Lord of Greenery

Chapter 539 The Beginning of the New Season

In the warm-up match, Liverpool won the Community Shield. As for the International Champions Cup, Tottenham won the championship in the end.

Not many people cared about the results of the warm-up match, and Liverpool fans simply celebrated that the team won another championship, and did not hold a parade for it.

And the real strength of the team depends on the performance of the official game.

On August 8, a week after the Community Shield, Liverpool's first round of the league officially began.

In the first round, Liverpool's opponent is West Ham United.

As soon as the game started, the Liverpool players began to compress the movement space of the West Ham United players under the tactical instructions.

The hard power of the Hammers is much weaker than that of Liverpool. The most famous player in the team is the former England star Wilshere who doesn't know his predecessor.

Li Ze stood in the middle, and West Ham United was controlled by Liverpool from the very beginning of the game.

The first game of the new league is very important, and winning it will have a good boost to the morale of the team.

Although Klopp has really changed Liverpool's tactics, at least in this game, Liverpool's style of play is still not much different from last season.

Li Ze stood in the middle of the road and dispatched, orderly sorting out the team's offense.

Because West Ham United shrunk their formation at the beginning, the pressure on him was very small, and he almost let him do whatever he wanted.

Li Ze, who is not unfamiliar with this position, hardly feels the presence of West Ham United players.

In the 7th minute, Li Ze went straight through the middle, and Mane's long shot was blocked;

In the 11th minute, Milner made a pass, and both Mane and Salah missed the ball;
In the 14th minute, Li Zeduan passed the ball to find Salah, who received the ball behind his back and passed it to Firmino, who was stopped by Obonna.

Liverpool suppressed their opponents tightly and did not give West Ham any room to fight back.

But in the eyes of many old fans, this state is not good.

This happened many times in the past. The dominant team shot again and again, but they still couldn't break through the opponent's goal.

On the contrary, the team that has been at a disadvantage easily took the lead with a single counterattack.

Although the current offense seems to make people excited, it is also inevitable to make people worry.

In the 19th minute Li Ze's pass found Robertson, whose cross found Salah in the crowd, who headed past West Ham.

1: 0!

This is Liverpool's first goal of the new season!
While the fans were celebrating, they also relaxed their hearts and watched the development of the game with ease.

After Liverpool took the lead, the Hammers were very passive.

To score points here at Anfield, they have to attack.

For them, there is not much difference in the results between 0:1 and 0:10, both of which lost three points.

However, the team's defense is also very problematic, shrinking the formation at the beginning is still easily broken by the opponent.

Pellegrini had a headache for this, but he could only bite the bullet and continue to attack.

Pellegrini's reputation is not small, second only to the most famous head coach in Europe.

In his coaching career, the most gold-rich championship trophy is the Premier League champion in the 2013-2014 season.

But as early as in the Villarreal period, his team leadership results were very eye-catching.

In the yellow dive at that time, the team had the world-class striker Fran, the Spanish team's main midfielder Senna, and the last classical master Riquelme.

Before they came to Villarreal, this group of people was well-known, but none of them were recognized by the outside world.

Forlan's performance at Manchester United was not very good, Riquelme was also swept out by Barcelona, ​​Senna is not an indispensable player in the Spanish midfielder in the future, and Pellegrini is even less well-known.

It's just such a group of players who have made a name for themselves in La Liga, broke into the top four of the league many times, and even broke into the semi-finals of the Champions League in the 05-06 season.

Although the results are good, Huang Qian under Pellegrini has never won any decent championships.

But Pellegrini, without a doubt, made a name for himself with this performance.

In the industry, he was rated higher than Everton's Moyes at the time.

Both of them led mid-range or even relegation teams to the mid-upper reaches of the league.

The difference is that Pellegrini led the team to perform equally well in the European war, and Everton's performance in this regard is quite poor.

In the 05-06 season, Everton had a place in the Champions League. As a result, they did not win the qualifying rounds and failed to enter the Champions League. Compared with the performance of Moyes and Pellegrini, they are far behind.

At that time, the outside world called him "engineer", and later he was simply called "Peigong" by Huaguo fans.

More importantly, in the later period of Huang Qian, Riquelme became less obedient.

The classical master has a weird temper, rarely communicates with his teammates, and likes to take a nap.

Because of his status and ability, he also has a special status in the team.

Later, there was a conflict between Riquelme and Pellegrini. The latter was not afraid, put the Argentine on the bench, and led the team to achieve good results.

It was also at this time that the outside world fully recognized Pellegrini's coaching level.

Not only the tactical level, but also the level of adjusting the locker room.

Perhaps because of this, Florentino invited him to become the head coach of Real Madrid in order to build the second phase of the Galacticos.

However, Pei Gong's performance in Real Madrid is not bad, but it is also empty of the four majors. It is understandable to become the runner-up with the second highest points in history in the league. It is unbearable for Real Madrid fans to stop at the top [-] in the Champions League.

Pei Gong could only leave Real Madrid, leaving rumors that he was unable to coach the top giants.

Later, Pellegrini came to Malaga. In this team, he regained his former glory, led the team to win the Champions League seat for the first time, and also led the team to the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time.

It can be said that he has become the head coach with the best performance in the history of the club.

With such achievements, he has won the favor of the Abu Dhabi consortium.

Pei Gong just joined Blue Moon, led the team to win the Premier League championship, and also led the team to break into the semi-finals of the Champions League. These are all achievements that are enough to be recorded in the history of Manchester City.

Until now, the Champions League semi-finals are Manchester City's best results.

After leaving Manchester City, Pei Gong once went to Huachao to coach, but left soon.

This summer, shortly after he terminated his contract with the Huachao team, he came to West Ham United.

After everyone thought that Pei Gong was more suitable for coaching mid-lower teams, he came to West Ham United, and many people still look forward to his performance.

But Pellegrini himself complained secretly.

Coaching in La Liga is not the same thing as coaching in the Premier League. There are too many strong teams in the Premier League.

Even if his coaching level is excellent, it will be difficult to make up for the hard power gap between the two teams.

Although West Ham United is attacking now, what's the use of not scoring?
Looking at his own defense line full of loopholes and watching Liverpool's posture of waiting for an opportunity, Pellegrini could not think of a way to solve the problem in front of him.

So, before the end of the first half, Liverpool scored again.

(End of this chapter)