The next day, after Manchester City lost 1-2 away from home in the first leg, they reversed 3-1 at home in the second leg and defeated Everton with a total score of 4-3 to meet Liverpool in the final. The two sides will meet on February 28. Wembley Stadium to compete for the EFL Cup title.
Although the English League Cup is not as valuable as the FA Cup and the Premier League, it is still a championship after all, and both sides must go all out when the time comes.
However, there is still more than a month until the final, and now both sides have to focus on the league.
On Monday, February 1st, Willard spent 5 skill points to increase his counter-foot from 89 to 90, leaving 136 skill points left. In addition, this day is also the day to add other skill points above 90 at the beginning of the month. Therefore, Willard spent another 80 skill points to increase defense, physique, awareness, speed, heading, technique, shooting, and passing from 91 to 92, leaving 56 skill points remaining.
After adding points, Willard’s skill attributes change to:
Host: Alan Willard
Nationality: Argentina
Club: Liverpool
Birthday: May 19, 1993
Height: 186cm
Weight: 86kg
Level: 42
Experience: 516 million/700 million
Skill points: 56
Defense: 92
Physique: 92
Awareness: 92
Speed: 92
Headers: 92
Technology: 92
Shots: 92
Passes: 92
Inverse foot: 90
Goalkeeping: 24
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Before the start of the next game, another skill attribute is added, which is undoubtedly a great news.
On February 2, in the 24th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged Blue Fox Leicester City away.
There is no doubt that Leicester City is the biggest dark horse in the Premier League this season.
Leicester City's experience in recent years is worth talking about, not just this season.
Three years ago, in the 2012/2013 English Championship promotion play-offs, the total score of the two legs was 2-2 in the 96th minute, but Leicester City had an away goal. If the game ends with this score, the winner will be Leicester City.
As a result, with 22 seconds left in the game, Leicester City won a penalty, but the Blue Fox's penalty was missed. The penalty kick was saved by the Watford goalkeeper, and took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and then Killing the Blue Fox, Leicester City fell from heaven to hell and became the background emperor of Watford's miracle.
This tragic experience also stimulated Leicester City, allowing them to directly upgrade to the first place in the British Championship in the 2013/2014 season, and finally no longer had to play in the play-offs.
In the 2014/2015 season, that is, last season, Leicester City, as a newly promoted team, was once considered certain to be relegated. They ranked last for 140 days throughout the season, but in the end Leicester City won the championship in the last 9 games. By winning 7 games, they completed the victory escape and successfully avoided relegation with 14th place in the Premier League.
The result may be that the experience of successfully avoiding relegation made the players drift. James Pearson, the son of head coach Nigel Pearson, and two other teammates teamed up to visit prostitutes during a friendly match in Thailand and were caught on video. Nigel Pearson was forced to leave get out of class. Subsequently, Ranieri, nicknamed "Tinker", became Leicester City's new head coach.
As a result, the Blue Fox, under the leadership of Ranieri, achieved amazing results this season. In this era when gold and dollar football is prevalent, they have topped the standings many times as a dark horse team.
Currently, Leicester City ranks first in the Premier League with 47 points, leaving Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United and other giants behind. It can be said to be extremely dark.
What Liverpool wants to challenge now is such a dark horse team at the top of the table.
In the locker room before the game, Klopp warned everyone emphatically:
"Despite Leicester City's small reputation and little historical heritage."
"But now that he can be ranked first, how many strong teams have he overturned along the way?"
"Besides, it's still someone else's home court, and we are playing away from home."
"So, everyone, please cheer me up, go all out, don't underestimate the opponent and lose."
"We are currently only fifth and have not even qualified for the Champions League, let alone the championship."
"So we have no reason to be proud. We have to go all out in this game and there is no room for negligence."
At 20:45 in the evening, with the whistle of referee Andre Marriner, the 24th round of the 2015/2016 Premier League match between Leicester City and Liverpool officially started at the King Power Stadium, the home of Leicester City.
The Blue Fox have performed so well this season, so every home game is naturally packed.
Amid the cheers of more than 30,000 Blue Fox fans in the audience, Leicester City, playing at home, took the initiative to attack, trying to score goals by taking advantage of Liverpool's slow entry into the game as they played away games.
It has to be said that the Blue Fox still has certain strength to achieve its current results.
On the goal line is the very capable Schmeichel, in the defensive midfield position is the invincible Kante, in the forward position is the inspirational Di Vardi who moves ghostly, as well as the support of Shinji Okazaki, Mahrez and others. Therefore, Leicester City's offensive threat is still considerable.
However, after adding a free man like Willard to Liverpool's defense, Leicester City's tactics of beating other teams will not work well with the Red Army.
No matter how good Vardy's running position is, he can't compare to Willard's awareness, speed, physique, and defensive ability of 92. After playing for a full half hour, Vardy was still unable to complete a threatening shot that hit the door frame. Most of the time, he was approached by Velarde as soon as he got the ball and had to pass the ball out.
He doesn't have the physique or strength to compete with Velarde. He can only hope that other teammates will draw Velarde away, then run out of the gap, receive the pass from his teammates and shoot directly.
But such opportunities rarely arise.
It wasn't until the 34th minute that Mahrez's breakthrough on the right attracted Velarde's supplementary defense and passed the ball to Shinji Okazaki. Shinji Okazaki then passed the ball to the gap on the left side of the front edge of the penalty area. Vardy was Got a threatening shot that hit the goal frame.
However, Vardy played the ball a little hastily. Although it hit the door frame, it was not powerful enough and was directly confiscated by Red Army goalkeeper Mignolet.
At the same time, after more than half an hour of play, Liverpool had fully entered the game state and began their high-position pressing and on-the-spot counterattack tactics.
Although Leicester City players have performed well this season, Liverpool may not be able to play without Willard. But with Willard, Liverpool is equivalent to having one more person fighting, and its strength is completely different from before.
In the 38th minute, Willard first intercepted Shinji Okazaki's ball with a flying tackle, then lay on the ground and swept the ball to his teammate Lucas. Then he got up and bypassed Shinji Okazaki and headed towards Leicester City's goal. Half rushed over and got involved in the attack.
Unfortunately, Willard's wonderful pass into the penalty area was wasted by Milner. His shot missed the post and failed to hit the door frame. Otherwise, I am afraid that it will be Liverpool playing away from home who will break the deadlock first.
