The Ball at Your Feet

The second round of the 452nd quarter

Updated: 2013-06-17

Before the 37th round of the league, Liverpool also ushered in the second round of the Champions League match with Chelsea.

Chelsea at this time is not a week ago. Robben and Duff plus Ferreira, the three main players return to the team, their strength has improved a lot.

On the other hand, Liverpool's strength has declined. Alonso is suspended, and an important player is missing in the midfield. He is definitely not as strong as the previous game.

But even so, the confrontation between Liverpool and Chelsea is still full of variables. After all, Liverpool has the advantage of away goals. In this game, it can be said that as long as a tie is scored, they can advance to the final. In contrast, although Chelsea are fully staffed, they have never played against Liverpool. What a decent attack. Two league goals were scored by Joe Cole’s substitute goals, and in the league, Robben and Duff, who were on the offensive against other teams, met a strong team. After that, the performance was not very satisfactory.

And Liverpool has always been the best team under their jurisdiction.

"In this game, we are still thinking about the previous game. 451 started, but immediately after the opening, it became 352. Squeeze the opponent's receiving space instead of forcibly blocking the opponent."

After returning to the Melwood training base, Benitez found a lot of Chelsea games before he determined one thing.

His method is really feasible. It's not that this is because of how good his approach is, but because Robben and Duff have fatal shortcomings in technical problems, and Mourinho's tactical arrangement has not changed this problem very well. Leaning on the full-backs, the side hedging hinders the opposing full-backs and mid-backs, making the full-backs have to take back deep. This idea is definitely the best way to deal with Chelsea.

Once Duff and Robben are blocked, the process of the game basically goes to Liverpool's hands.

"The thing that the back line pays attention to is to watch out for Drogba's fall."

Although Drogba is very strong, this is not the most terrifying part of him. In contrast, his golf quotient is even more impressive. Although he is relying on his body to eat when facing ordinary weak guards, he does not hesitate to fall in the frontcourt as long as he meets someone who is stronger than him.

Because of his strong body and strong body, when he flops, he often makes people feel that such a strong man will definitely not flop. Such impression points have given him a lot of benefits. Drogba has made full use of his own advantages, not only the strength brought by his own strength, but even the impression brought by his strength has been well used by him.

Carragher and Hypia also struggled against Drogba. But because Drogba's shooting and running are not good, so they can defend Drogba. But the problem is that Carragher is not a very careful person. When faced with a smart person like Drogba, he is very likely to be fooled.

In the League Cup final, Hypia suffered from Drogba's secret loss. If it weren't for the linesman's suggestion to the referee to change the sentence, Hypia was almost sent off. And such a thing can never happen in the Champions League.

"In this game, we played defensively at the beginning. But Joey's mission is one: we are not completely defensive football, you need to rely on your running ability to pin their defense near the midfield line. Don’t let them over pressure, don’t let them retreat too much. Then Stephen waited for the opportunity to make a long pass to look for Diego to hit behind and directly score a goal."

In Benitez's estimation, Mourinho will be pressured to play at the start of this game. Although the head coach's tactical thinking is conservative, his temperament is quite aggressive. Since his team's main force is exhausted, their strength is naturally higher than that of Liverpool. At this time, there is still a goal behind, Mourinho will definitely launch an offensive.

After all, this is Anfield, attacking from the beginning, you can rely on the pressure to control Liverpool. After holding for a long time, the momentum vented, and it was difficult to launch an attack again. The away game is very difficult to play, Mourinho himself attaches great importance to his home results, he will naturally understand the difference between home and away.

And when Benitez thought about it himself, he also had this idea: What is the best way for Liverpool: Judging from the quality of Liverpool's defense in the past few games, they are not afraid of Chelsea's attack and have away goals , The best way is to rely on the backcourt to defend and defend the advantage of this ball-Benitez himself had such an idea, but in the end, he was overthrown by himself. After all, football is very unpredictable. With only one goal advantage, facing a strong team like Chelsea, it is too difficult to defend.

But it can't actively counterattack. If the situation is transformed into a goal battle, then an away goal advantage is completely useless. This is one's own advantage, and you can't throw away the advantage yourself.

When thinking of this, Benitez figured out what to do. Defeated and took the opportunity to steal a goal. He estimated that it would not be difficult-because Liverpool have the advantage of away goals, Chelsea have to score two goals anyway to win the game, and the total score is 2-1 or 2-2. Chelsea have little influence. As long as they score more goals away, they can advance. Therefore, Liverpool's home goal has little effect on the situation. With the opposing head coach's gambling nature, it must be better to lose the goal and also to score. of. The coach has played three forwards and four forwards several times this season, and he will definitely bet on this vote.

But this is Anfield after all. As long as Liverpool can score a goal, then, relying on the momentum of the home court, it can beat Chelsea. Although the opposing head coach is not a person who concedes defeat easily, not everyone is tough. And as time goes by, the pressure will return to Chelsea more and more, the game will only have more and more advantages over Liverpool.

The way to launch a counterattack is naturally to hit him directly. The reason why Milito performed it was because after Zhao Yaning came on the field, he was always watched too tightly, and Milito's situation was about to be better and needed. Without Alonso on his side, the other side would definitely not expect that he would counterattack. This is also Liverpool's biggest reliance when counterattacking.

In this game, as long as you win, you will get tickets to Istanbul. Thinking of this, Benitez is rarely excited: such a good opportunity is definitely not to be missed-Liverpool has no more than 20 years to wait.

"In this game, the lineups of the two sides are similar to what we expected before the game." When looking at the list of personnel, Martin Taylor opened his mouth, "The Chelsea side is still the trigeminal under Drogba and Davrobembu. Halberd, and Lampard, Jarosik, Makelele’s midfield trio is behind, and the backcourt is still a combination of Ferreira, Terry, Carvalho and Gala. The goalkeeper is naturally Cech. There is no doubt about it. For Liverpool, the backcourt has not changed. The midfielder is Gerrard, Biscayne, and Harman in a three-back midfielder formation. And they have Zhao Yaning on the left, Garcia on the right, and the striker. On the line is Milito, the back line is Riise, Carragher, Hypia, Finnan, and the goalkeeper is Dudek. Both sides have come up with the strongest formation that they can come up with. This is also the last of their game. The field is also the most important matchup."

Yes, they played five times in a season. Although Liverpool have a relatively superior record in the league, they can't compare with Chelsea's points. Although the League Cup won, it is just a tasteless event. What is really important is this game. After all, winning this game is equivalent to winning the ticket to Istanbul.

The Champions League final... You know, Liverpool is a declining giant and Chelsea is an emerging aristocracy. The main players of the two sides add up, and only Zhao Yaning, Carvalho, Ferreira and Makelele have played in the Champions League final. These two teams are both newcomers to the Champions League, and they are extremely eager for the Champions League.

"The game has begun... This game is very different from the previous one. Chelsea has taken a strong attacking posture! In just one minute of the opening, Chelsea had Frank Lampard attempted to score!"

At the beginning of the game, Lampard shot a long shot, but the ball missed the goal. But even so, Chelsea's attitude is very clear-they want to launch an attack and win Liverpool.

Sure enough, Benitez looked at Chelsea's offensive and nodded secretly. Chelsea are not afraid of losing the ball, but what they need is to score. Therefore, what they are doing now is to attack, not to defend. Mourinho knows the skills of gambling very well~www.ltnovel.com~ He can afford to lose the ball, and the profit from scoring is greater. Therefore, he dared to bet against Liverpool.

Chelsea’s weak attack is certainly their fatal weakness, but where can Liverpool’s attack be strong? Even if it was Chelsea's game that Liverpool expected all the offensive and defensive rhythms, and was almost completely suppressed by Liverpool, in the end, Liverpool still had a penalty, didn't it just score three?

Liverpool's attack line is also not strong.

"Liverpool chose to shrink fully and have the advantage of away goals in hand. They can indeed do this, but the 90 minutes of the game, don't you think it is too early? Accidents in football matches, but they can happen at any time."

Lampard had already got a new opportunity at this time. After Robben advanced in and gave the ball to Drogba, Drogba knocked the ball to Ferreira who was plugged in, and then Ferreira’s one The foot passed to Lampard. His long shot rushed directly to Liverpool's gate, and Dudek shot the ball out of bounds and formed a corner kick.

Very fierce offensive, less than five minutes after the start of the game, Chelsea already had two chances to attack. Although this is Anfield, but at this time, Chelsea fans also began to frantically clamor. They yelled loudly and kept cheering for their own team. Compared with the unthinking of the two sides in the previous game, Chelsea obviously took the initiative in this game. At least, in this game, the two sides did not wait for more than ten minutes to have their first shot.

It's not a bad thing to enter a hand-to-hand battle so early. Zhao Yaning on the field, at this time, also flashed his thoughts: Do you want to decide the outcome early? Then we will let the outcome appear earlier.