Chapter 288: Juggling, Hat Trick
Chapter 288: Juggling, Hat Trick · Part 2
Gary Cahill moved ahead to prevent Li Qing from suddenly overtaking from the flank and entering the penalty area. When he saw the ball moving sideways to the middle with Li Qing's body, it was too late to make changes. At the age of 32, his explosive power and starting speed were completely incomparable to his youth, and he... was not a center back with good speed.
Christensen also thought that Li Qing wanted to overtake and enter the penalty area. His running position was to help Li Qing overtake Gary Cahill. It was very passive to wait until Li Qing knocked the ball with his right heel and cut inside to react.
Mane pushed forward at full speed along the left, and Azpilicueta's attention was somewhat distracted, which meant that the pressure of defending Li Qing was completely on Christensen.
Calm down!
Christensen looked at Li Qing who adjusted the ball in front of him with the outside of his right foot, and kept hinting to himself.
This method was very useful in the past, but for some reason, it was useless this time, and he became more and more impatient.
Li Qing changed direction to get away from Gary Cahill and faced Christensen's defense directly. His left and right shoulders kept sinking as his feet quickly circled the ball, making it difficult for Christensen to grasp in which direction Li Qing was going to accelerate and change direction.
"Continuous cycling!"
Andy Gray, the commentator of Sky TV, raised his voice by eight degrees.
Christensen chose to fight and retreat about 35 meters away from the goal, but his steps were a bit messy as he kept retreating. Li Qing had a strong insight and his eyes lit up. He quickly retracted his left foot that circled the ball again, and suddenly pushed the ball forward with the arch of his left foot.
The ball quickly rushed towards Christensen's small goal along the ground. Out of instinct, Christensen put his legs together and wanted to stop the ball under his feet.
But the ball rolled forward too fast, and the speed of his legs closing was obviously slow. By the time he realized that he should pay attention to Li Qing, it was too late.
"Still too young..."
Chelsea coach Conte sighed in his heart and closed his eyes unwillingly.
In fact, when he saw Li Qing use his right heel to knock the ball past Gary Cahill, he already knew the result. No one in the entire Premier League could defend Li Qing one-on-one, let alone a 21-year-old young central defender.
Li Qing quickly alternated his legs and pushed the ground, accelerating from the left side of Christensen's body, which was the left rib gap that he and Gary Cahill saw.
"aoaoaooaoooooo——"
The cheers that erupted over Anfield became a tsunami.
Sky TV commentator Andy Gray's voice rose eight degrees: "Single-handed——"
Gary Cahill turned around and intentionally approached Li Qing, but Li Qing was very smart. He had a change of dribbling the ball to the left front with the outside of his left foot, widening the distance from Gary Cahill.
Right central defender Azpilicueta decisively gave up defending Mane, but when he approached Li Qing, Li Qing had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area, facing the goalkeeper Courtois who was standing in the middle of the small penalty area line and was a little timid.
Li Qing, who was running, raised his left foot 14 meters away from the goal. Azpilicueta did not hesitate and fell to the ground to shovel, obviously wanting to complete the angle blocking before Li Qing completed the shot.
However, ideals are very skinny and reality is very cruel.
Li Qing's raised left foot did not complete the iconic low shot, but rubbed the bottom of the football with the toe of his left foot.
Goalkeeper Courtois rushed to the left as Azpilicueta fell to the ground to block. According to his idea, Azpilicueta's body blocked the near corner and he blocked the far corner.
Perfect cooperation!
However, Li Qing did not take a conventional shot, but used a high-tech left-foot lob. The football flew into the air from the desperate eyes of Azpilicueta who fell to the ground to block and Courtois who fell to the ground to save, and fell to the unguarded empty goal with an obvious parabola...
"It's over!"
This was the idea that Azpilicueta and Courtois had at the same time.
"Goooooooooooooooal——"
The football fell into the snow-white net, and the Sky TV commentator Andy Gray's iconic pull-up sound bombarded countless fans in front of the TV.
"The ball is in! Hat trick——!"
Juli TV commentator Zhan Jun shouted hysterically: "Li Qing received a long pass from Salah and passed Gary Cahill and Christensen successively, facing goalkeeper Courtois and lobbed the ball into the goal! This goal was very exciting! It was exquisite! Another goal that will go down in history!"
"Incredible performance!"
Tianchao 5 commentator He Wei said ecstatically: "Li Qing once again played a hat trick against Chelsea! Just like he made his debut nine months ago, he single-handedly challenged Chelsea's entire defense line! Li Qing is in such a good state! What possibility does Chelsea have to win?"
"From receiving the pass from Salah to lobbing the ball into the goal! The choices made by young player Li Qing in these few seconds were extremely reasonable! I have to say that he once again played a perfect performance!"
Commentary guest Xu Yang said loudly.
Klopp and his assistant Buvac hugged each other excitedly in front of the home team's coaching booth. This goal was certainly directly related to Li Qing's outstanding personal ability, but it was because of listening to the advice of his assistant Buvac that the third goal of the game was achieved!
Li Qing, who scored his third goal in the game, could no longer suppress the violent feeling in his heart. He opened his arms and ran all the way to the KOP stand, which was behind the Chelsea goal. He took off his sweat-stained and grass-smeared jersey, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it to the ground floor stand.
Suddenly, the entire KOP stand became extremely excited, and the loud cheers resounded throughout the stadium.
Klopp's heart skipped a beat when he saw this. He remembered that nine months ago, Li Qing took off his clothes to celebrate his hat trick against Chelsea in his debut, and his two yellow cards turned into one red card. So he turned his head and asked Buvac: "Zeliko, Li hasn't been carded yet, right?"
Buvac shook his head woodenly: "No, what's wrong?"
"That's good!"
It was not until Buvac saw Li Qing taking off his clothes to celebrate the goal that he laughed and scolded: "This little guy is really annoying."
Li Qing celebrated excitedly, and Klopp was no less excited. He threw the hat on his head to the main stand, and then threw his glasses out.
So, the cheers from the fans in the main stand were even louder than those in the KOP stand.
However, Klopp regretted throwing away his glasses. He was nearsighted! Without glasses! He couldn't see clearly!
According to the relevant FIFA regulations, taking off clothes to celebrate a goal will result in a yellow card, but Li Qing, who was innocent, didn't care at all. On the contrary, he raised his fists and showed his sharp muscles.
The live director then gave the disappointed Chelsea stars, cutting through the faces of Hazard, Willian, Kante, Azpilicueta, Morata, Courtois and others, and finally fixed on the head coach Conte.
Chelsea fell behind 0:3 as a guest, and Conte, as the head coach, had to take full responsibility.
If Conte failed to equalize the score before the end of the game, he would definitely be pushed to the forefront by the media.
There were more than ten minutes left, was it possible to equalize?
If you ask Liverpool fans this, they will definitely say: Impossible! We have Li!
If you ask Chelsea fans, their answer will be: Impossible, they have Li!