Chapter 737 The birth of a new record of winning streak (2)
(The two are integrated.)
Chen Yu's first minute of stoppage time directly ended the hard battle in the heavy rain. With this goal, Chen Yu continued to set a record of consecutive goals, and Liverpool also tied the record of 14 consecutive wins set by Arsenal in the 20102 season. As long as they can defeat Sheffield United in the next game, the Premier League will have a new winning streak.
After this round of battle, the Premier League will get ten days off as the national team competition begins again, but this is only beneficial to small and medium-sized teams. Almost all players of giant teams like Liverpool are members of the national team. They not only have to continue to play high-intensity games, but also have to endure the torture of long-distance flights. It can be said that they are even more tired. This is also an important reason why many giants were tied by weak teams in the later stage of the league.
Chen Yu is the only big-name star in the world football world who does not need to participate in the national team because he is not a member of the national team.
A star who entered the top five footballers in the world and won the second place in the European footballers is not a member of the national team. This is definitely a miracle, but as long as there is a strange organization like the Chinese Football Association, similar miracles will often be performed in China.
10 days is a very embarrassing time for Chen Yu. If you return to China for the Spring Festival, you will spend three days on the road. If you return to England two days in advance, you will spend the first day of the Lunar New Year. If you return to England the day before the game, Chen Yu's physical fitness and condition cannot be guaranteed, which will affect the record-breaking match with Sheffield United and the Champions League quarter-finals against Barcelona.
Considering that there are still many advertising endorsement contracts that have not been completed, Chen Yu gave up his plan to return home and stayed in England to prepare for the league and the Champions League.
Chen Yu did not attend the group dinner for the Liverpool team in the evening. He returned to his home early. Tomorrow, Zhang Shubin, Zhao Muyu and Zhang Youzhen will return to China. Tonight, Chen Yu will have a farewell dinner with them.
When Chen Yu arrived home, Zhang Youzhen and Zhao Muyu had already prepared a sumptuous meal waiting for him to come back.
Zhang Shubin was packing his luggage. When he saw Chen Yu coming back, he put the box aside and said, "It's so early to come back. I thought you would stay with your teammates for a while."
Chen Yu said: "No, when can't you have a meal with them? You will be back home tomorrow."
Zhang Shubin laughed and said, "It's just that I'm going back to China for the New Year, but it's not that I won't come back. Oh, I miss home as soon as I've been old. I shouldn't have left you alone in the UK."
Zhao Muyu said: "Godfather, why don't I go back? Brother Xiaoyu is quite lonely here alone."
Chen Yu smiled and said, "I'm not a child. Before I met you, I stayed in Italy alone for almost two years."
Zhang Youzhen said, "That's right, Mu Yu, he is not a child, he is almost thirty years old. No matter how famous he is, you don't hold him like an emperor. Besides, don't think he will be lonely here. Valentine's Day is coming soon. There is his current girlfriend and his old lover here. Why are you staying here? Are you a light bulb?"
Zhang Youzhen's words made Zhao Muyu's face dark. In fact, she did not intend to return to China with Zhang Youzhen, but Zhang Youzhen was very close to Zhao Muyu during this period. Knowing that she had a crush on Chen Yu, he told her that being too close to Chen Yu is not the best way to get Chen Yu. It may be better to leave Chen Yu a little distance, because Chen Yu and Kaira Knightley didn't have to worry that their relationship would become better because of her departure. This is a good way to retreat to advance. A woman who fell in love with her was similar to a drowning person. After hearing Zhang Youzhen's words, Zhao Muyu agreed to go back to China to celebrate the Spring Festival with her without hesitation.
Chen Yu had long been accustomed to Zhang You's complaints against him and said, "I just think you are jealous and give you a sympathy. Also, I would like to remind you that the leftover woman is not honored, and she will really not be able to get married after she has been left for a long time."
Zhang Youzhen said: "It's not a big deal to worry. I'm still very young. But some romantic people should be careful. If you walk by the river often, your shoes will definitely get wet."
The bickering between Chen Yu and Zhang Youzhen usually lasts for a long time. In the past, Zhang Shubin was watching the fun, but today he interrupted: "Xiao Yu, we will go back tomorrow. If you have anything to do in China, tell me, I'll see if I can handle it for you."
Chen Yu thought for a while and said, "Uncle Zhang, there is one thing you really need to help me see. I started a real estate company with an old classmate in the imperial capital. I don't have time to ask about it myself, just a name, but I have invested about 100 million yuan in this company. I want you to go and see if I personally go and see if there is any problem."
Zhang Shubin said in surprise: "You have invested so much money. Okay, I'll go and see what your company is called."
Chen Yu said: "Yuanfang, Yuanfang Real Estate Development Company, manager Wang Qiang, and deputy manager Li Wei are all my high school classmates."
Zhang Shubin pondered for a moment and said, "I have heard of the name Yuanfang Real Estate Development Company. I'll help you see it when I go back. Xiaoyu and classmates can not trust each other. Money is the most testable thing."
Chen Yu said: "I know, Uncle Zhang, so I found two classmates to work together."
Zhang Shubin said: "But your investment vision is still good. If you stick to it, you will definitely have huge profits in the future."
Chen Yu was worried that Zhang Shubin had other ideas and smiled and said, "I'm just pushing me to put it on the shelves. If it weren't for the old classmate who forced me to invest, I wouldn't have developed real estate in China."
Zhang Youzhen said: "Awesome. I didn't expect that you are not only playing football, but you are actually the boss of a real estate company. What kind of house you have developed? If it's good, I'll be planning to buy one."
Chen Yu smiled and said, "There are various high-end communities and villas. If you want, I will pay for your salary with a house."
Zhang Youzhen raised her eyebrows and said, "You think it's so beautiful, I only have cash."
Chen Yu smiled and said, "You think I really want to give you a house. The house is now hard currency, which is more valuable than money."
Zhao Muyu said, "Don't just talk, sit down and have a meal. If you continue, the food will be cold."
Chen Yu said, "Okay, I'm already hungry after having dinner. By the way, Mu Yu, I can't go back to the Spring Festival. You go to your hometown in Shandong, help me see my grandparents, and bring me the gifts I gave to them and my parents."
Zhao Muyu said: "I know, I will go back and take a look if you don't say it."
Chen Yu said: "When you arrive in the imperial capital, you go find Wang Qiang to ask for the key to the villa. He also drove my Land Rover to the imperial capital. You can drive that car first when you go back."
Zhao Muyu said: "Yes."
Zhang Youzhen said to Chen Yu: "I didn't expect you to be quite careful. You can take a Land Rover to pretend to be a white and rich beauty when you go back."
Chen Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Looking at how you dressed like a mummy, I didn't expect that you were still so trendy and wanted to pretend to be a rich and beautiful woman."
Zhang Youzhen knocked on the rice bowl with chopsticks and said contemptuously: "What's the point? I'm called a mummy. I didn't see me turning back on the street with 90%.
Chen Yu said: "You can make a fool and wear your national outfit and turn the return rate will not be less than 90%.
If it were other women, Chen Yu would have been so angry that he would have been criticized like this, but Zhang Youzhen was like no one else. He ate and said, "The second fool you mentioned must be yourself."
Facing Zhang Youzhen, who was not angry at all, Chen Yu had no choice but to say mockingly: "A good man doesn't fight with a woman, I'll drink."
"Drink."
Zhang Shubin looked at Chen Yu and Zhang Youzhen's quarrel, and felt a lot of emotion. These two such excellent girls seemed to like Chen Yu, but none of them fell in love with his son Zhang Han, which made him feel a little regretful. But when he thought about it, he felt relieved. Although his son was also very excellent, he was like him, or many more than him. A genius like Chen Yu was extremely rare even around the world, so it was normal for women to like him.
The next day, Chen Yu drove Zhang Shubin, Zhao Muyu and Zhang Youzhen onto the plane. He went to Melwood alone to train alone for the whole morning and went to London in the afternoon to attend the Reebok new product launch conference. After dinner, it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
Chen Yu usually sleeps after 10:30, and it is still early. Chen Yu remembered that the Chinese Olympic team came to England to play a warm-up match, so he turned on the TV to see how the game was won and lost. Unexpectedly, he just turned on the TV and saw the news of the fight between the National Olympic Team and the Queen's Park Rangers.
The reason was that both sides had relatively large defensive actions, but the Queen's Park Rangers players took the lead. The Chinese National Olympic Games were not good at playing football, and the fight was also a scumbag. In this group fight, two Chinese players were seriously injured and one was beaten in shock. However, the Queen's Park Rangers players did not even suffer minor injuries. What made Chen Yu even more angry was that officials of the Chinese Football Association actually asked the players to apologize to the British players.
It was originally time for Chen Yu to go to bed around 10:30. After reading this news, Chen Yu could no longer sleep. He registered a small trumpet on the forum and joined the Chinese fans to denounce the Queen's Park Rangers and the cowardly and incompetent Chinese Football Association.
When Chen Yu went to training the next day, he couldn't help but express his anger through the mouths of the reporters who came to interview. "The stadium is not for fighting. Those who want to fight can go to the boxing ring. English football advocates confrontation, but confrontation does not hurt people. Some people are football hooligans on the court. They enjoy hurting people. I was very angry about the fight between the National Olympic Games and the Queen's Park Rangers yesterday, but I don't think that the National Olympic Games should scold and not fight back, that is not a gentleman, that is a coward."
Although the fight between the National Olympic Team and the Queen's Park Rangers had a certain impact in the British football world, the impact was still very small. After all, the National Olympic Team was just a youth team, and the Queen's Park Rangers were even more of an English Championship team. The mainstream media and most fans did not take them seriously. However, Chen Yu said this, the fight immediately attracted the attention of the entire English football and European football world, and also brought great pressure to the English Football Association. They had to issue a statement to strictly investigate the fight and punish the beaters. The Queen's Park Rangers Club had to dismiss the coach who participated in the fight under pressure.
Chen Yu spoke up for justice in the fight between the National Olympic Team, which made the Chinese team's head coach Zhu Guangdo ignite another hope of recruiting Chen Yu to join the team. He once again sent Chen Yu's classmate and friend Wang Zhan to persuade Chen Yu, but Chen Yu refused to join the national team again, which made Zhu Guangdo completely give up on Chen Yu.
Chen Yu had a fulfilling Valentine's Day. Keira Knightley flew back to England from the United States and spent a romantic day and two nights with Chen Yu. However, Chen Yu spent the traditional Chinese Spring Festival on the training ground. After all, no one in the West except Chinese, and Westerners could hardly remember this festival.
On the third day after the Spring Festival, the match between Liverpool and Sheffield United kicked off.
Sheffield United is a newly promoted team, and the weakest type of newly promoted team. They have only accumulated 24 points now, and the hope of relegation is very slim. Liverpool has 10 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss at home in the past 40 years. The only loss is a 1-2 loss in April 1994. Sheffield United is now facing Liverpool, which has won 14 consecutive victories. It is almost impossible for them to win at Anfield.
Such a game with a clear strength and weakness can win the attention of the entire England mainly because this game is related to whether Liverpool can break the Premier League winning streak that Arsenal has maintained for five years. If Liverpool beat Sheffield United, they will set a new winning streak record.
The competition in the Premier League is fierce and the strength of major teams is relatively balanced, so the Premier League has so few winning streaks, far inferior to Serie A and La Liga. Now Liverpool finally has an opportunity to break this record.
Although Sheffield United is a weak team and is away, they never want to be a victim of Liverpool's record-breaking. Under an absolute disadvantage, Sheffield United set up an iron barrel formation, with almost 11 players defending, wanting to defend a draw.
The Liverpool people are bound to win. Even if they go to Spain to play in the Champions League quarterfinals in the middle of the week, Benitez still has all the main lineups in this game. He obviously hopes to quickly resolve Sheffield United and then replace the main team to rest.
However, the first goal was not as easy as Liverpool people thought. Under Sheffield United's tenacious defense, although Liverpool had an absolute advantage, they could never knock on the closed door of Sheffield United.
Liverpool has the best weapon to break intensive defense: headers and long shots, but Sheffield United can no longer be described as intensive defense. 11 people are huddled in their half, just like a bus in front of the goal. Liverpool's striker Crouch has height and Kuyt has strength, but neither they nor other players inserted in the back row can jump up and header. The advantage of high-altitude balls is simply invisible.
The best thing about Liverpool is their long-range shots. Liverpool will score long-range shots in almost every game, but now Liverpool is facing a wall. Their long-range shots must be at least higher than the man wall and lower than the crossbar to have hope of scoring. This is for Liverpool's long-range shot experts, such a game is too difficult, especially if they can't easily kick within the 30-meter area, and their opponents will always harass you.
The game took about 30 minutes like this, and Liverpool shot more than 15 times, but they never knocked on Sheffield United's goal. Although the entire Anfield stadium was booed by Reds fans, this still did not prevent Sheffield United from continuing to set up their iron barrel formation.
After the first half, Sheffield United's defense line was still unbreakable. At the beginning of the second half, Benitez did not substitution. He really didn't know who could break Sheffield United's bus. Those who could score goals were on the court. What Benitez could rely on was time and the opponent's mistakes.
Benitez was lucky. In the 55th minute of the game, Liverpool finally got the chance to score. Chen Yu made a cross from the wing and Crouch fought for the top in the penalty area. As a result, she was kicked by Sheffield United's striker and the referee decisively awarded a penalty.
This penalty aroused strong dissatisfaction from Sheffield United, because they rely on not conceding the ball to support it until now. If they concede one goal, they will completely collapse in this game. They have no hope of launching an attack at Liverpool's home court.
However, the protests of Sheffield United were invalid, and they also received two yellow cards, which was even more unfavorable to the defense behind.
The one who took the penalty was Liverpool's captain Gerrard. At this moment, Benitez chose to believe in his leader, and Gerrard did not disappoint Benitez. His powerful volleyball helped Liverpool break the deadlock.
After leading the score, Liverpool was no longer in a hurry. They began to slowly fight with Sheffield United. At this time, Sheffield United used 11 people to defend, and it was meaningless and could only be ridiculed by outsiders. The relegation team also has dignity and professional ethics. At this time, Sheffield United can only attack, and for such a team that almost does not have a defensive system, attacking is almost equivalent to suicide.
In the 65th minute of the game, Chen Yu made a sharp breakthrough on the side and made a cross. Kuyt forced a header in the middle. Montgomery pushed Gerrard down behind the back in front of the small penalty area. Liverpool got the second chance to penalty. This time Gerrard gave the penalty to Chen Yu, because today's game not only set a new record for Liverpool, but if Chen Yu scored, he would also set a new consecutive goal record.
Chen Yu did not refuse. He easily used a spoon to expand the score for Liverpool and also increased his goal number to 21st.
After Chen Yu scored the second penalty, Liverpool had already secured the victory, but Liverpool played so frustrated today that they were sealed by their opponents for halftime. They were not satisfied with such a score. Later, although head coach Benitez replaced Chen Yu and Alonso for the mid-week Champions League quarter-finals, Liverpool's players continued to attack.
In the 70th minute, Pennant, who came on the bench with Chen Yu, took a corner kick from the left side and was blocked by Morgan. Liverpool central defender Hypia shot from 8 yards from the left side of the penalty area and entered the net in the near corner, scoring his first league goal since February 2006.
Five minutes later, Argentine midfielder Mascherano, who came on as a substitute, showed his good vision and footwork. He passed the ball to Kuyt from a distance for 40 meters away. The Dutch stopped the ball with his chest and passed the penalty area diagonally. Liverpool captain Gerrard shot from 11 yards from the right side of the penalty area and entered the net in the far corner, scoring his sixth league goal this season, expanding the score to 4 goals.
Chapter completed!