Chapter 370 Liverpool with 22 points in 47 rounds

In the early morning of February 2st, Beijing time, which was also the afternoon of January 1st in London, Chelsea players took a train from London to Liverpool to participate in their most challenging game since the New Year.

The opponent Liverpool has 22 points in 47 league games so far, 3 points more than Manchester City and Chelsea, and is at the top of the Premier League. It can be said that it is quite impressive.

"Brother Yuan!"

While looking for a train, Jiang Yuan met two Chinese people who were also going to Liverpool. Luo Ming and Dong Weihao were both wearing football jerseys, but they were Liverpool jerseys.

When he saw Jiang Yuan for the first time, Luo Ming wanted to pull up his down jacket to cover the Liverpool jersey underneath, but Jiang Yuan had already seen it, so Luo Ming chose to take the initiative to say hello.

Oh?
Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, and motioned Azar to go sit in the carriage first. He then looked up and down at his two fellow countrymen: "Are you here for tourism, or... for international students?"

"International student, Master's degree from UCL"

Sure enough, judging from the way these two guys were dressed and their body postures when they spoke, they must have lived in London for some time.

The issue is……

"I'm a master's degree holder, at least 20 years old. Is it really appropriate for you to call me brother?"

Jiang Yuan looked at the two of them and smiled bitterly. Then he remembered something and touched the beard above his lips: "Is it because I didn't shave that I look older?"

"Hey hey hey, nonono, of course not"

Dong Weihao quickly said: "This has nothing to do with age, Brother Yuan is Brother Yuan!"

"Yes"

Luo Ming nodded repeatedly: "Asia's No. 1 brother!"

God TM Asia's No. 1 Brother, Jiang Yuan almost laughed when he heard the fans call him that. He didn't expect that he would have such a status.

"You are Liverpool fans, right? Are you going to watch the game today too?"

Luo Ming and Dong Weihao were both wearing Liverpool jerseys, and looked like the kind of people who would travel together to watch a game in another city. As expected, they nodded after hearing Jiang Yuan's question, but they were quite embarrassed at this time.

Suddenly I met the idol I had been following for a long time, and today my favorite team happened to be standing opposite my idol, which also led to a question.

Jiang Yuan said jokingly: "Haha, are you going to tell me to reduce the gas later?"

"Of course not, let's work hard together."

Luo Ming has a high EQ and immediately changed the subject: "Brother Yuan, Brother Hao and I went to all your home games in London this season. We even cheered for you in the game against Liverpool. God... God is my witness!"

Luo Ming pointed to the sky with one hand, then suddenly remembered something. He shouted "wait a minute" three times and took off his North Face down jacket.

"No, what are you doing?"

Jiang Yuan stretched out his hand to stop him. Damn, it's the end of January in London now, and it's snowing at night. Taking off your down jacket in this open air environment, isn't it just making yourself uncomfortable?

Unexpectedly, Luo Ming not only took off his down jacket, but also took off the Liverpool player jersey he was wearing.

"Brother Yuan, can you give me an autograph?"

Luo Ming covered his chest with one hand and handed over the jersey with the other hand. Jiang Yuan hurriedly took it and went to the carriage to borrow a pen from Brown.

"Just stand with your back to me, there's no need to take off your clothes..."

Jiang Yuan turned the Liverpool jersey in his hand over to the back, and then suddenly froze.

There is a big number 7 written on the back of the jersey, but Milner's name is not on the number.

It's Jiang Yuan.

"This, what is this?"

Jiang Yuan stared at Luo Ming and Dong Weihao with his innocent eyes. The two guys blushed and said with an embarrassed look: "It just so happens that I am wearing this today."

As he spoke, Dong Weihao also took off his down jacket, turned around and showed his Liverpool jersey.

Same number 7, same Jiang Yuan.

Invincible!
Jiang Yuan wrote his signature on the number 7, and then rubbed his hands on the hem of the shirt. The fabric of the player version of the jersey was generally rough. If his name hadn't appeared on the Liverpool jersey, Jiang Yuan might have thought it was an authentic one: "Is it from Putian?"

"Yes, you can print whose name you want."

After Jiang Yuan signed, Dong Weihao turned around and pointed at Luo Ming who was standing next to him: "This idiot printed Messi's name on Real Madrid's shirt before."

While Dong Weihao was talking, Luo Ming put on his clothes again. He put on his down jacket while being naked in the upper half. The cold clothes touched his skin, making Luo Ming let out a "hissing" sound.

Although it was a bit cold, Luo Ming's achievement today was still very amazing. He directly asked Jiang Yuan to write his signature on the authentic Liverpool jersey in Putian. I just don't know if anyone will recognize this signature.

Of course, this is not a problem. Luo Ming took out his iPhone and asked Jiang Yuan for a photo.

At this point, the pirated jerseys have successfully been promoted to the level of authentic ones.

"Um, Brother Yuan, I want to ask about Lexiong Ish. Can you tell me why you want to acquire Lexiong Ish?"

Dong Weihao wanted to take advantage of today's opportunity to learn some "inside information", but Jiang Yuan did not answer Dong Weihao's question. Instead, he pointed to a screen in the middle of the aisle and said, "It will start in 5 minutes. Hurry up!"

"Ah, oh oh! Brother Yuan, see you at the court. We'll cheer for you!"

……

2:1 a.m. on February 4st, Beijing time.

"China Media Group, China Media Group, this is the live broadcast of the 2016rd round of the 17-23 Premier League, Liverpool's home game against Chelsea. This game will be commented on by He Wei and Huang Jianxiang."

"The players from both teams are ready in the player tunnel. The venue for today's match is Liverpool's Anfield Stadium. Today's Anfield is still packed."

As He Wei was speaking, the director's camera turned to the LCD screen at the top of the stadium, which displayed the current number of people on the field.

61, 658
As one of the top stadiums in the Premier League, Anfield has a total of 61000 seats. This number of seats itself is already very exaggerated, but Liverpool is still not satisfied and insists on taking into account the players, coaching staff, stadium security and other staff on the field. As a result, for a stadium with 61000 people, the number of people is close to 62000.

In the player tunnel, Jiang Yuan and Mane briefly greeted each other. They had played against Liverpool last season, and Mane's breakthrough on the wing left a deep impression on Jiang Yuan. As early as yesterday afternoon's training, Mourinho emphasized to the players that Chelsea players should pay special attention to Mane and Coutinho.

As for which road should be defended mainly, Mourinho's original words were: Both roads should be defended mainly.

It is said that Chelsea's wing attack is very strong, but after William was injured, the Liverpool wing composed of Mane and Coutinho is even stronger than Chelsea in pure offensive ability!

"Beep!"

"Okay, with the referee's whistle, the game officially begins. Let me introduce the starting lineups for both teams. First up is Liverpool, the home team, wearing red jerseys, attacking from the right side of the screen to the left side."

Liverpool (4-3-3)

Goalkeeper: Mignolet

Defenders: Clyne, Matip, Lovren, Milner
Midfielders: Wijnaldum, Henderson, Emre Can

Forwards: Mane, Firmino, Coutinho

Head coach: Klopp

"Then it's Chelsea. After the contract of the original right-back Ivanovic expired, Aké has now become the team's assistant right-back. This player performed very well in Chelsea's last game against Brentford."

"Coach Huang, who do you think will win this match?"

"Although Chelsea won the league championship last season, I am more interested in Liverpool because Liverpool's overall performance this season is indeed very good. Compared with the extremely serious two-point division in Chelsea, the overall strength of each team in Liverpool is more balanced."

"That's true, but today is a strong match between the first and third teams in the league. The result will depend on the specific situation of the game."

At the beginning of the game, Liverpool made the same decision as Brentford, that is, to use the kick-off opportunity to catch Chelsea off guard. However, Zouma and Terry were in good form today, and the two worked together to squeeze Firmino out, so Liverpool's quick attack was not successful.

"shit..."

Mourinho breathed a sigh of relief. Now all the football clubs in England know that Chelsea is slow to warm up. Whether it is Liverpool or Brentford, the coaches of both sides want to take advantage of this characteristic of Chelsea.

"Just go, just go!"

Seeing Zouma and Kante cooperate in the backcourt and bypass Firmino, Mourinho outside the field hurriedly shouted, signaling the team to launch a quick counterattack. Kante did not stand there stupidly, he took the ball and turned around and began to observe.

The vision of top midfielders is very exaggerated. Just like Kante, the French midfielder can capture the positions of teammates and opponents in front of him in an extremely short time and make choices at the same time.

Liverpool knew the horror of Chelsea's counterattack, so they didn't just stand there. Henderson and Emre Can ran out, one was responsible for Kante and the other was responsible for Pogba.

Kante was originally planning to make a long pass, but Henderson's passing angle was compressed, causing Kante to not choose to pass the ball at the first time. Jiang Yuan, who was on the offside line in the frontcourt, had just started, but stopped after seeing this scene.

"Here, move, move!"

Azpilicueta ran out from the left sideline and cut diagonally to the middle from behind Kante. Kante stepped on the ball and pulled it to the right, directly passing the ball to Azpilicueta in a very good position.

"Very good, hand it over to Azpilicueta and see how Chelsea is going to deal with this attack"

"Emre Can gave up Pogba and began to press Azpilicueta who was dribbling the ball! Oh, I have to say that the ability of these two Chelsea full-backs to participate in the attack is really strong"

"Pogba finds an open space and runs in front of Azpilicueta. Now Pogba is unmarked. Azpilicueta can choose to pass the ball. Should he pass the ball?"

"A through ball! A beautiful, very accurate through ball, Pogba takes the ball and pushes towards Liverpool's goal, Chelsea's attacking line is running forward"

"But Liverpool's defense is really cautious."

As He Wei said, Liverpool's 433 formation of wing defense is really well executed. This is a special design made by Klopp based on the size characteristics of Chelsea players. Jiang Yuan is more threatening than Falcao, so Liverpool adopted a 1+1 defense against Jiang Yuan, with one defensive player sticking to Jiang Yuan's body and the other defensive player always keeping a distance of 2 to 5 meters from Jiang Yuan. If the acceleration is not fast enough, then use distance to make up for it.

Pogba was dribbling the ball in front of him. Wijnaldum looked at Pogba and looked back every three steps to confirm Jiang Yuan's position. When Pogba wanted to pass the ball to Jiang Yuan, Wijnaldum made direct contact with Jiang Yuan and grabbed Jiang Yuan's pectoralis major with his left hand. The calluses on the Dutchman's hands and the muscles pressed on Jiang Yuan's chest, causing Jiang Yuan's nipples to ache.

He really wanted to fall to the ground and get a free kick, but the position was not very good, so Jiang Yuan finally chose to give up.

I can only put my nipples aside for now!
"gogogo!"

Ibrahimovic gestured to Falcao and at the same time returned to defense to support Pogba. Faced with Ibrahimovic who suddenly left, Matip did not choose to follow him, because he was afraid that Jiang Yuan would suddenly rush in after he left, which would be really troublesome.

The retreating Ibrahimovic stopped the ball, and the returning Emre Can arrived in time to prevent Ibrahimovic from suddenly taking a long shot.

It would definitely not work to force a shot at the goal while being closely guarded. Ibrahimovic kicked the ball with his heel and the ball returned to Pogba's feet.

Pogba didn't stop the ball and passed it straight to the right side of the penalty area. Ake caught the ball, took a look at the back post and made a cross.

"Chelsea made a cross from the right side, but there were no teammates in the penalty area, so Ake passed it to the back post."

It was originally thought that Jiang Yuan would not be able to find an open crotch under the defense of two people, but Jiang Yuan managed to deceive Klein with a fake move and gained a relatively spacious position for himself.

At this time, Jiang Yuan had two choices, a reverse triangle pass and a direct shot. Between the two, Jiang Yuan chose to shoot directly.

"Jiang Yuan, kick him in mid-air!"

"Mignolet!"

"Hey, the ball goes in! The ball goes in!"

"GOOOOOO-AAAAAAAAA-LLLLLL!!!"

"It was a goal from Jiang Yuan. In the 4th minute of the game, Chelsea, who played away, scored the first goal! The goal was scored by Jiang Yuan!"

He Wei's face turned red as he spoke.

There are many differences between Chelsea this season and last season, but there are also many similarities.

For example, in this kind of counterattack, compared with traditional counterattack teams, Chelsea has fewer counterattacks, but because there are several players with exaggerated finishing abilities in the frontcourt, Chelsea's counterattack goals are not less than those of traditional counterattack teams.

For example, the shot that Jiang Yuan just made from the edge of the penalty area and volleyed the ball might not have been scored if it was taken by any other team.

Azpilicueta was still hiding behind, preparing to receive the return pass, but he didn't expect Jiang Yuan to pass the ball directly. So he didn't hesitate, and ran straight to Jiang Yuan, put his hands on Jiang Yuan's shoulders, and shouted:
VAMOS!!!

Bang bang bang bang!
"Chelsea!"

Boom!

"Jiang!"

Bang bang bang!
On the Anfield Road stands, more than 9100 away fans shouted. Although their voices were soon drowned out by the home team fans' chorus of the team song, to be honest, the Chelsea fan expeditionary army was already very impressive to be able to create such momentum on the road.

In the camera, Jiang Yuan put his hands under Ake's armpits, lifted his new teammate up and put him down again. After the game, he did not forget to give a thumbs up to the fans in the visiting team's stands.

5' Jiang
"Verdammter Mist!"

Jurgen Klopp, who was standing in front of the bench, shook his hands angrily, even speaking in his native language, which also showed that he was very dissatisfied with the team's goal loss.

"Emre, what are you FUCKING doing?"

After taking over as the coach of Liverpool, Klopp began to actively learn English. In addition to the weekly one-on-one language classes, Klopp also watched "Friends" at home. Because he learned English through the funny American TV series, the words Klopp said were very simple, which did not match the seriousness of the Germans.

As for why he had to speak English to Emre Can, who is German, it was a matter of habit. In order to make it easier for the players to understand, Klopp spoke English during training and games. Only when chatting with Emre Can in private did Klopp speak a few words of German.

The game time reached the 18th minute. Logically, the team that scored first could try to control the tempo of the game, but Chelsea's opponent today was Liverpool. Jiang Yuan and Hazard tried to make some simple changes in rhythm during the attack.

This variation worked in the previous match against Brentford, but Liverpool obviously didn't buy it. No matter how Jiang Yuan and Hazard changed, they would immediately follow suit, leaving Chelsea no chance to steal the ball.

22 minutes.

"Mane's attack on Liverpool is very strong and it is difficult for Kante to deal with Mane. Jiang Yuan comes back to help."

"Hiss, Liverpool's attack is advancing very quickly. Although Jiang Yuan is chasing Mane, because Mane has many passing points, Jiang Yuan is actually unable to pose an effective threat to Mane. Let's take a look at this ball..."

Just as the commentator said, if Chelsea's defensive players could not keep an eye on Coutinho and Firmino, Jiang Yuan's pursuit would be ineffective. When he was about to reach the baseline, Mane and Ederson who followed him made a two-pass combination, bypassing Azpilicueta and reaching the baseline.

Compared with crossing, Mane prefers to use his advantage in physical strength to create opportunities. At the bottom line of Chelsea's left side, Mane tapped the ball with his right foot and started cutting inside.

Azpilicueta reached out and tried to pull Mane back, but failed.

"Chelsea's defense retreated very tightly, let's see if Mane is going to take a long shot himself"

"Mane! Hit... didn't choose to shoot, Mane didn't choose to shoot, but passed the ball to Coutinho who came in from the left, and Coutinho passed the ball to the middle."

"Firmino!"

"Stick your feet out!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"Gooooaaaaaalllllll"

“Firmino!”

"Roberto Firmino!"

Unlike Chelsea's goal in the 4th minute, the commentator shouted extra loudly after Firmino scored, which really made the home team look very proud.

"Fuck you shit!"

"Why!?"

Courtois spread his hands to Zouma: "You should have been in front of him. You just let him run over like this?"

In the eyes of the Belgian goalkeeper, it was not a problem for Zouma, such a strong defender, to block Firmino, but he overlooked a crucial thing, that is, Zouma's ability to change direction. Chelsea had one fast and one slow player, the fast one Jiang Yuan was killing everyone in the front, and the slow Zouma was starting to take the blame in the back.

"My fault!"

Zouma knew he was in the wrong, so he took the initiative to come over and high-five Courtois: "It's okay, it's okay, we can win, we will definitely win"

"Fuck!"

Courtois roared in frustration. He was really frustrated this season. There were basically few games where he could keep a scoreline against his opponents. Even in the last round of the FA Cup against Championship team Brentford, Chelsea still conceded a goal.

The goal was very sudden, but Mourinho saw it very clearly from the sidelines. Chelsea's goal loss can be said to be an inevitable result. From the kick-off to now, Liverpool has basically been better. If it weren't for Terry's outstanding performance, Liverpool might have scored 2 goals by now.

"Watch your position, mark the man when defending, and don't watch the ball!"

"People, look at people!"

"come over!"

Mourinho shouted to the field that he had given up on treating Pogba, and the key to the right defense was still Ake. Ake was also pitiful, having to bear such a great defensive pressure just after returning from the loan.

The full-back kept running towards the middle to fill the space left by the defensive midfielder. Chelsea is the only team in the Premier League that plays like this.

While Liverpool players were celebrating, Mourinho called Ake, Pogba and Falcao off the field and emphasized the defensive issues.

Although Coutinho is small and does not seem to pose any threat, his positioning and long-range shots are absolutely first-class.

"walk alone through the rain"

"though you dreams be tossed and blown~"

"Walk on, Walk on, with hope in your heart~"

"and you'll never walk alone!"

"You'll never walk alone!"

"..."

The song that sounded in the stands of Anfield Stadium was Liverpool's team anthem "You Will Never Walk Never". As one of the most historic and prestigious teams in the Premier League, this Liverpool team anthem is well known to countless football fans.

It has meaning, rhythm and momentum, so it's no wonder that this song is sung by fans.

With the blessing of the home court, the home team players cooperated with the coach to launch a powerful attack on Chelsea. Not long after the song sounded, Coutinho's direct free kick at the top of the penalty area accelerated and had a good angle. Fortunately, Zouma's head is better than that of ordinary people, and Coutinho's almost perfect free kick hit the Frenchman's temple directly.

It was a little painful, but fortunately no goal was scored in the end.

At 45 minutes and 02 seconds, the fourth official gave the extra time for the first half.

1'
There were a lot of physical confrontations, but unless it was an obvious ankle step or a pull, Clattenburg would not care. With fewer fouls, the added time would also be reduced.

Chelsea's players were very smart. When Pogba saw that there was one minute of stoppage time, he immediately called Kante. The two of them rushed forward at the same time, double-teaming the player from both sides. Kante pushed and headed, and directly snatched the ball from Emre Can's feet.

Snapped!
Kante passed the ball to Pogba, who then made a straight pass to Hazard. The Belgian superstar swung his legs and began to accelerate forward. Hazard was looking directly at Matip in front of him, but his peripheral vision kept glancing to the left.

On the left, that's where Jiang is!

……

(End of this chapter)