Time has entered 2018, and it has also entered the year of the World Cup in Russia. The World Cup is getting closer and closer.
On January 1st, Willard added the remaining 20 skill points to "Inverse Foot" and "Speed", and the skill attributes changed to:
Host: Alan Willard
Nationality: Argentina
Club: Liverpool
Level: 54
Skill points: 0
Defense: 94
Physique: 100
Awareness: 100
Speed: 98
Headers: 97
Technology: 100
Shots: 100
Passes: 95
Inverse foot: 95
Goalkeeping: 30
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On the first day of New Year's Day, when everyone else was celebrating New Year's Day, Liverpool had to continue playing and played an away game against Burnley in the 22nd round of the Premier League.
The schedule has been tight recently. In order to allow fans to watch games during the New Year's Day holiday, the Premier League arranged four games on New Year's Day, with a total of eight teams, including Liverpool.
Liverpool will play two games in three days. They will play Leicester City on the 30th and Burnley on the 1st. It is also an away game. It is even snowing and the weather is very cold. Everyone should be full of resentment. But it happened that Manchester City was tied in the last round, which allowed the Liverpool players to see the possibility of overtaking the points and climbing to the top of the list. Everyone immediately became energetic, even after playing two games in three days.
At 16:00 in the afternoon, the 22nd round of the 2017/2018 Premier League season between Burnley and Liverpool officially started amid flying snowflakes.
Liverpool has the motivation to compete, and Burnley is not bad either. They are currently ranked seventh in the Premier League and have the possibility of competing for European qualifications, so Burnley also wants to score points at home. It may not be possible, but at least you have to try hard!
Coupled with the weather, it was actually a bit difficult for Liverpool to play in this game. Even Willard fell twice during the game.
However, Willard's strength is so comprehensive that even if the sports battle is affected, he can still score goals through set pieces.
In the 43rd minute, when the first half was about to end, the Burnley fans at home thought that their team could enter the halftime break with a 0-0 tie with Liverpool. Burnley midfielder Jack... Koke tripped Salah, who was dribbling the ball, and was called for a foul, giving Liverpool a well-positioned free kick opportunity.
Willard did not waste the opportunity created by Salah, and directly sent the ball into the upper left corner of the Burnley goal with a full-moon scimitar. Goalkeeper Pope was beyond his reach and could only sigh in despair.
Liverpool finally took the lead.
After fifteen minutes of intermission, the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half. Liverpool, which had already taken the lead, was much more comfortable in the fight. As for Burnley, because of their league ranking, they still want to try to gain points, even if it's just 1 point from a draw, that's good.
With only one goal behind, Burnley stepped up its offense in the second half in an attempt to equalize the score. However, due to the presence of Willard and Van Dijk, Burnley's offense was basically in vain and failed to score even a single goal. Goal.
Liverpool, however, took advantage of the opportunity to counterattack in the second half to win two consecutive games, and finally defeated their opponent 3-0 away from home. They escaped from Burnley's home court and got off to a good start in the first game of 2018.
Unfortunately, the opponent Manchester City did not make any mistakes in this round and also won.
Four days later, on January 5, Liverpool sat at home and faced the challenge of Everton in the third round of the FA Cup.
From this point on, Liverpool will begin fighting on four fronts.
Fortunately, Liverpool's personnel are relatively well-organized, mainly due to the introduction of Van Dijk, coupled with Willard's physical advantage in both offense and defense, which reduces the physical pressure and injury risk of other players, coupled with Klopp's rotation, it is still Can persevere.
In this game, Liverpool rotated several main players, but Willard was still on the court, which ensured most of Liverpool's offensive and defensive capabilities.
Although Everton fought with all their main players and wanted to eliminate Liverpool and go one step further, Velarde's personal strength was too abnormal. This game was full of flowers, a free kick, a header, a long shot, a penalty kick, and a A shot from the penalty area.
Willard performed five goals and scored all Liverpool's goals alone, helping Liverpool to a 5-0 bloodbath over Everton and advance to the next round of the FA Cup.
Fighting on the fourth front was tiring, and Liverpool ushered in the EFL Cup semi-finals four days later. Moreover, unlike the finals and previous knockout rounds, the semi-finals of the EFL Cup will be played over two legs, home and away.
Fortunately, the opponent is relatively weak, and is the dark horse Bristol City from the English Championship. In the EFL Cup, they eliminated the Premier League relegated team Watford, the Premier League team Stoke City, the Premier League team Crystal Palace, and the Premier League team. The giant Manchester United made it all the way to the semi-finals, and then met Liverpool led by Willard.
Although Bristol City was able to reach the semi-finals because of their own hard work and good luck, it was also due to their opponents being careless and not paying attention to the EFL Cup. But now that they have entered the semi-finals, if they win, they can enter the finals and compete for the championship. Liverpool will definitely not let go.
No one would object to having too many championships. Just like Bayern Munich, they are the Bundesliga champions every year, but they still fight and strive for them every year, wishing they could always be their champions.
Liverpool will also rotate before reaching the semi-finals, so it won't hurt if they are eliminated. But we have already reached the semi-finals, and there are only two or three games left before the championship, so both Klopp and the players must go all out.
In addition, the schedule of the two-leg home and away matches in the English League Cup semi-finals is to ensure that the strong teams can advance to the finals. Even if an accident occurs in the first round of the semi-finals, there will still be a second round to save the defeat.
This determines that the possibility of Bristol City still wanting to upset Liverpool is almost zero.
At 19:45 on the evening of January 9, 2018, the first leg of the 2017/2018 EFL Cup semi-finals between Liverpool and Bristol City officially started at Anfield Stadium.
Although the opponent is very weak, Liverpool is doing very well now and the fans are very enthusiastic about watching the game. In addition, it is already the semi-finals, so the attendance rate is still very impressive, reaching more than 90%, which is close to full capacity.
After the game started, Liverpool sent out all its main players and launched a fierce attack on Bristol City, its opponent from the British Championship, from the beginning of the game. The purpose is of course to kill all the suspense of the game in the first round, so that the main players can take turns in the second round to save physical and psychological pressure.
Although Bristol City worked very hard and wanted to continue to advance to the final with an upset, but in the away game against the Red Army Liverpool who went all out, they still suffered a big defeat due to the gap in strength.
Even if Bristol City set up a bus and iron barrel formation, they could not stop the Red Army's indiscriminate bombardment.
In the 8th minute, Liverpool played an exquisite pass-and-cut coordination. Velarde took a long shot outside the penalty area, which attracted two defensive players to fly to block the hole of the gun. As a result, Velarde faked the shot and passed the ball to the left side of the penalty area. In the gap between the ribs.
Mane rushed into the penalty area from the left and took a shot. This completely panicked the opponent's defender and goalkeeper. No one thought that Mane would fake the move. The goalkeeper flew directly towards the near corner, and the defender also flew to block the hole of the gun.
As a result, Mane also faked his shot. Instead of shooting, he made a cross pass and passed the ball to the back of the small penalty area. The goalkeeper who had already jumped out desperately watched Salah inserting into the penalty area from the right. He pushed the ball ahead of the defender to clear the ball and easily pushed the ball into most of the empty goal.
Liverpool leads 1-0.
Such a combination of frequent passes and cuts with fake moves left Bristol City's goalkeeper and defenders helpless and helpless. Looking at the celebrating Red Army members, even though they were only one goal behind, the Bristol City players already knew this. They are probably going to lose the two-leg EFL Cup semi-final.
It is no longer possible to defeat Liverpool in an upset and advance to the finals to compete for the championship.
This is also true. Although they were able to make it to the semi-finals, Bristol City's players worked really hard, were very willing to fight, and were willing to sacrifice their lives to plug the hole. However, the gap in strength was too big, and sometimes they were too willing to fight. For Willard, a master of free kicks, he is still at a disadvantage.
In the end, after 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 5-0. Liverpool not only won the game with a big score, but also ended the suspense in the two rounds.
Among them, Willard scored two free kicks and a long shot, scoring another hat trick.
For Velarde, scoring goals now, and scoring two or three in a game, is normal. A game that requires a clean sheet and no goals for Velarde will make the news.
