Chapter 296 Curse

Liverpool's Anfield Stadium reversed Atletico Madrid 2:1. While winning the group's sixth consecutive victory, Atletico Madrid was also kicked into the Europa League. Roma in the same group defeated Karabakh 6:0 at home and reversed Atletico Madrid with a one-point advantage. Compete to become second in the group.

Liverpool, which has won six consecutive games in the group stage, has also become the seventh team in the history of the Champions League to win six consecutive games in the group stage. The previous four teams have won six consecutive Champions League group games in total. In the 1992-1993 season, AC Milan and Barcelona respectively. In the 1993-1994 and 2002-2003 seasons, Spartak Moscow also achieved this amazing record in the 1995-1996 season. The remaining two were completed by Real Madrid, in the 2012-2013 season and the 2014-2015 season.

As a result, Liverpool became the first Premier League team to win six consecutive group games, and the team's top scorer Li Qing surpassed the group stage record set by Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2015-2016 season with twelve goals in the five rounds of the group stage. 11 goals record.

However, Li Qing's scoring efficiency is higher than that of Ronaldo. Two years ago, Ronaldo took 6 games to complete 11 goals, while Li Qing only took 5 games.

To be precise, four 30-minute games.

Li Qing and Liverpool performed well, which other rivals in the Premier League couldn't stand, especially the media from London and Manchester, who sneered at them.

Of the teams that had won six consecutive group wins six times before, no team had the last laugh!

Liverpool head coach Klopp and player Li Qing both noticed the relevant reports from The Times and the Manchester Evening News, and immediately raised their eyebrows. Many people in the West have religious beliefs and believe that such a curse cannot be broken. , so Klopp is worried.

However, Li Qing does not have any psychological baggage. As a cheater, he has absolute confidence that he can lead the strong Liverpool to the last laugh.

According to the original trajectory of history, Liverpool will also enter the Champions League final this season. As long as the head coach Klopp is persuaded not to use Karius, maybe the two mistakes and conceding the ball will not happen, coupled with the cheating effect , still can’t win the Champions League?

So Li Qing posted something on his INS and Twitter accounts: Any record or curse is meant to be broken, don’t you believe it? Please refer to my various records since my debut.

If other players posted such content, they would definitely be criticized. The problem is that Li Qing cannot be criticized. He has been synonymous with miracles since his debut. Maybe... it is really possible to lead Liverpool to the Champions League!

When Klopp and other Liverpool players saw Li Qing's INS and Twitter content, it was like a shot in the arm and they were full of confidence in the upcoming Champions League matches.

A curse?

What are you afraid of?

We have Li Qing!

At the end of the two Champions League match days, all 16 teams that have advanced to the knockout rounds of the 2017-2018 Champions League have been decided. The Premier League is the biggest winner, occupying five of the places, and all of them are first in the group, followed by three teams from La Liga. , two in Serie A, one in Bundesliga, one in Portuguese Super League, one in Ligue 1, one in Swiss Super League, one in Uzbekistan Super League, and one in Turkish Super League.

The Premier League team that won the first place in the group is not necessarily worth being excited about, because Real Madrid, Bayern and Juventus did not perform very well in the group stage and only qualified as the second place in the group.

Except that Tottenham will not draw Real Madrid, the other two strong teams may become Tottenham's potential 1/8 finals opponents.

Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Chelsea are not in the same group as Real Madrid, Bayern, and Juventus in the group stage. This means that they are very likely to become the 1/8 finals opponents of these four Premier League teams, especially in the Champions League group every year. Manchester City was targeted by UEFA in the competition and knockout rounds.

However, the specific knockout draw will have to wait until the end of the Europa League match day, which will be held at 7pm European time on Friday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

During this period, the entire Liverpool team was at the Melwood training base for the weekend's Merseyside derby. Li Qing was also particularly solemn, because his number of goals in the Premier League this season has reached 34 goals, and he scored another one. The goal is to create his own Premier League single-season scoring record.

The Merseyside Derby is different from other Premier League games, and can even rank first in terms of intensity.

All this started with the establishment of two teams. In fact, Everton was the first football club in Liverpool. At that time, Everton was the owner of Anfield Stadium. For various reasons, Everton moved away from Anfield and went to Goodison Park Stadium, businessman Houlding founded the new Everton football team in the original Anfield. Since the Football Association already had Everton, it was renamed Liverpool.

Everton is one of the 12 football clubs that founded the English Football League. In the more than 100 years since its establishment, it has only experienced two relegations. In fact, Everton and Liverpool had a very good relationship at that time, because the city of Liverpool was I was a fan of these two teams until Liverpool rose to dominate England.

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, which was fully demonstrated between Liverpool and Everton. Everton, as the big brother, was compared to the younger brother Liverpool. The competition between the two teams gradually became explosive. It was not until the 1980s that the Merseyside Derby The intensity reached its peak, with Liverpool winning the league title six times and Everton twice in the first ten years of the Premier League's existence.

After the Heysel tragedy in 1985, Everton fans often accused Liverpool fans of disqualifying them from participating in European competitions, which led to a sharp decline in the relationship between the fans of the two teams, which evolved into today's extremely fierce Merseyside derby.

Since the establishment of the Premier League, referees have shown a total of 21 red cards to players from the two teams in the Merseyside derby, which is the highest number among all opponents in the Premier League. Even the popular Double Red Club only showed 16 red cards, so it is said that It is no exaggeration to say that the Merseyside derby is the most brutal derby in the Premier League.

Mane is the one who trains most seriously in the team. Li Qing was very surprised. It was only after Henderson informed him in a low voice that he found out the cause and effect.

It turns out that Mane, who joined Liverpool last summer, was intentionally fouled by an Everton player in his first Merseyside derby and missed three months of the game. No wonder... he was so serious.

Li Qing took the initiative to walk towards Mane and said with confidence: "Sadip, as long as you run into position, I will send the ball to your feet! Defeat Everton!"

"I also want to score a goal, how can I score?"

Firmino said weakly.

"You..." Li Qing's mouth twitched slightly: "We'll wait and see when you can practice your final kick..."

At the end of the day's training, Liverpool goalkeeper Mignolet took the initiative to train with Li Qing and Firmino.

Li Qing was very smart and asked directly: "Simon, do you want to tell me?"

"Indeed."

Mignolet made a long story short. After hearing this, Li Qing laughed and said: "Tell Divock that I will definitely score more goals in the Merseyside Derby to avenge him."