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Chapter 309 Who Can Stop Them?

On November 2017, 11, the Liverpool team visited Stoke-on-Trent, England, and challenged Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium.

Founded in 1863, Stoke City is the second oldest Football League club in the world after Notts County.

Although this club has a long history, his most glorious season was the 2014-2015 season, which was a great season in their team history.

That year they defeated Arsenal 3-2 at home, and then swept Liverpool 6-1. At that time, they were crowned by the media as the terminator of a wealthy team.

It's a pity that they abandoned Bo Yang later, and they collapsed halfway before they succeeded in rising.

This summer, Stoke City lost its head star Marko Arnautovic, and Shaqiri was also poached by Liverpool, so Stoke City's performance this season has plummeted.

In the eyes of many media, Stoke City has already booked a place for relegation this season.

The same is true of the fact that in the [-] rounds of the Premier League, Stoke City only scored [-] points, ranking fourth from the bottom.

In this game, Klopp carried out a large-scale rotation, and the media also believed that Liverpool would easily win Stoke City, even if Liverpool was playing away.

But the truth is that Liverpool didn't play that easily.

The size of the Britannia Stadium is 100*64 meters, smaller than Anfield.

A small field means that the team will become denser when defending.

In addition, Stoke City's players are all tall and big, and their defensive style is like playing rugby, brutal and rough. This caused Liverpool to have an absolute advantage in the first half, but it was delayed in scoring.

Jota and Shaqiri performed well in this game. Although Stoke City's defense is dense, it is actually full of loopholes.

Stoke City is currently the team that concedes the most goals in the Premier League. It can be seen how bad its defense is, but it just can't score, which is really worrying.

In the 70th minute of the game, Klopp couldn't sit still.

If such a relegated team can't win, and Liverpool still compete with Manchester City for the title, they might as well drown their heads in the toilet.

In a fit of anger, Klopp replaced the three in one breath.

Mane, Salah, and Mo Yang all played.

Then Stoke City was smashed by the golden trident striker of Mane, Salah and Firmino, who have been in full form recently.

In the 80th minute of the game, after receiving a long pass from Mo Yang, Arnold quickly dribbled the ball from the side to participate in the attack, and then suddenly stuffed the ball to the baseline.

Salah picked the ball back into the small penalty area in an inverted triangle before the ball rolled out of the bottom line.

In front of the goal, Firmino got out of Zouma's three-person double-team, and cleverly knocked the ball behind him with his right heel.

Mane, who ran to the middle, hit the ball and broke the net angrily, finally breaking the deadlock. The next goals can be said to come one after another.

In the 85th minute of the game, Mo Yang saw Stoke City's magical marking in the penalty area before the top of the arc, and directly gave the ball to Firmino's feet.

After Firmino received the ball with his back to attract the defense, he suddenly rubbed the ball on the outside of his left foot from the crotch of Stoke City defender Zouma to the left.

Salah poked a shot in front of Stoke City defender Shawcross. The ball rubbed against the post and went into the net, breaking through the Stoke City gate again.

In the 88th minute of the game, Mane returned the favor to Firmino. He received an over-the-top pass from Moyang and cut into the penalty area. However, he did not hit the single-handed ball. Ermino easily pushed the shot.

In stoppage time, Salah went directly into the Stoke City penalty area after receiving Arnold's overhead pass. After causing confusion, he passed back to Firmino in the penalty area at the top of the arc on the bottom line.

Firmino exploded on the spot, shot the ball in from the upper right corner, and scored twice.

The game has since ended, and it was a massacre naked.

Although Mo Yang had no assists, all four goals were initiated by his feet, allowing countless Premier League media to once again see what Mo Yang's efficiency is.

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On December 12, Liverpool continued their journey and went to the Farmer Stadium to play away against Seagulls Brighton.

Entering December, the temperature in England has dropped sharply, so that in the last two rounds of the league, various clubs have players who have strained their muscles during the warm-up phase.

And Liverpool's game was played at night, and the temperature had dropped to around 0 degrees. As a result, Henderson accidentally strained his thigh muscle while warming up before the game.

Although it was a very slight strain, Klopp, just to be on the safe side, took him off the starting lineup and replaced him with Fabinho.

Except for the unlucky Henderson in this game, Liverpool can almost be said to have all the main players, and they don't even consider the final round of the Champions League group match against Spartak Moscow a few days later.

Liverpool has already qualified ahead of schedule, and they will not have to worry about multi-line battles until mid-February, and can devote all their energy to the league and catch up with Manchester City.

In this game, Brighton, who lacked offensive means, directly put up an iron barrel formation.

Of course they do!
After nearly three and 10 minutes of mad attack, Liverpool finally broke through Brighton's iron barrel formation in the third corner kick.

Mo Yang took a corner kick from the right, and the ball landed extremely delicately. It missed the Brighton center back Dunk at the first point, and Duffy at the second point couldn't touch it.

Instead, Van Dijk, who was caught in the middle, stepped up and broke through the gate guarded by Ryan, almost aiming at Van Dijk's forehead.

Either don't come, one time is two!

Just 1 minute later, a goal that heralded another massacre arrived as scheduled.

After Brighton kicked off again, Dunk directly made a long pass from the backcourt to the left, looking for their winger Brown.

As a result, the ball was won by Arnold and it was directly passed to Van Dijk on the right side of the penalty area.

Van Dijk stopped the ball and looked forward. At this time, his good vision and offensive awareness can be reflected by you with one kick.

Seeing that Brighton's right half was empty, he quickly made a long pass to Mo Yang who had already run to the center line first.

At the same time, Mane directly retracted his ribs diagonally, giving way to Moyang on the left.

Firmino in the middle also quickly moved forward to contain Brighton's Dunk for Mane and Mo Yang.

Seeing that Duffy came back in time, Brighton right back Bruno handed Mane over to Duffy, and he went straight to Moyang.

Just when he finished the draft of how to bring down Mo Yang without receiving a red card, Mo Yang, who was sprinting with the ball, suddenly slowed down, then suddenly raised his right foot, and directly rubbed the ball with the outside of his foot.

Immediately, the ball went from left to right, crossed an exaggerated C-shaped arc from Brighton's penalty area, and rolled to the back point.

In front of Brighton's penalty area, Duffy, Dunk, and Borg fell to the ground one after another. The three of them wanted to stretch their feet to destroy Mo Yang's pass, but they couldn't reach them, only a toe away.

At the back point, the unmarked Salah outflanked the ball in place, brought the ball into the small penalty area and directly passed through the wicket gate, helping Liverpool make another victory.

In the end, Liverpool created another tragedy with a score of 5-1 at the Falmar Stadium.

After the game, Salah scored twice, Firmino and Mane each scored a goal.

Mo Yang also scored a free kick. After receiving two assists and one goal, he was replaced by Klopp in 68 minutes.

If this is not the case, the game is likely to be more than this score.

(End of this chapter)