The Ball at Your Feet

The forty-sixth quarter of the heavy siege

Updated: 2013-06-20

No one thought that Milan's first goal would come so quickly and so suddenly.

There was hardly any warning, just one minute after the opening, Milan had already passed a free kick and scored a goal.

How is this possible...

The Liverpool fans felt a little weird.

It only took less than a minute to start!

"In the opening 52 seconds, Maldini received a free kick from Pirlo and scored successfully." After the passion passed, when Martin Taylor spoke, his voice was also a little dry. He thought that Liverpool are weaker than Milan, and it is indeed possible to lose, but such a loss is something he has not thought of.

Liverpool will concede goals like this before the New Year, but since the end of Christmas, their tacit understanding has greatly increased. In the Champions League game, they have never fallen behind for even a minute.

The two games against Leverkusen were accidents at the end. The loss to Juventus was also a counterattack by the opponent after a two-goal lead. And since that home game, Liverpool did not lose a goal in three Champions League games, no matter how you look at it, it is already an extremely good defense, but now less than one minute after the opening, Liverpool actually conceded the ball.

Maldini hugged his teammates and celebrated the goal. This goal was too unexpected, not only beyond Liverpool's expectations, but also beyond his expectations. The opening of the factory started so smoothly, it was perfect.

But at this time, Maldini was still worried about his teammates, because this goal caused the underestimation of the enemy, he did not celebrate it crazy, but instead kept encouraging his teammates to converge and continue to play well.

"This is the seventh time that Maldini has participated in the Champions League final. He has won four Champions League titles. If he wins this one, then his total number of Champions League will reach five, second only to Real Madrid's Gento. Before this season, there were rumors that he might choose to retire and leave football after the end of this season, but in his current state, leaving football is not necessary."

While Martin Taylor was still explaining the situation, Liverpool was already preparing to fight back.

"It's just that I lost one, so I can keep my spirits up. It's not impossible to reverse the game." Zhao Yaning shouted twice to his teammates. Although he is behind, he is still very optimistic. The self-confidence along the way, but he felt that this was just a small setback.

Then, Liverpool and Milan began to fight offense and defense in the midfield.

The first point of Liverpool's attack was naturally Zhao Yaning. After kicking off the ball in the middle circle, after a few passes, Zhao Yaning slid to the left after receiving the ball. Obviously, Milan had already had a precaution against his breakthrough, and Gattuso immediately posted it, but he just relied on the defense to prevent him from cutting in, and at the same time prevented him from accelerating, but did not stretch his foot to steal. . Cafu and Pirlo also held their positions, and the three immediately formed a siege to Zhao Yaning and wanted to grab the ball at Zhao Yaning's feet.

Soon, Zhao Yaning's breakthrough came to no avail. In order to avoid the containment, Zhao Yaning had to slow down. At this time, Gattuso first hit Zhao Yaning. When he couldn't knock him down, Gattuso immediately chose a tackle-this action was Gattuso's. The choice was not to shovel the ball directly at Zhao Yaning's feet, but to shove his body across Zhao Yaning’s breakthrough route, and at the same time, he did not forget to roll immediately, blocking his body from Zhao Yaning’s breakthrough route. .

Zhao Yaning has jumped up several times when facing tackles. Gattuso obviously thought of this kind of kicking. The reason why he rolled is to make Zhao Yaning afraid to jump up in order to avoid trampling.

Facing his way of playing, Zhao Yaning could only smash the ball while turning around, trying to get around him, but at this time Stam, who was filling in, had already ran up, and the two directly wrapped Zhao Yaning to death. At this time, Gattuso couldn't even stand up, so he stretched out his foot and kicked the ball at Zhao Yaning's feet.

Gattuso's defense caused Zhao Yaning to encounter a lot of trouble. His defensive strategy is obviously very good. Such a strategy of sticking and not grabbing has affected every step of Zhao Yaning's extraordinary moves. His role is not to break Zhao Yaning's ball, but to slow down Zhao Yaning's speed, make his movements scrupulous and unable to make a better breakthrough.

The role of the breakthrough is nothing more than a few, one is to advance quickly, and the other is to cut into the opponent's intensive defense. Ancelotti asked Gattuso to defend against Zhao Yaning, basically cutting off Zhao Yaning's ability to advance quickly. After all, Gatosu's explosive power and physical antagonism are very good, and the defensive action is also very good, if Zhao Yaning wants to accelerate, he can use constant physical impact to make Zhao Yaning unable to accelerate. He can keep up with Zhao Yaning's footsteps and is stronger. Although it is difficult to expect him to steal Zhao Yaning, he can do his best if he only interferes with Zhao Yaning.

If you want to run fast with the ball, you must have a good relative environment. Always being entangled by people, constantly thinking about how to change the offensive line, and having to collide with opponents from time to time, such a breakthrough naturally can't get up quickly.

And his other task is to use Gattuso's close defense to force Zhao Yaning's technique to deform, thus unable to complete a small breakthrough.

Ancelotti started from observing Zhao Yaning's playing, and quickly came to the conclusion: this man, relying on a single defense, is very difficult to defend. The offense relies on the individual, the defense relies on the system. Ancelotti has also deployed an extremely strict defensive system on the back line. He firmly believes that Stam, Nesta, Cafu, Maldini, Gattuso and others will be deployed. Zhao Yaning's defensive system is absolutely impossible to break.

Of course, the dribbling breakthrough also has a third function, which is to attract the opponent's attention, and then pass the ball to the teammates for the teammates to solve. Although this method is good, it also requires good enough teammates. And Liverpool's lineup, except for Zhao Yaning, basically has no ball ability. This is also the reason why Ancelotti dared to boldly deploy this style of play: He believes that even if Zhao Yaning can draw attention away, the Liverpool players still cannot deal with Milan's defense.

Changing speed, shaking, then accelerating, passing people... After Zhao Yaning tried twice, he felt a headache. Of course he passed Gattuso. In fact, it is not difficult for him to pass Gattuso. But the problem is that behind Gattuso, within five meters, there must be a Milan player who is preparing to defend, and neither Stam nor Cafu can easily pass Zhao Yaning, and if Zhao Yaning pauses a little, Gattuso turned around and chased him back.

Endless replenishment, endless confrontation. Milan’s defense has taken the defense to the extreme, and their pursuit and interception made Zhao Yaning unable to make an effective breakthrough for a while.

This is a legendary defense line, this is the most terrifying defense line of this era. But now, Zhao Yaning needs to rely on his own technology to fight against them.

This made Zhao Yaning a little excited. When he was a child, he watched Maldini play football. When he was learning to play football, people said the names of Nesta and Stam. When he entered football, Cafugong became famous and won everything-they are the back line that Zhao Yaning has always admired.

And now, what Zhao Yaning had to do was to confront them.

But in the other half, Milan's attack on Liverpool was extremely smooth.

Pirlo is dispatched, Seedorf is in charge of acceleration, Kaka is in charge of the assault, Shepchenko is responsible for the coordination and support of the frontcourt, and Crespo, as the main striker-Ancelotti's arrangement, can be said to be perfect. The reason why this arrangement is perfect is that every executor of this arrangement is the best player.

Super-class players, super-class lineup organized. This kind of Milan, it can be said that the entire football is the closest to perfection.

Soon, an attack by Milan caused Liverpool to grieve. Seedorf's corner kick was pushed to the goal by Gattuso. His top was a dead corner, which also made Dudek unable to defend successfully. But Garcia blocked the ball on the goal line.

With such a ball, Carragher started yelling for the command line of defense with his broken gong voice.

But this time the offense is, after all, a set-piece offense and defense. Although Liverpool lost the ball because of set kicks when they came up, Liverpool's set kick defense is still good after all. Milan's attack still has no way to break the goal.

At this time, Dudek, who got the ball, had already driven the ball out. He kicked the ball with a big kick and drove the ball to Stam’s feet. Stam kicked the ball to Seedorf, but when Seedorf turned around, he inadvertently took possession of the ball, but Alonso took the ball. The foot broke the ball.

Alonso immediately hit a through ball. Zhao Yaning caught up with the ball and rushed into the penalty area. Gattuso followed him closely, collided, then tackled again, and Stam also defended at this time. At the edge of the penalty area, Zhao Yaning was not given any breakthrough and drove him to the sideline position. Zhao Yaning was helpless with such a blocking. After he ran two steps to the side, Maldini was already blocked in front of him, but This time, Zhao Yaning didn't choose to break through by himself. Instead, he picked a pass and kicked the ball towards the goal.

He can see that the opponent is very tightly defending the front of his penalty zone, but on the wing position, the opponent has a blind zone.

The ball’s landing point was about halfway between the goal and the penalty spot, less than six yards from the goal~www.ltnovel.com~ This position made Dida jump out, but the arc of the ball obviously exceeded Dida. Judgment, some erratic ball made Dida save a problem, he stretched out his hand, but the ball was not caught by him, but was slapped by him and jumped up!

Milito greeted him and was about to shoot, but at this time, Nesta, who rushed up from behind Milito, immediately made a sliding shovel, but his action was not a tackle, but a kick. , To lift the ball into the air.

"No! In the opening 12 minutes, Liverpool made the most possible attempt. Zhao Yaning's cross created an excellent opportunity, but Milito could not grasp it."

Nice defense.

Zhao Yaning could only think so. At that moment, he deliberately controlled the pass's footwork, Dida's release was expected, and Nesta's defense is also likely to cause an own goal. But this beautiful pick still made his efforts vanish.

No wonder the opponent doesn't care about the wing. Such a central defender makes the cross more difficult. It seems that I still have to think of an individual way.

The corner kick was taken, but Stam successfully pushed the ball out of the penalty area. Alonso, who got the ball, didn't choose to shoot, but gave the ball smoothly to Riise next to him. Riise kicked the ball to Kewell on the wing.

At this time, Zhao Yaning had already turned around, ready to attack again after catching the ball, but when he turned around, what he saw was the scene he least wanted to see.

Kewell fell to the ground-he was injured for the fourth time this season. Moreover, this time the injured game is still a crucial Champions League final. Everything that Zhao Yaning thought about just now had to be overturned and started again.

The disaster has just begun.