Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 261 Victory is the Best Medicine
In the 9th round of the Premier League, the Red Army Liverpool led by Klopp narrowly drew Tottenham 4-4 at Wembley, ushering in another draw in the strong dialogue this season. In this game, the Liverpool team was in poor form. Especially obvious is the team's defense general Lovren.

The Croatian made two consecutive mistakes in the first 16 minutes of the game, giving the opponent two excellent chances to score goals, causing Liverpool to fall behind early. Chamberlain replaced Lovren in 31 minutes.

For Lovren himself, I am afraid that this will be a game that he will never want to recall in his career. After the game, he posted a photo on his personal social media account with "Today is a bad day (Bad day) day today)" graffiti, but then attracted a flood of criticism from fans.

In the end, Lovren didn’t know whether he was out of anger or self-blame, and deleted the ins and his account avatar, and also deleted his personal profile, including "LFC" (the abbreviation of Liverpool Football Club), Finally, he also turned off the comment function of his social account.

Goalkeeper Karius, who also performed poorly, did not perform as fiercely as Lovren, but continued to be a turtle.

In the 10th round of Liverpool's pre-match press conference against Huddersfield, Klopp's approach to the two who performed differently was also different.

Klopp said that the defender Lovren, who performed poorly in the last round, will still start this round.

And Liverpool's starting goalkeeper in this game has become the new England goalkeeper Pickford.

The team's main substitute goalkeeper Karius also lost himself in the face of Tottenham's bombardment. He only made 2 saves and 4 times helplessly fished the ball out of the net. The post-match scoring website whoscored.com Among the scores given, the two ranked the bottom two with 5.4 points and 4.2 points.

Liverpool, which was overtaken by Manchester City in the last round, can no longer afford to lose. This time, Lovren is deployed again, which is bound to cause a lot of criticism for Klopp.

In this regard, Klopp said: "We just had a normal week. Of course it was not a wonderful week in Lovren's life, but this is football. The starting list is for the next game, not the last one. Game after game, all we think about is our best lineup."

Speaking of goalkeeper Karius, Klopp said: "Karius could have done better? Well, the whole team has to take responsibility for the first goal, [-]%. And the second goal is against him. It’s already very difficult, but the change of goalkeeper in this round has been decided long ago.”

10月28日15：00，带着各种非议的红军迎来了2017/18赛季英超第10轮的比赛，在自己的主场，利物浦迎战上轮爆冷战胜曼联的哈德斯菲尔德。

Huddersfield defeated Manchester United at home in the last round.This is the first time the two sides have met in the league since 1972.

利物浦近10战哈德斯菲尔德取得7胜3平保持不败，哈德斯菲尔德上次取胜红军还是1959年，上次客胜利物浦还是1956年。

The two sides have clashed 73 times in history, and Liverpool has 26 wins, 17 draws and 30 losses.

Zhang Mai took a break, Milner's adductor muscle injury was absent, Mane and Chamberlain played in rotation, and Maguire temporarily replaced Lovren, who was injured during the warm-up.

Starting lineups for both sides:
Liverpool: (4-3-3)

13 - Pickford;

66-Arnold, 4-Van Dijk, 3-Maguire, 26-Robertson;
14- Henderson, 15- Chamberlain, 5- Wijnaldum;
11-Salah, 9-Firmino, 19-Mane.

Huddersfield: (4-2-3-1)

1 - Rosier;
2-Tommy Smith, 25-Zanka, 26-Schindler, 15-Loew;

6-Hogg, 19-Williams;

22-Ince, 10-Muyi, 17-Van Lapara;

20 - De Poitre

Before the game, the audience and players from both sides observed a moment of silence for Remembrance Day. Zhang Mai on the bench is also used to it, because the UK does this every year.

The game started after the referee blew the whistle. Liverpool did not dare to neglect the visiting team Huddersfield, and launched a stormy attack at the beginning.

In the 7th minute, Chamberlain made a pass from the right, and Firmino shot the ball from a small angle from a far point and went above the crossbar.

In the 12th minute, Firmino passed the ball, and Salah cut in from the right side of the penalty area and shot into Rosel's arms.

In the 27th minute, Henderson passed the ball this time, and Chamberlain's volley from the left side of the penalty area was also confiscated by Rossell.

Liverpool missed the opportunity in the 42nd minute. When Tommy Smith defended a corner kick, Firmino was fouled in the penalty area. Salah's lack of angle penalty kick was saved.

Rosl saved Salah's penalty kick, and the Red Army fans in the audience sighed and regretted.

In the 44th minute, Henderson made a supplementary shot from 12 yards in the melee and missed the outside of the left post.

At the end of the first half, the score was still 0-0.
Although the visiting team has been defending and almost never had a decent attack, Liverpool also missed many good opportunities.

In the second half, the two sides changed places to fight again, Liverpool's offensive continued unabated, and Huddersfield still had to resist with all their strength.

Liverpool finally broke the deadlock in the 50th minute. Robertson made a long pass, Tommy Smith made a header error, and Mane shot into the net in front of the small penalty area, 1-0.

The Red Army, leading by one goal, continued to play offensive football and quickly expanded the score in the 58th minute.

This time it was Wijnaldum who took a corner kick and Firmino scored with a header from close range, 2-0.

Salah, who missed a penalty kick in the front trident, did not score, and the Egyptian is still fighting Huddersfield.

In the 66th minute, Firmino passed the ball, and Salah turned around and shot from the edge of the penalty area. After being blocked by Rosel, he hit the left post and popped out.

In the 74th minute, Maguire headed forward in the corner kick and missed the goal.

In the 79th minute, Salah, who had accepted his fate, passed the ball selflessly. Wijnaldum broke through to the right rib of the penalty area 12 yards and shot into the net from a close angle, 3-0.

In the 81st minute, Klopp arranged for a substitution. The trident in the frontcourt was all replaced, and Sturridge, Solanke and Lallana all played.

Both sides failed to score again in the final minutes, keeping the score 3-0 until the end of the game.

At the same time, the results of several other games in this round of the Premier League have also come out, and Liverpool's league ranking remains unchanged.

Manchester United defeated Tottenham 1-0 at home, barely keeping up with Manchester City and Liverpool, and Tottenham lost to fifth place;
Manchester City narrowly defeated West Brom 3-2 away and continued to rank first in the standings. The other Chelsea and Arsenal have defeated their opponents.

Zhang Mai's 10 goals still rank first in the scorer list, but his 4 assists have been surpassed by Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne's 5 times.

From the perspective of cost performance, Zhang Mai doesn't care much about his personal record in the league. Instead, he is thinking about every Champions League game.

In the system's scoring standard, the scoring value of the Champions League is 10 times that of the Premier League, and Zhang Mai can naturally tell which is more important.

In a few days, it will be the match day of the UEFA Champions League group stage. This time, Liverpool will play against Maribor, the weakest team in Group E, at home. Zhang Mai is still counting on three or four more goals.

Klopp also attaches great importance to this Champions League group match. Zhang Mai and other main players were rested early in order to win Maribor at home.

If Liverpool wins, they can qualify 2 rounds ahead of schedule, which makes Zhang Mai even more troublesome:
How to convince Uncle Zha to let him play in the useless last two rounds of the group stage, you know, one more goal in the Champions League is 1 genius points!

What's more, Zhang Mai still has to chase the best player (Golden Globe) and Golden Boot of this UEFA Champions League. How can he not participate more?

Seeing his teammates happily celebrating the victory on the field, Zhang Mai's mood was particularly tangled...

(End of this chapter)