Lallana, who scored a goal after a rare opportunity to play, was very excited. He rushed to the sidelines and performed a continuous front flip to celebrate, which attracted a burst of warm applause from the Red Army home fans in the stands.
When Velarde and his teammates gathered around to hug and celebrate, Lallana also laughed and thanked Firmino for the assist and Velarde for the miss.
After the game restarted, Manchester City's offense seemed more impatient.
It was originally their revenge, but now not only did they not score, but Liverpool scored first. How do they feel?
Therefore, Manchester City invested more in offense and wanted to score an equalizer as soon as possible.
But Willard showed stronger strength than in the previous game, because on March 1st, Willard added points again, improving each skill a little, except for "Inverse Foot" which was increased from 90 to 91 In addition, other skills have been increased from 92 to 93, leaving only 16 skill points.
Adding points to a single skill will definitely not have such an obvious effect, but if all skills are improved at the same time, the combined ability will be somewhat obvious.
Take defense as an example. Not only has Villard's "defensive" skills improved a bit, but his speed, awareness, physique, heading, reverse footing, etc. have also improved a bit.
This allows him to perceive dangers faster, react faster, direct his teammates to deploy defenses faster, run over to defend faster, and make defensive actions faster and more appropriately.
The effect of the improvement in overall strength is indeed obvious. Although Manchester City came to this game with revenge in mind, and Liverpool also consumed a lot of extra energy because of the celebration, the opportunities that Manchester City can get have not yet been achieved. There were more finals in the last EFL Cup.
In the same way, Verard can also display a higher level and strength in offense.
After discovering that Lallana was in very good shape in this game, Willard also began to pay attention to creating opportunities for Lallana.
As an all-around fighter in the offense, Velarde often has to bear organizational responsibilities.
In the 42nd minute, David Silva was stopped by Henderson when he tried to dribble the ball past Henderson. He was forced to turn around and try to pass the ball back to midfielder Fernando.
As a result, Velarde predicted David Silva's return pass in advance, suddenly started to accelerate, intercepted the ball before Fernando, and shoveled it to Firmino on the side.
Then Velarde got up and bypassed Fernando and rushed towards Manchester City's half. Firmino took the ball two steps and encountered an interception, then passed the ball over.
Velarde, Firmino, and Origi passed the ball continuously from the right and hit the counterattack to the right rib of Manchester City's penalty area.
Finally, Firmino made an inverted triangle pass in the right rib area of the penalty area and passed the ball to the top of the arc in the penalty area.
The continuous passes of the three of Velarde, Firmino's connection in the penalty area, and Origi's movement have caused Manchester City's defense in the penalty area to become chaotic.
Then Firmino passed the ball in an inverted triangle, and Velarde made a move to shoot, and then deceived the center back Otamendi in front of him. Then, Willard made a wonderful pass and sent the ball into the gap on the left side of the penalty area.
Lallana rushed into the penalty area from the left wing, volleyed without stopping the ball, and successfully kicked the ball into the lower left corner.
Goalkeeper Joe Hart was deceived by Firmino and Velarde's shots to the right of the center, out of reach. Although he made a save, he couldn't reach it at all.
The ball hit the net and Lallana scored twice, helping Liverpool expand the score to 2-0.
"Wow, Lallana exploded!"
"Two goals gave Liverpool a 2-0 lead."
"Another key pass from Willard."
"The first goal was a wonderful miss from Willard, which gave Lallana the opportunity to shoot calmly without any defender."
"This ball is like this again. Firmino passed the ball in an inverted triangle. Velarde assumed it was true and passed the ball to Lallana, giving Lallana another chance to score easily."
"Manchester City obviously didn't pay enough attention to Lallana. As a result, Lallana seized two opportunities within a few minutes, scored two goals in a row, and scored twice."
"Blue Moon was scored twice by a substitute player from the Red Army."
Lallana, who scored twice, was also extremely excited. He rushed to the sidelines without saying anything, climbed over the billboard, and jumped directly into the fans in the first row of the stands. He was surrounded by fans, hugging, shaking hands, Pull out your hair, pull off your clothes, etc., celebrate in a big way.
As a substitute, Lallana has not started and scored a goal for a long time. As a result, two goals were scored in the first game, and it was really hard to suppress the excitement in my heart.
Of course, the fans were also very enthusiastic. In the end, if Villard and others hadn't stepped forward to pull him out, Lallana's jersey might have been stripped off.
Returning to the field, Manchester City kicked the ball out of the center circle and the game restarted. Blue Moon naturally had to attack aggressively in an attempt to get a goal back before the end of the first half.
But Liverpool's defense was rock solid. Both substitute full-back Flanagan and Lovren, who had just returned from injury, performed well. Coupled with Willard's command and defense everywhere, Manchester City had no chance.
After 1 minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half. The two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 2-0. The Red Army, playing at home, temporarily led by two goals.
After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half.
In fact, Liverpool's state in this game is not much better than that of Manchester City. After all, they just won the English League Cup and celebrated a lot, which consumed a lot of energy.
But Klopp, through rotation, the increase in Velarde's strength, and the fact that he was playing at home and his opponent was playing away, managed to turn this game into a game with a huge disparity.
In the 51st minute of the second half, Sterling dribbled the ball from the left and tried to cut inside for a shot. As a result, he was knocked to the ground by a flying tackle from Velarde, who also dribbled the ball. The ball was also lost, and Velarde had not committed a foul.
With no one flagrantly fouling him, Willard's tackles were very clean, rarely injuring people and rarely committing fouls.
But if anyone wants to scare him with a foul, then he will let the opponent know why he is called the beast waist in Argentina.
Of course, Manchester City does not have such a problem, because as Velarde's national team teammates, Otamendi, Aguero, Zabaleta and others will tell Blue Moon players that Velarde is not easy to mess with.
So whether it was the EFL Cup final or this league game, no one from Manchester City fouled Willard or Liverpool players.
Everyone is playing a normal game.
In this case, Manchester City will indeed be unbeatable.
Just now, Willard tackled the ball from Sterling's foot. If Origi's header hadn't been slightly higher in the end, Liverpool would have scored another goal through the counterattack generated by this interception.
