Young Football Player

This season's Premier League double red meeting has deepened the grievances between Liverpool and Manchester United.

In the post-match interview, Rooney also claimed that the penalty was the correct penalty, which caused everyone to ridicule again.

The penalty kicks in the World Cup were not scored, but the penalty kicks in the Premier League were accurate. Rooney was ridiculed as an expert in civil wars and an amateur in foreign wars.

But in general, Liverpool did not let Manchester United double play, which is very good.

Liverpool double-killed Manchester United last season. Liverpool's state is not good this season. Manchester United is holding back their energy and wants to double-kill Liverpool for revenge.

After the double red meeting, there will be two weeks of national team competition days.

At present, the head coach of the England national team has been replaced by Southgate. A few weeks earlier, Southgate began to call Li Chenglong, and he wanted to fight for a beautiful debut.

On the national team match day this time, the England team has two games, namely the home game against Lithuania in the European preliminaries, and the warm-up match away against Italy.

After seeing Southgate, Li Chenglong expressed his thoughts.

"Gareth, don't worry, I will definitely play well against Lithuania."

"But the warm-up match against Italy, you have to figure out your own way."

Li Chenglong only plans to play in the European preliminaries with Lithuania, and Li Chenglong will not participate in the warm-up match with Italy. This is the result of his comprehensive consideration.

At present, Liverpool's schedule is very tight. After the national team match day, the Champions League quarter-finals will come again, so Li Chenglong needs to arrange the game reasonably.

Of course, the European preliminaries must be played well, otherwise Li Chenglong and Southgate will not be able to explain.

On March 27, the European preliminaries between England and Lithuania will start at Wembley Stadium.

Lithuania is a standard small European country with a total population of just over 2 million.

Moreover, Lithuania is also one of the countries with the most negative population growth in the world. They are reducing their population by about 40,000 people every year. After sixty or seventy years, Lithuania will basically disappear from the earth.

But when it comes to sports, Lithuania is a bit less European, because they are one of the few countries that do not pay enough attention to football.

In Lithuania, basketball is their number one sport, and the popularity rate is very high, just like the popularity rate of table tennis in China.

Moreover, Lithuanians really like basketball. Only in the year when there is an international basketball competition, in the ratings of all TV programs in Lithuania, the top ten will definitely be occupied by basketball games, and the top three must be basketball.

So Lithuania is a small country, their basketball level is very high, they have won the men's basketball European Championships many times, and although they have not won the Olympic men's basketball championship, they have also won medals three times.

Lithuania's basketball level is indeed very high, but their football level is much worse. Their football national team has been ranked outside the 150th place for a long time, which is worse than China, and they have never scored in any football matches. International competition.

So from this aspect, Lithuania is indeed quite different.

In Europe, football is undoubtedly the number one sport. Even if there are a few national teams that pay more attention to basketball, they are definitely not as good as football, such as Spain, France, and Serbia.

Even in many European countries, many of them don't even know what basketball is, such as Germany.

Germany is one of the most influential countries in Europe, but they missed basketball for a long time, until a successful NBA basketball superstar like Nowitzki appeared.

If you conduct an interview on the streets of Germany and ask how the Germans learned about basketball, most of them will answer that they only knew about basketball through Nowitzki.

Before Nowitzki, most Germans didn't even know that there was a sport like basketball in the world.

Even though Nowitzki is a basketball superstar, he didn't actually practice basketball at first.

Nowitzki played football as a child and later switched to tennis, the most common sport in Germany.

Football, tennis and racing are the three most popular sports in Germany.

But later, as his body grew taller and taller, Nowitzki had to switch to basketball, a sport that requires height but almost no one cares about it in Germany.

It is said that when Nowitzki's grandfather heard that his grandson had changed to basketball, he went around to find someone to find out what basketball was.

In general, Lithuania is a rare basketball powerhouse supported by a small area, and it is also a standard football weak country. Their international football rankings are similar to pocket countries such as Andorra, Macedonia, and Luxembourg.

Facing such a super fat team in the first show, Southgate is of course very satisfied. His goal is to win Lithuania cleanly at home.

At Wembley Stadium, Southgate arranged for Jackie Lee to start and Rooney to play as a substitute.

This is also an expected arrangement. The contradiction between Jackie Chan and Rooney has become more and more obvious. Of course Southgate will not arrange for the two of them to start at the same time.

Wait until the next warm-up match with Italy, if Jackie Chan does not participate, Rooney will probably start.

England played a 433 formation this time, with Lee Chenglong, Sterling and Welbeck forming a striker trident.

Lithuania's strength is really not good, and most of the team's worth is less than one million.

So the game is basically a one-sided massacre.

In the opening 8 minutes, Li Chenglong scored the goal with a long shot to help the team open the scoring.

Before the end of the first half, Li Chenglong received a pass from Henderson and scored twice.

In addition, Welbeck also scored with a header from a corner kick, so England led 3-0 in the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Lee Sung-ryong tried his best to find opportunities, and finally scored a hat-trick with a free kick in the 64th minute.

At the same time, Sterling and Kane, who came off the bench, each scored goals, allowing England to have a standard massacre at Wembley Stadium.

Jackie Lee led the team with a hat-trick and helped England beat Lithuania 6-0 at home, winning five consecutive victories in the European preliminaries.

Although it was a hat-trick, Lithuania's strength is indeed not strong, so there is not much to show off.

However, this is Southgate's first show, and it is also the first time Lee has returned to the England team since last year's World Cup in Brazil. It still has a certain meaning.

Anyway, the English media was very happy. They found various topics and used this hat-trick to fabricate topics with Rooney and Hodgson.

After the European preliminaries with Lithuania, the England team is going to prepare for a warm-up match with Italy.

In last year's World Cup, although England's elimination in the group stage was not directly caused by Italy, it was also inseparable from England. After all, England directly defeated Italy in the group stage, and Lee Chenglong also came off the bench to complete a hat-trick.

Now in this warm-up match, the Italians just want revenge.

However, Jackie Chan, the executioner of last year's World Cup, did not go to Italy with the team. This is very disappointing to Italian fans.

In the absence of Jackie Chan, Rooney started again as a core player.

Maybe he really wants to prove himself, but Italy's strength is indeed not weak, especially now that the head coach is replaced by Conte.

Italy scored two goals in the first half, and Henderson scored a goal in the second half with a long shot, but England eventually lost 1:2 away.

The Italians got their revenge, but the absence of a key player, Jackie Lee, always made them feel like something was missing.

So after the game, some Italian fans said in front of the reporters that Jackie Chan was a coward and did not dare to accept the challenge from Italy.

Li Chenglong stayed in England well, but he was still involved in the game there, which probably means that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.