green waist king

Chapter 522 Don't even try to run away!
On August 8, the Liverpool team went to south London to play an away game at Selhurst Park in the second round of the Premier League against Crystal Palace.

This is also the last game of the second round of the Premier League.

In addition to spending 965 million pounds to introduce Sheku Kouyat, the Senegalese midfielder from West Ham United, Crystal Palace ended the summer window's signing plan ahead of schedule in this summer transfer window.

However, no media criticized Crystal Palace. Instead, they used Crystal Palace to criticize Tottenham chairman Levy's stinginess.

Because for a team in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League like Crystal Palace, they are struggling to survive almost every season for relegation.

Although Crystal Palace invested less this season, Crystal Palace defeated the newly promoted Fulham, who had just been promoted from the British Championship, 2-0 away in the first round opener, and made a good start to the season.

This match between the host and the weak and the strong guest has received little attention, and there is basically no suspense about winning or losing.

Because Crystal Palace has never won two consecutive victories in the opening stages of the Premier League in recent years, the media is unanimously optimistic about Liverpool, which has just won the European Super Cup.

This is indeed the case. Even if Klopp rotated Moyang, Ibrahimovic, Salah and others in this game, winning the game was relatively easy.

Less than 2 minutes into the game, Firmino triggered a halo of luck in front of the goal.

Mane on the right dribbled the ball into the penalty area and then sent an inverted triangle pass back. Firmino, who outflanked the penalty spot on the left, made a hasty push and kicked it.

But the ball came to the foot of Ruota at the left goalpost by some strange circumstances, allowing Ruota to easily hit the goal with his heel and made a fantastic start.

After Salah was replaced in the second half, Arnold inserted a long-term assist from the side. Salah made continuous breakthroughs in a small area in the penalty area to rewrite the score to 2-0.

Klopp didn't replace Mo Yang until the last 5 minutes to let Mo Yang warm up.

This season Klopp is very clear that his opponent in the Premier League is still Manchester City.

Because in the match between Manchester City and Huddersfield that just ended yesterday, Manchester City scored an even more terrifying score.

6-0!Blood massacre Ha Town!
In the two rounds of the league, Manchester City scored 8 goals and did not concede a goal.

Klopp watched that game, and he was silent after watching it.

After introducing Bai Lele, a 194cm striker with absolute sprint speed, who can hit both sides and hit the target, Manchester City can not only bloom more in the frontcourt this season, but also play positional battles with vigor and vibrancy.

After Manchester City scored two goals in the first half, Harttown put up a dense defense.

Then Aguero's substitute Bai Lele came on the stage. Within 10 minutes, he was fed by De Bruyne and Silva in turn, creating threats in front of Harbin's goal. Finally, he pushed in one and assisted Stein. Im one.

If it weren't for the activation of Sterling's happy attribute, he was happy a few times, and the score would definitely not be 6-0.

The changes in Manchester City and Guardiola made Klopp wary.

Therefore, in terms of player physical fitness planning, he and the coaching team have formulated a more stringent plan.

Four days later, on August 8, the third round of the Premier League kicked off.

The first game is Wolves vs. Manchester City.

Like the match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace, apart from Wolves fans, few outsiders are optimistic about Wolves. The only difference is that Wolves will lose a few goals.

Guardiola also rotated several players in this game, such as Manchester City's super-core midfielder De Bruyne.

But the result after 90 minutes slapped everyone in the face.

Manchester City was besieged by a pack of wolves at the beginning of the game. Although they had the initiative in the game, they were still unable to break through the Wolves' goal.

On the contrary, the Wolves, who threatened Manchester City's goal one after another, seized the opportunity in a frontcourt set kick in the 60th minute of the second half. Wolves' central defender Boli sent the ball into Manchester City's goal in front of the goal.

However, there is a handball controversy about this ball. Since the introduction of the var technology that shined in the World Cup this year in the Premier League is still in progress, the referee Oliver cannot accurately judge whether Boli is handball, so the goal is valid.

This goal also completely intensified the game.

Then the Manchester City army came under pressure, while the Wolves turned into wolves and kept counterattacking behind Manchester City, but time passed bit by bit, but the goal was delayed.

In the 75th minute of the game, the unbearable Guardiola replaced both De Bruyne and Bai Lele.

De Bruyne replaced Gundogan, and Bai Lele replaced the right winger B seat who was not in good shape in this game.

The effect of this substitution was immediate.

Just two points later, Bai Lele showed her absolute speed and super strong body at the Wolves' home court.

He pushed all the way from the backcourt along the wing and then began to cut in. After attracting the Wolves' troops to encircle and suppress, he suddenly poked his toe and the ball reached De Bruyne's feet.

De Bruyne made an easy shot from the left side of the top of the arc!
But after this goal, Manchester City's shot was still a bit meaningless.

In the end, the Wolves and Manchester City shook hands 1-1, which surprised countless people.

Klopp was very surprised when he learned the result of the game. He did not expect that Manchester City would fall behind just after the first three rounds of the league.

Before that, he always thought that Manchester City would fall behind after the start of the Champions League group stage.

In the end, I did not expect a great gift from heaven.

Between this win and one loss, Liverpool got a precious two-point difference.

Don't underestimate these two points. Klopp still remembers that they were tortured by Manchester City's one or two points for half a season last season.

Guardiola's face was a bit ugly at the post-match media conference. He said one thing and did not make excuses for the team's loss, but his words revealed that the World Cup had too much impact on the players.

This is indeed the case. Affected by the World Cup year, the Premier League giants with many international players actually did not perform as energetically as they did last season in these three rounds.

For example, Manchester United and Tottenham, their opponents in the first round were not strong, but they both won their opponents with a score of 2-1. The game situation was even very thrilling.

However, Klopp's smile stopped abruptly within a day, and he was punished.

It's hard evidence that sometimes laughing too early isn't a good thing either.

On August 8, Liverpool faced their opponents in the third round at Anfield. They were fifth from last last season. It was not until the last few rounds of the league that they were lucky enough to struggle out of the relegation quagmire, Brighton.

In this game, Liverpool can be said to be the main force, but the offense is very popular, but there is no goal.

On the one hand, it is because of the super performance of Brighton goalkeeper Ryan.

On the other hand, it is because Mane, Salah, Firmino, and even Ibrahimovic, Jota, and Shaqiri, who were replaced in 60 minutes of the second half, are all frantically wasting the offense organized by Moyang.

These six people took turns to play how happy football should be played.

In the final stage of the game, Mo Yang, who was shown to be a little autistic by Happy Football, did it himself.

But under the influence of anxiety, Mo Yang's long-range shots and breakthroughs were also not very effective under Brighton's intensive defense.

In the end, Liverpool was tied 0-0 by Brighton at home, and their jaw dropped again.

At the media conference after the game, Mo Yang and Klopp unanimously stated that their luck was too bad.

This time it was Guardiola's turn to smile.

Knowing that Liverpool was tied by Brighton at home, Guardiola twitched with joy.

In Guardiola's view, Liverpool is a little worse than them.

They were tied in an away game, playing No.9 last season, while Liverpool was at home, and their opponent was the fifth-to-last relegation team.

Unexpectedly, the two points lost came back in a blink of an eye, which had to make Guardiola feel at ease.

The media did not criticize too much for the defeat of the two giants, Manchester City and Liverpool.

Because the media is very clear how insignificant these two draws are in the long Premier League season.

(End of this chapter)