Young Football Player

After the Premier League, Liverpool will prepare for the Champions League next.

On September 30th, the second round match day of the UEFA Champions League group stage, the Liverpool team came to Basel, the third largest city in Switzerland.

It is said to be the third largest city, but it is actually just a small town with a population of more than 100,000.

The Basel club is the dominant team in the Swiss league. It has already won five consecutive championships in the Swiss league, and it seems that it has no intention of giving up.

Because of this, Basel is also a frequent visitor to the European competition. No matter the Champions League or the Europa League, they can always be seen.

However, although they can always play European games, as a small league team, Basel is not very competitive.

Basel's best result in the UEFA Champions League is the top sixteen, and the best result in the Europa League is the top four. A standard minor league team's European record.

But one thing to note is that the Basel team has a nickname-the Premier League nemesis.

In the Champions League, Basel has caused a lot of trouble for the Premier League giants.

In the UEFA Champions League season, when Basel and Premier League Manchester United were assigned to a group, and then they beat Manchester United 2:1 at home in the final round of the group stage, and sent the Red Devils, who could qualify for a tie, to play in the Europa League.

In the UEFA Champions League last season, Basel and Chelsea were divided into a group. Although Basel failed to qualify for the group stage, they managed to kill the Blues at home and away, embarrassing Chelsea.

In fact, the Egyptian pharaoh Salah was able to join Stamford Bridge by virtue of his outstanding performance in double-killing Chelsea in two rounds, but now he is still on the bench.

Today, Liverpool is also meeting Basel in the Champions League group stage. Indeed, many English media are worried about Liverpool.

At present, this group already has Real Madrid as a strong opponent. If Liverpool cannot get the ideal results against Basel, it is possible that they will be squeezed out by Basel and miss the group stage.

In Basel's St. Jakobs Park, Liverpool's game is indeed difficult to play.

Li Chenglong also seemed to be infected with the happiness factor by Sterling, wasting a great opportunity to score in the opening 5 minutes.

He received a pass from Gerrard near the penalty spot and pushed the ball over the crossbar.

Liverpool's missed chance to score the opening goal seemed to give Basel more confidence, and they played quite well at home.

Liverpool has a slight advantage in the scene, but has not been able to find a chance to score. Instead, the opponent's counterattack is very threatening.

The two sides drew 0:0 in the first half, but in the 52nd minute of the second half, Basel relied on the opportunity of counterattack, and their striker Streller scored and took the lead in the score.

It seems that the Swiss team is going to continue to carry forward the style of their Premier League nemesis.

Then Basel shrunk its defense, and Liverpool had nothing to do for a long time.

So at the last moment, Li Chenglong still had to come out to solve the problem.

In the 85th minute, Li Chenglong unloaded the ball with a beautiful high altitude at the front of the penalty area, firmly unloaded the high ball passed by Mignolet from the backcourt, and then swung his legs on the spot for a long shot.

The ball was played in a beautiful arc, bypassing the fingertips of the opponent's goalkeeper Watzlik, and flew into the upper right corner of the goal.

Lee Sung-yong completes another wonderful goal,

Helped the team to tie the game, and at the same time allowed goalkeeper Mignolet to get an assist.

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Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Basel in Switzerland was not an ideal score.

However, considering the opponent's Premier League nemesis attributes, Liverpool tied the game even when the score was behind. This result is still acceptable.

In another game in the same group, Real Madrid won Ludogorets 2:1 away.

In this case, Real Madrid ranked first with 6 points after two consecutive victories, and Liverpool ranked second with 4 points after one win and one draw.

In general, although the second round of the group stage was not ideal, Liverpool is still in a relatively safe position for the time being.

But then there will be two rounds of direct confrontation between Liverpool and Real Madrid. These two games are very important.

If Liverpool still wants to overtake Real Madrid and become the first in the group, they must perform well in the two games against Real Madrid, at least one win and one tie to qualify.

Even if Liverpool does not consider the issue of competing for the first place in the group, they should try their best to score points on Real Madrid and avoid being double-killed.

If Liverpool is double-killed by Real Madrid, and Basel double-kills Ludogorets in two rounds, then Liverpool will be overtaken by Basel in points, and it will be dangerous if they are not careful.

However, the third and fourth rounds of the group stage are still early, so we can let it go for now.

In the other games of the second round of the Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid won Juventus 1:0 at home, and Paris beat Barcelona 3:2 at home. These are the two focus battles that have attracted the most attention.

At the same time, among the other three teams in the Premier League, Arsenal beat Galatasaray 4:1 at home, and Chelsea beat Sporting Lisbon 1:0 away, all of which were ideal results.

However, Manchester City drew 1:1 with Roma at home, which is not so good.

Manchester City had already lost to Bayern in the first round, and now they drew with Rome. They only scored 1 point in the two rounds, which is very unfavorable for Blue Moon's qualifying situation.

But there are still four full rounds to come, everything is still possible, and Manchester City naturally still has a lot of opportunities.

It is also worth mentioning that Welbeck scored a hat-trick in Arsenal's home win over Galatasaray.

Premier League players have completed hat-tricks in two consecutive rounds of the Champions League, and now the English media can seize the opportunity to brag about it.

Especially since these two are native English players, they can even make the English media brag.

In addition, after Li Chenglong scored another goal in this round, he temporarily became the top scorer in the Champions League with 4 goals.

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After the Champions League group stage, it will soon be the weekend of the Premier League.

On October 5th, in the seventh round of the Premier League, Liverpool faced West Brom at home.

Liverpool won this game relatively cleanly, taking a two-goal lead in the first half, and Lee Chenglong also sent an assist.

The next 2:0 score was maintained for most of the half, and it was only at the last moment that the opponent pulled a goal back because of carelessness, but it was not a flaw.

At the same time, in the other games of this round, the top six are basically recovering their form. Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham all won. Chelsea also won Arsenal 2-0 at home in the London derby, continuing to maintain their own strength.

In the current Premier League standings after 7 rounds of the league, Chelsea ranks first with 6 wins, 1 draw and 19 points, and Manchester City ranks second with 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 points.

The third place is the dark horse Southampton, they have 4 wins, 1 draw and 13 points.

Liverpool ranked fourth with 4 wins, 3 losses and 12 points, and finally returned to where they should be.

However, Liverpool is 7 points away from the top Chelsea, which is not a small gap, especially when Mourinho leads the team very steadily.

Next, Manchester United and Tottenham both had 11 points. After Arsenal's loss, the ranking fell and fell directly to 9th.

At present, the Premier League standings after 7 rounds are still relatively chaotic, only Chelsea thriving is more obvious.

At the same time, both Diego Costa and Aguero scored a goal in this round of the league. In this way, Diego Costa's goals reached 9, while Lee Chenglong and Aguero both scored 5 goals. Ball tied for second.

Now there are more people bragging about Costa, but fortunately, Lee Jackie ranks first in the Champions League scorer list, which is very convincing.

At present, Costa has not been able to score in the Champions League, and Aguero has only scored a penalty, which is still far from Lee Chenglong.