Chapter 54: Large-scale ban!
David sent a text message to Chen Xiaoliang shortly afterwards , saying that Gerrard had had his biggest outburst in the three years since he joined the club. All the players involved in the incident last night were fined two weeks' wages, their holidays were cancelled, and they all had to do extra training.
At the same time, the league committee also issued a suspension order. Tavernier, Goldson, Holland, Ruff and McLaughlin, who performed most heroically during the fight, were suspended for three games, while Aribo, Kent and Balogun were suspended for one game.
It is said that Barisic did not participate in the fight and escaped punishment because he was drunk and vomited in the toilet.
Poor Patterson was first vomited on by Barisic. When he was about to go back to the box to change clothes, he was beaten when he came out.
The Celtics also had five players suspended for three games.
This is a disguised way of the Scottish FA giving both sides a slap on the wrist.
Fortunately, the punishment is limited to domestic competitions and does not involve the Europa League.
It happened that these two weeks coincided with the national team competition period, and the League Cup was briefly suspended. Rangers, who were conducting closed training, gradually calmed the situation in a low-key manner.
Foreigners are different from Chinese people. There are always a lot of gossips about them, and the players' scandals are even more commonplace. After a piece of news becomes popular for a few days, there will be new gossip to overshadow it.
Chen Xiaoliang also focused his attention and began to do recovery training according to Mourinho's tactical diagram.
Although it was stated in advance that this notebook could not be shown to Gerrard , Riise is also a seasoned championship player.
Other defenders who can score goals will be given the title of "Guards with Swords", but Riise's nickname at that time was "Guards with Guns".
As a player whose main position is left back, he provided 23 assists and scored 31 goals during his years at Liverpool .
Especially his signature horrific and violent free kick, which once directly broke the tibia of Manchester United player Alan Smith!
After carefully studying the tactical diagram with Chen Xiaoliang, and combining it with his own professional experience as a full-back, he believes that in Mourinho's tactical system, in addition to strong defense, the defensive midfielder should also have the ability to pass the ball beautifully.
Combined with Mourinho's reliance on wingers, such as Duff and Robben in the early days, and Quaresma, Di Maria and even Ronaldo later, passing the ball to both flanks becomes even more important.
Moreover, defensive counterattack and flank attack are also Rangers' main offensive methods!
In this way, whenever Reese was free, he joined Chen Xiaoliang's recovery training.
But Chen Xiaoliang also kept a little caution.
Ever since the incident at the nightclub broke out, Helena had never treated herself well. Although the physical therapy was not as harsh, it was always done in a hasty and emotionless manner. She also treated the cooking differently, and the one she cooked for herself was always as simple as it could be.
With Reese around, I always feel like there is someone who can protect me.
After a week of recovery, Chen Xiaoliang returned to the club and began training with his teammates!
Gerrard's punishment is still going on. Although the players participating in the national team competitions have not returned yet, these players are currently concentrating on training and dare not even make jokes.
However, the "injury wave" encountered by the club was much more serious than Chen Xiaoliang had imagined.
There was a clear palm mark on the face of the second goalkeeper McLaughlin. He said there were mosquitoes at night and he slapped them too hard.
There were red scabs on both sides of Goldson's knees. He said he accidentally fell while walking and scraped his skin.
Old Davis's face looked even uglier. After each training session, he didn't even dare to take a shower and had to drive home in a hurry. Anyone who asked him for a drink would be politely greeted with an F.
It is said that because he was innocently implicated in the nightclub incident, his amiable wife issued a stricter order to stay home.
However, the serious training atmosphere has improved everyone's training efficiency.
Chen Xiaoliang also began to deliberately increase the number of passes to the sides during team training.
After all, abilities can be trained, but awareness still needs to be figured out and accumulated by one's own efforts.
On March 4, Rangers will challenge Livingston away.
Due to the suspension of a large number of main players, the third goalkeeper Phils played his first game of the season.
In the midfield, Kamara, who had been sitting on the bench for a long time, finally got a chance to play because of the arrival of Chen Xiaoliang.
But behind him, there is still the double defensive midfielder consisting of old Davis and Chen Xiaoliang.
On the forward line, veteran Defoe started, with Morelos and Hagi on both sides of him.
The two men avoided the fight because they suffered minor injuries in the previous game and went to the hospital for MRI examinations after the game.
On the defensive line, Patterson and Barisic are stationed on the left and right flanks.
Uglumba played as a central defender in this game, and the other central defender was the 17-year-old young player Robbie Fraser.
With a guest central defender and a young player from youth training, Chen Xiaoliang’s primary task in this game is to protect the space in front of the central defender.
After the start of the game, Livingston launched several threatening attacks.
Currently ranked fifth in the league, they do not want to lose this position so that they can participate in UEFA's newly organized Europa League next season.
Although it is only a third-level European intercontinental competition, for small and medium-sized clubs, it is their main way to showcase themselves in Europe, increase competition income, and allow their players to perform and increase their value.
Although Rangers was still the stronger side, they were playing away from home and half of their players had not started for a long time, so they still took a while to adapt after the start of the game.
Throughout the entire first half, in addition to continuing his steady and powerful steals, Chen Xiaoliang kept passing the ball to the two full-backs - Barisic, who was in sync with him, and Patterson, .
Especially the ball passed to Barisic on the left side, relying on the full tacit connection, the 10+4 passing ability is comparable to the best midfield passer in the Scottish Premier League.
In the second half, Gerrard waved his hand and replaced veteran Defoe, letting Hagi and Morelos play as double strikers and replaced him with another substitute central defender Jack Simpson.
The formation on the field was also changed to 352, with the two full-backs becoming wingbacks to increase the strength of forward runs.
As Rangers gradually gained control of the situation, Livingston's attack became increasingly weak, and Chen Xiaoliang was increasingly responsible for organizing the game in the backfield.
Due to his relatively backward position, Livingston's forwards were often dribbled past by him with simple but effective dribbling when they pressed him.
His dribbling attributes are just right for a striker who is not good at defense.
McAllister nodded continuously on the sidelines.
"Steven, every time this kid stays at home for a while, he shows obvious improvement when he comes back. I wonder if you did something to him at home."
Gerard smiled.
"If I do something to him that will have an effect, I will call all the players to my house. Besides, this brat has been with that female doctor much longer than I have."
McAllister was surprised: "Female doctor? That German female doctor is living with you too? The three of you... doesn't that mean..."
Gerrard glared at him. "Reese arranged it. He rented a house next door and gave the boy physiotherapy and cooked for him."
McCallister suddenly realized: No wonder this kid went home so early that day, it turns out he has a hidden child at home. Tsk tsk tsk, he is less than 17 years old, but he is so smart and has a bright future...
In the 79th minute of the game, Rangers, who had always maintained a patient attack, finally won the game.
Patterson kicked the ball from the right sideline, Chen Xiaoliang stepped forward to receive the ball, and directly made a 40-meter pass from the right to Barisic who was cutting in from the left.
Barisic and Morelos made a one-two pass from the wing and broke into the bottom line, passing the ball back to Kamara who was eager to score. Kamara volleyed the ball, which hit the back of the Livingston defender and deflected right to Hagi's feet.
That's how Haji picked up a wallet.
In the end, the score of 0-1 remained until the end of the game, and Rangers were one step closer to the league championship.
On the other side of the TV, a delighted Portuguese applauded alone and shouted, "Resbai! Resbai! Resbai!"
