After Willard scored his 92nd goal of the year, setting a world record and helping the Reds expand the score to 4-0 in the away game, the Liverpool players also lost the motivation to continue fighting.
With a 4-0 lead, we have already won the game, so there is no need to continue fighting. It is more serious to save some energy for the next game. After all, Liverpool is fighting on multiple fronts this season.
Klopp also made substitutions one after another, using up all three substitutions, allowing the main players to take a rest.
Even so, Willard scored again in the 79th minute. When he was dribbling the ball, he was pulled down by the Crystal Palace midfielder, forming a frontcourt free kick with a good position and angle.
With perfect shooting ability and high arcing skills, Willard once again made a perfect penalty shot and sent the ball directly into the blind spot of the Crystal Palace goal.
Willard scored a hat-trick to help Liverpool expand the score to 5-0. At the same time, he once again refreshed his own annual total goal record that he had just created, raising the record to 93 goals.
In the end, after the referee blew the full-time whistle, Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 5-0 in an away game, winning the 10th round of the Premier League and continuing to top the standings.
Although Manchester City also defeated West Bromwich Albion 4-0 in this round, they still failed to close the points gap with Liverpool. It is difficult to get back the opportunity that has been lost.
Liverpool has the goal-scoring machine of Velarde, coupled with Velarde's defensive and commanding abilities, as long as they stand at the top of the list, it will be difficult for them to make mistakes and be overtaken by rival Manchester City.
In particular, thanks to Willard's scoring performance, Liverpool also has a super high goal difference. Even if Manchester City ties the points, it will be useless and they will still lose to Liverpool due to the goal difference disadvantage.
In this situation, although only ten rounds of the league have been played, many media and fans have already predicted that 80% of this season's Premier League championship is already in Liverpool's possession, unless Willard has an accident midway and is unable to participate in subsequent games.
But considering Willard's physique and injury resistance, this probability is not high.
The greater possibility is that Willard leads the Red Army to win consecutively and win the championship N rounds in advance.
After the game, not only England and Europe, but also football and sports media around the world, and even major comprehensive media, reported heavily on the news that Willard set a new world record with 93 goals in the year.
"Last night, in the 10th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged Crystal Palace away from home. Willard scored three goals in the 25th, 57th and 79th minutes respectively, scoring a hat-trick and helping Liverpool win 5-0 away from home. The victory over Crystal Palace also raised his total goals in 2016 to 93."
"This is the number of goals scored by the adult team in professional matches, excluding goals in the Olympic men's football U23 level."
"Villade has thus surpassed the 91 goals scored by Leo Messi in 2012 and created a new world record for total annual goals in football."
"This is a historic moment!"
"When Messi set the annual record of 91 goals, everyone called him a miracle."
"And now, Velarde has improved this miracle by two goals, reaching the level of 93 goals."
"But this is not the end yet, because Willard still has two full months to play this year, and it is almost certain that he will increase his total goals for the year to more than 100 goals."
"Let us wait and see and witness the true miracle of football's first annual total goal record reaching three digits!"
The new record for total goals in the year is really shocking. The key is that Willard will continue to break this record in every game.
This caused the focus of the world's football world to be on Velarde in the next two months. Countless media and fans who had not paid serious attention to Velarde before had their eyes fixed on Velarde to see what he could do. time to break through the 100-goal mark, and finally refresh the total record to what extent.
At the same time, this can also offset Ronaldo's qualifications and reputation advantages, which will help Willard gain more support from professional journalists (voters) in the Ballon d'Or voting at the end of the year.
Back home, Willard also received congratulatory calls from many relatives and friends, including Messi. Messi congratulated Velarde for breaking his record and did not show any displeasure.
Messi even expressed his delight at having such a strong rising star in Argentine football, Velarde. This means that even if he is old, even if he can no longer lead the national team to compete in the international arena, Argentina still has Velarde to continue to lead everyone to attack the city and compete for honors in the international arena.
Of course, it's still early to talk about this. Although Messi is 29 years old, his body is still in peak condition. As long as he doesn't get seriously injured like Ronaldo and Van Basten, it won't be a big problem if he continues to play for more than four or five years.
However, it is a bit difficult to say what the status will be after the age of 30, but in any case, there will be no problem participating in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
In the following days, amid overwhelming media reports from around the world and heated discussions among fans about Velarde's new annual goalscoring record, Liverpool sat at home and ushered in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage against Dinamo Zagreb. challenge.
This game is not difficult. Liverpool can beat their opponents 5-0 on the road, let alone at home.
Therefore, although it was at home, Klopp instead performed a certain degree of rotation to let the main players renovate. Anyway, as long as Willard starts, the Red Army will not have much problem regardless of offense and defense.
In fact, this is indeed the case. Even though Dinamo Zagreb knew that it would be difficult to score at Anfield and there was a huge difference in strength, they would definitely lose. The defensive counterattack lineup defended.
But even so, Liverpool still scored a big score of 4-0, which was achieved when Liverpool rotated many main players.
If Liverpool plays all the main players, it will be guaranteed to be above 6-0.
Willard also scored twice in this game, once again breaking his annual scoring record, raising the record to 95 goals.
In another group match, Juventus unexpectedly tied with Lyon 1-1.
Therefore, after the fourth round of the group stage, Liverpool is the only team with 12 points from all victories, ranking first in the Group H standings.
Juventus ranks second with 7 points from two wins, a draw and a loss, Lyon ranks third with 4 points from a win, a draw and two losses, and Dinamo Zagreb is at the bottom with 0 points after losing all four games.
With Lyon only having 4 points and unable to catch up with Liverpool even if they won the last two rounds, Liverpool successfully qualified early and advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League.
However, the first place in the group has not yet been won, because in theory, Juventus may reverse the ranking and surpass Liverpool to win the first place in the group, although this possibility is extremely low.
But no matter what, Liverpool cannot announce that they have locked in the first place in the group in advance.
