Coach, I want to play football!

The final forty-five minutes of the first half ended, and the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of one to one.

Because the first half was relatively smooth overall, the only three parts that took some time were Ye Qi's offside kick and the celebration after each team scored a goal.

Therefore, the referee only gave one minute of injury time in the first half to make some sense.

It is worth mentioning that neither side had a single yellow card in the first half...

It can be seen that both sides played in a relatively civilized manner in the first half.

Soon, the second half of the game began.

This time it was Liverpool's turn to kick off.

After the referee blew the whistle, Ye Qi kicked the ball to Wijnaldum next to him, and then immediately moved forward.

Almost at the same time, Coutinho and Mane on both sides immediately followed!

After Wijnaldum got the ball, he quickly gave it to captain Henderson who was behind the outside of the center circle, because Vardy had already rushed up to press for it.

There are some similarities between Leicester City and Liverpool in this regard. Both sides are relatively active in high-position pressing.

Henderson got the ball, stopped it first, and then looked at Ye Qi's position.

Before Vardy continued to come up, a long pass hit the Leicester City backcourt and went behind the two central defenders!

At this time, Ye Qi was already in front of the two central defenders. When he saw the ball coming, he immediately started to speed up and tried to rush between Morgan and Huth.

But the two of them were too familiar with Ye Qi's quick attack, so Morgan came directly across and prepared to use his body to block Ye Qi's forward route to get the ball. Then Huth quickly turned around, hoping to get the ball before Ye Qi. .

Mendy is also behind Ye Qi. His speed is slightly slower, but it is not a big problem.

Ye Qi also understood the intentions of Morgan and Hu Te, but he thought that his speed was much faster than the two of them, and Hu Te was big and needed time to turn around.

So when Morgan came across to stretch his legs, he suddenly changed direction and rushed over from the other side of Morgan, trying to seize the opportunity to get the ball.

Mendy behind him was startled and quickly reached out to grab Ye Qi's jersey.

Ye Qi felt the jersey behind him being pulled, so he accelerated to break through the restraint!

Mendy originally just wanted to block Ye Qi and give his teammates time to react. But seeing this posture, he didn't dare to let go, but instead used a little more force on his hand.

Ye Qi's jersey was almost stretched out of shape, and he knew he couldn't get past it, because Huth had turned and ran in the direction of the ball, and goalkeeper Schmeichel also came out at the same time.

He stopped and stood there helplessly spreading his hands.

If it had been anyone else, Ye Qi would have probably gotten angry long ago, and might even give the opponent a slap in the face for pulling his jersey.

But considering that the opponent was a Leicester City player, Ye Qi did not get angry, even though he was not familiar with the African midfielder named Mendy.

At this time, the referee's whistle came belatedly, and Mendy was punished for a foul for pulling his jersey without the ball, giving Liverpool a set kick in the frontcourt, and also showing Mendy a yellow card.

Mendy only gave a symbolic explanation and did not argue with the referee, because he knew that there was no problem in giving a yellow card for this action.

Zhan Jun: "So Mendy got the first yellow card from both sides in this game!"

Liu Yue said: "It's a tactical foul, but it's not bad to get a yellow card in exchange for blocking the opponent's threatening attack."

The location of this foul was about ten meters outside the top of the arc in the penalty area, which was quite far from the goal.

Therefore, it is impossible to hit the goal directly. We can only look at whether we can find teammates to cooperate with us to take indirect free kicks.

Liverpool's two central defenders Lovren and Matip came up and ran to the penalty area to prepare for a header. There was also Ye Qi in the penalty area. These are Liverpool's three major points for set kicks.

Emre Can and Wijnaldum lurked near the opponent's wall, Mane was at the far end of the penalty area, and Henderson and Coutinho stood at the penalty spot.

The two of them covered their mouths and whispered a few words, seemingly thinking about tactical countermeasures.

Zhan Jun said: "Leicester City should be careful. Liverpool's set-piece threat is still great. After all, they have Matip, Lovren and Ye Qi, who is very good at heading the ball."

Liu Yue nodded: "Yes, Leicester City's header is not a big threat, but on the contrary, Liverpool's header is still very threatening."

Schmeichel directs the defensive formation near the wall and penalty area in front of the goal. It is almost impossible to shoot directly from this distance, so he does not need to deliberately leave a path for the opponent to shoot, and just "take advantage of the situation".

Instead, he directed Mendy and Huth to keep an eye on Ye Qi.

Huth, Morgan and others who were higher up did not line up the wall because Schmeichel was not afraid of the opponent shooting from this distance. Instead, he arranged for Brother Drinkwater and Vardy to line up the wall.

He arranged for all the tall men in the penalty area to guard Liverpool's three top headers.

Ye Qi stood in the penalty area and was having some fights with Mendy. This is considered normal physical contact in the Premier League.

After the referee blew his whistle, Coutinho raised his right hand and made a gesture.

Following Ye Qi in the penalty area, he immediately started moving in small steps, eager to try. This made Mendy and Huth, who were guarding him, look cautious.

Everyone thought that the ball was probably kicked by Coutinho, but Coutinho, who ran first, extended his foot and feinted on the ball without touching it, and then ran towards the side of the wall.

At this moment, Leicester City's wall almost jumped, but after seeing that the ball did not come out, they quickly put their feet down again.

At the same time, Ye Qi in the penalty area jumped up and brought up Hu Te, who was highly concentrated...

Henderson, who followed later, came to the ball, but instead of lifting the ball towards the penalty area with his big foot, he passed it to Coutinho on the side.

Coutinho didn't stop the ball and kicked it out while running. The ball flew over the wall from the side and into the penalty area.

At this time, Lovren and Matip, who were in the front, took off one after another, attracting Morgan and several others at the same time.

Ye Qi, who took off early and seemed to have jumped too early, had already landed... He didn't jump very high.

Follow him to start quickly, bypassing Huth and take off from the back point!

Huth was unprepared and his turn was slow. But Mendy was not fooled. Although he was half a beat too late, he still followed, but Ye Qi was the first to grab the position and take off.

Mendy had no choice but to jump along!

Zhan Jun: "Beautiful free kick coordination, Coutinho...hangs into the penalty area, then points...Ye Qi!"

Ye Qi, who had the highest jump, almost beat Mendy. After all, whether it was height or jumping, Ye Qi crushed Mendy in all aspects.

In this regard, it's like the top "Krypton Money Boss" in the game came to the "Newcomer Village" to bully the newbies.

Looking up at Ye Qi, who was leaping high, like a Himalayan peak on the roof of the world, Mendi felt desperate inside.