Chapter 630: Breaking New Records

Newcastle United lost three goals in the first half, and everyone was stunned. Strictly speaking, it was Li Qing who stunned them.

When Liverpool entered the halftime break with a three-goal lead, they received another good news.

At the King Power Stadium, the Blue Foxes Leicester evened the score and tied with Manchester City 1:1.

Obviously, Manchester City has not recovered from the defeat in the last round. The team's defense has big problems and the offense seems a bit weak.

In this game, Manchester City can be regarded as sending all the main players that can be sent. De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Gundogan, Sterling, Aguero and Sane are all on the field.

But in front of the opponent with the home advantage, Manchester City's attackers seemed to have lost their shooting boots and had no way to take the opponent's goal.

Therefore, Klopp did not make too many tactical arrangements and adjustments to the players during the halftime break. He just said: "Keep attacking, keep pressing the opponent, and don't give them any chances."

The Liverpool team, which returned to the field, faithfully implemented the coach's arrangements. Newcastle was obviously hit too hard in the first half. Although they showed a little spirit after the opening, their disorganized attack could not pose a threat to Liverpool's goal.

Li Qing's position retreated a little, which was Klopp's requirement. With a three-goal lead over the opponent, it was enough to increase midfield control appropriately, and Mane and Firmino in the frontcourt were enough to pose a threat to the opponent's goal.

The retreating Li Qing had more room for movement, because he could occupy an absolute advantage in both physical and height competition with the opponent's players, and then pass the ball to his teammates within his sight.

On the other side, Shaqiri saw that Liverpool's attack was smoother than in the first half under Li Qing's calm dispatch, and he was completely convinced.

He could score goals and organize attacks. If it were me, I would never be able to do it as easily as Li Qing.

Shaqiri found that he might never be able to surpass the man on the field in his lifetime, no matter how hard he tried.

He was just an ordinary person who climbed up from the bottom step by step with his own efforts, and what about Li Qing? He was a genius with both strength and luck!

But if this goes on, when Salah returns from injury, when will he be able to make a breakthrough? Will he continue to be a substitute?

While Shaqiri was thinking, Li Qing intercepted the ball in the backcourt and made a long pass of nearly 60 meters. Firmino jumped high in front and used his physical advantage to successfully grab the ball and headed it to Mane.

When Firmino passed the ball to him, Mane found that the opponent's goalkeeper was standing a little forward, so he faced the ball directly, leaned back sharply, and then turned around and volleyed.

Dubravka was shocked. Two of Liverpool's three goals today were volleys, but the previous two were kicked by Li Qing, but the Slovakian goalkeeper had a shadow in his heart about someone else volleying.

Although it was not Li Qing who shot, Mane's shot was very sudden, especially because Dubravka's position was not good. He originally thought that Mane would stop the ball, make adjustments and then shoot, but he did not expect Mane to volley directly.

So Dubravka could only reflexively jump up and raise his hands to try to stop the ball, but his reaction speed was not as fast as the ball.

The football almost brushed his fingertips and hit the net in the goal with a strong wind, 4:0!

"Incredible goal, Dubravka failed to save it, Mane volleyed directly from outside the penalty area, this shot was exactly the same as Li's previous shot, it seems that Mane has some real passes from Li, and this ball was also initiated by Li..."

BBC commentator Lineker did not hesitate to attribute the credit for this ball, and most of the credit for this ball, to Li Qing. As a die-hard fan of Li Qing, Lineker has done everything he can to praise Li Qing.

In the subsequent games, Newcastle was completely discouraged because their offense basically could not get past Liverpool's half. The midfielder led by Li Qing completely strangled all of Newcastle's offensive opportunities.

This situation became even more obvious when Klopp replaced Milner and Wijnaldum with Fabinho and Keita.

The game ended with 5:0. Firmino scored at the last moment, which brought the game to a perfect end. Everyone in the starting trident scored in this game.

After the game, the excited Liverpool people got another good news. Leicester City scored another goal in the second half and defeated the powerful Manchester City at home, giving the opponent two consecutive league defeats. The gap between Manchester City and Liverpool has become larger.

In other games, Manchester United ushered in two consecutive victories, defeating Huddersfield 3:1 at home, Tottenham beat Bournemouth 5:0, and Watford lost to Chelsea 1:2.

After this round, Liverpool has won all the games and is firmly in the first place in the rankings. With one game less, it continues to maintain a double-digit points gap with the second-placed Manchester City. The winner of this season's Premier League will soon be clear.

Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham will have to fight desperately for the remaining positions in the top four of the league rankings.

Liverpool, who is far ahead of the rest, has created the best record of the new Premier League season, winning 18 games in a row, surpassing the previous record of 17 consecutive wins in the top five leagues created by Inter Milan ten years ago.

At that time, Inter Milan's 17 consecutive wins became the first consecutive win record in the top five leagues at that time, which was a topic of great interest among fans. It was not until nearly ten years later that this record was broken.

Now the record that ranks first is created by Guardiola when he coached Bayern Munich. At that time, the Bundesliga overlord created a record of 19 consecutive wins in the league in the 2013-2014 season. This record was not broken by anyone in the next few years.

As long as Liverpool beats Arsenal in the game on the 29th, Klopp's team will not only create a new unbeaten record for the team, but also share the winning streak record that has always been maintained by Guardiola.

This will also trigger a new topic, whether Klopp can break Guardiola's winning streak record at Manchester City's home on the first day of the new year and create his own winning streak!

I believe that for this record, both Klopp and Liverpool are happy to see it. After all, breaking the record once created by the opponent's head coach at the opponent's home court is definitely a very beautiful thing.

But before that, Klopp and Liverpool must first kill another opponent-Arsenal!