Chen Anno was tightly marked by two players at the edge of the box, and just as it seemed he had run out of options, he caught sight of a red figure out wide. With the outside of his foot, he flicked the ball to Arnold, who was pushing up on the right.
Arnold did not take a touch and whipped in a cross at once. The ball curled through the air toward the far post!
Mane charged in at the far post and nodded it home!
3:0!
"What a goal!"
"There's another one! One goal each for the front three!"
"Three goals, three different methods!"
"Cutting inside for a shot, runs through the half-space, full-backs overlapping and crossing to the far post. This season's Liverpool have evolved far beyond last season's simple, brutal tactics."
"Watford had better be careful."
Before halftime, Watford barely managed to organize a few counterattacks, but Van Dijk's back line dealt with them all steadily.
At 3:0 by halftime, the match had essentially lost all suspense.
In the second half, Liverpool showed no intention of letting up.
In the 52nd minute, Watford finally pulled one back.
From a corner, their center-back Miguel Britos rose amid the chaos and headed the ball into the net, making it 3:1.
The Bumblebees supporters in the stands found a flicker of life, but that was all.
In the 63rd minute, Chen Anno scored his second.
This time, he received the ball through the middle, burst past one man in a single stride, then stopped sharply and changed direction to shake off the covering defender. He surged into the box and slotted a left-footed shot into the near corner.
4:1!
That was a classic Annuo goal—utterly unreasonable, just like that.
Liverpool's show was not over yet.
In the 72nd minute,