After the two national team matches, the players returned to their clubs one after another.

Liverpool also restarted the training camp. The purpose of their preparations this time is to face their first opponent in the group stage at home against Sporting Lisbon. []

Liverpool's first Europa League group match in the new season is also the first game for Liverpool to return to Europe after a year away, so the club attaches great importance to it.

The home game must be won!

If you can't win Sporting Lisbon at home, Liverpool should go to bed and stop dreaming of revival.

In fact, the Europa League is the UEFA Cup, but the game system has been changed, the name has been changed, and the trophy has not been changed. Therefore, Chen Yingxiong is definitely not the first time to participate. But strictly speaking, the Europa League and UEFA Cup are still two events. After all the names have been changed, it cannot be called the "League Cup".

The Europa League is a policy of Platini's UEFA in order to fulfill the original promise of soliciting votes from the small football associations. It is a policy to vigorously support the second- and third-rate league teams. The original UEFA Cup and Toto Cup were merged together to form a brand new cup called the Europa League.

The group stage alone has expanded to forty-eight clubs to participate. Just like the Champions League, each team will participate in six games in the group stage, that is, the other three opponents in the same group will compete at home and away, instead of Like the previous UEFA Cup, there is no home and away group stage. Every two teams only meet once in the group stage.

The scale of the qualifying rounds has also been expanded to three rounds of qualifying rounds. This does not include the play-offs. The play-offs are not included. The scale of the qualifying rounds has expanded, and naturally more teams will participate in the qualifying rounds, from the original 101 teams to 133, which is a full 32 teams.

In this way, many low-level small country league teams can also participate in this tournament and show their faces in the European arena. In fact, the main reason is not to let them show their faces, but to get money after they show up. As far as the 2010-2011 season, as long as the top forty-eight players in the Europa Race, they will be the first to receive 640,000 euros in prize money. In the same season, the team that participated in the Champions League main match received 3.9 million euros, which is not a grade of bonus at all.

But for those small teams, the 640,000 euros is enough to attract them. After this, every game, regardless of whether the club wins or loses, can get an appearance fee of 60,000 Euros, each winning team can get 140,000 Euros, and a tie can only get half of the 10,000 Euros. There is no bonus for losing. According to this statistics, if there is a team that can win six games in the group stage, the team can get a prize of 1.84 million euros. Participating teams that reach the top 32 will receive an automatic promotion bonus of 200,000. After reaching the top 16, each team will receive a promotion bonus of 300,000 euros. To reach the quarterfinals, it is 400,000. Reached the semifinals and rose to 700,000 euros. As for the two teams that entered the finals, if they win the championship, they can get a prize of three million euros, and the runner-up will only have two million euros.

Calculated this way, if a team can win the championship with a record, they can get up to 7.80 million euros. This bit of money is simply insignificant in the eyes of the rich.

But for teams in Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and other leagues, this bonus is even more than their annual budget.

So the Europa League is still very attractive for small teams.

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Many teams participate in the Europa League for their bonuses. Perhaps participating in the Europa League for one season can save the club from its financial crisis.

It's the championship honor, not all teams are valued and interested.

However, the purpose of Liverpool's attention to this event is really because of the championship honor.

The winning prize of more than seven million euros is not too important to the Liverpool club and cannot be ignored. If there is, it can alleviate financial pressure. If not, it will not fall into the quagmire.

But if the team can win the Europa League, then it will be able to announce Liverpool's strong return. It will be a booster for boosting Liverpool's morale.

This is a champion whose symbolic significance is greater than practical significance.

Liverpool ultimately pursue the Champions League, but the Europa League can become a step to bring Liverpool to the top.

So Liverpool must pursue to achieve results in this Europa League.

Martin O'Neal didn't make any special mobilization meetings. He felt that everyone was a professional player. Among these players, there were also those who won the Champions League. They are playing at home. There is no reason why they can't win.

The only thing he worries about is Chen Yingxiong. After all, Chen Yingxiong's-Piaotian Literature-is too high. He is afraid that Chen Yingxiong will not be interested in this Europa League.

To be honest, Chen Yingxiong's current ability is already at the Champions League level, and he should go to participate in the Champions League.

And a tasteless competition like the Europa League, no matter how important it is to Liverpool, is a tasteless match for Chen Yingxiong.

Not to mention that the Europa League is actually the UEFA Cup, and Chen Yingxiong has not only won the UEFA Cup, but also won the UEFA Cup as the top scorer since the reform.

What he can pursue is really limited...

Can't blame O'Neal for thinking like this, because this phenomenon is very common in football. After many players have achieved fame, they lose motivation and are no longer interested in championships and victories. Such examples are not uncommon.

The most recent example is Mourinho's Inter Milan, that team once won the triple crown in the 2009-2010 season, fulfilling a dream of club chairman Moratti. Countless players have achieved fame, what about after this? Mourinho left Inter Milan and went to Real Madrid to meet his new challenges, while the Inter Milan players fell into the slack and emptiness after their success.

The team's performance plummeted. Obviously, everyone's energy was not put on the pursuit of victory, but on intrigue and seeking profit. For their own benefit, they can get rid of the coach they don't like, and in order to get rid of the head coach, they can work hard in the game and let the team lose again and again. Even if there are small Inter Milan fans in the game, "Can you still win? Otherwise, I will be laughed at at school!" This slogan motivates them, but it does not change their attitude. Inter Milan will be in the next game. In the first, the Champions League lost to Marseille 0:1 away, and then in the league, they lost 0:1 to Naples without Chen Yingxiong. Not only did the Nerazzurri not comfort the fans with victory, but instead fell into a deeper trough.

It all stems from the fact that this group of players got all the honors they could get, fell into a huge emptiness, and lost the goal of fighting for a while.

Martin O'Neal is worried about the team's top scorer, and the core of the offense also has such a mentality-he has performed well in the Premier League because the Premier League is still a league he has not yet conquered.

In the Europa League, he won both the championship and the top scorer. He was also the record-breaking top scorer.

He intends to have a good talk with Chen Yingxiong.

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After Chen Yingxiong understood O'Neill's intentions, he laughed.

He is now going to frantically win honors and championships, how could he look down on the Europa League? Not to mention the Europa League, if Liverpool is eligible to participate in the Community Shield, he will not even let go of the Community Shield! The Europa League is also the second cup in Europe, second only to the UEFA Champions League. Such an honor is naturally worth fighting for. What's more, he can kill two birds with one stone. That is, he won the Europa League title and the top scorer. These are two honours.

Of course, he would not say so directly. You have to pay attention to the way of speaking. This is the art of speaking. In the same sentence, speaking in another way will make people feel that his image is suddenly tall.

What's more, Chen Yingxiong couldn't tell others that he had to find a reason.

"No, boss. I will never be satisfied with the hunger and thirst for victory and championship!" Chen Yingxiong held his head up, wishing his face could follow his own words.

Seeing O'Neal look a little surprised, Chen Yingxiong said: "Actually...I have an idea, I just want to win the Europa League. But I'm afraid the boss doesn't mean it. After all, the league is...um..."

Chen Yingxiong's fighting spirit is something that makes O'Neal happy, but the Europa League champion...

The executives of the club have vaguely revealed to him, hoping to get a championship back if possible. However, he has his own considerations. Champions League qualification is the most important thing. If there is a conflict between the Europa League and the UEFA Champions League qualifications, he will definitely give up the Europa League without hesitation.

But now what he wants is that Chen Yingxiong has such motivation. Chen Yingxiong finally showed strong fighting spirit as he wanted. How can he attack Chen Yingxiong's enthusiasm at this time?

He smiled and nodded, very relieved.

"Okay, it just so happens that I have the same idea, Liverpool really needs a champion with enough weight!"

Compared with the Europa League, the English League Cup really doesn't have much weight...

Chen Yingxiong didn't know the intention of the head coach, he only supported his ideas as Martin O'Neal. He was relieved at once-before he was worried that Martin O'Neal didn't value the Europa League. In that case, he wouldn't be able to win the championship.

After all, he can't twist his thighs with his arms. He is a player and cannot decide the team's strategic goals.

In case the head coach does not pay attention to the Europa League, can he still fall out with the head coach for this, and finally move out of Chen to wake up O'Neal?

Waywardness is not such a wayward method.