Two days later, at the Midejeski Stadium, Liverpool travelled across the UK, from the northwest to the southeast, to Reading, Berkshire, where they will face League Cup third-round rivals Reading in an hour's time.

Reading has been around for more than 100 years, and this year is the second season in their entire club-length top-flight history, with their most famous event being the opening of Czech international Petr Cech last year, which also made Reading the most notorious.

Unlike Liverpool's passionate red, the Midejeski Stadium is blue and can accommodate more than 20,000 people, but this blue is not synonymous with calm and melancholy, on the contrary, it represents wildness.

Makqin starts today!

Lineup 3421!

Goalkeeper: Itanji

Defenders: Aurelio, Ag, Hyypia, Carragher, Arbelloa

Defenders: Mascherano, Lucas

Forwards: Mack, Crouch

Forward: Fernando Torres

Rafael Benitez showed his boldness and boldness in this game, and he almost hid most of his main players in order to cope with the Champions League in three days' time, and Torres is not expected to play the full game.

Alonso wasn't there, he was bold enough to change the formation, in fact he was going to play as a training match, and if he lost, he lost.

Domestic fans who stayed up late to watch the game went crazy at this time, and Makqin started! Those who can keep until now are all hardcore or simply want to watch Mackqin, this game is not broadcast live on major sports stations, only foreign network signals, and they are all excited to see the name of M.the starting list.

"It's the first shot!"

"Holy, awesome, it's only the second game."

Mackin was thinking about Benitez's set-up in the dressing room before the game when Carragher picked the side, and he didn't expect him to start today, and he only found out in the last hour.

"Lukas, Mark, try to control the ball in midfield today", he drew two arrows on the tactical board, "Luka, when you attack, you go up front, Mark, left wing and left center are your range"

"Take the performance you did in the last game, you don't need to break through, put the ball up in the back"

"Once you lose the ball in front, Crouch, Lucas, you have to fight back on the spot to slow down, Mark and Mascherano are stuck behind to control the second drop"

"Don't bring the pace too fast in this game, pay attention to the action and don't get hurt, it's okay to lose the ball, play at our pace, as long as you score one more than them"

"Reading won't be too conservative at home, watch out for their counter-attacks"

Only Liverpool TV was broadcasting the game live today, and Walker didn't even have a partner, which was boring enough, and when it came to announcing the starting line-up, he was surprised by the starters of Lucas and Mark.

'Rafa's squad changed a lot today, there were three youngsters in midfield, Gerrard took turns to see if they could control the midfield'

Benitez is standing on the sidelines, and he wants to use this game to test the quality of Lucas and Mark, which is related to the rotation of future games.

Walker commented: "The game is about to start, it's the third round of the Carabao Cup when Liverpool play Reading away"

"Liverpool kick off first, Crouch knocks Lucas, Lucas gives Mascherano, Mascherano hands to Marc on the left......"

Reading started with a fierce snatch, which is their usual style, especially when they learned that Liverpool's main midfielders were almost absent in this game, so they wanted to use this opportunity to seize control of the midfield.

Mackin felt very uncomfortable, the referee's blowing penalty scale was a bit large, and the opponent's right-back almost fought with him again, and his receiving and controlling the ball was greatly affected.

"Toot", the referee finally blew the foul, in just a few minutes, Mackin has been knocked down three times, all on the side, resulting in him not being able to catch the ball and turn around smoothly, he didn't expect Reading to dare to press the defense line so high, it seems that their main means of defending Torres is to prevent the midfielder from giving him the ball line.

Uris is about to be Macklin's father at his age, Reading is in formation 532, Ulis is simply his shadow for a few minutes, Mackin is sitting on the ground, straightening his shin guards, and Ulis is still chattering with the referee.

"Hey, referee, I'm a normal confrontation"

"You're stretching your elbow," the referee raised his arm. "Pay attention to the action"

"I think it's a normal action, that kid is too bad at fighting"

"I have my own scale, don't question my decision"

Lucas came over to take a free kick, he walked up to Mackin and reached out to pull him up.

"Well, it's not hurt."

"It's okay, they're too dead"

"Increase the range of activities, and the coach doesn't limit your position"

"Well, I'll try their defensive intensity first"

After kick-off, Liverpool continued to fall in the back, Lucas and Mack Qin did not press, Liverpool's overall formation could not press, and the midfield was the Central Plains Forte where the princes competed for hegemony.

Mackin moved his position to the middle, based on the combination of the opposing central defender and full-back, so that Aurelio could contain Uris after pressing, and the opposing defender could not follow Macqin back to the midfield.

Slowly Liverpool stabilized the situation, Lucas and Mackin stabilized the midfield, although it was still difficult to move forward, at least the team did not play chaotically.

Reading manager Koper immediately sensed the change, immediately got up from the coach's box, ran to the sidelines and shouted to the striker,

"Lang, step back a little and press their back waistline"

Mackin felt a tendency to block the opposition midfield, and a return pass kicked the ball to Hyypia, allowing the back line to reorganize.

In this game, Liverpool's attack is left-leaning, because Aberloa's offensive ability on the right side is still a little worse than Aurelio, and Crouch is a striker, so he plays in the front waist purely because there is no one, he still plays as a retreating striker, and Abelloa can't cooperate.

Walker said in the commentary box: "Reading has been very fierce in the past ten minutes, Liverpool's advance is a bit difficult, Torres has no support"

With his feet on the back of the line, Mackin slowly returned to the halfway line to pick up the ball, and behind the flanks of Lucas and Aurelio, he looked more like a left wing-back.

Benitez stood motionless on the sidelines, he just wanted to see how they played, Markin felt that Reading's three lines were very compact, and now there was no good player with the ball on the wing, Lucas had just advanced with the ball and was almost broken.

He took advantage of the retreat and no one pressed, observed the current situation, and could only use the high and fast on the front line to hold the ball, and then insert it in the midfield, he decided to give it a try.

Reading just broke the ball to complete a wave of attack, very concise, the backfield passed diagonally to the side, the striker pulled the edge to complete the cross, Skrtel grabbed the ball in front of Lang and pushed the ball out, and Makqin just arrived at the landing point.

He didn't stop the ball, knocked the ball back to Aurelio from the penalty area, then turned and brushed the opponent's midfield, just in time to receive a pass from Aurelio on the wing, completing a one-two.

Taking advantage of the opponent's unstable footing, Mackin did not drag the mud and water, and directly raised a high ball with his left foot, and the ball directly bypassed the left central defenders of Uris and Reading in the air.

"Damn, this foot is beautiful"

"Makqin's footwork is really accurate"

The webcast chat room was immediately relieved from the dull atmosphere with this called passing.

This is his talent now, because he has a particularly strong sense of space on the pitch, so he has a high accuracy of long-distance passing, and when he passed the ball, Torres was just about to run back, and as soon as the ball came out, he also happened to cross the back line of Reading.

Now between him and the goalkeeper, in addition to the goalkeeper, there is only one central defender behind the back-up Duburi, who used to be the main defender of Leeds United at his peak, and the strength is still there, he knows that he can't catch up with Torres, so he can only try to squeeze his shooting angle.

"Good shot, Torres was in an offside position, he got a half-one-on-one chance", Volcker said at a faster pace.

"He entered the penalty area, Dubori had already caught up, shot ~, Federici blocked it with his foot, the ball was deflected out of the goal, corner kick, Liverpool's attack was very threatening"

Torres was a little disappointed to see that the ball didn't go in, and turned around and gave a thumbs up to Mack, which he had just received comfortably, just at his own step.

Mack Qin ran to take a corner kick, and now there is really no corner kick player on the field except him, Lucas can barely open it, and the others have never played at all.

The ball landed well and Skrtel headed it high with Dubley's interference.

Although Liverpool formed a wave of offensive just now, Reading still bravely pressed out to attack, Liverpool's back line was still a little uncomfortable after changing formations, so that Reading formed a few shots, but fortunately, they were not absolute opportunities, and Itanji resolved them one by one.

In your back and forth, halfway through the first half of the game, Mackin also slowly entered the state, starting in the top game for the first time, although there is no psychological fear, but the rhythm of the game is not just on the field to adapt to, although it is the League Cup, but both sides are Premier League teams, and the league is not much different.

He slowly increased his range of motion, which is a consistent characteristic of his play, and in his consciousness, the concept of position is very weak, there is no fixed position, only the right position.

"Liverpool started to control the midfield, now their three midfielders Mascherano, Lucas, Mark is running very smoothly, Macby was a lot more active at the beginning, gradually moving closer to the middle, I don't know if it was Benitez's arrangement", Walker explained the situation.

They have been pouring the ball to each other seven or eight times in this small triangle, three people and two South American players, all of whom have good small skills, not to mention Mackqin's awareness, and after attracting the Reading midfielder, he stuffed the ball to Aurelio who was inserted on the side.

Aurelio advanced quickly with the ball, Reading's defense shrank to the middle just now, and this time the habitual overall formation pressed to his right side, Aurelio burst to the edge of the penalty area to see no good chances, and habitually returned the ball to Mackin who came to respond.

"Beautiful transfer, Mark showed his excellent big picture, Arbeloa chested and stopped, he got into the box, Arbeloa~, inverted triangle pass to the penalty spot~"

"Lucas, Goal~, Lucas, he scored his first goal for Liverpool, he was very happy~"

Lucas laughed and ran towards Arbeloa, his blonde hair fluttering, and his teammates, including Mackqin, excitedly followed in celebration.

Benitez smiled and applauded on the sidelines, and what he was most satisfied with was the clarity of his attacking thinking.

Lured the enemy from midfield to feint on the left, before Liverpool had been playing on the left, allowing Reading to habitually come over to the main defense, and Mackin had an unexpected diagonal pass from the right to penetrate their defence, giving Arbeloa enough space to burst into the box.

After Alonso's injury, Benitez's biggest concern was the combing of the midfield, and the performance of Lucas and Mark in the past 20 minutes made him happy, although he was still a little immature, but full of potential.

"Luka, scored the first goal~"

"Get out, you just opened the meat a few days ago~"

"Haha", laughed Mackin laughed.

"Most of the credit for this ball should be credited to Mark Qin's head, that foot transfer is too ecstatic~", the Internet habitually began to milk him,

"I said you don't realize that his playing habits are a bit like Kaka, he never looks down"

"Yes, but Kaka's appearance and speed are a few streets away~"

"Roll upstairs, Mark Qin's organization and running are a few streets away~"

"Uh, it's brainless upstairs~"

"So what?"

"To be honest, I feel very chic when I watch Mack play football, I watched all his games carefully, including the youth team games in the documentary, didn't you notice that he rarely concedes goals?"

"You seem to be true when you say that"

"And he never kills the ball or passes it to death~"

"Huh? Upstairs professional, it really seems to be"

"What do you want to say after a few people upstairs for a long time?"

"He has four eyes, and there are no blind spots in the front, back, left, right, and left!"

"Please! Imagination is too rich! ”

“……”

Koper saw the goal conceded, there was no surprise, the team did not make a mistake in the defense just now, it was Liverpool who seized the gap in their defensive movement, but the attack was not satisfied with him, the two sides were not resolute enough, and while Liverpool celebrated, he called the two forwards over......