Revive Liverpool

Chapter 285 The Importance of the Beginning

This result is already the worst result after Manchester United's five rounds of the Premier League.

Moyes also refreshed Manchester United's worst performance in the first 7 rounds of the Premier League last season.

After Mourinho and Solskjaer after Van Gaal, they will tie or break Manchester United's worst record since the start of the season.

However, this may not be unacceptable to Manchester United fans.

After all, even when Ferguson led the team, he often brought out the worst start since the Premier League.

It's just that in the end, Ferguson Ferguson was able to turn the tide and lead Manchester United to win the Premier League championship that season.

The League Cup kicked off in midweek, and Liverpool challenged Middlesbrough as a guest.

Because Liverpool's current main lineup already has a lot of rotations, there are also some main players in this game.

But on the back line are all young faces, Robertson, Lovren, Matip, Flanagan.

The four formed Liverpool's backline.

After all, because the opponent is a low-level league team, Liverpool still has two midfielders who are the main players.

Players in other positions are all promoted from the youth team.

Only 10 minutes into the game, Roster, who played for Liverpool for the first time, took advantage of Middlesbrough's backcourt error and scored his first goal to help the Red Army take the lead quickly.

It seemed that the game was going smoothly, but in the second half the situation changed suddenly. Leitch used a set ball header to equalize the score. In the end, the two sides drew 90-[-] within [-] minutes and entered overtime.

In extra time, Suso helped Liverpool take the lead again in the 109th minute, but in the third minute of stoppage time, Sterling's pass back forced Matip to foul Bamford, and Middlesbrough miraculously won a penalty kick at the buzzer.

After 120 minutes of fierce competition, the two sides finally drew [-]-[-] and had no choice but to enter a penalty shootout.

At this time, no one expected that this would be a penalty shootout recorded in English football history.

The two sides shot a total of 15 rounds in the penalty shootout - 30 penalties.

Gerrard, who took the lead in taking the penalty, made the penalty, and Liverpool goalkeeper Mignolet saved Middlesbrough's first penalty moments later.

The two sides made all the penalty kicks in the next three rounds. Sterling, Liverpool's fifth player, took the penalty kick, which was saved by Middlesbrough goalkeeper Blackman, and then the Middlesbrough player who played then scored the penalty.

The first five rounds were tied 4-4, and the game entered a one-on-one penalty of "sudden death".

According to the rules, the players who did not take the penalty in the first five rounds must appear one by one.

The six players from both sides, including the two goalkeepers, all made penalties, showing their strong ability to resist pressure.After all 6 players on the field took the penalty, the two sides sent the players who took the penalty in the first five rounds. After 11 rounds, there was still no winner.

Until the 15th round of penalty kicks, Liverpool made another free throw, and Middlesbrough's Adoma missed the ball, thus ending the game that lasted nearly 3 hours.

The marathon penalty shootout not only frightened the audience, but also the nerves of the players were extremely tense, and the atmosphere on the field was suffocating.

And when Middlesbrough's Adoma took the 30th penalty and missed, Liverpool were able to advance to the fourth round of the Carabao Cup.

The disappointed Middlesbrough players all collapsed to the ground, and the Liverpool players who won the thrilling victory were also exhausted and overly nervous, so the celebration scene was slightly peaceful.

The penalty shootout took 15 rounds, took 30 penalty kicks in total, and scored 27 penalty kicks. Looking at the history of such statistics, it ranks second in England.

In the Hampshire Senior Cup last year, Brokenhurst and Andover drew 120-29 in [-] minutes. The two sides ended [-]-[-] in the penalty shootout. The two sides scored a total of [-] penalties.

In the history of the League Cup, there have been 17 penalty kicks in the penalty shootout, namely Arsenal beat Rotherham in 2004, Manchester City beat Stoke City in 1982, and Aston Villa beat Colchester in 1982.

Of course, in the history of world football, the penalty shootout between Liverpool and Middlesbrough can only be regarded as trivial.

In the 2005 Namibia Cup, there were 24 rounds of mutual shooting, and in the end KK Crystal Palace [-]-[-] Citizens.

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There will be two important derby matches in the Premier League this weekend, the Merseyside Derby and the North London Derby.

Liverpool's clash with Everton will be the earliest, with the north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham staying last.

The midfielder Lallana, who moved from Southampton to Liverpool this season, said in an interview with the media ahead of the Merseyside derby:

"During the Gary Lineker era, my dad used to support Everton, so I started following them too. I always expected them to win, but after playing for Southampton for so many years, that feeling has become less and less.

When I told my father that I was going to Liverpool, he was very happy.My father, like me, was not a very extreme fan.My dad will support the team I play for and wants me and the team I play for to do well. "

This behavior of "surrendering to the enemy before the game" is really unexpected.

Back to Liverpool, Liverpool, which has been unbeaten for two rounds, now urgently needs a victory to stabilize the situation in the league and stabilize their morale.

Losing too many points at the beginning of the season is very bad, and it will bring a lot of shadows to the team's championship throughout the season.

The last time Liverpool encountered strong teams at the start of the league, that is, they encountered this problem in the 2012-13 season.

There was no big difference between Liverpool's squad that season and the squad that Liverpool won the title the next season.

Maybe even better than the 2013-14 season, after all, Liverpool still had David Luiz at that time.

Although David Luiz has some flaws, as a top central defender, he is also a very important point for Liverpool's defense.

Although the head coach is different, the head coach of the 2012-13 season was Pochettino, while the head coach of the 2013-14 season was Klopp.

But there may be a gap between Pochettino and Klopp, but last season Pochettino led Liverpool to No.2 in the Premier League, so the gap between the two is not that big.

But it was because Liverpool encountered strong teams one after another at the beginning of the season that Liverpool had a very unfavorable start to the season that season.

In the following seasons, Liverpool had some problems in the league.

Then that season, Liverpool finally only continued to work hard at the end of the season. At the end of the season, they "remained relegation" in a thrilling manner and won the Champions League seat.

And in the 2013-14 season, without the hellish difficulty of the start, Liverpool won the Premier League title under Klopp.

(End of this chapter)