In the passionate singing of "Allez Allez Allez", Coach Adkins had to raise his voice and loudly delivered the pre-match training:
"Boys... play well!"
All players:…
Gu Ran also had black streaks all over his head...
This was the first time Gu Ran had seen such a brief pre-match training.
Not to mention that it was the first time for Gu Ran to meet him, but it was also the first time for other old players to meet him.
But it makes sense when you think about it. Coach Adkins usually doesn't like to talk, let alone say motivating words. Being able to say something like this is enough to play well.
"Yes, coach!"
Led by captain Davis, the players formed a circle, folded their hands and shouted in unison: "The Saints must win!"
The sound of "Allez Allez Allez" was so loud in the stadium that the words "must win" could not be heard at all.
Of course, most players are not very confident. After all, in the face of such a fanatical home atmosphere and the Premier League giant Liverpool, it is indeed a bit arrogant to shout "must win".
At 2:40, both teams entered the stadium for the final pre-match adaptive warm-up training.
When Gu Ran stepped onto the green turf of Anfield Stadium and saw the red color all over the field, his pores suddenly exploded uncontrollably.
There is no need to compete, just being in such a fanatical atmosphere can make the adrenaline surge and become irresistible!
The UK truly deserves to be the capital of modern football. This football cultural atmosphere is so shocking!
Southampton fans who came from afar saw their team coming on the stage and immediately cheered and shouted excitedly.
Especially the women of the Southampton team, their screams instantly resounded over the entire Anfield stadium.
It was also the first time for Elizabeth, who was in the wives' group, to watch football live. It was also the first time she felt such an explosive atmosphere. Her eardrums were almost shattered.
When her eyes finally found Gu Ran among the players, she ignored the pain in her ears and jumped up desperately to wave to Gu Ran.
The atmosphere of watching football live was indeed very contagious, and Elizabeth's melancholy was diluted a lot.
However, Gu Ran had already started warm-up training and did not see Elizabeth's wave at all.
Linda, who was sitting in the main stand, couldn't hide her excitement and took a deep breath. "I finally brought Gu Ran to Anfield to play football. Although it was only once... but this is a beginning..."
Edwards, who was sitting behind Linda, couldn't help but sigh secretly:
Ms. Linda, that's crazy.
One sentence can make the entire Liverpool team play football with Gu Ran...
Edwards also made a calculation secretly in his mind:
Normally, the ticket split between the home team and the visiting team is 9:1. The average ticket price for Liverpool is 42 pounds. There are probably less than 50,000 people attending the game today. So normally, the ticket revenue for this game is, Liverpool It would have been 1.8 million pounds, and Southampton could have received about 200,000 pounds.
In order to invite Southampton to play, Liverpool took the initiative to sell out the ticket benefits and gave Southampton 1.4 million pounds, while only taking 600,000 pounds for itself...
From 1.8 million to 600,000, there is a loss of 1.2 million pounds in income, just to watch Gu Ran play football...
It's really crazy.
Edwards turned his attention to Gu Ran, who was warming up on the court, and secretly swore in his heart: I must bring Gu Ran to Liverpool and dedicate it to Ms. Linda! must!
At this time, the die-hard fans in the KOP stands also noticed No. 8 Gu Ran.
"Is that that kid? He's Chinese, right?"
"Looks skinny, doesn't look like a football player."
"Oh, no wonder he has so many female fans. It turns out it's just because he's handsome."
"Humph, can Shuai play football?"
"He still dares to wear No. 8? Isn't he trying to compete with our G8 Gerrard?"
"Southampton is so ridiculous! They actually let a pure rookie wear No. 8! This is a football stadium, not a catwalk to compete with who is more handsome!"
The die-hard fans in the KOP stands booed the Southampton team.
Of course, the main reason was to boo Gu Ran, who was wearing the No. 8 jersey.
Haldin deliberately walked up to Gu Ran, who was immersed in warming up, and said sarcastically: "Boy, did you hear the boos in the audience? These are all thanks to you."
Gu Ran said without raising his head: "So what? Some people want it but don't have it yet."
"You!" The muscles on Haldin's face twitched slightly, "Huh, I'm waiting to see you make a fool of yourself! After this game, you will become the joke of the whole club!"
Gu Ran sneered: "Then just keep your eyes wide open and watch for me."
Haldin took a step closer to Gu Ran and said angrily: "Fake! How dare you call me a dog? Apologize! Otherwise this matter will never end!"
Seeing that there were signs of a confrontation between the two, captain Davis immediately intervened, put one hand on Gu Ran's shoulder, and pressed Haldin's shoulder on the other, and said with a smile: "Are you playing? Don't play like this! This is a competition! Ours The fans are watching, and the opponent's fans are watching too! If there is any problem, go back and solve it, don't show your eyes here!"
Haldin gritted his teeth and said: "This kid called me a dog! He must apologize to me!"
Gu Ran smiled indifferently, "Okay, I apologize - I shouldn't insult the dog."
"Fake!" Haldin's whole face twisted.
Fortunately, Davis suppressed his shoulders hard enough to prevent him from moving.
Davis said coldly: "Gu, stop saying a few words! Haldin, you are a veteran too, can't you bear it? First, let me play the first preseason game smoothly." After that, when you get back to Staplewood, you two can have as much trouble as you want."
Gu Ran shrugged, "As long as he doesn't mess with me, I won't fight back."
Haldin's teeth were almost broken. "Good boy, you are lucky. Even Davis is looking for you now, but don't be complacent. Competition is the only criterion for testing players! Let's see!"
After saying that, Haldin got rid of Davis, turned around and walked to the other side to warm up.
Davis patted Gu Ran on the shoulder, gave Gu Ran a comforting look, and walked away without saying anything else.
Lambert ran over and smiled at Gu Ran, "Gu, don't be nervous and ignore Haldin. You came on as a substitute. Even if we lose this game, no one will blame you. On the body."
Gu Ran also smiled at Lambert, "Thank you, Lambert."
Lambert grinned and said, "Come on!"
"Um."
This little episode in Southampton did not attract attention due to the early intervention of captain Davis.
However, head coach Adkins on the sidelines completely saw it.
Coach Adkins crossed his arms over his chest and still had a poker face on his face.
This team has many problems, but now is not the time to solve these problems. We must first finish this preseason game and let the problems surface...
Not long after the Southampton team started to warm up, the Anfield stadium cheered wildly again.
The DJ at the scene roared crazily: "Let us welcome our Liverpool team to the entrance with the warmest applause!!!"
The wrinkled captain Steven Gerrard, wearing the red No. 8 jersey, waved to the wildly cheering Liverpool fans and led other players to the green field.
Anfield is about to explode!
All of the Liverpool stadium stood up and applauded their team spirit Gerrard and other players.
Behind Gerrard, there are No. 1 goalkeeper Brad Jones, No. 2 defender Glen Johnson, No. 3 defender Paul Konchesky, No. 4 defensive midfielder Raul Meireres, No. 5 Defender Danny Agger, No. 6 defender Fabio Aurelio, No. 10 midfielder Joe Cole, No. 14 forward Milan Jovanovic, No. 16 defender Sodirios Ki Aljakos, No. 17 midfielder Maxi Rodriguez, No. 18 forward Dirk Kuyt, No. 19 forward Ryan Babel, No. 21 midfielder Lucas Leiva, No. 23 Jamie Carragher, No. 24 forward David Ngogo, No. 25 goalkeeper Jose Munuel Reyna, No. 26 midfielder Jay Spearing, No. 28 midfielder Christian Poulsen, Defender No. 32 Stephen Darby, Defender No. 37 Martin Skrtel.
The on-site DJ introduced the names and positions of the Liverpool players one by one with the fullest enthusiasm.
Every name received an enthusiastic response from Liverpool fans.
The Liverpool players whose names were called also happily waved to the fans who supported them.
As for the Southampton players, the on-site DJ only briefly read the list of Southampton's starting 11 players.
The names of other substitute players, including Gu Ran, were not announced.
The fans of the away team were obviously very dissatisfied with this. The beautiful girl cheerleaders shouted Gu Ran's name in unison, and the entire Anfield North Stand fans also shouted Gu Ran's name.
For a time, Gu Ran's name resounded throughout the Anfield stadium.
MaxxRT, who was sitting in the fifth row of the visiting team stand on the north side, said excitedly: "The atmosphere at the scene was so explosive! I really want to take out my phone and live broadcast it!"
In the mist of so many past events, he quickly said: "Maxx, for the sake of your own chrysanthemum, you have to calm down!"
Sanqiu Guan said: "That's right! If you bear with me, we will definitely get the rights to the online broadcast before the league starts!"
Higu Seijuro said: "The most urgent thing now is not us, but the netizens in China who can't see Gu Ran playing football. Why don't we use text to live broadcast on our post bar, and by the way, it can also be used to guide our APP in advance." drainage."
Qiao Shan, who dunked on Jordan, immediately said: "Okay, leave this to me!"
Qiao Shan, who was dunking on Jordan, immediately took out his mobile phone and opened a post with the theme of "Gu Ran's Debut Text Live Broadcast" in the post bar called "Ran Live Broadcast", updating the situation on the court in real time through hand typing.
——Ran Live Broadcasting is also the name they gave to the live streaming software.
The burning word represents the burning passion of competitive sports, and is also homophonic with the word "ran" in Gu Ran.
After all, this live streaming software was created just to watch Gu Ran's balls.
As soon as the topic post was posted, it instantly became a hot topic.
Although it is already late at night in China, the domestic fans are still enthusiastic.
This was also the time they finally got news about Gu Ran's competition after a long wait!
In less than 2 minutes, this topic post has been viewed tens of thousands of times, and the comments and interactions have also reached thousands of times!
Every domestic fan who knows Gu Ran's existence wants to accompany him to witness Gu Ran's debut!
At this time, the KOP fans in the South Stand stopped even singing and cheering for their own team. They all booed wildly at the North Stand opposite.
The boos from the KOP completely suppressed the cry of "Gu Ran".
More than 5,000 Southampton fans who came from afar screamed with all their strength, but they could not beat the more than 40,000 fanatical Liverpool fans.
Gu Ran smiled, applauded and bowed to the Southampton fans who came to support him.
Although the voices of Southampton fans are not as loud as those of KOP and other Liverpool fans, as a new player making his professional debut, Gu Ran is already very satisfied and happy to leave his name at Anfield Stadium as soon as he arrives.
Gerrard, who was warming up on the pitch, couldn't help but curiously asked his teammates: "What are the Southampton fans shouting?"
Carragher shrugged, "Who knows, it seems to be the name of a Chinese player."
Gerrard looked at Gu Ran, who was training hard in the opposite half, and couldn't help but smile: "It's rare! I can meet Chinese players in a British game! The last time I met Chinese players was a long time ago When I played against Manchester City, I met Sun Jihai."
Joe Cole couldn't help but frown, "Steven, did you see that? That kid actually wears size 8 - the same as you."
Gerald laughed, "...Interesting."
At this time, Gu Ran also happened to look towards Gerald.
Gu Ran smiled far away at Gerrard and others: These are the skills of a walking star!
Gerrard immediately smiled and said to his teammates: "This kid looks quite friendly, and he even smiled at us."
The strong man Glen Johnson sneered: "Looking at how thin he is, he doesn't look like a football player at all. He will be useless if he comes on the field."
Gerrard smiled and said: "Glenn, please be gentle. In a friendly match, the opponent is a League One team. Play relaxed, relax and play."
Glen Johnson shrugged, "Sorry, a friendly match is also a competition. Either he won't pass by me, but if he passes by me, I don't care if he is rare or not. Even if the Chinese giant panda comes, I will still have to pass by." Shovel him over."
Gerald shook his head helplessly, "Okay, God bless that kid not to run into you."
The pre-game adaptive warm-up ended quickly.
The substitute players of both sides returned to their respective benches, while the starting players of both sides returned to the tunnel, held the hands of the ball boys arranged by the stadium, and waited for entry.
As soon as Gu Ran walked to the visiting team's bench, he saw Elizabeth Olsen waving at him again and again, "Gu! Gu! I'm here!"
Damn~
So spectacular.
Omei, you're just free during normal times, but you're also free when you come to the stadium to watch football?
Well, you foreigner girls, you really save fabric.
Gu Ran trotted up to Elizabeth against the beating waves, "Hi, Liz!"
Elizabeth's eyes were filled with excitement, "Wow! Gu! I didn't expect you to be even more handsome wearing the jersey than not wearing anything at all! Uh, I mean, you look so handsome in the jersey! And , you actually have so many fans! The entire north side stand is shouting your name! Are you really a substitute?"
Gu Ran smiled and said, "It's true."
Elizabeth asked eagerly: "Then when can you come on stage? I can't wait to see you play!"
Gu Ran smiled and said: "This is not decided by myself, it has to be decided by the head coach, and the head coach also depends on the situation."
Elizabeth asked in surprise: "Isn't it the kind of thing where you go up and fight for a while, then take it down to rest, and then put it back on and fight for a while?"
Gu Ran said helplessly: "You said it was basketball. Once a football is subbed off, it cannot be replaced, even in a friendly match with no limit on the number of substitutions."
Elizabeth said "Oh", "The rules of football are so unreasonable, even basketball can be used."
Gu Ran:......
Elizabeth smiled again and said: "Yes, the No. 8 player opposite is equivalent to a Hollywood-level football star?"
Gu Ran smiled and said: "Yes, I really didn't expect that Liz, you don't even understand the basic rules of football, but you still know that No. 8 is a big star in football."
Elizabeth smiled and said: "In football, I still know a few big stars. I don't know anyone else here, but I know Liverpool No. 8... Lampard!"
Gu Ran:......
I shouldn't praise you.
Okay, as long as you are happy.
Gu Ran didn't correct him either. Anyway, for the silly female fans who don't understand football, it wouldn't make much sense to correct him.
Gu Ran smiled and said: "The game will start soon. I'm going back to the bench. You can watch Lampard here."
"Okay! Gu!" Elizabeth added: "However, he is not as handsome as you!"
"Thanks……"
Gu Ran returned to the bench and sat down with a look on his face that didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
3pm sharp.
Led by three international-level referees, Liverpool and Southampton players lined up in two rows to officially take the field!
The starting players of both sides shook hands, and the captains of both sides came to the referee to guess the side of the coin.
Southampton's on-field captain is Davis, while Liverpool's starting captain is No. 10 Joe Cole.
Liverpool's captain Gerrard and deputy Carragher were sitting leisurely on the home team's bench.
Joe Cole guessed heads and tails correctly and won the right to pick sides.
Joe Cole immediately pointed his finger towards the north half as any Liverpool captain would do - in the first half, Liverpool will attack from north to south.
This choice is also the superstition of the Liverpool team.
In the first official game after the establishment of the Liverpool team in 1892, Liverpool's first captain chose to attack from north to south, and the final score was 8:0.
The people of Liverpool liked this big first victory very much. They believed that attacking from north to south was God protecting Liverpool.
As a result, this has become a tradition of the Liverpool Club. As long as weather conditions permit, all previous Liverpool captains will choose to attack from north to south when choosing sides.
Because of this, the KOP stand on the south side is the favorite stand of Liverpool fans, because standing here can see Liverpool's goals most clearly and intuitively.
Of course, the venue will be changed in the second half. Mysteries, luck, and blessings will all be changed. But the KOPs don’t think so. They think the second half is garbage time. With the strength of the Red Army, the game can be settled in 45 minutes in the first half.
As for the second half, that is the time for the KOP to taunt their opponents and sing songs to celebrate.
In short, on-field captain Joe Cole maintained Liverpool's tradition and chose the northern half, so Southampton was assigned to the southern half.
Southampton also won the kick-off.
Amid bursts of crazy cheers from the KOP, the ball boys left the field, and the players took photos in their respective half-courts and then took their positions.
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(End of chapter)
