Coach, I want to play football!

For Liverpool, the League Cup semi-finals are already something to consider in mid-January next year.

The three rounds of the FA Cup will not start until early January next year. After all, the Premier League teams will not join the schedule until the third round.

Therefore, Liverpool, who had no European games to play during this period, focused all their energy on the league.

In the fourteenth round of the league, Liverpool played against the Sky City Stoke City away from home.

The reason why Stoke City is called the City in the Sky is because there are many players at high altitudes in their team who are good at heading the ball...

Stoke City's official nickname is actually The Potters, and of course now City in the Sky has also become the official nickname.

Ye Qi, who started the first half, helped the Red Army open the scoring, and Coutinho's goal in the 68th minute helped the team expand the score.

Later, Stoke City replaced the veteran, the tall guy Crouch.

Crouch was born in Tottenham's youth training, played for many teams in his career, and also played for Liverpool for three seasons.

As soon as Crouch came up, Stoke City played very simply, just cross from both sides!

In the 83rd minute, Swiss Messi Shaqiri broke through from the wing and then moved to the other side in a wide range.

Dutch winger Afellay got the ball, made a slight adjustment and made a fake move to break through the bottom, but suddenly made a cross!

Crouch took his position in the penalty area and took off!

Crouch, who is 2.01 meters tall, combined with his excellent jumping ability, crushed Matip and Lovren in the heading event!

In the end, Crouch got the ball and hit the goal with a header!

Karius jumped up and reached out to pounce, but failed to catch the ball. The ball hit the net!

Thirty-six-year-old Crouch helped the team regain a victory!

This goal also gave the Stoke City players more confidence, and they wanted to equalize in less than ten minutes.

But in the 88th minute, Ye Qi took the ball and dodged the crowd and shot a shot to give the opponent a wake-up call.

Although Ye Qi's shot did not score a goal, his dominance on the front line still made Stoke City fearful, causing the opponent's offense to not dare to get too close.

In the end, Liverpool defeated Stoke City 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium.

As a heavy snowfall covered the entire city of Liverpool, the lawn of Anfield Stadium was covered with a thick layer of snow.

This resulted in the sixteenth round of the league being postponed slightly by two hours to give staff time to clear snow.

The heavy snow came suddenly. If it had come earlier, the game would probably have been postponed.

Fortunately, the snow stopped just before the start of the game, so as long as the snow on the court lawn was shoveled, it wouldn't be a big problem.

Although it was two hours late, the game started smoothly.

Liverpool's opponent in today's "snow battle" is Swansea City, a Welsh team.

Swansea City's center forward is Llorente, which is more or less a story with Ye Qi.

Of course, the two actually didn't have much interaction. It's just that when Emery wanted to get Ye Qi, the Sevilla management brought him Immobile.

In the end, Immobile played eight league games for Sevilla and only scored two goals. Later, the Italian forward moved to Turin and Lazio.

When Emery applied to buy Ye Qi, this time the Sevilla management made a cool move by bringing Spanish high center forward Llorente from Juventus.

Although Llorente's weekly salary was much higher than that of Ye Qi at the time, because Juventus ended the contract with Llorente early, Llorente's free transfer helped Sevilla save a lot of money. Philippine transfer fee.

But in the end, Llorente played 23 times for Sevilla and only scored four goals.

Emery wanted to buy Ye Qi at the beginning. He has solemnly applied to the Sevilla management three times to buy Ye Qi. In the Spanish media, he was called "Three requests but no result"... ....

You must know that Sevilla was the closest to Ye Qi at the beginning. There were scandals between Ye Qi and Sevilla in almost every transfer window.

But Sevilla ultimately chose Aspas, Immobile, and Llorente but did not choose Ye Qi.

Everyone knows the subsequent story, and in the end, perhaps it was Sevilla's management that saw clearly, or perhaps Paris Saint-Germain gave too much.

Spanish coach Emery, who ultimately helped the team complete three consecutive Europa League titles, left for France to take the helm of French Ligue 1 aircraft carrier Paris Saint-Germain.

Emery, who came to Paris Saint-Germain at the beginning of the season, continued to initiate a request to acquire Ye Qi. This time the club fully supported Emery, but Ye Qi himself chose Liverpool, the "down-and-out giant" of the Premier League.

So the two missed it again.

After Llorente's poor performance in Sevilla, he chose to come to England and joined Swansea.

However, Sevilla did not lose much, because they received more than 6 million pounds in transfer fees from Llorente's transfer in one season.

Now Sevilla may be suffering too much at the center position, so they have begun to choose to rent. For example, they loaned Inter Milan's Montenegrin forward Jovetic, who is, yes, the former Manchester City player, the same Jovetic who played chess with Jovetic...

At the same time, Atletico Madrid forward Vietto is also on loan. Yes, it is Ye Qi’s former teammate at Villarreal, the Argentine center Vietto.

Vietto originally wanted to snatch the absolute core position from Ye Qi, but finally found that he could not snatch it and chose to go to Atletico Madrid.

But his performance at Atletico Madrid was not as good as during the Yellow Submarine period. Now Ye Qi has become a hot favorite in the five major leagues, and the Premier League giants are vying for the top forward.

And what about Bietto? Just don’t mention it.

Although Ye Qi changed into spiked boots for this game, his performance was still not ideal. After the snow melts, there is a large area of ​​water on the lawn, which is relatively high for the physical exertion of the players.

At the same time, the error rate will also increase when passing and receiving, and the ball will be much heavier than normal.

The key is that the grass is still silky, which is not good news for Liverpool, who are good at ground coordination.

In fact, this game was not just Ye Qi, the entire Liverpool team performed poorly.

Swansea is relatively simple. Anyway, just make various crosses and find Llorente's head, and there is no ground to cover.

If it weren't for Liverpool's good defense, the Red Army would have fallen behind in the first half.

But Swansea's offensive methods are limited and they rely too much on Llorente. Llorente's performance is also average. He has long lost the ability he had at Athletic Bilbao and Juventus.

In the end, Swansea's offense was unable to open up the situation.

In the end, Swansea's head coach could only arrange for Ghanaian forward Jordan Ayew, one of the Ayew brothers, to rush.

The final result was not ideal. After all, the temperature was low today and the venue was silky, which was not conducive to Ayew's performance.

However, Icelandic midfielder Sigurdsson's long shot almost opened the door guarded by Karius.

The final score was zero to zero, and Liverpool tied with the weak Swansea.

The best of the match in this game went to Swansea's goalkeeper, former Arsenal Polish goalkeeper Fabianski...