.

结果
This is such a crucial game.

How could he be so low-key?
But the media is the media.

Do you think that if you keep a low profile, they will have nothing to write about?

"Manchester United has been in excellent form recently. Their excellent form even made Liverpool's top striker Yang feel awkward. In the pre-match interview, Yang was unusually low-key."

".Maybe he is afraid of Manchester United's strength!"

".Failure to score in two consecutive league games may have hit Sunshine's confidence."

I'm so scared!

I don’t have any confidence!
Snapped.

Sunshine turned off the TV.

He stood up angrily.

The reason why he didn't say anything.

He felt that he was almost twenty years old.

Should be more mature.

You can't just attack others without any hesitation.

Great men educate us.

People don't offend me, I don't offend people.

Yangguang felt that he had realized something.

not to mention.

The last time we played Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Didn’t all Manchester United fans stand up and applaud him?
Take this into consideration.

Sunshine doesn't have much hostility towards Manchester United - even though Liverpool and Manchester United are sworn enemies.

But Sunshine is not from Liverpool, and to be honest, he lacks the sense of empathy for this kind of mortal enemy relationship.

Instead, he often saw Far Eastern fans from both sides attacking each other on various domestic platforms.

Mango toilet and so on are still quite restrained.

It is not uncommon to greet all the female family members of the opposing fans, or even curse the entire family of the opposing fans to death.

I don't know why the sense of immersion is so strong.

So strong that he cursed his compatriots to death for the two teams far away in England.
Yangguang feels that he is getting paid by Liverpool and should just play well for Liverpool.

As for Liverpool fans, they regard Manchester United as their sworn enemy.

That's just overthinking.
He doesn't love Liverpool to that extent.

But Yangguang thinks he is "very clear-headed".

But his opponents did not.

at the pre-match press conference.

Mourinho opened fire and started a war of words.

"Liverpool? They don't have as many Premier League titles as I do. I have three Premier League trophies!"

Mourinho held up three fingers.

"Three seats!"

These words hit the heart of Liverpool fans.

When asked if Sunshine, who scored 11 goals in the league, would be his biggest headache.

Mourinho pouted: "He hasn't scored in two league games"

Mourinho's words at the press conference quickly made headlines in the media.

Media in the Manchester area also made a poster online.

Premier League title count Mourinho vs Liverpool: 3:0
If this has made Liverpool fans very unhappy.

The following comparison made them even more unhappy.

Premier League champions Manchester United vs Liverpool: 13:0
for a long time.

Manchester United and Liverpool are sworn enemies, so their fans will mock each other whenever they get the chance.
Manchester United fans mocked Liverpool's decline in the Premier League era.

in the game.

They often shouted "13 to 0" to taunt Liverpool.

Liverpool fans are naturally not willing to be outdone.

They chanted "Five to Three".

In terms of the number of Champions League titles.

Liverpool won two more than Manchester United.

We are mortal enemies anyway.

Do whatever you can to make the other person uncomfortable.

"Yang! Yang! What do you think of Mourinho's words?"

"Yang! Mourinho's statement that you haven't scored in two rounds is not true. Let's talk!"

"Positive"

Getting off the bus in the Anfield car park.

Yangguang walked through the aisle where a large number of reporters were crowded on both sides.

Everyone held out the microphone, wanting Yang Guang to give a positive response to Mourinho.

But the sun didn't speak.

He just kept moving forward.

He held up three fingers to the reporters.

Yangguang's gesture left the reporters a little confused.

"Three? What does that mean?"

"Is this his response to Mourinho? But what does this response mean?"

"Does he mean to get three points?"

“I guess so.”

"You can't say you're going to perform a hat trick, right?"

"Hahahaha, you're so fucking funny."

Sky Sports TV.

There was also a scene where the sun was pointing three fingers towards the camera.

For a while.

Analysts from all walks of life are analyzing the meaning of the sunshine gesture.
(End of this chapter)