Chapter 558: Best Start in the Premier League
After the weekend league, the Premier League giants will focus all their attention on the European arena. Except for Arsenal and Chelsea who are focusing on the Europa League, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham are fully committed to the Champions League.
Liverpool's opponent in the third round of the group stage is to challenge Shakhtar Donetsk away, one of the giants of the Ukrainian Super League, and the best springboard for many famous young players to log in to the top five leagues. For example, Manchester City's Fernandinho, Chelsea's William, Arsenal's Mkhitaryan, and Manchester United's Fred all joined the top five European leagues from Shakhtar Donetsk.
Back to the point, Shakhtar Donetsk has the ability now, but it has a slight advantage over the unexpected teams in the top five European leagues, and it is more than two levels weaker against the defending champion Liverpool.
Moreover, Liverpool also has the new World Footballer of the Year and World Cup Golden Ball winner Li Qing as the starting lineup, which is equivalent to being undefeated.
The strength of the two sides is very different. Shakhtar Donetsk will choose to defend conservatively even if it is at home, and the offensive initiative is completely handed over to the defending champion Liverpool.
Even though the Shakhtar Donetsk made targeted deployments before the game and did a very good job in defense in the first ten minutes, the offensive end led by Li Qing was strong and invincible.
Liverpool's first goal was scored by Li Qing assisting Salah, who inserted the attack and Li Qing's fatal through pass was just right. Salah's next shot was very calm, pushing the ball far away to score, helping the team to take the lead away from home.
With the first goal, the second goal became a matter of course. Li Qing scored a long shot, and the scoreboard showed from 0:1 to 0:2, with the home team in front and the away team behind.
The home team Shakhtar Donetsk, who were two goals behind, tried to press out to attack, but unfortunately the more the formation moved forward, the greater the problem exposed. Before the end of the first half, Li Qing's iconic Thousand Miles Alone scored his second goal of the game, and the scoreboard showed 0:3.
And this score was also the final score of the game.
Li Qing, who scored two goals and made an assist, naturally became the best player on the spot. The two goals also slapped the faces of those media who questioned his decline in form. Of course, those media did not care about these, on the contrary, they expected more and more slaps in the face.
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After the Champions League, Liverpool will play against Cardiff City at home this weekend. Such an opponent obviously cannot pose any threat to Liverpool, the top team in the Premier League. It can even be said that this level of team cannot arouse Li Qing's interest. A goal and an assist helped Liverpool beat the visiting Cardiff City 3:0 and harvest the lowest consumption.
The unbeaten league came to the 64th round, and it is one step closer to the 104-round unbeaten league created by the Romanian giants Steaua Bucharest.
Chelsea and Manchester City failed to pose a threat to Liverpool in the 7th and 8th rounds of the league. Naturally, no media or fans would doubt that Liverpool would capsize at home in this match against Cardiff City at home, so defeating Cardiff City was a matter of course and there was no surprise.
Surprisingly, Crystal Palace drew 2:2 with Arsenal coached by Emery at home. The most watched focus battle in the 10th round of the 2018-2019 Premier League was Tottenham's home game against Manchester City. With Sterling's lore, Manchester City beat Tottenham 1:0 away and maintained the pressure of league points on Liverpool.
In the middle of the week, there was the League Cup. Liverpool was a guest to challenge Derby County coached by Lampard. Although Liverpool did not send most of its main players, its overall advantage could not be ignored. The post-00 young player Brewster and Feng Shui striker Origi each scored a goal, defeating Derby County 2:1 away and advancing to the quarterfinals of this season's League Cup.
After playing the League Cup match with Derby County, Klopp's team is ready to challenge Arsenal in the 11th round of the league at the Emirates Stadium.
If Liverpool can beat Arsenal away, then Liverpool will create another new record.
The best start in the European League!
The teams that created the best winning streak in the league before were Roma and Bayern Munich. Roma in the 2013-2014 season and Bayern in the 2014-2015 season had created a ten-game winning streak.
It is expected that Liverpool will tie the winning streak records of Roma and Bayern after defeating Chelsea and Manchester City in succession this season. Let's see the 11th round of confrontation.
Therefore, the match between Arsenal and Liverpool at home in the 11th round of the Premier League in the 2018-2019 season has become the most watched contest in this round of the league.
Interestingly, there is another team that has created a ten-game winning streak this season, that is the star-studded French Ligue 1 super giant Paris Saint-Germain, so some media are wondering who can create the best winning streak start in the top five European leagues.
Liverpool, who are in good form, or Paris Saint-Germain, who are far ahead in Ligue 1.
For this guess, many media and fans are more optimistic about Paris Saint-Germain.
Although Paris Saint-Germain's next opponent is Marseille, their national derby opponent, the situation is different from the past. Paris Saint-Germain is the only one in Ligue 1, and Marseille is no longer as brave as it used to be. If nothing unexpected happens, Paris Saint-Germain will win. In addition to the advantage of home court, the chance of winning is more than 80%.
On the other hand, Liverpool's away challenge is not favored by many people. According to the odds of the world's top ten bookmakers, it is more likely to be a draw. Not to mention that Liverpool is a away challenge, the biggest reason is that Liverpool's winning fatigue brought by ten consecutive victories is very obvious. Unless Liverpool can continue the super state of the past ten consecutive victories, it will be difficult to get three points at the Emirates Stadium.
The media and fans argued endlessly, and both teams focused on their own preparations. Until the routine press conference before the game, Arsenal coach Emery was interviewed and said that losing to Liverpool at home was equivalent to losing dignity, because while Liverpool created the best winning streak, Arsenal was the best background.
Many years later, when a team mentioned that Liverpool created the best start of the top five European leagues with 11 consecutive wins, what they mentioned would be-in the 11th round of the 2018-2019 Premier League, Liverpool defeated Arsenal away and created the best winning streak start in the top five European leagues.
Obviously, this result is not what Arsenal players and fans want to see, especially Arsenal players, who don't want to be ridiculed by other fans.
In order to prevent this possibility, the bottom line of the home game is not to lose!
Liverpool coach Klopp, who was interviewed by the media, was very natural and did not express any confidence in winning. He simply said that as long as the players played normally, they would get an expected result.
Time passed quickly, and Arsenal's home game against Liverpool kicked off at the Emirates Stadium.
Before that, the 11th round of the 2018-2019 Premier League had five games, and the match between Arsenal and Liverpool was scheduled for the sixth game.
There was more than an hour before the start of the game, and the Emirates Stadium was already full. Like the previous games, Li Qing did not hear any boos from Arsenal fans. On the contrary, he would remember thunderous applause to praise his super performance in the World Cup.
This game is also the first confrontation between Arsenal and Liverpool in the post-Wenger era. Both Arsenal fans and Liverpool fans are looking forward to it.
"Beep~"
With the whistle of the referee Oliver, the focus battle of the 11th round of the 2018-2019 Premier League officially began.