Cen Deng, now 34 years old, has long lost his former fame.

Zenden is a speed-type winger. In his prime, he was definitely one of the three fastest players in the world.

But unfortunately, once a speed player suffers a serious injury, he is basically useless.

After being seriously injured and being sidelined, and at the age of 34, Zenden was still able to play as a starter for Sunderland, and helped Sunderland advance to the sixth round of the FA Cup and ninth place in the Premier League.

This is enough to show how powerful Cen Deng was in his heyday.

Cen Deng did not play football since he was a child. Instead, he trained judo with his father and obtained a black belt in judo.

However, Zenden finally chose to play football as his career.

Zenden was the best player in the Dutch league as early as 1997, and moved to La Liga super club Barcelona after the 1998 World Cup. He has since moved to Chelsea, Liverpool, Marseille and now Sunderland.

Zenden started his career at PSV Eindhoven and was a teammate of the equally young Ronaldo at PSV Eindhoven when he was young.

Cen Deng is a player who matures early and becomes disabled early. After a serious injury in 1998, he has been further and further away from the top clubs.

Now, with the 34-year-old Zenden starting as left midfielder, Southampton will not feel too much pressure.

Sunderland's starting right midfielder is "that man", the core No. 10, Jordan Henderson.

Jordan Henderson, 20 years old, is 183cm tall and weighs 66kg.

As the most titled player in England, Henderson has been playing football in Sunderland's youth training camp since he was 7 years old, and has played all the way from the youth camp to the youth camp. During this period, he helped Sunderland's youth team win the U18 Youth League Championship. He entered Sunderland's first team in the 2006-07 season and became the team's absolute core in a very short time.

The 20-year-old Henderson has speed, explosiveness, physical fitness, confrontation, positioning, passing, and is good at stopping the ball, dribbling, passing and long shots. He is a perfect template for a British star.

As Sunderland is a team affiliated with Manchester United, the stars trained by Sunderland naturally yearn to join the Manchester United club.

Henderson took photos with Manchester United stars when he was very young and looked forward to joining Manchester United one day.

However, after watching Henderson play, Manchester United coach Ferguson was not impressed by Henderson. Ferguson pointed out very keenly that Henderson's running posture was weird and it was easy to get injured during contact confrontation.

Facts have proved that Ferguson's vision is very sharp. As Henderson's number of Premier League games has gradually increased, Henderson's career has been plagued by injuries, which have greatly hindered Henderson's performance.

As a result, Henderson became a more famous meme king than Chamberlain.

The titles Henderson holds include but are not limited to: the anti-De Bruyne, one of the top five B2B in the world, the full-score MVP who does not play, 1/2 Henry + 1/3 Drogba + 1/4 Asensio, the brake pads of Maserati, the anonymous autobiography "From Three Lungs to Not Being able to Breathe", the Anfield football blind filter, the successor personally appointed by Gerrard, the captain of the Red Army, the public welfare ambassador of targeted poverty alleviation for weak teams, and the man who is so great that he cannot be called by his name.

After transferring to Liverpool in August 2011, Henderson entered the most difficult period of his career. He was subject to controversy and ridicule, but Henderson persisted and gradually grew from being criticized by everyone to becoming the loyal captain of Liverpool and became the "Henderson" in the eyes of the Red Army fans.

Today, Southampton's main target of defense is the British star, Henderson.

Sunderland's starting two midfielders were No. 8, 31-year-old Steed Malbranque from France, and No. 6, captain, Lee Cattermole.

Malbranque positioned himself slightly forward, acting as Sunderland's offensive front line, attacking midfielder, while Cattermole dropped back to act as an engineer-like sweeping midfielder.

Malbranque has also served as the captain of the French youth team and performed very well in the youth team.

Arsenal, coached by Wenger, likes French players very much, so when Malbranque was still playing for Lyon, Wenger spotted Malbranque at first sight and offered Lyon a generous transfer contract - at that time, Arsenal still had money.

However, Malbranque rejected Wenger.

Malbranque believes that he is not ready to join a top club yet and wants to gain some experience first.

So, Malbranque moved around to teams like Fulham, Tottenham and Sunderland...

Now 31 years old, Malbranque feels he is ready, but Arsenal no longer needs a 31-year-old veteran who is only good at dribbling.

Even if necessary, Arsenal can't afford the transfer money now.

In 2012, after failing to show off his ability to dribble like Zidane’s Malbranque, he moved back to Lyon.

Some things, if you pretend too much, you will miss them.

Captain No. 6 Lee Cattermole is 23 years old, 178cm tall and weighs 76kg.

Although Cattermole is not tall, he is famous for his indefatigable running in the Premier League and is recognized as one of the top ten engineers in the Premier League.

Cattermole's nickname is "the card master". He has received 87 yellow cards and 7 red cards in the Premier League.

Judging from this data alone, Cattermole seems to be an unforgivable villain, but in fact, Cattermole's positioning, interception, and even footwork are all first-class.

However, due to his position and the strength of the team he is on, he has to use some foul tactics to prevent the opponent's breakthrough and limit the performance of the opponent's core players.

If he doesn't kick people and doesn't stand up for his teammates, Cattermole feels that his existence has no meaning.

In today's game, Cattermole will certainly try his best to limit the connection between Gu Ran and Lallana.

Sunderland's starting left back is No. 3, Giggs' successor and "cousin" Kieran Richardson.

Kieran Richardson is 26 years old, 176cm tall and weighs 68kg. He is a versatile player. Kieran can not only play as a left back, but also as a left midfielder, left midfielder, left striker, and attacking midfielder.

Kieran started out in Manchester United's youth training team, after the famous Class of 92. He was in the same period as Gibson, Morrison, Fabio and Welbeck, and was also a player who started high and ended low.

Ferguson once commented that Kieran was Giggs' successor, but after Manchester United spent a lot of money to buy Hargreaves, Anderson and Nani, Kieran had few opportunities to play in Manchester United, so in 2007, Kieran took the initiative to transfer to Sunderland, a team affiliated with Manchester United, trying to impress Ferguson and Manchester United fans through his performance in Sunderland.

However, Kiran failed to kick it out.

After retiring, Kieran engaged in the watch selling business and became a world-renowned watch merchant, nicknamed: Cousin.

...(End of this chapter)