Football: The strongest post-zero generation

With the Champions League theme song sounding on the broadcast at Anfield Stadium, Li Qing, who was sitting in the VIP seat watching the game, also had a feeling of enthusiasm, if it wasn't for the situation, he wanted to lead Liverpool to beat Barcelona in the presence of the home fans!

Looking at his high-spirited teammates, Li Qing told himself that the home game must be no problem!

After all, the team has been unbeaten in 50 consecutive league games, and if it weren't for the unexpected draw at home to Tottenham, it could even maintain a home win, which also gave Liverpool a certain confidence.

However, Li Qing also has some worries, the Champions League is not a league, the rhythm is different, and the opponent's playing style is also different.

Liverpool's past faces against Atletico Madrid and Sevilla are not traditional Spanish plays, Barcelona is good at ground passing better than Manchester City, plus Barcelona has a top star like Messi, the home game is somewhat unlucky.

With the whistle of the referee on duty, the first leg of the 2017-2018 Champions League semi-finals Liverpool hosts Barcelona was officially announced.

Virgil van Dijk was brilliant in his anticipation of Barcelona's first threatening attack.

As the clock ticked by, Liverpool, who were at home, began to organise an effective attack in an orderly manner, trying to threaten Ter Stegen's goal, but Salah did not look very good, and he was hesitant to take the ball, which was eventually cleared by Pique.

Barcelona did not treat themselves as outsiders at all, and the offensive was like a tide under Messi's tandem organization, and Liverpool had to retreat to the half-time defense.

Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah were quickly cut off by the high press of the Barcelona players and lost control of the game, giving Barcelona the initiative as time went on.

"Hopefully it's just a little nervous at the beginning of the game......"

Li Qing, who was sitting in the VIP seat watching the live broadcast, frowned, and there was a strong uneasiness in his heart.

Barcelona captain Messi has not yet made a force, the team is playing so passively, if you wait until Messi is sharp, the defense will have to be?

Suarez had his back to goal and was about to turn around after receiving a pass from Coutinho, but was knocked down by the recovering Wijnaldum, and the referee on duty, Kakier, blew his whistle to award Barcelona a direct free-kick from the edge of the penalty area.

"There's trouble. "

Li Qing looked at Messi, who was about to take a free kick, and always felt that Karius was very unstable in guarding the goal.

I don't know if Li Qing's hunch played a role, Messi's free kick hung in the upper right corner of the goal, and goalkeeper Liverpool didn't even react.

He Wei, the commentator of Tianchao 5, said in a deep voice: "In the nineteenth minute of the game, the away team Barcelona took the lead with Messi's direct free kick, which is very likely to be decisive for the two-legged knockout round. "

Messi, who scored the goal, was very happy, but he didn't celebrate the goal much, in his opinion, scoring a goal is a normal thing, which made Li Qing, who was sitting in the VIP seat, seem to see his shadow, and couldn't help but think: "Should there be more goals?"

Li Qing's hunch was very accurate, in the 42nd minute, Messi and his teammates played a wonderful one-two cooperation one after another, Van Dijk was half a beat slow to make up for the defense, and Messi, who stopped and entered the penalty area, kicked the football to the far corner of the goal with an accurate low shot.

"Leo Messi—"

Santos Chischius, the commentator of Spanish National Sports Television, exclaimed: "His goal helped Barcelona lead Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield!"

Messi, who scored two goals alone, was not as calm as the opener, and he raised his arms and shouted under the support of his teammates, venting the huge pressure brought by the two-goal lead of the visitors.

Marcel Leeflang, a commentator for Sky Germany, said: "This is the perfect Leo Messi! It's a pity that the perfect Lee is sitting in the VIP seat at Anfield, and considering Lee's super scoring ability, Leo Messi still needs to score more goals!"

In front of the away team's coach's box, Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde applauded and raised his arms at the players celebrating the goal, and the meaning was very obvious.

Two balls, not enough!

Valverde saw that his former predecessor Pep Guardiola had lost to Li Qing's Liverpool many times, and his heart was somewhat shadowed, in order to prevent the home team from being overturned by Liverpool, so he needed the team to continue to score!

Messi is also full of desire to score goals.

Why?

It started with a video call 10 days ago......

Messi, who is preparing for the league, received a video call from his friend Aguero, and the two naturally talked about the first leg of the Champions League semifinals that will start next......

Messi is more jealous of Li Qing, who broke his single-season goal record, because he has no direct experience, his more understanding of Li Qing is from the news reports and the coaching staff's data summary, maybe Li Qing is not as powerful as the legend, out of caution, there is always nothing wrong with scoring more goals.

As a result, Barcelona, who led by two goals, continued to dominate the game, thinking about scoring more goals.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp's face was ugly, he thought that the game would be difficult without Li Qing, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult......

There was no change in the score before the end of the first half, and in the second half, Liverpool, who were two goals behind, consciously stepped up their attack, with Sadio Mane and Salah particularly prominent, putting a lot of pressure on Barcelona's defense.

It's a pity that the continuity is not enough, and when Barcelona adapts to Liverpool's three-board axe attack, it becomes anti-friendly again.

In the 60th minute of the game, Messi assisted Suarez to expand the score.

Suarez, who had scored the goal, forgot his pre-match promise and was so excited to score that he celebrated with a kneeling gesture on the battlefield he had traveled......

“wuwuuwuuuuuuu—"

The Anfield stadium responded with deafening boos.

Perhaps realising that he had broken his oath, he made a sorry gesture afterwards, but Liverpool fans didn't buy it.

With half an hour left in the game, Klopp was in a dilemma, not knowing whether to strengthen the attack or stay defensive.

Time was slowly passing, and Messi organized another effective attack, but fortunately Coutinho, who received the ball, did not find the crosshairs, otherwise Liverpool would have fallen behind by four goals at home.

Jurgen Klopp immediately chose to stabilize the defense first, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack, and now the team has been blinded by Barcelona's attack, and it is useless to leave too many strikers.

With Coutinho, Dembele and Paulinho missing chances in quick succession, the score of Liverpool's home game against Barcelona was finally fixed at 0:3.

"The suffering of Liverpool fans is over, but the Anfield tragedy will be forever etched here. "

Sky TV commentator Andy Gray sighed.

Commentator Martin Taylor said confidently: "It's just the end of the first leg, don't forget...... There is also Lee in the next round, Barcelona is here today to create the Anfield tragedy, believe me, Lee will return a Camp Nou tragedy in the next round and complete an epic reversal!"

"Martin ......"

Andy Gray looked at his old partner's expectant eyes and didn't know what to say.

But then again, there is still a second leg in the game, and there is still suspense.

Barcelona can add three at Anfield, why can't Liverpool add four at Camp Nou?

PS: Writing this way can highlight the indispensability of the protagonist, and it can also avoid the author's water word count, and reduce the two rounds into one, I hope it won't bring discomfort to your reading......

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