Chapter 237: Kill Us? Impossible!
Countless die-hard Liverpool fans sitting in front of the TV were excited, venting Li Qing's third goal of the game. Looking at the broadcast screen of Li Qing, they were all grateful.
If there was no Li Qing, Liverpool would have been at least three goals behind in this game.
Head coach Klopp and assistants Buvac and Kravitz hugged and high-fived, and the players on the bench were full of confidence in the next game.
In their opinion, as long as the defense can withstand Manchester City's attack, the counterattack will be handed over to Li Qing, who is in excellent form in this game!
The other nine players on the field were excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood again, and they felt full of strength!
Li Qing, who celebrated the equalizer with his teammates, made an important speech to his teammates. He said in high spirits: "Brothers! Now the score is tied! Believe me! Even if we have one less player, we can get out of the Etihad Stadium unscathed!"
At this point, his voice rose eight degrees: "Do you believe me?"
"Believe!"
Except for goalkeeper Mignolet, every player shouted in unison and was in high spirits.
The on-site director gave the broadcast screen to Li Qing who performed a hat trick for a long time. Martin Taylor, the commentator of Sky TV, said loudly: "This is an incredible game! It is also likely to become a classic battle in the Premier League! Li's performance is really incredible. The whole game is still more than ten minutes, and there should be twenty minutes with injury time! Who will have the last laugh?"
Then, the Manchester City stars who appeared on the broadcast screen sighed. They never thought that the good situation would turn into a draw!
Especially De Bruyne, who performed well in this game, his one shot and two passes were the biggest contributors to Manchester City's lead, but now it seems... all his great achievements were pitted by the back line and goalkeeper.
The young player Foden, sitting on the bench, looked at the highly anticipated Li Qing with great envy. At the beginning of this year, they played against each other in the Youth FA Cup. After more than half a year, Li Qing has become a super star known to all the people.
And I am just carrying a genius halo.
Good partner Sancho envied Li Qing's achievements, so he moved to Dortmund in the summer to look for opportunities.
Thinking of this, he sighed. Many times, making decisions requires courage, and he lacks courage. ,
Before the game resumed, Manchester City made the third adjustment of the game. Guardiola did not let Bernardo Silva or Sterling play, but chose to replace Otamendi, who made frequent mistakes, with central defender Mangala.
In Guardiola's view, there is no way to replace Bravo now, so replace Otamendi, who also likes to make mistakes.
"Josep Guardiola is increasing the speed of chasing back!"
Sky TV commentator Andy Gray laughed: "It seems... He is very worried that Liverpool, who is one man short, will overtake the score in one fell swoop at the end of the game!"
"Who makes Li in such an excellent state?"
Commentary guest Martin Taylor turned his head and looked at his old partner.
The broadcast screen was then given to Liverpool coach Klopp. The meaning of this screen was very clear, that is, Guardiola made all three substitutions, and Klopp still had two substitutions in his hand. The game time is getting shorter and shorter. Should he make substitutions at this time?
In fact, Klopp had already thought of making a substitution. After Mangala came on the court, he said to his assistant Buvac: "Zeljko, help me call James over."
Manchester City, which had the advantage of kicking off, quickly conducted a half-time offensive drill under the offensive organization of De Bruyne and David Silva. Li Qing did not actively participate in the midfield defense this time. He was only responsible for cruising between the two full-backs of Manchester City.
Although Li Qing did not directly participate in the defense, the effect was better than directly participating in the defense.
Obviously, it was the Manchester City players who were worried that Li Qing, who had already performed a hat trick in this game, would score his fourth goal in a single game.
Two minutes later, Liverpool also made adjustments. Veteran Milner replaced Wijnaldum, whose physical fitness had obviously declined, to maintain the active defensive factors in the middle.
According to Klopp's idea, Milner ran hard in the midfield, cooperated with Firmino, Emre Can and Henderson to do a good job in defense, and passed the ball to Li Qing when there was a chance.
The idea was good, but Manchester City attacked cautiously and did not give Liverpool any chance to steal the ball and counterattack. In addition, with one less player, some problems would be exposed in the process of defense.
Time passed by second by second, and the score on the scoreboard was still 3:3. Both Guardiola and Klopp were worried that the opponent would lose the ball during this period.
As time became less and less, losing the ball might mean being killed.
Especially for Liverpool, who had one less player, when the game came to the 80th minute, Li Qing's physical strength was already stretched. He was no longer cruising around like before, and now he was more recovering his physical strength and waiting for a fatal blow.
Klopp was worried that the opportunity did not come, but the team lost a goal first.
Fortunately, Li Qing's morale improvement brought by scoring two goals in a row was quite obvious. There was no mistake in the game until the 85th minute, especially the performance of the new aid Van Dijk, which was very eye-catching.
Steal, block, clear, header...
In the 86th minute, De Bruyne, who got the ball on the right, observed the situation on the field. He saw Sane coming to the right rib of the attack to ask for the ball, and decisively passed the ball without a good passing line.
Sane turned the ball and seeing that Henderson did not come out to defend in time, he decisively took a long shot from the right side of the attack, about 28 meters away from the goal.
The football drew a beautiful arc in the air. Goalkeeper Mignolet looked at the ball and chose to block it sideways, but the angle and power were good, and it spun into the upper left corner of the goal.
"Gooooooooooooal——"
Andy Gray, the commentator of Sky TV, shouted hysterically: "Leroy Sane! A long shot in the 86th minute! He helped Manchester City surpass the score again!"
"aooaoaooao——"
At the same time, Manchester City fans in the audience burst out instantly, creating a huge cheer like a tsunami.
De Bruyne, who made an assist, is equivalent to sending an assist hat trick in this game, plus a long shot, which is equivalent to participating in four goals directly!
He ecstatically threw Sane to celebrate the score!
Guardiola in front of the home team's coaching bench seemed to have returned to his professional player days. He half-knelt on the ground, looked up to the sky and roared, venting the huge emotional release brought by the last moment of overtaking the score.
More than ten meters away, Liverpool coach Klopp was stunned, obviously not reacting to Sane's long shot.
This...is the score higher?
Li Qing looked at the Manchester City players celebrating the goal crazily, frowning, but he did not give up, because the [Superstar Moment] was still in his hands.
Kill us?
Impossible!