On September 8th, at 10 pm BJ time, the fourth round of the Premier League, Liverpool VS Arsenal at home.
Before the game, this game was exaggerated by major media in England as a revenge battle for Liverpool.
Although Arsenal broke off the relationship with Ozil in time last time, it was still greatly affected. The ratings of their games dropped by one-third, which is a huge loss.
Moreover, the lack of Ozil, a powerful offensive boost, also led to a sharp decline in their frontcourt offensive power.
It can be seen from the first three rounds that Arsenal's attacking power without Ozil is obviously not as good as last season.
In the first round of the league, although Arsenal defeated Leicester City 4-3 at home, there was an element of luck involved.
Because two of Arsenal's four goals were Leicester City's own goals.
In the next two games, Arsenal lost 1-0 away to relegation team Stoke City.
The other game was a 1-0 victory over Bournemouth, both narrow wins.
This shows how much impact Ozil's suspension has on Arsenal.
Based on the recent state of the two teams, the media are generally optimistic that Liverpool can defeat Arsenal.
Facts have proved that the media’s eyes are sharp.
Not long after the game started, Liverpool took the lead in attacking Arsenal's goal.
In the third minute of the game, Liverpool launched the first attack of the game from the backcourt.
Alisson's goal kick went directly to the frontcourt, but Xhaka went directly over the top, allowing Henderson who was approaching to get the ball, and then directly distributed it to the right.
After receiving the ball, Salah broke into Arsenal's left rib, single-handedly caused everyone in the penalty area to turn upside down, and then easily pushed the shot into the far corner.
"Salah!"
"Salah!"
"Salah!"
"..."
More than 50,000 Red Army fans at home chanted Salah's name in unison.
The fans were extremely excited. Salah's goal showed them that the Egyptian has fully returned to his form.
And with a top striker's goal-scoring feeling back, can victory be far behind?
Originally, they were a little worried about Mo Yang not starting the game, but now it seems that their worries are completely unnecessary.
Even if their Yang doesn't play, it's more than enough to beat this Arsenal team.
"Kill Arsenal!"
"Slaughter them! Revenge Yang!!!"
"Revenge Yang!"
The fans at the scene were excited after Salah scored. They still remember Ozil's discrimination against Mo Yang.
In the eyes of fans, the best revenge is to keep scoring goals and win the game through massacre.
In this turbulent home atmosphere, Henderson and Van Dijk played extremely energetically and kept holding their breath.
In the 20th minute of the game, Arsenal launched an attack from the left.
Bellerin received Xhaka's pass on Liverpool's right rib. He slowed down his pace and waited for Sanchez to come in from behind and pass the ball immediately.
As a result, Gomez suddenly predicted Bellerin's intention, rushed directly to the meeting point between Sanchez and the ball, and successfully intercepted the ball in advance.
After stealing the ball, Gomez did not hesitate and directly passed it to Wijnaldum outside the penalty area.
After receiving the ball, Wijnaldum took a step laterally, rushed to grab the ball before Xhaka, and deftly passed the ball to Emre Can at the top of the key.
Emre Can turned around to meet the ball and without a moment's delay, he directly looked for Firmino who was retreating in the middle.
At the same time, Mane also intervened from the left at high speed.
Firmino waited for Mane to come up completely before passing the ball over, and then ran towards the center to contain the Arsenal defenders.
Mane entered the penalty area and faced Arsenal centre-back Holding.
The two faced off for a moment, but Holding didn't dare to stretch his legs.
But the next second, Mane pretended to move to the left and suddenly moved the ball to the right to break through.
Mane's powerful explosive power allowed him to sway half of Holding's body, and then volleyed directly in the instep into the far corner to gain another victory.
In the 45th minute of the game, just as the game was about to end, Arsenal gave another big gift.
The ball was moved from the right to the center by Holding. After taking the ball, Koscielny continued to move the ball to the left according to Holding's instructions.
Salah saw Monreal receiving the ball and he immediately rushed forward.
Seeing Salah rushing over, Monreal, who had just turned around, planned to smash the ball unexpectedly to avoid Salah's upper grab.
As a result, he didn't expect that Salah seemed to know that he was going to spike the ball, and actually stretched out his foot to kick the ball away.
After successfully stealing the ball, Salah started to speed up, directly shook off Monreal, and entered the penalty area from the ribs.
Salah glanced at goalkeeper Cech's position and found that his shot success rate was low.
So he suddenly spiked the ball and suddenly swept the ball to the center with his right foot.
On Firmino's side, he happened to retreat, and the two formed a tacit cooperation.
Faced with Salah's pass, Firmino easily pushed and shot into the empty goal.
Firmino scored his first goal of the season. He seemed so excited that he took off his clothes to celebrate.
God knows what he went through during this time.
Since Ibrahimovic came to the team, he has begun to worry about gains and losses, fearing that the Swede will push him to the bench.
This is the biggest factor influencing Firmino's poor form some time ago.
But after this period of time, he no longer thinks about it so much.
He knows very clearly that if he continues in this bad state, he will not be far from the bench.
Instead of doing this, it is better to play well in the present. As long as there is a steady stream of goals, he will not be reduced to a substitute. The relationship between him and Ibrahimovic is to rotate each other at most, which may be the best result.
More than 50,000 Red Army fans at the scene saw the Liverpool trident in full bloom, and they were collectively crazy with joy.
From the warm-up match to now, they have waited for more than a month, and finally waited for the collective recovery of the team's condition.
Although after three league rounds, Liverpool has only accumulated 2 points and is ranked in the second-to-last relegation zone in the league, it doesn't matter.
Mo Yang, who was sitting on the bench, also breathed a sigh of relief with a smile on his face.
At the same time, he was relieved. He knew that he could sit on the bench and rest for this game. He was really tired.
Klopp on the sidelines also looked extremely excited. The farmer punched the farmer three times over and over again, with great passion and arrogance.
In fact, he was a little hesitant about whether to let Mo Yang play before the game.
Mo Yang had just returned from the World Cup preliminaries less than two days ago. If he was rashly allowed to start the game, he was really afraid that Mo Yang would be injured due to fatigue.
But he is worried about the team's offense. The bad state some time ago is still fresh in his mind. It has just recovered. If it experiences another defeat at this time, the consequences may be unbearable for Liverpool.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and put Mo Yang on the bench, planning to replace him if the situation went bad. However, he didn't expect that these little guys would collectively explode today. They were in such excellent condition that they all went crazy.
There was only one exception, which made Klopp dissatisfied, extremely dissatisfied.
This person is goalkeeper Karius.
Since the game against Real Madrid, Klopp felt that this guy seemed to be under some ancient witchcraft, and sometimes made very low-level mistakes in training matches.
There was also one time in the game just now, Wijnaldum's return pass. As a result, he didn't know what to think and waited for Lacazette to rush forward before taking off his feet.
Fortunately, the ball hit Lacazette's calf and bounced to Matip, and Liverpool managed to escape.
Klopp knew Karius had a mental problem.
But he didn't expect that this guy still hadn't fully adjusted after so long.
In the second half, Firmino and Salah scored twice, completely going crazy.
In the end, Liverpool defeated Arsenal 5-0 at home.
Use a bloody massacre to announce to all Premier League teams that they are back. The championship team last season is back.