The Ball at Your Feet

Derby's goal in the fourth and sixth quarter

Updated: 2013-06-10

After the end of the UEFA Champions League draw, Liverpool immediately ushered in the 31st round of the league against Everton.

This game has a double meaning: First, this is a derby between Liverpool and Everton, because they lost the game away. In this game, Liverpool can't lose anymore.

And secondly, this is also the key game for fourth place in the Premier League: Liverpool are now eight points ahead of Everton, and if they can win this game, they can leave Everton by as many as ten. One point, with eight rounds left, there is almost no need to worry about Everton being able to catch up.

But if Liverpool lose this game and the point difference becomes five points, then Liverpool will be in trouble.

At this time, Manchester United is only one point ahead of Liverpool. If this victory can be won, Liverpool may surpass Manchester United and reach third in the league.

The match between two deadly enemies is naturally very important.

In this game, the lineups of both sides are not neat. Hypia's appetite is still not getting better, and Alonso is also ill. Kewell's injury is also in the mist, although it is said that his injury has improved, but he insisted that he could not play.

It is said that his agent is helping him contact the transfer. Injuries stopped at Liverpool, allowing him to live such a life. His thoughts about playing football in a different place began to liven up. Taking advantage of winning the League Cup this year, not all four are empty, he also wants to leave Liverpool and go to other teams to develop.

Now the newspaper has faintly accused him of fraud. Zhao Yaning could not agree with such a statement: Kewell was his teammate, injured three times in a season, Zhao Yaning was all present. He said he was scammed, but he was not. But saying this at this time is indeed not professional enough, and it is also chilling.

As for Liverpool, it is still a 451 formation. The starting lineup is still Zhao Yaning in the center, Rise and Garcia to the left and right, Gerrard and Haman starting midfielder.

The forward is still Morientes, and at the back line, it is Warnock who plays the left back. Pellegrino and Carragher are the starting guards, Finnan is right back, and Dudek is the goalkeeper.

On the Everton side, Stubbs returned from injury and Yabo served as the starting guard. Beatty, who had ended his suspension, and Watson, who had recovered from a stomach ailment, both returned to the bench, but McFadden and Arteta did. Injured.

From the beginning of the game, Liverpool took the lead in attacking. Since it is a derby and a home game, Liverpool really has no reason not to press it out. At the beginning of the game, Zhao Yaning directly took a long pass and threw the ball into the penalty area. But Morientes moved a step slower and Hibbert made a header clearance. And then, Gerrard also sent a long pass directly into the penalty area, this time Morientes grabbed a point, but unfortunately, his header went wide.

Randomly, Pellegrino also made a long pass. This time, Zhao Yaning succeeded against offside, but a shot was thrown into the arms of the goalkeeper.

"Liverpool's new strategy is to find a forward with a long pass from the backcourt?" Martin Taylor watched the game uncomfortably. "After a season, I figured out such an idea. It's really bad."

In fact, this idea is not too bad. After all, Liverpool and Everton are enemies, and both sides have invested heavily in the midfield. If Liverpool want to count on Zhao Yaning's breakthrough, although it is not completely impossible, after all, the success rate is not high. And although Zhao Yaning has not been injured in a season, he is still a breakthrough-oriented technical player after all, and he is easily kicked. Benitez has no interest in gambling that Everton is a good boy. At this time, Benitez's idea is obviously to replace the breakthrough in the midfield with another attack, to directly deploy a heavy defense in the backcourt, and then rely on a long pass to directly find the forward, which is also a good way.

But the problem is that although this approach is good for Liverpool, it is definitely not good for neutral fans. Benitez is always able to kick some seemingly boring games into good games, and other particularly interesting games into dull games. Such a coach is really amazing.

The match fell into a stalemate under the monotonous style of Liverpool's counterattack in the backcourt.

Everton obviously took into account Liverpool's ability to break through the midfield and excellent ability to kick free kicks. They hoarded heavy soldiers in the midfield, and they came for Zhao Yaning. Together with Zhao Yaning's breakthrough, they tried their best to intercept each other, and they did not hesitate about fouling. Now they have indeed blocked Zhao Yaning's surprise attack.

In the 13th minute, after Zhao Yaning was brought down again, Liverpool won an excellent frontcourt free kick.

Zhao Yaning looked at the position of the human wall and did not choose to hit the door. His free kicks are being studied more and more by the Premier League teams, and the scoring rate at the beginning of the season is no longer to be found. And if you don't shoot, you have to use your brain to think about how to defend the opponent's penalty area if you want to score.

The opponent's penalty area is very tightly guarded, and the back midfielders and guards are blocked in the penalty area. So, in that case, the frontier protection of the restricted area is definitely not strong enough...

Zhao Yaning made a fake free kick, but gently moved the ball and passed it to the foot of Gerrard who was outside the care of the wall. There was no one in front of Gerrard, he rushed into the penalty area, 15 yards in the middle, too late to make more adjustments, kicked and shot with his left foot!

Goalkeeper Martin judged his ball right and kicked the ball out of the penalty area with one foot. About 25 yards out of the penalty area, Harman volleyed against the ball, but it was a pity that it went above the crossbar.

A sigh: This opportunity is indeed good.

"Liverpool has not been able to seize this good opportunity, but depending on their status, there should be another chance."

Before Martin Taylor had finished speaking, he saw something changed in Liverpool: Warnock sprained his ankle during the game and couldn't hold on. Benitez asked Núñez to replace him, changing the formation to 4321, Riise withdrew to the guard position, and the game continued.

Liverpool still had the advantage on the field. Garcia, Riise and Finnan tried shots one after another, but none of them worked. At this time, when Zhao Yaning broke through with the ball again, Hibbert was thrown into the arc of the penalty area.

The referee gave it a free kick.

The location is too close, but it is not easy to punish. Zhao Yaning thought for a while and called Gerrard over, "Cooperate with me."

This kind of free kick at the front of the penalty area is not the habit of Zhao Yaning. At this time, what you need is to shoot hard, not to find arcs and spins. This kind of ball, Liverpool is best at Riise, his vigorous banging is definitely a must. But the problem is, he is in the backcourt now, so, of course, Liverpool is good at long shots, of course it is Gerrard.

"Let me forget it." Gerrard looked at the position of the free kick. "I can also play this kind of free kick."

"They are too guarded. I will cover and you will play. I can play for one season. They will definitely not guard you." After Zhao Yaning said something, Gerrard got out of the way.

Lifting his foot, falling, just when he thought that Zhao Yaning was going to kick a long shot, Zhao Yaning ran over quickly, and at this time, Gerrard who followed up immediately hit the goal!

The ball was kicked by him at a very high speed, passed directly through the wall, and flew into the gate!

"Al!!! Stephen Gerrard!!! The key moment, the key man!!! Gerrard scored the first goal for Liverpool, and the Liverpool captain scored the goal against Everton!!! !"

Gerrard rushed to the front of the audience frantically, celebrating his goal with them. Being able to score a goal in a derby is nothing better than anything!

"Stephen Gerrard proved with one of his goals that he is one of the best midfielders in England. And he also proved that he is the person who hates Everton most in Liverpool."

With this goal, Liverpool began to take advantage. This is Anfield, which was originally their home court. Now they lead the rivals in the same city 1-0, which makes the fans even more crazy.

What the fans did not expect was that soon ~www.ltnovel.com~Liverpool ushered in a second goal.

In the 32nd minute, after Zhao Yaning and Morientes made a small cooperation in midfield, Zhao Yaning suddenly passed the ball to Morientes and ran into the penalty area. His original intention was to hope that Morientes could hang the ball and let him kick the offside, but Morientes did not choose to pass the ball. He adjusted a step, and from 35 yards away, he suddenly hit a big kick. door!

The football hit the crossbar with a huge bang, and then bounced directly into the penalty area, but Zhao Yaning, who happened to run into the penalty area, was directly rushed to his head by the rebounding ball. He also knew it was a header. Although he closed his eyes subconsciously, he still shook his head vigorously, but the huge impact of football still made him dizzy, but at this time, Zhao Yaning also heard the upload from the audience. The trembling cheers coming!

"Al!!! Zhao Yaning's goal!!!!!! His eighteenth goal this season!!! And congratulations to Zhao Yaning, just now, he scored the first goal of his career with a header. !"

Martin Taylor’s words make it hard to tell whether it’s a compliment or a sarcasm. "Morientes shot the ball very fast. Zhao Yaning, who was too late to dodge, was hit on the head by the falling ball, and the football flew into the goal... Who said that Zhao Yaning had bad header skills? Without moving his head, standing like a pillar, he scored the first header of his career! Still in such an important game!!!"

At this time, Zhao Yaning also raised his head. He had been surrounded by the teammates who rushed over, and it was not until this time that Zhao Yaning understood what he had done.

I actually scored a header?