Coach, I want to play football!

"Huh? Jurgen, so late today?"

Klopp happened to meet the groundskeeper Harry when he drove past the gate of the training base.

After rolling down the window, nod politely to the other person.

After thinking for a while, he still asked: "There are still people inside..."

Harry immediately understood, "You mean Ye, right? He often practices late at night. Don't worry, he will take care of things over there."

"There aren't many players who can work that hard these days."

Klopp was stunned and asked: "Is he like this every day?"

Harry thought for a while, "Not every day..."

Klopp thought to himself that this was right. If he practiced so late every day, he would kill everyone.

"It's just that I didn't come during the team's holidays... You can't say that. Occasionally, they come during holidays. Basically, Ye will stay until the end every night during training, and [-]% of the time during breaks There’s a sixty to seventy chance that it will come.”

"Oh, I didn't come on game day."

Harry remembered this very clearly, because Ye Qi only had one match day after joining Liverpool, and it was an away game. That was not an iron man anymore, so he was a superman!

Klopp: "..."

Good guy, I've only been on the team for a long time, and my training volume is already twice that of other players.

"Then I will ask the physical coach to check on this kid's physical condition later. Don't go too far." Klopp made a joke.

Harry smiled and said, "Don't worry, he's as strong as a cow now."

Then Klopp said hello with a smile and drove away.

Shortly after Klopp left, Ye Qi also came out after taking a shower.

He drives the BMW i8 given to him by Leicester City chairman Vichai after winning the championship. He basically drives this car to and from the training base.

"Hey, Uncle Harry, you haven't gotten off work yet." Ye Qi rolled down the window and greeted Harry, the administrator.

"No, you guys haven't even gotten off work, so I'm off work. Isn't it bad?" Harry joked with a smile.

Ye Qi stretched out his hand and fist bumped with the other person, "Next time you give me the key, I will help you turn around and lock the door when I leave."

Harry laughed, "You guys are planning to earn two wages. If your salary is so high this week, don't worry about my little money."

"Hahahahaha." Ye Qi smiled and waved: "Let's go, see you later, Uncle Harry!"

"See you later, young man!"

The next day, the whole team felt some different details during training.

For example, when training the second set of plans, the team's tactics made some adjustments.

The three forwards in the previous second set of plan 433 were basically the plan of Mane, Firmino and Ings or Sturridge.

But now the three forwards are basically Firmino, Mane, Ye Qi and Sturridge.

At the same time, in the three midfielders, Coutinho, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Emre Can and Leiva were replaced.

Yes, you read that right.Four people in three positions, nine people in six positions!

This is easy to understand, just like there are only two positions for the main central defender, but usually there are at least three main positions, plus a substitute and a guest defender can basically cope with it.

The same is true for the forwards and midfielders. As for who will be arranged to play at that time, it will depend on the recent state and the tactical arrangements for facing the opponent.

But there is no doubt that in this tactical system, Ye Qi is the main center forward.

Moreover, this three forwards did not say that there must be wingers, but Mane and Firmino lurked behind Ye Qi.These two people can move to the wing according to the situation, but if they change positions with Ye Qi, Ye Qi will at most go to the ribs instead of the wing.

In this way, the wing is left to the two full-backs to step in and complete the pass from the wing.

But this is a test for the defense in the backcourt, so Emre Can or Leiva are generally arranged to start in the midfielder position. These two people have stronger defensive capabilities.

In addition, with a versatile midfielder like Wijnaldum or Henderson, he can attack and defend.

Coutinho's position is more flexible. He can go up and rotate with Firmino as a forward, or he can drop back to the midfield to play as an organizing midfielder.

Klopp even tried to use Coutinho, Firmino and Mane to play a three-forward combination when Ye Qi was absent.

This made Sturridge and Ings on the side dumbfounded. Good guys, are we two superfluous if we co-write?

The only thing that gave the two some comfort was that this was an alternative tactic.The first choice is still 4231, where Sturridge and Ince have a little bit of success.

At first, the players were not used to this style of play, because in the previous second set of tactics, 433 was biased towards defensive counterattacks.

And now this set of 433 is undoubtedly offensive.

Everyone thought this was the coaching staff's detailed changes to the second set of tactics, but in the end they were told by the coaching staff that this was the third set of tactics.

Both Sturridge and Ince breathed a sigh of relief.

The third set of tactics?This thing is just like the third away jersey. How many times can it be used in a season?

Soon, the week of training passed.

On the third weekend of August, the Premier League also ushered in the second round of matches.

In this round, Liverpool faces Saints Southampton at home.

After Southampton returned to the Premier League, they sold many players every season.Among them, Liverpool bought the majority, such as Lallana, Lambert, Clyne, Lovren before, and Mane this season.

Fans even jokingly call Southampton Liverpool's reserve team...

Just by selling their main players like this every season, the Saints' upgrades will rise instead of falling.

From 14th place in the first season of promotion to 8th and 7th place, last season they even achieved sixth place in the league.

So far, the opponent's lineup also includes Van Dijk, Ward-Prowse, Butland, Tadic and other outstanding players who have attracted the attention of many powerful teams.

At the same time, this game against the Saints is also Liverpool's first official home game this season.

The kop have long been hungry and thirsty, and the Anfield stadium with more than 4000 people is almost full.

Because Ye Qi performed well as a substitute in the first game, everyone thought Ye Qi could get the starting position in this game.

But when the starting lineups of both sides came out, everyone was surprised to find that Ye Qi was still sitting on the bench.

There are many Chinese faces at Anfield today. As one of the established giants, Liverpool has many fans in China and China Hong Kong.

In addition, Ye Qi joined the team, so many Chinese fans came to the first home game of this season.

Among them are international students from near Europe, overseas Chinese, and some celebrities who flew in from Hong Kong.

Some commercial organizers have even launched game-watching packages for tours to the three British islands, including today's match between Liverpool and Southampton and tomorrow's match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace.

Of course, what commercial organizations mainly recommend is the double red meeting in mid-September this year and mid-January next year.

Fans came all the way to watch the game with expensive tour groups, but Ye Qi did not start today, which made them somewhat regretful.