Football: The strongest post-zero generation

The theme song of the Champions League makes people's blood boil, as if it has inexhaustible power, Li Qing noticed the TIFO show displayed by Liverpool fans in the KOP stands, and subconsciously clenched his hands.

European hegemon!

Liverpool!

It's back!

"Beep~"

With the whistle of German referee Bruch, the first leg of the 2017-2018 Champions League quarterfinals was announced.

Italian Montella, who took over the Sevilla coach position in November last year, fielded the strongest squad for this game, with players standing in a 4231 formation, goalkeeper Soria, defenders Navas, Kjaer, Lenglet and Escudero, Nzunzi and Pizarro partnering in the back, and the three defenders were Joaquín Correa, Franco Vázquez and Saravia, with Ben Yedder at the front.

Liverpool at home are also the strongest line-up, goalkeeper Karius, defenders Robertson, Van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Alexander-Arnold, midfielders James Milner, Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and forwards Mane, Firmino and Li Qing.

Liverpool, who had the advantage on the kick-off, quickly launched an attack, and the visiting Sevilla were clearly prepared to respond with an iron bucket formation.

Italy-born head coach Montella is full of fluid defensive blood, and although he has only been in charge of Sevilla for five months, he has already given Sevilla what he can instill.

Montella's plan is to hold Liverpool's three-pronged approach and then counter-attack, taking away one or two valuable away goals, if not at Anfield.

Liverpool's attacking prowess is the best in Europe, but the defence is in stark contrast, as long as you take advantage of it......

“aoaooaooaooooooo——"

Montella thought about it when she was suddenly startled by the loud shouts that rang out over the Anfield stadium.

His attention instantly returned from nothingness to reality, only to see Li Qing, who had the ball, deduct the defending Nzongzi and Navas, and directly faced the central defender Lenglet.

"Foul!"

Montella subconsciously took a step forward and shouted at the players on the field.

In fact, the players on the field have their own judgment of the game, and there is no need for Montella to remind them, and the most important thing is ...... No foul chance found!

Lenglet stepped forward to defend, Li Qing pushed the football to the left with the outside of his left foot, and the ball rolled to Firmino, who was standing at the top of the arc of the penalty area, and then bypassed Lenglet and continued to run forward.

Firmino tucked the ball diagonally into the space behind Lenglet, which was the direction of Li Qing's forward insertion, and goalkeeper Soria abandoned the goal.

It's a pity that Li Qing took the ball away one step in advance, which means that Ya's abandonment of the door attack became useless, and he could only watch Li Qing empty the goal......

“Goooooooooooooooa1——"

Sky TV commentator Ann Gray's signature elongated voice rang out in the Anfield live studio.

"The ball is in! the ball is in!"

He Wei, the commentator of Tianchao 5 Channel, shouted excitedly: "Li Qing helped Liverpool open the scoring in the first minute of the game! The fastest goal in the Champions League this season was produced! He received Firmino's through ball and flashed the attacking goalkeeper Soria to score an empty goal, 1:0!!"

The Liverpool fans in the audience erupted in loud cheers, wave after wave.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp raised his arms and shouted, venting the huge pressure of the first goal to bring the two to release.

Sevilla are indeed the weakest opponents to advance to the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League, but the biggest feature of football is that it is full of uncertainty.

After Jurry Klopp excitedly celebrated the goal, he made a tactical gesture to captain Henderson, signaling the players to play steadily and not be impatient.

Manchester United were upset at home by Sevilla FC and his Liverpool side did not want that to happen.

It was really hard for Montella to concede the first goal away from home, but as a professional football coach, he knew that it was common to concede the first goal, and he had an estimate before the game to concede the first goal at Anfield, but he didn't expect to concede the goal so early.

Even if they conceded first, Sevilla did not show that fang, giving the feeling that they were going to maintain the score of 0-1 until the end of the game.

Perhaps it was the warning brought by the conceded goal, Sevilla did a very good job in the subsequent defense, especially against Li Qing's defense.

Li Qing was closely targeted, and the level of Liverpool's attacking threat was greatly reduced, but despite this, other Liverpool players began to exert their power, taking advantage of Sevilla players' more defense against Li Qing, and began to create threats on the left side.

In the eighteenth minute of the game, Henderson passed straight to the left, Mane got the ball and cut inside the goal was blocked, and Oxlade-Chamberlain, who got the ball, faked a real shot to shake off Pizarro, who was making up the defense, and then picked up his right foot and shot a cold arrow.

The ball flew like a cannonball into the top left corner of the goal, and goalkeeper Soria couldn't reach it.

The scoreboard has changed from 1:0 to 2:0.

Klopp and Montella's reactions were in stark contrast, with the former being ecstatic and the latter shaking his head and sighing.

Sevilla coach Montella believes that the team may still qualify for the last four of the Champions League!

It's tempting to lose away from home, but what about conceding as long as you get enough away goals?

Sevilla tried to attack and scored away at Anfield.

Klopp's Liverpool's tactical play is very mature, and seeing that Sevilla is going to counterattack, he took the initiative to ask the team to retreat in the second half and let Sevilla, which is not outstanding in attack, attack.

After a long period of scorelessness, the Sevilla players became a little irritable, and many of the players were playing in the Champions League quarters for the first time, and they lacked awareness of the tight pace of the Champions League and did not have a good coping strategy, even the manager Montella.

In the 42nd minute of the game, Li Qing's long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area during the counterattack helped Liverpool expand the score to three goals.

Juli TV commentator Zhan County shouted excitedly: "Liverpool leads Sevilla 3-0 at home, as long as this score is maintained until the end of the game, there is a more than 90% chance of advancing to the semifinals of this season's Champions League!"

Under the shouts of the Liverpool fans, Liverpool regained the initiative in the game, but considering that there was a visiting Merseyside derby at the weekend, the whole Liverpool team consciously held the kick and conserved their physical strength reasonably.

A three-goal win over Sevilla at home would almost guarantee a run to the semi-finals of this season's Champions League, and there is no need to continue scoring goals, as it would be troublesome if they were accidentally scored away goals by Sevilla.

In the 67th minute of the game, Li Qing used a direct free kick opportunity to help Liverpool score another goal, turning the score into 4:0, and Li Qing also increased his personal Champions League goal this season to 17th goal with a hat trick in this game, thus tying Ronaldo's single-season goal record set in the 2013-2014 Champions League. _

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