Football: The strongest post-zero generation

For the Premier League's top clubs, the League Cup is just a game to train substitutes and youth players, after all, the FA Cup is much higher in the minds of English people today.

However, the main reason why the League Cup is not taken seriously is also in terms of prize money, the current sponsor of the League Cup is the Pacific beverage giant Carabao, and the sponsor of the FA Cup is Emirates.

The FA Cup has a prize money of £2 million, while the League Cup has a mere £100,000 and the runners-up have to be halved.

Mane joked with Li Qing that the combined bonuses of the champions and runners-up of the League Cup are less than half of Li Qing's weekly salary, and this alone makes it difficult for the League Cup to attract attention.

Of course, the League Cup is still very attractive to the middle and lower teams of the Premier League, after all, they have not had the strength to win the league title for a long time, so they can win the League Cup without the attention of the top teams to boost morale.

At the same time, the most important point is that you can use the League Cup title as a second way to live in the Europa League the following year.

In this way, small and medium-sized clubs can use the League Cup to get the opportunity to play against foreign powerhouses, and therefore can appear on TV and newspapers, get more tickets and TV broadcast revenue, and expand their influence.

If you accidentally break out and create a good result in the Europa League, it will definitely be a great joy for domestic fans!

Therefore, clubs like Bournemouth are obviously much more concerned than Liverpool in their attitude towards the Carabao Cup.

Of course, it is not that Liverpool does not pay attention to it, but also that the recent increase in injuries and illnesses in the team, the league has entered the sprint stage, and the FA Cup is about to start, the club's senior management and Klopp have discussed and have made the decision to abandon the League Cup appropriately.

After all, a win in this round of the Carabao Cup will see Liverpool face two semi-finals against Tottenham in January, and in January, Liverpool still have three league games and one FA Cup to play, and if the FA Cup goes to the next round, there will definitely be another round at the end of the month.

In other words, not counting the Carabao Cup, Liverpool have at least four games to play in the next game, which will be a serious challenge for the players' physical strength.

But as a head coach, Klopp has his pride, although he has made compromises, but in terms of personnel arrangements, he did not completely choose the players of the youth team, and from the beginning, it was set that Li Qing would definitely start.

Liverpool are the team with the most League Cup titles, and if they win this year, Liverpool will not only successfully defend their title, but will also be the team's 10th League Cup title.

Since the beginning of the season, Klopp has already topped himself and must defend all the championships last year, and Li Qing also said the bold words of dominating China and Europe, so the old and the young have basically set the tone of this game.

Of course, in the lineup, there are really not many main players, the goalkeeper is Mignolet, the back line is Morello, Randle and Anthony and Connor of the youth team.

In midfield, Camacho, Wilson, Curtis Jones and Rujic got their starts, while Origi and Li Qing started up front.

In this game, Liverpool's defensive pressure was very high, there was no way, when none of the main players were on the field, Klopp gave them the task of not conceding a goal in the first half.

This is the first time Klopp has given such an order to his own players at his home stadium, and except for Li Qing, the other Liverpool players are almost angry with their noses.

However, Bournemouth, who are all the main players, did give Liverpool a big test, and in the last round of the league, their attacking power was still very eye-catching, although the team conceded three goals, they also scored three goals.

Therefore, Bournemouth is an absolutely offensive and defensive team, so this game is destined to be a goal shootout, so Anfield Stadium has an influx of nearly 40,000 fans.

The Bournemouth players came with the confidence of winning, and after they got Liverpool's starting list, in addition to seeing Li Qing's name, they were taken aback, and after seeing other people's names, their hearts were settled again.

No matter how good Li Qing is, he is only one person, and Liverpool is almost all substitutes and youth team defenders, making the Bournemouth players think they have won this game.

But from the beginning, the game was not as good as they imagined.

Thirty minutes passed and Liverpool did not concede a goal or score, as did Bournemouth.

At the end of the first half, it was the same as Bournemouth still failing to score, although they were glad they hadn't conceded.

At halftime, Klopp did not make any tactical arrangements in the dressing room, and only dropped one sentence: "In the second half, you all listen to Li Qing, he arranges you to play how you play, you can play how you want, and whoever wants to be disobedient will be replaced by him!"

Klopp's words made Liverpool's players stunned, looking at each other and at a loss, while Klopp had already left the dressing room.

Li Qing was also taken aback, but quickly calmed down, and then said to his somewhat cloudy teammates with a smile: "Do you want to win and play with Tottenham?

Bournemouth played hard to be honest, but the reason they haven't been able to break the deadlock so far is because they lack a goalscorer who can finish the game.

Although Solanke appeared on the field, he was not the main force, and it was useless to let him play now before he ran in with the team.

Although Li Qing's position on the field is a striker, but in fact, his position is a little further back, with the blessing of the talent [Offensive Organizer] and [Running Can't Die], Liverpool's defenders today, under the leadership of Li Qing, are running more actively than usual.

Of course, running aggressively is one thing, running in position is the key, and in the case of solid defense, the opponent lacks players to finish the game, so when the two sides are deadlocked until the last time, Li Qing began to exert his power.

In the 85th minute of the game, Liverpool got a free kick opportunity in front, Li Qing hit the penalty, and Anfield Stadium was instantly jubilant.

Five minutes later, Li Qing activated the [Superstar Moment] and directly killed the game, and the Bournemouth players looked at the cheering Liverpool players in disbelief.

The Liverpool hierarchy in the stands was helpless about this, reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup, and the club could not have kept giving up in the two-legged semi-finals.

Klopp has a hint of joy, such a lineup can actually defeat the opponent, it seems that defending the League Cup this year is not an extravagant hope!_

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