The carnival throughout Liverpool City lasted until late at night, and some excited fans even stayed up all night.
Media and websites from various countries also reported extensively on the news that Liverpool won the first Premier League championship in team history.
"Liverpool defeated Crystal Palace 5-2 at home and won the 2016/2017 Premier League championship four rounds ahead of schedule! 》
"Liverpool won the cup four rounds ahead of schedule and finally won the first Premier League title in team history!" 》
"The Reds have won 19 English top league titles in history, just one short of their arch-rival Manchester United!" 》
"Willard led Liverpool to win the first Premier League title in team history with 84 goals in 32 games, and became the most popular candidate for this year's Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year! 》
Although there was only 5 days between the 35th round of the Premier League and the 34th round, Klopp still gave everyone a full three days off. Because he had already won the championship, Klopp had no intention of leading the main force in the 35th round of the Premier League away game. Players went to play, including Willard.
Although Liverpool now has 96 points and can definitely move towards the goal of winning the Premier League with 100 points for the first time, Klopp must first ensure that he wins the Champions League and FA Cup instead of worrying about this matter that has no practical significance. 100% championship honors.
Anyway, there are still three games to go in the Premier League, so let’s deal with the Champions League first. If we can take a big lead in the Champions League semi-finals, we can then shift our focus to the league and hit the Premier League's first 100-point championship record.
This is what Klopp thinks and does.
On April 29, in the 35th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged Watford away. All of Liverpool’s main players stayed at the base and did not even make the squad. Klopp sent a lineup of all substitutes + youth team players to deal with this. For an away game, walk through the process.
Without Willard and the main lineup, Liverpool lost 0-2 on the road as expected, but it didn't matter to Liverpool.
Anyway, the Red Army has won the Premier League championship, which allows the main players to rest well at home and prepare for the next first leg of the Champions League semi-finals.
A few days of preparation time flew by. At 20:45 in the evening on May 3, with the whistle of referee Laos, the first leg of the 2016/2017 Champions League semi-final match between Monaco and Liverpool was held at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco. Officially begin.
Although Monaco is also a team in the French Ligue 1 of the five major leagues, there is no doubt that it is a complete dark horse in this Champions League competition and is the weakest team among the top four.
Therefore, even if it was an away game against Monaco, Liverpool did not go through any testing. From the first minute, they pressed forward significantly, launched a fierce attack or high press against Monaco, and immediately launched a frantic attack after getting the ball.
On the one hand, Liverpool, which has won the league and had a rest, has this physical ability. On the other hand, they want to take the lead in the first leg on the road, gain as much away goal advantage as possible, end the suspense of the two-leg semi-finals in the first leg, and save their energy to hit the first hundred points in the Premier League. Championship record.
Monaco, on the other hand, was not mentally prepared for Liverpool as an away team, playing against the home team from the start. They thought that Liverpool would need to adapt to the away environment.
This caught Monaco off guard. In just 7 minutes of the game, Velarde, Wijnaldum, Coutinho, Firmino and Mane used a series of tacit passing and cutting cooperation and personal technical breakthroughs to tear apart the competition. After breaking Monaco's defense, Willard finally penetrated Monaco's goal with a powerful shot from the right side of the penalty spot in the penalty area.
Liverpool opened the scoring and led Monaco 1-0 away from home.
Velarde and his teammates were very excited to score the goal so quickly. The entire Stade Louis II seemed quite quiet, with only a small number of Red Army away fans celebrating the goal with Velarde and other players.
Monaco was a bit stunned.
This is their home court.
After finally reaching the semi-finals, I still want to continue my dark horse journey, eliminate Liverpool, advance to the finals, and win the first Champions League championship in team history!
Unexpectedly, they received such a heavy blow in the first 7 minutes of the semi-finals. Now not only were they trailing, but they had allowed Liverpool to score an away goal.
Monaco has no choice. They can only strengthen their offense and use the impact of Mbappe and Falcao to score goals, equalize or even reverse the score.
Tiger Falcao is Europe's top striker, the Europa League Golden Boot, transferred from Atletico Madrid. The 17-year-old Mbappe is a newly emerging genius striker with speed and skills. It is only the first half of the year and he is already about to win the European Golden Boy Award this year. He has already attracted the attention of many European giants.
Monaco's ability to reach the Champions League semi-finals has a major relationship with the performance of these two people. Now that Monaco is lagging behind, everyone hopes that under the leadership of the two of them, they can complete the comeback.
However, no matter how top-notch the striker is, he will only fail in front of Willard. Velarde can not only score goals, but also has his physique, awareness, speed, stamina, and injury resistance, as well as his defensive skills with attributes exceeding 90. It is difficult for either Mbappe or Falcao to get an advantage in front of him. .
Falcao is quite experienced and self-aware. When he saw Velarde appearing in front of him, he immediately passed the ball away and did not give Velarde a chance to get close to steal.
Mbappe, on the other hand, seemed to want to challenge Velarde, the new Golden Globe winner and world superstar. After dribbling the ball past Wijnaldum in the 16th minute, when faced with Velarde's advance, Instead of passing the ball out in time, he made a move to pass the ball, trying to pass Willard.
As a result, someone rushed over from the other side of Velarde's body, but the ball was seen by Velarde, who had 98 awareness. He fell to the ground and tackled the ball decisively, intercepting the ball, and then grabbed it back without waiting for Mbappe to turn around. , Willard stood up and took the ball to start a counterattack.
It was the counterattack formed by stealing the ball from Mbappe's feet that allowed Liverpool to launch an efficient and quick counterattack. Finally, Coutinho assisted Mane to score Liverpool's second goal.
Halfway through the chase, Mbappe saw a pass from Velarde and gave up on his defense. He could only watch in annoyance as Liverpool passed and moved, and then Mane received Couti on the right side of the penalty area. After Neo's pass, he blasted the ball into the far corner and was unable to do anything.
Presumably, at this time, in his heart, he might be regretting why he didn't pass the ball out in time, but gave Verard a chance to steal the ball and counterattack.
Mbappe is very talented and has a bright future, but he is still a bit immature in front of Velarde. Of course, facing bugs like system plug-ins, not only Mbappe, but no one can do anything about it.
After the score became 2-0, Liverpool did not shrink its defense as in regular games, attract opponents to attack, and then counterattack. Instead, they continued to maintain a high-position press and immediately launched a fierce attack after getting the ball. Indiscriminate bombing of Monaco.
As a team that is not good at controlling the ball, Liverpool's ball possession rate in this game was actually higher than Monaco's, which shows what a strong advantage Liverpool has played.
As for Monaco, if Liverpool shrinks their defense, they will have time and opportunity to adjust their mentality, slowly recover, and then launch their attack again.
However, Liverpool did not give them this opportunity. As a result, the players' mentality collapsed when they were two goals behind. The offensive players wanted to attack quickly, score goals, and equalize the score. The defensive players, on the other hand, are afraid of Liverpool's attack and fear of making another mistake and losing the ball. Once they are pressed by Liverpool, they will immediately pass the ball out.
The result of such inconsistent thinking was that less than half an hour into the game, Liverpool launched a counterattack by stealing the ball in the midfield in the 28th minute. Willard's long shot from outside the penalty area forced the goalkeeper to save the ball. A corner kick was awarded.
It was during this corner kick that Villard attracted most of Monaco's defensive attention. Then Henderson grabbed the spot at the back of the penalty area and headed Coutinho's corner kick into the back of the goal. point, helping Liverpool expand the score to 3-0.
A Champions League semi-final turned out to be a one-sided massacre, and it was Monaco's home court. It was the visiting team Liverpool who wielded the butcher's knife.
This is quite unexpected.
Everyone knows that Monaco is the weakest among the semi-finals. It should be easy for Liverpool, the favorite to win the championship, led by Willard, to beat Monaco, but no one expected it to be this easy. The away game in the first round only lasted half an hour. Three goals ahead.
With this score and the advantage of away goals, if Monaco cannot score a few goals in the remaining games, the suspense of the second round will basically end early.
Therefore, when the number of goals conceded reached three, Monaco unified their thinking, and the whole team united to press forward and began a massive counterattack.
After knowing how powerful Willard is, Mbappe no longer dares to challenge Willard. He will only make a personal breakthrough when Willard is not available. Once Willard appears nearby, pass the ball quickly.
In the 37th minute, Monaco finally made a threatening attack. Finally, Bernardo Silva assisted Falcao to hit a threatening shot in the penalty area only about ten meters away from the goal.
This ball is very powerful, fast and very threatening. However, the angle of Falcao's shot was too straight. Goalkeeper Mignolet had no time to pounce, but he subconsciously stretched out his foot and just blocked the ball. It flew back to the small penalty area, and then was kicked out of the penalty area by center defender Klavan. Solved.
Because of the presence of Falcao and Mbappe, Monaco's offense occasionally posed a certain threat, but the final blow failed to achieve a breakthrough and failed to score a real goal.
Liverpool, however, created a free kick through a counterattack before the end of the first half.
Then, Velarde made a perfect scimitar kick and sent the ball directly into the dead center of Monaco's goal. Goalkeeper Subasic was beyond reach and could only sigh in despair, helplessly watching the ball go into the net.
Willard scored twice to help Liverpool expand the score to 4-0.
Soon, the first half ended, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 0-4. Liverpool, playing away, temporarily led by four goals.
With this score, if Monaco can't narrow the point difference in the second half, it's true that we don't have to play the second round to know that Monaco will lose, and Liverpool will definitely advance to the final.
