Chapter 504 Perfect Hat Trick
Li Qing helped Liverpool take the lead in breaking the deadlock at the King Power Stadium. Head coach Klopp secretly let out a sigh of relief as he stood in the visiting team's coaching area. Although he highly recognized the team's ability, the biggest feature of football matches is that they are full of uncertainty. Even with a top player like Li Qing.
Only leading by score is the most real thing.
Klopp, who appeared on the broadcast screen, was in high spirits, raising his arms and shouting to vent the pressure caused by the lead.
The team has been unbeaten for an astonishing 57 games across the season since February 2017. If they can win at the King Power Stadium, the unbeaten streak across the season will be raised to 58 games, officially tying AC Milan's record among the top five teams in Europe. Unbeaten record in 58 league games across all seasons!
Thinking of this possibility, Klopp's heart surged, and he wished that the current score could be maintained until the end of the game.
Li Qing, who scored this time, was not as arrogant as in the past. He responded to the thunderous applause of the home fans with applause, and then hugged and high-fived his teammates to celebrate the goal.
In the restarted game, Leicester City consciously strengthened its offense, but unfortunately it lacked explosive points on the offensive end. Therefore, the offense relied more on crosses from the two wings, and then Vardy fought for the top.
Whether it is Van Dijk or Joe Gomez, their ability to compete for the ball is very outstanding, but they have no chance to get any chance. The Leicester City fans in the audience are very depressed.
If there is another warrior at Leicester City, it is definitely Vardy.
Closer to home, Liverpool, whose overall strength is dominant, gradually takes control of the game. After Li Qing has the talent [offensive organizer], he has a higher understanding of offensive organization and knows how to become an excellent midfield core. He moves Erratic, the direct threat is that all the corresponding tactics formulated by Leicester City coach Pierre before the game are invalid.
Li Qing has the most prepared judgment on when to break through and when to pass the ball, so that many times the double midfielder combination of Endidi and Mendy is not at work.
In this case, Liverpool has not been able to expand the score. The problem is still that the forward's final kick was a little bit awkward, but Klopp is not worried that the team will not be able to take away three points at the King Power Stadium.
With Mahrez moving to Manchester City, Leicester City's biggest danger comes from Vardy. His drive and ability can break Alisson's guarded goal.
The threat created by Albrighton, Maddison and Gray is not even as good as the threat posed by Mahrez individually in the past, thus giving Liverpool defenders more room to maneuver and focusing more on assists.
Robertson and Arnold, who are good at attacking, gradually showed their due power. In the 29th minute, Arnold sent an exquisite pass from the right. The ball bypassed Maguire at the front point, and veteran Morgan got stuck in position to block Firmino. Behind him, just as he was about to jump to save the siege, a red figure flashed in front of him, and the big number 10 behind him told him who it was.
"Li Qing——"
The voice of Juli TV commentator Zhan Jun was raised an octave. He saw Li Qing leaping high and heading the ball towards the upper right corner of the goal. Goalkeeper Schmeichel was a little slow to react by half a beat, and the football hit the snow-white net. , Zhan Jun was ecstatic: "Header! The goal is in! The goal is in! 2:0! Li Qing helped Liverpool expand the score with his seventh goal of the season!"
"The top of this ball is beautiful!"
China Channel 5 commentator He Wei shouted at the top of his lungs: "Li Qing is becoming more and more comprehensive. He can assist with passing passes, score goals with long-range shots, and score goals by grabbing points. I think...except for goalkeeper, he can play in other positions." Very high numbers! It’s incredible!”
BBC commentator Lineker, the current coach of Li Qing, shouted almost crazily: "Incredible performance! The game only started for half an hour! Li scored two goals with long shots and headers! The rest! There is still one hour left in the game, will he still score? I think the fans in front of the TV are looking forward to the moment when Li scores a perfect hat trick!"
The so-called perfect hat trick means scoring with his left foot, right foot and header respectively. Li Qing used his right foot and header to score. Obviously, he is not too far away from scoring with his dominant left foot...
However, Li Qing failed to score until the end of the first half, and Mane, Firmino and Salah missed excellent opportunities one after another, resulting in Liverpool missing a three-goal lead.
The fifteen-minute intermission passed quickly, and the two sides changed sides to fight again. Leicester City, sitting at home, tried to strengthen their offense to narrow the point difference. The offensive came up, but there was no actual progress in scoring.
In the 51st minute, Li Qing received a pass from Henderson and suddenly dribbled the ball to the left to avoid Ndidi's defense. He widened the passing angle and sent a pass with his left foot that touched the ground. The ground rolled towards Salah, who was running towards the attacking right rib.
Salah, who was running at high speed, made a stop and passed the defense of Chilwell and Maguire. Before Mendy could step forward to cover the defense, he stood with his right foot on the line of the penalty area and naturally raised his left foot to complete a quality kick. Very high, hard low kick.
Goalkeeper Schmeichel's vision was blocked, and it was too late to react by the time he saw the football come out of the gap.
0:3
The score displayed on the scoreboard changed again. Unfortunately, the home team was in front and the visiting team was in behind.
Liverpool's 3:0 lead over Leicester City was not the last goal. In the 76th minute, Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson started to wave when the team was leading by a big score and made a huge mistake. He received Van Dijk's ball. When faced with Vardy's pressing back pass, he chose to dribble instead of making a big-footed clearance. As a result, he didn't use his footwork well. The man passed by but the ball still stayed in place.
Vardy is an emotionless killer. Faced with such an opportunity, how could he let it go?
With a slight push of his right foot, the football missed the empty goal, and the score on the scoreboard became 1:3.
Alisson, who made a fatal mistake, felt a little embarrassed to face the world. As one of the most expensive goalkeepers in world football today, Liverpool is also the most exposed team. Mistakes... will undoubtedly be magnified infinitely.
Li Qing sighed. As the captain when Henderson was replaced, he took the initiative to comfort Alisson. Everyone makes mistakes, but unfortunately it was Alisson.
This scene was keenly captured by the on-site director. Juli TV commentator Zhan Jun said loudly: "The youngest captain, be the most successful captain!"
Vardy's goal was not the last goal of the game. In the 83rd minute of the game, the Feng Shui forward took the ball and caused Maguire to foul, helping Liverpool get a direct free kick in an excellent position.
"aoaooaoaooaooooooo——"
Li Qing, Liverpool's top set-kick taker, did his part. Amid the cheers of the fans, Li Qing once again took the free kick as a penalty kick.
The soccer ball rising from the ground, with an obvious inner instep arc, bypassed the wall and hit the snow-white net in the upper left corner of the goal...
"Beautiful direct free kick! If I remember correctly, this is Li Qing's perfect hat trick in the capital city of his career! Liverpool leads Leicester City 4:1!"
China Channel 5 commentator He Wei's voice rose an octave: "With the injury time remaining at most ten minutes, Liverpool is on track to tie AC Milan's unbeaten streak of 58 league games across the season!"
