By the time the commercial was over and the post-match TV interviews between the players and the manager were over, and we switched back to BT Sport's live broadcast room, most of the fans outside the glass window had dispersed, leaving only sporadic final exits.

Emptiness and loneliness began to envelop Goodison Park. Scenes like this are just the usual ones after every football game.

"I like the moment I am about to have, only the joy of that moment is the purest, not yet fully gained means that it is too late to completely lose, there is no beginning until it ends. This is true for a race, for a championship, for an emotional relationship, and for life. ”

So what does the whistle mean to you at the end of this game? It's a situation that's completely opposite to the moment you like, it's not like going on a date with your beloved girl, it's more like going to a funeral.

Ironically, you don't know if it's the former or the latter before you go out.

You see, there's not that much we can control.

"So, Christine, do you think this game can be seen as Patrick Amber's solo show?"

Lineker's voice suddenly broke into Lu Ling's thoughts, she took a deep breath, leaned back, and began to answer his question: "Patter's performance in this game is undoubtedly perfect, he showed a world-class player, or he showed everything that the best football player in the world should be. I feel very lucky to be able to see this kind of game live. I think, over the years, when people look back on this game, it must be a classic, and it will definitely become a game that many people who really love football regret not being able to witness with their own eyes. There are also many such competitions to look at history at this point in time today. I don't think it's just a Patrick Amber solo show, it's going to be watched in three time slots. The first period, the whole first half, was a contest between Nick Flores and Pep Guardiola, both of whom were masters of their football philosophy to the extreme, they were playing a game of control and counter-control, and neither team produced goals at this stage, which is a pity, but it was also justified, and the second stage I think was the victory of the Everton manager, who seized a very important weak link of Barcelona and produced goals, and at that stage I almost thought that the balance of victory in this game was already tilting in favor of the home team——”

The live feed cut to Everton's first goal and the home side's only goal of the game.

Lu Ling's next specific talk is not how Nicholas "forced" Messi to make mistakes, she mainly talked about Everton's offensive system construction. From the days of the QPR era to the present day at Everton, the Spaniard has always been passionate and paranoid about attacking. This is actually the biggest difference between him and his "mentor" Jose Mourinho.

Football critics are always the first to talk about the Everton manager's defensive system, but in reality, it is impossible to talk about Espanyol's defensive system without talking about his attacking system, whose attacking and defensive ideas and total control of the team are absolutely inseparable. It's just that in the eyes of those people, it seems that Everton's goals are just the natural result of the stars in front of them relying on their individual ability on the premise of doing a good job of defense.

How ridiculous.

Lu Ling said this paragraph, and two former England internationals also joined the discussion. These two, one used to be a first-class striker and the other was once a top defender, and they were adding to the details on the field. The perspective of a former player is sometimes very interesting, Lu Ling listened carefully, she suddenly thought, ten or twenty years later, will Pat sit in such a live broadcast room and analyze the game as a legendary star?

She always thought that he would become a football coach too, and if he didn't, he would do something completely unrelated to football. When he was a kid, he said he wanted to be a wildlife scientist.

The conversation returned to the QPR coach, who continued her train of thought, "We were all amazed in the third phase, and yes, the key player in this phase is Patrick Amber. Not to mention that he scored a hat-trick in such an important and intense game, what is even more shocking is that all four goals produced by Barcelona were led by him. But this is still in Pep Guardiola's near-perfect system, and it is also the help that Messi and Neymar have brought to Pat. Geniuses have a heart and soul with each other, creating space for each other, and those images are still in my mind, as beautiful as a picture. ”

The camera then cut to four goals from Barcelona, with the voices of Owen and Rio Ferdinand intertwined.

Lu Ling looked at his watch, the show was about to come to an end. During the show, the phone in her pocket was always vibrating, and now it is vibrating again, she hesitated for a moment and didn't take it out, the show is still live, and the camera will cut back to the studio in a while, she wants to wait until the show is over.

The camera cuts back, and she is ready to put an end to her train of thought, "This is a game where I didn't guess the process, let alone the result." She shrugged her shoulders and teased herself, "Just like my team did against Barcelona." I wish I had been a prophet, and in that case, I probably wouldn't be sitting here. ”

The three men beside her laughed.

Lineker also immediately added, "Please, Christine, it's not that bad to sit here, at least you don't have the pressure." ”

She smiled and continued, "I wish there was that kind of pressure. In conclusion, I would say that in such a fight, in Barça, in a show like this at Pyter, there seems to be a loser behind it, but I don't think Nicolás is a loser, just like I don't think I'm a loser. I'm sure the guys in this game will keep meeting and fighting each other and no one knows what's going to happen in the future. I'd like to congratulate Barcelona on a big win at Goodison Park, but I'm also looking forward to Everton's performance at Camp Nou – maybe a miracle. ”

But in fact, everyone knows that miracles don't always happen, especially when you're not prepared.

****

It's half past ten. The post-match press conference for both managers should be over. Lu Ling thought. After the show, she asked Owen a question about raising horses, and Owen talked to her for a long time. It was she who started it, and she couldn't interrupt it, but she could only listen half of it, and half of her thoughts didn't know where to go. Afterwards, both Ferdinand and Lineker politely inquired about her father, and she thanked them for their concern and did not dwell too much on the subject.

By the time she said goodbye to BT Sport, it was almost eleven o'clock.

She took out her phone from the pocket of her trench coat, and there were many messages from different people.

- Alice

- Tim

- Steve

- Nathan Neil

- Lu Yungui

And, a bunch of discussions about the game in the team's hatsapp group. Lu Ling directly clicked it out and didn't look at it.

She won't be at Liverpool tonight and tomorrow will be a busy day. Those guys must already be on their way back to London, and hopefully they won't be late for tomorrow's training session, she thought, putting away her phone and walking to the elevator. But anyway, she got to see him today.

****

Barcelona's various dressing room selfies have been shown to fans on the personal social media accounts of several Barcelona stars.

Neymar encouraged Patrick to put the "sexy" looking photo on his Instagram, and Patrick wiped his hair while nudging the Brazilian, "When you dragged me over, I didn't even wrap my bath towel properly......

"That's the point, and they'd love to see it, hahahaha. ”

"Neymar, let Pater go, his mind is on his ball right now. Peake said.

Patrick threw away the towel that wiped his hair and was walking out, when he turned back and said to Peake, "I'll be back soon." ”

"You really have to hurry, we don't want to leave Patrick (Hattrick) Hero alone in Liverpool, why the hell is it so cold in this city, it's almost May......"

"Damn England ......"

Their words were inaudible to Patrick, and he stood outside the door, and the world fell silent.

The roars of the away fans in the stadium, the whistle at the end of the game, the words Rose said as he hugged him, the praise in Pep's ear, his own words in the post-game TV interview, the sound of the shower splashing, the laughter in the dressing room after the game......

It's all gone.

When did he remember that he didn't take the ball with him? By the time he remembered it, it seemed to be gone, and he asked his teammates and coaches one by one, and every Goodison Park staff member he met, but they all said they hadn't.

He's got to find the ball.

He asked another Everton employee, and this time, there was finally some news, and the employee told Patrick that it seemed that an Everton player had taken it.

Could it be Ross? Patrick thought he should have gone back to the locker room to check his phone, maybe someone had messaged him. He turned around and was about to head back to the visitors' locker room when he heard a familiar voice. There was a little bit of hustleness, he always told her, that bit of husky was very sexy.

The voice was asking, "Has your manager left?" 166 Reading Network