Chapter 642: Two Goals Ahead

Guardiola's face was livid. The situation on the field had been broken. Everything was completely different from what he had imagined in advance. The opponent's player arrangement and tactical play were somewhat beyond his expectations.

However, the loss of the ball just now made him feel a little uneasy, but he finally decided to wait and see. After all, a game is 90 minutes, and it has just started now. There is no need to make changes immediately.

Mane was very excited after scoring the goal. He jumped and jumped, and even rode directly on Li Qing, and then ran to the sidelines. His actions immediately made him the focus of all cameras.

As a striker, it is his responsibility to break the deadlock for the team and win the goal, but he did not expect the goal to come so quickly today, and this is all thanks to Li Qing's distribution.

Li and Ma are now more and more tacitly connected. Just now when Li Qing ran towards the ball on the field, Mane knew what Li Qing would do next, so he understood and suddenly moved forward, and Laporte, who played as a left back for Manchester City today, was caught off guard.

Manchester City kicked the ball out again, and then rushed towards Liverpool's half with great momentum. They were not so easy to admit defeat. The game had just begun, and everything was still unknown. In the eyes of Manchester City players, a one-goal lead was just that.

But their opponent today was Liverpool led by Li Qing. When they attacked, they found that almost all Liverpool players except Li Qing were on defense.

And Li Qing alone made the four players in Manchester City's back line dare not act rashly. They had already lost a goal. If Li Qing seized the opportunity to counterattack and lost another goal, it would be hell!

Guardiola frowned even more. He thought Liverpool would park the bus in their home court, but he didn't expect it to be so thorough.

And his defender was pressed in the half court by Li Qing alone. In the absence of numerical advantage, the players' strength was almost the same. It was easy to understand that Manchester City's attack was unsuccessful.

"Press forward!" Klopp immediately asked the players to press forward after seeing the team get the ball. All Liverpool players immediately followed suit, and even the two full-backs pressed near the penalty area.

It was simply a mess! Guardiola's mind was completely confused when facing Liverpool's almost all-player crazy attack.

Whose home court is this? In their own home court, they completely ignored their backs and used this desperate style of play. Isn't Klopp afraid that his team will seize the opportunity to counterattack?

In fact, Klopp was not afraid. At this time, the Liverpool players who pressed over the opponent's half had already started to pass and cut to attack Manchester City's goal.

Wijnaldum passed the ball to Li Qing, who did not receive the ball and passed it directly. Firmino in the middle saw that he attracted the attention of the two central defenders of the opponent, and did not receive the ball, but spread his legs and let the ball slip under his feet.

Stones and Kompany did not expect Firmino to miss this ball. They were caught off guard and let the ball slip into their own penalty area. Ederson saw this and quickly abandoned the goal to attack.

Firmino, who missed the ball, turned and ran to the other side. Sturridge, who had already entered the penalty area, poked the ball to Firmino before Ederson. Firmino met the ball and poked it directly, and the ball went into the net. 2:0!

Ederson watched the ball roll into the net again, with deep helplessness in his eyes. There was nothing he could do about this goal.

Li Qing hugged Firmino and Sturridge together, and other Liverpool players also came up to celebrate.

"It was really a nightmare start. Liverpool led by two goals. It's incredible. What happened to Manchester City today?" The commentator was stunned for a full five seconds and finally reacted.

Not only the commentator was stunned, but the fans were also stunned. More than 80% of the people in the stands today were Manchester City fans. Everyone thought that this game would be a battle of Mars hitting the Earth.

But Mars didn't hit the Earth, but Mars hit the head. And this Mars hit the head of a Manchester City player, and it hit twice in a row at the beginning, and many people were stunned.

Manchester City's recent performance is indeed very unstable, and they have lost to weak teams one after another, but everyone can understand that. The Christmas season has always been a nightmare schedule for the giants, and any upsets are not uncommon.

But the problem is that today's opponent is Liverpool. If they lose today's game, Manchester City will completely withdraw from the competition for the Premier League championship and can only win the championship from the League Cup, FA Cup or Champions League.

No fans at the scene want to see that happen, both psychologically and physiologically, so after the fans reacted, they began to clamor for the team to attack in a big way.

The Manchester City players on the field were really confused. The psychological gap of falling behind by two goals, and in front of so many fans on the field, their mentality was a bit broken.

"Run, press on and attack, attack!" Guardiola noticed that the situation on the field was not right, and hurriedly shouted loudly to the field.

At this time, only the head coach's shouting can stabilize the morale of the troops. If the opponent takes the opportunity to score another goal, even if Guardiola himself goes up to play, he will be powerless to save the situation.

Manchester City then launched a counterattack, still following Guardiola's established policy, attacking from both sides and seizing Arnold as a point of attack.

Seeing Arnold start to get a little flustered under the continuous attacks of Sterling and Sane, Fabinho and Wijnaldum both ran over to help.

It was difficult for Fabinho to steal the ball, but Manchester City started to press high up the field at this time, and even Li Qing didn't care about it, and the back line also began to press forward.

Two goals have been lost. If the offense fails, the game will be over. Even if Li Qing is defended, what's the point!

Noticing the gap in the opponent's formation, Fabinho made a long pass, and Li Qing immediately ran forward. Now there was only Kompany in front of him.

This was a captain's duel. Kompany was still very confident about this kind of high-altitude ball, even if the opponent was the Premier League's top scorer.

But Kompany didn't expect that Li Qing didn't intend to compete with him at all. After Kompany headed the ball back to Liverpool's half, he was immediately headed back by Liverpool players. At this time, Li Qing had already passed in front of Kompany who had not yet landed.

In a panic, Kompany directly grabbed Li Qing with his hand, but he grabbed nothing. Li Qing had already caught up with the ball and broke into the penalty area. In front of him was only Ederson who had abandoned the goal.

Ederson rushed towards Li Qing, yelling, with a ferocious expression, but he was actually weak inside, and at the same time he cursed his own defense.

How many times do you want me to pick up the ball from the goal today?