Chapter 627 Return

The Liverpool team, which returned with great honors, did not have much time to celebrate. Apart from briefly celebrating with the fans after taking a special flight back to China, Liverpool immediately threw themselves into intense preparations.

The league is about to end half-way, and Liverpool has already secured the half-time league championship in advance, leading the second-placed Manchester City team by double-digit points, allowing Liverpool fans to spend another good Christmas, and the prospect of the Premier League championship this season Infinitely good!

But now is definitely not the time to take it lightly. After Christmas, Liverpool will sit at their home court and face their opponent Newcastle United in the 19th round of the Premier League.

It is worth mentioning that Benitez, the current coach of Newcastle United, is the former coach of Liverpool, but he never took advantage of him in the match against Liverpool last season.

Today's Liverpool team is no longer the team that Benitez is familiar with, and the Newcastle United team he leads are now in a difficult situation.

The Magpies are currently ranked 15th in the league, with only 17 points. In the last round of the league, they were tied at home by Fulham. The situation this season is worrying. If the game against Liverpool fails, they will have to face a big challenge. relegation pressure.

After all, Newcastle's current points are only 5 points above the relegation zone. The team's main player Clark is injured in this round of the game. Another Korean player Ji Chengyong has been promoted to the national team. This will affect Benitez's formation. It brings a certain degree of difficulty.

The Liverpool team, which carries the Club World Cup trophy, has a complete lineup. Except for Salah, Chamberlain, Gomez and Matip who are injured, the rest of the players are in good condition.

On the other hand, during the period when Liverpool was not in England, Manchester City, Tottenham and Burton respectively solved their opponents in the League Cup and advanced to the next round.

After the battle with Manchester City, Liverpool will face Bournemouth at home in the quarter-finals. The winner will face Tottenham Hotspur in the two-leg semi-finals.

In the eighteenth round of the Premier League where Liverpool was absent, many games were somewhat unexpected.

Chelsea lost 0:1 to the visiting Leicester City team at their home court. Maddison assisted Vardy to score Chelsea's goal.

The biggest upset of this round was undoubtedly Manchester City's 2:3 loss to Crystal Palace at their home court.

Klopp was overjoyed when he learned the news. It was really surprising that a competitor would fall behind at such a time, especially when the team's lineup was relatively complete.

But a loss is a loss. Manchester City must try their best to catch up for the mistakes they made in the next game. But based on the current situation, unless it can defeat Liverpool at home, this season’s Premier League champion will have no chance at all. suspense.

Another team in Manchester, Manchester United, which had just experienced a coaching change, in the first game after former legendary star Solskjaer took office, beat its opponent 5:1 away from home, ushering in a long-lost victory.

Pogba finally started this game and had two assists. In his 100th Premier League milestone game, Martial also scored a goal, which everyone was happy with.

However, after this round, Manchester United is still ranked sixth in the standings, and the points gap with fourth place has widened to 8 points. This is Manchester United's worst start to the season since the last century and the most goals conceded in more than 50 years. .

At Goodison Park, Everton's home stadium, they unexpectedly lost to the challenging Tottenham Hotspur team with a score of 2:6. Son Heung-min scored two shots and one pass in this game. The performance is stunning.

Because Li Qing and Sun Heung-min are both Asians, Li Qing was in very good competitive form against East Asia or teams with East Asians in this Club World Cup, and Sun Heung-min just happened to be after Liverpool defeated Kashima Antlers. Explosive.

The sensitive media seized on the hot spots and began to bombard Li Qing with questions. Li Qing was so annoyed by this that he simply did not even return home and lived directly in the club's dormitory. After Klopp found out, he borrowed the money. Come to visit in the name of visiting.

"Lee, it's not a problem that you always avoid the media like this." Klopp smiled heartlessly.

Li Qingdean pulled his head, too lazy to talk to Klopp. What he wants to do most now is to face Tottenham Hotspur in the next round of the league, and then play so hard that his opponents will doubt their lives, and let those who compare himself with Son Heung-min reporters shut up.

"Son Heung-min challenges the top scorer. The League Cup will be the battlefield to prove who is the top scorer in the Premier League!" Klopp saw that Li Qing ignored him and didn't care. Instead, he started reading the newspaper in his hand. title.

Hearing the title read by Klopp, Li Qing couldn't help but sneer, "Coach, there's no need to read this kind of news. You didn't come to me just to read the newspaper to me, right?"

Klopp laughed when he heard this, "Finally I couldn't bear it anymore, so what do you think about this matter?"

"Too journalistic!" Li Qing couldn't help complaining, "Coach, I know what you want to say. In the League Cup semi-finals with Tottenham, I demand to start!"

Hearing what Li Qing said, Klopp smiled even more cunningly, "How do you know we can reach the semi-finals before we play against Bournemouth? And for the game then, I plan to let the substitutes and the youth team train. one time."

"Anyway, just leave me a position. Any position is fine except for goalkeeper." Li Qing is also willing to go all out. He can be said to be full of resentment towards Tottenham Hotspur and does not eliminate his opponent from the League Cup. , he couldn’t let go of this feeling in his heart!

"You have to play in the match against Bournemouth. Remember to drink the medicine your girlfriend has been giving you recently. Keep in good shape. I'm counting on you for the matches in January and February!" Klopp said this, which surprised Li Qing.

But Li Qing soon caught the key point, "Boss, you don't want to tell me that the club has already..."

"Tong Group just signed an agreement with the club today. In the future, the club's traditional Chinese medicine health care project will be fully entrusted to Tong Group. Your girlfriend is the specific person in charge of this project. You two will have more opportunities to meet in the future!"

Klopp smiled evilly, "Don't worry, as long as it's not an important event, I will absolutely allow you to meet, but you must pay attention to moderation, especially the medicine must be taken. I have already told Tong, and she fully agrees with my suggestion!"

Hearing Klopp's words, Li Qing felt that his eyes went dark. He had just had a few days without taking medicine, but he turned out to be like this!

When Li Qing thought about the days when he couldn't stop taking medicine in the future, his mouth couldn't help but start to feel bitter.