Football: The strongest post-2000s Chapter 108

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After 26 rounds of the 2016- 2017 Premier League season, Chelsea topped the league table with 20 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses, and 62 points. Liverpool followed closely with 17 wins, 6 draws, 3 losses, and 57 points. Tottenham ranked third with 15 wins, 8 draws, 3 losses, and 53 points.

Manchester City and Arsenal ranked fourth and fifth respectively due to having played one less game, and Manchester United, also with one less game, ranked sixth.

Jürgen Klopp, the visiting team’s coach, who attended the post-match press conference, was still questioned by media reporters. It wasn’t about Liverpool’s 4- 3 victory over Leicester City at the King Power Stadium, but rather that he once again didn’t bring Li Qing, the Man of the Match, to the press conference.

Klopp used a different excuse this time, saying without blushing: “Everyone knows Li is still in middle school, right? He still has weekend homework assigned by his teacher that he hasn’t finished. See… as soon as the game ended, he went back to the locker room and took out his homework to do it. Don’t believe me? Wait a moment, I’ll show you a photo…”

The reporters present couldn’t help but roll their eyes, but Klopp earnestly took out his phone and found the photo of Li Qing doing his homework.

Both the background and the posture looked exactly like someone doing homework.

With conclusive evidence, the reporters were speechless.

Of course, Li Qing wasn’t actually doing homework; rather, it was… the club’s new way of dealing with reporters.

Besides his astonishing football talent, Li Qing was equally amazing in his studies. Although his school attendance had decreased since he joined the first team, his academic performance hadn’t declined much. Moreover, almost all his teachers were Liverpool fans, so they rarely assigned Li Qing homework. This meant Li Qing only had pure learning tasks and no homework assignments.

By the time of the home team’s routine press conference, the atmosphere in the King Power Stadium press conference hall had noticeably declined. Previously, some media outlets had expressed dissatisfaction with Leicester City’s management for dismissing the meritorious coach Claudio Ranieri. Now, with a three-goal lead at home being overturned, Shakespeare, as the new head coach, unfortunately became the target of severe criticism, indirectly taking the blame for the management.

As the saying goes, a blessing in disguise.

Although Shakespeare, who took the blame for the management, led the team to two consecutive losses in the Champions League Round of 16 first leg and in the league, the management currently had no intention of changing coaches.

In the information age, news spreads astonishingly fast and no longer requires physical newspapers. As soon as the match between Liverpool and Leicester City ended, reports flooded the internet.

The most frequently mentioned person was the child prodigy Li Qing.

It was his two goals and two assists that allowed Liverpool to stage a comeback victory against Leicester City away from home, setting a new comeback record.

Liverpool fans were ecstatic, while Leicester City fans were depressed.

Last season, Leicester City had quietly climbed to the top of the league at this point. Now… they were fourth from bottom in the league.

There were still thirteen rounds left in the league, and with their current form, whether they could survive was a big question mark.

League champions and fourth from bottom in the league, the huge contrast hit them hard.

Liverpool’s away victory over Leicester City, who showed signs of a rebound, would normally mean coach Klopp would give the players one to two days off, according to recent practice. But this time, he didn’t, because the match against Leicester City was played very poorly.

Winning can indeed cover up many things, but Klopp, as the head coach, saw everything clearly. Without Li Qing, the team would surely have suffered a crushing defeat at the King Power Stadium.

The recent string of victories had made many players somewhat complacent.

They had to be disciplined properly.

Major European media outlets extensively reported on the match at King Power Stadium, and Li Qing once again became the focus of media attention. Liverpool’s “Echo” and “Mail” used every possible laudatory word to describe Li Qing.

Thousands of miles away in China, it was the same, with comprehensive reports on Li Qing.

Besides training and communicating with Tong Shenbing through social media, Li Qing also browsed sports news and Chinese news in his daily life. He was very pleased to see the media reports, but he did not get lost in the media’s sugar-coated bullets, because… he was very young and still had a lot of room for improvement.

The next day, Li Qing attended school in the morning and returned to the Melwood training base in the afternoon.

Surprisingly, his teammates’ morale was much better than last week, which made him wonder if they would have been 0- 3 down if they had played Leicester City with this kind of spirit.

Clearly not.

Football matches are ever-changing, and no one can say what will happen in a second. But when players’ enthusiasm is high, each player runs one more step in defense, and collectively that’s ten steps.

Ten steps, walking is a large distance, running is more than ten meters.

In this way, how much defensive space would be covered?

After playing the away match against Leicester City, the Liverpool players were spurred on by coach Klopp, and their training enthusiasm greatly improved. They were not foolish and knew that the next home game against Arsenal would definitely be a tough battle.

Besides training at Melwood, Li Qing also went to the training ground for extra practice when he returned home to make himself stronger.

After nearly two months of training with the first team, Li Qing found that his progress in his personal attributes was quite significant.

All/Attack/Defense/Physical/Awareness

Height: 179CM

Weight: 69.5KG

Position: Right Winger

Strength: 65

Stamina: 68

Skill: 82

Shooting: 83

Shot Power: 62+ 3

Heading: 53

Long Shots: 59+ 2

Free Kicks: 60

Penalties: 80

Sprint Speed: 88

Acceleration: 90

Jumping: 64

Agility: 72

Balance: 74

Tackling: 34

Interceptions: 40

Positioning: 50

Man Marking: 55

Dribbling: 91

Ball Control: 77

Short Passing: 62

Crossing: 68

Long Passing: 87

Off-ball Movement: 75

Creativity: 85

Vision: 92

Reactions: 74

Aggression: 50

Willpower: 85

GK Saves: 29

Available Ability Points: 0

Inventory: Immune to serious injury, Iron Wall Card 1, Stamina Potion 2

Lottery Draws: 0

Gold: 781

Overall Rating: A+

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All attributes had increased to some extent, although not particularly obvious, but when added together, it made a difference. The increase in these values allowed Li Qing to win more confrontations in matches.

Li Qing’s only disappointment was that his height growth had started to slow down. When he first transmigrated, he grew about six or seven centimeters in three months, but only two centimeters in two months after joining the senior team.

According to the system’s analysis, this was related to his premature increase in strength values and frequent strength training. Li Qing understood this easily, which is why many athletes rarely do strength training before adulthood.

However, as a professional player, being too tall is not necessarily a good thing. In Li Qing’s opinion, his ideal height would be around 1.85 meters.

Getting back to the main topic, the most anticipated match in the 27th round of the 2016- 2017 Premier League season was Liverpool’s home game against Arsenal. With three or four days left until the match, both sets of fans had entered a war of words.

London and Liverpool media subsequently joined the fray, making this highly anticipated clash even more exciting.

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