The Ball at Your Feet

While signing in, Liverpool must also pay attention to the progress of the game. Although they won in the FA Cup, not many people actually cared about it. After all, he was a weak team. Winning just proved a good attitude, not an outstanding performance. Losing a main midfielder, how much their state will be left, is still hard to say.

The next game, Liverpool's game, is the home game against Tottenham Hotspur. This game is also considered to be a game to test their strength.

Tottenham’s performance this season is quite impressive. After they introduced Davis, they formed an excellent backcourt combination of Davis and Carrick. Such a stable midfielder allowed them to play very well in the league. Now they are ahead of Arsenal and are ranked fourth in the league. Although Arsenal have always been a strong team in the Premier League, they have never fallen out of the top four under Wenger, but the problem is that they have seen their unstable performance after Vieira this season. , It's really hard to say that they will be able to squeeze out Tottenham and join the top four. Since last season, Manchester United could be squeezed to third, so why can't Arsenal be squeezed out of the top four?

And at this time, for Tottenham, every point is very important, and they naturally hope to win the game against Liverpool, to win the Champions League qualification for themselves to add a point. Especially now Liverpool, without the main midfielder, lost less than ten goals in the last half of the season. They now conceded consecutively in the game, even against Luton. The defensive line is not a small problem, which naturally gives Tottenham a lot of motivation.

If even Luton can break through Liverpool's door, why not Tottenham?

In the game, Tottenham sent their strongest lineup: their goalkeeper Robinson is the British national team's international-although the least valuable of the England international is the goalkeeper. On the back line, Startree is a Canadian international. Dawson and Ledley King are both very powerful. It is just a central defender with more injuries. There are not many opportunities for the national team. It is also because of Campbell. , Ferdinand, Terry and Carragher are the main players of the four giants. And their right back Lee Young-pyo is also a South Korean international, and his strength is also outstanding. His performance in the Champions League last year was eye-catching. In the midfield line, Carrick, Davis, Janus and Tenio are all very good players, and the forward line is Robbie Keane and Defoe, and they are all good players. Almost all of these people have had international experience, and their level of strength is definitely not bad.

Such a lineup, the strength can be described as quite outstanding. It is precisely because of this that they seized the fourth place when their old North London rivals were not picking up.

The Liverpool side also made adjustments: Reina, Riise, Hypia, Carragher, and Maicon had the same defensive line, while in midfield, Alonso partnered with Gerrard as the midfielder. Zhao Yaning and Figo served as the two wingers, and Milito and Fowler started on the forward line.

After playing 451 for half a season, Liverpool began to change to 442. The reason is also very simple. In the next game, their opponent is Manchester United. Before this game, Liverpool need to let Haman take a break and accumulate energy to deal with Manchester United.

Vidic did not play because his foul was considered malicious by the FA, and three additional games were suspended. In this way, Liverpool can only let him rest, let Hypia play the main force.

In fact, even if there is no problem, Liverpool will also plan to replace. After all, the strength of Hypia at this stage is still above Vidic. For important matches, Hypia is more suitable to play.

In this game, although most people expected that Liverpool's defense might go wrong, the game was controlled by Liverpool from the beginning.

"Zhao Yaning was very active in this game, and I have to say that when Gerrard retreated to the midfielder position, he still played very well. Liverpool's offensive and defensive ends did not show much negligence. They still have an overwhelming advantage over Tottenham."

Martin Taylor was quite surprised by this. On the defensive end of Liverpool, it is understandable that Gerrard did dirty work after he came back, but on the offensive end, Zhao Yaning almost covered two by his own running. The attack from the wing did not even reduce Liverpool's attack power, which is surprising.

Until this time, many people remembered that last season, Zhao Yaning relied on such an offensively covering running to play. Since this season, he has played less time like this, but that doesn't mean that he won't play anymore. This season he has the highest attendance and the distribution of physical strength is becoming more and more reasonable. However, when he needs to work hard, his running is not bad at all.

At the beginning of the game, after receiving a pass from the midfield, Zhao Yaning immediately turned around and attacked. Davis ran towards Zhao Yaning. Zhao Yaning deliberately controlled the speed. When he was approaching, he suddenly took the ball a step bigger. Davis immediately kicked it over with a tackle. Zhao Yaning stabbed the ball forward, speeding up and throwing him away.

He has become more and more proficient at this rate of change. Compared with other extraordinary actions, such a pure rate change, for the player, although it may seem simple, it is a bit more difficult.

After losing Davis, Zhao Yaning judged the line. Instead of approaching Carrick, he directly attacked the backcourt. Dawson rushed up, but Zhao Yaning kicked the ball while he was close to his body. Picked into the restricted area.

Fowler got the ball, and he kicked it towards the gate. Ledley King was unable to defend in time, but Robinson relied on his timely response to make a fall to the ground and save the ball.

Liverpool did not score a goal, which made all the fans sigh. However, this ball also caused Tottenham to lose the enthusiasm at the beginning of the game. They did not dare to attack excessively in this game.

And soon, Liverpool put the attack directly over the vicinity of the penalty area. Soon after, Zhao Yaning made another pass and kicked the ball into the penalty area. Milito's header went high and Liverpool missed another opportunity.

"Liverpool has achieved a great advantage, but has not grasped the opportunity very well..."

There is still a big difference with one Gerrard missing in the frontcourt. When Gerrard was there, after Liverpool had gained the advantage, relying on Gerrard to open up space, Zhao Yaning could easily tear the opponent's defense line and score goals for himself or the forward. But now, Gerrard has to go to the backcourt. Although Zhao Yaning can still suppress the attack near the opponent's restricted area, after all, it is not so easy to get in.

Tottenham’s defense is very tight. Davis was originally a very good world-class midfielder. Although it was because of his old age, he also had some nastyness with Inter Milan, which offended Juventus and provoke Inter Milan, making him in Italy. Without a foothold, the giants are no longer needed, but his running ability still exists, and he can still be used as two at Tottenham. Although Carrick lacks running ability, he has a good defensive position. What's more, on their defense line, the combination of Dawson and Ledley King can be said to be the forefront of the Premier League defense combination. Although this pair of injury baskets rarely have the opportunity to play together, they are together. When playing, he is indeed an excellent player who can hold the penalty area.

This also made it extremely difficult for Zhao Yaning to make a hole in the defense. He kept running around the penalty area with the ball, trying to use his own cruising to make the opponent's defensive loopholes, but Davis followed him closely and did not give him the opportunity to take a long shot, and the opponent's back The line of defense is extremely secure, and there are no flaws. This has made Zhao Yaning have no choice but to make several cruises.

And he didn't think about dribbling the ball directly. But it is too difficult to continuously pass people in such a small area.

But in the second half of the first half, Zhao Yaning still figured out how to play. He adjusted his position again until he shifted to the right in the middle. At this time, Riise went to the left, and on the right, Zhao Yaning, Milito and Figo established a passing coordination.

When he took the ball again, Zhao Yaning ran a few steps towards the middle, and then kicked the ball to Figo behind him. He ran into the penalty area, trying to pull away the opponent's defense by his own running. However, his running position did not have much effect, and after Figo saw that there was no pass line, he ran to the top of the arc with the ball in the penalty area, and when Davis approached Qian, he turned around and turned The ball hit Zhao Yaning, who had run to the wing.

When Zhao Yaning received the ball, he kicked the ball directly to the center.

Ledley King squeezed Milito and pushed the ball out, but Figo still grabbed a point and kicked it towards the goal.

Dawson blocked the ball in the crowd, but Zhao Yaning also ran to the penalty area to grab a spot. Taking advantage of the chaos in the penalty area, Zhao Yaning kicked the ball to the goal again!

This time, the ball hit Ledley King's body. Ledley King kicked the ball in a panic and changed the course of the ball, but he kicked the ball into the goal!

"Own goal! In the opening 30 minutes, Ledley King scored an own goal! This is really tragic. Tottenham's defense is very good. They could have defended Liverpool's ~www.ltnovel.com~ and they were basically. They did it, but they failed to guard their own people!"

Zhao Yaning and Figo also hugged and celebrated. Liverpool are currently lacking manpower, and there is really no way to tear the opponent's back line. To score a goal against Tottenham, although this goal is a fluke, it is also very fortunate.

It seems that Liverpool’s old problems have not been completely resolved. The lineup is not thick enough and the ability to attack intensive defenses is insufficient. Such a play is still a problem that Liverpool have to face.

After the 1-0 lead, Zhao Yaning breathed a sigh of relief. If he still can't win in the second half, the only way he can think of is to break into the penalty area.

However, at the beginning of the second half, Zhao Yaning couldn't laugh immediately: Tottenham scored a goal in just one minute of the opening.

Carrick used the opportunity of a free kick to pass the ball into the penalty area. Dawson scored a header from ten yards in front of the goal and broke through Liverpool's gate.

Still not defended, is this the first few games Liverpool have conceded in a row? Zhao Yaning couldn't help gritting his teeth. It seems that you have to do it yourself.