Chapter Eighty-Three: The Direction of Effort

However, no matter how popular Li Qingshan is, it is useless, after all, if he is not a professional debater, if he goes out to debate with those pen sticks, "Li Qingshan or Messi, who is more awesome", he will definitely bring humiliation on himself.

He's a footballer and he needs to be on the football pitch to prove himself.

Messi was born in 1987, while Li Qingshan was born in 1993. And Messi has won the Golden Ball for the fifth time this year, to be honest, it is indeed very difficult to surpass Messi in honor.

But how can life be done without some challenges?

Since entering professional football, Li Qingshan has been relatively smooth, but only in the Champions League final last season, Li Qingshan was so impressed by the defeat.

From that moment on, his goal was incomparably clear - to beat Messi and surpass him.

Surpassing Messi requires him to continue to improve his ability and help the team win more honors.

With specific goals, Li Qingshan is full of fighting spirit and motivation. What people are most afraid of is that they have no goals, especially young people like Li Qingshan, who have already stepped into the top at a young age.

Li Qingshan is now nearly twenty-three years old, and the average professional player begins to decline after the age of thirty-one or two, so Li Qingshan's peak can continue to maintain for seven or eight years, and it is indeed very difficult to surpass Messi's record of five golden balls in these seven or eight years. But now that he has a specific goal, Li Qingshan at least has the motivation to struggle in this career.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, human needs are divided into five levels from low to high like a ladder, namely: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs.

Li Qingshan, as a world-renowned football star, can be said to be very satisfied in the first five needs, and now, the need for self-realization is to keep him motivated.

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Li Qingshan, who once again clarified his goal, seems to be more motivated on the court.

After the home win over Swansea, there was a rare eight-day break in the Premier League. Then, on 10 January, the Premier League and Championship teams began to compete in the third round of the FA Cup.

Manchester United's draw was drawn at home to Championship side Sheffield United.

Drawing a Championship team is not a bad sign for Manchester United, but it is not too good either. With no games for eight days, Carlo Ancelotti didn't make much rotation in the starting line-up, at least Li Qingshan got the chance to start.

Poor Sheffield United met Li Qingshan, who had just been stimulated by Messi's winning the Ballon d'Or away, and at Old Trafford, Li Qingshan kicked overhead in front of the home fans and completed a hat-trick in the first half.

Fortunately, not long after the start of the second half, Ancelotti, who had already sealed the win, began to replace some of the main players on the field and replaced some young players who returned from loan in the winter window.

Li Qingshan, who was replaced early, was still a little unsatisfied, he went all out in the first half and scored three goals, in fact, to test his recent training results in the second half.

He's been training his dribbling skills in the soccer camp, and he's trying to score in the first half just to give him a chance to experiment with his training in the second half.

It's a pity that Ancelotti doesn't know what Li Qingshan is going to do, because there is still a Premier League game in three days, since the team has basically locked up the win, it is understandable to replace Li Qingshan and let the absolute main force rest and rest to avoid being kicked and injured by the Sheffield United players.

Li Qingshan walked off the court unsatisfied. In the end, Manchester United beat Sheffield United 4-0 at home to reach the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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On 13 January 2016, Manchester United travelled to Newcastle United.

Newcastle United have had a poor season, having been knocked out of the FA Cup last weekend with a 1-0 defeat to Watford. At the same time, the Magpies also suffered four consecutive defeats in all competitions. In the Premier League standings, Newcastle United is in third place from bottom with 17 points, and the relegation situation is in jeopardy.

Manchester United's main game was exhausted, Mata, Fellaini, Hummels, and Rojo all returned from injury, and Manchester United's injury tide some time ago was finally contained.

Although Newcastle are playing at home, the probability of them winning and picking up points against such a Manchester United team is very slim. For the home side, perhaps a draw at home still seems like a goal to pursue.

However, Manchester United's current main attacker Li Qingshan has been in such good form recently, and not many people will be optimistic that Newcastle will be able to withstand Li Qingshan's impact.

Really. Facing the Magpies who are now in the relegation zone, Li Qingshan has no pity at all, he seems to be full of motivation on the field, in the first half of the game, he used a header and a long-range shot to help Manchester United lead 2-0.

Coming from 2-0 down in the first half was a heavy blow to Newcastle, the home side who had already suffered four consecutive defeats, and it was too difficult for Newcastle to come back from two goals behind Manchester United.

Li Qingshan was also very satisfied with his performance in the first half. Because it means that in the second half of the game, he can safely experiment with his recent training results. For Li Qingshan, the victory of the game is the first place, so he will try to establish the team's advantage in the score in the first half, so that in the second half, even if he makes a mistake in the front court, there is still room for remedy.

At the beginning of the second half, Li Qingshan got a chance to get the ball.

Herrera's long pass in the backfield, if it was in the past, Li Qingshan's way of dealing with it is generally to divide the ball to the left and right sides, or stop the ball himself to protect it, and wait for his teammates to press forward and come up to support.

Li Qingshan looked left and right at Newcastle's defense, Newcastle's two central defenders were attracted by Li Qingshan's attention, and the goalkeeper was still on the goal line, and there was a distance between the back line and the goalkeeper.

Li Qingshan pressed the central defender to stop the ball to the side and back, and was ready to burst into the penalty area to shoot.

However, his idea was good, but his footwork mastery was a little worse.

He stopped a bit, but the ball was a little bigger and the goalkeeper cleared it.

The players occasionally improvised on the field, and Ancelotti was very understandable, although Li Qingshan's attempt failed, he still gave applause and encouragement on the sidelines.

But then Li Qingshan's performance made him a little incomprehensible.

Li Qingshan seemed to have sudden confidence in his own skills, and he was always trying to fight with the opposing defender after stopping the ball.

However, none of his attempts were too effective, and he was either cut off by the defender directly, or he was quickly cleared by another defender after passing it.

Fortunately, Manchester United's overall control ability was quite good, and the second half did not allow Newcastle to get any chance to counter-attack.

In the end, Manchester United won 2-0 against Newcastle.