Back in England, just as Liverpool was preparing for its next away game against the Blues Chelsea, on September 16, FIFA and "France Football" simultaneously announced that FIFA and France Football will discuss the FIFA Golden Globe Award. The cooperation is over.
At this year's end-of-year awards, the World Player of the Year hosted by FIFA and the European Ballon d'Or hosted by "France Football" will go their own ways, each presenting their own awards and no longer collaborating.
In fact, there have been rumors circulating for a long time, but now it has only been officially confirmed by both parties. The parting of ways between the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or was also expected.
There have been a lot of controversies in the five years since the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year were merged into the FIFA Ballon d'Or, especially in 2010 and 2013.
In 2010, in terms of national team performance, Spain was the World Cup champion and the Netherlands was the runner-up. In terms of clubs, Inter Milan is the treble winner. Sneijder, who is the core of both the Netherlands and Inter Milan, should have won the award, but the FIFA Ballon d'Or that year was awarded to Messi, who had better personal data.
In 2013, Bayern Munich won five crowns. Ribery performed well, but did not score as many goals as Ronaldo. As a result, the FIFA Ballon d'Or was awarded to Ronaldo, leaving Ribery on the verge of tears.
According to professional media voting, Sneijder and Ribery received the most votes in both 2010 and 2013. But because the European Ballon d'Or was merged with the World Player of the Year, it finally became an award for national team coaches and captains to vote based on the number of goals scored and reputation. Sneijder and Ribery, who have better overall performance, competed with the FIFA Golden Ball. The award was missed, so the award was already infamous and controversial, and the parting of ways was expected.
Of course, from Willard's own perspective, this is a bit disadvantageous to him. He just happened to score more goals than Ronaldo this year and his personal performance was better. However, the gold content of titles such as the Europa League and Copa America is not as valuable as Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League and European Cup, and the Europa League Golden Boot is not as valuable as the Champions League. The gold content of golden boots.
In addition, Cristiano Ronaldo's personal performance is not that bad, and he also scores a lot of goals. In the European Ballon d'Or voting at the end of the year, Willard may not be able to compare with Cristiano Ronaldo.
But no matter what, life must go on, so keep working hard in the second half of the year. As for whether he can win the Ballon d'Or or even the World Footballer, it depends on luck. Even if he doesn't win this year, Velarde believes that with a system cheat, he will probably dominate the Ballon d'Or for longer than Messi and Ronaldo combined.
There is no rush.
The next day, at 19:00 in the evening on September 17, with the whistle of referee Atkinson, the Chelsea VS Liverpool match in the fifth round of the 2016/2017 Premier League season was cheered by more than 40,000 fans at Stamford Bridge. officially begins.
Chelsea currently ranks second with three wins and one draw. This game is at home. Naturally, they hope to take all three points and continue to catch up with the first place.
Therefore, after the game started, Chelsea launched an active attack, trying to take advantage of Liverpool's disadvantage of playing away from home and being slow to enter the state to gain an early advantage.
In the 5th minute, Hazard dribbled the ball forward and was pulled down by Klein. Chelsea got a free kick from the wing. Hazard personally took the penalty and passed the free kick. Center back Gary Cahill, who stepped forward to participate in the challenge for the top, grabbed the first point and swung his head towards the goal. However, the angle was too right and was saved by goalkeeper Mignolet. .
Chelsea failed to grab the spot for the ensuing corner kick. Villard, who was defended back in the penalty area, used his strong physique and jumping ability to grab the first point and push the ball out of the penalty area to clear the ball.
However, Chelsea's offensive did not slow down because they knew that the opportunity was rare. If Liverpool is allowed to enter the state of away games, the Red Army led by Willard will be more difficult to chew. They can only take advantage of the beginning of the game to see if there is a chance to quickly break through the Red Army's goal and establish an advantage.
Hazard is worthy of being called the king of scoring by some fans. Even if he faces Velard, he is not afraid. In the 12th minute, when he faced Willard's frontal interception, he successfully broke through Willard with a fake cow's tail flick.
With Willard's current physique, speed, awareness, and defensive skills, there are not many players who can break through him head-on. Even Messi, who kept trying to break through Velarde in training, had to try many times before occasionally succeeding.
Mainly due to Willard's consciousness, he reacted too quickly and made moves before the average person.
It may be precisely for this reason that Azar's tail flick deceived Willard. The faster the subconscious reaction of this action, the easier it is to be deceived. Of course, first of all, your actions must be fake and real.
Fortunately, Hazard's powerful shot after breaking through Velarde failed to score, and was blocked by center back Lovren. Otherwise, Velarde will become the backdrop for Hazard's wonderful breakthrough goal.
In the past, Velarde scored after breaking through others. If Hazard did this once, Velarde would be embarrassed. Fortunately, Lovren saved him and prevented Hazard's shot from actually scoring.
Moreover, Hazard's wonderful breakthrough also stimulated Velarde and his teammates. Coupled with the time limit, Liverpool really began to enter the game state and gradually increased the intensity of its counterattack.
In the 17th minute, William made a pass from the right and tried to pass the ball to Diego Costa, but center back Matip seized the landing spot first and pushed out of the penalty area to clear the ball.
The second spot outside the penalty area was also seized by Liverpool. The defensive midfielder Wijnaldum got ahead of Chelsea's Oscar, volleyed and passed the ball to Velarde on the side.
Velarde waded past Hazard, who had fallen on the ball, and ran towards Chelsea's half with the ball. Even though Hazard was desperately chasing behind him, he was unable to close the distance between the two. Even though Willard was dribbling forward, Hazard was returning to defense without the ball.
And when Coutinho, Sturridge, and Mane also fired three arrows together, joined the counterattack array, and began to meet Velarde. When Velarde passed the ball out and began to sprint without the ball, Hazard Can't even catch up.
Liverpool launched a successful quick counterattack, and finally Coutinho made a pass from the left. Sturridge fought for the top in the middle to attract the attention of a Chelsea defender and the goalkeeper, but the result was that he missed the top.
And Willard judged the ball's landing point more accurately. He rushed diagonally to the back corner of the small penalty area, jumped high, beat the Blues center back David Luiz, and hit the goal with a powerful header. Headed the ball into Chelsea's goal.
Goalkeeper Courtois was staggered by Sturridge's challenge in the middle, and his speed towards the back point was slower. In the end, he could only watch the ball go into the net.
"Haha, the ball went in!"
"Header from Willard in the back post."
"David Luiz did not compete with Willard in the aerial challenge, and Willard grabbed the spot. The goalkeeper Courtois was shaken by Sturridge's aerial challenge at the front point and failed to save in time. Pointing backwards, it was a step too late and failed to prevent Willard's goal."
"Chelsea, who attacked aggressively in an attempt to score a goal at the beginning, not only failed to break the deadlock first, but were instead beaten by Liverpool first."
"Villard is worthy of being a free man in the game. He was involved in defense in the backcourt before. Then he ran forward at full speed during the counterattack, rushed into the opponent's penalty area, and opened the scoring with a header to help Liverpool win at Stamford Bridge. 1-0 ahead against Chelsea."
"Next, it depends on how Chelsea responds."
Chelsea, of course, had no other choice but to continue their onslaught. It was still a 0-0 draw before, but now we are behind by the score. We have no way out and can only continue to attack.
In the 22nd minute, the home team played a good team attack. Finally, Hazard made a wonderful pass into the penalty area, helping Diego Costa get a good opportunity to volley from close range in the penalty area.
The location of Costa's volley is only about 8 meters away from the goal. As long as it hits the goal frame, there is a high chance of scoring.
Diego Costa's shot did hit the door frame, but he was unlucky and just hit the ball on the outstretched leg of goalkeeper Mignolet.
The ball bounced back and was cleared by defender Lovren with a kick out of the penalty area.
Chelsea missed a great opportunity to equalize the score.
This shot was blocked, which made Diego Costa very annoyed. It also made Chelsea very unwilling and continued to attack.
As a result, the same plot and the same counterattack were staged again. However, this time Willard changed from a goal scorer to an assister.
In the 31st minute, Chelsea, which had been unable to attack for a long time, was once again quickly counterattacked by Liverpool after stealing the ball. This time, Willard didn't even need the help of his teammates. He carried the ball by himself and staged a long-distance run past three people, all the way to the edge of Chelsea's penalty area.
That indomitable momentum shocked Chelsea's defensive players, thinking that Willard was going to attack Longtan alone, so they surrounded him one after another.
Originally, this was a counterattack. Chelsea didn't have enough people in the backcourt, and then they were frightened by Willard's continuous pass, so many people came to surround him. Naturally, the rest of the field was empty.
Velarde's vision and awareness prevented him from dribbling the ball to break through. Instead, he calmly distributed the ball and made a diagonal pass to the gap on the right rib of the penalty area.
Mane rushed into the penalty area at high speed from the right and shot without stopping the ball. He once again penetrated Courtois' fingers and sent the ball into the Chelsea gate.
In the 31st minute, Willard made a long-distance run and passed several people before passing the ball and assisting Mane to score. Liverpool led 2-0 away from home.
In football, a two-goal lead is a huge advantage. What's more, this is Stamford Bridge, an away game. To be able to score against Chelsea twice at Stamford Bridge in about half an hour of game time is a very commendable performance.
Red Army fans at the scene and in front of the TV gave out warm applause and cheers to celebrate the team's two-goal lead.
