In a one-on-one situation, Coutinho is not at all inferior to any player defending him. Coutinho's personal ability is very strong. As long as he is given the opportunity to unleash his ability, he will play like crazy.

Coutinho has an extremely fast reaction speed, and his ability to handle the ball in a small space is top-notch in the world at this time.

Therefore, when Chelsea had only one defender to defend Coutinho, Coutinho easily seized the opportunity, changed direction and feinted, and then took advantage of the opponent's unstable center of gravity to make an inverted triangle pass and sent the ball to the empty position in Chelsea's penalty area.

The ball was given very thoughtfully. To be precise, the ball was given behind the three defenders who were defending Gu Ran. Although there was still a certain distance from Gu Ran, Gu Ran did not need to turn around. He could directly change line and accelerate to get rid of them, and then insert himself to get the ball!

This kind of inverted triangle pass is not something that an ordinary player can do. It requires a very spiritual and talented player to do it.

This is also a beautiful through pass that Gu Ran rarely encounters in the Southampton team, because usually, it is Gu Ran who makes this kind of pass to his teammates. But now, Gu Ran can also enjoy this wonderful spiritual pass.

As soon as Coutinho passed the ball, Gu Ran accelerated and used his speed and body to eat up Chelsea's defender.

Mikel was very interested in Gu Ran. Seeing Gu Ran forcing his way into the gap in Chelsea's penalty area, Mikel immediately made a death sliding tackle on Gu Ran.

Friends are friends and games are games, and Mikel is very clear about this.

However, Gu Ran was faster. Before Mikel could slide into the position, Gu Ran rushed to the empty area first, stopped suddenly, stepped on the ball, and then turned to avoid Mikel's dangerous move.

Chelsea's defensive players immediately surrounded Gu Ran and strangled him!

Gu Ran didn't stop at all. He pushed the ball forward and made a slow rainbow lob, passing the ball over the face of his good friend Mikel!

Mikel was still lying on the ground with no time to get up. He could only look up and watch the football fly past his face!

By the time Chelsea's defensive players reacted, Coutinho had already cut into the penalty area without knowing when, and faced Gu Ran's rainbow lob. He didn't even need to stop the ball, and didn't even need to adjust, he just swung his leg and shot! The football was only five or six meters away from the goal, and it shot straight in with the force of an arrow piercing the clouds!

The world-class goalkeeper Cech had no time to react!

Cech had just focused all his attention on Gu Ran. He never expected that Gu Ran would pass the ball to Coutinho! The ball went in! The Liverpool fans at the scene were boiling!

They hadn't seen such a wonderful combination for a long time! Coutinho, who scored the goal, also rushed towards Gu Ran madly, hugged Gu Ran and cheered to celebrate!

This is the first time that Coutinho, as a midfielder, has eaten such delicious Gu’s stuffed pancakes!

Neither of them had such wonderful cooperation during training, but in the game, these two super spiritual players played crazy cooperation in Chelsea's almost airtight positional defense!

The score on the big screen at Anfield Stadium changed to Liverpool 2:0 Chelsea!

Gu Ran made a pass and shot! This was only the 23rd minute of the first half!

Liverpool's advantage is very obvious!

You know, in the previous few seasons, the turbulent Liverpool was often suppressed by the Blues Chelsea and was suffocated. The Reds fans couldn't remember how many times they shed tears of sorrow.

But today, the tears of Liverpool fans are sweet! They are tears of joy! Liverpool's team anthem is sung in the stands!

In the 35th minute, Coutinho passed the ball to Gu Ran in the midfield. Mikel intercepted Gu Ran closely. Gu Ran knocked Mikel to the ground. Mikel immediately stretched out his foot to trip Gu Ran, and Gu Ran staggered and fell to the ground.

Players from both teams immediately gathered around, and the atmosphere on the field was very tense.

However, Gu Ran quickly got up and pulled Mikel up from the grass with a smile.

Mikel also smiled and patted Gu Ran's arm to show his friendliness.

If it were someone else, they would have done it a long time ago.

The referee showed Mikel a yellow card. After all, Mikel had to be punished for his action of tripping Gu Ran.

Mikel had no choice but to accept the yellow card. For the next game, he had to play more restrainedly. Once Mikel played more restrainedly, it would be more difficult for Chelsea to limit Gu Ran's performance.

The game continues.

Liverpool was awarded a free kick in the frontcourt because of Mikel's foul.

This free kick was about 50 meters away from the goal, and the angle was not very good.

Liverpool captain Gerrard took the free kick. Gu Ran, as the center forward, stood in the wall area, ready to receive the ball at any time.

Gerrard took a tactical free kick. Coutinho took the ball and used his personal ability to quickly go to the bottom, while Gu Ran cleverly penetrated into Chelsea's penalty area.

Coutinho faked a shot at the baseline and knocked the ball back to an empty space in the penalty area. Gu Ran, under the stranglehold of three Chelsea defenders, jumped high to fight 1v3 with his body, and bombarded the flying football directly! Cech jumped sideways to save the ball!

Cech's save was beautiful!

But, I didn’t catch it!

The football went in half a beat early, passed over Cech's arm and shot into the net!

The ball went in! In the 37th minute of the first half, with Gu Ran scoring twice, Liverpool scored another goal! On the big screen at Anfield, the score was changed to Liverpool 3:0 Chelsea! This was the most proud moment for the Reds fans in all these years! This was also the first time in all these years that Liverpool could beat Chelsea in the first half! This was Gu Ran's second goal for Liverpool and Coutinho's first assist in this game.

Coutinho was having a great time today! Against Chelsea, the last Premier League champion and Champions League champion, he scored 1 goal and 1 assist in the first half! And more importantly, with Gu Ran's deadly threat in the midfield, Coutinho's pressure was much less, and he could almost fully unleash his abilities.

The game continues!

Chelsea still has a chance theoretically.

...(End of this chapter)