Chapter 223: Gerrard's invitation

On September 1, in the fourth round of the Bundesliga, the former Liverpool star Hypia brought Leverkusen to visit Ao to Schalke.
This game received a lot of attention, especially in Asia.
This is not only a civil war between the Bundesliga powerhouses, but also important Asian players.
Schalke has Atsushi Uchida, the No. 1 right-back in Asia, Leverkusen has Sun Xingmin, a Korean super genius, and Lee Chenglong, a Chinese star. In addition, Schalke has been passing on the introduction of Chinese players recently. All these have made this game a great concern in East Asia.
Li Chenglong, Sun Xingmin and Uchida Atsushi all made their debut, which is considered to satisfy the fans' wishes.
However, Leverkusen just returned from an away game in Scotland in the middle of the week and returned from a UEFA Champions League qualifying game. The state is not very good. The whole team performed well. The Korean genius Sun Xingmin was also a little lost.
On Schalke's side, Jackie Lee is working very hard.
Just 5 minutes into the game, Li Chenglong received a pass from Neustedt in the penalty area, turned around and shot the center post, refreshing Leverkusen goalkeeper Leno.
In the 11th minute, Li Chenglong used a free kick to almost hit the dead corner, but this time Leno performed bravely and flew to save the threatening free kick.
In the 18th minute, Atsushi Uchida made a cross from the wing. With Li Chenglong running to pull away the opponent's defender, Kevin Boateng's push shot widened out of the post.
Schalke completely took the initiative at home, but he was a little bit lucky.
In the 42nd minute, with a corner kick opportunity, although Leverkusen was able to get the first goal to get the ball out, Kanter from the outside shot a long shot and finally broke Leverkusen's gate.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, Leverkusen finally recovered some form. Sun Xingmin cooperated with Kisling and also created some threats, but Navas stepped forward at this time.
Relying on the outstanding performance in recent training, Navas finally got the chance to start this game, and it was also his first chance to play. Of course, he wanted to take the opportunity to perform well.
As a result, the few threats made by Leverkusen were all accepted by Navas with ease.
In the 74th minute, Schalke relied on a quick counterattack opportunity. Gretzka was brought down by Leno in the penalty area, allowing Schalke to get a penalty.
Huntelaar was injured, of course, Li Chenglong came to take the penalty, easily fooled the goalkeeper, hit the ball into the lower left corner of the goal.
In this way, Schalke won Leverkusen 2-0 at home and won the victory against his direct rivals. At the same time, he also gave the opponent his first defeat of the season, and Navas also played in his first game. Reaped zero envelopes.
"The Bundesliga has only played 4 rounds. Bruce Lee has scored 6 goals and is undoubtedly ranked first in the current Bundesliga scorer list."
"Li said before that he planned to compete for the European Golden Boot if he had the opportunity. At that time, many people thought it was a joke."
"But now, I believe many people have begun to face this matter squarely. As long as Li can continue to maintain such a goal efficiency, I believe he can really compete with those La Liga forwards for the European Golden Boot."
Li Chenglong scored 6 goals in 4 rounds, but 2 of them were penalty kicks.
If you want to compete for the European Golden Boots, you must not only have a high attendance rate, a high scoring rate, but also a penalty kick.
This is probably also the only benefit that Huntelaar was injured early and Schalke brought more chances for Li Chenglong to score goals.
In this round of Bundesliga, in addition to Schalke's 2-0 defeat of Leverkusen in the direct match, Dortmund also took away Frankfurt 2:1 away, but Bayern was actually tied by Freiburg 1:1 away.
In this case, the Hornets climbed to the top of the list with four consecutive victories and are the only team that has maintained a complete victory this season.
Bayern ranked second with 3 wins and 1 draw, followed by Schalke and Leverkusen both 3 wins and 1 loss.
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After the fourth round of the Bundesliga, the next is the national team match day.
Li Chenglong received a call from Hodgson early, asking him to go back to participate in the national team game, and also promised to arrange his starting game.
The current situation for England in the World Cup qualifiers is not bad, but it is really not very good.
Six rounds of World Cup qualifiers were played. England's score was 3 wins, 3 draws and 12 points, temporarily ranking second in the group.
Montenegro ranks first in the group. They currently have 14 points, but they have one more round.
Although it is said that even if they only get second in the group in the World Cup qualifiers, they can still participate in the play-offs. However, England is not stable even at second in the group. At present, it is only one point ahead of the third-placed Ukraine. It may fall to third place.
And because the Premier League just had a double red meeting this weekend, many players missed this national team game due to injuries, such as Manchester United's Phil Jones and Rooney, Liverpool's Sturridge and Glen Johnson.
There are important players absent, plus this time the national team game day is a very important game. England is going to go away to challenge direct rival Ukraine, so Hodgson has to put his hopes on Lee Chenglong, who is in hot form recently.
On September 6, Wembley Stadium, England played against Moldova at home.
Moldova is weak, and this can be regarded as a warm-up match for England. Everyone can play casually and find the status.
Hodgson produced a 4231 formation, allowing Li Chenglong to play a single forward at the forefront.
Before the game began, many signs supporting Jackie Lee appeared in Wembley Stadium.
"Give the ball to Bruce, we have to watch Super Bruce score!" This is the biggest piece of it.
Although he did not play in the Premier League, Lee Chenglong's popularity in England is still rising.
Moldova is really weak. After the game, they have no resistance at Wembley Stadium.
In just 12 minutes, Gerrard scored a long shot.
In the 26th minute, Li Chenglong received a through ball from Wilshere, and passed the opponent's defender first in the penalty area, then passed the opponent's goalkeeper, and directly pushed the empty goal.
This goal instantly detonated the Wembley Stadium, and all the fans chanted Super Blues.
England players have thick feet and a lot of violent long-range shots, but it is still relatively rare for them to pass the goalkeeper continuously in a small range ~EbookFREE.me~.
Then Welbeck scored twice and Lee Chenglong scored another goal before the end.
England beat Moldova 5:0 at home, without any difficulties at all. Joe Hart was freezing cold when he stood in front of the goal. He didn't make any saves in the game because the opponent didn't even shoot in the game .
While England had a five-goal victory at home, Ukraine also beat San Marino 9-0 at home, but Montenegro was tied 1:1 by Poland in the away game, and Lewand scored a goal.
In this case, in the standings, both England and Montenegro are 15 points, England ranked first with a goal difference advantage, and Ukraine is also very close behind with 14 points.
So a few days later, England will go to an away game to challenge Ukraine, and that game will be the real first battle.
At the end of the game, Gerrard, currently the captain of the England national team, suddenly said that he would take Li Chenglong by the way.
Li Chenglong did not drive today, so he got in his car.
"Bruce, I did a good job tonight."
"This is the credit of the whole team, but the main reason is that the opponent is too weak."
Originally the two were in a normal courtesy, but Gerrard suddenly pulled out a big topic.
"Are you interested in coming to Liverpool to play?"
"Liverpool?"
"Yes, you will definitely return to play in the Premier League in the future. Liverpool is a good choice."
"And this is not my personal invitation, but a sincere invitation from the whole team."
Li Chenglong did not expect that Gerrard suddenly invited him to join Liverpool.
And the last sentence should mean that this is the Liverpool boss who asked him to bring the talk, and he should be ventilated in advance.