Although Liverpool's spiritual leader, midfield engine, and captain Gerald Inn cannot play, the media and fans are optimistic that Liverpool will defeat Marseille at home.

Because Liverpool has a lot of trouble, Marseille has not been smooth recently. He has not won four league games and has only won one game in 9 rounds. He has fallen into the relegation zone. Although no one thinks that Marseille will be relegated, there is no doubt that Marseille is in a very poor state.

The outside world is the outside world's opinion. Liverpool's players and coaches are very cautious and do not underestimate the opponent at all. In their opinion, although Marseille is in poor form in the league, it is very good in the Champions League. This is similar to Liverpool. Just like in 2005, Liverpool did not even enter the top four in the league, but won the Champions League championship. The more such a team, the more cautious it should be.

After coming to Liverpool, Marseille was also very low-key. Except for coach Gretz, other players did not accept interviews from reporters. Even the three former Liverpool players, Xie Lu, Centen and Cice, whom England reporters wanted to interview the most, kept silent. They neither mentioned their feelings with their old clubs nor revenge, and looked unpredictable and profound.

Coach Gretz expressed respect for Liverpool and the Premier League. "In the game against Premier League teams, there is no big difference for us, whether it is against Fulham or against Liverpool. When you watch the Premier League semi-finals, you will find that all the good things in football can be reflected in them, wonderful games, good physical fitness, superb technical and tactical level, and the team makes very few mistakes. This is a very high level of football and the realm we want to achieve. In the French football world, we not only lag behind the British in physical fitness training, but also do not pay enough attention to psychological quality. French players who play in the Premier League do a good job. If they return to Ligue 1, they can bring us some advanced experience. In these aspects, we are obviously lagging behind the Premier League, but we are confident that we can make up for such a gap."

For the game against Liverpool, Gretz was neither humble nor arrogant. "If we were just here to learn, it was obviously not convincing. Anfield was terrible, but we also had our own goals when we came here. Three-pointers may not be realistic, but the possibility of one point is not lacking. Please allow me to regret Gerald's car accident. At the same time, I am also very happy that Gerald cannot appear on tomorrow's field. Gerald is a genius and can change the course of the game. If he and Chen Yu are on the court at the same time, we may not be able to do anything. Now, we think we have the possibility of getting points."

The performance of Marseille at Liverpool is low-key and calm, which makes Liverpool people a little uneasy. They don’t understand why weak teams like Marseille are not afraid of Liverpool, but they are just a little uneasy. Deep in their hearts, they still don’t believe that Marseille can defeat themselves at Anfield.

That night, eight games on the first day of the second round of the Champions League group stage kicked off, and the giants won the game without exception. The highly-watched battle between Manchester United and Roma also proved their excellent form again. Facing Roma who is eager to take revenge, Manchester United beat their opponents with a solid goal.

In these eight games, the Barcelona young player Messi, who performed the most outstandingly, showed strong goal-scoring ability, and scored 7 goals in the last five games. This efficiency is comparable to Chen Yu, who claims to be averaging one goal, his position in Barcelona has risen sharply. Many people believe that Messi will be Ronaldinho's successor to Barcelona's core position.

Liverpool players and coaches also watched the first day's game. Of course, the focus is on the game of the giants. They are all Liverpool's defending strong opponents. Liverpool attaches great importance to Messi's performance. When the two teams met, Messi was still young, but he grew up very quickly. If Barcelona and Liverpool meet again, this Argentine may become one of the key figures in determining the outcome of the game. Chen Yu even bluntly stated that Messi will become a stronger player than Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.

Although Liverpool players and coaches think that Chen Yu is a bit alarmist, they are also careful about Messi. Some defenders even specially download Messi's video to watch in case they can deal with this new Argentina Maradona who has a super dribbling when they meet Barcelona.

The next day Liverpool and Marseille match began with a red ocean and tsunami-like singing.

In the overwhelming red, the blue and white of Marseille fans seemed so small? So insignificant, the shouts they made for their team were completely submerged in the singing of Liverpool people. They could only see them opening their mouths but not hearing any sound, as if they were performing pantomime.

The Reds are famous all over the world, Anfield is famous all over the world, and the Reds' record on the European battlefield is also the best in the Premier League.

But the Marseille was not frightened by the madness of Anfield Stadium. Marseille midfielder Centen was the first to walk out of the player channel calmly. The Liverpool fans at the scene did not look at him differently because he had played for Liverpool, and still booed him. The front stand was filled with red team flags, which was the familiar color of Centen. The Dutch glanced at him, turned his head to the stands of the Marseille fans, smiled and raised his hand to applaud, thanking them for following the team across the English Channel.

Marseille fans gave Cenden and the subsequent Marseille players applauded. Although this support was silent amid the cheers of Liverpool fans, the Marseille players were still cheered up. With the support of these hardcore fans, everyone had a clear mind.

When the players of the two teams shook hands, the atmosphere was still good. Liverpool and Cynden, Cynse and Sherlock were familiar with each other hugged them and patted their shoulders and backs. There was no hostility between the unfamiliar players. For example, Liverpool and Marseille are basically not on the same level now. Apart from the grudges between Cynden, Cynse and the club, the two teams had no major entanglements. This was just a game.

The commentator on the scene was optimistic about the game, "...The game is about to begin. This is the second game of the Champions League group stage. In the first game, Liverpool was tied by Porto away. Now when I return to Anfield, I believe that Liverpool's dominance will also return. There will be no big problem to beat Marseille. However, Gerald of the midfielder is not here, Alonso is in poor form, with Chen Yu here, the goal will definitely be guaranteed, I hope the process will not be too ugly."

The game was about to begin. Liverpool's boss Gillette came to Anfield's stands again. Sitting with him was Marseille's boss Robert. Louis Drefez, 61, was once the boss of Adidas and a major shareholder of Louis Drefez Group, one of the world's three major agricultural products traders. He began to control the Marseille club in 1997, with an investment of more than 200 million euros at that time.

The beautiful wife Margarita who came to Liverpool to watch football with Robert was also his beautiful wife Margarita. Margarita, 39, grew up in the former Soviet Union and has the nickname of "female tsar". Although the two are matched by the old and young, Margarita does not live entirely on her husband, and his own assets are 125 million euros.

Gillette and Robert shook hands and greeted each other. After they sat down, the game began.

Marseille arranged a steady 451 formation in this game, with goalkeeper 30-Mandanna, four defenders 24-Bernat, 4-Rodriguez, 32-Givi, 3-Taivo; the five midfielders were captains 19-Kana, 7-Selu, 10-Zenden, 22-Nasri, 6-Ziani/, single forward 9-Cisse.

This lineup can be said to have expressed full respect for the home team and the defending champion, but it can also be said to be able to see the weakness of the defending champion after missing Gerrard in the midfield, and is ready to use the advantage of numbers to kill Liverpool.

Liverpool is still in a 442 formation with balanced offense and defense, with goalkeeper 25-Reina, four defenders 3-Finnan, 4-Hepia, 23-Carrag, 6-Rise; four midfielders 11-Benayon, 14-Alonso, 22-Sisoko, No. 20 Mascherano; forwards/9-Chen Yu and 15-Crouch.

This lineup is replaced by Gerald, Agel, Kuyt, and Alonso in better shape, which is Liverpool at the peak. But now Gerald is injured and Agel has just recovered from injury. Alonso is in poor condition. Crouch rotates Kuyt, so Liverpool can only get 80% of the level.

However, in the eyes of Liverpool, 80% of Liverpool is enough to defeat Marseille.

After the game started, Liverpool pressed strongly, hoping to give Marseille a warning, but the Liverpool people did not expect that the Marseille was not at all out of weakness. Based on the advantage of the number of players, they would never allow Liverpool players to penetrate near their penalty area.

Czenden, Cice and Sherru, who have played for Liverpool, performed particularly positively. Although Cice plays as a striker and is a single striker, he retreats a lot and can defend to his own half. Once the ball is converted to the feet of a Marseille player, he immediately runs towards Liverpool's half, and his range of activities has covered most of the courts.

Dutchman Cenden has developed a tough defensive skills at Middlesbrough and Liverpool. Today he happened to deal with Liverpool. The Israeli midfielder Benadon who faced him is a technical team and his style is weak. Cenden's tough play makes Benadon very uncomfortable. He makes frequent mistakes under Cenden's fierce pressing.

Due to Bernardon's mistake, Finnan, who was on the same side as Bernardon, dared not step forward. Centen alone almost restricted Liverpool's attack on the entire right.

Xie Lu's skills are excellent and his defense has always been inferior to Cenden, but in order to show his value in front of Liverpool people, he also fought hard today. He not only frequently used his excellent skills to attack Sissoko and Alonso, but also used tireless running to harass Liverpool players who held the ball.
Chapter completed!