Revive Liverpool

Chapter 128 Against Manchester City
The qualifying situation of Group F of the UEFA Champions League is now as follows:
Liverpool has been steadily qualified.

However, Marseille missed the opportunity to appear early due to their home loss to Olympiacos, and now they are ranked second in the group with seven points and have the initiative to advance.

And now the third place in the group is Olympiacos. With an unexpected victory over Marseille at home and scored three points, they successfully turned over and surpassed Dortmund to become the third place in the group.

And compared to Marseille, Dortmund, Olympiacos has an advantage in the schedule, their next round of the Champions League group match will be against Liverpool at home.

Liverpool, which has already qualified for the promotion, and because of Marseille's unexpected loss at home to Olympiacos, will cause Liverpool to advance to the knockout round as the group's No. [-] regardless of their next record against Olympiacos.

Now that they have qualified for the promotion, Liverpool will definitely not play with the full main lineup against Olympiacos in the away game. This greatly increases the possibility of Olympiacos, which already has the advantage of home court, to win.

And now Dortmund, which is at the bottom of the group, is in the worst situation. They now have only four points in the group, three points behind No.2 Marseille, which gives them a chance to advance.

But if they want to advance, in addition to working hard and beating Marseille with a score of [-]-[-] or more at home, they also need to look at people's faces and hope that Liverpool, who are playing away from home, will not be waterproof and must beat Olympiacos.

Even if Olympiacos gets a draw, Dortmund will be eliminated, because of their mutual record against Olympiacos, Olympiacos has more goal difference than them, so as long as Olympiacos gets a draw, even if Dortmund play ten to zero is useless.

Originally, Li Nan wanted to take this opportunity to contact Klopp to see if he could poach the wall, but seeing Dortmund whose situation in the group qualifying suddenly deteriorated, he knew that now was not the time to talk to Klopp, and he did not ask for trouble.

Up to now, Li Nan and Klopp have not met a few times, probably only once, or when Lewandowski transferred to Liverpool, Li Nan went to Dortmund to meet Klopp.

After that, Li Nan didn't keep looking for Klopp, but the two kept contact information with each other.

The two teams have faced each other twice in the Champions League group stage this year. When Liverpool played away against Dortmund, it was probably the best time for the two to meet. However, due to the turmoil caused by the young players in the Liverpool team, Li Nan had to return to Liverpool in advance to deal with it, so he missed the best time to meet.

But now the situation in Dortmund's Champions League team is extremely bad, and Li Nan didn't bother Klopp at this time, let's leave a good impression first.

Back in the Premier League, during the battle between Liverpool and Manchester City, a piece of news that pleased both sides came. Manchester United played against Newcastle United at home and was tied by the Magpies.

For Manchester City, if they can beat Liverpool in the away game, they will be able to further widen the gap between themselves and No.2.

For Liverpool, if Liverpool can beat the top team Manchester City at home, they will be able to surpass Manchester United and win No.2 in the Premier League standings.

At 11:27 local time on November 16th, the competition for the 00th round of the Premier League began. In the last game of this round of the league, Liverpool played at Anfield at home against Manchester City, which ranked top in the standings.

Liverpool's lineup for this match:

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas, two defenders Agger and Skrtel, two full-backs Glenn Johnson.

In midfield, Kante, De Bruyne, Meireles and Griezmann.

Lewandowski, who performed poorly in the UEFA Champions League, did not get the starting line, and Dirk Dirk and Suarez played.

A moment of silence was observed at Anfield before the game for Gary Speed, who had just passed away.

On November 11, Gary Speed, currently coach of the Welsh men's football team, 27-year-old Gary Speed ​​hanged himself at home.His death immediately caused a great sensation in British football.

He played 248 games for Leeds United for eight seasons.In addition to Leeds United, he also played for Everton, Newcastle, Bolton and Sheffield United.

In the 5th minute, Manchester City got a corner kick, and Nasri took a corner kick. The Manchester City player in the forward pass passed the ball to the back point, and then the back point player pushed the ball forward. This happened again and again, causing chaos in Liverpool's penalty area. Finally, the front point player pointed to the center. Yaya Toure took a left-footed shot and played very patiently.

In the 20th minute, Manchester City launched a quick counterattack after the ball was intercepted by the frontcourt. Aguero, who dribbled the ball forward from the wing, passed Skrtel and came to the bottom line. Unfortunately, Aguero who came to the bottom line made a mistake. I don’t know if he missed it or something.

In the 24th minute, Silva shot a long shot in front of the penalty area and the ball hit high.

In the 31st minute, Manchester City Silva took a corner kick. Instead of passing back and forth like the first corner kick in the opening game, with complex tactics, Kompany went straight forward and shook his head to attack the goal.

Liverpool's defense made a mistake, and Dirk Dirk interfered with Glenn Johnson's defense, causing a hole in Liverpool's defense. Knowing that he made a mistake, he wanted to make up for it and reached out to save the ball. Unfortunately, the ball flew into Liverpool's goal in the end.

Manchester City lead [-]-[-] away.

Less than 2 minutes later, in the 33rd minute, Couitt wanted to make up for his mistake in the frontcourt. He grabbed the pass from Manchester City in the frontcourt, passed the ball to De Bruyne, and inserted himself forward.

De Bruyne, who got the ball, tried a long-range shot directly from outside the penalty area. Joe Hart could easily pocket the shot without any danger. As a result, the ball was blocked by Manchester City defender Lescott on the way forward.

In the 37th minute, Suarez made a counterattack with an exquisite through pass. Dirk Dirk inserted in and made a cross from the left rib. Meireles shot with his right foot from unmarked.

Then Liverpool took a corner kick and Suarez shot high from a distance.

In the 38th minute, Glenn Johnson cut in on the right side, and after collaborating with Suarez to hit the wall, he then pocketed the far corner with his left foot and the ball went wide.

At the end of the first half, the two sides fought to a one-to-one tie.

(End of this chapter)