After the 20th round of the league, Klopp gave everyone a three-day holiday, and everyone finally rested for a few days with peace of mind.
On January 8, Liverpool sat at home and welcomed their opponent Plymouth in the third round of the 2016/2017 English FA Cup.
The English FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world. It starts with amateur teams competing in the preliminaries, and then plays the first two rounds to teams below English League One. Premier League and English Championship teams join in the third round.
The third round of the FA Cup that Liverpool is playing now is the Red Army's first FA Cup game of the season. As for Plymouth, the current league level is in English Second Division.
Although the FA Cup has a long history and is more valuable than the EFL Cup, it is still far inferior to the League and Champions League. Coupled with the torture of the Christmas and New Year's Day schedule, Coutinho, Sturridge, Milner, Henderson and others have all entered the injury list. Therefore, Klopp decisively gave up the FA Cup and sent out most of the substitutes. The starting lineup is composed of young players, with only Alan Willard as the core player in the starting lineup.
However, Willard alone is enough.
The only thing that low-level league teams can rely on to challenge high-level league teams is physical advantages such as physique, speed, jumping, and collision. They also take advantage of the high-level league's obvious reluctance to get hurt to engage in fierce fighting and establish local advantages. Make a match.
But when faced with Willard, a player with a physique and injury resistance that could crush them in turn, Plymouth's tricks were ineffective.
Although Plymouth also frequently fouled Willard in an attempt to scare Willard, not only did they fail to scare Willard, but two players were injured by Willard due to collisions with him. end.
The remaining players no longer dare to compete head-on with Willard and can only rely on technology to compete. How about Plymouth?
Even Liverpool's youth team players can crush each other technically. And Willard is unstoppable. As long as he rushes up with the ball, no matter how many people come, it is almost impossible to stop him, unless there is a tactical foul and he is forcibly pulled down or tripped, but in that case the defender will inevitably get a card.
Throughout the game, Willard caused two Plymouth players to be injured, six players to receive yellow cards, and one to receive a red card.
Even so, Plymouth couldn't stop Willard.
In the end, thanks to Willard's four goals, Liverpool defeated Plymouth 4-0 at home and advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.
Other main players got a rest, but Liverpool also successfully advanced to the next round, which is the top 32.
This is good news for Liverpool.
If he can win more championships in the end, Klopp will not refuse. This is also the result of Willard's strong request to play. Otherwise, for the sake of safety, Klopp will not let Willard start the game. He does not know that Willard has full physical fitness and injury resistance. Only in normal games and training, Willard showed strong physical fitness, coupled with a strong request to play, did Klopp let Willard start the game and lead the team to advance to the top 32.
After playing in the FA Cup, Willard flew to Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the FIFA year-end awards ceremony.
On the evening of January 19, 2017, the FIFA 2016 Year-End Awards Ceremony was officially held in Zurich, Switzerland.
Although Velarde often appears in the starting lineup as a midfielder, in this FIFA awards ceremony, Velarde was placed in the center position in the best team of the year, alongside Messi, Ronaldo tied.
With a total of 132 goals in the year, he can only be regarded as a forward. There is nothing wrong with being a center in the best team of the year.
In terms of the best men's football coach of the year, Ranieri, who led Leicester City to win the Premier League championship in the 2015/2016 season and directed the Blue Fox miracle, won the 2016 best men's football coach award and deserved it.
Even the giant Liverpool has not won the Premier League championship, but Ranieri led Leicester City to win this championship. If he is not the best coach, who is?
In terms of Goal of the Year (Puskas Award), Velarde did not win the award. Instead, it was awarded to the Malaysian player Soubry, who is very similar to Velarde's winger free kick. He scored with a weird goal in the league. The outside instep arc free kick won the Puskas Award.
This came as a surprise to many, but the comments from fans said it all.
Part of the Puskas Award's rating is provided by fans' votes. Fans' comments online indicate that for such an inconsequential award, everyone is more willing to let an unknown player get it, and then motivate those who Lower-level, amateur players are actively fighting on the court.
Perhaps the FIFA judges thought so too, so in the end the award was awarded to Soubry.
Of course, everyone also interpreted another answer from this award, that is, Willard will definitely win the World Footballer. If Velarde does not win the more important award of World Footballer, the Puskas Award will definitely be awarded to Velarde.
Sure enough, when the Puskas Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Miss World Football and other awards were handed out, the last name read out from the three shortlists of Messi, Ronaldo, and Alan Willard was indeed Alan. Willard.
Willard won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2016, won the 2016 "France Football" Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year two individual awards, becoming the first person in football in 2016.
With his record of 132 goals in the year, it is natural to win the award. Countless guests and spectators at the scene and in front of the TV applauded Velarde for winning the award.
After that night, media outlets around the world also reported on Willard's award.
"FIFA 2016 year-end awards ceremony, Willard won the World Footballer! 》
"Villad won the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year, becoming the first player in football in 2016! 》
"Ranieri led Leicester City to win the Premier League and was awarded the Best Coach of the Year, and Velarde won the World Footballer Award with 132 goals in the year! 》
Like the Golden Globe Award, this year-end personal award issued by FIFA also contributed 5 billion experience points to Velarde, allowing his level experience to rise to level 50, 2.4 billion/6 billion, and he gained 50 more skills. Points for upgrade rewards.
Next time you upgrade, the skill point reward will not be 50, but 60.
For the skill points obtained through this upgrade, Willard chose to add them to awareness, speed, heading, technique, and reverse footing.
After completing the upgrade and adding points, Willard’s skill attributes will change to:
Host: Alan Willard
Nationality: Argentina
Club: Liverpool
Birthday: May 19, 1993
Height: 186cm
Weight: 87kg
Level: 50
Experience: 2.4736 billion/6 billion
Skill points: 0
Defense: 93
Physique: 100
Awareness: 98
Speed: 95
Headers: 95
Technology: 97
Shots: 100
Passes: 93
Inverse foot: 92
Goalkeeping: 30
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The attributes of five skills have been improved, which can take Willard's strength to a higher level. The opponents behind him will surely feel the terror of Willard more clearly.
