Chapter 470 Shooter List

But in fact, Sones does not intend to introduce any famous new players.

In an interview, when talking about the winter transfer, Soanes commented helplessly: "A while ago, the director of the club asked me if I needed a new player, such as a new defender. I said, 'Of course I need it.' Our defensive problem is very big. I need a central defender who can support the defense, rather than relying on a small player like Taylor. The guy supports..." With that, Sones laughed himself. Taylor is only 20 years old. He is very talented, and it is too difficult to become the leader of the central defender.

Age also represents experience and experience...

Next, Sones's view on the winter transfer may be very appropriate: "It is difficult to buy a good player at this time, because the club is unwilling to let good players leave at this time." The implication is that Newcastle United may only buy or rent temporary transition players, and continue to reuse the youth army and accumulate funds until the summer.

In addition to the "seller" who is unwilling to let people go, it is actually difficult for the "buyer" to make the right choice in just one month. Compared with summer transfers, winter transactions are often complementary, and the pursuit of immediate benefits is more important than long-term planning, so it is easy to make wrong judgments.

Last year, Liverpool bought Morientes for 6.3 million pounds, Everton bought Betty for 6 million pounds, and Chelsea bought Jarošek, etc., which are all excellent negative textbooks.

Therefore, low-cost transfers and leases are still the mainstream in January.

In fact, Chelsea's introduction of Mani is also likely to be completed on loan. The Blues first loaned the Portuguese for half a season, and then had a preferential purchase right of 5 million pounds in the summer. And Liverpool, which has been in good condition recently, will not have as much investment as last winter. The Dutch hope star Colognekamp, who is about to join the team, exchanged a small amount of money from right-back Jose Mika. Benitez's favorite central defender is Brondby's Daniel. Agel, the price is also absolutely "cheap".

In such public opinion, the sixteenth and seventeenth rounds of the Premier League passed quietly---

The away game was at Upton Park Stadium, defeating the home team West Ham United 2-2; at home swept Charlton, who performed well at the beginning of the season 2-2!

The latter is good for the time being. What is worth mentioning in the former competition is that Owen staged a hat-trick!

Michael. Owen, the English golden boy, the popular 'Glassman' at Newcastle United, finally started again. Although he had some minor injuries in the first two games, he was in good shape this day.

At Upton Park, Irving started from the 5th minute, and his goals came one after another. And there are various ways, and there is no repetition. In the fifth minute, Don Jack made a chance in the front court. Owen led the ball with his right foot and inserted it into the penalty area, and then opened the record with his left foot.

ESPN British commentator shouted, "One chance, one goal, this is the main scorer!" In the 43rd minute, this time it was replaced by a header that he was not good at. Solano made a free kick on the left side. Don Jack was transferred to Shearer, who was tall. Owen grabbed the point in front of the goal, shook his head on his back, and the ball drew an arc and accurately hung into the side net in the far corner of the goal.

"It happened that the shortest one grabbed the point!"

The goal in the 93rd minute was effortless. Hiller's direct pass spurred the attack, Ameoby made a cross from the right, and Owen easily pushed the ball into the empty goal in front of the goal.

One left foot, one right foot, plus a header, Owen used three ways in a row. When asked about this topic after the game, Owen opened the gate of memory. I remember when I played for Liverpool, I once scored in the Champions League game like this, and now I do it again. It feels very good." A few goals may not be perfect. The goalkeeper pounced on the first ball, and I didn't get the right part of the second ball. As for the third ball, my mother could also hit it. Owen said it very interestingly, modestly and humorously. At the same time, he also expressed his gratitude to Jack Don: "I want to thank Jack. His continuous breakthroughs have given me a lot of opportunities. These goals have something to do with him. I'm really glad that I made the best choice last summer, that is, I came to Newcastle United."

Now when it comes to Owen, there is another word that will be associated with him - "efficiency".

The word Don Jack is more applicable. Although he is not as good as Owen in this game, in fact, he keeps breaking through, and a goal has also made him the focus of the whole game. So far, Don Jack has scored 15 goals for Newcastle United in the league, which is less than last season in Liverpool. But in fact, Don Jack only started eight times and scored 15 goals in eight starts, and he only used 59 minutes for each goal.

With this hat, Irving has also scored as many as thirteen goals, second only to Don Jack's fifteen, which is more than the most efficient Arsenal striker in other teams in the Premier League and Charlton striker Bent, who has more goals on more appearances, and is more efficient than them.

In the current Premier League scorer list, the first and second place are Don Jack and Owen, followed by Henry, Bent, Lampard, Fanny, Yakub and others, and Henry in third place has one less goals than Owen.

After the game, Newcastle's press conference declared high-profilely, "Michael and Jack, these two deals are the most cost-effective deals since the club bought Shearer in 1996."

Of course, even Owen's worth is a little more expensive than Shearer at that time, not to mention Don Jack's worth a club alone.

However, the top two in the scorer list. Such results are really eye-catching. Every fan who watches the league will definitely pay attention to the scorer list. Look at the list: first place, XXX, from Newcastle United; second place, XXX, from Newcastle United... This is the best advertisement. For fans in other countries who don't know the pattern of the Premier League, they will definitely be the first to check Newcastle United in contact with the Premier League. As for Chelsea, Manchester United... Now it's all behind Newcastle United.

In this case, the players of other teams must have resentment.

For example, Charlton's Bent, Darren. Bent's efficiency is not high, but his playing time in almost all leagues still gives Bent a place in the scorer list. However, Bent himself is not very interested in the current situation of Newcastle United's two top two top scorers. Before playing with Newcastle United, Bent said, "The list doesn't mean anything. I will prove something in the game..."

As a result, at St. James Park, Charlton's tragic encounter made Bent leave devastated after the game. The 17th round of the Premier League was a tragedy for Charlton. The last league game before this Christmas may make Charlton's every player who participated in the game There is no good mood for the holiday - seven to two!

Just from the game, you know how bad Charlton played!

Don Jack scored three goals and was replaced in the first half. Owen scored two goals and was also replaced in the second half. Newcastle United almost went crazy. Parker shot forward and opened Charlton's door. After that, central defender Taylor headed for a header to help the team.

The only thing Charlton can hide is Bent's two goals.

Bent really has some strength. As Charlton's only top player, Bent scored two goals with a few counterattacks. Although there is an offside dispute over one goal, the two goals are still real, but this can't save Charlton at all.

Bente is desperate.......

After the game, he didn't say anything. The loser has no say, but it's not all a bad thing for Bent, because with these two goals, he advanced one in the scorer list, but the gap between him and the top three has not narrowed. Jack Don scored three goals, and Owen also scored two goals. .

The vigorous number of goals scored by Don Jack and Owen made the strikers of other teams can only smile bitterly. The opponent of Arsenal in this round of the league is Portsmouth. They swept Portsmouth with four goals at home. Henry scored twice and assisted once, becoming the best player in the game.

For a striker like Henry, not scoring in four rounds is called a "goal shortage". The game with Portsmouth was when Henry broke the wasteland. Two goals and one assist showed that the king of Highbury came back, and Arsenal naturally returned to their familiar victory track.

After assisting Reyes, Henry scored twice. He first shook the opponent's goalkeeper and scored, and then hit the penalty. The significance of this pass and two goals is that it completely destroyed the opponent's fighting spirit before half-time, and the 4-0 half-time score overwhelmed Portsmouth. Wenger was not surprised by Henry's "outbreak". He believed that it was only a matter of luck that the Frenchman failed to score before. Henry has actually played well recently. Although he didn't score, every striker will go through such a period of time. He hit the goalpost against Chelsea. In the game against Newcastle, goalkeeper Geven made several wonderful saves in front of him. In the Champions League, he lost a penalty for Ajax, but everyone When he had bad luck, Henry showed his level today.

It is true that Henry has always performed well. In such an Arsenal, he has done enough. However, people also ignore another "always". The French have been fighting with injuries for two years, and he has done his best. Just last week, Henry went to the hospital for an examination, and the ankle injury remained lingering, but it would not prevent Henry from fighting hard on the court. I went to the hospital just for a simple examination. In the past two years, I have been playing football with ankle problems, but I have said many times that I will always try my best. As long as I play, I have to help my team. The team needs a leader. When Henry went to the hospital last week, he once attracted the attention of the media. Once he can't play, the blow to Arsenal will be immeasurable. Some people are even worried that the recurrence of Henry's old injury may affect his condition for a long time, but it didn't take long for the Frenchman to smash all kinds of doubts surrounding his injury with perfect performance. For two years, the shackles of injuries have always existed, but it is more important to break the psychological shackles and not be tired. Henry can't break the entanglement of the former for the time being, but he has done the latter.

"What can a Henry who gets rid of fetters do?" The London Morning Post, which supports Arsenal, raises such questions.

"Look at the scorer list. Although he missed seven rounds of the league, he still quietly moved forward..." This can only be said before the results of Newcastle United and Charlton's match come out.

When he heard Owen score two goals and Don Jack scored three goals in another game, Henry only shook his head and smiled bitterly. He still ranked third in the scorer list. He still scored one goal less than Owen: "I hope I can do better, but their number of goals is really desperate. I don't think it's not what I did well. It's that they did a great job." Henry said.

Newcastle United is the real start to score points!

However, this is not to be happy, because their main competitor Chelsea also continues to win, and is no worse than Newcastle United's victory, because in the last round, Chelsea defeated Arsenal away, and the points of the two teams are still the same.

The performance of the two teams makes it difficult for other teams to be competitive, and it is difficult for Liverpool, which has performed well recently, to do anything, because when they fail, Newcastle United and Chelsea are making rapid progress, and when they succeed, Newcastle United and Chelsea are still making great progress. Benitez even sighed, "What else can we do?"

Yes!

Perhaps because of this, Liverpool lost, but not in the league, but in the international World Champions Cup - Toyota Cup, last season's Champions League champion Liverpool and Brazil Sao Paulo fought. Unfortunately, Liverpool lost 0-1 to Sao Paulo and failed to win the first place in the club's history. The world championship trophy, not only that, Reina's record of not losing a ball in ten consecutive games also came to an end in this game.

The Red Army came to Japan with the hope and determination to conquer the world, but left a deep regret.

It was difficult for Benitez to hide his disappointment at the post-match press conference. He thought Liverpool should be the winner of the game, but the result was the opposite. Benitez said, "First of all, I want to congratulate my players. They should be the winning side." In the whole game, Liverpool almost pressed the opponent's attack, especially after conceded a goal, the Reds kept threatening the gate of Sao Paulo. This can be proved from the time of possession, 62.3% to 37.7%, and Liverpool's advantage is unquestionable. We had 21 shots, 17 corner kicks, hit the crossbar twice, and scored three goals, all of which were invalidated. What else can we do? We have worked hard to win the game.

Liverpool had an advantage but failed to win, but Benitez did not want to blame the players.

He said, "I am very dissatisfied with many things that happened during the game, but I am very satisfied with the performance of the players. They did their best to win the game."

What makes Benitez dissatisfied?

The Spaniard said bluntly, "I want to know why the player who knocked down Gerard was not shown a red card, and why is there only three minutes of stoppage time?" You should make up the time for at least five minutes. Liverpool's three goals were null and void, and Benitez pointed out that the last goal was a misjudgment.

"Pengole's goal is obviously a good goal. I have great respect for Sao Paulo. They are an excellent team, but Liverpool should be the ultimate winner. We controlled the game and took full control of the game. Usually, a Brazilian team will not defend as hard as Sao Paulo.

But this statement can't cover up Liverpool's loss. They lost, and the whole process of the game reminded the media supporting Liverpool of Don Jack.

Last season, Liverpool rarely didn't score goals. The team was a strong team in England at the defensive end, and Don Jack alone almost made Liverpool's attack the most terrible offensive line in the world. With Don Jack, Liverpool had no difficult time to score goals.

"The most unsuccessful business in Liverpool's history!"

As the old saying goes, the Italians seem to be eating the bones of the English media. "If there is Jack, Liverpool's game will not be like this. With their performance, it is difficult to be the opponent of Milan's two heroes, and we have one less opponent in the Champions League. But maybe Milan's two heroes should consider Newcastle United's No. 10 Jack. If they can bring him to Milan, then which team in the world can compare with Milan!?

This has always been what Italians desperately want.

However, English fans are more concerned about the war after Christmas. In the upcoming 18th round of the Premier League, Newcastle United's opponent is Liverpool. As early as a month ago, Don Jack's first game against his old club has been advertised. Originally, such a game was actually with Chelsea and Arsenal. The match is almost the same, but with Don Jack, the meaning is naturally different. The conflict between Don Jack and Liverpool last season is well known. The game has become the game that Don Jack's supporters think of 'Jack's revenge', 'Jack proves himself', and 'making Liverpool people regret'.