The Ball at Your Feet

"Liverpool doesn't have a great striker right now." Benitez said in his own opinion. "Baros is a bit sticky and he is not decisive when playing. This is a big problem. He can't be able to play. Grasp the opportunity to shoot at the first time. Therefore, what I need you to do is to do more forwards, use your shooting ability and passing ability to mess up the opponent's back line, and at the same time use your dribbling ability. Further open up space for Baros."

"But my insertion ability is not strong." Zhao Yaning replied, "shooting is also very poor."

"I don't need you to have the same shooting ability as a striker. I just hope that you can give us more options in the frontcourt." Benitez replied, "You don't need to make many changes, but you need more. Put in more, grab points, shoot. It's not very difficult."

Put it lightly. Zhao Yaning said something in his heart.

"If you can, why don't we give it a try. In the next game, you will play according to my arrangement. Let's try and be optimistic." Benitez made arrangements, "against Norwich. The game, you just play. Then, for the next game, you take turns."

Zhao Yaning raised his head with some doubts, "Why?"

"The next European game is an away game to go to Greece. Our goal is also to make every effort to tie, not to win. You played two games in the summer, and you just joined the team, the problem of fatigue is also very big. You also need time to adjust."

Speaking of this, Benitez paused again, "Then, the next game is against Chelsea. That game was difficult to play, we need to adjust our physical strength and play again..."

"But sacrificing the Champions League for such a league game?" Zhao Yaning felt a little surprised.

"It's just a game against the Greek team, fourth in the group. We can win it. You can do your own business in Liverpool."

Zhao Yaning blushed a little when he thought of something, "Alizee and my son are indeed moving to Liverpool, but I can play with the team."

"What is moving? I said it is for you to take a rest, to relieve the fatigue of continuous combat, and to avoid injury and illness. What son are you talking about?"

Zhao Yaning was speechless. It seemed that he had misunderstood. All Benitez thought was that there was only competition.

Olympiacos had an upset draw with Deportivo in the first game, which made the situation in the group a little messy. The team's status in Group One declined and did not win, which also let Liverpool breathe a sigh of relief. After all, without the Deportivo de La Coruña competition, plus the home game has defeated Monaco, Liverpool's qualifying should not be a problem. It is for this reason that Benitez also dared to take Zhao Yaning on holiday-in fact, he was also a little worried about Zhao Yaning's physical condition. Obviously played two games in the summer, but the state is surprisingly good. He had never encountered such a thing. He didn't want to bet on Zhao Yaning's talent. He decided to follow the principles of football and let Zhao Yaning take a break.

As for what Zhao Yaning's girlfriend and son are coming to Liverpool now-his old man doesn't bother to care.

In the next game, his game against Norwich is over, and what we should consider is that we should go to London to play Chelsea.

"Then, let yourself see if Chelsea are stronger than last season."

Against Norwich, Liverpool did not have any problems.

At home, coupled with the underdogs, the game was played without any suspense. In the opening twenty minutes, Alonso used a long pass and sent it to the penalty area. After receiving the ball, Baros unloaded the ball, pulled the ball, pinpointed the position, and then took a shot to set the scoring for Liverpool.

Then, in the thirty-fifth minute, Luis Garcia's kick made Zhao Yaning, who rushed into the penalty zone, got the ball. He turned around and avoided the defense in the penalty area, then pushed the far corner of the goal, scoring an icing on the cake for the team.

After the second half, Luis Garcia scored another goal for Liverpool. This sudden kick from near the penalty area made the goalkeeper unresponsive and flew directly into the net.

After that, Liverpool did not have a strong desire to attack. Until the last moment, in the 80th minute, Liverpool won another free kick in the frontcourt.

This time, Zhao Yaning stood in front of the free kick, stepped back and kicked!

An erratic arc crossed, and a fallen leaf ball fell directly into the net!

"Ha! Liverpool's fourth goal!" Martin Taylor laughed, "A beautiful deciduous ball! I thought that after Zola left, the Premier League will not have such a view for a long time."

"It's really beautiful." Andy Gray also agreed with this. "Liu Ye Gu is always a little different than the curve kick. Zola is still alive even if his free kick rate is not as good Beckham also makes each of us like his goals. It is naturally very happy to see someone score a goal like this."

"Speaking of which, the next round is Liverpool against Chelsea. What do you think of this game?"

"Need to say? Normal people are optimistic about Chelsea, right?"

This question really does not need to be said more. Liverpool's current lineup is a lineup capable of competing for the league championship, but not able to go further. And Chelsea's current lineup is a lineup that competes with Arsenal for the championship.

Liverpool invested 30 million in the summer. It has been a big deal in the past few years, but what about Chelsea? They spent 120 million last year, and another 80 million this year. Such wealth is not comparable to Liverpool.

Chelsea’s strong lineup is enough for Chelsea’s head coach to proudly claim to be the best coach in the world, but Liverpool’s lineup, which is already very poor, has suffered from injuries recently.

"In fact, this season, the performance of these two teams is very interesting." Martin Taylor thought of something and laughed, "Liverpool used to be a defensive team. From Fowler and Reid Knapp’s hot young generation, after they left in 2001, they are a defensive counterattack team built around Irving. In the previous days, Chelsea had been playing offensive football, or in their own words Said, **** football. But now, they have changed their coaches, but their playing style has changed drastically. Now Chelsea, although rich, but playing a very stable defensive counterattack. And Liverpool are now continuously introducing Zhao Yaning After playing against Luis García, they actually gained some beauty..."

"But it's still not very good-looking." Andy Gray said.

"But at least they tried again, didn't they? Let us see how their game will go!"

After defeating Norwich 4-0, Liverpool finally returned to the middle of the standings. At the same time, their second round of the Champions League is about to begin.

Zhao Yaning did not go to Greece with the team according to Benitez's shift. He also used this time to sort out his gains.

The biggest gain is not numerical. Numerically speaking, he also got a Squealach card, "Kui Ye", brave attribute +1. But the bigger gain is his personal experience and understanding of the tactical play against Liverpool since the transfer. , Is the top priority.

Benitez's offensive tactics are very different from Deschamps. Deschamps’ attack tactical thinking is very simple. It relies on running to create a partial advantage of playing more and less, and opening up the situation through the short-passing and coordinating ability of the players. But Benitez's thinking is much more complicated. What he needs is for the frontcourt players to keep running. Anyone is running all the time, and everyone is running to the ball-free position.

This kind of kicking can be said to use running distance to narrow the technical gap. After all, it is always easier to pass the ball to a teammate who is in an off-ball position. It is precisely because of the large amount of running that the team makes it easier to pass and receive the ball in the front court. At the same time, it is also because of the increase in running and physical exertion that the team has to do more rotations and do more. Adjustment.

On the other hand, this is a coach who attaches great importance to defense. He is accustomed to arranging a very secure line of defense in the backcourt. Under normal circumstances, even when Liverpool attack, they will leave four to five defensive players in the backcourt~www.ltnovel.com~. The consequence is that of the frontcourt. The number of players is much less than the opponent, and it is inevitable that the attack is weak. If you meet a strong team, this kind of play is difficult to achieve-but then again, defensively, it will be very safe.

Benitez's method is to use two wingers to widen the width and allow the back midfielder to penetrate forward, so that the opponent's defense is impacted and the striker has more opportunities. It is precisely because of this that he played on the wing under him, and the kick was very ineffective. Because what he wants is not the impact of the wing, but the players on the wing continue to run backwards and constantly impact, which causes the defensive players to follow, thus widening the width for the mid-range players. This kind of kicking does not require too strong skills, but requires good physical fitness and running ability.

When it comes to mid lane, what he needs is someone who can score in the mid lane to determine the game. Now that the fence has been tied up, and someone has pulled the door open on both sides, what is needed at this time is naturally someone who broke in.

Baros is obviously not good enough to do this job, so he will let himself replace Baros as a forward. Although his shooting skills are not strong, but at least he does not stick the ball in the penalty area, which is the biggest reason why he let himself in.

But this kind of play is really troublesome for Zhao Yaning. He himself knows that his shooting skills are really unreliable sometimes. Is it really possible to rely on his shooting skills to advance?

Against Norwich, after all, it was too simple. The opponent is too weak to test his own level. Whether this kick can really bring out the effect, or to see if you can play in the next game, it is not too late to make a conclusion.

Then, Chelsea, just use it as your own touchstone...