After the game, there was a joyous atmosphere in the visiting team's locker room at White Hart Lane. The Liverpool players were in a wonderful mood to celebrate their first win of the new season and were ready to set off on their way home.
Qin Xiong changed into casual clothes and walked out of the locker room. When he came to the mixed zone of the stadium, the reporters surrounded him.
"Qin Xiong, how does it feel to be back in the Premier League?"
Qin Xiong said with a smile, "As you can see."
"How's the progress of integrating into the team since you came to Liverpool?"
"As you can see."
"You made a great contribution to the team's victory today. Are you satisfied with your performance?"
"As you can see."
Qin Xiong's face was filled with a happy smile. He simply and naturally answered the reporters' questions and then boarded the bus with his teammates to leave North London.
The reporters on Fleet Street smiled helplessly.
From beginning to end, Qin Xiong only said one sentence: "As you can see."
The reporters did not know whether to laugh or cry. But the reporter who had followed Qin Xiong when he played for Arsenal sighed: He was more like a superstar than when he left.
He accepted the interview calmly and did not put on a routine posture in front of the camera. His current relaxation seemed more real and natural.
Just as Liverpool was wreaking havoc at White Hart Lane in North London, Arsenal was on a killing spree in Liverpool's hometown, Merseyside.
Wenger led a combination of old and new Gunners to slaughter the owners of Goodison Park, Everton's team, with a 6: 1 score!
This made the first round of the new Premier League season full of drama.
Liverpool went to North London to beat Arsenal's arch-rival, Tottenham Hotspur.
Arsenal came to Merseyside to ravage Liverpool's arch-rival, Everton!
There were bound to be reporters on Fleet Street who used humorous words to describe the "great friendship" between Arsenal and Liverpool.
Chelsea started a low-key game under the leadership of the new manager, Ancelotti, with a 2: 1 victory over Hull City at Stamford Bridge.
Manchester United, on the other hand, was struggling in the post-Raldo era. In the theater of dreams at Old Trafford, they were bombarded with more than 30 kicks in 90 minutes. In the end, they only scored one goal and defeated Birmingham City 1: 0. Cristiano Ronaldo's stand-in was still a hot topic on Fleet Street. So far, no one had been able to take over the submachine gun left behind by Cristiano Ronaldo and kill for Manchester United.
After returning to Liverpool, Qin Xiong went home to pick up Sylvia. Qin Xiong was more relaxed with a nanny at home to look after Qin Ye.
After having dinner with Gerard and his teammates, they went to the local pub to relax. The presence of Qin Xiong and the others set off a frenetic atmosphere at the scene.
In the past year and a half, due to Sylvia's pregnancy and the rest after giving birth, Qin Xiong did not go out with her to relax. Now, in the open and lively Liverpool pub, Qin Xiong and Sylvia let loose and danced to the explosive music together.
At 11: 30 p.m., Qin Xiong and his teammates left the pub together. They came at night just to relax. They had a tight schedule to deal with next.
.....
The next day, Liverpool's victory in the game against Arsenal was widely reported by Fleet Street.
And Liverpool's local newspaper, The Echo, issued a slightly cautious review of the battle report.
Tony Barrett wrote in his column, "Liverpool got off to a good start in the new season. Comain delivered a satisfactory result in his first game, but this is just a victory in a game. A team that can compete for the league title needs to maintain a long-term winning record. The stability of the team's performance is the key.
During the Benítez era, Liverpool also defeated Manchester United by a large score and humiliated Chelsea and Arsenal. But? Liverpool has never won the league title.
One game can't prove anything, but it is a good sign. If Liverpool can maintain their performance at White Hart Lane and make progress, then Liverpool will undoubtedly be the top favorite to win the title.
In reality, there were problems of one kind or another. The bigger problem that plagued Liverpool had existed for many years, and that was the depth of Liverpool's bench.
Although Liverpool's First Team players look similar to other competitors, the quality of the substitutes is worrisome.
No matter how strong the team is, it can't beat the ravages of illness. Hopefully my worries won't come true, but it's clearly impossible to expect all the main players in the First Team to play for a season.
.....”
The new Liverpool team was not complacent after winning the first round of the Premier League. Comain put more energy into his work and was more serious.
He often pulled the coaching staff into the boot room after work to review the game or to prepare for the next opponent for internal communication. Any information collected about the opponent was taken seriously and could not be used.
This made Comain's every pre-game preparation meeting like an analysis seminar to "strip the opponent bare."
Not only did he inform the players in detail about the opponent's technical and tactical style, the main means of scoring, the focus of the offense, even the individual strength analysis of the opponent's players, weaknesses, and so on. Comain did well in that he did not tell all the players everything at length. He would focus on the information he needed to deploy and inform the players. He would tell a certain player who was responsible for it. He did not expect the players to listen to 90% of the nonsense and then extract 10% of the valuable information and think about it again. That would be too tiring and the star players were not very interested.
Liverpool's overall state was positive.
Qin Xiong's joining was like a fire, and after the whole team enjoyed the fiery fighting spirit brought about by the fire, more and more players and fans participated in making the fire burn more and more.
The fire quickly became a prairie fire!
On August 20, the second round of the new Premier League season arrived as scheduled. Stoke City visited Anfield to challenge Liverpool.
In the fourth minute of the game, Liverpool entered the winning track.
Qin Xiong cut across the middle in the front field, then stuck close to the ground and gave Torres an anti-offside assist. Torres raised his blade and cut down Stoke City!
Goals came one after another. Qin Xiong played the charm of a magician and made the Stoke City players into clowns on the field. Every time Qin Xiong controlled the ball and got rid of his tricks, it was a naked humiliation.
5:0
Torres scored twice and Qin Xiong scored a hat-trick of assists. He only played 70 minutes of the game. Gerard scored a goal and also had an assist. Ngog, who came on as a substitute, scored a goal. There was still one more? That was an unfortunate own goal by a Stoke City player.
At the end of the game, Qin Xiong stood up from the substitutes' bench and did the same thing as the fans: applauding!
Not only had he conquered the hearts of the fans, but even Comain's position in the hearts of the fans was rising day by day.
Liverpool had won two consecutive games in the new Premier League season!
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